I finally finished the redesign of this site (been working for a few days) and I launched it officially today (6 January 2013). As you might notice if you ever seen my other design – there’s not that much changed. The layout is still minimal (1-2 max columns) , no fancy stuff (yet anyway) or some WOW element. That’s because I believe that visitors to my site are looking for content (yeah – need to work on that to), not for a fancy/eye candy design that blows their mind. This redesign is all about usability / optimization. This way the visitor/reader finds the wanted content fast and without distractions , search engines can crawl my site faster and there’s a overall performance improvement without a single extra cent on server cost. I probably didn’t mention but right now I’m hosting this site on a very common shared server plan from hostgator. While I use better hosting for some of my projects this one does perform well on a shared environment because it’s optimized to the code (as all my projects are).

Here are some techy changes that I’ve made , except for the obvious color / layout changes:

• Coded the whole theme from scratch using html5 
• Implemented the schema.org microformat (on article pages)
• Optimized css and js
• Implemented a caching system (using a custom W3 Total Cache build)
• Minified and compressed everything that I could
• Implemented a SEO optimized markup (best one I could come up with)

Now this is not a final theme, as with all my projects – this will be a continuous work in progress with new things implemented on a regular basis.

I would love to get some feedback about the new design – even negative feedback helps (as always).

<?php 
function getTwitterCount($url){
	$twittercount = json_decode( file_get_contents( 'http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url='.$url ) );
	return $twittercount->count;
}
function getFacebookCount($url){
	$facebookcount = json_decode( file_get_contents( 'http://graph.facebook.com/'.$url ) );
	return $facebookcount->shares;
}
function getLinkedinCount($url){
	$templinkedin = file_get_contents( 'http://www.linkedin.com/countserv/count/share?url='.$url );
	$templinkedin = explode('(',$templinkedin);
	$templinkedin = explode(',',$templinkedin[1]);
	$templinkedin = explode(':',$templinkedin[0]);
	$linkedincount = $templinkedin[1];
	return $linkedincount;
}
// Added as requested in the comments
function getPinterestCount($url){
	$pincount = json_decode( file_get_contents( 'http://api.pinterest.com/v1/urls/count.json?callback=receiveCount&url='.$url ) );
	return $pincount->count;
}
function getSocialCount($url){
	return getTwitterCount($url) + getFacebookCount($url) + getLinkedinCount($url) + getPinterestCount($url);
}
echo getSocialCount('http://yahoo.com');
?>

I think the code speaks for itself – but here’s a short description:

• getTwitterCount – gets the url and makes a API request on twitter. The API request returns a JSON object that’s decoded and the target information (the twitter count) is returned.
• getFacebookCount – same as getTwitterCount but it returns the facebook shares.
• getLinkedinCount – this is a more complex function (relative to the other two) because the result returned from the API call needs some processing to get the value out. After a series of explodes I managed to return the linkedin count.
• getSocialCount – this function only sums the results from the other 3 functions , and returns it

I’m sure a good developer can code a better way of doing this , but I needed a fast solution that works (and this does the a pretty good job). The functions have been tested and work at the date this article was posted.

Most developers use a framework theme when coding a new wordpress theme. I normally use a blank / stripped theme so I can code the design easily , without the need to delete a bunch of code and debug it. Other developers use more complex frameworks , that come with various build in options that they need (like a options pannel , ready made widgets etc). I scouted the web to learn more about open source wordpress frameworks , and in this article I’m featuring 13 of them.

In the near future i will have my own theme framework ready and I will start building some good themes , my way. My framework is still under development , but I can tell you 2 things: it will be lightning fast and super optimized.

So here are the 13 open source frameworks I talked before:

Atahualpa

Fixed or flexible width layout, with min/max width, 0 – 4 sidebars, very browser safe (incl. IE6), create custom widget areas, import/export styles, javascript color pickers, over 200 options.

Features:

• Theme Customization through Options Page:

  • Change colors and layout of our themes easily in your WordPress admin area. Custom options include colors of almost all layout sections, widths of the left and right columns, and size and colors of fonts and borders. You can also add your own header image (if there is any). Your Bytes For All theme based blog can look quite different than someone else’s.

• Highly compatible even with problematic browsers:

  • You won’t notice that yourself because you’re probably using Firefox or the newest Internet Explorer. But you want your site to look good for everyone, right? There’s up to 10% of people who use obscure or old browsers. Maybe a few of your potentially most rewarding visitors, customers, readers, members is among them? The Bytes For All Themes work with IE 6, IE 7, Firefox 2 & 3, Opera, Safari and IE on Mac, and a whole range of smaller browsers.

• W3C Validity

  • This is not as important as code standardistas make it out to be, but if given the choice, having a web site that is “valid” by W3C standards it better than the opposite. W3C validity is merely a test to see if there’s something fundamentally wrong with the code. The big browsers are very forgiving. They render a page even if the underlying code is “wrong”. But search engines are not that nice. Google may kick out a web site if i.e there’s ordinary HTML markup within the head section of a page. This might happen by accident and most browsers would still render the site perfectly fine.

• Fluid and fixed width layouts

  • Most themes you see have a fixed width. It is harder to make a fluid theme. Fluid layouts adjust themselves to the browser window size of each visitor. Web site visitors with smaller screens do not need to scroll horizontally as early as they would have to with a fixed width layout. Bytes For All offers both fixed and fludi width themes, with a focus on fluid or hybrid width (fluid but set the min and max width) WP Themes.

• Search Engine Optimization included

  • All our WP Themes are “SEO”-optimized, without the need for an additional plugin. The SEO features include Meta Tags, and nofollow and noarchive tags for certain pages or links (configurable via the options page).

More info and download

The Buffet Framework

The Buffet Framework is a theme framework designed not only for the theme developers who will be using the theme actions and filters to create the child themes, but also for the end users who would be able to add and remove what they want.
Like most WordPress theme frameworks, the Buffet Framework utlises WordPress actions and filters to allow theme developers to add additional content without editing the templates files using the child theme concept.

Framework Features

• Search Engine Optimization – includes many SEO features such as breadcrumbs, headings, canonical URLs
• Support for Microformats – compatible with some of the microformats like hAtom, hCard and XOXO
• jQuery Powered – comments form validation, SuperSleight for IE6, Superfish menus, jBreadcrumb included
• Packaged with CSS Frameworks – comes with 960gs and Blueprint CSS
• Action & Filter Hooks – using the parent-child theme concept (with inline documentation)
• Theme Options – organized in tabs, with features such as custom RSS feed links and custom footer messages
• Theme Extensions – allow end-users to enable/disable features using the extensions feature
• Plugin Compatibility – works with WP-PageNavi, WP-Print, Subscribe to Comments and more
• Localization – fully localized, ready for translation
• Free, Open Source – under the General Public License (GPL) v3

More info and download

Carrington

Carrington is a theme platform for WordPress from Crowd Favorite. It includes the Carrington Core, a reactive templating engine that makes it easy to create different visual styles for different site areas and content and Carrington Build, an advanced drag and drop page layout system that enables full editorial control for complex pages.

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Hybrid

Hybrid is a user-friendly, search-engine optimized theme framework, featuring 15 custom page templates and 8 widget-ready areas, allowing you to create any type of site you want.
Like WordPress, this theme is completely free and open source. You can use it for your client work or for a blog about your grandchildren. It is continuously being developed and has a community growing around it.

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Thematic

Thematic is a free, open-source, highly extensible, search-engine optimized WordPress Theme Framework featuring 13 widget-ready areas, grid-based layout samples, styling for popular plugins, and a whole community behind it. It’s perfect for beginner bloggers and WordPress development professionals.

