4 Websites for Great Wordpress Themes & Blogger Skins

Below is a list of some very good places to find your free WordPress and/or Blogger themes.

Free WordPress Themes

Lets start out with the WordPress ones. If you’re looking for Blogger skins, please skip this section.

WordPress is a great blogging engine, and one I would certainly advise to people who want to have a more advanced input.

1. 49 Most Downloaded Wordpress Themes Of All Time (by HONGKIAT)

This site has made a list of the 49 most downloaded Wordpress themes of all time (at the moment of writing). This is a great site with a lot of the best themes available.

You won’t be exactly original, but there’s a good reason these were downloaded this much.

2. 83 Beautiful WordPress Themes (by Smashing Magazine)

Smashing Magazine looked at a few things while creating this list. First, it had to be beautiful. Next, it shouldn’t already be worn out by the community, they wanted things ‘you probably hadn’t seen’ yet. Finally, they wanted it to be user friendly.

“All themes offer quality and elegance.” Here you’ll be able to find some (83) great-looking themes, to give a distinct character to your blog.

Blogger Skins

Blogger has a less advanced interface than WordPress, but it’s still a great blog engine. It was even bought up by Google some time ago.

For people who don’t want things to get complicated, who want to blog in a few clicks without too much fuss, Blogger is great.

1. 70 Fresh And Modern Blogger Templates (by Mashable)

“You can never have a too wide choice of templates for your blog, especially if you’re the experimenting type.”

This is Mashable’s list of 70 free, fresh and modern Blogger templates. Here you’ll find some really great and professional looking Blogger templates.

This list features photo previews of all the themes, as well as a brief review.

2. BlogSkins.com

BlogSkins is my personal favourite. Compared to the above sites, this is not a static site, but a revolving, constantly changing template site. You can browse by Hot Skins, Recent Skins, and each day there’s an elected “Skin of the Day”.

“BlogSkins is a community of blog template designers, users, and friends. Whether you’re looking for a fresh new design for your blog or wanting to share your hot designs with others, this is the place for you!”

Go to BlogSkins.com to find the most recent and most popular blogger templates of the moment.

This is the coolest Wordpress theme

I never thought that someday this thing will happen. I have been waiting for so long for a system or Wordpress theme that can act or functioning like a content management system. While i was surfing to WP Designer to search for a new theme to replace this blog’s theme, then i went to the premium wordpress section at WP Designer and then i found WP Remix!

I don’t know what to say, it’s not my intention to write a review about the theme here, i just write this post to tell you that this theme is so cool! For me it’s the coolest Wordpress theme i ever met! I hope one day I will afford to buy this theme and replace my ugly blog’s theme. To the author, R.Bhavesh i want to congratulate you for making such a great theme. It’s not just a theme because for me it’s a solution.

3 Firefox Add-Ons To Help You Blog More Easily

At the present time, a lot of people have a blog (but if you don’t own one yet, you can grab yours here). This is due to the fact that everyone’s point of views are entitled to be published on the web, and to my knowledge what better form of depicting your ideas on the internet is there than blogging?

With this said, there are easier ways to blog then others. These Firefox add-ons empower you with quick and easy ways to blog.

Zemanta

With Zemanta you’re able to receive countless suggestions that correlate to your blog topic or content posted in your blog post. These suggestions can aid you in writing your post while you’re inside your blogging dashboard.

This extension lets you add your Flickr account and link any image you’d like as well by logging into the Zemanta web user interface.

You’ll also be able to connect to your Facebook, MyBlogLog and/or Twitter accounts as well.

This add-on not only gives you suggestions that have to do with your post, it also helps you with your search engine optimization by giving you suggestions on tags to use when you’re about to publish your posts.

Image selection from related content within your post:

WordPress.com Sidebar

By pressing alt + w when you’re in your browser you can bring up a quick sidebar that will allow fast and easy access to your WordPress blog without you having to access the actual site. This nifty little sidebar lets you view your site stats, create bookmarks relating to your post, and finally you can construct posts and publish them directly onto your blog without ever visiting your WordPress dashboard. Access this Firefox extension here.

View your blogs stats:

Create a post or copy and paste content from a web page and publish it onto your blog:

DashBlog

DashBlog feasibly lets you gather videos, images, texts, songs, and capture browser screen-shots from any existing web page. You can utilize this collection of content to publish them directly onto your blog or your Twitter account.

Supporter blogs include but are not limited to: Blogger/Blogspot, Tumblr, WordPress and more.

From any web page all you have to do is click on the small DashBlog icon located at the top left hand corner of your browser and the DashBlog options userface will instantly pop up.

How it Works

A few steps are needed to post content on your blog from DashBlog:

Create a post with content located on the webpage of your choice (text/quotes, images, videos, and audio)

Click on the “OK, Post” button and wait for confirmation that the post has been blogged.

Now visit your blog and view your DashBlog post. Your readers will have no idea that you used a third party Firefox extension to create the post they are reading.

Delete comments utility

To delete comments, one have to be logged in while viewing the blog post whereupon there will be a trashcan icon beside the comment. To delete the comment, all you need to do is to click on the trashcan icon

However sometimes the trashcan icon is missing even when you are logged in which makes the task of deleting the comment impossible. To address this issue, I have published 2 posts, namely How to delete comments and How to delete comments Part 2.

Today I found a Delete Blogger comment utility and tested it (obviously while I am not logged in because I don't really want to delete any comments). I found out that the utility will download all the comments together with all the accompanying trashcan icons while logged out. I tested clicking on one of the trashcan icon while logged out and what happened was a Blogger log in page appeared with boxes to enter the username and password like the screenshot below:

Top 10 Blogger Hacks and Tips

1. Removing The Blogger Bar

I hated the blogger bar across the top of my Web site because it didn’t really go with my template and I already had a Google search bar integrated. So I went on a mission to remove it and de-bloggerify my blog. I searched far and wide and for some reason kept hitting a dead end. It turns out that the code used to change the old blogger templates no longer works! So after tracking down the CSS changes here is how I did it:

All you need to do is add the following CSS to your template under edit HTML. You need to put in anywhere in your template between the