Some interesting news to all you WordPress lovers.

WordPress 2.9

wordpress 2.9 is just around the corner, here is a list of some of its exciting features,  10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.9

40 free themes

High quality free WordPress Themes have become harder and harder to find in the past year, with the influx of premium themes, more and more designers and developers are selling themes (and rightly so, they do amazing work). However, the quality of freely available themes has improved as well; in fact, some themes are very advanced and professional and can serve as a solid foundation for your next designs.

here’s the amazing list by Smashing Magazine

New E-Commerce themes for wordpress

The Furniture Store

URL

wopshop

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Popularity: 18% [?]

Recently we came through great lists of wordpress themes and one of the main conclusions is that many people are looking for colorful themes. here is a great list of colorful themes:

wpBlog

Tribal

Traveler Magazine

Simplix

Tribune Theme

Vintage

Agregado

Popularity: 12% [?]

** AN UPDATED 2010 VERSION OF THIS POST IS HERE **

wopShow by wpfeed

wopShow is our new multimedia and videos theme for your blog enables you to feature videos as posts alongside with the regular blog posts.

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wpShow by wpfeed

wpShow is a video theme for your blog enables you to feature videos as posts alongside with the regular blog posts.

DOWNLOAD | DEMO

High-Def by Graph Paper Press

High-Def is a minimally designed WordPress multimedia child theme for Modularity (modularity is a multimedia theme framework for wordpress).

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Video theme by quommunication

share your favorite videos or start your own show & interweb fame right now!

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On Demand theme by press75

Inspired by the popular video site Hulu.com, the On Demand WordPress theme provides a fully featured Video solution. Stream videos from high definition services such as Vimeo or Blip.TV, or host your own collection of embeddable flash video. The On Demand theme can handle any embeddable video format out there up to 1024px wide.

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Video Elements theme by press75

Video Elements was designed with the video blogger in mind featuring traditional and gallery style layout options, a fully wigitized and customizable sidebar, Instant View for viewing videos on the fly and much more. Video Elements includes two ways of displaying videos including the traditional linear layout as well as an optional gallery layout.

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Video Flick theme by press75

VideoFlick features a galley style layout with a primarily thumbnail based navigation. Simply click a thumbnail and the video of your choice is launched in a full screen instant view window. Currently, VideoFlick supports several video formats including Flickr, MySpace, Revver, Veoh, Viddler, Vimeo, YouTube, FLV, Quicktime and a few more.

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TVElements theme by press75

The TV Elements WordPress theme is a welcome addition to my Video centric theme collection, bringing an entirely new element to the way you browse and interact with video on a website. This theme was built around video and specifically designed for higher resolution services such as Vimeo, Blip.TV and several others.

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Video theme by foxinni

if you ever wanted to run you own “No sweat” Vlog (Video Log/Blog), you can do so now with my Video Theme. Making use of the most simplest of wordpress functionalities, you can embed your own Videos, YouTube, Meta Cafe, MySpace, Veoh and many more.

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WooTube theme By WooThemes

WooTube is a video player. Need we say more? Based on the same style that has made Busy Bee & Fresh News so popular, WooTube offers you some amazing multimedia goodness. Why not get cracking straight away… All you need is a camera, a nice smile and obviously this theme!

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My Video Blog theme By AlexStan (ThemeForest.net)

MyVideoBlog WordPress Theme will convert normal blogs into video blogs

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Elemental Video Theme by pixelcriminals (themeforest.net)

This is a media theme that could work for a video site or blog or a portfolio / image blog.

URL | DEMO

Evid theme by elegantthemes

eVid is a theme designed for video bloggers. I have set it up to easily integrate videos from video hosts such as Youtube, Vimeo, Veoh, MetaCafe, and so on. This theme does not have a native video player, but it does include a custom video interface with added “blogger-related” functions. This theme is only for sites that plan to showcase videos within their post pages. I have test the theme with all the most popular video hosts, but I expect that it will work with any website that offers a flash embed code.

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RevolutionTv theme by revolutiontwo.com

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websites using video themes

http://flickout.com

http://advertfan.com/

http://www.mymusicnook.com/

http://www.bytejacker.com/

http://www.nocamels.com/

http://www.bigbang-lab.com/wordpress/

http://thebuibrothers.com/

http://www.t4show.com/

http://hdfilmtools.com/

http://www.jaegerfilm.com/

http://lofistl.com/

http://fastpitchtvshow.com/

http://streetblogger.fr/Video/

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Know about other Video Themes for wordpress, share with here.

