The modern/industrial look of the theme gives it almost infinite versatility, making it a perfect fit for blog topics ranging from technology, men’s interests, and even fashion design. Also be sure to check out PremiumThemes.com, a new project from Design Disease.

A special feature of this theme is the logo changer. You can use the default WordPress setting (“blog name”) or you can use your own logo. Upload your logo in the root folder of Evidens theme and name it logo.png. You can also use the PSD Logo Template in the source folder of Evidens Theme. (Image limitations: No more than 500px/70px).

If you want to activate this option go to:

Administration Panel > Appearance > Logo Options, and select logo type.

Evidens White – Wordpress Free Theme

Evidens Dark – Wordpress Free Theme

Wordpress Fun: A Free Wordpress Theme

wordpress.fun — a free professional Wordpress-theme. The theme has 2 columns, thumbnails integration, a “featured” post section as well as a nice grungy design. The theme was designed by Maleika Attawel from Germany, purchased by Smashing Magazine and is now released as a gift for our readers.

MONOCHROME DEMO

Work-a-holic

Fullscreen – Graph Paper Press – Free Theme

Modslider

Modfolio

Modularity Lite

High-Def

F8 Child – Graph Paper Press – Free WordPress Theme

F8 Remixed

WP-Cumulus allows you to display your site’s tags, categories or both using a Flash movie that rotates them in 3D. It works just like a regular tags cloud, but is more visually exciting. Clicking the tags can be a little hard (depending on your speed setting) but does take you to the appropriate page .
The sources code for the Flash movie are available from wordpress.org

[Download] [Demo]

Akismet

Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you
review the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin screen.
Want to show off how much spam Akismet has caught for you? Just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template.
See also: WP Stats plugin.
PS: You’ll need a WordPress.com API key to use it.

NextGEN Gallery

NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option. Before I start writing the plugin I study all photo and picture plugins for WordPress,
I figure out that some of them are really good and well designed, but I missed a simple and easy administration back end to handle multiple photos, galleries and albums.

Sociable

Sociable is a plugin which adds social media buttons to your posts, and does so easily, and beautifully. Automatically add links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed. You can choose from 99 different social bookmarking sites!

[Download]

WP Super Cache

This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.

Features

• A plugin and hooks system. A common complaint with WP Cache was that hacking was required to make it work nicely with other plugins. Now you can take advantage of the simple plugin system built in to change how or when pages are cached. Use do_cacheaction() and add_cacheaction() like you would with WordPress hooks. Plugins can add their own options to the admin page too.
• Works well with WordPress MU in VHOST or non-VHOST configuration. Each blog’s cache files are identified to improve performance.
• Normal WP-Cache files are now split in two. Meta files go in their own directory making it much faster to scan and update the cache.
• Includes this WP-Cache and protected posts fix.
• Automatically disable gzip compression in WordPress instead of dying.
• As Akismet and other spam fighting tools have improved, the cache will only be invalidated if a comment is definitely not spam.
• A “lock down” button. I like to think of this as my “Digg Proof” button. This basically prepares your site for a heavy digging or slashdotting. It locks down the static cache files and doesn’t delete them when a new comment is made.
• Supercache static files can be regenerated while serving a slightly out of date file. This will significantly lower the load on a busy server with lots of traffic and comments. Think of it as an automatic “lock down mode” for every page on your site.
• Automatic updating of your .htaccess file. (Backup your .htaccess before installing the plugin!)
• Don’t super cache any request with GET parameters.
• Better version checking of wp-cache-config.php and advanced-cache.php in case you’re using an old one.
• Better support for Microsoft Windows.
• Properly serve cached static files on Red Hat/Cent OS systems or others that have an entry for gzip in /etc/mime.types.
• The Reject URI function now uses regular expressions.
• Supports the Bad Behaviour plugin if installed (Half on mode only).
• Supports plugins that show a different theme to mobile devices.

[Download]

Contact Form 7

Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible.
Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.

[Download]

Page Flip Image Gallery

Do you need to show your photos to the best advantage and post them in a speedy manner, don’t you? You need to make a bright and memorable presentation, portfolio or image gallery?
Try FlippingBook Wordpress Gallery plugin – image gallery with page flip effect.

FlippingBook WordPress Gallery is an excellent way of working with images in blogs. You download photos, and the plugin creates a small photo gallery out of them. If you need to post several pictures, you don’t have to make large posts. Being joint together, pictures can be put in a beautiful album-book and don’t take up much space. It’s very convenient to look through the pictures, leafing through the pages. You just have to double-click to print images out. This is a real interactive book which is nice and easy to use when you turn its pages.

[Download] [Demo]

Easy AdSense

Easy AdSense provides a very easy way to generate revenue from your blog using Google AdSense. With its full set of features, Easy AdSense is perhaps the first plugin to give you a complete solution for everything AdSense-related.

Features
Remembers AdSense code and your options by theme, so that you don’t have to re-enter them if you play with multiple themes.

[Download]

Twitter for Wordpress

Twitter for WordPress displays yours latest tweets in your WordPress blog.

Features

• Simply
• Customizable
• Widget ready
• Uses Wordpress resources (no extra files needed)
• No options page (yes, it’s a feature)
• Detects URLs, e-mail address and @username replies
• Multiple widgets (Thanks to Michael Feichtinger)

Installation

Drop the twitter-for-wordpress folder into /wp-content/plugins/ and activate the plug in.

