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WordPress as eShop and Social Bookmarking Site – part6

by Ades on July 14, 2009 in WordPress, WP Themes with 16 Comments

This is a continuation of series on “Different Uses of WordPress”. Previously I have covered:

WordPress as eShop (Shopping Cart)

While WordPress has already been covered as eCommerce site in Part-1, this is a theme that is worth mentioning here. First of all, it’s free. Secondly, it comes with multiple free themes. Finally, its web2.0 features with ajax functions make it a better choice if you are setting up an eshop.

shopperpress

    ShopperPress is a fully featured shopping cart plugin for wordpress, suitable for selling any types of products, services, and digital downloads online. It has built in support for multiple payment gateways like paypal, 2checkout, worldpay, moneybookers etc allowing you to accept payments online.
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    ShopperPress also comes with its own multiple elegantly designed free themes. Adding products to the shop is done through creating pages and posts in WP. Products can have multiple options (weight / sizes / brands etc).
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    Price: Free
    Website: http://www.shopperpress.com

WordPress as Social Bookmarking Site

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    BmPress adds a social bookmarking capability to your WordPress blog. With this plugin you can create your own bookmarking service among your friends, community or company. Adding bookmarks will be through posts. It uses templates for displaying data, thus making it flexible in displaying your bookmarks in any way you want. See Demo Here.
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    Price: Free
    Website: http://www.bmpress.org

WordPress as Newsletter Script and FAQ Management System – part5

by Ades on June 27, 2009 in WordPress with 20 Comments

This is a continuation of series on “Different Uses of WordPress”. Previously I have covered:

In this post we will be looking at two more uses of WordPress.

WordPress as Newsletter Mailing System

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    MailPress is a WP plugin that will add Newsletter Mailing functionality to your blog. It can send text or HTML based emails. It supports custom themes as well. If you were looking for a simple mailing list script for your blog, this is the plugin for you!
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    Price: Free
    URL: http://www.mailpress.org

WordPress as FAQ Management System

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    FAQ Tastic is a free WordPress plugin to create and manage FAQs on your site. With multiple FAQs for various sections, this plugin is a great way of giving your users the answers to the most common questions that have been asked while allowing them to submit new ones. Users can also be notified automatically by email when their question has been approved or rejected.
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    Price: Free (seems like the author is developing a pro version at the moment)
    Old Site: http://knowledgeconstructs.com/wordpress-plugins/faq-tastic/
    New Site: http://faq-tastic.com/faqtastic-lite-free/

WP Theme: FREEmium WordPress Theme

by Ades on January 21, 2009 in WP Themes with 25 Comments

freebiesdock.pngFreemium Theme is a free premium theme for wordpress, it was designed by Paul Kadysz and developed by Dariusz Siedlecki and made free by http://freebiesdock.com.

You can see the demo here.

Some of the features of freemium theme are:

  • XHTML compliant
  • flickr RSS support
  • jQuery menu
  • 2 widget ready sidebars
  • completely free

Download: http://freebiesdock.com/freemium-wordpress-theme/

WordPress.tv launched: free video tutorials on WP

by Ades on January 18, 2009 in Blogging Tips, WordPress with 5 Comments

wordpresstv.pngAutomatic the founding company of WordPress launched a new project WordPress.tv. It will host free wordpress related “how-to” tutorials. Eg: Rearranging the post editor to suit your style.

Here is what they posted as the objective of the website:

To make it easy for you to find up-to-date, WordPress-themed video content within a couple of clicks. Without having to wade through spammy promotional videos, out-of-date content, and missing chunks of presentations.

This is pretty good I would say. It will be very useful for the beginner bloggers.

Website: WordPress.tv

Brian Gardner’s New Project – StudioPress

by Ades on January 2, 2009 in Advice to Businesses, Make Money, WP Themes with 28 Comments

Brian Gardner, the person who revolutionized premium wordpress themes by his first project RevolutionTheme, has came up with a new project – StudioPress.com

Since it’s a newly launched project, currently there is only one wp theme available. However, more themes expected to be added very soon. The first theme is for real estate sites.

