50 Quality Wordpress Themes Part 2-2
Posted by Wordpressthemesbox on June 26th, 2008
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F-Glamour Wordpress Theme
F-Morgon Wordpress Theme
Food Olivia WordPress Theme
Food Talkdev Wordpress Theme
Tagged: 2 Column, New WP Themes, WordPress, WordPress Skins, WordPress Templates, WordPress Themes, WordPress Themes Gallery, wpsnap
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50 Quality Wordpress Themes Part 2-1
Posted by Wordpressthemesbox on June 25th, 2008
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Business Tint Wordpress Theme
C-Curvy Wordpress Theme
Curvy Wordpress Theme
Desert-Night Wordpress Theme
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WordPress 2.5 Vulnerability Requires WordPress 2.5.1 Upgrade
Posted by Snap! on April 27th, 2008
As you may have noticed, we are missing a few blog posts (nothing significant) and some comments as a result of a recent database issue which is being investigated. Just so you are warned, multi-author WordPress install such as our own site should not be running version 2.5 for the reason we all have come to know as CVE 2008 1930. Upgrading to version 2.5.1 now will save you a lot of hassle, trust me us this.
We believe a recent attack on our site due to that WordPress vulnerability was responsible for the issues we encountered lately. We assure you that we have taken all the steps necessary to rectify it. Although the BBPress powered WP News Forum was linked, we were able to restore all the fields and posts without any loss of data.
Here are some symptoms and diagnosis for the issue:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/172004
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/168964
We will post a detailed step by step correction process once we confirm the issue was indeed related. Although having a backup of your database from pre-2.5 might help, we feel it can be accomplished without any backup.
Sunny has a post detailing some WordPress 2.5 troubleshooting tips!
Tagged: Tutorials, Web Tools, WordPress, WordPress 2.5, wpSnap News, wpsnap
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New WordPress Themes Updates #2
Posted by Snap! on April 23rd, 2008
As you may have noticed, we are behind in updating these pages. Without making any excuses, we will strive to bring the pending themes to current as quickly as possible. To facilitate it, we decided to preview 12 themes in the WP Themes section instead of the usual 6. This will remain in its current state until we are able to bring the pending themes to zero (or close to).
Thanks for you patience, a special thanks to our friends who are volunteering to help us out and continued support of WP Snap!
Tagged: Blog Posts, General, New WP Themes, WordPress, wpSnap News, wpsnap
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New WordPress Themes Updates
Posted by Eric on December 31st, 2007
Our efforts would be to update the “New WordPress Themes” section daily.
We will try to have 6 different contributor’s themes on each page. For example: If you upload three themes at one time, one of your theme will show up on the front page on the first day, and the remaining themes you upload will be carried forward to the following days. This will ensure maximum front page exposure to every contributor.
Unlike in the past, at least one of the link from each post will have a “do follow” to the theme author’s site.
Please note that your demo, or URI link(s) must include target=”_blank”
Please also limit the size of the theme image to 400px by 300px
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Design Inspiration by Squid Fingers
Posted by Snap! on December 27th, 2007
These free patterns from Tennessee based designer Travis Beckham are a treat!
There are over 150 of these classic designs on his site Squid Fingers. Check em out.
Tagged: Design, Design Inspiration, Fractal, Free Downloads, Graphic Design, Graphic Design Resources, Graphic Designers, Graphics, Inspiration, Nature, Resources, Squid Finger, Travis Beckham, Web Design, Web Tools, free, wpSnap News, wpsnap
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Theme Test Drive Plugin for WP Designers
Posted by Snap! on December 6th, 2007
Here’s a neat little plugin by Vladimir that allows WordPress designers and admin’s alike to test drive a new theme while the users/visitors of your site still enjoy and experience your “current theme”.
Of course your cache needs to be disabled while you are testing, but sure beats the old method of using Theme Switcher plugin with /?wptheme=newtheme to switch back and forth.
Give this plugin a test drive!
Tagged: Design, Design Tools, New Release, Resources, Test Drive, Tricks, WordPress CMS, WordPress Plugins, WordPress developers, wpSnap News, wpsnap
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How to make WordPress Themes SEO Friendly
Posted by headsetoptions on November 20th, 2007
Many sites built on WordPress as a CMS use free themes that are more or less visually appealing but seldom optimized to help your site grow. With thousands of free themes out there, you would think it will be easy to find a theme that will do it all without any manual intervention, but that is not the case most of the times, here’s why.
Depending on what you are trying to accomplish with your site, you may fall in one of the following two categories:
- You blog, but care less if anyone finds or reads it.
- You are ambitious about your site and do care about your readers, and would like to take it to the next level.
If you are like #1, you can stop reading, because you Sir can use any theme as is and will get by. On second thoughts, you don’t even need a hosted site to do that, register for a free blog on Blogger or WordPress.com and you are good to go.
But if you are leaning towards #2, then proceed with the rest.
To make matters simple, we can divide the aspects of your site design into two parts. First of course is the basic visual elements to make your users want to come back for more. Second and probably the more important part is to optimize your site to be as machine-readable as possible to generate that organic traffic by ranking high on SERPs.
