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The themes listed below are picked based upon the popularity. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know via comments.

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Support Desk – (Live Demo)

A responsive helpdesk theme for WordPress. Now you can have your own support center without paying monthly fees.

Price: $50

Wikeasi – (Live Demo)

Wikeasi is a simple looking, clean, and intuitive wiki theme that packs quite a punch with loads of custom WP functionality including table of content generators, a referencing system, auto-complete search facilities, ample navigation menu areas, and a heap more.

Price: $50

iKnowledge – (Live Demo)

iKnowledge is a slick knowledge base WordPress theme. iKnowledge features a fresh and clean design, focusing more on the content. It also comes with a rating system and post view counter to help you track article performance.

Price: $45

Responsive Knowledge Base – (Live Demo)

Perfect solution for any product or service support, fast and easy to setup in minutes. This theme includes live search, faq posts, contact form, custom widgets, shortcodes and more.

Price: $45

Responsive Knowledge Base – (Live Demo)

Price: $45

Let me know, if I missed any cool knowledge base WordPress theme via comments.

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Though online presence, social media and internet is growing at a very rapid rate, there still lies a general notion that creating a website is tough and involves a lot of technicalities and coding into it. Today, these have been simplified with various services, one among which is Zoho Sites. This product from Zoho, one of the leading Indian multinational companies in the online space makes creating and managing websites very easy along with the handling of content.

For a user to use Zoho Sites, there is no requirement for him/her to know coding or have any pre-requisites in programming languages. With a very simple GUI based editing space, a user can create a website by dragging and dropping elements directly. Building websites is easy, and the best part is, Zoho Sites takes care of all the coding that’s involved in the process of creating the website.

There are a whole bunch of preset themes for the users to choose from, and if needed, even a small element or two of the preset theme can be customized and made according to the user’s liking. The feature list on Zoho Sites includes easy Form Builders, Blogs and Social Media integration, Google Apps Integration, exclusive banner and logo space for branding and much more. Another notable feature is the Mobile and Tablet friendly websites Zoho Sites offers. With a deep rise in internet usage on mobile and portable devices, it has become a major browsing platform and Zoho Sites makes sure that the websites that are being built using their platform automatically come with a neat version that load and are user friendly on Tablet devices and Smartphones.

Trying out Zoho Sites is free, with two free websites, web forms and a custom theme. It would certainly be worth a try to get your hands on Zoho Sites and try your hand at it if you are looking forward to build your website all by yourself. And if everything goes well, there’s always the paid plan that Zoho Sites offers at $39/year which is a really good VFM service that offers a lot of customization options, more forms and custom themes, web forms from Zoho CRM and widgets to integrate with a lot of popular third-party services, thus allowing you to make your website as rich and attractive for your visitors.

All thanks to the developer Brandon for creating a perfect plugin that works seamlessly with WordPress. G+ comments is a great alternative to the native WordPress system in terms of spam protection and better security.

How to add Google+ Comments to WordPress

Step 1: Download and install the plugin to your WordPress.org blog or Go to Plugins > Add New and search for “Google+ Comments” and then install the plugin.

Step 2: Once activated, you can see both Google+ and WordPress comments in tabs. I would call this a smart option instead of just replacing the existing WordPress comment system and the comments.

With Google+ gaining more popularity among bloggers, this plugin would definitely take blog commenting to the level on WordPress.org blogs and I hope it does.

I just want to mention one good point that set other Theme provides miles behind. DXThemes bundle package comes with commercial license, which means freelance designer and web design companies can use the theme on their client websites. The bundle includes themes for ecommerce, kids, restaurants, interior designers, architects, responsive wordpress themes etc, everything a designer need in his repository.

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Grid Layout Shock is an easy to use WordPress plugin for creating Pinterest style responsive grid layout. With 8 box styles and endless customisation, you can’t think of a better grid layout plugin. Free version of Grid Layout Shock is limited to few options, so based upon the requirements you can upgrade for the Premium version which has three types of commercial license – One site ($9), Multiple Site ($18) and developer license ($99).

Integration is fairly simple with generated shortcode based on the inputs. The generated inputs can be placed in posts or pages to display the grid layout. Simple isn’t it?

Why Grid Layout Shock?

• Choose the data sources or get external sources
• Show the grid wherever you need it
• Several Skin Styles
• Select what you want to show
• Based on Masonry JS Plugin
• Compatible with RSS Feed
• Fully responsive, mobile ready (Premium)
• Control the posts order and so on.

While talking about responsive one should make the email template responsive for all devices and browsers. In plain English – It should work the way it should be.

Antwort is a free responsive email template that uses tables to provide responsive layout. With <table>s Antwort works with all email clients.

Since then, we’ve used Depositphotos quite frequently ourselves to obtain a few images of our choice. Housing over 9 million high-quality images, Depositphotos has many more advanced search tools such as Smart Search, which is an intuitive search bar that will learn from the user’s keywords in a smart way and take the user to the right photo he is looking for. Taking a step ahead of images, it now allows users to upload videos that are of high resolution onto its website, thus leading to a more rich database. The specifications for these videos are 320х240 and 1920х1080 pixels (Full HD) a length between 3 and 60 seconds, and a maximum video size of 1000 Mb. The revised royalties for photos and videos are as follows:

Crowdsourcing photos and information has imporovised the collection and the quality of photographs at Depositphotos. The team has made it easier to upload them by adding a Drag and Drop uploader on its website, making it hassle-free for users to add their photographs to the website with support for multiple file Drag-Drop and Upload as well.

While making the uploading process easy, Depositphotos has also made sure that there’s no loss in their quality of photos. A user always has to pass a small examination on the website to become an official photo uploader and it has gotten better in the recent times. Now the user has a chance to pick what sort of files he/she can submit for the examination – images, videos or both. This adds extra functionality and allows more customization according to the interests and abilities of the individual user. Also there’s a nice and small area where the user can add a link to their portfolio that’s present on any other website such as Flickr, Deviantart, 500px etc so that the buyers can have a look through their portfolio if needed.

Along with these has come along a new Content Editor tool that can be used is the new content editor that comes along with the ability for users to attribute as many files as they want, upto 200 in number in bulk at a single time. The Release Manager tool is built right into the Content Editor and allows the addition of information such as important information about models, such as race, age, or gender; giving buyers an opportunity to more easily find images featuring the type of model they are looking for. Coming along with this is a small utility that will help in the everyday usage of Depositphotos, a spellcheck tool that will help and minimize grammatical and spelling errors while uploading, categorizing and inserting images.

The pricing plan for packs at Depositphotos start at 69$ for one month and are available for various time durations upto 12 Months over which the user can save upto 180$ in picking an annual plan over a monthly plan. Also, pay per image plans are available for which the user need not purchase any monthly pack and can pay only for the images he needs directly. More details regarding the plans are specified here:

Looking at the improvements done by Depositphotos in terms of User Experience improvement, it is certainly an appreciable move. Focussing on smaller aspects of the experience on the website such as simplifying file uploading and allowing the users to customize their examination pattern make it more joyable and fun to use DepositPhotos.