Amazing Giveaway: Win a full pack from ThemeFuse

To understand the purchasing process, have a look at the video:

You can also enter the giveaway with just a few steps to win this pack. Use the comments section of this post and tell us why you deserve to win the free pack and how would you use it. WordPress themes are used for a variety of websites from business to personal blogs and we would love to hear about your plans.

Next, tweet about our giveaway offer by posting this message on your Twitter account: Win a full website (WordPress theme + 1 yr hosting + 1 free domain) @ThemeFuse #WordPress Theme from @catswhocode (RT to Enter).
Then use this link to like our post about the giveaway on our facebook page. ThemeFuse Facebook page.

We will announce the winners in a week’s time. Good luck!

Oh and btw – If you dont want to wait for the winners to be announced, use our exclusive code CATSWHOCODE to get a 10% discount on ThemeFuse.

Win a copy of Designmodo’s startup theme for WordPress

Prime Features for Any Creative

Attention, web designers and web developers! For those of you who are still holding back, I urge you to try and fashion websites for startup companies using premium WordPress themes like this one, with a simple drag-and-drop interface and visual editor. Trust me, the results would be glorious.

Startup WordPress Theme is downright awesome, because it lets you customize a singular website in the main window of an inline editor. Circa 100 preset blocks are placed at your disposal, and they have been designed well. Plus, they are altogether responsive and Retina-ready.

You’ll certainly appreciate the text editor for content, and how Startup WordPress Theme lets you upload images, change color schemes, add your own CSS code, and do whatever it takes to customize each web page down to the finest details.

Feeling Lucky?

Care to get your hands on Startup WordPress Theme? Make haste and log in through Rafflecopter, then follow instructions. No worries, it’s a simple matter of proving your fondness with Designmodo on various social networks. The winner is going to be announced in a week.

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Enter for your chance to win a WordPress theme from TemplateMonster

Prize

A Premium WordPress Theme from TemplateMonster

We’re looking for THREE winners, meaning we will give away THREE WordPress themes

Please note: TemplateMonster has more than 1,500 WP themes to choose from and you can win ANY of them. It can be a responsive or non-responsive WordPress theme. It can be a design for a personal blog, business site, news site or even an eCommerce website. Just decide which WP theme you need and win it!

How to Win

All you have to do to enter the giveaway is leave a comment at the bottom of this post telling me what your favorite TemplateMonster WordPresss theme is. (For example, ‘I would like to win WP theme #51129?).

Note: You can see all TemplateMonster WordPresss themes here

Deadline

The giveaway will be running for a week. The last day to enter is Wednesday, October 23.

Important

  • Three winners will be chosen randomly. One (1) winner will receive one (1) WP theme.
  • If you are chosen, you will be notified by e-mail in one or 2 days after the giveaway is over.

Enter now to win!

Want a Treat? Royal Theme Offers a Free Copy!

Full Throttle Features

Royal is code-free and fully responsive; it includes free lifetime updates, and sports an advanced theme panel. You will notice straight away that this theme provides everything a premium theme has, and more. The visual page composer alone is enriched with ultimate add-ons, at no extra cost.

Furthermore, this theme is based on Twitter Bootstrap, and has a smooth learning curve. It comes with an easy installation process, aided by video tutorials and an overall comprehensive documentation. You can check out what Royal’s Theme Engine is really capable of, by clicking on the following link: http://www.8theme.com/demo/docs/royal/index.html#!/royal_theme_options.

Besides, you can use Royal Theme for virtually any type of WordPress project, from catalogs, to blogs, mobile websites, personal or business websites, corporate websites, photography and video websites, or E-commerce platforms. In the case of online stores, for instance, no one can wish for more than this:

  • A complex theme panel;
  • WooCommerce plugin readiness;
  • Various shop page layouts to choose from (6, 5, 4, 3, or 2 products in a row);
  • Custom product page layout;
  • Custom tabs on product page;
  • Ajax search;
  • Child theme compatibility;
  • Product image hover (swap, images slider, mask with information);
  • Product image zoom;
  • Editable product image sizes.

All I can say is wow, wow, and wow! Thanks for such an amazing theme. I have just started to work on my site and I’m amazed by all of the things that I can do… I especially liked the front end editor and back end editor segments. You guys are AWESOME!!!!”
– eccurry1

“I absolutely love this theme, due to:
1) Many amazing templates to choose from;
2) Clean code, so your website doesn’t take forever to load;
3) Amazing customer support. All of my questions have been resolved, to my satisfaction, in a timely manner. I actually got answers – not answers that involved me looking into the theme documentation. Great job!!!”

