Zeke 1.0 is a new 3 column, widget-ready Wordpress theme designed by Michael Pollock of SoloStream Webstudio. This theme is built to work with all Wordpress versions 2.1 and above.

Michael has a demo site available here and the theme can also be downloaded from that demo page or by clicking here.

Zeke 1.0 is very easy to install. As usual, simply unzip the download file. That will give you a folder titled Zeke10 which should contain all the Wordpress theme files and then upload this folder to your wp-content/themes blog directory.

A cool feature of this theme is that it has a Featured Articles section which appears above the start of your main posts. To create a Featured Article that looks like the one seen in the picture above, all you have to do is create a post, then create a category called “Featured”, and then place any of your posts into that category. The theme is set up to select and display the most recent Featured Article.

Zeke 1.0 is a very pro-looking Wordpress theme that you could have some fun with.

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Following my last post I have played around with several more themes from the YGoSearch.com site and I am getting to like the variety and quality of the WordPress themes that they make. The latest one I am experimenting with is called YGo Health and it is a 3 column widget ready theme with a couple of additional navigation sections that makes it look superb.

The header blends nicely in the main content area and the text fonts used are well suited to the theme and easily readable. The most striking thing about this theme is it’s use of color which makes it one of the most eye-catching themes I have come across in a while.

So if you are looking for an eye-grabbing theme for your blog it may be worth checking this one out. Btw, did I mention it’s also widget-ready!

Download

The YGo Health theme can be downloaded from here.

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This brand new theme is called YGo Lively and it has just been released today. It is an interesting theme as it looks more like a CMS (Content Management System) type of site when activated.

When installed on your blog the home page resembles a main-stream type of website as the posts are presented in 2 columns in the centre section with a sidebar at each side. This theme definitely feels more like a website than a blog.

YGo Lively , unfortunately, is not widget ready which is a slight disadvantage for quick and easy sidebar setup, but the lack of widget support does not take away from the fact it is a nicely structured theme that is still very configurable. The theme makes great use of bright colors and features a fluid-width design that has been tested in Opera, Mozilla and Internet Explorer up to 1280—1024 resolution and it fits extremely well.

If you are looking for something different for your blog, then this theme may suit you. The left and right columns can be easily adapted to whatever you would like to have in there and overall this theme is definitely worth taking a look at

Download

To download the YGo Lively Theme please visit here. To try it out you can see the demo in action here.

Have fun.

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The popular theme TypoXP Reloaded has recently been updated and the latest 1.1 version is a really accomplished theme with built in support for a lot of popular plugins.

TypoXP Reloaded is a cleanly coded, two and/or three column, fixed width Wordpress theme with valid XHTML. It is also Widget Ready. The theme features both SEO optimization and Google Adsense optimization bulit into the theme which definitely makes the choice of using this theme a whole lot easier,

I believe this theme has to be considered as one of the better Wordpress themes yet released.

So, check out the TypoXP Reloaded theme now. It will be worth it. The page also gives details of the huge range of plugins supported by this theme.

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Newfangled is a new and sleek-looking Wordpress Theme by headsetoptions.org which features a 3 column layout with nice rounded corners on each of the sidebars. It’s a very Web 2.0 looking theme which seems to be an ever-increasing trend with a lot of newer Wordpress themes.

The Newfangled theme is also widget ready which is great for easy configurartion of the left and right sidebar of your blog layout. This theme could make for a nice, all-purpose theme for use with your own blogs or even as a business type site because it features a professional Web 2.0 look and feel. Overall, this is a clean and sleek-looking theme that’s well worth having a look at.

To download the Newfangled Theme please visit; Download. You can also test run the theme here. Have fun!

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Bright Side is a brand new 3 Column, widget ready WordPress theme with a very nice header image.

The theme features a left and right sidebar and has a large white content area with a blue background. The theme has been created by Headsetoptions.org and MandarinMusing.com.

Also, I really like the page navigation on the upper right of this theme and the way the search box has been hard coded into the header. Very nice!

Overall, Bright Side is a very neat and clean-looking Wordpress theme that can easily be adapted to suit your own blog, or even just using the theme as it is.

To download this and more themes by Mandarin Musing please visit here.

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TechPress is a great-looking 3 column Wordpress theme by WpDesigner.com. It is inspired by a number of tech blog designs, such as TechCrunch and Engadget. The theme is awesome as it looks great, and it is Sidebar Widget Ready as well!

This theme features a non-graphic based header which is a nice change. I always prefer these narrow header blog themes the best anyway. They just make more room available to the important stuff… the Text! Also in the header is the page navigation bar which is classy-looking and there is nice Web 2.0 feel to the whole theme. Overall, TechPress is a great-looking new theme from WpDesigner.com.

Download: TechPress Theme

It’s well worth taking a look at all of the WpDesigner.com website. There are a lot of nice themes there.

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The Redoable 1.1 Theme is a brand new theme by Dean J Robinson that is Wordpress 2.1 compatible and is based on the great K2 theme. It supports sidebar widgets, has built in support for a dozen or more popular plugins and it also has an easy to use admin interface to help configure the theme to suit your needs.

