Just another awesome collection of free WordPress themes!

1. Balita

 

An eCommerce beautifully designed Theme by Smashing Magazine with web standards HTML5 and CSS3. It also includes Jquery Slider and drop down menu. The best feature is the custom shopping cart. Feel free to download.

Demo | Download

 

2. Simplista

 

Its time to wow your visitors. Simplista is such an elegant & beautiful WordPress Theme for graphics & inspiration related blogs.

Demo | Download

 

3. Liano

 

Liano has been designed exclusively for those who are looking for an exciting new General/Blog website for WordPress. The easy-to-use theme options are enough to impress alone.

Demo | Download

 

4. Mento

 

Mento is the professional theme with left side sidebar. It has all the mandatory features as well so don’t restrict yourself to the general blogging themes.

Demo | Download

 

5. Thao Studio

 

Thao Studio is a fresh commercial WordPress Theme designed for corporate online firms. It has come up with feathered post image & main slider to display products. Thao Studio theme can be incorporated for any company.

Demo | Download

 

6. Blog-O-Folio

 

Blog-O-Folio is my next recommendation for new bloggers. It has built-in advertisement and email subscription form option. Blog-O-Folio is designed by Noupe.

Demo | Download

 

7. Photoria

 

If you are looking to make photography, wallpaper or even your own portfolio blog Photoria WordPress theme is the best choice.

Demo | Download

 

8. Vanadiumitic

 

Vanadiumitic theme is designed for personal blogs. It has integrated pagination, recent post, feather slider image, recent posts and social media widgets.

Demo | Download

 

9. Octopink

 

Octopink is a beautiful pink wordpress theme for female bloggers. It was released for breast cancer awareness. Social Media, pagination, popular post with feathered image are implanted in the theme.

Demo | Download

 

10. Pink Touch 2

 

Pink Touch 2 is a minimal wordpress theme designed by kcmr. Typography, textured background, custom header option, and three widget areas in the footer make it unique from others. Pink Touch also includes aside, gallery, image quote furthermore, supports chat and audio features.

Demo | Download

 

11. PhotoClick

 

PhotoClick has been widely used by photographers. It can also be implemented for personal blogs shipped with three column widget-ready footer. Best choice for wallpaper, inspirational or photo blogs.

Demo | Download

 

12. ToomMorel Lite

 

ToomMorel Lite for WordPress is one of the easiest themes to build your Web Presence. You can get your whole website ready in just Single Click. The Theme is highly customizable and with the presence of several background patterns and Theme Options, You can have your own branded new Website for your Business or Personal Use in Minutes.

Demo | Download

 

13. Masutoliso

 

Masutoliso dark theme is quite desirable for personal and business blogs. It can be a hallmark for design magazine.

Demo | Download

 

14. Momento

 

Amongst many other blogger themes Momento still has a good market presence. It is suitable for any niche particularly business and personal blogs.

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15. Minimal Beauty

 

Are you going to run your business and blog together? You are about to say thanks to me for this clean and clear wordpress theme.

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Google AdSense is a free, simple way for website publishers of all sizes to earn money by displaying targeted Google ads on their websites. AdSense also lets you provide Google search to your site users, while earning money by displaying Google ads on the search results pages. However, have you ever faced difficulties in adding Google AdSense in your website? Are you looking for plugins that will make your life easier regarding Google AdSense insertion and AdSense management? Here I listed a collection of best WordPress AdSense (and other ads) plugins that perhaps will make you smile.

1. Ad Injection

Ad Injection from ReviewMyLife injects any kind of advert or other content (e.g. Google AdSense, Amazon Associates, ClickBank, TradeDoubler, etc) into the existing content of your WordPress posts and pages. You can control the number of adverts based on the post length, and it can restrict who sees adverts by post age, visitor referrer and IP address. Adverts can be configured in the post (random, top, and bottom positions) or in any widget/sidebar area. There’s support for A:B split testing / ad rotation. And the dynamic restrictions (by IP and referrer) work with WP Super Cache, W3 Total Cache and WP Cache.

