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Sunday, June 26, 2016

WP Engine Named Top Place To Work In Austin

Today the Austin Business Journal released its list of 2016 Best Places to Work in Austin and WP Engine was voted the fourth best large company to work for in the city! This is the third consecutive year WP Engine has ranked as a best place to work, and the first time WP Engine has competed in the large business category.

So what qualifies a company as the best to work for? Voting criteria established by the Austin Business Journal included how well employees responded to surveys, with at least 95 percent of the company required to respond in order to qualify for ranking. ABJ also took business intelligence, benefits, company culture, and office perks into account.

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WP Engine's main headquarters in Austin offers employees unlimited PTO, catered lunches, discounted gym memberships, free parking, and has a culture club that throws fun activities every month. In addition, execs practice an open-book policy that includes a “no-surprise” environment in which all employees understand how the company is fairing.

“At WP Engine we feel our culture and people are our key differentiator and everyone is incredibly proud to work for the company,” said CFO April Downing in recent interview about Austin's sleekest tech spaces.

WP Engine employees take a team photo during “All Hands Week,” a bi-annual event that brings the WP Engine family-including all Texas-based and remote employees-together at the Austin headquarters to engage with each other for a week of fun and festivities.

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Saturday, June 25, 2016

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14 Best WordPress Magazine Themes of 2016

If you have a content rich website and you're looking for a new theme, then you probably want a WordPress magazine theme. It gives you freedom to break the typical layout and showcase more of your articles, videos, and images. There are hundreds perhaps thousands of magazine style WordPress themes in the market. In this article, we have hand-picked some of the best WordPress magazine themes available.

Best Magazine Themes for WordPress

Getting Started with a WordPress Magazine Theme

First thing you will need to run a WordPress site is a web hosting. Magazine sites are content rich, and you will need to choose a web hosting company that can handle your traffic.

If you are just starting out, then we recommend going with BlueHost. It is one of the best shared hosting company and also one of the official WordPress hosting providers.

If you can afford to spend a little more, then we would recommend you to go with WPEngine. It is a managed WordPress hosting service, which means they will handle everything technical for you.

For more information check our guide on how to choose the best WordPress hosting for your website.

Some of you may already have a WordPress site, and you may just want to switch to a magazine theme. Make sure you understand what happens when you switch your WordPress theme and follow our checklist of 15 things you must do before changing WordPress themes.

Having said that, let's check out some of the best WordPress magazine themes you can use on your site.

1. Paperback

Paperback is an elegant WordPress magazine theme with tons of awesome features. It is designed to beautifully display content in a magazine layout. It prominently uses featured images from your articles throughout the layout. It also comes with a built-in featured posts slider for the homepage.

It pays special attention to readability across devices, the typography looks equally great on mobile and desktop. It has a category mega menu which displays featured content from those categories beautifully.

Paperback offers multiple color choices, homepage layouts, and slick content discovery features.

2. ModernMag

Modern Mag is a beautiful and modern looking magazine theme for WordPress. It comes with color variations and custom templates to easily build your own custom magazine site with WordPress in minutes.

Modern Mag is SEO friendly by design and it is highly optimized for speed. Faster page loads means better search rankings. It comes with built-in integration of social media making it super easy for you to connect a magazine site to its social pages.

It comes with an easy to use theme customizer which allows you to setup your site with a live preview next to it. Unlike other magazine themes, Modern Mag is bloat free and does not confuse users with overly complicated theme options.

3. Baseline

Baseline is a modern WordPress magazine style theme. It features large images on the homepage, which makes your content more visually stunning.

In the header section it has featured content carousel, a mega menu of categories with images, sliding sidebars, and social media integration.

Typography is one of the most elegant features of the theme. It is beautiful across different devices and improves reading experience. The homepage has one, two, and three column layouts with multiple color options.

4. Poseidon

Poseidon is a free WordPress magazine theme. It comes with a large full-width slider on top, clean typography, and a spacious white layout.

The theme features a magazine homepage layout with custom widgets designed to work on magazine homepage. It also comes with theme-specific options which can be setup using customizer.

5. NewsAnchor Pro

As the name suggests the, NewsAnchor Pro is a WordPress news and magazine theme. It comes with multiple page layouts, including multiple layouts for the homepage.

The theme has three extra widgets for your front page so you can create a complete magazine layout. These widgets are: a posts carousel widget, a featured images widget and a widget that displays four categories.

6. Responz

Responz is a three column news and magazine theme for WordPress. It features an elegant design with great typography and fully responsive layout.

It comes with multiple layout options like 2 sidebars, 1 sidebar, or full width homepage. You can also choose from the list view or grid view post layouts. It has built-in sliders, custom widgets, and shortcodes.

7. Oblique

Oblique is a free magazine WordPress theme with a beautiful masonry layout. It features a beautiful parallax header, unlimited color choices, homepage templates, etc.

8. Magazine PRO

Magazine pro is premium WordPress magazine theme by StudioPress. It is built on top of Genesis theme framework, which means it comes with rock solid code.

The theme comes with multiple page templates for homepage, blog, and landing pages. It has three widgetized areas for homepage. It is easy to customize and setup using theme customizer.

9. Candid

Candid is a beautiful WordPress magazine theme designed to tell rich content stories. The theme focuses on improved readability with beautiful typography that looks great on all devices.

The homepage comes with a masonry layout that can be one, two, or three column layouts. It also supports infinite scroll, which lets your visitors seamlessly load more of your content without leaving the page.

10. Domino Magazine

Domino Magazine is a highly customizable WordPress magazine theme. The homepage features multiple widgetized areas and a dynamic page builder. It comes with built-in news ticker, weather widget, and a tabbed widget.

The theme also allows you to easily add custom background, headers, sliders, and your own logo.

11. Hueman

Hueman is a popular free WordPress theme beautiful magazine style layout. It comes with multiple page templates giving you the option to choose between two or three column layouts.

It also allows users to toggle sidebars to create more reading space. Hueman has a theme options panel which allows you to fully customize it to match your needs.

12. Author

Author is a premium WordPress theme designed for writers, bloggers, and authors. It features a spacious layout with lots of white space and beautiful typography.

It has a featured post carousel to display your most important content on the top. It allows you to use videos and images as featured images for your articles. It has built-in support for galleries, beautiful image displays, pullquotes, and much more to elegantly enhance reading experience.

13. ColorMag

ColorMag is a beautiful free WordPress magazine theme. It feature 15+ widget ready areas with 6 custom widgets which allow you to setup your site in many different ways. It also has multiple color options and the ability to set a primary color for your theme.

14. Alpha

Alpha is powerful WordPress news/magazine style theme. It comes with two skins for magazine or news websites. Each skin will radically change your site's layout and you can choose the one that meets your needs.

Among other features, it comes with a breaking news ticker and a custom slider. It also comes with a video widget to showcase your video content on the homepage.

We hope this list helped you choose the best WordPress magazine theme for your website. You may also want to see our list of 10 WordPress plugins that will quickly help you get more traffic

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How to Hide Your WordPress Login Page From Hackers and Brute Force

Running a WordPress website can feel like managing a magnet for malicious login attempts. Brute force attempts to log into WordPress are so common there's a page in the Codex dedicated to the topic.

There are many strategies for dealing with this problem, and the best strategy is to deploy multiple strategies. In this article, I'll explain how I implement one of the simplest strategies: hiding your WordPress login page.

I have one particular WordPress site that was installed a few years ago. It is a standard WordPress installation running a typical slew of plugins. To get to the login page all you have to do is go to /wp-admin or /wp-login.php.

This site doesn't see a ton of traffic. In a typical month, it generates about 5,000 pageviews. However, the site's login page sees malicious login attempts on a startlingly regular basis. I have Jetpack's Protect module activated on this site, and it tracks the number of blocked malicious login attempts. Since the module was added in March of last year, more than 11,600 malicious login attempts have been blocked.

If you do that math, that works out to nearly 800 malicious login attempts per month, about 25 per day, or one malicious login attempt every 58 minutes.

However, I can tell you that the login attempts don't happen at a regular pace of one per hour. Weeks can go by without a single malicious login attempt being logged. Then, suddenly, a few hundred– even up to a couple thousand–login attempts will be logged in a short period of time. It's clear that this site periodically comes under a brute force attack attempting to log into the WordPress dashboard.

If you run any WordPress websites that are set up as standard installations, you're probably experiencing the same thing–whether you know it or not.

Why You Should Hide Your Site Login Page

One disclaimer I should get out of the way before getting started. If your site allows user login, malicious login attempts are unavoidable. This strategy won't work for you. You need your login page to be easy to find so that your users can find it easily. Instead, you need to do other things to protect against malicious login attempts.

However, if your site is not a membership site and login attempts are limited to just a dozen or fewer admins, authors, editors, and contributors, then hiding your login page is one way of cutting down on the number of malicious login attempts. A bot that can't find your login page can't attempt to log in.

To be clear, I'm not advocating that you rely solely on security through obscurity. You should definitely still use other security measures such as limiting login attempts, captcha or ReCaptcha verification, requiring strong user passwords and unique usernames, and installing and properly configuring a good security plugin.

However, obscurity is a valid security layer when used as part of a comprehensive security strategy, and if you want to cut down on the number of malicious login attempts that are aimed at your site, making your login page hard to find is one way to do that.

So let's get down to it.

Step 1: Install WordPress in its Own Directory

We've covered When and How to Install WordPress in a Subdirectory before. It isn't an overly complex task, and you can run WordPress from a subdirectory whether you're dealing with a brand new WordPress installation or an existing WordPress website.

As always, if you're moving an existing WordPress installation before you do anything else create a complete backup of your site and store it someplace where you won't accidentally delete or modify it.

