First of all, I would like to congratulate Blog2Life (B2L) for releasing their free debut WordPress theme named Word Press’d, and this new theme has received an overwhelming response of 500 downloads early this July.

What is Word Press’d and how does it look like?

Directly quoted from B2L:

Word Press’d aims to give Wordpress users around the world the chance to make their blog look similar to the highly anticipated Wordpress Admin Theme release with version 2.5.

The theme tries to incorporate the best parts of the Admin theme while at the same time add customisability, compatibility and suitable to serve as a blog template while at the same time be visually attractive and have a light quick loading framework.

I really appreciate this theme. It is really similar to the new WordPress 2.5 admin control panel. If you are a WordPress 2.5 fan, you may love to turn your blog into a Word Press’d blog.

According to B2L, they are going to release version 4 soon.  In the upcoming version, they are going to include a Tabbed Sidebar Widget.

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Tags: theme, Wordpress

Previously, I have listed 10 Nature WordPress themes for you to download. Now, I want to list another set of really wonderful WordPress theme which is almost related to nature, it’s the wood theme.  Recently, there are plenty of sites using wood theme as well. I have to say that those wood themes are really impressive. You can turn your own WordPress blog impressive as well by using the following wood themes.

Please take note that I did not create any of these themes. Credits to all their original authors. All themes are widget-ready.

Books And Imagination

This is a nice theme for those who are into literature or writing.

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Tags: theme, Wordpress

Be friend and get close to your readers. Let them be able to contact you easily. Your readers want your feedback, so do follow the comments left by your readers. If your readers are asking question, make sure you get back to them (replying their comments). People need information and that is why they go to your blog to search for answers. Be honest with your readers, try to offer help when applicable.

Posting up your email for readers to contact you is the most basic way of letting your readers contact you besides leaving comments/feedback in your blog (comment section or chatbox widget). However, it will be much more easier if you can provide a “contact form” feature in your blog.

This will facilitates your readers to contact you just by filling the contact form.

Why Contact Form?

[1] Readers can contact you easily.

[2] Ensure the message is successfully delivered to you.

[3] Having a more professional feel (impression wise).

Adding a contact form nowadays is not difficult at all. You don’t need to have HTML knowledge to have this done. There are free services or plugins available to help you add a contact form to your blog. [...more]

Tags: Blogger, plugins, Wordpress

Do you notice something like this at the end of each post? Many other blogs do have similar icons too. The colorful icons look stylish and cool, but they are not only for decorating the blog.

These little icons are known as “social bookmarks”. There are plenty of social bookmarking sites which you may or already are a member. Today, I’m going to talk about the Facebook bookmarking feature.

When you click on the icon below a blog post, provided you are signed in to your Facebook account, that particular blog post link will be added to your Facebook Mini-Feed. Now, everyone in your network will be able to see your posted link. If they are interested and click on the link, you gain traffic to your blog!

Yes, of course you can click on the icon at your own blog post. Haven’t got the social bookmarking icons / buttons? Try Sociable for own hosted WordPress or AddThis for other blogging platforms. If you don’t implement such social bookmarking buttons, you will have to post the link to Facebook manually.

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Tags: social networking, traffic

If you are away from your blogging workspace for several days, what will you do? If you are a serious blogger, you won’t leave your blog without any updates for several days. This is when you can do scheduled posts.

What is scheduled posts?
They are posts that you write before hand, and will be published automatically during the time that you have set earlier.

Many blogging platform allow you to write scheduled posts. It is a good practice to write scheduled posts to keep your blog “alive” when you are away. [...more]