Usage

If you use WordPress widgets, just drag the widget into your sidebar and configure.
If widgets aren’t your thing, use the following code to display your public Twitter messages:

twitter_messages('username');

Note: Your tweets must be unprotected (i.e. in the public timeline)

Twitter for WordPress also has several configurable options. Here’s what you can configure:

twitter_messages('username', [msgs], [list], [timestamp], ['link'], [hyperlinks],
[twitter_users], [encode_utf8]);

• username: your twitter username
• msgs: number of tweets to show (max. 20, limited by Twitter)
• list: show tweets in a unordered list
• timestamp: show a relative timestamp
• linked: the link options
  • ‘all’: puts a link to the tweet status in all the tweet (the old-school way). This option disables the link discover features.
  • false or ”: no link at all to the tweet status
  • true or ’something’: enable the link to the tweet status. You can customize the text.
• hyperlinks: show URLs as clickable links
• twitter_users: show @username replies as clickable links
• encode_utf8:turn it on if you have encoding problems

Only username is required. The other parameters will take this default values:

twitter_messages('', 1, false, true, '#', true, true, false);

This is: 1 tweet, not in a list, with timestamps, with a # link to each tweet, with URLs and @username replies displayed as clickable links.

So, if I wanted to show my last 3 messages, not in a list, with timestamps, with a Go link, no links and encode_utf8, I would use the following:

twitter_messages('username', 3, false, true, 'Go', false, false, true);

Customization

The plug in provides the following CSS classes:

• ul.twitter: the main ul (if list is activated)
• li.twitter-item: the ul items (if list is activated)
• p.twitter-message: each one of the paragraphs (if msgs > 1)
• .twitter-timestamp: the timestamp span class
• a.twitter-link: the tweet link class
• a.twitter-user: the @username reply link class

[Download]

HeadSpace2 SEO

HeadSpace2 is an all-in-one meta-data manager that allows you to fine-tune the SEO potential of your site. Visit the HeadSpace page for a video demonstration.
You can configure meta-data for:
Posts
Pages
Categories
Home page
Author pages
Search pages
404 page
You can define:
Tags/keywords, with suggested keywords
Descriptions
Page titles
Custom ‘more text’
Site name and site description

[Download]

Wordpress is a seriously popular blogging platform but with popularity comes endless options offered by the huge community. This is certainly a major advantage and it means you’re never alone with a problem. But there are literally tons of Free Themes and Plugins that you can combine in endless ways introducing a risk that looking around for the perfect setup removes focus from the main purpose…creating content for your blog readers.

Going for a Premium Theme may get you started much faster but what should you look for and is it possible to find Free alternative that provides the features normally only found in Premium Themes?

miniBlog Theme

miniBlog is another Free Wordpress Theme with a lot of features.

“Intuitive Theme Options, Twitter, Any Color Scheme”

• Wordpress 2.7+ Ready
• Widget Ready
• Built for “Sticky Posts”
• Gravatar Ready
• IE 6 & 7 Compatible
• Firefox Compatible
• Safari Compatible
• Opera Compatible
• Netscape Compatible
• Custom Post Image-Thumbails
• Infinite Number of Color Schemes
• Detailed Theme Options Page
• ReadMe.txt for Help Installing the Theme
• Separate Comments and Trackbacks
• Easily Editable CSS – Fully Commented
• Web 2.0, Tableless Design
• Best of all, it’s all FREE

Rock Solid Theme

Rock Solid Theme is another Free Wordpress Theme with a lot of features.

“Four color schemes, theme options, Twitter+Flickr, free”

• Wordpress 2.6, 2.7+ Ready
• Widget Ready
• Gravatar Ready
• IE 6 & 7 Compatible
• Firefox Compatible
• Safari Compatible
• Opera Compatible
• Netscape Compatible
• Custom Post Image-Thumbails
• Four (4) Different Theme Color Styles Available
• Detailed Theme Options Page
• ReadMe.txt for Help Installing the Theme
• Fully-Layered .PSD of Each Header Color Variation + Font Used for Customization
• Separate Comments and Trackbacks
• Easily Editable CSS – Fully Commented
• Web 2.0, Tableless Design
• Best of all, it’s all FREE

Jynxed Theme

Jynxed Theme is another Free Wordpress Theme with a lot of features.

“Unique design, cross-browser transparency, elegant look”

• 100% working cross-browser transparency (Even IE 6)
• Beautiful javascript tab area in sidebar for clutter-free design
• Unique web 2.0 feel
• Gravatar ready
• Widget ready
• XHTML / CSS validated
• Tested on all major browsers (and then some)
• SEO friendly
• Completely FREE

Stitches Theme

Stitches Theme is another Free Wordpress Theme with a lot of features.

“Five color schemes, theme options, Twitter+Flickr.”

• Wordpress 2.6+ Ready
• Widget Ready
• Gravatar Ready
• IE 6+, Firefox 2+, Safari, Opera, Netscape Compatible
• Custom Post Image Thumbails
• Featured Posts
• Styled Optional Calendar Widget
• Five (5) Different Theme Color Styles Available
• Detailed Theme Options Page
• ReadMe.txt and FAQ.txt for Help Installing the Theme
• Seperate Comments and Trackbacks
• Elegant-Looking Sidebar Tabs
• FREE – Developer License (use the theme as many times as you want for your own use)
• Completely FREE

Bamboo – Free WordPress Theme

Today we have a pretty cool looking blog template designed by Rambling Soul. I then took the template and ported it to WordPress (with a bit of help). This theme features an unusual vertical page navigation, visible on the left side, as well as a featured post area. There are also two widgetized areas. This theme is built for WordPress 2.7 and above, and has features such as threaded comments and pagination.