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If it works, don’t fix it

As you all know, RevolutionTheme project had been replaced with R2 (RevolutionTwo), and became Open Source. That meant, as I predicted no more less income for both affiliates and Brian Gardner himself. Brian wanted to change his business model from selling themes to selling support.

Before revolution themes were open source, they were selling like hot cakes. Obviously after they became “free”, no one wanted to pay for the support. Because most bloggers are very familiar with wordpress and most of them wouldn’t need a paid support to customize their themes.

Revolution2 was a huge misstep for Brian (from financial point of view). In order to correct this business decision, he had two choices; to bring back the old revolution themes or to launch a new project. Brian has chosen the second option. And I think that was a wise decision. Otherwise it would have been even more confusing for his existing customers from revolution-1 project. Because they are already confused with the whole discontinuation of revolution-1 project and revolution2/open source thing and how it affects them.

Making Money for Bloggers

StudioPress.com is a great news for bloggers. Because it means “back to making money” for most bloggers. Brian Gardner is a great designer, and his themes are one of the best wp themes on the net. Therefore, I have no doubt that this project will be a success.

His affiliates are paid 25% of the sales, that means if you sell one template worth $79.95 you will get $20.00. And if you sell all-inclusive package ($299.95) then you will get $75.00 of commission.

Are you ready to make money?

URL: StudioPress.com

Different Uses of WordPress (as Social Network Site & Contact Manager) – part4

by Ades on December 22, 2008 in WordPress, WP Themes with 16 Comments

Today, in Part-4 of our series of “Different Uses of WordPress”, we will be looking on how you can use WordPress as a Social Network Site and a Contact Manager.

WordPress as Social Network Site

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    BuddyPress will transform your WordPress MU into a social network platform. It is a set of plugins that has one core plugin (which acts as the main platform for all the other plugins) and a collection of other individual plugins that add distinct features to BuddyPress (e.g private messaging, activity streams etc).

    Each BuddyPress component is independent. This means you can pick and choose which features you’d like. In that sense, it works more like a Joomla, deactivating one plugin won’t cause any errors with the rest.

    It has lots of other features, see full features here.

    Price: Free

    URL: http://buddypress.org
    Demo URL: http://testbp.org

WordPress as Contact Manager

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    WP Contact Manager as the name suggests, is a WP Theme that turns your WordPress into a contact manager. Adding contacts will be through admin interface just like you create a “new post”.

    Price: Free

    URL: http://artisanthemes.com/themes/wp-contact-manager/
    Demo URL: http://people.thedesigncanopy.com/

    P.S There is another wordpress based contact manager called WP-CRM. It’s a free theme plus plugins that turn WP into a contact manager.

Different Uses of WordPress (as Review Site and Portal) – part2

by Ades on November 24, 2008 in WP Themes with 21 Comments

In Part-1 we have looked at how WordPress can be used as Job Board site and e-Commerce site. Today, we will be looking at two more themes that can extend your WordPress blog into a Review Site and turn it into a Portal.

WordPress as Review Site

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    WP Review Site combined with the free WordPress platform, allows you to easily create powerful review-driven websites. It comes with its own set of plugins and professionally designed themes. It turns comments section into a review writing form, integrating star rating feature in it. It’s a bit pricey – selling at $97 – but it’s the best of its kind that you can get if you want to setup quality review site in 5 minutes.

    Price: $97 – Single License, $199 – Multi License, and $299 for Developer License

    URL: https://www.wpreviewsite.com
    Live Demo: http://www.awardwinninghosts.com/

WordPress as Portal

As you can see from the above examples, WordPress is definitely becoming more comprehensive platform besides just being a blogging system. In the next part, we will be looking on more different uses of WordPress.