Many examples and tutorials will use a subdirectory named something like http://example.com/wordpress or http://example.com/wp. Personally, I don't like using something predictable when installing WordPress in a subdirectory. Instead, I use something that no one will ever be able to guess like http://example.com/dwiiw. No one will ever guess that I installed WordPress in that directory, but I'll be able to remember it because it's an acronym for: directory where I installed WordPress.

Use the directory name of your choosing, but use something unique that you can easily remember and that will be hard or impossible for anyone else to guess.

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Step 2: Hide the Login Page URL and Redirect wp-login.php

As I'm sure you know, default WordPress behavior loads the login page when you access wp-login.php. Type in wp-admin instead, and you'll be automatically redirected to wp-login.php.

If you've installed WordPress in a subdirectory you've taken the first step towards hiding your login page by adding a directory between your domain name and wp-login.php. Hopefully, you've named it something unique, but the truth is that right now someone can still find your login page quite easily.

Unless you've taken steps to prevent standard WordPress behavior, even with WordPress installed in a subdirectory, if someone tries to go to http://example.com/wp-login.php they're going to be redirected to the correct login page URL that looks something like http://example.com/dwiiw/wp-login.php.

As things stand, have you really made your login page any harder to find? No, not yet, but you will momentarily.

The next step is to lock down access to wp-login.php and redirect it to a 404 page or really any page other than your login page, and to replace it with a completely custom login URL that will be hard to guess.

Once again, I recommend coming up with something that you can easily remember, but that will be all but impossible for anyone else to randomly guess. You can use the acronym trick I used to come up with the directory name dwiiw, or any other method, but come up with something unique like:

http://example.com/dwiiw/gli

In this case, gli is a stand-in for get logged in, and it accomplishes the goal of being simultaneously easy to remember and hard to guess.

Use a plugin to actually lock down access to wp-login.php and set up a custom login URL. There are several WordPress plugins you can use for this purpose. Here are four possible options to get you started.

WPS Hide Login
The tagline says is all: Change wp-login.php to anything you want.

This plugin does just one thing. It makes it easy to use a custom URL rather than the standard login URL. Once this plugin is installed and activated, /wp-admin and /wp-login.php are inaccessible, replaced with a custom URL of your choosing.

With more than 50,000 active installations and a stellar 4.7 out of 5 star rating, WPS Hide Login is a sure bet if you want the lightest plugin possible to create a custom login URL.
Interested in WPS Hide Login?
- See it at WordPress.org
WP Hide & Security Enhancer
The basic premise behind this plugin is that it hides the fact that your site is running WordPress.

Making the suggestion that you should do that is sure to bring certain parts of the InfoSec community out screaming “Security through obscurity is not security!” Still, as I already mentioned, I believe obscurity is a valid layer in a comprehensive security strategy–a belief I am not alone in holding.

One aspect to hiding the fact that your site is a WordPress site is to create custom login URLs while completely disabling the default URLs. This plugin does that and more. This plugin boasts over 1,000 active installs, which isn't overwhelming, but is a large enough sample size to begin to see some trends in the user reviews. The overall rating is solid, making WP Hide & Security Enhancer worthy of consideration.
Interested in WP Hide & Security Enhancer?
- See it at WordPress.org
Cerber Limit Login Attempts
Cerber is a pretty popular plugin for limiting login attempts. It's active on over 10,000 sites and has an exceptional 4.9 out of 5 stars rating.

As you've surely guessed, in addition to limiting login attempts this plugin can be used to hide the standard login URL in favor of a customized URL. This plugin does what it does exceptionally well, and it may be the safest best on this list.
Interested in Cerber Limit Login Attempts?
- See it at WordPress.org
iThemes Security
With more than 700,000 active installs and a 4.7 out of 5 star rating, iThemes Security is among the most popular plugins in the WordPress Plugin Directory.

This plugin does a lot more than just create a custom login URL. You can use iThemes Security to perform a wide range of hardening tasks. I won't get into all that iThemes Security does, but among its features is the ability to create a custom login URL and to redirect wp-login.php to a 404 page or any other page you like.
Interested in iThemes Security?
- See it at WordPress.org

The Result

If you've complete both steps you now have:

WordPress installed in a subdirectory that looks something like http://example.com/dwiiw.

In addition, you've created a custom login URL and locked down access to wp-login.php.

As a result, you now have a completely custom login URL that you should have no problem remembering and that no one else is going to guess. While this simple tactic doesn't guarantee that you will see zero malicious login attempts, it will make your login page all but invisible to the vast majority of drive-by malicious login attempts.

It's true, obscurity on its own does not provide adequate security. However, when used as part of a larger comprehensive security strategy, obscurity can be helpful. This is even more true when your site is running on the best and most popular CMS on the planet.

WP Engine Named Top Place To Work In Austin

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Saturday, June 18, 2016

How to Add a PDF Download for Posts in WordPress

Do you want to add a PDF download for your WordPress posts? Recently one of our readers asked if there was an easy way to turn WordPress posts into PDF. In this article, we will show you how to add a PDF download for posts in WordPress.

Adding PDF download option for WordPress posts

Why Add a PDF Download Option for Posts in WordPress?

