WP Slide2See is a new revolutionary WordPress plugin that is aimed at Internet Marketers, but can be used by anyone with a WordPress blog.

WP Slide2See consists of 4 WordPress sliders.  Each one is developed with one thing in mind, to deliver content to your readers in a new and unique way.

Slider #1: Slide Down Content

The slide down content slider was created to present the reader banner ads, google ad word ads, opt-in boxes, You Tube videos and more in a clean non-intrusive way.  WP Slide2See gets rid of the side banner ads, and places them within your content.

For keywords that contain a link, the admin can assign any html content to slide out in a beautifully designed box upon rollover.  So if your blog is about finding a job, you may have the words job finder as a link.  Upon rolling over the link, perhaps a box with a banner ad with a job finder company may slide out.  Or maybe a YouTube video describing ways to find a job may slide out.

http://wpslide2seedemo.com/demo/demo-1

Slider #2: Slide Deck Effect

The Slide Deck Effect is a standard slide deck.  But they go one step beyond the standard slide deck and give the admin the ability to insert any html content, not JUST images.  This includes youtube videos, opt-ins, scrolling text and more.

http://wpslide2seedemo.com/demo/organic-skincare-demo-2

Slider #3: Animated Hover

The Animated Hover is a unique slider that displays an image.  When the cursor rolls over this image, the image slides down to reveal content beneath it.  This content beneath can be any html content.

About Kevin Painchaud

Kevin Painchaud is the Director of Development for the web design and development studio called GoodSite. You can visit them at http://getgoodsite.com/

Nowadays we live in a highly globalised world where companies deal with customers, suppliers and other businesses irrespective of their country. Globalisation has brought with it a mingling of people with different mother tongues, and this is something to take into consideration when building a website.

Modern informational technologies are usually based on English, in international scientific conferences reports are often read and published in English, international meetings are conducted in English. Although the English community is a big fraction of the market, we shouldn’t forget that there are millions of people – users – who don’t speak English (or at least not as their first language) but prefer to read in their mother language.

When it comes to building a website, it doesn’t matter which company it is for: distributor or product producer,  professional blogger, hotel company, or some language school, –  the goal for all of them is the same – to reach their target audience. We need every single user to see us, to read our content and to find us while searching. To make it so, we should speak to our audience’s same language. So let’s not to forget about German, Spanish, French, Italian, Arabic, Chinese or Russian readers and enable them to know about you.

In the post below I would like to show you a list of 10 WordPress Themes for Multilingual Websites. Please, if you have some thoughts, valuable notes or you can offer some other worthy multilingual theme, don’t hesitate and take a moment to leave your comments. Thank you.

Circulo

Circulo is a responsive user-friendly WordPress theme for multilingual websites. Circulo is a circular-inspired theme that creates a clean and slick design by joining together rounded corners, floating circles and fluid movement. Eye-catching circular content can be placed throughout your pages to make sure your visitors know where to go and what to do. The theme uses extensive CSS3 and HTML5 techniques to make the design a reality in today’s browsers, it has many useful features, which you can find out more about by clicking the link below.

More details | Price: $35

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Euclid

Euclid was a Greek Mathematician and was known as the “Father of Geometry”. The theme is inspired by Euclid, the author went crazy with all the sharp rectangular content containers and came up with an awesome layout for displaying your content in various ways. Euclid already comes with built-in multilanguage support. You don’t need to install any additional third-party plugins to create language-specific content or to add language switchers. You also don’t need to use third-party software to do your language file translations since the theme comes with its own language editor.

More details | Price: $35

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Charcoal

Charcoal is an HTML5 + CSS3 Multilingual WordPress Theme. The theme is multipurpose and customizable, and provides multiple blog and portfolio layout options all in an easy to use package. Charcoal already comes built-in with multilanguage support. Charcoal provides multiple options for fonts, colors, backgrounds, blog page layouts, and portfolio page layouts for all your design needs. Check out the “Mosaic Portfolio Layout” in the live demo for a nice treat.

