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Smash Free Premium Quality WordPress Theme Release

MOin — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:48:03 +0000

Our sister site SmashingUpdates released a new wicked looking free WordPress theme which is available for download. You can read all the Features and Documentation on Official Smash Page.

Smash is a free 2/3 column Professional premium level WordPress Theme. It looks very modern and elegant from the front end and offering vast Admin options at the back end. With wide variety of tune able Theme options in the admin menu you don’t need to edit .php files manually to do basic theme adjustments. Scroll down to see Admin Options preview and full feature list.

Current Version 1.0

Full Feature List:

Modern & Elegant look
Fast loading structure
Fully SEO optimized structure
Jquery powered tool tips on Subscribe icons and form
Sidebar 125 x 125 ads support
Social icons integrated
Admin options page to adjust theme settings

Adjust Twitter, Facebook, Email form via Theme options

Sidebar ads ajdustment via Theme options

Image header logo via Theme options

Google analytics integration via Theme options

Hide or display Social icons on posts via Theme options

Exclude pages & categories from navigation via Theme options

Jquery popped out Email subscription form (Facebook style)
Twitter, Rss, Facebook buttons pre-installed
Thumbnail support for homepage and posts
Tradiotional Email subscription form available
Optimized 404 page to save lost visitors
Supports comments threading and paging
Fully designed and fabricated Comment form
Fully WP 3.0 support (upcoming version)
Premium Quality
Fixed Width
Two versions – 2 Colums and 3 Columns
All the other fancy bells and whistles
Free of cost

Highlights:

You can Read all the Features and Documentation over Official Smash Page

New York – Free WordPress Theme Release

MOin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:57:20 +0000

I am once more so excited to release our new theme ‘New York’ the main excitement reason is that i am giving away something to WordPress community which usually people sell. I believe New York is good enough that anybody with personal blog or any kind of blog (it depends on liking) will be willing to use it. New York comes with a lot of stuff, full features are listed below but you need to see Live Demo in order to feel it. Grungy/Urban/Transparent/Elegant everything is here with a lot of practical features

Current Version 1.2 – Fixed ‘title headings not showing multi language characters’ issue

Current Version 1.3 – Updated New York with Awesome Junction Font.

Full Feature List:

Modern & Elegant look
Grungy and Urban style
Fast loading structure
Sidebar 125 x 125 ads support
Twitter, RSS, Facebook and Delicious Bookmark buttons
Stylized sticky post
Featured post with Thumbnail
Email subscription form available
Supports comments threading and paging
You don’t need to edit PSD files for logo, Thanks to Cufon
Preloads necessary images silently for better user experience
Fully WP 2.8.5 support
Premium Quality
Fixed Width
2 Columns
Left Sidebar
Many theme options to control everything, you don’t need to edit files at ALL
Free of cost

What can I adjust from Admin Theme Options??

Sidebar 125 x 125 ads: You can tune sidebar ads from inside your theme options just enter banner URLs and enter link for them.
Twitter, Facebook and RSS buttons: You can enter your twitter profile link, Facebook profile/fan page link, feedburner feed address.
Email Subscription form: You can Setup your sidebar Email subscription form within Admin theme options.
About me box: Change your About box picture, text and link.

Admin Options Screenshot:

(click thumbnail to see full view)

Installation:

Extract the new-york.zip file in a convenient location
Copy the ‘new-york’ folder to ‘/wp-content/themes/’ directory in your web server.
Log in to the WordPress Administration Dashboard
Select the ‘Themes’ sub-menu from ‘Appearance’ tab
Select the New York theme from the available list of themes to preview
Activate the theme.

Where are Admin Theme Options??

After Activating New York theme
Look for ‘New York Options’ tab in sidebar menu

How ‘Featured’ post works?

Creat a new category named ‘Featured Articles’
Upload/attach any image to the post (more than 300px wide recommended)
While publishing post select ‘Featured Articles’ category along with others.
You are done. First Attachment image from the post will be used as thumbnail.

For people having problems with Featured post thumbnail:

Download this file, rename it to ‘header.php and replace it with the original header.php in New York theme directory.
While writing a post upload an image and copy Image Url.
Now add a custom key with name: thumbnail and value: image url
Make sure ‘cache’ folder found in theme directory is CHMOD 777 on your server.
Still having problems? Its probably your server does not support GD Library. Which is so rare IMO.

People having problems with Featured post thumbnail hosted on Hostgator:

Login to your Hostgator control panel and contact Live Chat Support.
Ask the support technician to white list your thumbnail generation file for mod_security . You will need to give your file name and path. The file name mostly will be timthumb.php . You can find this file inside the WordPress theme folder. An example file path wp-content/themes/new-york/cropper.php

Source

The theme is released under GPL (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php).

If you have any feedback, bug reports, feature requests e-mail me or comment below.

Moi Magazine – Free WordPress Theme Release

MOin — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:23:21 +0000

Moi Magazine is a free 2 column magazine style WordPress Theme. It looks very modern and elegant from the front end and offering vast Admin options at the back end. With wide variety of tune able Theme options in the admin menu you don’t need to edit .php files manually to do basic theme adjustments.

Current Version 1.0.1

Full Feature List:

Modern & Elegant look
Fast loading structure
Jquery powered Random posts on homepage
Recent posts with Thumbnails
Sidebar 125 x 125 ads support
Social icons integrated
Admin options page to adjust theme settings
Jquery Lavalamp menu installed
Twitter and RSS button pre-installed
Thumbnail support for homepage and posts
Email subscription form available
Supports comments threading and paging
Fully WP 2.8.5 support
Premium Quality
Fixed Width
2 Columns
Right Sidebar
All the other fancy bells and whistles
Free of cost

What can I adjust from Admin Theme Options??

Twitter and RSS buttons: You can enter your twitter name for Twitter button and feedburner feed address for RSS button.
Sidebar 125 x 125 ads: You can tune sidebar ads from inside your theme options just enter banner URLs and enter link for them.
Email Subscription form: You can Setup your sidebar Email subscription form within Admin theme options.

Admin Options Screenshot:

(click thumbnail to see full view)

Installation:

Extract the moi-magazine.zip file in a convenient location
Copy the ‘moi-magazine’ folder to ‘/wp-content/themes/’ directory in your web server.
Log in to the WordPress Administration Dashboard
Select the ‘Themes’ sub-menu from ‘Appearance’ menu
Select the Moi Magazine theme from the available list of themes to preview
Activate the theme.

Where are Admin Theme Options??

Sign in to your Admin Dashboard.
Under Appearance tab click on ‘Moi Magazine Theme Options’ menu.

How can i put Thumbnail in homepage posts, random posts and single posts?

While writing a post upload an image, when uploading is done copy image link and close upload box.
Creat a new custom key ‘thumbnail’ with small ‘t’.
Enter image link as ‘thumbnail’ custom key value.
This is it, to manage all thumbnails for a post just ‘One’ thumbnail key is enough with Moi Magazine

The theme is released under GPL (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php).

If you have any feedback, bug reports, feature requests e-mail me or comment below.