We have 10 Shock Bundles (value $129 each) to giveaway – Comment to Enter

For this weeks giveaway we have 10 Premium Shock Bundles, courtesy of the guys behind Theme Nation.

All you have to do for a chance of winning one of these books is leave a comment below telling us why you would like to win this bundle.

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Zenshop – Free WordPress Theme

Zenshop – Free WordPress Theme

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Comics of the week #122

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WordCamp hits the Netherlands this weekend

WordCamp Netherlands will feature a lineup of experts on WordPress, Social Media, SEO, and Performance including our very own Andy Killen. While it’s hosted in the Netherlands, many of the talks will be in English for the speaker’s convenience.

Saturday (March 24th) will open the event with a series… read more

Useful WordPress Tools, Themes And Plugins

If you’re looking for some great ways to improve your WordPress workflow, read on for a massive collection of free themes, plugins, tools and tutorials. These resources were all linked via the Smashing Magazine Twitter stream, Facebook stream, and other social-media streams around the Web.

These awesome resources have now been… read more

11 Responsive WordPress Themes – Best of March 2012

11 Responsive WordPress Themes – Best of March 2012

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Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers: Good and Bad

As bloggers, we face a wide variety of tasks each day related to managing and building our blogs. Productivity and efficiency are vital, especially for part-time bloggers. A number of extremely addictive and time-consuming habits stand in the way, though.

I’m sure all bloggers wonder, “How did others make it to… read more

Really Handy WordPress Code Snippets for your Themes

Really Handy WordPress Code Snippets for your Themes

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How to Add Facebook Like Box to Your WordPress Manually

How to Add Facebook Like Box to Your WordPress Manually

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How Tech Will Transform the Traditional Classroom

Ben Jackson is a writer and app developer living in Brooklyn, NY. He likes clean typography, dirty language, strong coffee, apple pie and comfortable chairs, and he writes about his obsessions at 90WPM.

As the post-PC era moves from interesting theory to cold, hard reality, one of the most pressing questions… read more

The Most Epic Collection of Photography Links (Since Last Week)

It’s been an action-packed week in the world of photography, and Toad Hollow Photography has been busy compiling a list of the best links to tutorial, great photography and interesting blogs to share with everyone here.  The Toad loves to follow the work of incredible artists and photographers, and loves… read more

WDL Premium: Work – An Elegant WordPress Theme

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Today, for our WDL Premium Members, we have a beautiful premium WordPress theme for your blog. The Work theme from Theme Trust is An elegant portfolio theme built for showing off your work. This theme has a clean and professional style that is perfect for displaying… read more

7 Ways to Toughen Up Your Freelancing Game

Working as a freelancer may not conjure up images of being a tough cookie, but being a one-person show at your own business takes remarkable creativity, discipline, and good old-fashioned moxie. The Atlantic called freelancing the “next industrial revolution” of our time.

Freelancers, from independent creatives to technical consultants, juggle… read more

Twitter Rewind: Big Highlights From 2012 to 2006

Six-year-old Twitter is a remarkably different animal than it was when co-founder Jack Dorsey sent the service’s first tweet in March 2006: “just setting up my twttr,” he wrote.

A minuscule user base grew into today’s 140 million-strong active tweeters, who at last count send more than 1 billion tweets every… read more

26+ Useful WordPress Cheat Sheets & Resources

26+ Useful WordPress Cheat Sheets & Resources

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Tools to make your WordPress theme Responsive

Tools to make your WordPress theme Responsive

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Extensive Collection Of jQuery Drag And Drop Plugins

jQuery allows you to create stylish yet user friendly websites that are not only pleasing to the eye but also are very lightweight and load quite quickly. This is the reason why jQuery has a special place in the field of web development. jQuery is getting better day by day… read more

WordPress plugins for user-submitted & user-generated content

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Wondering Which One is Better – WordPress or Blogger?

Wondering Which One is Better – WordPress or Blogger?

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Awesome WordPress Plugins For Your Blog

Awesome WordPress Plugins For Your Blog

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5 Mighty Deals Up for Grabs

This week I’m proud to announce that we have 5 deals from Mighty Deals up for grabs! Mighty Deals is a great site that offers amazing and exclusive deals for web professionals – and you can win a deal of your choice!

Mighty Deals is a great place for any, and… read more

Debugging WordPress Themes and Plugins With Eclipse and Xdebug

Debugging WordPress Themes and Plugins With Eclipse and Xdebug

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Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.124)

This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :)
If you would like to receive our daily updates and keep up to date with the latest and greatest articles and resources from the… read more

Web Worker’s Library: Awesome Printed Web Design and Development Books

There’s no doubt that eBook devices such as the Kindle and the Nook have changed how people read books forever. At the start of 2011 Amazon reported that for the first time eBook sales exceeded paperbacks. It’s doubtful this trend will ever be reversed.

Though with E ink devices, image… read more

Developing WordPress Themes Using Responsive Frameworks

Developing WordPress Themes Using Responsive Frameworks

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10+ useful SQL queries to clean up your WordPress database

10+ useful SQL queries to clean up your WordPress database

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40+ Fresh And Free WordPress Themes

WordPress is the famous blogging platform and a content management system for creating a blog or a website. WordPress themes are available there in order to customize ones WordPress blog or websites. You can choose a custom theme for your blog or website that will best represent you. since WordPress… read more

Make Multiple Blogs Manageable with ManageWP

Whether you run your own blog network built around the open source WordPress platform or you just manage a few blogs for clients, you’ll probably understand how hard it is to manually maintain these through each one’s separate admin panels. It appears that the developers of ManageWP have decided to… read more

60+ Latest WordPress Site Designs for Inspiration

Many of you should know that instantShift is proudly powered by WordPress, as a Blogging and CMS tool. If you are in search of good CMS or a web tool for your projects, we strongly recommend WordPress to you. WordPress is a great tool, and best thing is FREE!

Now days… read more

Where should I really be sharing?

Social networking is constantly evolving. In many cases, what was cool two years ago is now next to worthless. For example ‘the Digg effect‘ used to be massive and could really make a big difference to the visitors to a website.

That was then, this is now. The Digg… read more

Vertelino Magazine Free WordPress Theme

Vertelino Magazine Free WordPress Theme

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The Shock Bundle Giveaway: Win 1 Of 10 Licenses

Today we would like to present to you another amazing giveaway. WordPressthemeshock and Designrfix have teamed up to offer you the chance to win an amazing collection of WordPress Themes, xhtml templates and design elements such as icons, vector mascot sets and logo templates just to name a few. We are… read more

WordPress-Anti-Spam

WordPress-Anti-Spam

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GlowingWp Free grid Style wordpress Theme

GlowingWp Free grid Style wordpress Theme

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35+ Free and Premium WordPress Portfolio Themes

35+ Free and Premium WordPress Portfolio Themes

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Typography 101: What Small Business Owners Need To Know

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

The old saying “don’t judge a book by its cover” is sometimes hard to overcome in the business world. How you present yourself aesthetically is important, no… read more

Our favorite tweets of the week Mar 12-Mar 18, 2012

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12 Awesome WordPress Social Plugins For Capitalising On Pinterest

12 Awesome WordPress Social Plugins For Capitalising On Pinterest

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WordPress Plugins: Market your Website Content

WordPress Plugins: Market your Website Content

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Jobs Beyond Traditional Journalism

It was 2005 when I arrived on the campus of New York University for the first semester of grad school. I had lofty aspirations and stars in my eyes. I was in the Big Apple! The city was my oyster and I was ready to work my butt off… read more

Sites of the Week #196

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as Kicksend and Second Story. Also we’re featuring the amazing parallax scrolling ALA website, and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be… read more

35+ Helpful Twitter Plugins for WordPress

35+ Helpful Twitter Plugins for WordPress

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Photography Links That Will Rock Your World

This week has been filled with great photography, tutorials and interesting blogs as shared by some truly gifted artists.  The photography community has been busy, and Toad Hollow Photography has compiled this list of some of the very best pieces encountered during their weekly adventures.  We sincerely hope you enjoy… read more

Block WordPress Admin By IP

Block WordPress Admin By IP

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Creative Blog WordPress Theme: Radial

Creative Blog WordPress Theme: Radial

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Showcase Of Best WordPress Websites And Blog Designs

Showcase Of Best WordPress Websites And Blog Designs

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Symptoms Of An Epidemic: Web Design Trends

Since Elliot Jay Stocks so poignantly told us to destroy the Web 2.0 look, we’ve witnessed a de-shinification of the Web, with fewer glass buttons, beveled edges, reflections, special-offer badges, vulgar gradients with vibrant colors and diagonal background patterns. The transformation has been welcomed with relief by all but the… read more

Hero: A Minimal and Responsive Portfolio WordPress Theme

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Over at Theme Trust, we just released a brand new WordPress theme. Hero is a responsive and minimal portfolio theme for creative types who want to show off their best work and highlight their services. One of the key features of this theme is the parallax… read more

Giveaway – 3 Premium WordPress Themes from ThemeFuse

Giveaway – 3 Premium WordPress Themes from ThemeFuse

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30 Unusual, Fresh and Creative WordPress Site Designs 10

30 Unusual, Fresh and Creative WordPress Site Designs 10

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Sick Baby Photos On Facebook Could Be a Scam [WARNING]

The heart-wrenching photo of a sick baby on your Facebook feed could be a scam, according to a group of five fraud-detecting websites. They posted their second open letter to Facebook on Tuesday, asking the social network to better regulate “sick baby” scams on Facebook.

Sick baby photos are taken… read more

How to Track Your Website’s Content on Pinterest

Ann Smarty is a search marketer and full-time web entrepreneur. Ann blogs on search and social media tools. Her newest project, My Blog Guest, is a free platform for guest bloggers and blog owners. Follow Ann on Twitter @seosmarty.

Pinterest is now one of the most efficient traffic sources, in some… read more

WordPress for Photographers: Top Tips and Professional Resources

Believe it or not, there was a time when WordPress was regarded as a great blogging platform, but that was all. Build an entire site on it? No way!

Well, that was then, this is now. These days, WordPress is powering some of the biggest names in news, music, fashion,… read more

Freelance Training from Tuts+ Premium

Are you a passionate freelancer, or looking to make the leap into freelancing full time? We’re excited to announce that FreelanceSwitch has partnered with Tuts+ Premium to offer in-depth video courses and eBooks for freelancers as part of a monthly membership.

What you’ll get:

Freelance Bootcamp video course from James Clear… read more

Add An Edit Link On WordPress Posts

Add An Edit Link On WordPress Posts

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25+ Free Download WordPress Themes

25+ Free Download WordPress Themes

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20 High Quality Free WordPress Portfolio Themes 2012

20 High Quality Free WordPress Portfolio Themes 2012

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How to Create Random Images from Post Thumbnails WordPress

How to Create Random Images from Post Thumbnails WordPress

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What’s new for designers, March 2012

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Website Speed Part 4 : PHP Programming for Speed

Programming for speed is not what most coders think of. What they tend to consider first, and usually only, is getting it working. Sometimes people will talk of refactoring to reduce the amount of code, but again this is usually only for those that suffer with the luxury… read more

To Use or Not to Use a CMS

As web designers, we all are aware of the importance of CMSs. Simply put, a CMS helps in managing the website in an efficient manner. If you are running a photo gallery, a blog, a news site or any similar website that requires constant updates, nothing beats the ease which… read more

Add an F.A.Q to WordPress with the Free Plugin – WP-FAQ

Add an F.A.Q to WordPress with the Free Plugin – WP-FAQ

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More than 170 best and fresh WordPress resources and blogs, 2012 edition

More than 170 best and fresh WordPress resources and blogs, 2012 edition

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The Power of Using WordPress as a CMS

The Power of Using WordPress as a CMS

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Simplicity in 27 Portfolio WordPress Website Designs

Simplicity in 27 Portfolio WordPress Website Designs

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WordPress Theme of the Week: Vintage

WordPress Theme of the Week: Vintage

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The Best Themes of the Month [Feb 2012]

The Best Themes of the Month [Feb 2012]

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How To Do Keyword Research (What You Need to Know?)

Search-engine optimization (SEO) is a main ingredient in website upkeep and an inescapable part of online marketing. The process of keyword research is vital to good SEO. Keyword-stuffing used to be the master card in terms of SEO, but those days are gone. Keyword research still carries weight, and website… read more

Say Hi To Anchor – A Super-Tiny CMS

I’m going to make a bold assumption here, but I bet you’ve got a blog. If you do, then you join a crowd of millions, all penning their deepest thoughts and documenting their life. It really is hard to stand out from the crowd though.

