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MobilePress: Wordpress Plugin To Turn Your Blog Mobile Compatible

mobile-pressMobilePress is a WordPress plugin that will render your WordPress blog on mobile handsets, with the ability to use customized themes. The plugin also allows specific themes for specific devices / mobile browsers, such as iPhone, Opera Mini, Windows CE Mobile and other generic handset browsers.

The plugin also allows WordPress theme developers to create custom mobile themes for WordPress blogs using the MobilePress plugin. Therefore, theme designers can create specific iPhone themes or generic themes.

MobilePress also features Mobile SEO which detects Google and Yahoo mobile search bots. These mobile search bots will see the mobile version of you blog which allows your blog to optimized and indexed on Google and Yahoo mobile search.

17 New Wordpress Themes That Will Rock Your Personal Blog

Personal blogs are more than a bunch of words put together. A good personal blog reflects your identity, your personality and individualism and a  factor of great importace here is the design. It is the first thing that the viewer notices, before making any presumptions about you or your personality. So a good design is necessary to leave a good and long lasting impression on the visitor.

To help you out with the design, we at Crenk have put together 17 new wordpress themes that we believe, will rock your personal blog. Read on.

Creative Art

Creative Art

Theme Info | Demo

Masinop

Masinop

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Nouice

Nouice

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Scruffy

Scruffy

Theme Info | Demo

Vigilance

Vigilance

Theme Info | Demo

Simply

Simply

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WGrey

W Grey

Theme Info | Demo

Simple Pro

Simplepro

Theme Info | Demo

Simple Changes

simple changes

Theme Info | Demo

Reviews Theme

Reviews Theme

Theme Info | Demo

ProudBlack

Proudblack

Theme Info | Demo

Modicus Remix

Modicus Remix

Theme Info | Demo

Modern

Modern

Theme Info | Demo

LightWeight

Lightweight

Theme Info | Demo

IAMWW W2 DnD

Iamwww

Theme Info | Demo

Bright Spring

Bright Spring

Theme Info | Demo

Elegance

Elegance

Theme Info | Demo

So that ends the list. I hope you liked it, if that’s so, show me some love and Digg it :)

(By) An avid freelance writer and technology enthusiast, Keshav Khera is young geek from India. Fanatic about the web, he also writes a blog and makes unsuccessful efforts to avoid twitter.

MySocialButtons: Find Social Networking Buttons and Icons for Your Blog or Site

Have you ever spent a lot of time searching around the Internet to find the perfect social media button that can be added to your site? Well stop searching and head over to MySocialButtons. MySocialButtons does what it says on the can and offers free social networking icons and buttons to download. Buttons include TTwitter, Reddit, Digg, Facebook, Stumbleupon and come in various different colours, styles and sizes.

Irresistible: Personal Wordpress Theme for Free by WooThemes

WooThemes has just released a new Free theme called Irresistible. It is a visually-rich personal blog, with a little bit of a multimedia focus. Incorporating some nifty video-options and widgets, Irresistible should meet all of your personal blogging needs. Just add your content to the mix.

irresistible-wordpress-theme

Irresistible: New Free Wordpress Theme from WooThemes

WooThemes has launched today a new free WordPress Theme. Irresistible is a personal blog theme with a great unique design, available in 9 different color styles. Download and demo it here.

irresistble-wordpress-theme-from-woothemes

Comfy News Theme: Free Magazine Style Wordpress Theme

Comfy news theme is a free news / magazine style theme for WordPress. It looks really clean, stunning and professional. Comfy comes with many features, some of them are basic magazine features such as dropdown navigation, feedburner subscription, advertisement spots, featured entries, ajax tabs, widget-ready, gravatars built-in, and more.

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106 Beautiful iPhone Style Icons for Free

106 Beautiful rounded icons in a iPhone style.

docky iphone icon set for free

Download from Deviantart.

Nurture: Social Bookmarking Icon Pack for Free

Over at Tutorial9 and Smashing Mag they have just released a new icon pack for everyone. This Free Icon Pack is for use in your personal and commercial projects, and can be used without attribution. It may not be redistributed.

Nurture is a Social Bookmark Icon Pack. The set includes 10 icons featuring the logos of popular social bookmarking sites. Nurture includes 512×512, 256×256, 128×128, and 64×64 icons in .png format.

Download Here for Free.

Freemium Wordpress Theme

Freemium Theme is a free premium theme for wordpress, it was designed by Paul Kadysz and developed by Dariusz Siedlecki and made free by freebiesdock.com.

You can see the demo here.

Some of the features of freemium theme are:

  • XHTML compliant
  • flickr RSS support
  • jQuery menu
  • 2 widget ready sidebars
  • completely free

Download: freebiesdock.com/freemium-wordpress-theme/

freebiesdock

Top 10 Adsense Optimized Wordpress Themes

There are so many publishers out there that are just learning what Wordpress is and how they can actually make money from blogging. The easiest advertising network to join is Adsense from Google. Adsense provides users the ability to earn money every time one of their readers clicks on an ad. Recently I was looking through free Wordpress themes in search of the most basic template I could find which have adsense blocks as standard and in which optimise those positions to bring in the most revenues for the blogger. After all my searching I thought I might even compile a list of ten themes that I think everyone should use when they are first starting to blog on Wordpress.

1. ProSense | Download Prosense | ProSense Gray | ProSense Blue

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2. AdSense Theme | Download

adsensetheme3. Problogger Clean | Download

probloggerclean4. SEO Blix with AdSense | Download

blixthemeadsense5. Ads Minded | Download

adsminded6. Connections with Adsense | Download

connections-theme-adsense-single-post27. MW | Download

mw8. Adsense Ready | Download

adsenseready9. Boqpod Adsense | Download

adsenseboqpod10. Tigopedia 1.0 | Download

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Wordpress.TV: Your Video Resource Directory For Everything Wordpress

WordPress.tv is your visual resource for all things WordPress. To make it easy for you to find up-to-date, WordPress-themed video content within a couple of clicks. Without having to wade through spammy promotional videos, out-of-date content, and missing chunks of presentations. WordPress.tv is there waiting for you, you can learn anything related to WordPress by watching the videos there.

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Additional to basic Wordpress tutorials they have a section specifically for WordCamp videos in which is Wordpress related sessions in which professions talk about Wordpress and how to use it affectively and efficiently.

Techcrunch Theme Changed Again, This Time It Is Actually User Friendly

I have also noticed today that Techcrunch has changed their theme again. It hasn’t really been too long since they last changed their theme, probably about a quarter off the top of my head. Last time the Techcrunch theme was changed they seems to have nothing in their sidebar except advertising (i know Crenk also has a little bit of advertising), however that being said this new theme really addresses the key issues of the older theme.

The site itself is a lot more compact in the header and key change is that the 728×90 advertisement is no longer above the site, but fitting in with the header itself. The key green is not really as predominant, but it makes it easy to distinguish between Techcrunch and the other network sites. In the old theme they just had excepts on the home page, but now they have an additional three slots in which they can feature certain articles. Navigation has really improved within this new theme and now it is a lot easier to find new content. As well as feature articles in the header on the home page they have also added eleven featured articles in the sidebar sitewide. If I didnt have an RSS reader or use it everyday, with the previous theme it would have been impossible to keep up with the new content, however with this new theme it provides me with a better idea on what is happening in the tech space.

This new theme is far from perfect but it is a huge improvement from all the previous themes they had on the site. I would really still like to see a lot more integration between the Techcrunch home page and the other network sites, but im sure that will come within the year.