Visual Elements
This part should be designed to help your readers:
- Find
- Interact (read/comment/subscribe/buy)
- Leave only with the intent of returning
There are many free themes you can pick from some of the best WordPress themes that could accomplish this rather easily, and you will see what I mean. Although there are a few base criteria I would look for if I were to pick a theme that will help the SEO process in the long run. Here’s a quick run down:
- What is the sequence of file load or refresh? (Header, Index, Sidebar and Footer is preferred)
- How easy is it to make changes with the theme as a base? (I tweak everything I use, from themes to plugins, so I need to know if there is something that will pose a roadblock)
Also, to help in customizing the theme, find if your theme is:
- Graphic intense, if so, how does it affect site load speed? (Check using iwebtools, Firebug or similar free tools)
- Use any plugins, if so, are they useful? If a theme must need a plugin to work, then I’ll stay out of it.
- Have ample space for large images in a post, it matters to me, but is not always necessary.
- Have sidebars that will take the crap I usually fill it with? Two sidebars are usually better since we can group the sidebar elements if needed into say, “useless” and “worthless”.
Machine Readable Content
This part is very similar to the visual part, except the reader here is called a (ro)bot or an accessibility aid for say, the blind. This aspect of design is usually ignored both by designers as well as users. The most common reason to ignore this part is because “it is not obvious” when you see a theme or a site if it is machine-readable or not. Nonetheless, it is correctable, here’s how.
The process of making a site machine-readable is closely related to Search Engine Optimization or SEO in short, this could be a one-time fix or an ongoing process depending on your requirements. SEO fixes are not complex as made out to be, anyone with time and patience can rework their sites to make more machine friendly.
I created a list not long ago about how SEO could help increase organic traffic to your site. In this post, I want to focus specifically on some best practices that can be implemented to any site and maintained on a regular basis.
- The very first thing to do is to check use your alts and titles, when adding images or creating link, make sure to include alts (since machines can not see images, and only rely on text) and titles while entering URIs (so the bots know what this URI contains).
- Add a relevant introduction to your site, this will help both the readers and the bots get a feel for what to expect on your site. (An example would be my site!)
- Pay attention to font hierarchy, make sure you save your H1’s only for your most important titles, some SEO gurus will argue that your post titles be H2’s, but that totally depends on the context of your headings, if you choose your post titles to be representative of your post (i.e. in context), then what is wrong with it getting some attention?
- Sidebar headings are useless, so don’t waste your H2’s or H3’s there, go with H4 or H5. Save the H2’s and H3’s for sub-titles within a post (I use h3, I think). Those using Sidebar Widgets Plugin know that H2 is used by default, the simplest way to overcome this issue is to open widgets.php file (will reside in the plugin folder under widgets of course) and replace all H2’s with H5’s (or whatever), use the ctrl+h function on a PC to find the H2’s.
- Watch the flow of content, this is key but not usually that critical. Ideally, the content in the main column should load immediately after the header followed by sidebar(s), then the footer (if any).
- Leverage the power of long keywords, use tools such as Google Analytics to track key words or sentences used to find your site in SERPs, turn those into keywords for future posts to help build on existing strengths.
- Watch your anchor text for outgoing links, make sure you not using keywords you want your own site to rank higher.
- Finally, when you write a post, ensure the keyword you are targeting is being used appropriately and is included in the title
Of course there is more, but I will save the rest for a later post. In the mean time, enjoy the tweaking and happy holidays!
This blog post was guest authored by Sunny from headsetoptions.org. When asked to write on wpSnap.com, his first response was “Are you nuts, I don’t even write on my own blog anymore”. Well, with a little persuasion, he agreed.
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Google Penalizing Paid Links: Expert Review
Posted by Snap! on November 2nd, 2007
The Great Google God slap of ‘07 left many high-profile sites with a bloody nose. While there was much speculation elsewhere, StomperNet Faculty had a relaxed talk.
Levering the experience of internet and technology geeks such as Leslie Rohde, Chief Technology Officer of StomperNet, Dan Thies from SEO Research Labs, Jerry West from Web Marketing Now and Andy Edmonds, former head of Web Analytics at Microsoft, each one of them gave reasoned, researched and interesting opinions on what’s REALLY going on with Google, and how online businesses and blogs would get affected in the near future.
Enjoy the Podcast.
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WordPress: Best Open Source Social Networking CMS
Posted by Snap! on October 29th, 2007
According to Matt, Packt Publishing has revealed that WordPress is the first winner of the 2007 Open Source CMS Award, picking up the best Open Source Social Networking Content Management System award. WordPress came out ahead of Elgg and Drupal.
Tagged: Open Source, PimpDaBlog, Plugins, Red, Selection, WordPreciousss, WordPress CMS, WordPress Professionals, WordPress Skins, WordPress Templates, WordPress Themes, wpSnap News, wpsnap
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Best WordPress Themes Demo is back!
Posted by Snap! on October 26th, 2007
The latency issues we had been experiencing have been resolved. Hopefully, there won’t be any more glitches.. if you do find some, please bear with us as we would try to fix it at the earliest. Thanks!
Tagged: Best WordPress Themes, Best of WordPress, Keyboard Shortcuts, PimpDaBlog, Plugins, Sandbox Theme, Selection, WordPress, WordPress Skins, WordPress Templates, WordPress Themes, wpSnap News, wpsnap
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Site Issues and Theme Demo Down
Posted by Snap! on September 24th, 2007
We are experiencing some issues with the site and as you can tell, have been behind for the past 3 weeks and parts of our site (like the demos) are not working! Our host is trying to help, but we might need a larger server. We appreciate your continued support and hope to be able to get back in full swing shortly.
Tagged: PimpDaBlog, Selection, wpSnap News, wpsnap
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