More details | Price: $35

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ArmyKnife

Army Knife is a Clean HTML5 + CSS3 Multilingual HTML5 WordPress Theme. The theme uses semantic HTML5 markup, and also gives you HTML5 video shortcodes as well as tinyMCE buttons. CSS3 is used extensively in the theme from multiple backgrounds to linear and radial gradients. The use of HTML5 and CSS3 in turn makes the theme fully viewable in iPhone and iPad devices.

More details | Price: $37

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Amplus

“Amplus” which means “large” in Latin, is a feature-packed premium WordPress theme which incorporates large featured images perfect business sites and online portfolios. This theme aims to be as flexible as possible, implementing a unique column shortcode which enables you to change the layout of the page, a number of customizable colors to completely change the look of the theme, 80+ Cufon fonts, 30+ shortcodes with different configurations, and plenty more. The administration panel is easy to use with lots of descriptive settings laid out for you. Amplus comes with an easy and user friendly customization options.

More details | Price: $35

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Curvo

Curvo is one of best WordPress themes for multilingual websites which bends the rules to give you fresh and flexible horizontal oriented websites. Learning from what you want in a theme, authors focused in giving you features which are both powerful and simple to use. The theme is fluid to provide beautiful horizontal websites across the different screen sizes of laptops and desktop monitors. With multiple design and language options, you will get a total control on the look of your website. The administration panel is easy to use with lots of descriptive settings laid out for you.  For more information click the link below.

More details | Price: $35

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Studio8

An elegant and minimalist WordPress theme for a design studio or photo studio. The theme has a fullscreen background gallery for featured work, twitter ticker, jquery paginated portfolio layout and blog, awesome hover effect, and an ajax contact form. The template offers a quick and easy setup. And its Timthumb-free. Please note this is an ajax theme and therefore most plugins that require javascript on the frontend of your site will not work. This theme is fully translatable/internationalized front-end and back-end with default mo and po files included. This theme has been proven to support translations into one or more languages simultaneously using WPML plugin . It also comes with an xml config file so the theme is WPML ready.

More details | Price: $35

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Creator

Creator is one of the beautiful WordPress themes for multilingual websites. It’s 100% translation ready and features shortcodes, portfolios, HTML5 . Theme is built on robust MVC framework that means that HTML design is completely separated from other PHP. Making updates cannot be easier. Template & MVC framework is under continuous improvement. Easy translation to any other language, get text PO file is also included, the theme is WPML Ready. The Creator WordPress Theme comes also with customer support and after purchase service. For full details click the link below.

More details | Price: $45

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Aspiration is one of the great WordPress themes for multilingual websites; it’s a nice and clean product presentation WordPress template. 6 different page variants allow theme to be used for corporate websites, blog, portfolio, product presentation, services – any website where you would like to create presentation of your products or services. Aspiration is SEO and multilingual ready. A precise and user friendly admin panel allows you to do a lot of customisations without knowing any HTML or CSS .  You will find a lot of features, such as 25 admin panel options, huge homepage slider – custom modified anything slider, you can easily backup all your data and admin settings, translation ready,  easy translation to any other language using WPML plugin, gettext PO file is also included, over 200 fonts that can be also easily selected in the admin panel, many portfolio layouts, and many-many more. Need more details? Click the link below.

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Thank you for reading this post about Multilingual WordPress themes, if you would also like to consider plugins, take a look at our review of the best multilanguage plugins for WordPress.

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About Alyona Vadimovna

Alyona is a WordPress enthusiast, focused on sharing interesting things she comes across during her work with this great CMS. While away from the keyboard she can be found trying out sporting activities or soaking up the Mediterranean sun.

Menus are sometimes one of those things which you may overlook when planning a website, thinking you won’t have any hassle to build, and then later it turns out that it’s indeed very time consuming to build what you had in mind within your WordPress site.

At that point you either settle for a simpler menu or scour the interwebs in search for tips and tricks to twist the WordPress menu system to function in the way you want it to. Of course, if you’re a coding legend you probably won’t have any problem, but for other mere mortals there is now a great solution: UberMenu 2.0.

UberMenu is a user-friendly, highly customizable responsive Mega Menu WordPress plugin. It works out of the box with the WordPress 3 Menu System, making it simple to get started but powerful enough to create highly customized and creative mega menu configurations.

