4 Best Job Board WordPress Themes

So you want to create a job board using WordPress? It’s not as hard as it may sound. Job WordPress themes are not exactly plentiful, but there are few of them around that help you create your Job WordPress website fast. Why would you want to create a job board using WordPress? If you own a WordPress blog, you’ll have the experience to set up your job board fast. Best of all, these job boards will be easy to work with and SEO friendly as well.

There aren’t many job WordPress themes around, but the few that are around are easy to use and customizable. You can always install them on your root domain or in a sub-directory on your blog. Here are 4 best job board WordPress themes that help you save time and push your blog to the next level:

Job Board Theme: a flexible job board theme for WordPress that comes with 7 color schemes and tons of customization features in the back-end. Paypal is integrated into the theme as well, making it easier to start a paid job board with WordPress.

Tapp Jobs: a super job board theme for WordPress by Press 75 that is clean, SEO-friendly, and social-media ready. You can easily customize it and put your brand and stamp on it. (more…)

Build Your News Portal with News WordPress Theme

One thing that we don’t need these days is another mainstream media news site that doesn’t cover the news items that do matter. That’s probably why more and more people are starting their own news services to provide their take on what’s going on all around us. A few years ago, you would have to spend a fortune to get that done. But thanks to the power of WordPress and all the cool news themes available on the market, you can get your news blog up and running in a flash.

News WordPress Theme is another clean cut theme by StudioPress that is designed for that very purpose. You can easily get your own news website up and running in a matter of minutes. The theme has a very light look and feel to it. At the same time, it’s dynamic enough to allow your visitors to go through your content more effectively.

The theme is SEO friendly and comes with a clean code to give you the best chance to maximize profits from search engines. You get 3 columns that you can use to present your information as you see fit. The theme is also ad ready as well. So you can add your AdSense code or banners to the theme easily.

What I like about this theme is the fact that it’s translation ready. So it’s perfectly suitable for a foreign language portal. You also have like the fact that you can easily upload your images to this theme easily. The back-end does provide you with a few features to help you avoid writing code to customize your theme.

Overall, News Theme is a clean cut, SEO friendly WordPress theme that lets you start your own news portal fast. It’s very easy to use and customize and gets the job done.

25 Best Magazine WordPress Themes

In good old days, if you wanted to create a killer magazine portal, you were going to have to spend a decent amount of money to get the job done. And let’s not forget that managing content was much harder before WordPress became what it is today. Starting and expanding a magazine portal is not a easy job, and it could cost you a bit of money on itself. So if you want to get it done fast, your best hope is by adopting WordPress and picking up a good magazine WordPress theme. Not all magazine themes are created equal. Some are better in handling images while others are more SEO friendly. Either way, you want to get the theme that comes with the right balance and lets you get your job done fast. Here are 25 cool WordPress themes for magazines that let you get the job done fast:

Imperial: is a highly flexible theme that can be used for any type of website. Comes in 2 colors (dark, light) and is very easy to customize.

Yamidoo: a very flexible and easy to use theme that lets you set up your news portal or magazine in just a few minutes. Easy to manage content using this theme.

Massive News: Massive News is a cool portal theme that lets you add your content and start your own magazine website fast. It’s SEO friendly, and the back-end is designed to help you customize your theme without writing code. (more…)

Build Your Magazine Website with Yamidoo

One of the things I love about WordPress is the fact that it has made creating complex portals and websites easier. Just a few years ago, you’d have to spend thousands of dollars to put up an attractive magazine website. But these days, you won’t have to spend more than a couple of hundred dollars to get the job done. Themes such as Yamidoo Magazine make it possible to set up a magazine site in a more affordable way, and if you decide to customize your theme, it wouldn’t cost you as much as it would if you paid someone to come up with theme for you from scratch.

Yamidoo is a highly flexible WordPress theme that makes putting up a magazine site like a piece of cake. Yamidoo is one of the most dynamic themes that I have ever seen in the magazine theme category. For starters, you get tabbed widgets that help you promote your content better. You can use these widgets to promote your most popular posts, most commented posts, and even your recent comments.

The featured content section on your home page gives you another way to promote your top content on your magazine site. Adding images and customizing your featured section is easy and painless. Flickr is also integrated into this theme to help you display your Flickr photos on yuor site. Even better, Yamidoo is Google Analytics and Feedburner ready. So you don’t have to touch too much code to keep track of things on your site.

Yamidoo theme did remind of Thesis. It’s very clean and easily customizable. It’s not that expensive either. If you are looking for a dynamic magazine theme for your website, Yamidoo is worth a consideration.

