WPZOOM » Best of http://www.wpzoom.com Premium WordPress Themes, WordPress Video Theme, Magazine WordPress Themes Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:54:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 70+ RSS Feeds for WordPress Bloggers & Developers (OPML file) http://www.wpzoom.com/wpzoom/70-rss-feeds-for-wordpress-bloggers-developers/ http://www.wpzoom.com/wpzoom/70-rss-feeds-for-wordpress-bloggers-developers/#comments Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:51:50 +0000 Pavel Ciorici http://www.wpzoom.com/?p=595 ]]> Inspired by a recent article, I decided to share my RSS Feeds of blogs on WordPress that I follow daily. Totally I collected about 70+ RSS Feeds for WordPress Bloggers & Developers. And to make your life easy, I have sorted them by several categories such as:

WordPress – Bloggers – RSS Feeds of the most popular WordPress bloggers, which besides the posts of their personal life, are writing sometimes about WordPress

WordPress – General News – Blogs that are writing daily about news from the WordPress community and other releases.

WordPress – Plugins – some WordPress blogs for advanced users or developers interested in what stands behind WordPress.

WordPress – Showcase – WordPress has a lot of sites well-designed, which are based on this platform, and to find such sites easier, you can visit these galleries.

WordPress – Premium – a category that contains the RSS Feeds from those developing premium themes. Follow them to be in step with new releases

WordPress – Roundups – Popular blogs, which besides their articles, are writing regularly about WordPress.

WordPress – Themes – RSS feeds that regularly write about new WordPress Themes, almost of them are free.

WordPress – Tips & Tutorials – several RSS feeds to make your life easier, contain tips and tutorials.


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WordPress – Bloggers

WordPress – General News

WordPress – Plugins

WordPress – Showcase

WordPress – Premium

WordPress – Roundups

WordPress – Themes

WordPress – Tips and Tutorials


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]]> http://www.wpzoom.com/wpzoom/70-rss-feeds-for-wordpress-bloggers-developers/feed/ 30 Best Free WordPress Themes in 2008 http://www.wpzoom.com/wordpress-themes-sets/best-free-wordpress-themes-in-2008/ http://www.wpzoom.com/wordpress-themes-sets/best-free-wordpress-themes-in-2008/#comments Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:20:35 +0000 Pavel Ciorici http://www.wpzoom.com/?p=567 ]]> Now when is the end of the year, I decided to look through Collections of WordPress Themes for this year, and to choose the ones I liked most.

So I decided to declare 15 of them as The Best Free WordPress Themes in 2008. The criteria for selection were simple, and among them I can enumerate:

  • 1. Unique design
  • 2. Unusual structure
  • 3. New Features Integrated
  • 4. and many other special features.

    WordPress Fun

    WordPress Fun is a 2 columns theme with a grungy design which looks very proffesionaly and also has included .psd file, that allows you to customize theme as you like.

    • Theme info Demo

    Color Paper

    Another great and free professional theme from SmashingMagazine with a well structured design.

    • Theme info Demo

    Agregado Theme

    Agregado is a theme that has integrated a built-in lifestream module and contact form with custom control panel options which is perfectly for any personal blogs.

    • Theme info Demo

    Arthemia

    Arthemia is combining a magazine and a weblog into one; it is not too magazine-ish nor too blog-ish.

    • Theme Info Demo

    Typebased Theme

    Typebased is a free, personal blog design, with a very clean and elegant style.

    • Theme info Demo

    The Original Premium News

    This theme has been recently released for free as a gift from WooThemes at their 1st anniversary.

    • Theme info Demo

    Versatility Theme

    • Theme info Demo

    WP Coda

    WP Coda is a fantastic theme which was created to “mimic” the function of the very popular Coda website.

    • Theme info Demo

    Purple Fever

    • Theme info Demo

    NewsWeek Theme

    NewsWeek is a theme which is originally inspired from Business Weeek website.

    • Theme info Demo

    Curious Theme

    Curious is another free WordPress theme designed in a clean classic layout.

    • Theme info Demo

    StudioWordPress Premiere

    StudioWordpress Premiere is a wonderful theme with wonderful options.

    • Theme info Demo

    Personal Homepage Theme

    • Theme info Demo

    Holiday WordPress

    Holiday WordPress is a flexible, professional theme with a two-column layout and a “featured” area for the latest story.

