[Infographic] The State of WordPress Themes: Current Trends And Classifications
WordPress is the most popular CMS out there. It powers a good number of websites and blogs, and owing to its popularity, the number of extensions and themes that are available for WordPress surpasses those of any other CMS by a mile.
Speaking of WordPress themes, the market is filled with options. You have free themes, premium themes, themes created by design agencies, themes created by casual designers just to kill time, themes created with passion and, sadly, themes containing spam and shady links. However you look at it, I guess the point is clear:
WordPress themes = way too many!
In this article, we shall be taking a look at the current state of WordPress themes.
![[Infographic] The State of WordPress Themes: Current Trends And Classifications](http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/current_state_wordpress_themes_preview_large.jpg "[Infographic] The State of WordPress Themes: Current Trends And Classifications")
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The Business of Freelance Design Using WordPress
Take a few minutes with this video so that we can get to know each other. :-)
It is my goal in 2013 to teach you the Business of Freelance Design. That is to say, how you can make your passion into your livelihood.
Specifically, I’m going to share with you my six years of online experience, helping thousands of customers to monetize their talents and turn their dreams into reality. Freelancers such as yourself are incredibly gifted in design and are very creative, but notoriously weak at maximizing the return on their time invested. We will change that together.
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42 Picture-Perfect Premium WordPress Themes for Photographers
Nowadays there are a lot of people in love with photography, which probably explains why Pinterest, Instagram, and other photo websites have become popular. In fact, photo websites are a growing niche. It doesn’t take much marketing; really, all you need to do is to have great photos to share and social media accounts.
So, how do you start your first photo blog? Well, we’ve gathered only the best premium photography WordPress themes for photographers to choose from!
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How to Create a WordPress Reward for Tweet Plugin
As a website owner or blogger you need a good number of subscribers and followers to be successful in the social media world. Many websites provide freebies such as eBooks, Icon Packs and Plugins in exchange for emails. Getting people to tweet your content is another trending method to get more visitors to your site. In this tutorial, I’ll be showing how to create a WordPress reward for Tweet plugin to increase the tweets on your content while satisfying everyone!
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75 Impressive and Powerful Premium WordPress Themes From 2012
Looking for a great website? Maybe a convenient solution for a client? WordPress is one of the most powerful CMS solutions out there and people with demands choose it for their website because of it’s flexibility, customizability and almost unlimited range of features.
WordPress doesn’t associate with just a blog anymore – it’s used by businesses, nonprofits, creatives and sellers. Different types of websites require different types of designs and that’s where WordPress is forthcoming. You can apply almost any design to it and customize it for your needs. Most of the people choose to use premade themes which are easy to customize, remake and adjust. If your wishes don’t stretch further than a personal blog then it’s better to go for a free theme – we recently published a roundup of high quality free WordPress themes from 2012.
However, if you know your website is going to need some more advanced features it’s better to consider purchasing a premium theme. Premium themes come in high-quality, they’re packed with tons of features and you can customize them to suit your needs. For this roundup we’ve prepared 75 impressive and powerful premium WordPress themes that are sorted in categories.
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PSD to HTML Tutorial: Code a Photoshop File to a Working Website
Howdy, folks! In this PSD to HTML tutorial you will learn how to code the Quick and Easy Stylish Design Agency Landing Page In Adobe Photoshop. I’m not really into coding, more of a design person and this is my first coding tutorial. I will try my best to guide you through the whole thing. We will be coding this from scratch and by the end you will have an awesome and fully functional agency layout.
Are you ready? Let’s get started!
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Viral Product Launch with Launch Effect
Launching a product is a meticulous process, even for us with our ebooks. One thing we can say is that having a mailing list helps a lot. Now, what is this post all about? In this post I will tell you about an awesome product, a WordPress theme called Launch Effect that focuses on helping you gather subscribers so that you can have a viral product launch!
Launch Effect is unlike other WordPress themes. It can act as a blog for your product or as a simple landing page, what’s more is that you can design it to fit your own taste without learning how to code or use Photoshop!
Are you ready for this awesome WordPress theme?
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Create an Author Comments Feed in WordPress
In recent years blogs have become so popular that and they’re one of the most common ways people get their daily dose of information. It’s not possible for a single person to provide quality content everyday. As a result, major websites are accepting guest authors to provide quality content on a regular basis.
Authors play a vital role in these multi-author blogs since they are responsible for providing up-to-date content for their readers. Once a post is published, the author has to respond to comments, fix the issues and update the content according to the latest trends. As an Author, it is important to respond to user comments quickly. When a comment is made, only the administrator gets the notification email to approve the comments. But there is no default functionality to notify the author.
Authors have to view comments of each post regularly and I can tell you that is very hard if you have written a large number of posts. In this tutorial I am going to ease this task by creating an author comments feed for the comments of all posts written by a single author. Then you will be able to view all the comments in one place. So Lets get started.
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60 Mind-blowing Advertisements That Will Boost Your Creativity
Love it or hate it, advertisements are all around us. Those times when you had to be horrified by those ugly banners in newspapers are gone. The classic ways of advertising are not working anymore. In order for an ad to be successful it has to resemble an “ad” as little as possible. Interaction with customers, experiments, installations etc. are taking over the world of advertisements. That’s why along with creative print advertisements (which are equally awesome), we’ve also collected some videos with next level advertising. Continue reading and check out these 60 mind-blowing advertisements to satisfy your urge for creativity.
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40 Unique and Multifunctional Premium Admin Templates To Help You Manage Your Website
Backend web development can be compared to your local government. You don’t usually see them, but they’re doing their work (efficiency is another matter). While content management systems like WordPress or Drupal do the work most of the time, there are occasions where you can’t do without a custom solution. As you know, building an administration page yourself can be quite difficult and time-consuming.
“I’d do it myself but..” You don’t have to build it yourself. Especially when there are dozens of unique admin templates around that are responsive, clean, full of features and plugins and customizable at almost no cost. In this article, you’ll find 40 customizable premium admin templates for your next website, project or application.
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