Verdict: A-

Thesis WordPress Theme for Bloggers

Thesis WordPress theme is one of the most popular themes in the WordPress community. It is known for being super SEO friendly, and a lot of super-bloggers use it as a starting point for their blogs (see an example here). Thesis is an extremely clean, simple, and yet powerful theme for all bloggers and those interested in starting their very first blog.

Thesis is a three column premium theme (content + 2 – column sidebar). You can modify the theme easily to have the column show on the right or left side of the content. The theme is coded in PHP + HTML + CSS, but the developers have kept SEO as their high priority. What I like about this theme is the contrast of colors in the design. Have you ever been to a blog that you really like but hurts your eyes badly every time you try to read it? That’s not what you get with Thesis.

Thesis theme has a lot of real estate for ads, if you are interested in monetizing you blog. You can also customize the headers as you wish, which means you don’t have to create a blog with this theme. You can even use Thesis for your corporate site.

In summary, here is why many super bloggers are using Thesis:

• Design: Thesis is simple and intuitive. Things are where they are supposed to be.
• Flexibility: there are lots of ways to customize your Thesis-based WordPress blogs.
• SEO: the folks behind this theme have taken time to optimize the code for search engines. Who doesn’t like free traffic?
• Accessibility & Usability: Thesis designers have paid extra attention to web usability and accessibility. It doesn’t take a genius to navigate through Thesis blogs.
• Layout: Thesis’ layout is highly customizable. You don’t have to be a coding genius to change things around.
• Cross-browser Compatibility: your Thesis blog is going to show up right on top browsers such as IE, Firefox, and Chrome.
• Lifetime Updates: Thesis comes with lifetime updates. That means you won’t have to spend a time to get your hands on updates done to this theme.
• Support: if you are stuck, you can always count on the folks behind Thesis to help you out.
• Affordable: for a such a sophisticated theme, Thesis is actually under-priced. $87 is not a lot for such a well-designed premium theme.

You can get your hands on Thesis for $87 but you will have to leave the footer intact and use it on only one site. You can get a professional license  for $164, but you get to use it on multiple sites, and you can remove the footer. If you are looking for a killer WordPress theme, you won’t go wrong with Thesis.

Urban Elements WordPress Theme

Urban Elements is the latest theme by Press75. This theme has been in the works for a while now, but after all the teasers that we have seen for Urban Elements, it has finally been released. Urban Elements is a slick WordPress theme designed for bloggers who have a good taste for design. Urban Elements is a two-column ad ready theme that is designed with easy-of-use in mind. It’s highly customizable and social media ready, and it takes advantage of threaded comments (available only on WP 2.7).

You get to customize the header right from your dashboard. In addition, you get your pages shown right below the header in form of dropdowns. You also get 4 125*125 on the right sidebar that you can use to attract sponsorships for your blog. There is also a 468 * 60 spot available right after the very first blog post. The back-end provides a lot of flexibility to configure sidebar items, ads, and even Google Analytics. You can also customize your social media section from the back-end. (more…)

Become a Pro WordPress Blogger with Bob v3 Theme

I have talked a lot about niche themes on WP Jedi. But one thing that I have probably not talked about is the mother of all niches – blogging. You have probably seen it by now. There are many folks around us who make decent living from teaching other how to blog or make money with blogging. I personally have no trouble with that as long as these guys actually make money from blogging before they started getting yours and my money.

But the truth is, many folks get into the blogging niche without actually making the millions first, and I don’t have a problem with that either. Pro blogging is a very hot niche these days, especially with the economy breaking down. Who wouldn’t want to be able to make a decent amount of money without the hassles of dressing up and going to work everyday?

Bob v3 is one theme that is just made for pro bloggers. As the name indicates, there are three version of this theme. The theme has evolved through the past couple of upgrades, and is now one SEO power house for pro bloggers. Bob v3 comes with the one feature that every pro blogger needs – “my favorite posts.” You get to promote posts that are the most popular on your blog. I also like the fact that you have an “about me” section to promote and sell your background.

The tabbed content is very useful. The content Ajaxified slider is “cool,” and you can use the tab feature to save real estate and show your readers more things. One thing I would change about this theme is the advertisement section. I believe it’s too low on the page, and I have not had success with my ads on that spot. It may work for you, but I am personally biased there.

Overall, Bob v3 is a very contemporary looking pro blogging theme. It’s very easy to navigate, and it’s easy on eyes. With a bit of modification, you can have your very own super blogging theme. One thing I would say is Bob v3 is a theme for serious bloggers. It is not a cheap theme as it comes with many premium features, so if you are not planning to have a serious blog, you should probably look at free theme. Good luck.