    • Theme info Demo

    Intaglio Theme

    • Theme info Demo

    Grungezine Theme

    • Demo

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]]> http://www.wpzoom.com/wordpress-themes-sets/best-free-wordpress-themes-in-2008/feed/ 22 WordPress: More Than A Blog Platform (part 1) http://www.wpzoom.com/plugins/wordpress-more-than-a-blog-platform-part-1/ http://www.wpzoom.com/plugins/wordpress-more-than-a-blog-platform-part-1/#comments Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:20:44 +0000 Pavel Ciorici http://www.wpzoom.com/?p=499 ]]> Internet is unimaginable without this WordPress, which makes writing and publishing articles on-line in a easiest way, because it is very simple and user-friendly, thing that contributed to its development in several directions.

The next series of articles I proposed to bring in the spotlight different ways of using the WordPress, bringing examples, resources, like themes and various tutorials.

Most of us have used that the WordPress has evolved in a such way, that many have forgotten that WordPress is actually a platform for blogs and there is no surprise to see popular sites of any kind, which are powered by this blogging platform. Among such sites are listed well known on-line publications like: CNN Political Ticker or NYTimes.com Blogs pand many other notable blogs, which list can be found here.

WordPress as Magazine or News Site

There are a lot of themes and techniques to create a wonderful Magazine or News Site in WordPress. Most of these theme often differ from the rest of specifications as Featured Content Gallery, Administration Panel and a lot of integrated plugins.
Many web-designers suggests WordPress because it’s simple and yet is such a pleasure to use. Yes, there are things that need to be improved but WordPress being an open source software, you can expect continuous improvements on it by the community.

Examples:

Here are my favourite sites with Magazine style, created with WordPress:

    • FollowTheWinds is a blog about Windsurfing Lifestyle, which is a modification of the theme Arthemia, and next to the default theme features it has integrated and a great flash slide panel.

    • It’s hard to believe, but Timothy Sykes is an WordPress powered blog, because it is very well structured and the concept is different from any others.

Tutorials & Resources:

Magazine Themes

Here are my favorite WordPress Themes of all time, which I think are perfectly created for Magazine Style blogs.

WordPress as a Twitter clone:

Have you ever wanted to have a Twitter profile different from the rest? Now this is possible using WordPress. Often we observe different uses of the twitter plugins in WordPress, which led to a mini-blogging spreading among bloggers, who prefer short posts.

Examples:

Twitter-like WordPress themes:

Twitter-like WordPress Themes allows you to customize your Twitter “profile” as you want. Sometimes I feel the need to post a video or a picture, and then appears and the need for a twitter profile that you can manage as you wish, and this leads to the using of WordPress as an alternative to Twitter. But there is also a disadvantage because you lose the main essence of Twitter, that of creating a community of mini-bloggers, and disappears at the same time interaction between people who follow you.

Plugins & Tutorials

WordPress as a Trailer or Video Site:

In my opinion, beside WordPress Rockstar, I think we have to invent and VideoStar expression. Can you guess who can be called so? Certainly that’s Jason Schuller, who has introduced a new type of WordPress theme – Video Themes.

Examples

    • FlickOut is an Powered by WordPress Blog, where we can find trailers and wathc them in a very easily way.

    • TrailerFlick is a site developed by VideoStar Jason Schuller, and I would like to mention that it is very much like structure with the first example in this, even if it lacks some features.

Themes

Bellow I post all the video theme created by Jason Schuller:

And the remaining themes are creations of various authors:

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]]> http://www.wpzoom.com/plugins/wordpress-more-than-a-blog-platform-part-1/feed/ 24 45+ Free Premium WordPress Themes with Magazine or Grid Layouts http://www.wpzoom.com/wordpress-themes-sets/45-free-premium-wordpress-themes-with-magazine-or-grid-layouts/ http://www.wpzoom.com/wordpress-themes-sets/45-free-premium-wordpress-themes-with-magazine-or-grid-layouts/#comments Wed, 28 May 2008 13:39:35 +0000 Pavel Ciorici http://www.wpzoom.com/?p=144 ]]> Today I posted the biggest collection until now on the blog. This collection is constituted only of Free Premium WordPress Themes, most of them have magazine or grid layouts.

I don’t know if correctly formulated the phrase “free premium themes“, because as logic a premium theme would be a theme that will be available for money, but I use the term “premium“, just because each of these themes are unique in their way, each have a design and a stylish way, different from the standard themes for WordPress. So, before you criticize this article would be better to have in mind what I said before, in order not to create confusion.

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