Shopping Session Design
Posted by fwpt on May 17th, 2008
A premium web 2.0 WP gold theme with 2 Columns! AdSense & Widget Ready ! Famous & stable template ! Supported by all WordPress versions, including the latest one. Enjoy it ! 
Tagged: 2 Column, Blogroll, Blue, Bluejet, Clean, Colors, Earthy, Free Downloads, Freebies | Free Web 2.0 Icons, GPL, General, Google, Google Adsense Inline Ads, How to widgetize, Inspiration, Layout, New WP Themes, RSS Feeds, SEO, Screen, Technology Blog, Themes, Web 2.0-ish, WordPreciousss, WordPress, WordPress Skins, WordPress Templates, WordPress Themes, WordPress Themes Gallery, e-themes, feeling blue, free, hot, iPhone, internet, quality or quantity, refreshing, submit your themes
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World of Warcraft
Posted by templatepanic on October 25th, 2007
World of Warcraft, a Wordpress theme. Three column layout, bottom menu, widget ready, and image gravatar ready. Valid XHTML and Valid CSS. Tested in Firefox, IE 7, Opera and Safari.
Tagged: 3 Column, Best WordPress Themes, Bittbox, Black, Deep Blue Sea, Free Downloads, Freebies | Free Web 2.0 Icons, Keyboard Shortcuts, PimpDaBlog, Plugins, RSS Feeds, Red, Template Panic, WordPress, WordPress Skins, WordPress Templates, WordPress Themes, WordPress Themes Gallery, dark, submit your themes, world of warcraft
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Wordpress-Theme 0816
Posted by Robert Hartl on October 24th, 2007
Live demo | Download | Theme URI
Tagged: 2 Column, Blue, Clean, Colors, Dot Dot Dot, GPL, Hearts, Hello Wiki, Inspiration, Keyboard Shortcuts, Layout, My2Gig-Butterfly, New WP Themes, Plugins, Pro Blog 2.0, Prosumer, RSS Feeds, Red, Selection, Social Bookmarking, Themes, Web 2.0-ish, Web Design, White, WordPress, WordPress Skins, WordPress Templates, WordPress Themes, WordPress Themes Gallery, WordPress developers, free, submit your themes, suchmaschinen-optimierungen.info
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De La Creme
Posted by linksime on October 23rd, 2007
Simple theme for wordpress with blue and brown colors, for travel site.
Contains Photoshop file to personalize the theme.
Tagged: 2 Column, Blue, Blue Lounge, De La Creme, Free Downloads, Hearts, Keyboard Shortcuts, My2Gig-Butterfly, New WP Themes, Plugins, Prosumer, RSS Feeds, Samedi, Travel, Travelling, WordPress, WordPress Skins, WordPress Templates, WordPress Themes, WordPress Themes Gallery, brown, submit your themes, temi-wordpress
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Park Lover
Posted by templatepanic on October 15th, 2007
Park Lover Wordpress Theme is a 3-column layout template with nice color combination. Valid XHTML and CSS, and has been tested in newest version Wordpress 2.2.
Tagged: 3 Column, Best WordPress Themes, Deep Blue Sea, Free Downloads, Keyboard Shortcuts, New WP Themes, Park Lover, PimpDaBlog, Plugins, Prosumer, RSS Feeds, Sandbox Theme, Template Panic, Theme Viewer, White, WordPress, WordPress Skins, WordPress Templates, WordPress Themes, WordPress Themes Gallery, submit your themes
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Contemporary Red
Posted by bobek on September 26th, 2007
Beautiful 2 columns black and red WordPress theme. Suitable for many modern blogs.
The theme is for free.
Licence: Creative Commons | Download
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How to Easily Add or Change Sandbox Design
Posted by Snap! on August 20th, 2007
There are many new designs that came out of the Sandbox design competition and each design comes with instructions on how to install them. Not following my gut, I decided to instead follow the included instructions and I find out that it never worked for me. So I decided to write my own instructions for those who are planning on using the Sandbox based designs without having to deal with the hassles I faced. BTW, if you have not noticed it already, we started featuring Sandbox competition designs and hope to have more for you soon.