Version 2 of this well-established menu builder gives you some really sexy features:

• Fully responsive
• Enhanced CSS
• Lighter weight, more efficient JavaScript
• iPhone & iPad compatible
• Full-width submenu option with ability to define the number of columns

I especially love the fact that it is now fully responsive, and so it’s one less headache when building a responsive site. The developer also updates the plugin quite frequently with new features, so it’s an ever-evolving plugin. I really suggest you give this plugin a try if you’re looking for a WordPress menu builder plugin.

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About Jean Galea

Jean Galea is a WordPress developer, trainer and consultant. He is the founder of WP Mayor and is available for freelance work. You can get in touch via his website at www.jeangalea.com.

When debugging and developing a WordPress site, it is most useful to have the template file being used being displayed on the front end, so you will easily know what file you should be editing to see the desired changes on the front end. It is easy for frustration to build when you don’t see changes being applied to the front end, only to later discover that you were editing the wrong file.

The solution is simple, and comes in the form of a plugin called Reveal Template.

This plugin relieves the aggravation by assisting designers and developers by displaying the template being used to render the currently displayed page in WordPress. This typically appears in the site’s footer (though only if the theme follows the recommended practice of calling the wp_footer() template tag) at some point. Also, obviously this can only universally apply to the site if said footer is actually used on every page.

A template tag is also provided which can be used to display the template file.

<?php c2c_reveal_template(); ?>

By default, c2c_reveal_template() will echo the template name. To simply retrieve the template filename rather than displaying it:

<?php $template = c2c_reveal_template(false); ?>

The template tag also takes a second argument which be can be one of the following: absolute, relative, template-relative, filename. This determines the path style you’d like reported. If not specified, it uses the default defined in the plugin’s settings page.

Examples of path types:

• “absolute” : /usr/local/www/yoursite/wp-content/themes/yourtheme/single.php
• “relative” : wp-content/themes/yourtheme/single.php
• “theme-relative” : yourtheme/single.php
• “filename” : single.php

This plugin is primarily intended to be activated on an as-needed basis.

Reveal Template

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Jean Galea is a WordPress developer, trainer and consultant. He is the founder of WP Mayor and is available for freelance work. You can get in touch via his website at www.jeangalea.com.

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It’s not enough to just have a website or to just publish a blog post. One must also consider SEO to really have your website and blog post noticed by others. In this post, we’ll explore not only best SEO practices, but explore best SEO practices within WordPress and include a quick review and demo of two SEO WordPress plugins.

Best SEO Practices

Use of Keywords

Keywords need to be used within the content of the pages, and preferably near the top of the page. Work the use of keywords into the content so it flows naturally and organically. The first paragraph of every page is the most important content as some robots/indexes only search the top part of the page. Also, as mentioned below, include keywords in page titles, filenames, headings, etc.

File Naming

Use keywords in the file names of your web pages and images. For example, if I am naming a web page for a Sports Turf company, I may use the following file name: sports-turf-bluegrass. The same applies for images. Name the images appropriately. The image on the Sports Turf page may have the filename sports-turf-bluegrass.jpg.

Alt tags

Always, always, always make use of the alt tags when adding images to your site. The alt tag provides further description of the image. Not only does it make your site more 508 compliant, it also makes your image ‘searchable’. Search engines can’t ‘read’ images, but they can read alt tags. When adding info to an alt tag, include keywords to describe the image.

Headings

Use H1 tags for the title of the page. This is a general practice within WordPress themes. Use subsequent heading tags to name sections of the page, identifying sections of the page in order of  importance. For example, the main sections of the page will have H2 tags, subsections will have H3 tags, etc.

Inbound Links/Backlinks

Search engines love links to your site. Add links to your site from local community sites. This might include the chamber of commerce, local economic development office, etc. Include your site in directory listings such as dmoz.org, yahoo, etc. For a more complete list of directories see this post, Web Directories…Are They Relevant to SEO? You can also exchange links with suppliers, vendors, clients, etc.

Submit site to search engines

Submit your site, manually, to the top search engines. At a minimum, submit to the top three;

• Google
• Yahoo!
• Bing

For a more complete list of search engines, visit Wikipedia: List of Search Engines.

Regular Updates to Site

Regular updates to your website attract search engines. Search engines prefer a dynamic site – one that is being consistently updated. Several ideas to foster consistent update:

• promote events/sales
• write a blog
• highlight clients
• highlight weekly/monthly promotions
• coupons

Sitemaps

Sitemaps are a way to tell search engines about pages on your site they might not otherwise discover. A sitemap, which is an XML Sitemap, is a list of pages on your website. There are WordPress plugins that will do this for you. One of the more popular ones is Google XML Sitemaps.

WordPress Permalinks

One of the first things to change after installing WordPress is the permalink structure. Permalinks is under the Settings option on the Dashboard. The default permalink is ?p=<postid>. This results in a URL that looks something like this:

http://domainname.com?p=435.

That URL does nothing for SEO. The recommended permalink setting is  /%postname%/ or something similar. With the postname setting, a URL address will look  like this:

http://domainname.com/best-seo-practices-for-wordpress.

A URL with a page name that includes keywords will perform much better than the default setting.

Meta Tags

On most search engines, it is the page title (often truncated) and the Meta Description tag that are displayed in the results. Even though Google puts less weight on meta tags than what they did previously, meta tags are still important. Emphasis by search engines on meta tags can change overnight as they are constantly changing how they rank pages. Specific meta tags to pay attention to include Description, Keywords, and Title. In WordPress, there are SEO plugins that help us do this for each page and post.

Site Speed

Google now takes into consideration the load speed of websites when building up its results pages. You want to make sure that your site is snappy so you don’t get penalised here. So check that your theme is cleanly coded and your site is hosted on a fast server.

For shared hosting we recommend HostGator while for a really powerful VPS you can’t go wrong with VPS.net. The latter guys are also offering one month for free using the coupon ‘FREEVPS’ if you’re interested in trying them out. I did take up the offer and really enjoyed learning the ins and outs of managing your own VPS. The performance difference compared to shared hosting is also quite noticeable.

SEO Plugins

WordPress SEO plugins help to optimize each page and blog post on your website. These plugins let you set individual keywords, page descriptions, titles, etc. for each page and post on your site. Two of the most common plugins are All In One SEO Pack and WordPress SEO by Yoast.

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All In One SEO Pack

This plugin lets you include a Document Title, a Description, and keywords for each post and each page. It’s a great way to make sure each meta tag is set for best optimization. There is a free version and a paid version.

WordPress SEO by Yoast

This plugin is one of the most robust SEO plugins. You can set options for XML sitemaps, breadcrumbs, canonical tags, robots, Google analytics, and more. This plugin is free.

SEO Software

If you want to enjoy the best software + community of SEO experts ready to help you, the best resource is definitely SEOmoz. SEOmoz PRO combines SEO management, social media monitoring, actionable recommendations, and so much more in one easy-to-use platform. Now you can try it free for 30 days, there’s nothing to lose and it’s pretty much guaranteed that you will learn a great deal about SEO even if you just sign up for one month.

Do you have any more SEO tips of your own? Let us know in the comments section below.

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About Carma Leichty

Carma Leichty is a trainer in WordPress and web design. A converted Dreamweaver user, she is crazy about WordPress. She's done websites for the past upteen years and most enjoys helping others promote their Creative Work.

WiziApp is a powerful new service that enables you to enjoy native iPhone app benefits, such as App Store exposure and a native user experience for your audience, without the hassles of dealing with the development process or technical issues. The WiziApp service is based on the WordPress plugin system, for seamless integration between your blog and your own native iPhone app. All you need to do is download the WiziApp plugin, follow a few simple configuration steps, and your app is ready.

WiziApp was created by a team of WordPress specialists (and fans!) who joined with expert iPhone engineers to develop a simple and affordable service product. WiziApp is fully integrated with the WordPress admin panel, which means your posts, images, videos, pages and galleries are all displayed in a native iPhone user interface that includes a comments system and push notification service for maximum communication with your audience.

The pricing starts at $199 with a $19.90 monthly fee, considering the cost of an Apple developer program and the cost of hiring a developer to create your app, this is a good price especially if you have a blog which is already making you some money.