WP Theme: Simply Ornate

by Ades on October 15, 2008 in WP Themes with 11 Comments

simply_ornate.pngSimply Ornate is a great, free WP theme designed by Evan Eckard.

Besides blue, it comes in four different flavors, they are; Royal Red, DARK, Pixel Gray and Pinkie. See them all here.

His other themes are great too (and free as well), they are: Gotham Nights, Royal, and Notepad Chaos.

You can download them at http://www.evaneckard.com/pages/themes.php.

Flowgram – Featured Flowgrams

by Ades on September 7, 2008 in Online Tools with 2 Comments

flowgram_wp_themes.pngMy flowgram has been voted as the best flowgram in the “Best Web Roundup” category (see screenshot). It’s now featured on the main page (www.flowgram.com). Thanks to Flowgram team!

If you didn’t know, flowgram is a free online tool to create presentations out of websites, rss feeds, images and powerpoint presentations. You can actually write on websites, highlight some texts, record a voice on it…etc.

You can use it to bookmark sites, make a collection of live sites under one URL (together with your comments on them) and send it to your friends..etc.

URL: www.flowgram.com

Free WP Theme: Branford Magazine Theme

by Ades on August 5, 2008 in WP Themes with 17 Comments

branford_magazine.jpgNice looking magazine theme for free (see screenshot to the left), view demo here. You can download the theme here.

I have put it on my shared folder as well, under WordPress Themes. In case the source goes offline, you can always download from my folder.

More: For a list of other great free and premium wp themes go to http://www.flowgram.com/p/f4xhdtkgp7usnv

WooThemes – Get WP Themes by Subscription

by Ades on July 15, 2008 in WP Themes with 6 Comments

WooThemes - Get access to all our shiny themes by joining the clubThis is like a freelancer’s dream come true. You pay one time and access all the premium wordpress themes designed by professionals.

WooThemes is a project launched by four respected WordPress theme designers – Adii, Magnus Jepson, Mark Forrester and Elliot Jay Stocks.

Pricing starts from $225 for 3 months subscription, and $375 for 6 months. This is a developer license, suitable for freelancers.

However, if you – as a blogger would like to subscribe and change your own blog’s theme often, then the license for 3 months costs $150, and for 6 months $250. It’s called single user license.

I think the single user license is a bit overpriced, don’t you think? Because who will change their blog design every 3 months? or even every 6 months? I think yearly plan would be a good idea for this.

http://www.woothemes.com

Contest: Win Revolution Theme!

by Ades on April 29, 2008 in Contests with 14 Comments

Ok, before I resume my Amazon Gift Certificate contest, I would like to give out one more WordPress theme. This time as I have already said I will be giving away Revolution Theme.

The winner will have the option to choose one theme out of eight themes provided at Revolution website. They are: Revolution, Revolution News, Revolution Magazine, Revolution Real Estate, Revolution Pro Media, Revolution Pro Business, Revolution Sports, and Revolution Tech. The license will be a single-use license which normally costs $79.95.

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Sponsor of the contest

These themes are provided by Brian Gardner of http://www.revolutiontheme.com. Thanks to him for his sponsorship!

How to enter this contest?

  • Subscribe to my RSS
  • Send email to abdylas(at)gmail(.)com with:
    • screenshot of your subscription (as attachment)
    • your full name
    • and your email where I should send the WP Theme
  • Include this text “adeswpthemegift” somewhere in the email. This will allow me to search in gmail for emails that might go into spam folder. It’s better you copy and paste the text, so that you won’t get it wrong while typing.
  • You are done! Good luck!

Contest Duration

  • Winner will be announced on 10th May 2008. So enter anytime before that.

FAQ

  • I have already entered in your previous contests i.e Modblogger theme contest, Amazon Gift Certificate contest, so do I have to enter again?
    No, you don’t have to enter again. You will automatically be included in this contest.

    • FAQ of amazon contest applies here too. read here.

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