Thematic Features

• Perfect to use as-is or as a blank WordPress theme for development
• Fully Search-Engine Optimized
• Extra widget-ready areas (13 in total) and more possible in your Child Theme
• Free and commercially supported Child Themes are available for upgrading the theme
• Includes a sample WordPress Child Theme for rapid development
• A wiki-editable guide to Thematic Customization
• Ready for WordPress plugins like Subscribe to Comments, WP-PageNavi, and Comment-license
• Fully compatible with All-In-One SEO and Platinum SEO plugins
• Multiple, easy to implement, bulletproof layout options for 2, or 3 column designs
• Modular CSS with pre-packaged resets and basic typography
• Dynamic post and body classes make it a hyper-canvas for CSS artists
• Editable footer text—remove the theme credit without harming the theme
• Options for multi-author blogs

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WP Framework

A blank WordPress Theme Framework that’s everything you need, and nothing you don’t. With features like microformats, a traditional template structure, convention over configuration, clean semantic code, documenation, and it’s atomic templating system, WP Framework is completely extensible, flexible and the starting point for theme authoring and customization.

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Ashford

Ashford was developed by Tim Bednar to aid organizations in customizing, building and growing simple web sites. It is a theme framework that many kinds of web site owners will find valuable: web workers, small business, bloggers, authors, new media, magazines, churches and nonprofits.
Selected as a “Brilliant”, “High Quality”, and “Beautiful” CMS theme framework for WordPress by Smashing Magazine, Noupe, Instashift, Six Revisions and Heal Your Church Website.

• Optimized for SEO
• Tuned for page speed
• Easy to use Theme Options
• Admin In-Place tools

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Basis

Basis has been built to make theme development for WordPress easier. If you are an experienced theme developer or a total beginner, Basis provides a highly customizable starting point for your theme development.
Basis comes with a pre-defined set of templates. The otherwise empty stylesheet provides a list of IDs und class-names which have already been used in the templates. The theme is widget-ready and introduces a number of custom functions in functions.php.

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Imagination

Imagination is a Fully Customizable WordPress Theme and comes pre-loaded with 9 different site-wide styles to choose from, with just a click.
Moreover, You can customize the style according to your mood, occasion or preferences. Use your imagination to create a unique look of your blog/website anytime you want.

Features

• Plug & Play – No Programming Knowledge Required
• Comes with 9 preloaded Color Schemes
• Customize the Interface to make it unique
• Built-In Twitter, Flickr and Entrecard Widgets
• Built-In Feedburner RSS Integration
• Widgets Ready & Plugins Compatible
• W3C Valid & Cross-Browser Compatible
• Fully Documented Admin Options
• Standalone processing without interfering with default WordPress tables
• All this and lot more, Absolutely Free!

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Starkers

Starkers is a bare-bones WordPress theme created to act as a starting point for the theme designer.
Free of all style, presentational elements, and non-semantic markup, Starkers is the perfect ‘blank slate’ for your projects, as it’s a stripped-back version of the ‘Twenty Ten’ theme that ships with WordPress.
Best of all: it’s free and fully GPL-licensed, so you can use it for whatever you like ?-? even your commercial projects.

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Starter Theme

Here are some of the features of my starter theme:

• Blank style.css with theme name, author, URL, etc. tags at the top
• Content-ready 404, archive, search, index, single post, and page files
• Full, working comments.php file
• Complete header.php set up with links to RSS, a stylesheet, and JS file; template
• Default search form template
• Blank screenshot.png file and images folder

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Whiteboard

Whiteboard encompasses many universal needs and consolidates them all into one compact package that is perfect for developers and designers alike – allowing them to quickly build upon and develop their very own unique and powerful website. With the Whiteboard Framework for WordPress, developers and designers no longer need to rewrite the same generic structure and WordPress functions, mobile versions, dynamic classes and divs, or improve SEO. Whiteboard’s strong, widely-used, and well-established structure takes care of all that and more.
Save time and build a better website by using Whiteboard as a firm foundation to build your next WordPress-powered website.

