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10 best FREE WordPress themes 2018

June 4, 2018

If you are looking for free responsive WordPress theme, this article is made for you! We understand that many bloggers/website owners don’t have much budget at first or don’t want to take a risk buying an expensive theme for their site, that’s why we are going to give you a list of 10 popular websites for downloading free WordPress theme to help you build your own site economically. You will completely in love with these sites, because:

  • It’s totally free! We promise that you will not have to pay for anything to get your favorite themes
  • Trusted provider. There are a lot of popular WordPress theme developer and they are making free themes and plugins just to satisfy their customers. No spam, no virus, no secret agent. Your information is private
  • Freemium!  It means that you could experience a plenty of awesome features with this free WordPress theme version and be able to upgrade Premium whenever you want

Arcade BasicArcade Basic By bandicootmarketingThis product was made by Bandicootmarketing. It creates a truly unique design with Arcade, a lightweight and fully responsive HTML5 theme. You will love it as:

  • Distinguish each post with one of the eight supported post formats, such as: Video, Image, Aside, Status, Audio, Quote, Link and Gallery.
  • Compatible with bbPress, BuddyPress, WPML & Woocommerce
  • Uses Google Fonts for improved typeface readability and works perfectly in desktop browsers, tablets and handheld devices

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Safari

Safari is another handy-crafted product from Elite Author CactusThemes and a creative blog theme for those who wants a simple yet elegant website. Pay 0$ and you are able to experience ton of amazing features:

  • Fully responsive
  • Dark and Light Schema
  • 8 homepage variations
  • 4 blog layouts
  • Gallery, Video, Audio formats support
  • 4 Header Styles
  • Various shortcodes (Carousel, Slider, Isotope, Grid…)
  • Mega Menu
  • Ajax navigation

Demo Theme and Dowload

 Maskitto Light

Maskitto Light is another product of  Shufflehound. Simple, basic and well – designed, even though you are lack of coding knowledge, you are still able to create you site using this theme easily and effectively

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Romangie

Want a free WordPress theme and look good on all devices? Romangie is made for you. Even though it’s a non – payment theme but still keeps supporting Retina feature, which means making you site look great everywhere, either on small devices or on 27″ full HD display. Another special feature Romangie brings is it supports users to translate in multiple language, then everything would be much easier for you and your visitor

Demo and Dowload

Metro Creative X

Metro CreativeX is a free metro WordPress theme. Super clean, colorful, minimal and with a fully responsive design. Not really outstanding but keeps making you stunning at first sight

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Gridsby

Gridsby is a pinterest style gallery theme which is a simple way to showcase a beautiful photo collection and save your favorite ones. It is responsive and Retina ready, and includes an easy method for posting photos to a front page gallery.

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Perle 

This theme is simple to set up and lets you display featured posts, portfolio projects, and your latest blog posts as the default front-page layout. Perle is the perfect theme for anyone wanting to display portrait images using a magazine design. Further, if you are addicted to vintage, don’t miss it!

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Revera

Revera is a responsive WordPress theme which is suitable for only Non – commercial use. If you want generate revenue from your website/blog, you need to purchase Commercial Use License

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Origin

The 8000+ active installs theme supports custom header and background, plus a number of extra settings:

  • Link color
  • Typography options
  • A nice selection of Google fonts – built into the new WordPress theme customizer

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Fast

fast-theme-demo

Designed by Cactusthemes, Fast  is the best choice for personal and creative agency, a freemium one but provide lots of feature that only premium version has:

  • premium plugin Visual Composer to build any page layout
  • 10+ useful shortcodes for customization
  • Retina ready
  • SEO optimized

There are million free WordPress themes so 10 websites we offer here might be not enough, but we believe, somehow, it helps you to get more choices and find the best one for your site. Are you interested in our blog? Please follow us on Facebook and Envato market for more helpful information. Finally, keep in mind that in this June, we have lots of special offers only for you. Don’t miss your chance!

WordPress Plugins

Table of Contents Plus Plugin.

April 5, 2018

1. Feature

Table of Contents Plus plugin is to create a context specific index or table of contents (TOC) for long pages (and custom post types). More than just a table of contents plugin, this plugin can also output a sitemap listing pages and/or categories across your entire site.

2. Install

To install Table of Contents Plus Plugin:

  • Step 1: go to Plugins -> Add New
  • Step 2: Enter Keyword plugin in search box  and click on “Install Now” 

  • Step 3: Click on “Activate”
    3. Use  Table of Contents Plus Plugin to automatically create indexes in single post

  • Step 1: Access on Setting ->TOC+
  • Step 2: Configure Position, Show when and Heading text. Beside, You can setting more the  information in this tab
  • Step 3: Create  và Enter on Your Information Post. After, Click on “Publish”.=> The result displays as follow:
WordPress Plugins

How to use the lightbox effect  to post images

January 2, 2018

In this post, I’m going to introduce an interesting plugin named Responsive Lightbox by dFactory (free on WordPress.org). This plugin enables the light effect on all images in your post content easily

1.Install Lightbox Plugin

To install Lightbox Plugin incluses 3 steps:

  • Step 1: Go to Plugin > Add New
  • Step 2: Enter Keyword plugin in search box  and click on “Install Now”
  •   Step 3: Click on  “Activate”

2. Use  the lightbox effect  to single images

  • Step 1: go to Setting > Responsive Lightbox
  • Step 2: In the General tab, Choose Default lightbox, Single image title and click on “Images”
  • Step 3: Hit  “Save”
  • Step 4: to Advance Setting, go to Lightbox tab and click on “Your Default lightbox” (PrettyPhoto). After, Select Animation speed, next to click on “Slideshow”. Beside, you can setting for  the opacity 
  • Step 5: Click on “Save”
  • Step 6: Create a Post with format post is Image. Then,  Click on “Add Media” and Select “Link to  Media File” and Click on “Insert into post” and Hit “Publish”.
  • Step 7: The Result is:
WordPress Tutorials

WordPress Overview and compare with Joomla

November 7, 2017

1. What’s WordPress

  • WordPress is an online, open source website creation tool written in PHP. But in non-geek speak, it’s probably the easiest and most powerful blogging and website content management system (or CMS) in existence today.
  • WordPress is definitely the world’s most popular CMS. It accounts for 76.4% of CMS market share

2. Advantages and disadvantages of wordpress

  • Advantages of WordPress
    • Easy in use
      • Using WordPress basic sites can be set up with easy access to all on page text and images. Beyond that, with a little upfront technical work, there are many ways to set up custom modules and text areas which, once implemented, can easily be accessed and edited by anyone with rudimentary computer skills.
      • WordPress does not require PHP nor HTML knowledge unlinke Drupal or Joomla. A preinstalled plugin and template function allows them to be installed very easily. All you need to do is to choose a plugin or a template and click on it to install.
    • Cheaper to build
      • WordPress offers a huge variety of themes which can be used to build the website.  When you begin with a theme, you cut down significantly on the amount of time it takes to build a website.
      • The cost of purchasing and installing a commercial WordPress theme is much cheaper. The cost and time for developing a WordPress site is considerably lesser than creating a custom built website.
    • Large developer community creating themes and plugins 
      • WordPress offers more paid and unpaid themes and plugins than any other Content Management Systems. This means that when you want a feature added to your website, there is a good chance that you will be able to find a plugin that exists for it.
    • Open Source
      • WordPress, and many of the themes and plugins for WordPress, are freely available as Open Source code under the GPLv2 license. It means you can use there without paying any cost.
    • Search Engine Optimization Tools
      • WordPress offers several great search engine optimization tools that make doing your own on-site SEO simple
    • E-commerce options is available on WordPress
      • There are suitable e-commerce integrations for nearly any size site or application, and many basic plug-ins are free. Woocommerce is extremely effective in doing all this along with offering great reports features.
  • Disadvantages of wordpress
    • Easy for hackers to find security holes
      • As you know WordPress theme and plugins are freely available on internet as Open Source code under the GPLv2 license. So it is easy for hackers to find security holes.
    • WordPress needs to be updated regularly
      • WordPress needs to be updated regularly because various updates and patches get released every year to combat pirates and hackers as well as to provide improvements to code and themes.
    • PHP language is must for modification
      • Operations like creating widget,removing a date field from theme and customize plugins require some understanding of PHP language.
    • CSS and HTML are must for graphics modification
      • If you want to change the look of home page of website,  CSS and HTML are must for modification.
    • Speed Issue
      • If we build website in WordPress, there are speed issues because WordPress websites contain lots of generic code unnecessary for every specific website.

3. What way to use WordPress

  • WordPress can be used in many different ways. It is open to possibilities. Our site is not a blog, it is more of a business resource website, and we are running it on WordPress. You can use WordPress as the following:
    • Arcade
    • Blog
    • Content Management System (CMS)
    • Gallery
    • Portfolio
    • Rating Website
    • Shopping Store
    • Video Collection Site
    • Membership Site

4. Compare  joomla and wordpress

  • The similarities:
    • It’s all content management system (CMS). CMS supports the creation and modification of  digital content. It is typically used to support multiple users working in a collaborative environment. CMS features vary widely. Most CMSs include  Web-based publishing, format management, history editing and  version control , indexing, search, and retrieval. By their nature, content management systems support the separation of content and presentation. A  web content management system  (WCM or WCMS) is a CMS designed to support the management of the content of Web pages. Most popular CMSs are also WCMSs. Web content includes text and embedded graphics, photo, video, audio, maps, and program code (e.g., for applications) that displays content or interacts with the user.
  • The Differences:
    • WordPress is user-friendlier than Joomla
    • WordPress is more flexible than Joomla.
    • SEO capabilities of WordPress are stronger than Joomla’s
    • Joomla provides better integration than WordPress
    • Joomla add-ons are easier to create than WordPress APIs
    • Managing everything on WordPress is simpler than Joomla
    • Beside, depend on different purposes, they are used popularly in different fields:
      • WordPress works especially well for  small to medium sized websites, blog and smaller e-commerce stores.
      • Joomla work great for e-commerce or social networking websites, but requires a basic understanding of technical skills.

 

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