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Access to important files on the go is a must-have for people who work on multiple computers and devices. Dropbox makes storing and sharing your files easy and that is why it’s one of the fastest-growing free services on the web. The Dropbox service is such an important part of its users’ workflow that Dropbox service-related plugins for WordPress are popping up everywhere. Check out a few creative ways to integrate your WordPress site with your Dropbox account.
Dropbox CDN
This week WP Charity released a couple of free themes, both of which are Twenty Eleven child themes.
The first theme is called Silver and it includes custom and random images for the header, custom drop-down menus, author info, two columns, threaded comments, and custom backgrounds.
Paper is the second theme. It’s a bit more simple, as it doesn’t include the large header image that you usually expect from Twenty Eleven.
WordPress sites are always in need of a good contact form. Are you looking for a feedback/contact form that works, right out of the box, with attractive aesthetics and a simple yet full-featured form? Look no further than the free Usernoise Modal Feedback Contact Form plugin.
Why Usernoise?
The WordPress admin bar – love it, hate it, it’s here to stay. You could, of course, hide it, but why do that when you can do so much with it and use it your way? The Custom Admin Bar plugin from WPMU DEV is a free plugin that lets you customize your admin bar – no code, no hacks, just transforming your admin bar to make it your own.
We use it at Edublogs to brand the admin bar, and to give our network users quick access to the links that we think that they will need. Check it out:
Instant WordPress is a complete standalone, portable WordPress development environment. It turns any Windows machine into a WordPress development server and can even run from a USB key. Yes, it’s that portable!
Oliver Dale of WP Lift and Kooc Media has released his first free WordPress Theme and it’s certainly a goodun. Busby is a clean, beautifully designed theme that is perfect for personal blogging. It’s got its own options panel using the UpThemes Framework. As it’s the first release of the theme he’s requesting that people report bugs so that he can then upload to the WordPress respository.
Features
2 Column Personal Blog Theme
Theme Options Panel
RSS Subscriber number displayed using FeedBurner
Twitter, RSS and Facebook icons
Featured Post Slider
Built-in SEO Options
Import / Export Settings
As far as WordPress freebies go, this is a big one. ThemeShock is offering a download that they’ve dubbed “The Best Free Bundle Ever” and wow is it packed full of useful goodies for your websites.
Here’s what’s inside the bundle:
10 top quality wordpress themes with hundreds of features
An amazing icon set with 750 high quality icons
And tons of high quality design elements and vectors
In this bundle you’ll find some unique free themes that you may not have seen before. Here’s a screenshot of the Retro Name theme:
The new PressWork framework for WordPress officially launched at WordCamp Montreal. Last week I wrote a little preview of the new HTML5 framework, which is unique in that it allows you to change your site’s layout and design in a live preview environment.
Now that PressWork has launched we’ve got more information and details about what they will be offering.
Check out the new PressWork demo video:
Why was PressWork Created?
Brendan Sera-Shriar and c.bavota created PressWork to be an approachable framework for WordPress users of all experience levels. In their own words:
Obox is two years old – happy birthday! To celebrate they are giving away a free WordPress tumblog theme. It’s a conversion from a tumblog template into a tumblog WordPress theme, put together by one of the Obox designers. It uses the WooThemes Tumblog plugin to make a beautiful tumblog for your personal blogging site.
Check it out!
Features
Custom Logo uploader
Favicon uploader
Link, header and footer color selectors
Home page post count setting
Custom footer text
Site analytics input
Social sharing options
Advertisement widget
As well as having lots of free features, you can upgrade Casual to take advantage of Premium features as well
Typography manager
Advertising manager
SEO options
Automatic updates
There have been some mutterings from people around the WordPress-o-sphere complaining about the new UI that’s appearing with WordPress 3.2. I don’t have particularly strong feelings about the design – which is perhaps what bothers me. I think I’d prefer to either love it or hate it.
Anyway, it is possible to play around with your WordPress Admin area. In fact, there is a whole page in the codex dedicated to creating admin themes. There are two main ways to do this:
