Do you want to build a blog about fashion or style? Then you might want to take a peek at the new theme “Beauty” by Quality Wordpress Themes. This three column layout in slate gray, black and green is definitely nice looking. A prominently featured RSS feed button to help you encourage subscriptions makes this widget enabled theme practical, too.
About the only thing I wasn’t entirely happy with was the plethora of links at the bottom. One or two is never an issue but four, in an encrypted file? It makes me wonder what else they’re hiding in there. I understand the frustration of some theme designers with people removing the links from these free Wordpress templates but I simply don’t feel comfortable downloading and installing a theme that I can’t at least look through to ensure there are no hidden javascript calls or other security issues - especially with the number of recent security problems I’ve seen. Overall, unless you’re absolutely in love with this theme, In my opinion I would give it a pass.
Today I got my first look at this clean, inviting theme by Themelab. Although at first glance it might remind you of the Blogger back end, on closer review it’s much nicer.
For one thing it’s nice to see a serif font instead of the “verdana/arial” brainwashing that so often takes place. I like having the navigation on the left (what can I say, I’m old school) and there is room for two 125×125 ads in the sidebar. Great for all us “social networking” types who are using entrecard or MyBlogLog, or simply want a convenient place to monetize our blogs. Widget-ready as most themes are these days, you can easily adapt it to almost any use.
Clean and quick loading, with an appealing neutral palette, this free Wordpress template is worth adding to your theme collection! Click here to visit Themelab for their Nature Blog template
If you haven’t, then you might want to get cracking. As written in this article “Has your Wordpress been hacked recently”, a very invasive hack is showing up on more and more Wordpress installations. The key to entry appears to be leaving your uploads directory CHMOD to 777 - something which many bloggers do in order to allow photo uploads. Once you’re infected it can take hours to clean things up (and yes, I do speak from experience!)
Don’t take any more risks - get the latest upgrade. And while you’re at it, pick up the Wordpress Upgrade plugin and make keep your install secure that much easier!
