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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!

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Hello, this is the free WordPress 2.x theme “Admiral“.

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Amazing Grace- Free Premium Wordpress Themes

Amazing Grace is a lightweight, super-optimized WordPress theme packed with features. It uses 3 column layout for maximum accessibility and small digital footprint for minimum bandwidth usage and loading times.

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Features

• Modern, three columns, Photo-friendly, Widget ready, SEO friendly
• Passes xHTML/CSS validation
• Out of box full SEO optimization including titles and page headings
• Easy to add Adsense
• Optimized for speed and loading time, no javascript usage
• Adjustable rotating images in the header
• Gravatars support
• Out of box Social networking buttons
• Multi-pages widget
• Chunk long urls in comments
• Redirects Google image searches to your site for better exposure
• Customized 404 page
• Access to admin menu from home page (click on blog description)
• Plus much more…

Few words on the theme

The name comes from a popular tune called Amazing Grace. It is my favorite tune and it exactly describes how I feel about this theme. Find more about this beautiful song in Amazing Grace Lyrics, Chords and Movie.

When a theme is in question, I prefer ease of use and speed above everything else. That is why Amazing Grace uses optimized images, excerpts on home page (it helps generate more page views too), no javascript and “you can’t miss ‘em” navigation menus.

Additionally, I have fully optimized the theme for SEO so you do not have to worry about it. Just write your best stuff and the theme will take care of everything else.

Built in social bookmarking include Digg and del.icio.us.

Regarding design, I have hired a very talented designer called Magnus Jepson who did the initial design. I have taken it from there and after few months the theme came to it’s final representation.

Installation & Usage

1. Unpack this archive in your wp-content/themes/ directory.
2. Go to Admin WordPress and select presentation.
3. Select Amazing Grace
4. You can also use Theme Test Drive plugin to see how the theme looks with your content before going live with it

Customization

Everyone has a different taste and there are couple of easy customization changes you can do to change Amazing Grace to suit your needs.

• Adding rotating images in header (version 2.0 of the theme and up already has this implemented)

1. Create images you want to rotate and put them in your images/folder under the names bg-portait1.jpg, bg-portait2.jpg and so on.
2. Open your style.css and remove background reference from #portrait-bg section
3. Enter this code in your header.php just below the stylesheet line (one beginning with link rel=”stylesheet”)
4. <style type="text/css">
#portrait-bg { background: url(<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/bg-portrait<?php echo (rand()%69); ?>.jpg); }
</style>
5. Replace “69″ with your maximum picture number

• Preparing rotating images – Alternately you can download the instructions by Sven Niemetz for a more flexible solution.
• Show Full Entries/Excerpts on index page – If you want full entries replace the_excerpt() with the_content() and vice versa. Changes should be applied to index.php and archives.php
• Display categories - Theme will display four categories by default. If you have more then this, you need to edit file header.php, and find wp_list_categories (at the bottom). This function controls how your categories are shown.
• Display pages – Pages are displayed also in header.php. You need to find a line with wp_list_pages. This command also allows you to include and exclude pages to show and you can read full description. Alternatively, you can remove the command and just list pages manually one by one in the same way the Home page is listed in the line above.
• Change archives and categories excerpts to full posts – Edit archive.php and change “the_excerpt” with “the_content”
• Add AdSense (or any other) ads – You can add your AdSense code to ad_middle.php. Easiest way to insert ads into sidebar is to create a text widget, paste the adsense code into it and palce it anywhere on your sidebar
• Display Social bookmark buttons – If you want to display social bookmarks buttons, edit function.php, and remove ‘return;’ at the beginning of the file.
• Different Social bookmark sites – It is little trickier but generally can be done by changes in functions.php. You will need some icons too.
• Download Plugins – Find out about all the plugins I use to help you customize the theme further.

Change log

• Aug 02nd, 2008, v2.4 – Compatibility with 2.6 (mostly CSS changes).
• Jul 06th, 2008 v2.0: Added many visual tweaks and gravatar support.
• Feb 19th, 2008 V1.2: Fixed search issue, changed stylesheet to reflect recent changes on the blog
• Jan 18th, 2008 v1.1: Added hover background for entry links; fixed footer link colors; maximum of five categories displayed by default; category drop down boxes styled
• Jan 13th, 2008 v1.0: Initial release

Air Travel- Free Premium Wordpress Themes

Nice travel theme presented! This theme is compatible with WordPress 2.7.1, ready for threaded comments come with WP 2.7, and tested on various major web browsers. For better usability the widely used function PageNavi is integrated in this theme. There’s also a very nice built-in social bookmarkings toolbar in the bottom of every post. This theme has an easy editable welcome block, which you can place your words to the visitors.I like this theme very much. Hope you have the same feeling with me. This theme is also ready for adsense. You can replace the example picture, which is at the top of sidebar, with your own code from Google. I feel like go on holiday.

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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.

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Features:

- 2 Columns
- Widget Ready
- WordPress 2.5
- Banner Ad Integration

I have made this theme a little stylish than Rebel Mag. Also, this theme would perfectly fit Make Money Online Blogs which are often just 2-Column Professional Themes. I hope you all like it!

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