– bslolanki

How To Win it

Royal Theme is rich in shortcodes and widgets. One copy could be yours, if you log in to a Rafflecopter
and follow the instructions. The winner will be announced in one week time! Good luck!

However, if you think that waiting one week is too long, you can acquire Royal by clicking the following button:

SKEW: One Page & Multipage WordPress Theme – only $17!


This powerful theme is incredibly versatile. For starters, you can use it as standard multipage website theme or the popular one-page theme that’s all the rage these days! It’s also built with a responsive design, so it’ll work anywhere your users go. Toss in a drag-and-drop page builder, Revolution Slider, SEO optimization, highly customizable features, and more, and you’ve got yourself one incredible theme! Even better, you can snag this Mighty Deal for a mere $17!

Skew WordPress Theme Highlights:

  • 2 Versions in 1
    The Skew WordPress Theme is so powerful, it offers up 2 unique versions of the same theme! Choose a standard multipage layout, or jump on the recent trend of the one-page layout. Both options are available within the same theme!
  • Responsive Layout
    No need to worry about users viewing your site on mobile devices, because Skew was built on a Responsive design. That means your site will look and function great on any of today’s popular mobile devices including smartphones, tablets, notebooks, laptops and more.
  • Highly Customizable
    Besides switching between single-page layout and multipage layout, Skew offers plenty of opportunities to customize the look and feel of your site.
  • Revolution Slider
    Big and bold, this built-in Revolution Slider gives you a single place to show off the best or most-recent content your site has to offer.
  • Page Builder Plugin
    This drag-and-drop feature lets you easily set up your site the way you want to. NO fiddling with code necessary!
  • Classy and Elegant Style
    The Skew theme sports a classy and refined appearance. The white background contrasts nicely with the skewed dark patterns for an overall elegant feel.
  • Striking Header
    Users view your site from top to bottom, so you really want to make a strong first impression with your header. And that’s just one area that Skew really delivers, thanks to the huge Revolution slider, neatly arranged icon boxes and a stylish typography.
  • SEO Optimized
    Skew comes your way with loads of search engine optimization built in. The theme was created with SEO in mind and supports All in One SEO and Yoast Plugins.
  • Loads More Features
    Skew truly does have it all! Take a look at just some of the many more features available in this fantastic WP theme:

    • WPML Plugin Support (.po, .mo Files)
    • Easy Color Management
    • Google Fonts Support 600+
    • Advanced Theme Options Panel
    • Custom Backgrounds for Modules
    • Simple Gallery
    • Wall Gallery
    • Custom Modules
    • Custom Shortcodes
    • Custom Widgets
    • Portfolio Pages (1,2,3,4 Columns)
    • Non-ajax Portfolio (Good for SEO)
    • Unlimited Sidebars
    • Contact Form 7 Support
    • Mailchimp Plugin Support
    • PSD Files Included
    • Extended Documentation
    • And tons more!

Skew normally sells for $45, but for a limited time only, you can take home this beautifully elegant WordPress theme for just $17! That’s a savings of 62% off the regular price!

Click here to see the live demo.

Get Your Free Copy of X Theme Now

Feature-Rich

With X Theme, you are free to give shape to countless unique websites, using a drag-and-drop builder that incorporates a live previewer, so you may quantify your every move in real time. Additionally, both the documentation and the customer support attached to X Theme are excellent, its shortcodes are awesome, and the most recent version (2.5.1) is optimized for bbPress and BuddyPress.

There are four Stacks to speak of for now, but more are on their way: Integrity, Renew, Icon, and Ethos. Consider using the latter when you’re working on a site related to photography or magazines, as it brings out the best in their imagery.

“Your theme is too much! I have had Avada, Enfold, etc…and none compares with the Customizer. Plus, being in the U.S (Miami, FL), it’s refreshing to have complete documentation in REAL English, plus a huge assortment of video tutorials.“
– Superdoc

How to win

A free copy of X Theme is at stake! If you’re interested in being the lucky winner, then surf to a Rafflecopter
and comply with further instructions. Namely, follow Theme.co on Twitter, or like their Facebook page. That’s all. In one week’s time, the fortunate owner of X will have been designated.

Best of luck to you, and here’s an alternative link if you care to purchase X Theme: http://themeforest.net/item/x-the-theme/5871901

Inky’s Birthday Treat: Get 50% off all deals and an iPhone 5S

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A Big Cheers to Inky’s 3rd Anniversary

Today we’re celebrating Inky’s birthday and so are other 300,000 design enthusiasts that joined them in the last 3 years.

And because they’re getting bigger, so are their discounts! Now it’s the perfect time to get your favorite deals at 50% off by using coupon code THREEYEARS at checkout, until 31st October.

