iThemes.com has just released the first of its free, professionally designed WordPress themes to the WP community!

The 2 themes released are both called iThemes Web 2.0, and the reason is that this theme comes in two flavors, either a 2-column or a 3-column design. The really great part is that both of these themes are widget-ready and compatible with the latest version of WordPress (2.3.2).

Theme Features

• Great Web 2.0 look and feel
• Text header bar for easy editing
• Widget ready sidebars

Installation

iThemes.com have produced a nice video tutorial to show you how upload and activate a WordPress theme. A great idea for those not too familiar with doing this.

Download

The iThemes Web 2.0 themes can be downloaded from here. Check it out!

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Caroline Middlebrook has just released a free ebook on how you can develop money-making niche sites with WordPress. The ebook is completely free and is available for instant download on Caroline’s WordPress Niche Sites webpage.

The ebook is very well put together and all 41 pages are jammed with useful information regarding configuration, setting up new WordPress blogs, monetizing your blog and lots more.

So if you’re ever wondering about generating income from your blog or niche site, it is definitely a book thats worth taking a look at.

You can download your free WordPress ebook here;

http://www.caroline-middlebrook.com/blog/niche-sites-wp/

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Chromatic Sites have just announced a brand new WordPress Themes community website which features only professionally made WordPress themes. You can browse over a small collection of these professional themes right now at their Professional WordPress Themes website. Remember these are still free, high-quality WordPress Themes! Well worth a look.

It is worth mentioning that only themes that satisfy strict criteria will appear on this website. All of the WordPress themes published there will be inspected for;

• W3C validation,
• quality of design,
• bugs,
• profanity

If a theme passes all 4 requirements then it will be published on the Professional WordPress Themes website. This will ensure WordPress theme lovers will get high-quality, bug-free, standards compliant WordPress themes made available to them. The site is deliberately meant to look like the original themes.wordpress.net website but to have a similar website dedicated to quality WordPress Themes is a terrific idea.

Remember, this site is brand new and so are starting from scratch. There are just a few themes uploaded at the moment. So if you are a theme maker, please do upload to this new site.

You can check them out now by visiting the Professional WordPress Themes website.

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