With WiziApp you can quickly have your own app on the Apple App Store at a decent price and with real ease.

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Jean Galea is a WordPress developer, trainer and consultant. He is the founder of WP Mayor and is available for freelance work. You can get in touch via his website at www.jeangalea.com.

If you are planning to establish a website for a tours and travel business, webguide or travel blog, or you just want to make a diary of your personal adventures, this post is for you. Travel themes for WordPress provide the right look and features which are needed for this specific niche, lots of them have integrated maps and geo tagging features included. For travel themes, you can also add multilingual plugins, advanced map plugins, guestbooks, and photo sliders.

There are many themes available in the web, but searching for those which are perfect for your needs is a really difficult task. In this post I offer you a list of 20 truly great travel themes for WordPress. You will find below both premium and free travel themes for WordPress. Please bear in mind that most high quality travel themes for WordPress with customer support are not free. Premium themes usually come with features that make your life easier and allow you to focus on your business and creative work. If you have some more themes worth showing, please leave a comment below. We appreciate any addition to this post.  Hope the list below will be helpful and enjoy the read!

Premium themes

Instyle

InStyle is bold and beautiful, turning your screen into a large, colorful, photo-filled canvas. With the theme’s ability to create custom, rotating background images for each section of your website, you can create designs that really attract your visitors attention. The photos used as background images in the demo are just examples and do not come with the theme. You choose your own photos when setting up the design.

More details | Price: $39

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Chameleon

Chameleons are known for their ability to change their colour of skin. The patterns and colour combinations you find in chameleons are almost endless, and this theme provides so many variations! Chameleon was created to be a simple and professional theme with loads of customization options that do not require web development experience to utilize.

More details | Price: $39

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Envisioned

Envisioned is a beautiful and powerful portfolio theme that enables you to easily create professional, multi-media galleries. Envisioned has the very powerful gallery features, allowing you to produce versatile layouts of various sizes and aspect ratios.

More details | Price: $39

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SimplePress

SimplePress is a page-based theme great for anyone looking to give their website a clean and professional look. The goal of creators was to make something similar to their other business-oriented themes, but simpler and more aesthetically pleasing. The theme features a clean homepage with a beautiful javascript slider and clear hierarchy, as well as fully functional Blog and Gallery sections.

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DailyNotes

DailyNotes was created to be the simplest and most elegant theme through which you could share your daily life. The theme is very minimal in its design, and has been trimmed down to the bare essentials. For anyone looking to create a fun and inviting personal blog, DailyNotes will serve you well!

More details | Price: $39

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Geo Places

Geo Places – one of the beautiful travel themes for WordPress which will let you create and manage your city directory WordPress website easily. With Geo Places, you can turn your WordPress into a strategically built city portal where you can showcase different places and businesses. For more details click the link below.

More details | Price: $99

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City Guide

City Guide was developed to cater for directory-based WordPress sites. Here you will find a guide to a city with shops, restaurants and other places of interest all archived in posts with geo-tags, custom content about the locations, and other features well presented in this great travel theme for WordPress designed by Sam Brown.

More details | Price: $70

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Statua

Statua is another theme for WordPress designed by Chris Rowe which is aimed at photo enthusiasts who want to use WordPress to show off their photos and galleries in a stylish fashion. The theme makes use of JavaScript sliders and alternative layouts to make it easy to setup and customize.

More details | Price: $70

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Soma

Soma is a beautiful premium theme which has a wide range of customization and backend features. Every single page and tiny section in this theme is customizable.  Here you will find an enormous amount of shortcodes, unlimited customization options, unlimited sidebars, powerful custom administration panel and other useful features.

Pinocchio Easy

Pinocchio Easy is designed and developed with simplicity of administration in mind. The whole website will be up and running in 5 minutes. The autoinstall script will prepare you a website that will look exactly the same as the demo site in one click. The only thing you will have to do is write your own content. The main feature of this template is that everything can be configured extremely easily using the WordPress admin panel. You will have the choice between 2 different sliders or a static image, a very universal design, and two font color schemes: light & dark. You can select any background image or set any background color you like using the integrated colorpicker.  Pinocchio Easy provides their users with these and many other features.