What the instructions say?
It is critical to read this to understand the base structure and why it probably never worked for me.
If you plan on using a Sandbox design, you’ll need the Sandbox theme in the following folder with a file structure like:
/wp-content/themes/sandbox/style.css
This makes sense, Sandbox is a complete theme and when activated works as is.
The instruction also recommends the design file structure is set as below:
/wp-content/themes/some-design-name/style.css
(where some-design-name is the name of the design)
This is the part that does not work for me, mostly all designs are just that: a CSS file and some images, they do not have any template files like index.php and in almost every case result in a “Template is Missing” error when you go to Admin >> Presentation >> Theme.
Irrespective of the WP version you use, or even using the /wp-includes/themes.php patch for Sandbox results in this error, in short, using the instructions included with the design just does not work (again it’s a personal experience, I might be screwing up some place).
So what did I do?
Instead of including the design folder under the main ‘themes’ folder, I placed it within the Sandbox theme folder like below:
/wp-content/themes/sandbox/some-design-name/style.css
I then opened the Sandbox themes stylesheet (/wp-content/themes/sandbox/style.css) and deleted all the styles below the comment /* Just some example content */
I then replaced the style import URL from
@import url(’sandbox-layouts/2c-l.css’);
to
@import url(’ some-design-name/style.css’);
That does it, simple aye.
Tagged: Best WordPress Themes, Blogging Tips, Copyrights and Licenses, Design Tools, Keyboard Shortcuts, PimpDaBlog, RSS Feeds, Resources, Sandbox Theme, Selection, Thumbnail viewer plugin, Tips, Web Tools, WordPress, wpsnap
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3 Essential Plugins for High Traffic WordPress Sites
Posted by Snap! on August 10th, 2007
We might as well list all the important plugins that make sites with high traffic stay afloat, but we decided to focus on just three very essential plugins that will be invaluable for your high traffic site.
I say “high trafficâ€? only because WordPress powered sites “as is” can work really well for most sites, but when your traffic increases, the equation changes with increased load on the server and need for better management.
The plugins are listed in no particular order:
Akismet/ Bad Behavior/ Spam Karma 2: As your traffic increases, so does your spam, the affinity of spammers to your site is not due to the popularity of your site alone, but imagine this scenario, if every 3rd comment is a spam, the more comments you have, the spam you will too. The simplest solution to stop comment spams in conjunction with the aforementioned spam blockers (that can be downloaded from wp-plugins.net or Codex) is to use a plugin like reCAPTCHA.
WordPress Database Backup: The newer version of WP has built-in backup via XML downloads, however that is not as good as the original plugin based sql download. The newer version of WP does not include it as a default plugin, but here’s a link to the original plugin managed by a new and reliable developer. Use this tool to back your database as often as you like, you’ll never realize how valuable it is, but let’s hope you’ll never need to go through the excruciating pain of restoring your DB ever!
WP Cache: This plugin does what the name suggests, caches WP files, and it does it in two phases. The first phase checks if the requested URL is already cached, if so it serves from the static file and finishes, the second phase stores the generated page in a static file for further request. Collectively it can reduce the load on your database server significantly and improve site load speed.
So there you go, 3 essential plugins for your WordPress site that all sites should consider installing.
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Sandbox Design Competition Results
Posted by Snap! on August 6th, 2007
Early results are out, a round of applause for all the participants.
Although some of the results are surprising, rest assured, you will see many Sandbox based themes rolling into wpSnap shortly.
Tagged: Best of WordPress, DJFX, Design Competition, Dot Dot Dot, Keyboard Shortcuts, New Release, PimpDaBlog, Plugins, RSS Feeds, Resources, Sandbox Theme, Selection, Web Design, WordPress, WordPress Skins, WordPress Templates, WordPress Themes, wpSnap News, wpsnap
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Sandbox Design Competition - and the Winner is…
Posted by Snap! on August 5th, 2007
It’s too early to call, but one thing is for sure, the 40 or so designers and enthusiasts who put in their time and effort deserve a big round of applause. With that said, without being too critical and hopefully the judges are not reading this, we picked a few we feel will have a significant impact on the results tomorrow and listed them here. At this point we feel the need to make sure you all know, we have no affiliation with this competition, so we are basing this list purely on the designers work and not who they are.
