As i promised in my last post , here i am , once again with a new free Wordpress theme . Q Press is a two-column maroon and silvery white Wordpress theme bundled with a host of features that is ideal for any type of Blog. Continue Reading
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Wordpress theme – Dark Temptation
Dark Temptation is a dark wordpress theme with a touch of cyan . Its beautiful, uses Cufon text-image replacement for headers , and is SEO optimized . Boasts a horizontal navigation menu , few theme options and a widgetized left side-bar . Download and enjoy ! 
Download Dark Temptation Theme
Wordpress theme : Tranquility 1.0
Tranquility is light weight light color wordpress theme with a brilliant professional silver look. The theme has a widgetized sidebar , rounded corners and many exciting features.
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Scenic Sanity – A clean jquerified wordpress theme
Scenic Sanity is yet another free gorgeous wordpress theme from dynamicguru.com licensed under GPL. It is a light color variant of my previous theme “The Last fall” .It has two-columns , a widgetized left-sidebar and gravtar integrated comments , ideal for personal weblogs . Some of the cool features include :
- Cufon text-image replacement for headers
- jquery hover effects on links in the sidebar
- Rounded corners in FireFox and Safari
- Excerpt based homepage
- Collapsible left sidebar widgets
- Sleek styles for the Calendar widget
Wordpress – How to display featured posts in your theme
“Featured Posts” are a key feature of any news/journal wordpress site. It is pretty easy to develop a wordpress theme to display a fixed number of featured posts from a specific category on the homepage. It can be done using the query_posts() function of wordpress. Here are few lines of code that displays latest 10 posts from the news category , you can edit it to tailor to your needs.
<?php
/* Name of your category you want to show posts from */
$cat = "news";
/* Name of your category you want to show posts from */
$cat = "news";
/* No. of posts to display*/
$num = "10";
?>
<!– Show x Posts from $cat category–>
<?php query_posts(’showposts=’.$num.‘&category_name=’.$cat.”);
while (have_posts()) : the_post();
?>
<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
<div class="entry">
<?php the_content(‘Continue…’); ?>
<p class="postmetadata">Posted in <?php the_category(‘, ‘) ?> | <?php edit_post_link(‘Edit’, ”, ‘ | ‘); ?> <?php comments_popup_link(‘No Comments »’, ‘1 Comment »’, ‘% Comments »’); ?></p>
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" class="permalink">Link to this article</a>
</div>
<?php endwhile; ?>
The function query_posts(); can be used to control which posts are displayed in the loop. More information on using query_posts(); can be found here : http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts .
