You have probably heard lots of discussions on the subject of theme framework over the past year, as it was becoming more and more popular. Meanwhile, many developers and even more users are trying to understand what it is exactly and how it is supposed to work. So, if you are the one of those who aren’t familiar with it yet, then the real purpose of theme framework may be lost for you.

Notwithstanding there’re some arguments against it, there’re also plenty of reasons for using frameworks. Most designers have quite a good understanding of a framework, but broadly speaking, a WordPress framework is some kind of a large-scale outline, presenting an approach to quickly develop WordPress themes that are based on common axioms. Don’t miss the main word – just an approach. So it could have different meanings to different users.

It may look anyhow – as a set of distinct hierarchy of scripts, style sheets or plugin support files, or as a theme with minimal styling of microformats or custom functions. It may be whatever, but the one thing will stay invariable – a certain style of coding, organizing and referencing the workpieces.

So, if you follow the thread of thought, then you now understand that theme framework is not the a cure-all solution or an ideal theme, and not the thing you can easily adhere to. However, you should see the potential of frameworks – they can decline the chance of errors, provide you with a stable way to approaching projects and theme customization, and also speed up repetitive tasks and client support.

It does have advantages, but not everyone will be able to create a templating system. Nevertheless, you can benefit from a ready framework, especially if you’re a developer or designer, willing to increase the productivity, enhance the product range or get rid of obstacles coming with coding from scratch. And if you’re just a regular user, curious about what this has to do with you, you could benefit even more, because the author of the parent theme will provide you with updates and new functionality every single time they become available, so you may forget about worries concerning losing or rewriting your customizations. You will understand it better after working with one framework for a while, but you have to choose with which one exactly. All of them differ greatly, as you know that the framework can be whatever its author wants it to be, but they all will be definitely useful for those, who clearly understand their purpose.

If you want to know the reason why you should use an Adsense WordPress template, we can answer – because it was designed for the purpose of maximizing your ad earnings. That is a WordPress theme having separate ad blocks, so that you are able to mix different types of affiliate ads, including contextual, with your main content without effort. If you are going to start making money on any kind of contextual ad systems like Google Adsense, then you should know that the key to success is the efficient and optimized ad placement. So using such blog designs will undoubtedly help you enhance the affiliate conversions and “click-through” rates. These blog templates are also called Adsense Ready themes.

What are the advantages of Adsense Ready Themes over any other blog themes? Firstly, the Adsense Ready themes are designed in such a way that they are focusing entirely on merging the contextual ads with content by placing the ads around it. The ads themselves and the links are neatly placed everywhere around every single post, thus maximizing their “click-through” potential. Some of the themes also allow easily placing ads blocks inside every post – that’s one of the best ways to get the most clicks per blog visitor.

Generally, Adsense Optimized themes are created in Adsense blocks in order to facilitate insertion of ads. The ads become active right after the Adsense Publisher ID has been changed or inserted. They also adjust the placement and colors of ads to guidelines of Google, making you feel related. The search and link units are already built in, and the search engine particularly is very user-friendly, enabling you to post and category titles easily.

So, the main reason for using Adsense Ready Themes seems to be its convenience. You won’t have to get lost in too much code and won’t have to adjust to the form of the theme. This template will save you lots of time and effort, as usually all you need is just to insert the publisher ID in cost of a minute and that’s it.

Of course, you can try any other WordPress theme to place your ads, but they would probably be not easy to puzzle out, especially if you are not very familiar with the concept of optimizing your ad placement. Adsense Ready templates are particularly useful for those who operate hundreds of niche websites, because they originally become more profitable if using optimized ad placements.

Here we place few examples of adsense ready themes

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Hi there! Here I created a new collection of Premium WordPress Themes that I found searching everywhere…

In this month were not so much theme releases, but now the request of themes becomes bigger month after month… So thinking of creating new themes here on WPCrowd for WordPress community.

So below you will find some Gorgeous Premium Themes released this month, hope you will like some of them and please share in your web community.

This article is part of Premium WordPress Themes series.