More details | Price: $35

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Revolution

Revolution is a premium WordPress theme which will help you take your corporate and personal website or blog to the next level. Here are just some of the features – powerful custom admin panel, 4 Sliders, 200+ Fonts, ability to easily create new skins from scratch, huge amount of shortcodes, 10 Page Templates and much more. With all this functionality you have the flexibility to create a powerful and complex website from scratch in very short time.

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World Traveler

This is the perfect template for any travel, nature, culture like blog/site. Its rich graphics will make your website stand out! This version allows you to customize about anything you can think of. In case you don’t know how to get something right there is an inbuild help file in the WordPress backend as well as 7 videocasts to show you the basic customization.

More details | Price: $30

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My Journey

My Journey is a one of the great travel themes for WordPress, which is developed and sold exclusively on ThemeForest marketplace. Not only is it perfect for a personal blog or portfolio, but you can even have fun on the run by posting videos, photos, links and more by using Express App, an iPhone app made by WooThemes that can be bought for $4.99 from the Apple app store. More over you can approve comments directly from the iPhone app, so it doesn’t matter if you are in the train or waiting in line at the bank, you always stay connected with your users. MyJourney comes with a popular 1 click auto-install feature that installs demo content into the theme helping you understand how your new original theme works.

More details | Price: $45

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The Navigator

The Navigator is ideal for travel blogs and/or location guides. This directory-based theme utilizes Google maps to display exact locations and provide users the ability to interact with the location. This theme could also function as a real estate listings directory or store locator.

More details | Price: $40

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Corporate Easy

The goal of creators of this template was to design and develop a theme simple to administrate. Corporate Easy contains autoinstall script, that will prepare you a website that will look beautiful and professional in one click . The theme offers an extremely universal design, easily customizable homepage, individual sections can be simply turned on/off using admin panel, widgets-ready sidebar and footer, two different sliders or static image, Google Analytics ready and others.

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Big City

Big City 3.0 has seriously improved backend and framework and it is now responsive. Those who are using previous versions should note that you will have to recreate some parts of your pages created on previous theme versions. If you were using previous version, after update click Reload button in theme options. So here what comes with new update: Responsive layout, speed increase, font uploader, header choice for every page and post, any content in headers now possible, updated theme options. For more information click the link below.

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Free themes

The Travel Theme

This template is the one of best free travel themes for WordPress. Key features of the template: Valid HTML5, Flickr integration – Show all your Flickr photos and albums as independent pages within your WordPress blog, cufon text Replacement with 25+ fonts ready to use, 60+ Custom style shortcodes with easy to use Shortcode Generator, 11 Custom Widgets – sub navigation, popular post, recent post, related post, Flickr, Twitter, social icons, contact form, contact Info, Google maps, automatic image resizing for feature, post and map images, custom logo replacement, WordPress 3 Menu support, WPML support, WordPress multisite support and many-many more.

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Funda

WP-Funda – one of the beautiful travel themes for WordPress  – is a free premium WordPress theme for travel websites. The theme is a clean, beautiful suitable for you to build a personal blog about travel and more.

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Beach Gold Coast

The Beach Gold Coast –  one of great free travel themes for WordPress – has a multi-level drop-down menu. There are two ways to create the drop-down menu.

1) When you create hierarchical pages, the drop-down menu will show up automatically in the header navigation.

2) You can manually define the header links using the custom menu. To do it, first, click on the “Menus” link found under the “Appearance” tab in WP admin. Then follow the instruction on the page to add your custom menu. This feature only works with WP 3+.

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WP-eTravel

WP-eTravel is a free travel theme for WordPress. WP-eTravel suitable for a travel agency or travel blog website. The template also has two columns and Slidebar right, especially this WordPress theme supports option in the admin, advertising, and some other features.

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About Alyona Vadimovna

Alyona is a WordPress enthusiast, focused on sharing interesting things she comes across during her work with this great CMS. While away from the keyboard she can be found trying out sporting activities or soaking up the Mediterranean sun.