Inky’s Star Deals

We took the liberty of showing top 3 deals they have, so pick your “deal”icious product and get it now:

Inky’s Colossal Birthday Bundle: $31,088 worth of Premium Royalty-Free Resources – Only $99

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The Super Premium Vintage Typography Kit for Only $49

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Get 301 Professional Photoshop & Illustrator Styles for Just $19

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Bonus: Win an iPhone 5S!

For any purchase you make until 31st October, you automatically enter the contest and get a chance to win an iPhone 5S. The winner will be chosen through random.org and announced through email on 31st October.

TemplateMonster Giveaway: Win 1 of 3 WordPress Themes

The idea of the giveaway is quite simple: you have to tell me which WordPress theme you’d like to get as a prize.

The prizes are provided by a US-based company named TemplateMonster, so you’ll have to visit their official website to find the theme you’d like to win and if you’re one of 3 lucky winners, you’ll get this theme at no charge.

If you’re new to TemplateMonster, then it might be interesting for you to know that the company has been offering WordPress themes since 2006. As of now, TM has a collection of more than 1,500 WP themes (both responsive and non responsive ones).These are themes for different types of websites, such as personal blogs, portfolio websites, business sites, news sites, fashion blogs, travel blogs, etc. And yes, you can win any of these themes by entering this giveaway.

How to Enter

Go to TemplateMonster.com, explore their collection of WP themes and find the WordPress theme you like best. Then come back to this article and let me know which theme it is. For example, your comment can be as short as ‘I would like to win WP theme #51129′.

Actually, that’s all I wanted to tell you. See what TM has to offer, find the perfect theme for your WordPress website and win it! Oh, I almost forgot! The giveaway starts today and will be running through Tuesday, September 23, 2014.

Good luck!

WordPress tip: Modify any role name to fit your needs

Simply paste this code into your function.php file. Edit lines 5 and 6 at your convenience.

function wps_change_role_name() {
    global $wp_roles;
    if ( ! isset( $wp_roles ) )
        $wp_roles = new WP_Roles();
    $wp_roles->roles['contributor']['name'] = 'Owner';
    $wp_roles->role_names['contributor'] = 'Owner';
}
add_action('init', 'wps_change_role_name');

Thanks to Kevin Chard for the tip!!

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WordPress tip: Modify any role name to fit your needs

Simply paste this code into your function.php file. Edit lines 5 and 6 at your convenience.

function wps_change_role_name() {
    global $wp_roles;
    if ( ! isset( $wp_roles ) )
        $wp_roles = new WP_Roles();
    $wp_roles->roles['contributor']['name'] = 'Owner';
    $wp_roles->role_names['contributor'] = 'Owner';
}
add_action('init', 'wps_change_role_name');

Thanks to Kevin Chard for the tip!!

WordPress tip: Modify any role name to fit your needs

Simply paste this code into your function.php file. Edit lines 5 and 6 at your convenience.

function wps_change_role_name() {
    global $wp_roles;
    if ( ! isset( $wp_roles ) )
        $wp_roles = new WP_Roles();
    $wp_roles->roles['contributor']['name'] = 'Owner';
    $wp_roles->role_names['contributor'] = 'Owner';
}
add_action('init', 'wps_change_role_name');

Thanks to Kevin Chard for the tip!!

The post WordPress tip: Modify any role name to fit your needs appeared first on WPRecipes.

Giveaway: Win a free copy of the fabulous X Theme

Feature-Rich

Ethos is the latest of the four Stacks included with X Theme, and more of them are in development. Every single Stack helps you create different types of websites. For instance, Ethos is perfected for photography or magazine websites, since it showcases images in a genial way.
X Theme is now available in version 2.4.0, which includes full integration with BuddyPress and bbPress. People are crazy about it, due to the versatility that is associated with Stacks, but also thanks to the brand new shortcodes, and live previewer it includes.


“I’m marking “other” as the reason for my rating, simply because there are too many reasons for 5 stars to pick just one. This theme is perfect for web developers who want to be able to create a variety of sleek, functional sites, and forget about other WP themes for a while. The documentation is great and the knowledge base so useful and complex, that it awes you. You can learn about a great deal of online marketing and development topics from it, that span beyond the theme. The support is stellar, and commonly willing to write pieces of custom code for you. The shortcodes are amazing, and combined with the drag & drop builder, they are super quick to use and edit, while still keeping the real WP building experience. Enjoy!“
– Mobloggy

How to win

How would you like to win a free copy of X Theme? Just follow these instructions. Sign up, or log in to Rafflecopter, and then follow Theme.co on Twitter, or like the company on Facebook. Hang in there! The winner will be announced at the end of one week.
However, if you’re not willing to wait so long, purchase the fabled X Theme by accessing this link: http://themeforest.net/item/x-the-theme/5871901.