Popularity: 75% [?]

As i wrote before (WordPress Mu Plugins – Where Can I Find Them?), sometimes i get to work on a WordPress Mu project. Comparing to the regular WordPress platform, the sources for themes and plugins are little. So as i did before, why not sharing with you the best websites and places to get themes to work with on Wordpres Mu.

First you must remember, not all themes work with WPMU, see WPMU Theme Compatibility.

Theme Category on WPMU.org – http://wpmu.org/category/themes.

All themes some are premium from wpmudev.org – http://wpmudev.org/themes

WPMU Triden

triden

WPMU Dixie

dixi

WPMU Nelo

nelo

Edublogs Theme

edublogs

The Prologue theme – http://mu.bloggles.info/category/wpmu-themes/

Theme packs for your WordPress Mu subscribers

Two great theme packs 86 themes + 30 themes – http://wordpressthemes.pro/wpmu

In case you are working on a traveling website using WPMU here is a great pack for you, 30 New Cool WordPress MU Travel Themes – http://www.wordpresstravelthemes.com/30-new-cool-wordpress-mu-travel-themes

Farms 100 big ones theme pack – http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/farms-100-big-ones-theme-pack-updated

Popularity: 21% [?]

One of the great options in wordpress is enabling other page to be the default page not just the regular posts page. and the best use for it is creating websites the CMS way and not the blog way.

here are some veryy nice examples:

Eye-Fi

Temple Bar TradFest 2009

Earth911

Bit Interactive

R&W Mosman and Neutral Bay Real Estate

Spotify

myshli

Some links about how to use wordpress as a CMS

Using WordPress as a CMS

How to use WordPress to run a magazine, news website

How to use WordPress as a Truly Customized CMS (Multiple Headers, Footers, Sidebars and more!)

WordPress WOW: Eight Top Sites using WordPress as a CMS…

Top 10 WordPress CMS Plugins

WordPress as a CMS – Content Management System

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Some Videos About how to use wordpress as a CMS

Using WordPress as a CMS from YouTube

Using WordPress as a CMS From weblogtoolscollection

WordPress as a CMS css-tricks.com

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do you know of any other nice websites using wordpress as a CMS (not the new trendy use as a magazine), please share with us.

Popularity: 10% [?]

We really like the idea of creating a magazine style website and using the wordpress admin as a CMS.
we collected for you the best sources, posts and links from around the wordpressphere (?) about the issue.
hope you will find it useful.

Magazine Style WordPress Themes

WordPress is moving into the arena of Content Management Systems (CMS). There are so many good (premium) magazine style wordpress themes, but there are also several free magazine style WP themes.

Magazine Style WordPress Themes

The Best WordPress Magazine Themes Available

Now that blogs are being used by groups of people (be it businesses, organizations, even schools) just as much as they are individuals, WordPress theme designers have felt that need and have created a number of quality magazine–style themes in response. Some of them are good, some are better, and some are simple outstanding. What follows is a look at them, free or otherwise, and what you need to know before grabbing them.

The Best WordPress Magazine Themes Available

Top 10 WordPress Magazine Style Themes

WordPress is a powerful engine not only for blogs but also for almost any kind of websites.With some customization and hacks you can turn WordPress into a power Magazine Website.For this you will need to install a proper Magazine Styled Theme on your WordPress.Here is top 10 wordpress themes you can use to turn your blog into a magazine with least trouble!

Top 10 WordPress Magazine Style Themes

revolution magazine themes

two of the Revolution themes used for magazine website with WordPress

revolution magazine themes

45+ Free Premium WordPress Themes with Magazine or Grid Layouts

WPZOOM with the biggest list of magazine like themes.

45+ Free Premium WordPress Themes with Magazine or Grid Layouts

Free Magazine Style WordPress Theme Gallery

The internet is a dynamic place where things are always changing and adapting. And just like the internet, the blogosphere is also changing rapidly and seems to be particularly susceptible to trends. One prominent blogger will create a theme and the whole blogosphere will rush to follow.

Free Magazine Style WordPress Theme Gallery

Popularity: 8% [?]