Last week we announced that WPMods.com was up for sale by the owner Kevin Muldoon on Flippa.com. After quite an intense bidding war the site has finally sold for an astounding $80,000, which is the exact amount Kevin was hoping to make with the site from the outset.

Check out the listing on Flippa, it’s actually very interesting to read the comments and gain some insight into how WPMods operates.

It’s great to see WordPress blogs having this kind of valuation, makes you want to start a WordPress blog doesn’t it? So a big congrats goes out to Kevin who can now re-invest the money into his new projects while he enjoys his current location in Colombia.

We welcome the new owner of WPMods and wish him luck in keeping up the momentum that Kevin had built up for this WordPress resource site.

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Jean Galea is a WordPress developer, trainer and consultant. He is the founder of WP Mayor and is available for freelance work. You can get in touch via his website at www.jeangalea.com.

If you are building an intranet-style WordPress site or just want to have a private blog, the following plugins are a simple and easy solution that let you do just that.

Members Only

Members Only is a WordPress plugin that allows you to make your blog only viewable to visitors that are logged in. If a visitor is not logged in, they will be redirected either to the WordPress login page or a page of your choice. Once logged in they can be redirected back to the page that they originally requested. You can also protect your feeds whilst allowing registered user access to them by using Feed Keys.

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Password Protected

A very simple way to quickly password protect your WordPress site with a single password. Integrates seamlessly into your WordPress privacy settings.

Features include:

• Password protect your WordPress site with a single password.
• Integrates seamlessly into your WordPress privacy settings.
• Works with Mark Jaquith’s Login Logo plugin.

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Absolute Privacy

Absolute Privacy turns your WordPress blog into a fully private site where you control who has access. It’s perfect for family blogs, private communities, and personal websites. You canlockdown the entire site or create a members only area, moderate new registrations, force users to enter first/last name and choose their password during sign up, and more!

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The WordPress platform is ideal for photographers, designers, photobloggers etc. It gives them the ability to quickly launch a quality website with minimum fuss. WordPress themes are usually easy to install and configure. This is crucial as most photographers need a website that allows them to present their work online in a beautiful fashion while at the same time being super easy to update.

This post provides a list of best WordPress photography themes released in 2012.

Please take a moment to share your opinion or experience about these kind of themes and leave a comment below.

Non-Responsive

The following themes are still great, but at the moment have not yet been made responsive. Consider that the trend for making responsive themes is still quite new, and it doesn’t mean that these themes are not up to standard. Indeed you will find some of the most fully featured WordPress photography themes here.

Photocrati

Photocrati is one of the most popular WordPress photography themes and it is used by more than 8000 photographers so far. It is different than most other themes in this category because it features 15 different styles and four home page styles allowing you a lot of flexibility without any need for coding. Really it is the same as having 60 themes available to choose form. It is also, according to the developer, the ONLY WordPress theme with built-in ecommerce image galleries. This is cool if you would like to sell your photos online!

More details | Price: $89

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Style

Style Premium WordPress Theme uses a great deal of white/dark space to create a clean feel to this site. The elements of this web design are nicely spaced out to create a clean overall design. The light/dark background and elegant typography combines to make a very fresh design. This website is far from minimal, yet uses very clean edges, accentuated by the contrasts between content areas and backgrounds to create a highly clean web experience.

More details | Price: $30

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FullScene

FullScene is a professional, multi-layout, ultra flexible and customizable portfolio WP theme with fullscreen showcase features and loaded with options for designers, photographers and design agencies.

More details | Price: $35

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Invictus

Invictus is a Fullsize Image and Video WordPress-theme for photographer or creatives. You can use Invictus just the way you like. The possibilities are endless! Its optimal for photographers, digital artists, designer or even private persons, who want to present their images and videos in a unique Way. With the impressive and powerfull custom fullsize gallery with Image and Video support on your homepage your work looks amazing!

More details | Price: $35

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Photoresque

The Photoresque WordPress theme was created as an unintrusive showroom for Photographers, Designers, Illustrators and anyone that wants there content and talent to be the center focus. Each element and animation has been developed to elevate the users experience, without hindering performance and bandwidth. A Minimal and Elegant Design that is fluid and completely customizable through a simple options panel.

