Theme Screenshots:

Single Page Screenshot:

How-to Video:

Theme Features:

This theme is packed full of features:

• 80+ shortcodes
• 11 custom widget panels (plus all of your review type unique widget panels)
• 10 custom widgets:
  1. 2×2 ad block
  2. Email subscribe form
  3. Flickr feed
  4. Latest tweets
  5. Page & Archive tabs
  6. Post & Comment tabs
  7. Latest Reviews
  8. Latest Review tabs (from multiple review types)
  9. Review Category tabs
  10. Unwrapped text/HTML
• 3 drop-down custom menus, each styled 3 levels deep
• Custom meta field panels so you don’t have to remember any shortcodes
• Integrated randomized, sophisticated advertising network to display ads within your post listings
• 13 additional template position ad spots
• Slick About The Author and jQuery tabbed Related Posts panel under each post/review

View the Demo Here:

Theme Features

• Light & dark skins
• Customize the theme colors easily via color picker
• PSD of logo so you can change it easily
• Create review posts with up to 5 rating criteria and a buy now button
• Create video posts
• WordPress 3.0 menu support
• Custom theme options panel
• Custom Widgets
  • Social widget
  • Flickr widget
  • Facebook Like box
  • Tabs (Popular, comments & tags)
  • Recent Posts
  • Recent Reviews
  • Twitter widget
• Custom Shortcodes
  • Youtube & Vimeo videos
  • Tabs & Toggles
  • Buttons
  • Highlight
  • Dropcap
  • Columns
• Easy thumbnails with WP built in function
• Works with WP 3 .3+

View Demo

Theme Features:

• Featured Posts Slider
• 6 Menus and Skins
• Unlimited Colors (using built-in color picker)
• 8 Custom Widgets
• Translation Ready
• Custom Menu support for pages and categories
• Page styles ex. full with, with sidebar
• Styled typography and flexible page columns
• Built-in Related posts feature
• Social media profiles Support
• Style shortcodes ex. image frame, dropcap etc.
• Column shortcodes ex. 2, 3, 4 columns
• WordPress featured image support for post
• Unlimited sidebar. Create and select sidebar for each of your page!
• Contact us page with validation and ready to use PHP mailer
• Unobtrusive jQuery powered effects

Take a look for yourself…

View the Demo

View the Waves theme in action here.

Theme Features:

• Wootumblog compatibility
• Background color and link color selector (as opposed to preset color schemes)
• Typography manager
• Archives page
• Full Width page
• Portfolio pages
• Advertising management
• Google Analytics installer
• Logo uploader
• Twitter & Facebook sharing
• Short URL integration

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PORTFOLIO

If you’re the type of blogger who wants to connect with your readers, you may also integrate your Twitter, Facebook, and RSS links to the theme. You can find the Twitter ticker halfway through the theme and Facebook and RSS buttons at the footer.

View the demo here.

Theme Features

• Envato Easy Admin Panel
• Quick install data
• Sidebars are widget-ready
• Choose from over 50 Button Styles
• Put your ads in 4 adsense/advert-ready areas
• Choose from 12 Page Layout Templates
• Comes with Ajax News Ticker
• Multi level navigation menu
• Slider Tab Menu
• Sloth Machine Tab News

A minimalist, fully-functional theme, CollageStudio is perfect for magazine and business sites as well as online portfolios. Its features include Isotope jQuery filtering, pagination options including Infinite Scroll, 6 custom (clean, minimal, colorful) skins, multiple unique templates, including 3 different portfolio custom post types, a separate featured image template, along with a simple blog and introduction template.

Theme Features

• Additional feature: infinite scroll example
• Audio, Video, Image Tumblog posting
• Choose from 6 minimalist skins
• and 3 Unique Portfolio Templates
• Shortcodes for additional customization
• Full-support for HD Images and Videos
• Nivo Slide Manager
• Multiple Widget Areas
• Fully customizable, extensive admin area, and easy to use
• TimThumb Image Resizing, caching, automatic thumbnail creation

 Try the AirWP theme here.

