Magazine3 GameUp is perfect suitable for Gaming site with Magazine Homepage layout offering space to cover all Featured articles. Layout looks simply awesome with Featured slideshow and categorized article sections thereof. Single Post view has all necessary elements like: Social sharing buttons and Author Bio.

GameUp has Theme Control panel at back end which lets you customize and general purpose stuffs like: Analytics code, Advertisements, Custom Logo, specify Social Account usernames, etc. without playing with codes.

Look at the Demo and you will get the clear idea about overall design.

About Magazine3

Magazine3 is a WordPress Theme provider offering Premium Designs suitable for your Business. Designs made are considering both the visitors and Webmaster.

For Visitors, It is simple to use offering various browsing options and compatibility with all modern Web Browsers. And on Webmaster’s side- Magazine3 Themes gives professional look and feel to site, Easy to customize and proper Ad placement location with0ut annoying visitor and offering Higher CTR.

Even if you go wrong sometimes, their Customer Support is appreciable. Along with Support Portal, you get personalized on-site support fixing things as soon as possible. Manya times, it happens that the design looks great in demo but when purchased, you fail to get it as it is. Such general problems can be sorted out using support portal.

Magazine3 also offers impressive Affiliate program where you are given 10$ as signup bonus and 20% on each sale.

Giveaway Details

To grab GameUp Premium WordPress Theme worth 59$ for free, you just have to click on Like button and share your Facebook profile URL by commenting below.

Alongwith 4 themes, you get access to Support Portal and Download Area so that new Updates and releases can be accessed for lifetime.

Liking Blogsolute fanpage on Facebook or Retweeting this article is completely your choice.

Premium Gaming WordPress Theme for Game Site: Magazine3 GameUp Giveaway

The new version is more efficient and uses less resources on the client computer, including using the new player that does not require adobe flash player.

Take advantage of these Web standards and use anyone of these HTML5 WordPress themes for your blog.

Travel Theme

Though, it is said to be Theme for Travel Blog site, it is an awesome design for making beautiful Blog cum Magazine site. Has integrated options menu with lots of customizable features.

Comes with custom post types for Portfolio pages, Slideshow, Style switcher, Google Maps integration, etc.

Demo | Download

Grey

It has all the standard options built in out of the box with elegant design strong core layout structure. Suitable for almost any niche of Blogs.

Demo | Download

CSS3 Theme

Theme with a funky fonts and bright colour combination.

Demo | Download

Spectacular

A Smashing Magazine release, using old colors and appearance.

Demo | Download

Twilight

3 Column Grey Background Theme with simple structure perfectly suitable for Random /Personal Blogs. It also comes with Featured Slideshow and Footer has 4 columns.

Demo | Download

Orange Flower

With Orange Flower in Header, it is a simple 3 column WordPress Theme. Being simple, provides advantage of fast loading and suitable for most of Blogging Niches.

Demo | Download

HTML5 Portfolio Theme

Perfect for Photographers, Artists and Web Designers to showcase their work on HTML5 based Free Portfolio WordPress Theme.

Download

Free Dream

HTML5 WordPress Theme with minimalistic approach.

Demo | Download

That’s all. I have enlisted Ready to Install and Use HTML5 WordPress themes while there are many more HTML5 Themes for Designers which needs modification and can be used as a base theme.

Some Uber Cool HTML5 WordPress Themes

While searching through, I found many beautiful e Commerce themes for WordPress but good ones are not always free. Luckily, Some are Free and here I list those feature packed beautiful easy to use E-Commerce Themes for WordPress.

AppCloud

AppCloud is a simple and one of the most popular e Commerce WordPress theme. Besides, Cool Homepage design, comes with inbuilt Products page with sorting function and FAQ page for easy management.

Download, Demo and Information on iCreativeLabs

DangDoot

DangDoot is quite flashy e Commerce WordPress Theme with featured posts sliders on front page and cool appearance.

Download, Demo and Information on iCreativeLabs

Crafty Cart

Crafty Cart is a free e Commerce WordPress Theme that offers all the features to function as an online store and to sell products directly through the use of one of the simplest to implement platforms such as WordPress.

Download, Demo and Information on BillionStudio

SimpleCart

As the name says- It is simple yet powerful e Commerce WordPress theme based on thematic framework. SimpleCart(js) is a simple, attractive, and flexible WordPress theme that taps into the power of both Thematic Framework and WP E-commerce Plugin.

Download, Demo and Information on Chris Wallace

Also, you can use e Commerce Plugin for WordPress called WP e-Commerce which lets you integrate online store in any Standard WordPress theme.

Free e-Commerce WordPress Themes for easy and Reliable Online Store

This is somewhat similar to Navbar in Blogger. For those who liked this change to access admin options from site frontend, stop reading but for those who want to disable Admin bar in WordPress 3.1, here’s how you can do it in one click.

The disabling Admin Bar is easy: just go into the dashboard of WordPress, then click the top right of your user name and click off the profile contains the WordPress Admin Bar. Uncheck the box in front of “Show Admin bar when viewing site”

Alternatively you can use the Admin bar itself: click the user name and select the profile there.

Yes, you can revert back anytime you want. Also, it is personalized as per user’s taste; I mean each user can choose whether to enable or disable WP Admin bar.

How to Disable Admin Bar in WordPress 3.1 when viewing site

Role Manager

It’s the most important plugin once you are planning to take in more authors. This plugin will help you to assign different privilege level to different users. For example a editor will be allowed to open and edit all the posts but he will be devoid of deleting any.  You can also create custom profile with different roles.

Download Role Manager

Author Comment

This plugin will highlight all the comment from the author on its blog post and make it easier and simpler to read comments and replies. The only requirement is that the author must be logged before he makes any comment.

