WooThemes review of the new "Unite" WP Theme by WooThemes

Unite is the perfect personal blog, or microblogging theme, for unifying all the conversation & interaction on your blog. Featuring a fancy pants & unique commenting system, Unite aims to increase reader interaction and make your blog more fun & more valuable.

All WooThemes Come with their own group of special features that make them unique and exciting. Click on this link to check out Woo Themes great selection.

Here is a partial list of the WooThemes "Unite" WP Theme Special Features:

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  Works like Tumblr – OK This is a really great feature:

  Tumblr is an impressive & very popular platform and now you can replicate that functionality & awesomeness on your WordPress-powered tumblogging site.

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  Fancy AJAX Commenting –

• FYI this will help with SEO even though WooThemes does not mention that (Getting your readers posting comments about your blog and its content is generating free, keyword rich content for your site. That Rocks and Google and the other search engines love it)

  Unite includes a fancy AJAX commenting module to improve the interaction on your blog. Get your readers interacting with both you and other readers to unify one, massive conversation.

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  More Posts (AJAX Load)

  Scroll down to the bottom of the page and simply click the "More Posts" button to show you more posts without having to reload the page. Sweet!

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  Advanced QuickPress

  Post to your tumblog from your dashboard, using the amazing new AJAX-powered & WooThemes-exclusive QuickPress functionality that is bundled with this theme.

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  Extensive Multimedia Support

  Posting a variety of multimedia elements (images, video, audio, quotes, notes & links) is super-easy to do and the theme handles all of the different "post types" automagically.

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  Custom Widgets

  The theme has 3 widgetized areas in sidebar and also some extra Woo custom widgets (Flickr, Twitter, Adspace, Search).

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  Alternative Styles

  13 delicious colour schemes to choose from, and possible to change color of links and buttons in options panel. And this is SO NICE! Give your theme a unique look that brands it! Also a great way to tie multiple related sites together while looking different then all the others out there.

And here are a few of the exclusive WooThemes features:

Features

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  Woo Custom Navigation

  NEW! Our newly released Woo Custom Navigation is included in this theme, allowing you full customization over how your navigation should be structured in the theme!

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  Built-in SEO options

  NEW! All our themes now include SEO options to help propel your site's search engine ranking.

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  WooFramework2

  Last but not least, the highly functional WooFramework2 with updated options panel. The most easy to use theme backend available!

Along with this Great Woo Themes Special features come all the Standard WooThemes features. Features that make Woo Themes what it is known for< Flexible, easy to use, professional themes that are a cut above everything else out there.

Standard WooThemes Features

These features are just as special as the one's above, but you'll find these standard within most of our wide range of themes:

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• A cleaner more professional design (Some of them are just stunning)
• Control panels that let you customize the look and feal by just clicking options
• The ability to insert Advertisements and other widgets in a variety of ways
• An easy to use, well thought out set of administration Tools

With A free Theme you Don't have the cost BUT:

• If you are satisfied with the way they look "out of  then tthe box" and you don't have the need to change the header and side bars hey might be a good choice for you.
• Even if they have plenty of options, they are not as easy to configure as in the professional Themes (That has been my experience)
• The Admin panels are weaker and you have to get into the code more often if you want to change it around.
• There are less options available UNLESS you chose an open source or other Free WP Theme designed to be modified and configured but again, they require more coding then simple configuration and more time.

• For example if your blog is about dogs:
• is it a Magazine about Dogs? If so then you should be looking at Magazine Themes.
• if it is really a Blog that focuses on Dog pictures then you should select a Photographers Theme
• and if it is really about Blogging about you and your dog then you should select a Theme that focuses on the blog itself

• what is the layout of your blog – Blog  articles to the left with archives, ads, etc on the right? Or Blog in the middle with Ads and other features on either side, etc. Does it need a static page for the landing page (Sales sites will do this frequently. Or if it is a site with a consistant message tha tyou want to get across to everyone who goes there) Or built in Adsenese? etc.
• what colors will suit your blog (not all blogs are available in all colors and unless you want to modify the code it is best to find one with the color combo you want)
• What "Extra" Features do you need? A graphic header that goes across the width of the page? Many of the WP THemes available only allow for a verbal header or a t best a header of a given size. Same is true for a footer.
• What about special features for photograph albums etc?.

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Free Theme downloads and Information

Click on this link to read our Top 10 Free WP Themes articles (with free downloads)

Background Information

This is a review of our top 10 favorite WordPress Themes. They are all available for installation directly out of your wordpress Admin panel.

You should use whatever WP Theme is the best choice for your Website Niche, the content and the audience that you have in mind. If The best one for your needs is a free WP Theme then Great! and if it is a professional WP Theme that you have to buy, then buy it. The Theme you use and Keyword Software are two critical areas that I think people should NOT be cutting corners on as they are the foundation of your website or blog!! If you ae new to blogging or Wordpress here is a link to a great "wordpress how to get started guide"

The latest two Professional WP Themes that I have purchased and used are:

• The Magnet WP theme by WPZoom Click here to visit WPZOOM. and
• The Gazette WP Theme by WooThemes  Click here to see more on the Gazette Edition by WooThemes

But I also regularly use Free WP Themes.

• The Latest FREE WP Theme that I used was Suffusion by Aquoid Themes

If you are going to use Free WP Themes Here are a few suggestions:

• I highly suggest you just use one of the 1000+ Free WP Themes that are available directly thru wordpress.
• Use a Free Theme that has at least 500 uploads (all the bugs are worked out AND additional user requested features have usually been added making it much more customizable).
• Upload the theme from your Admin Panel in your wordpress website (hard to screw it up that way and you can fall back to your previous theme just by clicking on it in the Appearance Tab, Themes sub tab of your admin panel.
• or use the search for a Free WP Theme using the "Add Theme" feature in the Admin Panel, (Appearance tab, Add New Themes). It has the ability to search by some basic criteria

Consider one of the Free WordPress Themes listed below in our Top 10 list. While the best themes are always judgmental things these themes were selected based upon:

1. Number of times they have been downloaded
2. Support availability,
3. Design look and feel
4. Features and flexibility
5. Recently Updated
6. Star Rating

Our TOP 10 Free WP Themes from the Wordpress Library

These free WP Themes are all available for download  by clicking on the link below the picture.

There are also instrutions for downloading them from wordpress at the end of this article.

1) Atahualpa by Bytesforall

Click here for the Atahualpa Free Wordpress Theme Download

Hard not to like this free WP Theme and 450,000 downloads say a lot of other people like it too! The amount of options and flexibility in this free WP Theme may actually be too much for the average blogger. Build your own unique, professional and browser-safe WordPress Theme: 1-5 columns, fluid or fixed width, rotating header images and 2 dozen option pages.

Average Rating 4.9 stars

Current Version: 3.4.6 Updated 02/16/2010

Downloaded 450,000 times

Tags: translation-ready, sticky-post, threaded-comments, theme-options, custom-header, custom-colors, flexible-width, one-column, white

2) Mystique by Digitalnature

Click here for the Mystique Free Wordpress Theme Download

Just a really nice clean yet bold design. It lends itself  to the reader and that goes a long way towards people liking your blog. It has been downloaded over 200,000 times and is regularly updated. It is also a Feature-packed Free WP Theme with a solid design. Some of its features include 4 theme widgets, page templates for different layout styles and an advanced interface for the theme settings… Designed by digitalnature.

Average Rating 4.5 Stars

Current Version is 2.3.1 Updated on May 10, 2010

Downloaded 206,000 times!!!

Tags: translation-ready, threaded-comments, theme-options, flexible-width, one-column, white, light, custom-header, editor-style

3) Arjuna X by Sebastian RS

Click here for the Arjuna x Free Wordpress Theme Download

This is one of my personal favorite Free WP Themes from an aesthetics standpoint. I also like that it has 4 widget bars. Arjuna stands for elegance, accessibility, and attention to detail. We have put a great deal in optimizing its ins and outs. Translation ready, SEO focused, IE6-8, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera compatibility, support for threaded comments, four widget bars, flexible sidebar, and more. It can be customized via the admin panel.

Average Rating 4 stars

Current Version: 1.3.8 Updated April 27^th

Downloaded 126,000 times

Tags: black, threaded-comments, translation-ready, theme-options, light, silver lite

4) Constructor by Antonshevchuk

Click here for the Constructor Free Wordpress Theme Download

We like this Free WP Theme because it is so versatile. I am very big on Wordpress Themes that are designed to let you customize them (unless you want to get into the code to make changes which the average person can’t do) and this one has a lot of flexibility built in to it. Wordpress Constructor Theme, it's many-in-one theme (six layouts, configured colors, fonts and slideshow, widget ready). Build your own theme on settings page. For Wordpress version 2.8+ (include 3.0)

Average Rating 4 stars

Current Version: 1.0 Updated 05/07/2010

Downloaded 134,000 times

Tags:theme-options, custom-header, custom-colors, threaded-comments, one

5) MyMag by iWebex

Click Here for the Mymag Free Wordpress Theme Download

This is one of the Free WP Themes in the popular Magazine style. It is not as bold or as Flexible as a few of the Professional Magazine Themes like the Yamidoo magazine theme by WPZOOM but it is still really nice. MyMag is a Wordpress Magazine Theme with 2-3 Columns, lovely Javascript effects such as Slideshow, Article Sliders, Newsticker, Image Mouseover Effects, Dropdown Menu and many more. myMag is offers 3 widget-ready sidebars, a big option set with custom logo uploader, 3 colour schemes, display options, advertising options and much more! Uses post-thumbnails to let you upload pictures very easy.

Average Rating 4 stars

Current Version: 1.0.6 Updated 04/29/2010

Downloaded 13,974 times

Tags:threaded-comments, micro formats, sticky-post, custom-header, custom-colors, photo blogging, editor-style, front-page-post-form, theme-options, one-column

6)  WP Creativix by iwebix

Click here for the Creativix Free Wordpress Theme Download

WP-Creativix is a beautiful business & portfolio Wordpress Theme. It has unlimited variations due to the possibility to define a custom color code as highlight color.

Average Rating 4 stars

Current Version: 1.5.3 Updated 04/26/2010

Downloaded 40,816 times

Tags:micro formats, sticky-post, custom-header, custom-colors, photo blogging, front-page-post-form, theme-options, light, purple, silver, white

7) Suffussion by Sayontan

Click here for the Suffusion Free Wordpress Theme Download

Suffusion is one of the Free WP Themes that I have recently used myself. It is a bold design, almost the inverse of the WP-Creativix design above. One note is be sure this is what you want. While the colors can be changes (using the orange main theme color is dramatic) it still is heavy and I am second thinking my use of it for the website I am using it on. But it is one of those elegant browser-safe free wp themes with a power-packed set of options. It has 8 widget areas, one-column, two-column and three-column fixed-width formats, 10 pre-defined templates, 16 pre-defined color schemes (green, red, orange, purple, 2 shades of blue and 2 shades of gray, each on light and dark backgrounds), two customizable multi-level drop-down menus for pages, categories and links, featured posts, a magazine layout, a customizable tabbed sidebar, widgets for Twitter, Social Networks and Google Translator, threaded comments, translations in many languages and RTL language support..

Average Rating 5 stars

Current Version: 3.4.8 Updated 04/29/2010

Downloaded 113,111 times

Tags: rtl-language-support, sticky-post, translation-ready, threaded-comments, custom-header, custom-colors, one-column, dark, light, black, white, purple, orange, red, silver, blue, green, theme-options

Producer by Asmedia

Click here for the Producer Free Wordpress Theme Download

Producer is another one of those highly flexible free WP themes and in reality I think it is one of the best in terms of flexibility while retaining a keen sense of style that can be used to build a standard blog with 4 layout options (includes a photo slideshow layout) or a magazine style blog with 3 static layout options and the ability to build your own widgets based layout. 6 possible configurations for left and right sidebars. Ability to hide one or both sidebars on 404, index, search results, single post, and static pages. Includes page templates for additional layout options. Re-arrange header section items ( logo/slogan row, horizontal menu row, search bar row, hidden leader board row). 10 featured category slots available. Sticky posts, feedburner, youtube… Producer provides an attractive design out of the box. For even greater flexibility use the CSS styling tool (not included) to create a completely new and unique look for your site without editing a single line of code.

Average Rating 5 stars

Current Version: 2.1.9.4 Updated 05/03/2010

Downloaded 33,965 times

Tags: photoblogging, sticky-post, theme-options, one-column, light, dark, silver, black, white, red

9) Comment Central by frankschrijvers

Click here for the Comment Central Free Wordpress Theme Download

This is a very simple Theme Format. While these styles of WP Themes do not fit my personal needs they are great when really what you want to do is have a blog and communicate out to people. I have seen this theme used by a lady who lives 10 miles from anyplace and has a hobby farm. Her blog is enjoyable to read and you stay focused on what she has to say and what new pictures she posts. High quality Wordpress theme. Colorful, grunge, and stylish theme. two columns, left sidebar dropdown menu and widget-ready.

Average Rating 4 stars

Current Version: 1.2.5 Updated 03/19/2010

Downloaded 71,005 times

Tags:yellow, white, green

10)

LightWord by andreiluca

Click here for the Lightword Free Wordpress Theme Download

In the arena of Free WP Themes this is a simply clever theme with two or three columns, adsense support, fixed-width, widget-ready and threaded comments. Compatible with Wordpress 2.8+ (including 2.9.x), valid XHTML & CSS. Cufon text replacement is back!

Average rating: 4.5 Stars

Current Version: 1.9.9.3 Last Updated: 2010-04-29

Downloaded: 211,000 times

Tags: custom-header, threaded-comments, translation-ready, theme-options, light

You can also download these free themes from within your wordpress Admin panel by:

1) Simply going to the Appearence tab about 6 tabs down the left column and

2) Clicking on Themes.

3) This brings up the WP Themes management console within your admin panel.

4) now just click on the round "Add" button.

5) This will bring up a search screen that you can enter the Theme name in and then click on the "Search"  button.

6) This will pull up any WP Themes with the name you entered.

7) You can then just click on "Install" to install the WP Theme!

Don't worry, you can always go back to your old Theme by  installing it and trying again! Wordpress does not change your data when you install a theme. So you can try out 3 or 4 different free wp themes going from one to another and back without damaging your website.

These Themes can also be downloaded from the WordPress site itself  by clicking this link

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WPZOOM’S EVERTIS MAGAZINE WP THEMES REVIEW

The Evertis Magazine Theme is an excellent Theme with a professional Look, Clean lines and appealing modular presentation.

If you are looking at WP Themes For a Magazine or Blog you really can’t go wrong with this WPZOOM WP Theme.

Here is a pretty Straight Forward view of the core Evertis Magazine WPZOOM WP Themes functionality that is at the heart of this WordPress Theme. i

Special Features Found in the Evertis Magazine WP Themes include:

Featured Slider

This is a pretty cool slider in that you are seeing pages that people can click on.

It is very easy to set up and modify. One of the best sliders I have seen. The control panel for the slider is shown in the screen shot at the end of the article. Nice.

Highlighting Widget

This widget lets you highlight various things on your page such as an Optin tag

or a RSS Feed button, etc. Its these little things that WPZOOM does so well. Put them all together

and you end up with wp themes that create a website  that just stands out from the rest, is easier to manage and easier  for your readers to navigate.

A "Flickr Photos" Widget

This widget is especially desinged for displaying photographs. Nice to have.

Drop Down Menus For Categories and Subcategories

This is actually a big one for me. A lot of Themes out there do NOT have this feature, especially the free WP THemes. And while there are WP Plugins that can add some of this functionality I find that they often do not work with specific themes at all. A real pain. So getting this done right and included is a great thing to have.

Built In Widgets, A Theme Options Panel and Excellent  Theme Control Panels

I lumped all these together. I really Like WPZOOMs WP Themes control panels for managing the Theme> I have included Scree Shots of one of  them at the end of this article but in a nutshell they allow you to add and control banner ads a lot cleaner then pasting htnl code into txt widgets on the side bar,

Basic Functionality Included

• Template for Full Width Pages (This is a real nice to have when you need it. )
• Threaded Comments
• Support for WordPress 2.9+
• Widgetized Sidebar & Footer
• Post Thumnails (they do this well. I have a pain with this on some of my non WPZOOM WP Themes).
• Compatible with all modern browsers
• Unique Theme Options Admin Panel
• Featured Slider on Homepage
• Cufon font replacement integrated
• Drop-Down Menu for Pages and Categories
• Pages & Categories Menu Excluder
• Support for Google Analytics & Feedburner
• Banner management system (Another feature that I now consider reaquired on any WP Theme I use)
• Valid XHTML & CSS Code

Here is an example of one of the Evertis Magazine Theme’s control Panels

One thing I have always liked about the WPZOOM WP Themes is that they have clear, concise and easy to use control panels. They don’t over complicate it and you are not left to guess and experiment for days trying to get a feature to work right.

At the end of the day you want to get your blog looking the way you want it to quickly and easily.

• You want to be able to focus on the  content that keep syour readers coming back.
• And maybe on monetizing your blog and making some money.
• You don’t want to be wasting your time fighting the theme.

That is why WPZOOM WP Themes Rock.

And yes I have purchased and used their themes. And they are a personal favorite WP Theme company of mine.

You only see Two WP Themes companies advertised on this website because I only advertise those products that I believe are good.
WPZOOM Themes are great.

From the WPZOOM Website we get the following list of Questions and Answers that may address bassic questions that you may have on theitr WP Themes:

General Questions

1. What is WordPress.

WordPress is an open source blog publishing application powered by PHP and MySQL which can also be used for basic content management. It has many features including a user-friendly workflow, a rich plugin architecture, and an advanced templating system.

2. What is a WordPress Theme?

A WordPress theme (template) is a ready-to-use design for your WordPress web-site. It does not affect/change the data on your web-site, just the way it is presented to your visitors.

3. What are the differences between a Free and a Premium Theme?

There are hundreds (if not thousands) of free themes for WordPress, most of these free wp themes  however are of poor quality and with no support from the developer/designer of the theme.
Going for a Premium Theme means that you get a better one, in terms of both design and functionality, as well as (in most cases) support from the developer.

4. Why should I choose WPZOOM Themes?

WPZOOM offers Premium Themes of great quality as well as unlimited support, and all this for very moderate prices.

Pre-Sale Questions

1. What are the differences between Single and Developer Licenses?

When buying a Developer’s License, you will also receive the .psd source files used in the development of the theme (where available).
Using these source files it will be a lot easier customizing our themes.

2. What is the PSD file, and why do I need it?

A .psd file is a source file for Photoshop, a graphic editor that is used by most web designers.
You will (usually) need these files if you want to customize your theme: change the logo, change some graphic elements, etc.

3. What payment methods do you accept?

At the moment we accept PayPal as well as all major Credit Cards.

4. Can I buy now a Single license, and then upgrade to the Developers?

Yes you can by paying the difference between these two licenses. Contact us directly for more details.

5. I’ve purchased one of your themes with an eCheck, and I haven’t received any download link.

It takes from 2 to 5 days for an eCheck to be cleared. The download link will be sent as soon as the check will be cleared.

6. How I will get the theme after making the payment?

After successfully buying a theme you will be automatically redirect to the download page.
The same download link will be sent to you via e-mail.

7. Can I modify/customize theme to fit my websites personal needs?

Yes, you are free to change anything you want in the theme like images, colors, fonts, layout and anything else related to the design of the themes can be changed or modified.

8. Can I translate a theme?

Yes you can. However, please be advised that you are not allowed to re-sell or re-distribute our themes, even a translated version of the theme.

Post-Sale Questions

1. How often are your themes updated?

Each time a new version of WordPress is released, we check our themes compatibility with this version, and we update them if this is required, so we can maintain this compatibility. Also we update our themes any time we discover a bug or a new feature has been added to the theme.
All updates and new versions of our themes will be sent for free of charge for existing customers.

2. My download link expired! How can I get another one?

If you want to download theme you bought again, just feel free to contact us and we will send you immediately a new link.

Theme Questions

1. Am I allowed to remove your copyright notice?

You are allowed to remove the copyright notice, however you are not allowed to take credit for our themes.
Example: you cannot change the copyright notice to something like: “Theme Design by XXXXX”, where XXXXX is your company’s name, unless you extensively customized the theme.

2. How do I gain access on your Support Forum?

Please see Support section of our website for more details.