Features:

• All pages are W3C Valid
• Google Web Fonts
• Fully table-less design
• Choose from 3 Portfolio Page Templates: 3 columns, 2 columns, and grid;
• Lightbox experience for photos and videos
• iQuery effect to make the theme more interactive: Nivo Slideshow, jQuery Dropdown menu, Toggle effect, Tab effect, Filterable effect on portfolio page, Image view with PrettyPhoto, Fully working PHP contact form
• Widget-ready sidebar and footer;
• Complete documentation files upon download: HTML and URL
• Shortcodes for columns, buttons, tables, accordions, and for any other purpose
• Page template design for every purpose (3 portfolio pages, blog page designs, sidebars, and index pages).

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PORTFOLIO

Converse Theme Features

• Unbranded Admin Panel
• Easy Customization
  • Unlimited Background Colors (Using built-in color picker)
  • Over 30 Background Patterns
  • 30 Built-In Fonts
  • & Many options for customizing the theme.
• Localisation Support
• Unlimited Sidebars – Create and select sidebar for each of your page!
• Awesome Form Builder
• Loads of Shortcode (Flexible Columns, Typography, Dividers, Notifications, Toggles, Listing Styles, Buttons, Widgets, Google Maps, ) – Plus add shortcodes directly from the editor
• Well Documented
• Multi level Dropdown Menu
• Timthumb automatic thumbnail support
• jQuery Powered Effects
• Valid HTML5 & CSS3

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Fun and interactive, videos and other multi-media content are supported by the theme. That means, you may use Rokko for your online gallery of videos and photos.

If you find Rokko’s default color scheme too dark, you may freely select from 4 other hues: blue, red, orange, yellow and green.

Try the Rokko theme by clicking here.

Other  Features:

• Choose from 5 different color variations: default black, blue, red, orange, yellow and green;
• 2 Layered Slider: a background and a foreground slider;
• Customize your own portfolio page;
• Comes with videocasts (video tutorials for setting up the theme);
• Custome header for posts;
• Widget-ready (from the first page down to the last);
• Video and image portfolio ready with full video support;
• Utilize unlimited sidebars;
• Comes with Gallery tooltips;
• Compatible with WordPress 3.0, 3.1, 3.2 and up

First, keep your WordPress installation up to date.  It used to be quite cumbersome to upgrade WordPress but now the one step update makes it easy.  Back up your files regularly and use that one step update as soon as you see it on your dashboard.  That goes for your plugins as well!

Second, use strong passwords.  Unique passwords that are randomly generated are always the best. Never use the same password at different sites.   If you have a hard time remembering randomly generated passwords, use a string that makes sense to you but wouldn’t make sense to anyone else.

Third, avoid the user name “Admin”.  The user name “Admin” was formerly the default user name for many one click installations. As a result, it’s common.   Random hackers using software to try and hack into websites may start by using this user name and then just keep trying random passwords to break in.   If you have a different user name, they’ll never break the code. If you have the user name Admin, they might.

Fourth, don’t use one click installs.   Fantastico, which has been around forever always names their databases starting with the prefix “wp1″ with later installs starting with “wp2″ and so on. Hackers know this.  It means they only have to guess one password to get into your database.   Manual installs allow you to come up with unique database, user names and unique passwords.

If you are hosting with a good host that keeps their servers secure, you shouldn’t have to worry about hacking.  Knowing that your host has a good understanding of Content Management Systems like WordPress is also important.   Knowing they keep up on the latest WordPress security news means they’re aware of new holes they might have in their servers.   Tight server security is also important.

WordPress does get hacked but not because it’s inherently insecure.   It gets hacked because so many people use it. Very large and very visible sites may consider further and more technical security precautions, however, these four basic security steps should keep your WordPress installation safe from most random hackers.  No site will be 100% safe but basic security will deter the casual, random hacker in almost all cases.

We’ll be posting more soon on keeping your WordPress site safe using plugins.  Do you have any tips you’d like to share?  Leave us a comment below!