Win Membership to CrocoBlock WordPress Theme Club

I’m looking for 3 winners, and each winner will get a one month membership to CrocoBlock, or it would be better to say a one month membership to the fastest growing WordPress theme club on the net.

About CrocoBlock

CB is a recently launched WP themes club which grows really fast. As of now, there are over 90 themes at CrocoBlock, among them are WordPress themes, WooCommerce themes and JigoShop themes. But the best thing is that new themes are released every week.Now let’s get to the details of the giveaway.

As I’ve already mentioned I’ll choose 3 winners:

  • The 1st winner will get Premium Membership (regular price $95)
  • The 2nd winner will get Developer Membership (regular price $75)
  • The 3rd winner will get Standard Membership (regular price $55)

Detailed information about membership levels is available here.

How to Win

  • Look through CrocoBlock themes and let me know which of them you like best (you can simply comment with the theme name)

Please: make sure you leave your comment before Monday, September 15, 2014.
Good luck everyone!

8 WordPress plugin to make your blog faster and more user friendly

W3 Total Cache


W3 Total Cache is a performance optimization framework designed to improve user experience and page speed. It improves the user experience of your site by increasing server performance, reducing the download times and providing transparent content delivery network (CDN) integration.
Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/

Disqus


Sick of spam, but still want to maintain a positive commenting experience for your readers? Disqus is an external comment system which makes commenting easier and more interactive, while connecting websites and commenters across a thriving discussion community.
Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/disqus-comment-system/

BJ Lazy Load


Here is an useful lazy loading plugin to make your site load faster and save bandwidth. It replaces all your post images, post thumbnails, gravatar images and content iframes with a placeholder and loads the content as it gets close to enter the browser window when the visitor scrolls the page.
Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bj-lazy-load/

WP Smush.it


Definitely one of my favorite plugins ever, that I’ve been using since years. Once activated, WP Smush.it works in the background and automatically strip meta data from JPEGs so you’ll save a lot of space and bandwidth. Give it a try, you won’t be disappointed.
Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smushit/

Backup


The plugin every WordPress blogger should have installed. Allows you to backup your blog files and data so you’ll never lose your site even in case of a big problem.
Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/backup/

Better WordPress Minify


Better WordPress Minify allows you to combine and minify your .css and .js files to improve page load time. This plugin uses the PHP library Minify and relies on WordPress’s enqueueing system rather than the output buffer, which respects the order of .css and .js files as well as their dependencies. BWP Minify is very customizable and easy to use.

Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bwp-minify/

Contact Form 7


Any serious blog or website needs to provide a way for visitors to contact the site owner. Creating contact forms can be tricky, so hopefully this plugin is available. It allows you to create custom contact forms visually and integrate them in any post or page with no effort.
Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/

Watermark


Are you posting photography, or original images on your website? If yes, you might want to add a watermark to protect your intellectual property. Of course you can do it with an image editor like Photoshop, but this great plugin can do all the hard work for you. Give it a try!
Link: http://wordpress.org/plugins/alti-watermark/

11 Professional Email Templates from ChocoTemplates – only $12

This bundle includes more than 100 color variations and 500+ layered PSD files worth of email templates that are compatible with most of today’s popular email clients. And for a limited time only, thanks to this deal, you can get them all for just a little more than $1 per template.

ChocoTemplates Email Template Bundle Highlights:

  • 11 Professional Email Templates:
    When you email customers and clients you want to look as professional as you can. And that’s exactly what you can do with this bundle of 11 different high-quality email templates from ChocoTemplates.
  • 100+ Color Variations:
    Changing up the colors on your emails is a snap with this template. Just choose the color you’d like from 110 different color variations and you’re good to go.
  • Highly Customizable (PSD option):
    Choose the PSD files version of this deal and you’ll get all the necessary Photoshop files to customize as you see fit. That’s 528 layered PSD files to easily find and change what you need.
  • Compatible with Popular Email Clients:
    These ChocoTemplates email templates have been road tested in all major email clients. So you know your message will get through to your subscribers no matter what they’re using to read your emails.
  • MailChimp Ready:
    Use MailChimp for your email management? Great! These templates are MailChimp ready, making integration ridiculously simple.
  • CampaignMonitor Ready:
    Integrate your emails with CampaignMonitor to easily keep an eye on the overall success. All email templates come CampaignMonitor Ready, so you can get them hooked up in no time flat.

This collection of email templates normally sells for $242, but for a limited time only, you can get all 11 email templates for just $12 – That’s a killer savings of 95% off the regular price, OR get all 11 email templates PLUS the invaluable PSD files for just $18, instead of the regular price of $352.

See all the templates