To demo all the themes, visit Sandbox Live Preview and use the dropdown box on the right top to jump between designs. We also have individual demo links below. You can even download the designs all at once or individually.
Listed alphabetically:
Blackbox: Hit and miss, if the site heading stayed in place in FF, this theme has a good chance of making a dent, the fact that we are mentioning it irrespective of the issue means we really dig this theme!
Blueberry: Dark, very well designed, Dean’s experience shows in every bit of detail presented.
Blueberry Dreams: If there is one theme that will end up getting a lot of usage for the simple reason that it is very straightforward and easy to use, it’s Blueberry Dreams, reminds me of the WP default template.
Chocolate Vanilla: A very simple and usable design, reminds me of the WP classic template.
CITYscape: A very generic styling, will appeal to many users and will get good usage.
Crystal Liberty: A very usable design, will definitely get a lot of attention and usage, must see.
Diurnal: Usable- you can change the “color changing as per time of day” header if you need to and you’ll get a great 3 column Sandbox theme.
Essay: Very usable, simple and ample room for all your content and sidebar elements.
Hourglass: Good usage of graphics, color and attention to details. Must see.
Promised Land and Walk in the Shadows: Adam should get the Most talented- Graphics usage award- unfortunately there is no such offered. It appears like a lot of work went into his work, two thumbs up for his two themes.
Milkia: Simple, minimal, will get good usage.
MIX: Left and right sidebar is a popular choice, will get usage for that very reason.
Moo-Point: This theme takes minimalism to the next level by making a Sandbox theme like the Sandbox theme itself! Very bold move, or should I say Moo.
Oranges: Orange, white and black work well with users, if there is a generic header alternative this theme will get good usage.
Oriole: Neat and simple.
Picnic: Experimental and creative, this theme sets itself apart from the rest, must see.
Sakeena: Arty- soothing colors, good site hierarchy.
SandPress: Web 2ish, generic so many users can and will use.
Shades of Gray: Good for users looking for a fluid, content centric, minimal theme.
Takimata: Out-of-the-box design, bold, it is search bot friendly, but is it user friendly too?
Tiffany Blue: Very usable theme, but watch out for long page names as it will run into the image in the sidebar as in the live preview.
Veracity: Dark minimal, very usable, no images, content centric, top notch.
Wrock It: Dark but soothing, very content centric and with a little tweak will fit most sites.
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Note of Caution and WordPress Themes for Aug 4, 2007
Posted by Snap! on August 4th, 2007
Wide Green is a neat 3 column theme by AskGraphics.
Games Central is a 2 column dark wordpress theme.
Charisma is a plain, professional, two column Wordpress Theme with a right sidebar by wordpressthemesbiz. (No links provided)
Also note:
Artistic and Hibiscus by Freewpthemes.net. (No attribution to freecsstemplates.org in any of the themes)
http://www.templatesbrowser.com/wordpress-themes/ has been removing designer links, adding their own and re-distributing themes with hidden advertisements.
Also, web2themes.com, earlier banned from http://themes.wordpress.net has listed their site as one of the sites for further references and collections here.
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Evolution 3C
Posted by Snap! on August 4th, 2007
Evolution is 3 column advanced “widget” ready Web 2.0 WordPress theme designed by MandarinMusing and Headsetoptions based partly on design by TriStarWeb. This clean, professional theme has an option page to change the header color, change the fonts, font color and much more. The theme has both right sidebars and bottom sidebars that are widget ready and Google Adsense styled.
Tagged: Evolution 3C, Free Downloads, Keyboard Shortcuts, New Release, New WP Themes, Plugins, Prosumer, RSS Feeds, Selection, Themes, WordPress, WordPress Skins, WordPress Templates, WordPress Themes, submit your themes
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