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Installation guide
Ad Optimized
Built in Flickr Support
Video Spot
Stylesheet for print pages
Ajax tabs
Unique newspaper style design
Easily customizable using CSS
Advertising Space (120×120 sponsor ads)
Custom 404 Error page
Gravatar support
Dropdown navigation
Widget support for sidebar
Valid XHTML
Valid CSS
Support by e-mail & chat

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Gabfire NewsPro Basic Package (Single Use License $59)
Basic package is the best choose for those who want to use NewsPro theme under of 1 domain only. This package entitles you to use Gabfire NewsPro theme ONLY ON 1 SITE. You may not resell, transfer or otherwise redistribute Gabfire NewsPro theme in any form, including derivative works. You may not make multiple use, modify or remove the credits in the site footer.

Gabfire NewsPro Multi-Site Package (Multiple Use License$159)
With this package, you may use Gabfire NewsPro theme on multiple sites that are owned by you. You may not resell, transfer or otherwise redistribute Gabfire NewsPro theme in any form, including derivative works. You may modify or remove the credits in the site footer.

Gabfire NewsPro Developer Package (Developer License$259)
With this package you may use the NewsPro theme on multiple sites that are owned by you as well as to use it as a starting template for any kind of client projects that you will have. …

Ever since I started to develop themes for WordPress, I always wanted to build a newspaper style theme. That is why I’m very happy to announce that I am going to release Gabfire NewsPro in this week.

I am on the very last step of releasing my new theme. You can have a look at live demo over magazine themes. Currently, I am preparing an installation guide to include into release folder.

Together with the release of Gabfire NewsPro theme,  I will also get some free time for my self to build up a unique theme for my personal site, gabfire.

What do you think about new theme guys?

Matt the founder of WordPress is inviting you to a party in San Francisco on May, 27th.

Its been 5 years of first announcement of WordPress. During all that time, millions of downloads, thousands of plugins and the most important a great community met over that amazing platform. It is great to see how a blogging platform became to be a base for most of web developers to set their websites on.

Party details

Philippines, Manila, September 6, 2008.

This is the confirmed date and location of WordCamp Philippines. Agenda of WordCamp Manila will contain some different activity named as “Install Fest” where everybody is encouraged to bring their laptops. There will be a guided tour to install WordPress along with the most important plugins.

If you don’t want to miss any single tip about WordCamp Manila, add official Philippines WordCamp Page into your bookmarked sites list.

PS. It is funny to see the definition of blogger in the official site of WordCamp Manila. blogger = person + Internet-enabled gadget

Just a quick note to say, that WordPress 2.6 has a scheduled release in August 2008. However, you can give an early try to WordPress 2.6 alpha release over demo site.

2.6 release looks quite promising with new features that it includes such as The Meta Bookmarklet and Google Gears support. Google Gear support will allow users to manage their blog offline. Great feature, isn’t it?

I have entered into WordPress theme competition of Lunarpages with my Kollane WordPress theme. I would be very pleased if you could spare one minute to go blog.lunarpages.com and vote for my theme that is named as Kollane by Mehmet Ozekinci

Why not write an extra blog post today?
Why not sign up for an affiliate program?
Why not comment on a blog in your niche today?
Why not read blogs outside your niche today?
Why not drop 300 Entrecards today?
Why not submit a guest post to a popular blog?

This list is not going to end here. Jason Boom offers 100 Why Not Activities for Bloggers to inspire and keep your blogging fuse up.

If you haven’t meet with Noupe yet, I suggest you to do it today. They are going on with their killer article series and they have compiled a great list of WordPress plugins which is entitled 35 WordPress Plugins for Effective Blogging Experience.

Free of charge RSS Feed Icons: Right place to check for alternative RSS icons

How To: Finding a WordPress Job: If you consider yourself as a WP coder, you can get yourself hired. Kyle has listed some online databases to follow and get freelance works.

A while back, Dan wrote an interesting article which is entitled 30 improvements I’d like to see in WordPress 2.6. The first place on the list was about “customizable color schemes - possibly with COLOURlovers integration on admin area”. The idea was great, lets hope WordPress developers will consider this feature. As of now, Dan has blogged about a plugin which has ability to change your site’s admin colors with built-in COLOURlovers functionality.

If you are not handy with CSS and would like to try some different color schemes, you should give a try to COLOURlover WordPress Plugin.

A while back, web designer meant to be only one person who makes the design, programming and submit the site to search engines. Nowadays, web design has became to be a huge field where there are different opportunities for art-designers, programmers, SEM and SEO companies…

I recently came across an article over wpcandy that is entitled as SEO for WordPress. I had some question marks when I read the following state on that article.

Some background information: Google gives less weightage to links that appear site-wide, and also links which are separated from the bulk of content. However, the links still pass on invaluable link juice to other pages.
It was containing an interesting question for me. Do site wide links hurt?

I straight away forwarded this question to Brent who founded the SEO Company Agilis Marketing and successfully assisted many companies achieve top search results on the other major search engines.

He has answered me over his blog with an excellent article which is entitled as The Value of Links in SEO. I would encourage you to check the article since he states very important points as an SEO expert.

Sidenote: Brent is also the owner of our WordPress SEO theme who has given it to community for free.