5 WPEC Themes for $75

Normally these themes go for $75ea but for a limited time you can get all 5 of them for the grand total of $75 - that's a savings of 80%. The themes included in this deal are:

• Parquet - ideal for a furniture store
• Paloogada - perfect for apparel/fashion
• Dangdoot - suited for a music store
• Bangkoo - another theme geared toward a furniture store
• Tokobuku - great for a book store

Of course the suggested uses are just that - suggestions. These themes can be used for any type of online store. Below is a screenshot of the Parquet WPEC Theme.

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5 WooCommerce Themes for $75

Just like the WPEC themes, these normally retail for $75ea but again you can grab 5 of them in the bundle for just $75 total. Once again a savings of 80%! The themes included in this deal are:

• TokoBajoo - for apparel/fashion
• Roxx - apparel/fashion
• DapurKue - for your culinary store
• TeeShirt - again apparel/fashion
• Arpegio - a good fit for your music store

As with the first bundle you can use these themes for any type of online store. Below is a screenshot of the TokoBajoo WooCommerce Theme.

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If you've been considering opening an online store using WordPress now is the perfect time to get started with these great deals. Get all of the details here.

You can follow Tokokoo on Twitter @tokokoo.

Perhaps they aren't sure how, think it is too complicated or simply feel it is not necessary. Whatever the reason, having a reliable backup of your website is vital and it's really not difficult either.

If you would rather not go through the mundane process of doing it yourself you may want to consider outsourcing it to someone like Code Garage.

Code Garage is a service that provides daily backup and security monitoring of your WordPress sites. Starting at $10/mo for 2 sites, you'll get a daily backup of your entire site with a 30 day backup history plus security and uptime monitoring. They offer several plans:

• $10/mo for 2 sites
• $25/mo for 5 sites
• $50/mo for 10 sites
• $100/mo for 25 sites
• $150/mo for 50 sites

All plans come with:

• 7 Day Free Trial
• Daily Backups
• 30 Day Backup History
• Hack Scanning
• Uptime Monitoring

There are no long term contracts as they employ a pay-as-you-go model meaning each month you pay for the coming month and can cancel at any time. If you do cancel you still have access for the remainder of the billing month.

Details on how to enter can be found here.

If you're a Canadian WordPress blogger, chances are that at least once you've written about a location. In this vast land of rugged beauty and cosmopolitan cities, there are lots of places to write about.

And you wouldn't be alone. Canadian foodies blog about the restaurants they frequent. Canadian moms share tips on places that are mom- and family-friendly. Travellers are writing about where they've been so that friends can experience it too.

But blogging about locations has always felt deeply unsatisfying.

The first reason is that blogs are organized by time, not geography. There's no easy way to explore a blog by place, not time - and a blog post about Banff from two years ago is still highly relevant to a reader planning a trip there.

Secondly, exploring by place is complicated because ideally you want to know about nearby places a blogger has written about. You want to be able to open up your iPhone and see a map of nearby places your favourite blogger loves - and a link back to the post about each.

At Placeling - a Vancouver-based startup - we've been working on this.

With our newly-released WordPress plugin, you can tag your blog post with a location. Your readers can then use their iPhone to see nearby places you've written about - and there's a link back to your post to read what you've got to say.

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And if your readers don't have an iPhone, no problem. You also get a beautiful web-based map they can explore:

Tagging a location to your post is super simple - it's just like uploading a photo. We add a little place marker next to the photo upload button to get you started:

To cue your readers that they can get these posts on their phone, each location-tagged post gets a footer. Your readers can click it to see that location - and all of your other locations - on Placeling:

Getting started is easy. Here's what you need to do:

• Sign up for a Placeling account.
• Download and install the Placeling WordPress plugin.
• If you want to see the places on your iPhone, download the app.

It's increasingly a mobile, local world. As a blogger, you're a local expert and your readers should be able to get your recommendations as they're out and about. Placeling's here to help make that happen.

Theme Features

• Custom home page
• Custom header
• Feature images
• Multiple layouts
• 10 different "alert box" styles
• and much more

This is a free child theme and is released under the GPL.

Please see the official release page for theme demo and download.

Sadness has descended on WPEngineer last week. Michael Preuß, one of our WPEngineer Team, died suddenly after a short illness and after a memorable life.

Michael along with Alexander Frison and Frank Bültge launched WPEngineer back in August of 2008. He was also the man behind the Xtreme One WordPress Framework.

Alex and Frank have decided to carry on Michael's work along with his friend Heiko Rabe.

He leaves behind his wife Carola and his two sons Robert and Alexander as well as many friends and fans.

On behalf of WPCanada I'd like to offer my sincere condolences.

Michael Preuss

The theme I've been working on for the last six weeks, ten hours a day, is here. No more teasing and previews.

Fanwood is a sharp looking theme with its dark appearance and yellow highlights. But it is much more than just a pretty face.

Features

• Supports all 10 post formats
• 12 optional layouts, including a full-width layout
• 18 widget ready areas
• Threaded comments
• 7 menu locations

It also comes with integrated support for several popular plugins.

Integrated Plugins

• Option Tree
• bbPress
• BuddyPress
• Jigoshop
• Hybrid Tabs

So what would you expect to pay for a theme loaded with these features? 80 bucks? Nope. 50 bucks? Not even close.

You can grab your own copy for a mere $1.29! That's not a typo. For the price of a cup of coffee you can be the proud owner of your very own copy of Fanwood.

DevPress also offers a 2 tier membership in their theme club. You can join up for $5.00 per year or grab the lifetime membership for a one-time fee of $25.00. Membership gets you access to exclusive themes, exhaustive documentation and tutorials as well as entry to the support forum.

You can follow DevPress on Twitter @devpress

Hello everyone and welcome to the very belated Issue #30 of the Weekly WordPress Review, a weekly roundup of the latest happenings in the world of WordPress.

I know, it's been a while since the last installment but that's because I've been labouring away on another child theme which hopefully will be released later today.

• Creating CSS Sprites with SpritePad (bavotasan.com)
• How to Create Infinite Scroll Pagination (Wptuts+)
• Automatically Update Google+ Via Twitter With TwooglePlus (WordPress Mods)
• WP App Store aims to bring the theme and plugin shopping experience into the dashboard (WPCandy)
• Setting up Virtual Hosts for WordPress Multisite with XAMPP running on Windows 7 (Austin Passy)
• A Guide to WordPress Translation Services (WP Mayor)
• How to Block Pinterest on Your WordPress Site (WPMU.org)
• Handy WordPress Code Snippets for Your Themes Part 2 (WPLift)
• Getting Comment Info from the WordPress Database (Digging into WordPress)
• WordPress Query Comprehensive Reference (ThemeShaper)
• Add a Backup to Embedded Tweets in WordPress (Pro Blog Design)
• 10+ useful SQL queries to clean up your WordPress database (CatsWhoCode.com)
• Adding Custom Buttons to the WordPress Content Editor – Part 1 (Themergency)
• Speed Up Your WordPress by Caching Custom Queries using Transients API (WPBeginner)
• Replace excerpt ellipsis with post permalink (WpRecipes.com)

Theme Features

• Custom home page
• Custom header
• Feature images
• Multiple layouts
• 10 different "alert box" styles
• and much more

A second version of the theme called Conrad Full has also been released. It contains all of the same features as Conrad but with a subnav menu, footer widget area and footer that extends full width across the screen.

Both of these child themes are free and are released under the GPL.

Please see the official release pages for theme demo and download.

• Conrad child theme
• Conrad Full child theme