These are some features of this plugin:

• You can decide whether to add ads to posts, archives, pages or your home page.
• You can choose to only show ads on posts and pages older than a set number of days.
• You can add adverts depending on the size of the article. For example, you could add 1 advertisement if the article is shorter than 1,000 characters and 2 if it’s below 3,000.
• The ability to only show certain ads to search engine visitors, so that you don’t show the ads to your regular readers.

2. Easy AdSense Pro

Easy AdSense Pro provides a very easy way to generate revenue from your blog using Google AdSense. With its full set of features, Easy AdSense Pro is perhaps the first plugin to give you a complete solution for everything AdSense-related.

Some Easy AdSense Pro features:

• Rich set of options where you can put Link Units or Ad Blocks in header or footer and display ad blocks based on the post length.
• Enforces the Google policy of not more than three ad blocks per page.
• Control over the positioning and display of AdSense blocks in each post or page.

3. Relevant AdSense Ads

With Relevant AdSense Ads there is now an easy way of helping Google distinguish which content that you think is relevant and which content should be ignored. Remember though that this is only suggestions to Google AdSense and they might ignore it completely. It could also take a while before it take effect on old blog posts because Google must crawl it again.

4. All in One Adsense and YPN Pro

This plugin will automatically insert google adsense ads or yahoo publisher network (YPN) ads into your posts. Among it’s important features are:

• Decrease ad blindness by giving you the option to randomly place your ad within your posts.
• You could optionally define random ad network to maximize earnings from both networks.
• Allow you to pick how many total ads to show on one page.
• Allow you to pick how many ads to show in one post.

5. Simple Ads Manager

Simple Ads Manager is easy to use plugin providing a flexible logic of displaying advertisements.

• Flexible logic of advertisements rotation based on defined weight of each advertisement in group (Ads Place)
• Codes of Google DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP) supports.
• More flexibility of displaying ads by using Ads Zone selector.
• Outputting ads in any place of theme template using functions.
• Automatic outputting ads in single post/page if allowed.
• And a lot more features!

6. Ad Squares Widget

This plugin will help you to add 125 x 125 ad squares (or some other configurable size) easily. So if you are newbies, this plugin is so helpful. You can have just 2 squares, or as many as 8 running together.

Author bio or information box is one of extra essential needs for a blogger. Usually we could see bloggers and web designers put a box below their posts to mention readers a little bit about themselves. By doing this, readers will know their background and perhaps they will constantly visit the website and blogs to know what are new thoughts updated from the author.

There are a lot of tutorials and techniques on how to add author info box at the end of single posts without using plugin in WordPress. Today I will share one of the easiest way on how to implement it. You just need to add some simple code to style.css and single.php of your theme. Let’s get started!

1. Open your style.css of your theme and add this code:

#authorarea{
background: #f0f0f0;
border: 1px solid #d2d2d2;
padding: 10px;
width:500px;
overflow:hidden;
color: #333;
}
#authorarea h3{
font-size: 18px;
color:#333;
margin:0;
padding:10px 10px 5px 10px;
}
#authorarea h3 a{
text-decoration:none;
color: #333;
font-weight: bold;
}
#authorarea img{
margin:0;
padding:10px;
float:left;
border: 1px solid #ddd;
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
}
#authorarea p{
color:#333;
margin:0;
padding:0px 10px 10px 10px;
}
#authorarea p a{
color:#333;
}
.authorinfo{
padding-left:120px;
}

You might have to modify the code to match with your theme style.

2. Done that, now open your single.php and add this code inside your loop.

<div id="authorarea">
<?php if (function_exists('get_avatar')) { echo get_avatar(
get_the_author_email(), '100' ); }?>
<div class="authorinfo">
<h3>About <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?></h3>
<p><?php the_author_description(); ?></p>
</div>
</div>

Done!

In case the description does not appear, you can add it manually by replacing the red colored line.

Seperti yang korang tahu, Blogspot dan WordPress menawarkan platform blogging secara percuma yang merupakan cara yang baik untuk memulakan kerjaya blog korang. Aku yakin kebanyakan newbie yang baru nak berjinak-jinak dengan dunia blogging akan memilih blogger atau blogspot sebagai platform pilihan. Memang, blogspot mempunyai kelebihan tersendiri berbanding self hosted wordpress. Namun, sebelum itu, di sini aku nak kongsi sikit kelebihan self hosted wordpress berbanding blogspot.

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