BloggerVenue

It is getting harder to show you professional and good looking wordpress magazine themes. The Majority is widely advertised by bloggers. A brief google search for “Free wordpress magazine themes” will show you the usual suspects. Pages that you are tired of visiting and showing the same old magazine themes.

Fortunately from time to time there is a new free wordpress magazine theme release that is worth mentioning. Today i have only 3 but i assure they are top quality.

The first two are from one of my favourity designers (Web2feel.com). They present us with regular wordpress magazine themes. The themes “skeleton” is basically the same, but they make alterations that make them impressive.

1- Milano

A free magazine that suites all niches. It is designed to help you make money through ads.

Nice olive color scheme. Definitely a theme to take into consideration for your next project.

DEMO | DOWNLOAD

2 - Zherald

Another excellent realease by web2feel. Theis free wordpress magazine theme uses a white color scheme with some grey and olive. It has the usual image slider, featured post and video and optimized for ads like google adsense. Worth taking a look.

DEMO | DOWNLOAD

3 - Premium Entertainment theme

This theme is obviously not for all kind of blogs. If you plan or have a blog about celebrities/gossip/fashion/entertainment then this may be the right choice.

This is a premium free magazine style theme for wordpress. Comes with a variety of plugins all included in the pack, and it is adsense ready.

DEMO | DOWNLOAD

These are the one i think they deserved to be posted. There are a lot more magazine themes to show, but like i said, they are widely advertised by bloggers and i want to bring you original and fresh content

Well, i said i was back, but it seems that isn’t entirely correct. It seems my blog mysteriously decided to monopolize the server resources, giving an high server load in a 8 cpu server… My host decided to bring this blog offline. I did some tweaks and everytime bloggervenue went online, i was contacted again by my host that they shut down the blog again because the situation remained the same.
Today i did more optimizations to the blog and so far so good, but no one knows what can happen tomorrow. If the blog is down again then you’ll know what the reason is.
If it happens again i will have to go radical… All my plugins will be deleted and installed again, this time only the extremely necessary… Also, this blog theme, which i love may need to be changed, because it isn’t fully compatible with wordpress 2.7+.

In the last week, i decided to try to convert some wordpress themes to use with Bans. I wanted to do this, because of two reasons:

First I didn’t want to depend on others to get the themes i wanted to use on my wordpress/bans sites and secondly  there is an high demand for this type of integration and very few themes available.

So, after learning how to convert wordpress themes to be used on bans sites at mark’s blog, i decided to try for my self.  The process itself is somewhat simple, but i decided to go first with some simple themes and then head over to more complicated themes.  I have to confess that this process is a bit addicting, and im thinking that now that i have more spare time, i will be doing some serious conversions! lol.

There are some themes that i want to convert but i have stumbled with some issues that i need to correct and i haven’t discovered the solutions for them…. :\

I want to share with you some of the conversions i’ve made. The themes used are simple, nothing out of extraordinary, but i am sure they will fit the needs of some of you.

1- Peaceful Rush

Download Peaceful Rush

2- Pink Love

Download Pink Love

3- Preserver of Health

Download Preserver of Health

These themes are free to use. All zip’s come with a readme file with instructions on what you need to change to make the theme work correctly. If you have any doubt on how to install them feel free to ask for support here, and if you find any bug then please do tell me.

The themes are free, but i ask to please maintain the credits of the theme placed at the footer. Removing them goes against the TOS in which they have been released to the public.

I plan to continuously release more themes, some will be free, some will be available only to feed subscribers, others wil cost something. Let’s see how things go.

If you want a specific theme converted you can ask here, and i will put it on the queue.  If you don’t want to wait too much time then contact me so we can discuss the price of the conversion.

This Saturday, the first stable wordpress 2.5 was finally released. After some delays and two beta release candidates, wordpress as reached another new level.

I could mention the new features that come with the new version, and how awesome the new control panel was, but i won’t do that. First, im not in the mood for that, and second, my first impression on the new cpanel was not that good lol.

Last week, with the release of the final version of the options theme, i decided to upgrade to the wordpress RC-2 in order to properly use the new theme, which was WP 2.5 specific.

I had to do some research first on how to safely upgrade my wordpress installation, and spent some time reading about the possible incompatibilities with some plugins.

So, after some research i decided that it was time to backup my database (obviously), not only from this blog, but from all my sql driven sites. Heck, if i was downloading one database why not download all of them and spare some time in the future?

Now, with all backups placed in a “safe” place it was time for the next phase:

Checking plugins issues with WP 2.5

Every wordpress blogger will have for certain, plugins installed, and most of you will be like me, a plugin addict, that installs almost all new plugins that appear lol. But this new version is different in so many ways, that some plugins might not work correctly, or not work at all.

So, a mandatory stop is the Wordpress Codex where you can find a list of compatible plugins, and a list of plugins that don’t work with this new version. Just browse the list and see if there’s a plugin that you use and it is known not to work with WP 2.5. Just take notice that if your plugin is not on the list, that does not necessarily mean that it is compatible.

This may be also useful. There is a plugin called Wordpress Upgrade Preflight Check that will generate a list of all your installed plugin, and it will tell you if there’s issues with the wordpress version you want to install. Unfortunately, the plugin author has not released yet a version that checks problems in upgrading to 2.5. It only does to version 2.3. But check the plugin page often, as i expect a release soon.

Now, with instant upgrade plugin, i just click to install the latest stable version of wordpress and voila! You have upgraded easily your blog and in a safe way.

Now, you just need to test your blog to see if you find any conflict with your plugins, and if everything is fine then, there is nothing more to say than:

Enjoy the wordpress features and happy blogging!

Btw, i made a new bans site

Good evening fellow bloggers!

This has been a busy day for me. I have spent the last hours configuring the new design for the blog and updating the wordpress version of this blog.

A new version of the wordpress 2.5 has been released. It is in the RC-2 Version now. Still in beta though. But still, i decided to upgrade the blog. First i did a full backup of my hosting (a thing that i haven’t done in a long long time). Downloaded a backup of the blog’s database, checked for compatibility issues with some plugins i run here, and deactivated the problematic ones. Then i did the upgraded with no problems at all.

The main reason i upgraded the blog was that the theme i am currently using (options themes) is fully functional with wordpress 2.5, and has some issues with version 2.3

I have been eager to use this theme for some time now, and this was the right time to do it.

I really like the new design of the blog. I was getting a little bit bored with the previous one (structure theme, which is still a great theme). This theme gives me more Options to play around ;), but due to the great number of options it will take some time for me to reach perfection. The next thing i will do, when i finish writing this post, is to make a new header. Right know the header says “Options Theme bla bla bla”, and that can’t stay there

So, now, i ask for your cooperation. If you see something out of place, errors, or something similar please post a comment here or mail me using the contact page. I would appreciate your cooperation

While i was working on the updates i was thinking what would be the future of this blog. I mean, things are going well. I have a decent amount of traffic, my alexa score is reaching the 100,000 mark :D, but know a question appears. Should i move the blog from being a subdomain of my main website (Dahh.net) to a independent .com domain address or should i stay like this?

I would love to have some feedback from you