PDF allows you to share documents among different devices and operating systems.

It ensures that the contents of document are printed in the same way on different platforms. This makes PDF files ideal for printing documents.

A PDF download option with your posts allow users to save your content on their computers and print it when they want.

Some types of content are printed more frequently like recipes, music sheets, mathematical equations, etc.

You can also use the PDF download to create content upgrades for your posts to grow your email list.

Having said that, let's see how you can add a PDF download for WordPress posts.

Adding PDF Download Option for WordPress Posts

First thing you need to do is install and activate the WP Advanced PDF plugin. For more details, see our step by step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.

Upon activation, you need to visit Settings » WP Advanced PDF page to configure the plugin settings.

Advanced PDF settings

First you need to select where you want to display the PDF download option. Front-end (your website's public area) or in the admin dashboard.

Under the availability section, you can select whether you want downloads to be available for everyone or just registered users.

Next, click on the General tab to expand it. There you can select post types, file name formats, and other general settings.

Under the button positioning section, you can select the button alignment and placement. You can use the default button that comes with the plugin, or you can upload your own button image.

Body, Header, and Footer sections allow you to fine tune these sections of your PDF downloads. You can add custom text, choose fonts, add custom CSS, etc.

WP Advanced PDF also comes with watermarking feature. This allows you to add watermark on your PDF files to protect them from unauthorized distribution.

This plugin offers a comprehensive set of options. The default options would work for most websites, but you can review them and adjust them as needed.

Don't forget to click on the save changes button to store your plugin settings.

You can now visit any single post on your website, and you will see a PDF download icon. Clicking on it will start the PDF download.

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60 Free Responsive and Ridiculously Good-Looking WordPress Themes for 2016

WordPress has plenty of responsive themes to choose from; both free and premium. Many of them bear copy that states each of them is the best (and the last) WordPress theme you'll ever need.

But how do you know which of these themes truly stands up to its claims and which are just full of hot air?

Going through the theme repository can be time-consuming and searching for free themes on Google can land you in a world of hurt if you pick one from a less than reputable developer.

That's why I've compiled this list of 60 WordPress themes that are free, responsive, and gorgeous to save you some time and effort, and so you can get started with the site building process much more quickly.

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Spirit
Spirit is a responsive high-end theme perfect for any business whose main focus is in the health niche. It features clean and crisp typography, beautiful images, and plenty of customization options. Powered by the Upfront framework, this one-page theme allows you to add personal touches throughout the theme to make it truly yours.

You can set your logo and your mission statement right in the header, highlight your services, special events and group sessions with custom elements, as well as calls to action. Use only one page or take advantage of any of the included and uniquely-styled template pages to present your business to the world.
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Scribe
Scribe is the perfect theme for artisan businesses featuring bold imagery and long form content. Scribe puts heavy emphasis on the details; from images and typography to page layouts, image galleries, styled lists, and textured backgrounds. Scribe also includes custom contact details and call to actions which allow your visitors to get in touch with you, as well as plenty of other customizable features. This theme is perfect for any small business focused on creating hand-made products who want to make an impact with their website.
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Fixer
A colorful and responsive full-screen theme geared towards promoting your trade – that's Fixer. Fixer features a bold and flat design with equally bold typography designed to grab the attention of your visitors. It's a one-page scrollable theme that features completely customizable sections – add a services section, portfolio section, call to actions, and more. You have complete control over the layout and style thanks to the Upfront platform.

The best part of Fixer is the instant setup of the Get a Quote section – something your visitors will surely appreciate. This theme was designed to convince and convert, giving you plenty of customization options where you are limited only by your imagination.
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Parrot
Parrot is a responsive tech-inspired theme perfect for showcasing your latest theme, plugin or app. It features bold calls to action that will guide your visitors exactly where you want them to go – be that your online shop or your downloads page. Parrot's design is focused on whitespace with subtle pops of color which put the emphasis on your content.

The theme includes both a Features and Download page template. The Features page highlights your product's feature list with clear images, descriptive copy, and even spacing; while the Downloads page lets you link users to the version that is right for their device. Finally, build trust with your users with a custom News page where you can offer tutorials, industry news, development updates, and release notes.
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Luke + Sara
Built with creatives in mind, Luke + Sara features modern and clean design, full-screen videos, gorgeous imagery, and carefully selected typography. Photographers, designers, and other creative business owners alike will appreciate boxy image layouts, masonry portfolio, and mega sliders which put the focus on your best work.

Built-in pricing pages and tables give a quick overview of your services and the included email inquiry action form gives users an easy way to get in touch with you.
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Panino
Panino is a colorful one-page theme designed with coffee shops and restaurants in mind. It offers gorgeous hand-crafted tabulated menu, which is easily customized and updated to suit your needs. A custom-built image gallery and lightbox will show off your latest dishes and restaurant photos and you can instantly grab your visitors' attention with a fully customizable header which can show a single image, a slideshow, or even a video.