Blogus

Blogus theme is perfect for a world travelers. You can share travel experiences using Google Map feature. Post, add photos and communicate with friends and family around the world.
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Home office

Home Office is a professional NattyWP wordpress theme. Using this template you can showcase your business, services or promote your products.
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Impulsive

Impulsive is a very clean coded, minimalist theme. In this theme you have the ability to use a static page or your latest posts in the homepage.
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WPA Storefront

This is the ultimate WordPress ecommerce theme built specifically for the WP-E-Commerce plugin!
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Centrio

This theme is a fixed layout best suitable for all types of business and a corporate business sites, Company Portfolio, Freelancer Portfolio or blog sites who want to have it in web 2.0 Style it will set and this template will target the best solutions for your better sales on your business.
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Midnight Sun

Midnight Sun is a stylish and elegant WordPress theme designed for blogs, magazines, portfolios and pretty much any kind of informational site you need it for.
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Preview

Pr3view is a WordPress theme best suited for small design agencies or businesses and freelance designers. Is a dark theme that is perfect for contrasting images, and colorful designs.
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CUBE-X

CUBE -X This template is a complete site compatible with all the browsers IE6 , IE7 , IE8 , Firefox 2, Firefox 3, Safari 3, Safari 4, Google Chrome.
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Realist

This is woking right out of the box. Make your own property listings that can be searched, and filtered. This is a property website ready to go!
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Eclectic

Eclectic Premium is a quality WordPress template perfect for showcasing a portfolio and hosting a blog.
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FUTURA

FUTURA is wordpress CMS Theme/Template which is best suited for business, corporate, blog and portfolio websites.
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ProBlog

Multiple page templates, including a custom category page template allows you to choose which pages show and hide posts with a single template!
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The Clothes Shop

Designed especially for online shops, The Clothes Shop accommodates a category structure of upto 2 levels deep (1st level -3rd level categories), a membership area, creating and saving a wishlist…
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Coffee Junkie

“Coffee Junie” is a clean, modern and minimalistic layout, designed to promote anything from your personal portfolio website through to a design studios website.
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BVD

Beautiful Website Design-WordPress
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eQuator

This site designed and developed specially for the anyone who wants to start the blogging and some tutorials site or community blog system or personal blog.
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Therapy

A powerful, feature-rich & flexible personal blog theme with Izuddin’s signature, vibrant and bubbly design style. This theme showcases your social media profiles neatly, whilst elegantly showcasing your latest blog posts.
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Exposure

Exposure is revolutionary photo blogging theme with extreme control over image gallery displays in your posts and a completely widgetized home page with each blog post being a widget allowing them to be arranged however you please. One of those themes you just have to see to believe.
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SilverOak

SilverOak is a very easy to customize theme targeted at personal blogs/portfolio websites. It has dropdowns for both categories and pages and a nice featured showcase slider.
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Web Explorer

WebExplorer” is a simple and elegant premium business WordPress theme. It’s great for any business and personal sites.
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I want to present to everyone a new great WordPress site named ThemeGrade.

This site can help you to compare different popular themes, to know if a theme is better than the others, shows an overall score for each theme that allows you to make more accurate conclusions.

You can browse for great Premium WordPress Themes, choose a right one that fits your needs, search it by structure, category or rankings.

This site is a great tool for choosing the right theme for you.

It has a lot features like:

1. Listings of Free and Premium Themes
2. Sophisticated searches for every type of themes
3. Compressive reviews of every theme with compatibility of major browsers
4. Every theme gets a final score awarded with a Gold, Silver or Bronze status

Compressive reviews:

Every theme get reviewed by functionality and gains points for better features, that means if a theme gained more points is a better one.

If you have a professional designed theme you can submit it for a review.

In a conclusion I want to say that ThemeGrade is unique by it’s functionality and it is the easiest way to find the Top Quality WordPress Themes!

Hello There! Here you will find a collection with themes aimed for use as business website. It comes with 30 completely unique professional themes.

Some themes displays featured portfolio posts (in form of jQuery carousel) along with widgets, additional info and welcome text.

All WordPess Themes has clean design and strong visual hierarchy. Templates is compatible with all major browsers and will render exactly the same in every main browser.

Enjoy!