Whiteboard Framework Features

• Free and Open Source – Use it for commercial and non-commercial projects
• Speeds up WordPress development time to get you onto the next project
• Built with the Less Framework for an instant mobile website
• Comes with a minimalist theme to use or build off of or easily remove
• The theme and Less Framework can be easily removed if desired
• Strong and flexible div structure for easy development and diverse usage
• More dynamic Classes and IDs than any other WordPress framework
• Lightweight and well noted for a shallow learning curve
• Cross browser compatible with all major browsers
• Built with strong Search Engine Optimization
• Many of WordPress’ awesome features such as manageable menus, background, and header image as well as featured images, several widget areas, and more
• Custom admin menu and changing primary navigation for logged in users
• Follows the Web Accessibility Initiative to ensure access by visitors with disabilities
• Basic styles and classes to speed up development
• HTML5 with graceful degradation
• Simple CSS3 Animations with graceful degradation
• Follows WordPress’ CSS and PHP Coding Standards
• Fully Compatible with WordPress 3.0 and up with fallbacks for older versions
• Comes with a Child Theme ready to go
• and much much more…

More info and download

Precious Theme

Precious is a theme framework for WordPress 2.8+. Built with simplicity and web accessibility in mind.

Features

• Page Templates for Archives, Links, Search and Frontpage.
• Blix Archive plugin included for a better Archive page
• All time and dates shown respects your blog’s time and date settings
• Ability to override standard header.php, footer.php and sidebar.php by creating template files called header-mine.php, footer-mine.php and sidebar-mine.php, this can be done both to parent theme and child themes
• Global css file that take cares of different css classes and some positioning of forms and tables etc. to give a soft starting point in creating child themes. The path to the file can be filtered so you can use your own global css file
• Browser detection in body_class (Credit: Nathan Rice)
• Widgets for RSS blogfeeds, Random Links and “Home” link
• Special template file: contentheader.php for easily changing the header markup in a child theme
• Support for navbar.php template file that let you easily add a navigation bar right under the header of your theme
• Top navigation to make your blog easier to navigate for people using screen readers and/ or browsing your site without using a mouse
• Accesskeys (Shortcut keys) for all inline navigation: 1 – Top, 2 – Content, 3 – Sidebar, 4 – Comments
• Ability to have a css file with IE-hacks for IE7 and lower
• Ability to use custom single templates with help of Custom fields

Standards

Okay, I know that some people consider this as features, but in my opinion this should be standards on all public WordPress themes

• Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional
• Valid CSS (level 2.1)
• Widget enabled sidebar
• Threaded comments support
• Translation ready

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• Moving your WordPress site: same domain , new host
• Moving your WordPress site: different domain , same host (Current)
• Moving your WordPress site: different domain , new host (Coming soon)

If you will use a different domain for your wordpress site , or you are moving your site from a development subdomain to the main domain you still have the 3 basic steps, and I will highlight the differences from Moving your WordPress site: same domain , new host

Adding the domain name to the hosting

Most hosts use CPannel , so you just need to add the domain to the hosting (using addon domains option) and change it’s nameservers from your registrar. A root folder will be created for the domain.

Moving the WordPress database

As you might figure out , you still need to export your database. The database export process is explained in another post of mine, Moving your WordPress site: same domain , new host.
The difference comes now. Many people like to use database querries to modify the domain names , but I like to use a text editor (this method is easier to use and leaves 0 room for error.)
Get your favorite advanced text editor (I highly recommend Notepad++).

Open your .sql file with it and open the mass replace option. Replace your subdomain or old domain with your new domain name in all the document. This is a good place to pay attention to typos.
Now you just need to create a new database and import the edited sql file.

Moving the files

Since both domains are on the same host , just copy the files from one folder to another (the folders corresponding to the addon domain root). Now download the wp-config.php file and modify the info to connect to your newly created database.

I really like the site and the whole idea (helping designers and developers to sell their work – helping clients find the best theme at a great price). This post is a top 30 of the best WordPress themes for sale at Themeforest. Now you might wonder how I decided to evaluate the themes and how I know which one is better than the other. Well , I didn’t. This top is based on the number of sales every theme has. How better to evaluate a theme if not by the number of people that bought it?