Naturally, Panino is responsive, translation-ready, and powered by the Upfront platform which makes customization a breeze.
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Mallow
Mallow is a responsive magazine theme suitable for writers and online publishers. It features a clean and modern design with plenty of white space that puts emphasis on your content. Large backdrop images add a bold statement to your writing and the slider allows you to showcase your latest posts in a visually stunning way.

With the theme customizer, you can control the design and appearance of any element and style them to match your brand. Mallow is fully responsive and SEO optimized. The theme also features lightweight code that has been optimized to make it load quickly.

Mallow is a free theme.
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Rams
A clean, minimalist, and responsive theme for writers, authors, and bloggers. Rams features a responsive and retina-ready design which displays beautifully across browsers and devices. The included gallery and quote post formats all come with unique and visually impactful styling. The background color of the sidebar and the accent color of the content can easily be changed with the click of a button.

Rams includes support for Jetpack's infinite scroll-function and tiled gallery. Rams is also translation ready.

This theme is free.
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Saga
Saga is a theme created for storytellers. It features beautiful typography and striking featured images that will make your stories stand out. The theme allows you to customize your site and preview the changes before they go live with options for custom colors and a header icon. This theme integrates with the Custom Header Extended and Custom Background Extended plugins.

Saga's menu is mobile-ready out of the box, so it can be viewed correctly no matter what devices your visitors are using to view your site. It also automatically includes icons for your favorite social networks if you add them to your menu.

Saga is a free theme.
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Revera
Revera is a free, responsive theme based on the Bootstrap 3 framework. It comes with a custom menu, featured images, custom homepage template, portfolio page template, a widgetized sidebar and footer, custom widgets on the homepage, a theme options page, and many more features.

Homepage widgets can be configured via the Theme Options panel and allow you to set a widget title, icon, and a featured image. This theme also allows for customization of the homepage slider, portfolios, a custom width for the homepage, and supports a widgetized homepage.

This theme is free.
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Upright
Upright is a grid-like theme focusing on bold imagery and supports a variety of content, allowing you to spread your ideas with the world. With Upright, you can create galleries and showcase a portfolio as well as showcase your latest posts with a featured slideshow. This theme includes a live customizer which gives you the ability to customize the theme and make it your own as well as the option to upload your own logo.

Upright is responsive and SEO optimized. The developers behind Upright are always keeping the theme up to date with the latest version of WordPress ensuring site compatibility, too. This theme is free.
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Lightly
Lightly is a clean and minimal blogging theme which puts your content front and center. It features generous white space, a crisp grid layout, and easy navigation. The homepage is widgetized which means you can rearrange, and customize your homepage using a multitude of available widgets, built right into the theme's core. Lightly comes with Live Customizer allowing you to see the changes as you make them.

You can also upload your own logo – be it text based or image based. The theme is retina-ready and responsive which will make your website look good on any screen. Lightly is available for free.
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Shapely
Shapely is a powerful and versatile one page WordPress theme with pixel perfect design and outstanding functionality. Shapely includes several homepage widgets that can be used to add portfolios, testimonials, parallax sections, your product or service information, calls to action, and much more. It's best suited for business, portfolio, and e-commerce websites but thanks to its numerous customization options, it can be tweaked to suit any niche.

The theme supports most free and premium WordPress plugins such as WooCommerce, Jetpack, Gravity Forms, Contact Form 7, and much more. Needless to say, the theme is mobile friendly and responsive as well as SEO optimized. Shapely is completely free to download and use.
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Sparkling
Sparkling is a clean, modern, flat design theme developed using Bootstrap 3. The theme is a perfect match for corporate websites or e-commerce websites thanks to its integration with WooCommerce. Sparkling offers pixel perfect design, plenty of custom widgets, and a stunning full-screen slider putting this theme on par with many of the premium designs.

The theme supports the majority of free and premium plugins such as Gravity Forms, Contact Form 7, SEO by Yoast, W3 Total Cache, and many more. Sparkling is responsive and SEO optimized. This theme is free.
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Zerif Lite
Zerif Lite is a free one page WordPress theme that's perfect for a web agency, corporate business, personal and parallax business portfolio, photography sites and freelancers. Zerif Lite is built on the Bootstrap framework and includes support for a parallax background. The theme features a responsive, clean, modern, flat, and minimal design.

The theme includes a custom contact form and carefully crafted widgets to present your team, your activities, and what customers say about you. Zerif Lite is available as a free theme, with the option to purchase the pro version for $99 as a stand-alone theme or with the ThemeIsle membership for $149.
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Enigma
Enigma is a multipurpose responsive theme compatible with WPML and WooCommerce. Thanks to its versatility, it's suitable for a variety of niches, including business and portfolio websites. The design is based on the Bootstrap framework which makes it a responsive theme with a high focus on cross-browser compatibility. It's also retina-ready and features four page layouts, two different page templates, five widgets, a homepage slider, and offers powerful customization options with a built-in Theme Options panel.