Some of the other new features included in the Redoable 1.1 Theme are; Livesearch built in, a choice of two different single post layouts, and a dynamic style preview feature which allows you to change between dark and light colour schemes directly from the admin area. This is a complete and very usable theme. With all the built in functionality that this theme has, and the extra functionally that the extra plugins give it, I’m sure you will enjoy this theme.

Plugins Supported

The following plugins are supported by Redoable and all are highly recommended. All you have to do is download them, add them to your plugins folder and then activate them.

• Alex Kings Articles v1.1
• Brians Latest Comments v1.5.10
• Extended Live Archives v0.10beta-r18
• Google Analytics Plugin v1.9
• Gregarious v1.5.2 and v2 beta
• Noteworthy v1.0
• Random Quotes v1.3
• Rechuked Buttons v1.0
• Related Posts v2.04
• Share This v1.4
• Ultimate Tag Warrior v3.1415926
• Ultimate Category Cloud v2
• Word Count v0.01
• WP-PostRatings v1.04
• WP-PostViews v1.1
• iMP Download Manager v1.2 - keeps track of downloads from your site.
• Quoter v1.1
• Spam Karma 2
• wp-recent-links v2.0
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Installation

Download the zip file. Extract and upload the Reodable 1.1 folder to your wp-content/themes folder on your web server. Go to the presentation section in your admin, and select Redoable 1.1. Set your options in the theme options panel. Enjoy.

For further details about Redoable visit the Redoable homepage

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Redoable 1.1 Theme for Wordpess

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A new theme called Anaconda has recently been released and it is perhaps the most complete theme design that I have come across in a while.

Anaconda is a flexible, 3 column Wordpress theme which is designed entirely using CSS. The middle column and left sidebar are flexible and adjusts to browser size. The theme is also SEO optimized! It seems my search for a good CSS based, 3 column WordPress theme is finally over!

Plugins Supported

Anaconda has inbuilt support for 15 popular WordPress plugins out of the box. The theme is designed to work perfectly with all these plugins;

Widgets Supported

Anaconda is also 100% widget ready and provides 17 builtin WordPress widgets for you to extensively customize your site without writing or modifying a single line of code! The following widgets are integrated into the Anaconda theme directly, or are available as a separate plugin/widget;

• About Widget (built-in)
• Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Pro (Plugin & Widget)
• Archive Widget (built-in)
• Aside Widget (built-in)
• Calendar Widget (built-in)
• Categories Widget (built-in)
• Delicious Widget (built-in)
• Flickr Widget (built-in)
• Links Widget (built-in)
• Meta Widget (built-in)
• Pages Widget (built-in)
• Recent Comments Widget (built-in)
• Recent Posts Widget (built-in)
• Related Posts Widget (built-in)
• RSS Widget (built-in)
• Search Widget (built-in)
• Tag Cloud Widget (built-in; requires Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin)
• Text Widget (built-in) - You can create upto 9 text widgets to include your custom text in sidebar.
• Google Search Widget (comes with widget plugin)
• Del.icio.us Widget

You can place any of the above onto one of your sidebars by simply dragging and dropping them from your Sidebar Widgets control panel under the Presentation menu.

Configuration

The Anaconda Theme will work, without any configuration, right out of the box. However, it has been designed to be extensively customizable for those who need it. Customizations can be easily done using the Anaconda Options control panel in the Presentation theme menu. The theme has built-in support for inline and sidebar asides. It also supports Ajax commenting, Live search, fixed width layout if required.

Conclusion & Download

This has to be one of the best themes I have seen this year and it is a likely contender to replace the current theme of this blog!

To download the Anaconda, Ultimate 3 Column Wordpress Theme please visit here;

Happy New Year!!!!!!

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Pilkster has just released a new theme called SEO Adsense Ready for Wordpress. This theme follows on from the last post which featured the Adsense Ready Theme which was also created by Pilkster.

This new theme features a full Adsense integration and also generates search engine friendly web pages! At first glance the theme may look a little basic as there are no header images or any other kind of graphics. But, this theme is focused on being search engine friendly and you have to remember that using images has very little SEO benefit!

Search Engine Friendly Webpages

The theme implements several search engine optimization (SEO) techniques, such as;

• the ‘title’ and ‘h1′ tags contain the most relevant information
• on a post page, the post title is used,
• on a category the category title is used… etc.

This should give Search Engines a better understanding of your page, and so improve your ranking for that page. Also, instead of your websites name (eg. BlogCarta.com) being used in every result, the page title or category title will be used. This is a much more useful and appealing result for search engines.

Integrated Adsense Configuration

Adsense integration includes 3 ad units per page and 1 link unit, the maximum Google allows. The theme also includes Adsense for Search instead of the standard Wordpress search. The only customization required is to change the adsense pub-id number in the following files;

• footer.php - ( 728×90 Ad Unit )
• header.php - ( 728×15 Link Unit )
• searchform.php - ( Adsense for Search )
• sidebar.php - ( 336×280 Ad Unit ) and ( 160×600 Ad Unit )

Download

This is another great theme by pilkster as it can be used for an instant seo friendly, adsense website or as the basic building block for a whole new website design.

To download the SEO Adsense Wordpress Theme visit here.

Happy Xmas !!!!

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