Amadeus is a new Widget Ready WordPress Theme which has just been released by headsetoptions.org. It is a 2 Column theme with an eye-pleasing green and white color scheme.

An added bonus with this theme is the fact that it is Adsense ready and it has a very professional look and feel about it. The theme is a fixed width one which can be good thing when it comes to heavily configuring your blog later.

Amadeus also has a very Web 2.0 professional look to it with the cool looking RSS and Technorati icons and crisp text fonts.

Installation Info

• Upload the Amadeus theme to your Wordpress themes folder.
• Upload the supplied plugin files to your plugins folder.
• Activate plugins
• Activate theme

Download

To download the Amadeus Wordpress theme please visit here.

On the whole, Amadeus is a clean, professional theme which is Google Adsense ready and well worth considering for your blog. Hmmm, come to think of it, I’m kinda tempted to change mine to this one as well.

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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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I just came across a nice new plugin, via the JohnTP.com blog, for adding Related Posts onto your Feed. The Related Posts (or Entries) are automatically added to your full text RSS feed. So now people that use Feed readers will now see a list of related posts just below your normal feed, just like they would see if they were visiting your actual website, and all just by activating this cool WordPress plugin!

Note: The plugin requires that you have the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin or the Wasabi Related Posts plugin installed and activated.

This new plugin is being developed by Solo Technology, and looks set to be an instant hit. There are numerous advantages to having related posts appearing within your RSS feed. It will certainly help you to get your feed readers to visit your blog more often, and almost definitely increase your blog pageviews. Future versions of this plugin are sure to enhance your RSS feed further. It is well worth getting ahead of the pack on this one and checking out this plugin.

Download

The Add Related Posts To Your Feed plugin can be downloaded here.

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The PayPal Donate Plugin is a nice WordPress plugin which can be used to insert a PayPal Donate Button in your WordPress sidebar without you needing to mess with any HTML code. It allows visitors of your site to make a donation or contribution via PayPal, the most popular and largest online payment processing service.

PayPal Donate Plugin

The PayPal Donate Plugin adds a small PayPal Donation form on your sidebar. In order to use this plugin with Widget-Ready Wordpress Themes, you will need to download the PayPal Donate Widget also. The settings for this plugin can be changed via your blog options page.

How To Install The PayPal Donate Plugin & Widget

• Download PayPal Donate Plugin for WordPress.
• Download PayPal Donate Widget
• Extract the Plugin zip file into your wp-content/plugins/ folder
• Extract The Widget zip and upload paypalwidget.php to your /wp-content/plugins/widget/ directory
• Activate the plugin from inside WordPress (Plugins tab).
• Enter your details in the Options page (make sure you do this)
• Drag the PayPal Donate Support widget to your sidebar from inside Themes/Sidebar Widgets
• Click the Widget configuration icon and enter a title and backlink option.

Options Page Settings

• PayPal Email Address (Required)
• Currency
• Donation Reference
• Return URL
• Cancelled URL
• Choice of buttons (the ones in use by PayPal)

Plugin Requirements

• PayPal account.
• WordPress 2.0+
• WordPress Sidebar Widgets Plugin.
• PayPal Donate Plugin for WordPress.

Download

• PayPal Donate Plugin
• PayPal Donate Widget

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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

Download

Redoable 1.1 Theme for Wordpess

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If you would like to show video on your blog in the style of Google Video or YouTube then the new Wordpress plugin WordTube by Alex Rabe is for you. Alex has done a great job in creating this plugin as it makes the process of adding and managing media files such as Videos, MP3s and even pictures very easy. This plugin can transform your blog into a complete Media Center if you wanted to!

WordTube supports the following;

• streaming Video formats .flv and .swf,
• sound files such as MP3
• and also JPG, GIF or PNG picture files.

With WordTube activated in your plugins admin area, you simply insert the tag [MEDIA=ID] into your blog to have it displayed. You can also add a playlist of files when you use the [MYPLAYLIST] tag. You don’t need to change the WYSIWYG mode or have special HTML knowledge to insert such a tag. You can show a single media file (i.e. a flv video) or a playlist of all your media files.

How To Encode A Flash Video

There are several ways to encode your videos so that the can be streamed using the WordTube plugin. You can use the Macromedia (now Adobe) Flash Video Encoder (included in the Stanard installation) or the free version of RIVA FLV Encoder. It’s really easy to encode your Mpeg,Avi or whatever into a flash video (the FLV format).

Installation

Unpack the zip file and upload the folder to your Wordpress plugins folder. You will also need the free (for personal use) Flash Media Player plugin from Jeroen Wijering. Download the player from the website and upload the file mediaplayer.swf into the WordTube plugin folder. If you would like to have the Equalizer displayed for MP3s then download the Flash MP3 Player as well. The plugins can now be activated.

Uploading Media Files

You can upload your media files via the Manage->Media Center Upload form or you can manually upload to your blog and select the URL to the file. The file you want to play doesn’t need to be on your server. Note for streaming videos; The Flash player will not show a thumbnail preview so you will need to upload a image thumbnail file. After uploading you can insert the tag [MEDIA=ID] or you show the playlist with the tag [MYPLAYLIST] in your blog.

Download

To have your blog transformed into a very flexible Media Center using the WordTube Wordpress plugin please visit the following sites to download the required plugins;

• WordTube Plugin by Alex Rabe.
• Flash Media Player and Flash MP3 Player by Jeroen Wijering

Have Fun!!

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Hoofei V4 is an excellent looking two column Wordpress theme with a blue, green and white color scheme. It is a simple and clear theme. If you are thinking of changing your own theme, this one is well worth looking at.

A live demo can be seen at www.hoofei.com

This is Hoofei’s 4th wordpress theme and they just keep getting better and better. The only slight drawback with this theme is the fact that this theme is not widget-ready. However, when a theme looks this good, it is easy to overcome this by getting creative with the clearly written sidebar.php code.

Installation

As usual, simply extract the hoofeiv4.zip file to your theme directory, wp-content/themes/. Then log in your wordpress Administration Panel and activate the theme.

Integrated Plugins

WP-PageNavi - Hoefei has integrated the WP-PageNavi Plugin by Lester Chan into this theme so you don’t need to download and install it. And don’t worry it will be wrong if you have installed this plugin before, I have renamed the function in plugin code. )

Required Plugins

Gravatar 2 - This is an updated version of the original Gravatars plugin by Skippy. Important: You must install this plugin for this theme.

Conculsion

An excellent and fast loading theme worthy of gracing your blog. To download please visit the Hoofei Version 4 Theme page. Have fun!

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