Download Author Comment

Pre-Publish Reminder

Each admin has a check list before he or she publishes the blog. Now you can share your check list with your co-authors and remind them to check few things before they press the button for review.

Download Pre-Publish Reminder

Audit Trail Plugin

Audit Trail is a plugin to keep track of what is going on inside your blog. It does this by recording certain actions (such as who logged in and when) and storing this information in the form of a log. Not only that but it records the full contents of posts (and pages) and allows you to restore a post to a previous version at any time.

Download Audit Trail Plugin

Do make sure you give enough credits to the author by showing his name and link at the end of the post. Sure there are revenue sharing plugins too if you are willing to share your ad-space with your authors.

4 Must Have Plugins for a Multi Author WordPress Blog

What you need to Backup

1. A self hosted WordPress Blog.
2. A Dropbox account. Incase you don’t have one signup here and get 2GB free disk space.

How to perform the Complete Backup

1. Download and install wp Time Machine in your WordPress Blog.
2. Now open the above plugin page and provide your Dropbox account email and password along with the name of the directory where you want the backup.
   
3. Wait for the backup process to finish. It will take time according to your backup size.
4. Open your Dropbox account to find the folder where you wanted your backup.
5. The folder will have five files that are
   • A compress file containing all your WordPress files and media.
   • Your Database SQL backup file.
   • Your htaccess file.
   • Instruction file as to how to restore all the data.
   • One click shell script for automated backup.

The best thing about this backup is that you don’t have to worry about it at all as Dropbox is any time reliable than you local disk and other backup service and is completely free to use. Though I have said SugarSync is better but at the moment there is no WordPress backup solution available on it.

How to Backup Complete WordPress Blog to Dropbox with Files & Database

However If you are running a WordPress Blog here are top 4 must install plugin to optimize your site performance and make it load faster.

WP Super Cache

Caching of files in the server is the best way to optimize a WordPress blog. This plugin generates a static HTML file from your PHP files and store in in the server. When a user visits your site, he will be serve with the static HTML file instead of heavy and dynamic PHP files thus making the process comparatively fast.

How ever do note that when you are in a process of applying any new modification to your blog like a new theme, widget or plugin don’t forget to disable the caching.

Download WP Super Cache

WP Minify

Minification is the practice of removing unnecessary characters from code to reduce its size thereby improving load times. The plugin reads all the JS and CSS files in your blog and pass it through the Minify engine and returns a consolidated, minified, and compressed script or style for WP Minify to reference in the WordPress header.

Download WP Minify

DB Cache

When ever a user loads any page in your blog he not only access the PHP and HTML files but also query your database from the serve for information. Thus to make this process fast this plugin caches every database query with given lifetime.

Not only your blog will load faster it will use low server disk space and CPU resources.

Download DB Cache

WP Smush.it

Images are the element which take highest amount of time to load on a page.  We can not strip down all the images but surely optimize them to gain significant load time.

Smush.it is a very popular Yahoo service for web developers which optimizing images online by various methods like ripping meta data from JPEGs, optimizing JPEG compression and converting certain GIFs to indexed PNGs. This plugin uses the Yahoo API to optimize it in your blog itself.

Download WP Smush.it

Top 4 Must Install WordPress Plugins to Speed up WP Blog

Add Snow, Balloons and More to WordPress

The above plugin will allow you to add falling snowflakes effect to your WordPress blog. Users can also add extra features such as floating leaves, balloons and water droplets. The plugin allows you to manage number of snowflakes and other items. Users can also limit the cool animation to specific posts and pages.

Download Snow, Balloon and more Plugin

WP Christmas Plugin

The plugin simply displays snowflakes and two sweet Christmas snow man wishing all your readers Merry Christmas. The plugin will come to action as soon as you upload and activate the plugin and has no configuration page.

Download WP Christmas Plugin

Snow Storm WordPress Plugin

If you want to keep things simple you can opt for Snow Storm. It only adds falling snow effect to your blog. There is no configuration page hence the density of the density of the snow flakes can not be controlled.

Download Snow Storm WordPress plugin

So go ahead and greet your readers Merry Christmas and Happy New Year in style.

3 Plugins to Add Snow flakes Christmas effects on WordPress Blog

WordPress Nokia Application release enables you to edit your existing blog content, add new posts and pages, and manage comments on the go, directly from your S60 or Maemo powered Nokia device. Now, reaffirming its position to reach all possible platforms, WordPress released a version for Nokia, through which users of Symbian-based devices can now blogging from their mobile wherever blogging platform is WordPress 2.7 or higher.

Other possibilities to WordPress for Nokia, which already is available in Ovi-Store offers us have the posts published or draft text or images, moderate comments and a sort of mini board to view the statistics of our blogs.

For now, WordPress only works for Nokia in the N97 and the X6 (at least according to what they report from Nokia) but since the application is open source insurance soon will support as many phones as possible as well as what some people who know they can get to offer, such as plugins or extensions.

Download WordPress for Nokia

WordPress App for Nokia Symbian S60 and Maemo based devices

Here I will tell you how to convert wp page listing to a horizontal drop down category listing with just one step. There might be too many ways to do so but this is one of the Blog friendly method since it does not involve any Java Script , any plugin and teasing with the CSS.

First of all sign in to your WP dashboard admin panel and goto >>Appearance >> Editor >> Header.php.
Now as shown in the screen shot search for ‘wp_list_pages’ in the “nav” section of your theme .

Now you need to replace the entire code with the following code to have the Horizontal Drop down Effect to your theme,
<?php wp_list_categories('sort_column=name&sort_order=asc&style=list&children=true&hierarchical=true&title_li=0'); ?>
which is shown in the screen shot (Check highlighted section). Once the code has been replaced , update the file and you are done.

Convert WP page listing to Horizontal Drop down menu for Categories