1.inFocus – Powerful Professional WordPress Theme(5049 Sales)

inFocus is a Powerful Professional Premium WordPress theme. It comes with an impressive fully customizable jQuery homepage slider with 3 different staging effects.
Whether you’re a WordPress pro or just a beginner, this theme has you covered. With a huge custom back end area you have complete control over the look and style of your theme. Add images to your homepage slider, add as many sidebar widgets as you like, pull in your latest tweet from Twitter and much much more, all without having to touch a single line of code!
For your convenience inFoucs comes with 10 skins to choose from. Click on color name below for a full preview. Also below is a full list of inFocus’s features.

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2.Display 3 in 1 – Business & Portfolio WordPress(3609 Sales)

DISPLAY is a WordPress Theme, best suited for Business and Portfolio sites. It comes with a fantastic 3D Image slideshow that can be controlled from your backend with a custom tool. The Theme has a huge wordpress custom backend (8 additional Admin Pages) that make customization of the Theme easy for those who dont know much about coding or wordpress.

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3.BigFeature – WordPress Theme(3104 Sales)

Clean and flexible wordpress theme, with big article images and nice typography. Very many settings. Many page templates. 5 custom widgets. Easy to add article and preview images. Check the “Introduction to the theme” article in the live preview for more information. All the documentation is also on the live preview.

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4.Unite – WordPress Business, Magazine Theme(2809 Sales)

Unite is a merger of crisp design and powerful communication. It takes a clean, organized approach to presenting content so it’s easier to find what you want.

This is a premium WordPress theme with 5 pre-made skins including a dark theme and textured background theme. The theme is easy to modify and ready to be up and running out of the box. The PSD files included have been customized to allow fast skinning.

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5.London Creative + (Portfolio & Blog WP Theme)(2633 Sales)

London Creative + comes with fully working contact form, awesome slider for your featured images, nasty spinning slider buttons (never saw them anywhere else, so you can call it unique), 2 message buttons under the slider and PrettyPhoto plugin (better clone of Lightbox).

You will also have user-friendly dropdown navigation with infinite dropdown levels where you can style every even list item via Jquery, so no more hassle, it’s automatic, you can just add posts and you are ready to go!

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6.Striking Premium Corporate & Portfolio WP Theme(2576 Sales)

Striking is a Powerful Professional Premium WordPress theme made for your Blog, Portfolio, Business or almost any other kind of website. It is incredibly easy to use with the admin panel, and give you full control over every major design element throughout your site. With the color and font options page, you can customize you website more than you could ever imagine.

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7.Twicet Business & Portfolio – WordPress – 5 in 1(2343 Sales)

Twicet is a WordPress Template, best suited for Business and Portfolio sites. It comes with 5 sleek skins, if the WordPress Live Preview is not enough for you, please check out the html templates that are already available, the look stays the same in the WordPress version.

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8.Photo Nexus WordPress gallery 2 in 1(2185 Sales)

Photo Nexus wordpress gallery is a 2 column , 2 color variation ( Bright and Dark) theme.

This theme is great for those who need a convenient way to publish and showcase a self managed Gallery of Photos, Artworks or Designs.

The theme features modern yet minimalistic style so that your work will be guaranteed to be on focus. The theme comes added with Admin theme options so you won’t need to manually edit the files to get it running.

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9.Awake – Powerful Professional WordPress Theme(2134 Sales)

Awake is a Powerful Professional Premium WordPress theme. It comes with an intuitive easy to use admin panel giving you full control over every major design element throughout your site. Whether you need to add custom sidebars, edit your homepage content or change your footer column layout you’ll find just the option you need when you need it.

Awake also comes with an impressive easy to customize homepage slider with two transition effects and five staging options.

Need an image gallery or slideshow on every page? Want to embed a widget into a page? You can do all this and more using simple content shortcodes.

Creating your website has never been easier with Awake.

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10.Newscast 4 in 1 – WordPress Magazine and Blog(1841 Sales)

Newscast is a WordPress Theme, best suited for Magazines and Blogs. It comes with 3 fantastic Image and News slideshows has multiple Page templates and of course gives you the option to choose from 4 Fantastic skins.