Coffee Break

A professional theme built specifically to showcase your business, services or products.
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Levitation

levitation is a WordPress Template, best suited for Business and Portfolio sites. It comes with 5 sleek skins and 2 different front page designs.
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deLuxe

A warm and elegant WordPress theme. Use it on your lifestyle, hotel, luxury or any site that needs to look deluxe.
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Octofirst

This is a WordPress theme which can provide both CMS and Blog functionality. Best for business / corporate / portfolio websites.
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Valtik

Unique CMS template for wordpress, it is supplied with 6 additional widgets from NattyWP, and additional color module.
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Concept

Designed from the ground up to function as a comprehensive WordPress theme that can be used for just about any site that needs a beautiful layout.
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UniSphere Corporate

It has a custom CMS integrated into the WordPress administration area that allows you to build a fully functional professional website in minutes.
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Exehill

Clean simple theme with 3 colorschemes, You Tube Gallery, Image Gallery, dragable Content Boxes, and some more nice features.
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Destination

Create a comprehensive website for your city that offers wide range of information about the various destinations in your city using Destination – a strategically planned and designed wordpress theme for your city.
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Smart Seo

A Simple Clean Elegant WordPress Theme.
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Spectral

The theme has a page based homepage. We have added a custom stylish and attractive menu, a sliding front end login panel and a font resizer for your convenience.
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Twicet

Twicet is a WordPress Template, best suited for Business and Portfolio sites.
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Smooth

Complete with Google Maps Integration, that offers a professional and extremely affordable solution for Realtors and Agents to showcase their properties with ease.
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Wave

A beautiful and flexible theme catered to those that want to build a video focused site.
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IdealCorp

This wordpress theme is ideal for the business, corporate site. It includes everything you possibly need for presenting your business online.
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Academy

An advanced, beautiful, simple & super fast theme with numerous features & mighty control panel that will help educational institutes to present their online presence professionally.
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Prospectum

The presence in the web has become very important nowadays for every business or corporation.
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Benzo

A simple and clean WordPress theme and comes with some nice features, like an image gallery, Youtube gallery, etc
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Restaurant

Strategically designed and coded, this professional theme covers all aspects that a restaurant website should actually have. Use this theme to create professional, easy and quick online presence for your business.
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Markted

Business + Fully customizable + WP 2.8 Compatible + Settings Page + PSD Included
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Republica

That’s why we thought that our next theme should be a little bit more blog oriented, however keeping the CMS look and feel.
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BusinessIdea

A fixed layout built with 960 grid System and best suitable for all types of business and a corporate business sites, Company Portfolio, Freelancer Portfolio or blog sites who want to have it in web 2.0 Style it will set and this template will target the best solutions for your better sales on your business..
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PureCorpWP

Is a proffesional WordPress theme created for promoting any kind of application, desgined with blog, pricing subpages and more!
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Edmond

A web 2.0 business theme with four different color variations.
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WPA Parade

A versatile wordpress CMS /blog template that would be a great look for a photographer, designer, corporate or organizational site. The theme has an attractive layered design look and includes…
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eBook

Wrote a book? Leverage the power of Internet and get more sales. Create a quick, professional website for your book within minutes in WordPress using our strategically designed eBook theme, especially for Book authors.
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Revival

We love colors too, but we love more the clean look in a website, especially for business oriented ones.
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Homeowner

A fast loading optimized theme with Google Maps Integration, compatible with all Real Estate markets (you add your own currency) and a professional clean look packed full of features extremely easy to modify to be used as a WordPress Real Estate Framework with your own designs or it can be used with one of the 6 styles provided.
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iProduct

If you are building an application, digital product or have some product to release, this is a must have theme to have.
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eProduct

If you are building an application, digital product or have some product to release, this is a must have theme to have.
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Business Themes in WordPress

Magazine Themes are more popular then other, so decided and prepared a fresh collection of Quality Magazine Themes, for you.

The collection is made of 10 Remarkable Themes for News or Magazine style sites. Themes are from different talented designers and developers.

I hope you will like the list and you will use one of these themes on your site.

