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ThemeThrift: Pay What You Want for WordPress Themes

by Sarah Gooding May 2^nd, 2012 5 Responses

A unique WordPress theme site popped onto my radar today. ThemeThrift is a new creation by Jake Caputo of Design Crumbs with a bit of an unorthodox pricing structure. The site will be selling themes at a substantial discount and even giving them away for free. Deals have a set time before they expire and users can choose exactly how much they want to pay:

Caputo is currently offering his Modest Theme on the site as the first deal. You can view the features and the live demo and elect how much you’d like to pay:

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Adapt: A Free Responsive Business Portfolio Theme for WordPress

by Sarah Gooding April 24^th, 2012 1 Response

There are a fair number of beautiful free responsive WordPress themes popping up, but not too many are focused on showcasing a business. That’s where the new Adapt theme stands out. WP Explorer created this theme to be ideal for business or portfolio sites where the focus will be on examples of your work and recent news.

Adapt boasts a clean, minimal layout. Best of all, it’s 100% GPL and free to use for both personal and commercial projects.

This free WordPress business theme also features:

Fully Responsive layout
Homepage Slider – unlimited heights (just upload the image size you want)
Portfolio Slider
Filterable portfolio template

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WPKube’s Ultimate WordPress Mega Bundle Giveaway

by Tom Ewer April 14^th, 2012 Leave a comment

Everyone likes free stuff, right? So whenever I see a good WordPress product giveaway on the web, I always think of you, faithful WPMU reader.

And this particular giveaway from WPKube is rather impressive in scale – with an enormous bundle of prizes from some of the biggest WordPress theme and plugin developers out there, including (but certainly not limited to):

StudioPress
WooThemes
Themify
DesignerThemes

The whole thing is run through Rafflecopter’s rather funky giveaway system, which gives you multiple opportunities to enter (depending upon the actions you take).

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Prosume: A Free Responsive Resume and Portfolio Theme for WordPress

by Sarah Gooding April 10^th, 2012 Leave a comment

Site5 Hosting has a commitment to producing quality WordPress themes for their customers. They have a large collection of themes that anyone can download for free. Prosume is their latest creation, featuring a simple and clean portfolio design. It was designed to be very easy to use so that you can publish your personal resume and portfolio and be online in no time.

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16 Beautiful and Free Responsive WordPress Themes

by Sarah Gooding April 5^th, 2012 14 Responses

So far in 2012 we’ve seen an explosion of responsive WordPress themes. As mobile website traffic continues to grow, website owners are under more pressure to make sure their sites are optimized for any device. It’s absolutely critical if you want to remain competitive. Installing a responsive theme is one of the easiest ways to make sure that your site looks good on desktops and across mobile devices. Check out this list of 16 free responsive WordPress themes we’ve collected to help you get started.
Orion

Download | Demo
Retouch

Download | Demo
Oxygen

Download | Demo
Responsive

Download | Demo
Hatch

Download | Demo
Origin

Download | Demo
Ascetica

Download | Demo
Sundance

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Free WordPress Theme for Selling iPhone Apps

by Sarah Gooding March 20^th, 2012 Leave a comment

When your iPhone app is developed and ready to sell, you don’t want to have to go right back into design and development just to properly market your new baby. Luckily you don’t have to worry about it, because there’s a new WordPress theme available for selling iPhone apps. The iPhone App WordPress Theme is a clean, functional and professionally proven way to market your app. And best of all, it’s free.

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Responsive: A Simple Free WordPress Theme with Tons of Extras

by Sarah Gooding March 19^th, 2012 4 Responses

People are glued to their tablets and mobile phones and if they cannot access your site on the go, you’re not likely to win them back for another visit. Are you ready to update your WordPress site to be compatible with mobile devices? You need a responsive WordPress theme.

Responsive is a clean, adaptive theme that you can use as a base for customizing your website. It’s a new simple WordPress theme that just passed the rigorous standards of the WordPress Theme Directory and yours to pick up for free.

Responsive features:

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Free Responsive Sundance Video Theme for WordPress

by Sarah Gooding March 13^th, 2012 3 Responses

Sundance is a new free WordPress video theme in the WordPress Theme Directory, created by Automattic for WordPress.com and now available for self-hosted WordPress blogs. It features a minimalist design with attention to typography and detail.

The focus of this theme is support for the video post format, including a featured video carousel on the front page. Sundance also comes with built-in widgets, custom background, custom header, custom menus, and a custom link feature for social media pages.

Most importantly, Sundance is a responsive theme, designed to look and work well on mobile devices.

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Introducing AlienWP: A Source for Free and Beautiful Responsive WordPress Themes

by Sarah Gooding March 6^th, 2012 2 Responses

Responsive WordPress themes have been popping up everywhere during the first part of 2012. I’d like to introduce you to a new theme provider that has the art of the minimalist, responsive WordPress theme down to a refined science.

AlienWP was created by Galin Simeonov and he is the sole designer and developer. His themes are clean and elegant and so far all of them are free to download.

These are lightweight, fast themes that are not loaded down by tons of unnecessary options. AlienWP themes are built using the Hybrid Core framework.

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Free WordPress Hosting: Is It Really Worth It?

by Timothy Bowers February 23^rd, 2012 1 Response

Is free WordPress hosting a cheap gimmick or a genuine budget alternative?

As it is, normal WordPress hosting can be very cheap, especially if you have modest requirements for your site. For a few bucks a month, you can get shared hosting with a reliable provider, and this will serve you just fine, in the early days at least.

Even so, merely “cheap” ain’t good enough for some folk. There will always be the austere penny pinchers who want their hosting, like the WordPress software, to cost nothing at all.

How you can host your own WordPress site for free