Enigma is available for free from the theme repository or as a premium theme for $39.
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Awaken
Awaken is an elegant magazine and news WordPress theme featuring a magazine layout with two main widget areas and three post widgets enabling you to display posts in different categories or display your latest posts. Based on Bootstrap framework, Awaken has a responsive design. Other features include a theme customizer, a featured slider, custom widgets which include the Single Category Posts Widget, Two Block Posts Widget, Three Block Posts Widget, Popular Posts, Comments, a Tags Widget, 300×250 Ad Widget, and a Youtube Video Widget.

This theme also offers integration with social media. Awaken is available for free from the official WordPress repository or as a premium theme for $39.
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Accelerate
Accelerate is a multipurpose WordPress theme suitable for portfolio, business, blog, personal, travel,l or service websites. The theme was made for simplicity and is extremely easy to use. It comes with eight widget areas and five custom widgets such as a service image widget, a call to action widget, and a featured page widget.

It's compatible with WooCommerce allowing you to add an online store to your website. Accelerate features a responsive design, SEO and speed optimization, and has plenty of customization options which are controlled with the Live Customizer. Accelerate is available as a free theme from the WordPress theme repository or as a premium theme for $69.
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Quidus
Quidus is a responsive multi-purpose WordPress theme with numerous pre-made layouts which include business, magazine, portfolio, blog, corporate, and many other layouts. The theme is retina ready, has WooCommerce integration, unlimited color options, Google web fonts integration, a footer widgets area which can have a background image set, two sidebars, custom widgets which include testimonials, a CTA, clients, facts, featured posts, recent posts, pricing tables, services, skills, and a team widget.

Quidus gives you the option to upload your own logo and favicon and comes with support for six post formats, social profile icons, and much more. Quidus is freely available from the theme repository.
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Tracks
Tracks is a bold, beautiful, and responsive theme, perfect for personal blogs, magazines, and photography websites. Tracks is a theme that prominently displays your images without forsaking your content. It includes a logo uploader, social media icons, search bar, comment display controls, and more.

The blog layout features a stunning one-column design with gorgeous featured image across the top. Tracks comes in free and pro versions. The free version can be downloaded from the official repository while the premium version can be purchased for $69 in the form of a plugin which adds new features without switching themes.
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Parallax One
Parallax One is a stunning, responsive one-page WordPress theme perfect for creative individuals. The theme is completely responsive and thanks to the parallax effect you can create memorable pages by uploading images into sections, adding custom text. The images are then displayed dynamically in a list sliding horizontally from one representation to the next one using subtle animations.

Other features include cross browser compatibility, a theme customizer, and built-in support for Google Maps. The homepage allows you to add client testimonials to your website and display a custom contact form.

Parallax One is available as a free theme.
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Sydney
Consider Sydney if you are looking for a powerful business theme that provides a fast way for companies or freelancers to create an awesome online presence. Sydney has plenty of customization options which include access to all Google Fonts, full color control, layout control, logo upload, full-screen slider, a header image, sticky navigation and much more. On top of that, Sydney provides all the construction blocks you need to rapidly create an engaging front page.

Sydney comes as a free theme with the option to purchase the pro version for $49 for a single theme or as a part of an aThemes membership for $99/year.
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Amadeus
Amadeus is a responsive WordPress theme that features a clean and modern design with bold images which grab the attention of your visitors. The theme is fully responsive and includes a theme customizer which allows you to effortlessly change any aspect of the theme and customize it to your liking. The main menu offers ease of navigation and a custom video widget that allows you to upload a video from Youtube, Vimeo, and other video-sharing sites.

Amadeus has a prominent social header so your visitors can get to you through various networks. You can add a custom logo, change the fonts, and make a great first impression on your readers. Amadeus is available as a free theme, with the option to purchase the pro version for $99 as a stand-alone theme or with a ThemeIsle membership for $149.
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Palmas
A blogging theme at heart, Palmas is the perfect choice for writers. The design is simple, elegant, easy to navigate, and utilizes white space to put the focus on your content. A large featured image slider on the homepage makes great use of photos to showcase your latest posts and there is a space below the slider to show off your most popular posts with a title and a featured image.

Full-width header can be customized with a background image and allows you to put your logo in the center. Other features include masonry blog layout, mobile-responsive design, customizable widgets, and plenty of customization options. Palmas is a free theme.
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Inkness
Inkness is a responsive, retina ready WordPress theme, suitable for all kinds of websites. Choose between a 2 or 3 column layout or ignore the sidebars completely and opt for a full-width page layout. Features include a fully responsive design built on the Bootstrap framework, with customized widget design, a responsive full-screen slider, SEO optimization, gallery support, as well as all the popular social sharing icons, and customization options which allow you to upload your own custom logo, add Font-Awesome icons, and more.

Inkness is available as a free theme or as a pro version for $25.95.
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Spacious
Spacious is a multipurpose responsive theme suitable for your business, portfolio, blog, or any other type of site. Features include 12 different widget areas and five custom widgets which include call-to-action widget, services widget, featured page widget, testimonial, and featured widget. The theme also offers SEO and speed optimization, integration with Google web fonts, unlimited color options, and a theme customizer which gives you control over the design and layout.