MagFolio

Portfolio and Magazine Combined? No problem. Showcase your work and publish latest news in the same site. The MagFolio theme helps you create unique Mini Gallery Magazine site in minutes.
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Reinvent

Best thing about him is, he thinks about every little pixel and theres not a single element in his design without purpose. We requested him to design a different kind of magazine theme which he graciously agreed to and created wonderful magazine theme design. Wait no more, here’s the Reinvent theme for your blog.
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ColorMatic

Perfect for a variety of blogs – including personal blogs, magazine/news sites and even business websites.
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News

Features include the News theme, access to detailed theme tutorials, including limited customization techniques and support through our private forum.
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AcosminMAG

Has a lot of options and makes it easy for any newbie to set it up
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Newsone

A hugely flexible news theme. Thanks to the tag based functionality Featured articles and Photo carousel modules are completely adaptable to your content.
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Mortar

A hugely flexible theme built on a neat JQuery layout plugin that arranges your posts vertically than horizontally with complete control over the number of columns on the home and archive page.
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Big News

BigNews is actually so big that a lot of web design agencies and freelancers will lose business if they do not start using my themes to set up their clients’ projects faster and stop charging for wasting their clients’ time. Time is money. Saving time and money makes you rich.
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Magazine

This theme is the fifth to be professionally optimized by Joost de Valk, who is on our development team.
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Snippet

Photographers, gallery publishers, product reviewers and affiliate marketers could use this theme to showcase the work and products with links and content to highlight valuable products.
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A portfolio is a great tool for sharing some work project, web designs, themes and other cool stuff on the web.

A portfolio theme for WordPress is very easy to work with, being the most popular way for Professional Freelancers and Web Developers.

Here I created the most sophisticated collection on the web about Portfolio Themes for WordPress only, so you now not need to worry about getting a Portfolio theme.

Please share this so others can enjoy! Please comment you thoughts…

1. Examples of Creative WordPress Portfolio Blogs:

Daniel Gutiérrez

Clear and creative example of a Portfolio Theme, very simple with a big slider section in the header with a kitty as the background.

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Snopp Media

Another creative design example with a cardboard background, I like this original idea in a portfolio theme.

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Joe Longstreet

A nice logo design, simple and elegant portfolio site.

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Dead Trendy

Outstanding funny design, very colored and original.

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Andrew Reff

Black portfolio theme of a talented web developer.

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Darren Hoyt

Great design with blue colors, functional and sophisticated.

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Ritchie Linao

Web designer portfolio theme with a integrated gallery. Contact info am graffiti background.

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2. Free WordPress Portfolio Themes:

Folio Elements

This is a very basic WordPress theme with a clean and efficient design intended to put your best content forward in a way that is enticing and fun for the user.
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Creative by Nature

A unique and flexible high-quality portfolio WordPress theme for artists, photographers and designers. The theme was designed by .css{mayo} and released especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers.
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Linquist

Simple, portfolio oriented theme, without the usual blogging garbage. Inspired by and partially based on the fantastic Sharpfolio theme.
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The Unstandard

A split two / three column WordPress 2.6+ compatible theme. The home and archive index pages utilize photos rather than text. The latest update is completely optimized and stripped of any unnecessary code allowing for complete customization.
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WPESP

A “minimalist” Theme based on the idea of portfolio created by DAILYWP. The Theme is a starting point in the creation of portfolios, using WordPress as CMS.
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ImPress

It looks really awesome and is useful for design or magazine styled websites.
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Portfolio Press

This is a dark-colored theme suitable for anyone who wants to create a quick portfolio or wants to showcase his work through WordPress.
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3. Premium WordPress Portfolio Themes:

Mortar

A hugely flexible theme built on a neat JQuery layout plugin that arranges your posts vertically than horizontally with complete control over the number of columns on the home and archive page.
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Big Easy

A very neatly coded, pixel sharp portfolio-based theme designed by the UK based web legend Dan Rubin. This theme boasts an impressive widgetized home page, custom typography, and impressive portfolio handling functionality.
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Groovy Photo

A vibrant, fun colour palette set in a neat layout with tons of neat features – what more could you ask for?
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Basic

Basic features a very clean, easy-to-read and traditional layout that focuses on displaying your content in an orderly fashion.
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Sleekslide Portfolio

The Mainpage also contains your latest blog entries as well as some personal information, a typical mash for portfolio themes.
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YourFolio

