How to win the free premium themes?

All you have to do is head to the FlashMint’s wordpress themes list, pick a theme you like and tell them in the comment box of the blog post.

The contest will be closed at Monday, 27th April 2008.

FlashMint wordpress themes

There are only 10 wordpress themes on FlashMint. Each cost USD$55. 7, all of them have very similar layout, with differences in theme colors and graphics used.

Though they are suitable for CMS, cooperate and personal blogs, none of them is my pick. Ah.. I am picky one!

If you would like to get any of the premium theme for free, drop your comment at the contest page. Good luck!

Related books:

• "WordPress Theme Design: A complete guide to creating professional WordPress themes" listing at Amazon.com
• "How to Theme WordPress: From Blank to Beautiful in 2 Hours" listing at Amazon.com

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screenshot of Google Chrome blog theme

Theme features:

• 2 columns fixed width
• widgets ready
• gravatar ready
• support WordPress 2.5 and above
• Tested on IE 6/7, Firefox, Opera, Safari, and Google Chrome
• XHTML & CSS validated

Theme download

• Google Chrome theme for WordPress
• Google Chrome theme for Blogspot

[via Blogging for Novice]

“Add Adsense To Your WordPress Blog Without Changing The Theme”

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Image: WordPress Theme: CopyBlogger

Copyblogger theme is a single sidebar theme with simple and clean design: black header, white background, and red link. The theme is highly customizable with custom stylesheet solution.

For example, you can download the add-on style package “Organic” (demo) to change the theme design without applying a new theme.

My 2 cent: It is a nice theme. However, due to the popularity of Copyblogger, you should customize the theme for your blog for better identification.

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What I love about Unmatched Themes is that it lists WordPress themes using thumbnails preview. It is very easy to choose the one you like in the first glance.

Unmatched Themes also categorized WordPress themes to their layouts: one-column, two-column, three-column, and magazine-style.

Try Unmatched Themes if you are looking for nice WordPress themes.

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Image: example of theme generated by wordpress theme generator

It is an online WordPress theme generator that allows you to customized the theme you want and generate the theme file immediately. The generated theme is based on WordPress 2.1 with Yahoo! UI and supports widgets.

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The author also generously provided the Photoshop PSD file of the design, so that you can customize the theme. The theme is licensed under Creative commons Attribution 2.5 license, meaning you cannot remove the author’s link in the theme footer.

Download: GlossyBlue

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Image: Three Column Kubrick Theme highlighted by Blog Herald

It is amazing how an two year old WordPress 1.5 theme still being discussed.

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Image: Four Column Kubrick Theme

My first impression was “Wow! So many columns!”

It has one content column, and three sidebars on the right. The sidebars have been widgetted. Good job!

Instead of aligning all three sidebars on the right, I suggest him to put one of the sidebar to left hand side. It will be more balance and… “normal”.

Oh, no download link for the theme. He does not release it (yet?).

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IF you wish to blog for money but do not know how to insert ads code into your WordPress template files, you might want to consider using the SEO AdSense WordPress Theme, an aggressive WordPress theme build for AdSense ads.

Not the best AdSense placements?

Adsense is located in the following files; header.php (728×15 linkunit), footer.php (728×90 adunit), sidebar.php (336×280 adunit, 160×600 adunit).

Since the theme structure is similar to my early released 3 columns kubrick theme, based on my experience, I think the SEO AdSense theme’s ads placement could be better.

My suggestions:

• Move 336×280 ad unit under Google search bar to under post title. This change might give you 200% more clicks!
• Remove the leaderboard ad unit in footer. It has very low CTR in my past experiences.
• Add another rectangle ad unit at the end of the post. This position gives 200% more clicks than the leaderboard in footer!
• How about a Google AdSense Search Results within WordPress Pages?

You can get more AdSense tips from The AdSense Code: What Google Never Told You About Making Money with AdSense

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I seldom recommend two column WordPress theme, but the Web 2 Wannabe is a nice one. It is a two column WordPress theme with round corners. Very clean and sleek design. The main theme color is green.

Please note that Web 2 Wannabe wordpress theme is not released under the GPL license. A link-back to the designer’s website is required.

Download Web 2 Wannabe WordPress Theme or try the theme demo.

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