Wordpress Blogging Mastery Malaysia

There are a few Wordpress 2.5 - 3 column Themes you might find useful, after you have upgraded since March 2008.

Andreas09 Wordpress Theme 2.5

Features

• 14 colour options selectable from your WordPress admin.
• Horizontal menu with unlimited sub-page support.
• Built in Widgets support.
• Fully prepared for localisation - only one file to translate to any language.
• Comments enabled on pages.
• 3 column theme
• Fluid central column
• Full width
• 14 different colors

Download Andreas09 Theme

Ayumi - Wordpress Theme 2.5

Features

• Green and Red and a little bit blue color
• 2 Right Sidebar
• Widget Ready
• Change About text via Admin Profile
• Tested on WordPress 2.1.x, 2.2.x, 2.3.x and 2.5.x

Download AYUMI Theme

Cutline 3-Column-Right 11 Wordpress 2.5 Theme

Features

• Squeky clean, feature-rich theme
• 3-column
• Fixed width
• Left sidebar
• Right sidebar
• Widget ready

Download Cutline 3-Column Right 11

Genki Wordpress 2.5 Theme

Features

• 3 columns: Fluid-Fixed-Fixed
• Sliding tabmenu on the left. Static when javascript is disabled.
• Widget support
• XHTML & CSS compliance

Download Genki Theme

Xplosive Theme

Features

• Full XHTML compliant
• Web 2.0 theme
• 3-column with two right-side bars
• Blue-Orange color scheme

Download Xplosive Theme

Xplosive Reloaded Theme

Features

• Available in four flavors – Satin, Autumn, Aqua, Prairie
• Style Switcher
• Widget ready
• XHTML validated

Download Xplosive-Reloaded Theme

Zyred Theme

Features

• Widget ready
• Flexible width
• 3-column
• Content column min. width of 468 pix
• wordpress 2.5 tested
• widget ready
• valid XHTML 1.0
• templates for special pages included: archive, links and pages with comments
• multilanguage; english and german language included

Download ZyRed Theme

Since March 2008, Wordpress upgraded their version of 2.3 to 2.5. I was caught by surprised when I logged in to my cPanel to find that I need to upgrade to Wordpress WP version 2.5. The next surprise I found was many versions of the older Wordpress templates 2.0+ does NOT work well with upgraded Wordpress version 2.5. So if you have upgraded your Wordpress to 2.5, please go and download compatible Wordpress 2.5 Themes.

The following are Wordpress Themes that are compatible to upgraded WP version 2.5.

Download these 2-column Wordpress 2.5 Theme:-

RedBusiness3C

Features

• 2 Columns - Fixed Width
• 3 Columns - Fixed Width also available
• Widgets Ready
• XHTML & CSS compliance

Download RedBusiness3C

Wicked Lemon

Features

• Docking sidebar – click and drag different sidebar items and dock them anywhere
• CSS Style Switcher inbuilt
• Four color themes

Download Wicked Lemon Theme

Winter Plain

Features

• Siple and soft styled
• Widget-ready
• 2-column Cool theme

Download Winter Plain Theme

Artificial Intelligence

Features

• 2 Columns - Fixed Width
• Widgets Ready
• XHTML & CSS compliance

Download Artificial Intelligence Theme

There are five ways to customise your blog’s design in anyway you prefer.

1. Template Driven Design

WordPress uses templates to generate the pages dynamically. You can control the presentation of content by editing the templates using the Template Editor tool and the Template Tags.

2. Template and File Editor

Every installation of WordPress comes with a file editor you can use to edit your templates and other WordPress related files, right in your browser without having to worry about downloading and uploading the files in order to edit them.

3. Template Tags

Template tags make it easier to design the content and information displayed on your weblog. You don’t need to be a PHP whiz to design your weblog.

4. Themes

You can skin your weblog using readily available themes, or styles. You can also create and share your own themes.

5. Plugins

Plugins extends the core functionality of your weblog. A large number of user-developed plugins are already available and can be used to do virtually anything you want to, with your blog.

Starting a new blog is difficult and this can put many people off. Then again other people who have blogs with no comments or visits. You want to stand out from this crowd of millions of bloggers and you want to be one of the few hundred thousand blogs that are actually visited.

So here are some basic Blogging Tips for beginners to help you on your way to blogging mastery:

1. Post regularly, but don’t post if you have nothing worth posting about. This means 3 times a day, like morning, afternoon and evening, if you are a regular blogger.

2. Stick with only a few specific genres to talk about. Example, if your blog talks about ‘How to grow Orchids’, then stick to this subject.

3. Don’t put ’subscribe’ and ‘vote me’ links all over the front page. If your readers like your blog, they will subscribe to your newsletter or feed.

4. Use a clean and simple Wordpress Theme if at all possible. Blogging templates comes in many types according to themes and columns. It is up to your own personal preference and choice.

5. Enjoy, blog for fun, comment on other peoples’ blogs (as they normally visit back).

In a later article, how to blog with Wordpress.

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