A WordPress portfolio theme designed to be used as a personal online portfolio as well as personal blog. This theme has 5 different stylesheets to choose from, allowing the user different color and font options.
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Bluelight

One of the best selling HTML templates on ThemeForest now has a WordPress counterpart. Manage your portfolio and blog posts easily with this mash-up WordPress theme.
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Wordfolio

WordPress + Portfolio = Wordfolio, a wordpress theme which is suitable for graphic & web designers.
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4. Portfolio Tutorials:

1. Create a Portfolio Layout with Wooden Background in Photoshop
In this Photoshop tutorial I am going to show you how to create a portfolio layout with a wooden background.
2. How to Design a Portfolio Site
If you’re a freelance designer, you know how important your portfolio site is to your business. Therefore, we decided to commission Elliot Jay Stocks, a well-known web designer, to film two 30-minute screen-casts on “How to Design a Portfolio Site.”
3. Create an awesome portfolio layout
I will show you how to create another website portfolio.
4. Create a dark portfolio pixel layout
In this tutorial I will show you the power of patterns applied in web layouts. Photoshop patterns are very important.

Hello everybody! Here on WPCrowd I decided to make a contest for you!

You have an opportunity to Win a Theme from Elegant Themes that you wish!

I think this is the best opportunity now on the web to get one of the best WordPress Premium Themes for free!

To take part in this contest you need to:

1. Subscribe to our RSS feed
2. Follow us on Twitter
3. Post a comment about what theme would you like to win and why…
The list of themes you can find on Elegant Themes site.

The Winner:

The winner will be announced on 9 August by a random generator, so Good Luck!
Leave a valid e-mail so we can get in touch with you if you will be a winner

Update 9 August

The Winner is Peter! Congratulations to him!

Peter:

I really would liketo win the theme PureType, because it looking very good and clean.

In this article I created a small showcase of modified WordPress themes. The modified themes are very creative and some of them are better then original.

I think it’s better, faster and easier to get a theme for free then to change colors and backgrounds and to make it a unique theme than creating the theme from zero.

The original themes are provided by Woothemes that are free. The themes are: Irresistible, Meta-Morphosis, Typebased and Snapshot. Please share this article if you like.

Irresistible Original Theme

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Irresistible Modified Themes

Evilry

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Bettina Bush

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Petersen Media Group

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Nick Daugherty

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Cedric.FM

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Meta-Morphosis Original Theme

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Meta-Morphosis Modified Themes

Oscar Aguad

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Exotic Hunting and Fishing

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Typebased Original Theme

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Typebased Modified Themes

Pedro Miranda

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Snowracer

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Michele Mazzola

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Snapshot Original Theme

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Snapshot Modified Themes

Funny 404

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Shyemaa Syed

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101Tattoos.com

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Art House Biscuit

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Hi there! Here I collected a small but a very great collection of 7 Free Premium-Like WordPress Themes that I consider the best free themes released in this month (July).

I’m sure you will like some of them because I spend hours to find the best from different sites and blogs.

The themes are very quality with different colors. I consider them premium because they have a great look and great functionality.

Paper Wall

The theme has a unique, colorful design that will perfectly fit for your personal blogs and, if customized, can be a perfect fit for a unique magazine-style-blog.
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Mainstream

A vibrant personal blog theme with a colourful selection of styles, built on WooThemes flexible theme framework, boasting a selection of theme options, most importantly it’s FREE!
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Mainam Clouds

Mainam is a featured-packed and multi-colored free WordPress theme with TweetMeme retweet button. It has 3 columns, with an easy Options page for customization. Loaded with Social Bookmarks button, Twitter Account integration, Automatic Thumbnail Resizer without using a plugin or custom field, Adsense ready with lots of advertising blocks.
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Grunge Style

I kind of like the idea of having stains, dirty textures, rips and torn images to enhance the look of a blog.
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Blue Station

Blue Station high quality free premium WordPress theme suitable for daily blogging. Theme has admin options page.
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Black Motion

Black Motion is high quality free premium WordPress theme. Suitable for any niche. Member of “Motion” theme series from NewWpThemes.com
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Girly Nature

This latest one that I release is the most feminine one. Hence, I named it “Girly Nature”.
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