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CelebrityGossip Magazine Theme
am back with a new premium WordPress theme giveaway. If you remember, I did publish a giveaway of another premium WordPress theme couple of months ago and all the readers loved it very much. I did set that theme on my blog for a couple of months as well. It was a very good premium WordPress magazine theme. You can read my review for that theme.
And today, I am going to start a giveaway of another WordPress magazine theme fromMagazine3. The name of that WordPress Theme is CelebrityGossip.
CelebrityGossip is a WordPress theme for Entertainment websites, technology blogs, Gossip blogs & Celebrity News sites. Every element of this theme is well crafted and makes your site look professional website and you get maximum exposure to your content. CelebrityGossip theme has all the things that a successful entertainment website needs
Features Highlight of CelebrityGossip WordPress Theme
Responsive Design;
- Admin Control Panel;
- advertisement Options;
- Unparalleled Support;
- Built-in SEO options;
Compatible With WP 3.5+;
- Adsense Ready;
- Easy Drag & Drop Menu;
- Social media integration;
- Add Logo Easily;
- Custom Widgets and many more.
CelebrityGossip WordPress Theme Giveaway
You can get this theme for free. I will be choosing two random winners from the punchtab widget below and each of them will be getting one copy of this theme. Now, increase your chances of winning by completing all entries.
Simple & Beautiful Single - Page WordPress Themes
WordPress is a great platform for blogs and websites with multiple pages, but what if don’t have the time or skills to create a multi-page WordPress site? Or if you need just the one as a landing pageto promote a mobile app, or a simple portfolio or online resume to showcase skills and draw new clients. Well, the good news is WordPress has many attractive single-page WordPress themesavailable as well.
As expected, single-page themes display everything on 1 page, so there’s only one URL that you have to be concerned about. Many of these themes have different sections, all in the same page, that you can customize as desired. You will probably be impressed with the transition effects among other cool special effects.
This list of single page WordPress themes contains both minimalist and advanced themes. Some of these themes are basic and only take a few minutes to set up; others are a bit more complicated and feature-rich. Regardless of what you’re looking for, you’re sure to find something that catches your eye on this list.
Free WordPress Themes
OnePager – OnePager is a responsive portfolio theme with an integrated image slider, contact form, and theme options page. It’s really easy to customize; just fill in the desired information for each section and you’re done.
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Landis – Landis is a very basic “Coming Soon” page. Users can’t subscribe by email, but they can spread the word of your future launch on Twitter and/or Facebook.
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Retro – Retro is a colorful and unique retro-style portfolio theme, with an optional blog and an AJAX contact form at the bottom of the page. There’s a a nice fixed navigation bar at the top, a featured slider, and nice big noticeable sections that really stand out.
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PhotoGrid – A stunning portfolio theme (100% AJAX) that is great for photographers and anyone else who wants to showcase their photos. There are a lot of cool effects going on with this theme, and you really have to view the demo to truly appreciate its unique features.
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Leatherly – Leatherly is a beautifully detailed portfolio theme that is great for showcasing your skills and finding new clients. There’s a section to display photos, a section to showcase your skills and abilities, integrated social media icons and a contact form.
Freebie Release: “Bare Responsive” – A Blank And Responsive WordPress Theme
Creating WordPress themes from scratch is a difficult task. After you have done this work numerous times you begin looking for any easier route to take. I’ve found that building on a simple template model can really expedite the project timeline – the work is also far less stressful.
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So I’ve created this unique WordPress template named "Bare Responsive" which you can download below. The design is mobile-friendly and responsive for differing screen widths. All the typical WordPress template files are included and you are free to edit this to any degree.
Ultimately I hope this template can provide a starting point for WordPress development, better than a blank canvas.
Along with the template files, I’ve also included some dummy data (which you can also download below) to import and test out with the design.
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In the brief article below, I’ll explain a few of the WordPress features and how you can utilize them within your own themes.
Inside The Header
Looking into the header.php file, I’ve included a lot of extra metadata and 3rd party scripts. You should try to change the author meta tag to match your own name, or the name of your new website.
Also I’ve included an external stylesheet link to a Google web font Quando which I’m using in the header text.
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Now you may also notice that I’m using a custom navigation setup inside the WordPress theme. You don’t technically need to make any edits to the PHP code. But you should look over the parameters for wp_nav_menu() just to figure out any changes you may want.
What you should do is create a new menu inside the WP Admin Appearance > Menus. Then you should be able to connect that new menu into the “header-menu” found in the template file.
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In this way you can add custom links & pages, even sub-pages, to the top navigation without any programming required.
Custom Theme Functions
Possibly the most interesting chunk of code you should customize would be inside functions.php. This holds all the default theme properties, which include navigation menus and widgetized sidebars.
I’ve setup two distinct sidebars which are both widgetized. By default you don’t need to add anything into them since the template will display data non-widgetized. But it’s also very easy to find these sidebars inside Appearance > Widgets.
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the main sidebar is floating off to the right side for all default layout styles. As the screen width becomes smaller eventually this sidebar is hidden and replaced with a responsive sidebar. This newmobile-friendly sidebar only contains 2 elements and will display underneath the page content.
It’s nice to have this option because you may choose to match the sidebars with identical content. But alternatively you can setup totally different context between the two sidebars which may be more reliable.
There are a couple more functions which I’ve defined inside the theme file.
First I’m removing the #more hash from the end of blog post links. I very much dislike this typical WordPress setting and it feels a bit forced.
Also in the archive pages we don’t have a “read more” link by default. So I’ve added that into the HTML using a custom WordPress filter.
Possible User Edits
The bare-responsive theme is simple enough that you can upload the template and start editing files right inside the WordPress admin panel. Although you do have the ability to work with the files individually – this is difficult if you don’t have a WordPress blog for testing the changes.
In the spirit of keeping things simple I’ve limited the theme files to only our bare essentials. Also all the responsive mobile CSS codes are located in the same style.css stylesheet.
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You’ll be able to edit the template styles at any time to suit your needs better.
The custom script.js is used for the mobile responsive dropdown navigation panel. I feel this is one of the best solutions for the header navigation, and it looks really smooth.
If you feel the need to customize CSS styles on the mobile menu just be sure to keep the IDs and classes relatable to the jQuery script.
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Final Thoughts
Again I do hope this bare-responsive template can provide a source of inspiration to young developers. It’s not easy working with WordPress and having a bit of code to start with can make all the difference.
I’ll be happy to answer questions and hear out suggestions, because obviously this isn’t a perfect template.
Working together with other developers is the best way to improve your own skills and pick up on common mistakes. So get out there and start coding!
Downloads
Download Bare-responsive WordPress Theme
This whole project is purposefully released as open source under the MIT license which means you can edit and distribute unlimited copies for any project as long as you do not claim it your own, or re-sell it.