Spacious is also compatible with WooCommerce allowing you set up and run your online store with ease. This theme is available for free from the WordPress theme repository or as a premium theme for $69.
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Colormag
Colormag is a great choice for news, newspaper, magazine, and publishing-oriented websites. It's a responsive theme which features a magazine design and comes with 15 different widget areas as well as six custom widgets, SEO and speed optimized code, boxed and wide layouts, social icons, sticky menus, and plenty of customization options which can be accessed through the theme customizer.

The theme is also compatible with WooCommerce and gives you the option to highlight your categories with custom colors. Colormag is available as a free theme or as a pro version for $69.
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Ample
Check out Ample if you want a beautiful, bold, multipurpose theme. Choose between a boxed and wide layout or add an online store with WooCommerce. The header slideshow is sure to capture your visitors' attention and showcase your posts or pages in a visually stunning design. Ample comes with four custom widgets, specifically targeted at business owners.

Customization options include support for unlimited color options, a custom background image, and the ability to upload your own logo and header text. Ample has both free and premium versions, with the premium version available for $69.
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Vantage
Vantage is a popular, free, multi-purpose theme developed for a variety of niches. It works and integrates seamlessly alongside an array of amazing third-party plugins which allow you to further extend this theme. It has a responsive layout and supports WooCommerce. The most notable feature is the Page Builder which allows you to create any type of layout you can imagine.

Other features include custom widgets like the contact form, pricing table, and call to action button which will give your business a professional edge. Vantage is freely available from the theme repository.
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GeneratePress
GeneratePress is easy to use, responsive WordPress theme which features modular structure of the add-ons which means you can add the features you need when you need them. It's completely customizable with the Live Customizer allowing you to view the changes instantly. It's compatible with all major plugins including WooCommerce, WPML, bbPress, BuddyPress, and more.

It's also compatible with all major browsers, even IE8. The theme includes support for Font-Awesome icons. With tons of hooks and filters, GeneratePress is the perfect lightweight WordPress theme for developers.

GeneratePress is free with the option to purchase a premium version for $39.95.
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Awesome
Awesome is a responsive WordPress theme suitable for a commercial, corporate, personal, or agency website. It's also powerful enough to let you create a small business website or a blog. It features a multi-layered slider, gallery/portfolio, and includes a full-width template. With featured boxes, portfolio, and staff boxes you can feature your company's highlights and employees and make a great first impression.

This theme has many customization options and includes SEO optimization. Awesome comes as a free theme available from the official theme repository and as an extended version available for $59.99/year.
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Tora
Tora is an elegant and responsive business theme with plenty of customization options in the Customizer; including fonts, colors, blog options, header options, sidebar position, and more. Tora comes with support for the Live Composer plugin giving you the ability to quickly create amazing pages for your website. Four pre-built widgets are available to get you started: contact, social, recent posts, and a video widget. Six different pre-made layouts are also available so you can get a jumpstart and have your website ready in a matter of minutes.

Tora comes in both a free and paid version which is available for $49.
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Dauntless
Dauntless is a dark responsive theme based on the Underscores theme and utilizes features of the Foundation framework. It's a theme best suited for bloggers who like to showcase their posts with featured images. The homepage has a grid-based layout with posts displayed in a three-column layout and each post has a beautiful featured thumbnail.

The sidebar can be set to either the left or the right side. The dark background provides a great contrast for featured images and readability. Customization options include a custom background, custom header, support for custom menus, and a theme options panel. Dauntless is free.
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Travel Eye
Travel Eye is a clean and professional theme suitable for a travel blogs, hotels, tour operators, and travel agencies. It is powered by Page Builder by SiteOrigin, giving you the option to create a completely custom page layout with an easy drag-and-drop feature. Its built-in theme options panel makes Travel Eye easy to customize and configure.

The prebuilt layout is available for home page so you can get your page set up in one click. The free version of the theme can be downloaded from the WordPress theme repository while the pro version is available for $55.
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Revive
Revive is a multi-purpose theme with a magazine layout that can be easily adapted for other niches, too. This theme comes integrated with Font Awesome icons, multiple blog layouts, sidebar customizations, support for social media icons, a beautiful homepage slider, featured areas, advanced animation effects, and SEO optimization.

Built on the Bootstrap 3.0 Framework, Revive has great responsive performance on mobile and tablet devices as well. It's also retina-ready and translation ready. Revive is available for free from the theme repository with the option to purchase the premium theme for $35.
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Canape
Canapé is a bold and refined theme, carefully designed for restaurants and food-related businesses who want a classic and elegant look. The theme comes with a custom menu template that can be used to showcase your food and drink menu, while integration with the Open Table widget makes it easy for your guests to make online reservations.

