Atahualpa- Free Premium Wordpress Themes

Atahualpa is my hands-down favorite free customizable theme solution.

And this endorsement is coming from someone who has, literally, spent hundreds of hours searching for and testing free themes for WordPress.

Any WordPress theme can be ‘customized’ (if you can speak PHP, CSS and mySQL and are willing to risk editing your theme files directly). But even if you do understand and know how to edit code, it will take a chunk of your valuable time to tweak a theme on the backend.

What makes Atahualpa so great is that it comes bundled with a comprehensive Theme Options menu that enables even the most code challenged WordPress Webmaster to completely change the look, feel and layout of their site. You should note that the ability to control and change the location (layout) of page elements is a very rare thing indeed in any WordPress template, let alone a free one. There are other free themes that have a Theme Options menu that lets you change a few colors here and there, but Atahualpa lets you modify HUNDREDS of site elements.

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…and it gets even better! Atahualpa has an active support forum at http://forum.bytesforall.com.  But, as usual, the easiest way to download and activate the Atahualpa theme is from within the WordPress Administrative Panel under Appearance | Add New Themes.

Oh…and while I’m raving about this amazingly robust free WordPress theme, I will annoy you again with my strong urging for you to adopt a policy of thanking the various open source free tool developers with a monetary donation – no matter how small! It is thanks to their coding time and generosity that there exist so many fabulous options for WordPress Plugins, Themes, and other open source tools. It’s the least we can do to support the developers of those tools that we make a permanent part of our site building arsenal…and it’s also a way to try and ensure that our favorites continue to be updated!

Digg 3 Column- Free Premium Wordpress Themes

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Theme information

• Description: A 3-column, widget-ready theme.

Author’s note

Digg 3 Columns is an extended version of my Digg-like Wordpress theme (two columns). Instead of releasing a theme with a unique design for today, I’m releasing only an extended version of one of my previous themes, to take a much needed break from designing.

I don’t want to sacrifice quality just to say that I’ve put out another unique design. After all, I started WPTheme4Free because I wasn’t satisfied with the quality of free wordpress themes out there. So, see you tomorrow. Hopefully, I’ll get a good night sleep and feel replenished by tomorrow morning.

***Digg is a trademark of digg.com.  WPTheme4Free is not affiliated with digg.com.
INSTALLATION

- Unzip the downloaded file. You’ll get a folder named “digg”
- Upload the entire “digg” folder to your ‘wp-content/themes/” folder
- Login into WordPress administration
- Click on the ‘Presentation” tab
- Click on the “digg” theme thumbnail/screenshot or title

That’s it. Go back to the front page of your blog and hit refresh to see your newly installed theme.

CUSTOMIZATION

Adding items to the top Menu:
- The top menu features two links: Home and About
- To add more links, use a text editor (i.e: Notepad) to open the header.php file and copy and paste:
<li><a href=”<?php echo get_permalink(2); ?>” title=”<?php _e(‘About’); ?>”><?php _e(‘About’); ?></a></li>
- Remember to edit your link title and the destination of your link within href=” “.

Download this Header to customize: Download

Different Header Background:
- By default, the header uses the bg_header.gif image for the background.
- Check the “images/” sub-folder to see if your like the alternate header background (bg_header_alt.gif).
- Use a text editor (i.e: Notepad) to open up the style.css file, look for #header and change the background image from ‘bg_header.gif’ to ‘bg_header_alt.gif’

Unlocking Author Description and Calendar:
- Use a text editor (i.e: Notepad) to open the sidebar.php file and un-comment the author description and calendar areas.
- Remember to also remove the phrase “This…is…hidden.”
- If you don’t know how to uncomment in HTML, DON’T!!!

TIPS

- Use alignleft or alignright to make your images float left or right. For example: <img src=”yourimage.gif” class=”alignleft”>

THEME USAGE WITH WIDGET ENABLED

By default, this theme has a search form in the header region. If you enable the widget plugin, don’t add the search box to your widget list. If you rather have the search form in the sidebar then add the search box to the widget list, but remember to remove the search form in the header region.

WP Premium- Free Premium WordPress Themes

The WP Premium theme is public today. “WordPress Premium” is an elegantly designed, 2/3 column, feature packed, widget ready theme that comes with three color-scheme options.

Color Schemes

When I requested user opinions last week, some of them said, why not release in all three colors? And I felt the same. The theme is bundled with all three colors. To change complete color scheme, all you need to do is, open the style.css and change the color style name to your favorite one. More instructions are in readme.txt file in the theme folder. As per suggestion of one of the user, WP Premium contains separate css for layout and color. That means if you only wish to change colors, you don’t have to mess with the other css styling.

Some of the features

The best way to know all the features is to grab the theme and look at it yourself. Here’s the list of few of them..

• Comes bundled with 3 color-scheme options
• Separate css for layout and color. So, If you only wish to change colors, you don’t have to mess with the other css styling.
• Multiple Search option with Tabber Functionality
• RSS e-mail subscription form
• 2 and 3 Column sidebar
• Three 100X100 pixel ad blocks in sidebar.
• Easy Editable, Light weight, Strategic Code
• SEO Optimized
• W3C Valid
• Table Less Coded
• Optimized XHTML code
• Short Hand CSS
• It’s Premium and It’s free!

How do I install?

• Please download the zip file of the theme. Unpack and upload it to /wp-content/themes/ folder at your blog site.
• Once done, log in to your wordpress admin panel, go to “presentation” tab and click on “WP Premium” theme.
• It’s done. Go, check your blog !

Do I get the support?

Please post your suggestions/questions in the comment form below. I will try to answer them if time allows. Also I would request other users to answer the queries by fellow users if possible.

Massive News- Free Premium Wordpress Themes

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The Massive News WordPress theme is my first attempt at providing a premium theme for a not so premium price, FREE. Massive News is a two column Widget enabled theme which is very clean, fully customizable and very simple to use.

Featured Content Carousel

The fully automated featured article carousel is one of the many premium features of the Massive News WordPress theme. Featured article images, Links and Descriptions can easily be edited through the Massive News control panel within your WordPress installation.

Fully Featured Control Panel

Virtually every aspect of the Massive News Theme is editable through the theme control panel including sidebar items, carousel component and much more. This makes most theme customizations as easy as possible without having to edit theme files directly.

How to use the Post Thumbnail Feature

Using the Post Thumbnail feature is actually very simple. Upload a 140×140 pixel image that you want to use as your post thumbnail. After the image has been uploaded, place your html image tag within the “Optional Excerpt” field.

Free Wordpress Themes

Welcome to WPTheme4Free.com. Your source for premium Wordpress themes for absolutely free!!

All of the themes are:

• 100% free for personal or commercial use. You don’t have to pay us or any other site for quality wordpress themes, and you shouldn’t.
• Released under the Creative Commons Attributions 3.0 license
• Completely compatable with WordPress. Just upload and Activate!