WordPress
5 Free Simple and Clean Wordpress Themes
In our busy world, sometimes a person just wants to slow things down and look back to a simpler time. Of course, we can’t get rid of technology — we wouldn’t want to, anyway — but we can at least make it look simple. We think that the future of web design is heading this way — clean and functional. Get rid of the frills and flourishes, we say, and keep it simple.
For this week’s installment of “Theme Thursday,” we present five simple and clean WordPress themes for your downloading pleasure. Enjoy!
5 Travel-Inspired Wordpress Themes
There’s a certain common trait that runs through everyone — we all have the desire to see someplace new and go someplace we’ve never been. There’s something about drawing closer to the horizon but never getting there that keeps us going as people, and keeps our tanks filled with inspiration. Maybe that’s why we, for this installment of Theme Thursday, decided to gear our designs towards those bitten by the travel bug.
So get out there, see new places, and tell everyone about it — we’ll look forward to every new post on your travel blog. Enjoy!
5 Girl-Inspired Free WordPress Themes
Web Hosting Help Guy is a sensitive fellow — we know that the worlds of Web design and development can sometimes seem a little on the male-dominated side. Truthfully, we’re more comfortable with black and blue than with pink and purple, but we wanted to acknowledge that the women are rocking the blogosphere. That’s why, after testing these with the few ladies in our office, we explored our softer side and came up with some new WordPress themes for the girl bloggers out there.
This is our second edition of “Theme Thursday” — each week, we’ll put out a bunch
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WordPress Security Practices and PlugIns
Recently, in issuing Version 2.8.5, WordPress fixed a vulnerability in previous versions that left it open to a certain kind of denial of service, or DoS, attack. A DoS attack is launched by hackers against a specific website (usually a company or a blog), designed to crash the site and server by flooding it with requests for information, comments, or trackbacks.
Rest easy, though – there are some simple practices you can employ to lessen your chances of becoming a victim. And, luckily for users, it’s not just the bigger companies and organizations that are developing protections against vulnerabilities like these
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5 Free Wordpress Themes
We’ve been pretty clear here at Web Hosting Help Guy about how much we like WordPress. And we like it more every time we use it. We like it so much, in fact, that we went a little crazy, and we went and created a veritable slew of brand-new themes for everyone to download. All five are widget-ready, have XHTML-valid markup, and are compatible with all your favorite browsers, including the dreaded IE6. Pick your favorite design (or designs) from the choices below and download away!
Blue Flowers
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Modern Blue Dark WordPress Theme
Here at Web Hosting Help Guy, we’re pretty enamored with the user-friendly functionality of WordPress, as well as the design of a lot of WordPress themes out there. That said, we thought we’d try our hand at designing one of our own. We’re also pretty into the whole “provide a descriptive title” thing, so we’re calling it — are you ready — Modern Blue Dark WordPress Theme.
For our first effort, we present a sleek, modern design in blue with a dark background and Web 2.0-inspired wraparound headings. It’s widget-ready, gravatar-enabled,
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12 WordPress Plugins To Power Up Your Blog
So you’ve been at it for awhile, and you’re feeling pretty happy with your WordPress blog. In fact, you’re feeling so good, you’re looking for a few features to kick things up a notch. Look no further, then — here are 12 WordPress plugins the pros are using to take their sites to the next level.
1. Super Cache
- Makes your site ready for the big time by automating the manual caching procedure to handle dramatic increases in traffic, like if your site gets linked to by Digg,
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