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11.ShapeShifter – One Page, Infinite Possibilities(1698 Sales)

This is easily the most fun I’ve ever had working on a WordPress theme to date! ShapeShifter is a single-page WordPress template that has been designed to be just about the simplest theme you could possibly use. This theme is lean, mean, and ready for you to install in minutes.

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12.Cubit 6 in 1- Business & Portfolio Theme(1522 Sales)

Cubit is a clean and flexible wordpress theme with 6 different cholor schemes(see preview Pics), which is best used for portfolio and business sites.

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13.Luxury WordPress Template(1437 Sales)

Luxury is a clean, feature packed WordPress theme designed to make your life easier.

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14.Dandelion – Powerful Elegant WordPress Theme(1428 Sales)

andelion is a Powerful Premium WordPress Theme. This theme provides all the main functionality you will need to present your products, work and yourself in an elegant and professional style. The Dandelion theme is highly flexible, so changing the color scheme is super simple and for the most parts you won’t need an image editor. The theme is best suited for any business, portfolio, photography and personal sites.

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15.DynamiX – Premium WordPress Theme(1427 Sales)

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16.Avisio – Business and Portfolio(1403 Sales)

Avisio is a WordPress Theme that takes advantage with all the amazing new wordpress 3 features and is best suited for Portfolio and Business Websites. It has the ability to create unique skins right from your backend without the need to edit anything within your css files whith just a few mouse clicks and also offers the option to install content automatically when setting up the theme, so it will look like my theme preview!

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17.Sansation – Business & Portfolio Premium WordPress(1395 Sales)

Sansation is a professionally-designed Premium WordPress Theme. This theme is perfect for all businesses, corporations and creative portfolio sites. It has powerful CMS functionality and a long list of premium features. Whether you’re a pro or just a beginner, you’ll have absolutely no trouble customizing this theme.

We’ve invested over 250 hours refining every aspect of this theme, ensuring that it’s one of the most usable wordpress themes you’ve every experienced. It also comes with video tutorials that walk you through every aspect of setting up your new website.

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18.CONTRAST(1387 Sales)

Contrast, a wordpress theme which is suitable for photographers, graphic & web designers, corporates with a kickass features.

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19.Convergence – Community WordPress Theme(1382 Sales)

Convergence is a nicely put together WordPress theme with the intent and focus on creating a community site. This theme includes many popular features seen in today’s industry leading community sites.

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20.Vulcan – Minimalist Business WordPress Theme 4(1349 Sales)

Vulcan template is designed Modern and minimalist template, suit any kind of website. Vulcan available in five color option, it comes with three variations slider. With New Features of WordPress 3.0 Vulcan has been coded to improve capability of the WordPresss 3.0 features.

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21.OpenHouse Real Estate and Automotiv Car Dealership Bundle(1346 Sales)

Openhouse (currently the highest rated WordPress Real Estate theme (realestate) with 5 stars average and over 150 ratings) is a very powerful and flexible Real Estate theme. It includes a very powerful and flexible Search, where you can search by location, number of baths, beds, max price, min price, and property type. The Location search alone is unique in that you can have multiple levels of locations. Check out the demo for an example. This theme also includes a fully featured Loan calculator which can be shown or hidden in Theme Options. It even has a link to generate a complete amortization table which you can print out. The color scheme choice is unlimited. Simply supply a color, and the whole site changes, including all gradients and effects.

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22.Prosto – Business & Portfolio, CMS WordPress theme(1332 Sales)

Prosto is a professional developed, clean designed WordPress Theme with powerful CMS features. That is well suited for personal portfolio, blog, or any kind of business website. Easy to customize with extended admin panel for any kind of users. You can simply control your theme look and content without any special knowledge. Setup layout and choose custom sidebar for each page. Make unlimited portfolios in 3 different layouts that is give you a great flexibility and much more.

