InstantWP

Free WordPress Niche Themes For The Top Ten Blog Niches!!

To say thanks to all the users of Instant WordPress - ten brand new, unique and FREE WordPress themes specially designed for the ten top blog niches!

The following niches are provided:

• Weight Loss and Dieting Niche
  
• Relationship Niche
  
• Psychology and Self-Help Niche
  
• Muscle Training, Gym and Fitness Niche
  
• Learning a Foreign Language Niche
  
• Internet Business Niche
  
• Give Up Smoking Niche
  
• Financial Advice and Products Niche
  
• Dog / Pet Training and Grooming Niche
  
• Credit Repair and Credit Problems Niche

For more information - see the Free Theme Page

Free - A Beginner’s Guide to WordPress Theme Development!

The good people at WPShout.com have just released a free ebook entitled 'A Beginner’s Guide to WordPress Theme Development'. 

This ebook is based on a series of postings from WPShout.com covering the following:

• Introduction, the fundamentals of WordPress theme development
• The index.php and style.css files: the most important parts of any theme.
• The header.php, sidebar.php and footer.php files.
• The single.php file: the file that handles posts.
• The archive.php, home.php and functions.php files and a wrap up.

The whole ebook is available to download here.

Over 1000 WordPress themes to choose from!

As pointed out on WPTavern today, the WordPress theme repository now has over 1000 themes (or 1004 themes and 8,173,818 downloads to be precise).

These themes are all available for download and testing and don't forget you can now try these themes directly from within your WordPress installation without downloading anything.

If you look at the screenshot below from the WordPress admin backend running in Instant WordPress, you can see that below the 'Appearance' menu item on the right, there is an 'Add New Themes' item.

Clicking on this will allow give you the following options:

• Search - this allows you to search the the WordPress theme repository
• Upload - install a theme from a downloaded zip file
• Featured - view themes that are currently being featured in the the WordPress theme repository
• Newest - view the newest themes in the WordPress theme repository
• Recently Updated - view the recntly updated themes in the WordPress theme repository

This means that you can view and try all 1000 themes without leaving your WordPress installation. Nice!