3. Under what terms are your themes released?

Every theme sold on WPZOOM and their Photoshop sources files are licensed and copyrighted under WPZOOM. Before purchasing you are responsible to understand and abide by our Terms and Conditions.

4. Can I use the themes on multiple sites?

Yes, you can use our themes on multiple sites, as long as you own these sites.
You cannot give our themes to your friends, family members, etc.

Theme Compatibility

1. Will your themes run on latest version of WordPress?

All of our themes are compatible with the version of WordPress that was available during the development of the theme.
As we don’t participate in the development of WordPress itself, thus we cannot guarantee that all future WordPress updates will keep the same functionality.

2. Are your themes compatible with “xxx” plugin?

There are thousands of third-party plug-ins available, thus we cannot guarantee that all of these plug-ins will be compatible with our themes.

3. Are your themes widget ready?

Yes, all our themes are widget ready (where the theme’s design allows).

4. Which browsers, browser versions do you test the themes on?

Our themes are tested on all modern browsers: Internet Explorer 7 and 8, the latest versions of Firefox, Opera, Safari and Google Chrome. Every theme sold on WPZOOM has a fully functional “live” demo running the latest stable version of WordPress which can be tested at will.

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Here is another free, helpfull WordPress Themes How To video that we found for you guys to review.

Even if you run pretty much out of the box WP Themes I am a big believer in learning everything you can about WordPress Themes, the wordpress plugins for the Themes and YES, even learning how to modify the wordpress  themes and the wordpress theme plugins!

Gasp

THUD!

OK. Get up off the floor. Its not that bad. I am not saying that you should learn to become A WordPress Theme Programmer or go get a job for Woo Themes, But knowing how to tweak the Theme ofr the plugin, or heck, just learning how to set the available options, will make your site better, more unique, nmore efficient and in the end more appealing to the people who visit your site!

This WordPress Theme How To video is a little more point specific then some of the others we have here, but check it out and let us know if you like it!

This video features information designed to address a reviewazon Plugin – table border scenario (lines showing up in your product post) with certain Internet Marketing Themes that may be used by Auto Content Cash members, Commission Ritual members or people from Blog Colony. Specifically, I was working with the WP Dating Blog 1.0. However, there are several Wordpress themes in the mix that this adjustment will work on. This fix should get rid of the lines in your product post. I am providing this to help my fellow ACC and Commission Ritual members for Brian Johnson, Alex Goad and Jared Croslow.

Interview with founder, Chris Pearson. Become part of the cool gang & get Thesis: thesistheme.co.uk

Everybody this is a great wordpress Theme video!

I like the Thesis theme a lot! And i really enjoyed what they had to say about it. That said I also like the magnet theme for a paid theme and all the Woo themes for wordpress as well. While there are a lot of really good free themes out there, at the end of the day you really do get a higher quality site with a professional theme. Although some of the pro themes do go overboard with the options. I would prefer them to focus some of these themes on one thing and doing it very well instead of trying to make a one size fits all wordpress theme.

Anyhow, enjoy this free wordpress theme video!

While the title of our blog is WP Themes Deals, we really are all about making people successful with WordPress and blogging! We have found that many people tend to avoid instructions that are written (especially in PDF’s) like the Plague! So we are always happy to find a new video that covers a wordpress topic – especially for the newcomers-  that is of true value!

This WordPress video really is a must view for anyone wanting to learn how to get started in wordpress blogging. IMPORTANT – this is a real long, solid video on getting started in WordPress blogging! Even if you are a seasoned pro yo will probably see stuff that you did not know!. We strongly advise you to watch this video and then check out some of the other advice and Q&A sections on Wordpress, Wordpress Themes and even on the great deals that we have to offer on the professional grade theme templates from Woo Themes! If you want a great blog, then it is important to pick a good theme (layout and design) that fits your blog subject and will help market your site as soon as people see it.

In this video our friend Chris Abraham walks you through every step of getting started blogging from signing up at wordpress, to setting up and adiministering your wordpress site!   Chris is a professional blogging instructor. Enjoy! All of you have been asking me to update my step-by-step tutorial on how to use Wordpress.com as a blogging platform — please check it out and please let me know what I have missed.

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