WordPress Theme Team Releases Free Underscores Starter Theme

by Sarah Gooding August 21^st, 2012 1 Response

In February the folks at ThemeShaper, the home of the Automattic Theme Team, released Underscores, or _s for short. Anyone can download the _s theme at github, but in order to fork it, you previously had to make a number of search and replace substitutions.

The good news is that this is no longer the case, thanks to the new Underscores.me website. It allows you to generate your own Underscores-based theme with your custom theme name and the search and replace already complete.

What’s so cool about Underscores?

Freebies, Themes

Meet GavernWP: A Free Responsive WordPress Theme on a Powerful New Framework

by Sarah Gooding August 17^th, 2012 4 Responses

How about a fantastic free WordPress theme to start off the weekend? There’s a new theme shop in town. GavickPro theme development studio is relatively new to the WordPress theme business. They’re currently a leading theme provider in the Joomla community and have decided to expand their operations to WordPress CMS themes.

Meet GavernWP is their first free responsive WordPress theme.

This beautiful theme is built on the brand new GavernWP Framework, which features:

Responsive Design – Content displays intuitively on all Web-browsing devices with HTML5 and CSS3

Freebies, News

Free Lynda.com WordPress Training Videos

by Clifford Paulick August 17^th, 2012 Leave a comment

Lynda.com, probably the best-known online video training site, is providing its WordPress Essentials Training video course for free (expires August 24, 2012). All you have to do is:

Like their Facebook page
Visit their free WordPress Essentials Training videos Facebook app
Click the “watch course now” button
Click the “Share” or “Cancel” button
Browse and click to start playing your videos!

Hurry
Hurry up, free access expires August 24, 2012, but it’s available for all Lynda.com members.

About Lynda.com
Members receive unlimited access to a vast library of high quality, current, and engaging video tutorials taught by great teachers who are also working professionals.

Lynda.com WordPress Essential Training course

Community, Freebies

WordPress Coupons and Discount Codes

by Clifford Paulick August 7^th, 2012 3 Responses

Premium plugins, themes, and services make up a large part of the WordPress community.

WordPress is the most popular CMS and, as a result, there’s money to be made by developers, designers, and consultants. But, let’s face it, you build websites with WordPress because you don’t want to or cannot do everything yourself from scratch. It saves you time, money, and headache and lets you provide a wider range of services to your website clients or, if you are a DIYer, to your website visitors.

WordPress coupons, discounts, and ways to save money buying premium extensions and services

Freebies, Plugins

WooDojo, a free “Functionality Suite”

by Clifford Paulick July 31^st, 2012 Leave a comment

WooDojo is a theme-independent collection of plugins that enhance WordPress functionality and theme management — a “functionality suite”.

WooDojo is a brand-new functionality suite that democratizes awesome functionality that was previously only available via our themes. This means you can now use WooDojo functionality with *any* theme, regardless whether it is from WooThemes or not. :)
- WooDojo’s Vimeo video description
WooDojo was released in April 2012, had over 12,000 downloads in its first week, and became Securi Security approved earlier this month.

Freebies, Themes

Pilot Fish: A Free Responsive Portfolio Theme for WordPress

by Sarah Gooding July 25^th, 2012 8 Responses

Pilot Fish is a brand new portfolio theme in the WordPress Theme Directory, created by Daniel Zhao. This theme features a minimalist style with a responsive design and a custom post type for projects / portfolio items.

It also includes a cool parallax scrolling effect that you can only see if you view the live demo.

The portfolio is nicely arranged on a full-width page with mouseover titles linking to each project page.

Freebies, Themes

10 Free WordPress Video Themes

by Joe Foley July 25^th, 2012 Leave a comment

Let’s be honest — there’s no big intro needed here. You want to run a video site. You want to run it on WordPress. You want a theme that will help you do that. And you want that theme for free.

Voila! …
1. Sundance - DEMO | DOWNLOAD

2. Video from Templatic – DEMO | DOWNLOAD

3. WTB Video Theme – DEMO | DOWNLOAD

4. Selecta – DEMO | DOWNLOAD

5. Word Tube – DEMO | DOWNLOAD

6. Cinematic – DEMO | DOWNLOAD

7. Smashing Multimedia – DEMO | DOWNLOAD

8. WPTube – DEMO | DOWNLOAD

9. Foxinni Video – DEMO | DOWNLOAD

Freebies

5 Sites with Free Resources for Web Designers and Developers

by Craig Grella July 24^th, 2012 7 Responses

The open source nature of WordPress has inspired many creators to develop sites offering free content to help others on their web journeys. A shining example of this good will can be seen in the web design industry, where some of the most popular WordPress web designers and developers make their work available for you to view, download, modify, and use in your own projects – completely free!

Free resources for web designers and developers from WPMUorg

Freebies, Plugins

10 Free Plugins to Add Custom Content to Your WordPress Sidebar

by Patrick Cohen July 23^rd, 2012 3 Responses

Do you need unique WordPress sidebar content on…

different pages?
page templates?
posts or post types?
category or tag pages?
archives?

Well then, here’s a collection of free plugins that enable you to dynamically display different widgets, or entire sidebars, pretty much anywhere you like. Some of them have rather unique ways of displaying custom content in your WordPress sidebar. Check ‘em out, I’m sure you’ll find one that will work for you.

Dynamic Widgets

Wordpress Sidebar - 10 Plugins to customize sidebar content

Freebies, Plugins

Launchpad, Free Landing Page Plugin for WordPress

by Hyder Jaffari July 21^st, 2012 3 Responses

Setting up a new blog, or website? Want to create some buzz around it before you go live? Of course you do! Your pre-launch is almost as important, if not more, as your actual launch.

Starting a new site, or launching a product online is hard work and the worst thing you can do is not capitalize on the initial interest. This is the perfect time to grab email addresses, provide interested users with teasers or just put up a simple landing page in anticipation of launch day.