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23.The Jewelry Shop – WordPress eCommerce(1316 Sales)

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24.Levitation WordPress Business & Portfolio – 4 in 1(1241 Sales)

Levitation is a WordPress Template, best suited for Business and Portfolio sites. It comes with 5 sleek skins and 2 different front page designs (if the WordPress Live Preview is not enough for you, please check out the html templates that are already available, the look stays the same in the WordPress version)

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25.Breeze – Professional Corporate and Portfolio WP(1236 Sales)

Breeze is a WordPress theme designed with corporate businesses in mind. The theme is also well suited for online portfolios and blogs.

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26.Bluelight WordPress | 2.0 Portfolio and Blog(1224 Sales)

Huge code overhaul in this update! Bluelight now makes use of the new Menu Manager, updated homepage slider, updated layout, tons of style tweaks, lightbox portfolio items, 1-level drop down menu, and many other enhancements!

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27.Atlantica (WordPress) – Premium Portfolio Template(1221 Sales)

This theme is a complete WordPress Theme, designed from the ground up to function first and foremost as a portfolio, then as a comprehensive WordPress theme that can be used for just about any site that needs a beautiful layout. This theme is ideal for artists, designers, photographer, and other creatives that are in need of a portfolio template that is professional and “to the point”. Even if you don’t need the huge image gallery page, this template will also work great for sites that need to showcase a few images above each content-page in a slick, sophisticated way.

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28.Prestige – Ultimate WordPress Theme(1212 Sales)

Prestige is an unique and advanced WordPress theme. It comes with a big pack of various skins, shortcodes, widgets and fonts. Thanks to massive CMS options panel you can fully customize this theme to your needs. Prestige is the ultimate package with functional and powerful features.

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29.Studio Box Premium WordPress 9 in 1(1205 Sales)

Studio Box Premium WordPress Theme is about simplifying building of your online portfolio. It is packed with useful showcases to have your creative work displayed for customers and clients.

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30.The Clothes Shop -WordPress eCommerce(1157 Sales)

A Flexible, Plugin Free and Localized (Translation-Ready) eCommerce theme!

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• Moving your WordPress site: same domain , new host (Current)
• Moving your WordPress site: different domain , same host
• Moving your WordPress site: different domain , new host (Coming soon)

Moving a WordPress site is a pretty straightforward  process. You have 2 parts: the WordPress database and the WordPress files (including your uploads / themes / plugins).

Moving the WordPress Database

The database holds all your posts / comments / pages / configuration options. Most hosts have phpmyadmin installed , so login to your control panel , and go to phpmyadmin.

Now click on the database of the site that you want moved. Click the export tab. Make sure all your tables are selected , and SQL is selected as the export. When you’re done click “GO”.

You will get a SQL extension file that contains your database.
Now it’s time to import it on your new host. Login to the control panel from your new host , and create a new database and database user (note them somewhere , you will need them later). After you’ve created a new database and a new user , link them together (add the user to the database , will full rights ).
Now you have a empty database , and a database user that can connect to it. Go to phpmyadmin and select your new database. After you selected it , you have a import tab , click it.

You have the option to upload a file , click “Browse” and select your database export (the one you downloaded from your other host). After you selected the SQL file , click “GO”.
Congratulations, your database is now moved! That’s just half of the WordPress moving process.

Moving the WordPress Files

Connect using FTP yo your site. Go to the folder that has all your files (it’s where the wp-admin, wp-content and wp-includes folders and many files are). Select all and download them to a local folder.
Now connect using FTP to your new host, and upload all your files. Be careful where you upload them , if the domain is the main domain , upload in the public_html folder , if you are hosting multiple domains be sure to upload the files where your domain name is setup.
This is it , the second part of moving your WordPress site is done.

Configuring wp-config.php

Wp-config.php is a file located on the root of your WordPress installation. Open it , and find the next lines:

/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', 'database_name_here');

/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'username_here');

/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'password_here');

/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');

As the code is commented , put your new database name , database username , password and your MySQL hostname(most hosts use localhost). Upload your modified wp-config.php file to your new host.
Now all you need to do is link you domain to your new host(add the domain to the hosting , change the nameservers etc) and test it.