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FullScreen

This Fullscreen Photography WordPress Theme implies a high-quality template developed for the most eye-catching images presentation. Its exclusive design grants your website with a stunning look and will captivate the visitor’s attention from the first sight.

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Envisioned

Envisioned is a beautiful and powerful portfolio theme that enables you to easily create professional, multi-media galleries. Envisioned has the most powerful gallery features of any of our themes, allowing you to produce versatile layouts of various sizes and aspect ratios.

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Gleam

Gleam was built to dazzle. With its flashy effects and smooth ajax loading techniques, this theme creates a truly unique and engaging experience that is sure to grab your visitor’s attention. Allowing for custom full BG photos for each page, Gleam makes it easy to create a custom and stunning appearance for each section of your website. Gleam comes with all the standard features you look for in a website: pages, blog, portfolio, gallery, and shortcodes, but packages them in a way unlike any of our other designs.

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Responsive

Responsive themes are those which automatically change their layout according to different devices, which in essence means that they look great on mobile devices.

Responsy

Responsy is a responsive html5 wordpress theme suitable for personal portfolios or creative agencies. Responsy has been coded in HTML5 & CSS3 and jQuery. It has a solid flexible responsive layout that scales from 320px to 1170px.

More details | Price: $35

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InProfile

inProfile is a sleek and stylish responsive photography and gallery theme with a various features such as Extensive admin panel, Custom post and page options, Fully responsive (test it, resize the window!), custom mobile and tablet themes, SEO optimised, Google Fonts, 2 skin variations (light and dark), Tons of custom shortcodes, YouTube, Vimeo and self hosted audio/video (FLV/MP4/M4V/MP3/HTML5) support and others.

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Fullscreen Studio

Fullscreen Studio is a powerful theme for photographers and creative artists and comes with Light and Dark with theme options supporting multicolor customization of theme elements using color pickers. Creative artists can easily display their products using unlimited portfolio and post formats supporting Aside, Quote, Audio, Video, Link, Image and Gallery. The fonts can be changed using 400+ Google Web fonts choices in theme options. RSW Responsive functionality instantly auto adjusts website according to resolution of devices. Features Fullscreen slideshows with audio. Video fullscreen playback fro Vimeo, Flash, Youtube and HTML5 videos. Homepage supports news blogs along with the slideshows.

More details | Price: $35

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Photolio

Photolio is a powerful and modern Portfolio and Photography WordPress Theme which is best suited for photographers and creatives.  Photolio theme is powered by a ”Clever Code”. The “Clever Code” knows which jquery scripts should be used for each page. There is no need to spent your time for loading unused scripts. The theme comes packed with 6 templates to show off your awesome works. You can create an unlimited number of galleries using different templates.

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Cluster

A minimalist theme with a kickass portfolio custom built and exclusive to this theme. It comes with light and dark skins. Cluster is perfect for photographers looking for a new way to show off their work without clutter! And best of all its fully responsive, showcase your content on any device whether it is big or small.

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Attracto

Attracto is elegant Responsive Theme. By default You have two styles to choose: light and dark. Additionally You can choose from 50 prepared backgrounds. Easy to use unbranded options panel make Your life easier with color changes, drag&drop module for homepage, backgroudnd setting, sliders, features and many, many more. Now with couple clicks Your theme can look so much different than the original. Theme can be used as portfolio, photography or, with some small changes, can be easily adapted for Your business site.

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DeepFocus

Now you can turn your WordPress blog into a fully functional online photo gallery while still maintaining all of the features of a normal blog. Along with the gallery layout, DeepFocus comes with a robust blog and CMS-style homepage as well, making it an amazing solution for artists/photographers looking to build an online presence.

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Me

This is the WordPress version of the five star rated html template called “Me”. It is designed and built with user experience in mind. It is an easy-to-use WordPress theme with detailed documentation, and tutorial videos. If you need a website to showcase your work, just choose Me!

More details | Price: $25

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Alyona is a WordPress enthusiast, focused on sharing interesting things she comes across during her work with this great CMS. While away from the keyboard she can be found trying out sporting activities or soaking up the Mediterranean sun.