Sites To Go For Free Quality WordPress Themes
There are tons of sites offering free wordpress themes for downloads. Some are real good, some are awful while majority are almost the same in terms of themes available for downloads. As a wordpress blogger, it can be a bit frustrating to search through all these sites to find a suitable wordpress theme for your blog. I can still recall when I first started out; I would go through tens of sites just to find my dream wordpress theme.
Nowadays, I just settled on a few ‘trusted’ sites to get free quality wordpress themes instead of wasting countless hours looking through the mass of sites offering free wordpress blogs. If you are using wordpress as a blogging platform and are in constant need of new and fresh themes for your wordpress blogs, these few sites below will be able to satisfy your insatiable thirst for free and quality wordpress theme.
WordPress Plugins No Blogger Should Be Without
Sometimes, finding the best wordpress plugins for your wordpress blog can be quite a feat. There are practically thousands of free wordpress plugins that you can download and use to enhance and elevate your wordpress blog to another level, but finding and selecting the best ones to suit your blog or blogs can be a very time consuming affair.
Personally for me, I have a list of core or essential wordpress plugins that I always use for any wordpress blogs that I set up. This core list consists of wordpress plugins which I have tested and find them extremely useful for my wordpress blogs. In a nutshell, this is a list of wordpress plugins that no blogger should be without.
10 Free High Quality Premium WordPress Themes
Nowadays, the quality of free themes is vastly superior to those in the past. When I first started using WordPress, free quality themes are a rarity. The only way you can get a quality theme for your wordpress blog is by paying for one. With the vast number of quality themes available for free download; bloggers are spoilt for choice to select one for their blogs.
I have include in this list what I feel to be the best 10 free high quality premium wordpress themes I have come across. There are probably many themes that are better than what I have listed here and I would appreciate if you can share them with us. I hope you will find these themes useful! 
Arthemia
Black Magic
Color Paper
Curious Demo
Freemium
Irresistible
Magazeen
Snapshot
Typebased
Vintage
List of Ping Sites For Your WordPress Blog
Pinging occurs whenever your WordPress blog published a new post. Pinging is a term used in blogging in which your blog will notify other people about new and updated content on your blog. It is also a very good way to let the search engines know about new and updated content on your blog and get them to come and index your blog.
That is why it is essential for you to have a good list of ping sites added to your WordPress blog. The list below is by no means comprehensive but this is a good list to start off with.
Have You Upgrade To WordPress 2.7?
The latest version of WordPress is available for downlaod since early last month. If you have not upgrade your WordPress to version 2.7, it is time to do so. The new version of WordPress is a major update with a new interface and lots of new features to boot.
I have waited about a month till the latest version is available through Fantastico before I make the automatic upgrade. I was initially apprehensive as I have previously have some bad experiences with major updates for WordPress.In some of the previous updates, I found some of the eseential plugins that I have been using are not compatible after the upgrading causing me lots of inconvinenece.
Luckily, all my plugins are working fine after the latest upgrade. So if you have been sitting on the fence for some time waiting for the version 2.7 to stablize, I can safely tell you it is time for you to upgrade your WordPress.
6 Reasons To Use WordPress
You have probably read my posts before and know that I advocate using WordPress as your blogging platform. If you need any convincing on using WordPress, here’s a 6 reasons why WordPress is so great!
1) There are millions of free cool looking themes for you to download and use. Imagine what you can do with all these free themes around, you can practically change your blog’s look every single day for the next 100 years or so! Now, if only you can live that long!
Create Your Own Unique WordPress Theme
For those of you who are keen to design your own WordPress theme, there is a way to do it fast without doing all the initial coding required. Use the WordPress Theme Generator at yvoschaap.com to create your own WordPress theme easily within minutes and from there, you can start to code and design your theme to your own liking.
Free WordPress Magazine And News Themes
Recently, there have been a spate of releases of magazine and news themes for WordPress. Many of these themes are available freely for download. Here I have compiled a list of these themes for those of you who are interested to project a magazine or newspaper look for your WordPress blog.
Click on the links or pictures to access the download page.
Customize Your WordPress URLs To Be More Search Engine Friendly
If you have a WordPress blog, chances are you would have known that your WordPress blog’s default URLs consist of question marks and numbers in them. Now, the ways these URLs are structured, they are not really that search engine friendly and so you need to do some customization in order to make them prettier and easier for the search engines to pick up.
In order to change your URL to be more search engine friendly, there is a way to do it inside your WordPress admin control panel. Under the toolbar section, there is an option menu and under the option menu there’s a tab called “Permalinks”. Click on that and you will be able to change all your URLs there.
Some Nice WordPress Themes!
Here’s a list of nice and clean WordPress themes that you can download for free.
I’m currently using some of these themes on my sites. If you really need something special, maybe you can try using these themes as a platform and modify them to your taste to create something unique and personal. But remember to leave credits to the original authors.
If you notice most of them are 3 column themes. Why I always go for 3 column themes is that they allow you to monetize more of your site as compare to a 2 column theme. Depending on your own preferences, a 2 column theme may work better for you. BTW, most of them are blue in color, my favorite color!