The Canapé theme's front page template is designed to be a targeted welcome page for your visitors, offering full-width featured images, a featured menu items section, and three widget areas. Canapé is a free theme.
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Grow
Grow is a responsive, multi-purpose, professional theme perfect for a business or blog website. The theme has a responsive layout, it's retina ready and comes with a powerful theme options panel that allows you to make awesome changes without touching any code. Grow also comes with a full-width, easy to use slider and gives you the option to add a logo to your site and create a beautiful homepage using the built-in homepage layout.

Grow can be downloaded for free from the official repository and also has a pro version available for a one-time payment of $30. You can also get it as a part of the Think Up Theme club for $85.
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BlogIm
BlogIm is a clean and fully customizable high-quality WordPress blogging theme with a responsive layout, support for social media links, logo upload options, and a modern looking home page. The header features a unique-looking gallery featuring your latest posts, and gorgeous featured images throughout the theme. Other features include support for a custom background, custom colors schemes, and a custom menu.

The theme is also translation ready. It's a great choice for professional bloggers or news agencies alike. BlogIm is available for free from the official repository or as a pro version for $27.
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BizGrowth
Bizgrowth is a corporate WordPress theme with a responsive design that's suitable for business, corporate, industrial, and commercial websites. The theme has a light, clean design and offers a number of customization options, including unlimited colors, sidebars, page templates, and backgrounds. Other features include parallax scrolling, social media icons, FontAwesome icons, shortcodes, a posts widget, as well as dedicated sections for latest projects, news, testimonials, and a photo gallery section. BizGrowth has a user-friendly customizer and is compatible with WooCommerce, Nextgen Gallery, Contact Form 7, and many other popular WordPress plugins.

It's available for free from the official repository or as a paid version for $29.
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Amazing Blog
Consider using Amazing Blog if you are looking for a clean, modern, and fully responsive blog theme, beautifully crafted to create stunning personal and business blogs. The theme features elegant design and plenty of customizable features in the admin panel which require no coding skills. It supports Instagram integration, three different page layouts, a featured posts slider, custom background image, and more.

Amazing Blog is also translation ready. This theme has a free version available on the WordPress theme repository and a paid version available for $49.
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Pingraphy
Pingraphy is Pinterest-style WordPress theme. The theme features fully responsive design and gives you the ability to run a Pinterest-style blog as well as a beautiful photography blog. Features include support for different post formats, SEO and social media optimization, integration with Google Fonts, a custom related posts widget, an author box, four different pagination types, breadcrumb navigation, unlimited sidebars, custom widgets, and the ability to import and export your theme options.

It has a free version available on the official repository and a pro version available for $35.
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Flatter
Flatter is a multipurpose WordPress theme which consists of featured slider, featured posts, services posts, testimonial posts, newsletter subscription widget, social icons, and four widgetized footer blocks in the homepage layout. Flatter also allows you to choose multiple sidebar options on the blog, single post, single page, search page, and 404 page as as either a left or right sidebar, both sidebars, or none.

All the options can be customized from the theme options page. On top of that, Flatter offers a full-width layout, masonry blog layout, and integration with WooCommerce. The theme is available for free from the official WordPress repository or as a plus version for $24.99.
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Splendor
Splendor is a bright, responsive theme perfect for a photography logo. The theme allows for custom logo upload and features clean typography and five different color schemes.

It offers multiple color schemes and supports different post formats as well as the option to set a sticky post. You can also set your own custom menus and thanks to its threaded comments, your images are sure to strike a conversation on your blog. With its large featured images, Splendor is sure to instantly draw your visitors in.

Splendor is freely available from the official WordPress repository.
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Futura
Futura is a responsive theme with a clean simple design. The main focus is on typography which was carefully selected to provide maximum readability across all browsers and screen sizes. The main theme features include a custom header and background, a theme customizer which allows you to create a unique color scheme and make the theme truly yours.

Other features include a custom menu, featured images, a flexible header, a fluid layout, a full-width template, and support for a right sidebar. The theme is translation ready and available for free from the official repository.
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Simona
With its elegant and feminine design, Simona is a perfect theme for a wedding website. It takes minutes to set up and offers a subtle gray and pink color scheme. The theme is a great choice for wedding planners, wedding photographers, videographers, florists, or anyone else in the wedding industry. Simona is also suitable as a personal wedding theme announcing your special day. Other theme features include support for custom menus and different post formats, sticky posts, plus it's translation ready.

Simona is available for free.
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Activello
Food, fashion, lifestyle, and travel bloggers will appreciate Activello's clean and minimal design with features usually found in premium options. Activello has several custom widgets and a full-screen slider to showcase your content with style. The theme features WooCommerce integration that allows you to create a fully functional e-commerce website side by side with your blog as well as support for W3 Total Cache, Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, Jetpack, Yoast SEO, and many other free and premium WordPress plugins.

Activello has several customization options that are available via the WordPress theme customizer. Activello is also SEO optimized. This theme is available for free.
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Nisarg
Nisarg is a fully responsive and translation ready theme suitable for travel, photography, recipe, design, art, personal, and any other creative types of websites. The theme is developed using Bootstrap 3 and includes various customization options to add yo

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