Anchor aims to fix… read more

Find My Mac and Sosumi: Keep Your Mac Secure

Even if you don’t have a portable Mac, you should be aware that stuff happens, and even if you think that it’s never going to happen to you, thefts are not as unusual as you might think. I’ve been there, and I can tell you it feels awful having no… read more

Best Premium WordPress Themes 2012

Best Premium WordPress Themes 2012

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Best WordPress Themes 2012

Best WordPress Themes 2012

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Learn How to Display a Message on Old WordPress Posts

Learn How to Display a Message on Old WordPress Posts

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Great Photography Links to Procrastinate With!

The Toad has been busy hopping all over the internet this week finding the best links to tutorials, great photography and interesting blogs to share with everyone.  This weeks list showcases a series of really great images and blog posts sure to be enjoyed by the photography fan in all… read more

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11 Popular WordPress themes Collection from WooThemes

11 Popular WordPress themes Collection from WooThemes

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Top 7 Free e-Commerce WordPress Plugins

Top 7 Free e-Commerce WordPress Plugins

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Security with WordPress config

Security with WordPress config

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The Evolution of Animated GIFs [VIDEO]

GIFs have become a bit of an enigma — they are one of the oldest image formats used on the Web, yet if you ask anyone familiar with the old format, they’d likely not associate it with a short clip of a cat in a Godzilla suit knocking over a… read more

Writing Unit Tests For WordPress Plugins

When my WordPress plugin had only three users, it didn’t matter much if I broke it. By the time I reached 100,000 downloads, every new update made my palms sweat.

My first goal for the WordPress Editorial Calendar was to make it do anything useful. I was new to JavaScript and… read more

Scroll to Internal Link with jQuery

One page scrolling sites have experienced a huge growth in popularity in web design in recent years. Although this type of site isn’t for everyone, it is still useful to know how they work. Today, I will teach you how to create a very simple one page scrolling… read more

GridyWp Free Gallery WordPress Theme

GridyWp Free Gallery WordPress Theme

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Daily Inspiration #1075

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Best WordPress Themes of February 2012

Best WordPress Themes of February 2012

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Elegant WordPress Themes: 20+ Great New Templates

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Smashing Email Newsletter Turns Two Years Old: Comment and Win!

Two years ago, we launched the Smashing Email Newsletter. Today, we’d like to reflect on some of the greatest newsletter articles of the past year and celebrate this anniversary with our 100,000 readers with a fabulous book giveaway!

Back then, we planned to launch the Smashing Newsletter only if we had… read more

21 Most Useful WordPress Admin Page Hacks

WordPress needs no introduction among designers and writers. It use to known as the synonym for blogging but now days it is used to create any type of website of any complexity. WordPress has reached phenomenally high usage rates. There are over 70 million publishers who use WordPress, making it… read more

10 Best WordPress Sharing Plugins of 2012 To Get More Social Traffic

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What does it take to get your posts shared on Social Networks? With over 250 million Tweets being posted every day and close to 4 billion items being posted on Facebook, there is definitely not a lack in volume of Social Media updates.

To make a larger… read more

15 Free WordPress Business & Corporate Themes 2012

15 Free WordPress Business & Corporate Themes 2012

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Travel Photography Inspiration Project: India

Welcome to the first installment in the long term DPS Travel Photography Inspiration Project. We start our world travels in India. The response to requests for photos was highest for this county more than any other and what a fine group of samples were sent! I asked each participant to… read more

Californiumite Free WordPress Theme

Californiumite Free WordPress Theme

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The Challenge of Responsive Images

Images are one of the most important elements on a web page in terms of user experience. Few objects on a page have the same impact on everything from emotional responses to bounce rates.

When users are viewing your site on mobile devices, small screens, or in other unusual… read more

20 Quality WordPress Themes For Design Studios

20 Quality WordPress Themes For Design Studios

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10 Useful Pinterest WordPress Plugins

10 Useful Pinterest WordPress Plugins

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Our favorite tweets of the week Feb 27-Mar 4, 2012

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5 Plugins To Enhance Or Replace The WordPress WYSIWYG Editor

5 Plugins To Enhance Or Replace The WordPress WYSIWYG Editor

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20+ Best & Useful Plugins For Your WordPress Blog

20+ Best & Useful Plugins For Your WordPress Blog

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12 WordPress Themes to Download

12 WordPress Themes to Download

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25 Amazing Single Page WordPress Templates

25 Amazing Single Page WordPress Templates

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20 Tutorials to Build Really Useful WordPress Plugins

20 Tutorials to Build Really Useful WordPress Plugins

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