Get 45+ Professional WordPress Themes for $270

I am a big fan of the StudioPress.com and their work. They are the makers of the most powerful & efficient WordPress theme framework, Genesis. It is one of the best theme framework for WordPress and many A-list bloggers are already using it.

Today I am excited to let you know about the a great deal by the Copyblogger team. They are giving an awesome discount on 45+ Professional StudioPress themes. Read more…

Genesis Framework v1.8 is Now Live–Update Yours Today!

Genesis Framework v1.8On January 20th, StudioPress updated the Genesis Framework to version 1.8. The framework comes with a new front end design. But of course, if you are regular user of StudioPress you know that you would never activate default Genesis as the theme, but use one of the child themes instead. But the new style could be used as the starting point of a new look of custom child themes for you or other StudioPress child theme designers.

With the new look, you also get to move to a modern responsive design. Now, you do not have to worry about what size screens your visitors are using and how it will on their screen. It always looks the same. Read more…

5 Free WordPress Plugins To Stop Registration Spam

5 WordPress Plugins to Stop User Registration SpamRegistration spam is one of the biggest issue for most of the multi author blogs. If you have enabled the user registration on your blog, than your blog may have suffered  from the registration spam.

Last week I got more than 500 registrations on WPKube and until now I’ve been using an re captcha plugin. I thought it’d be better to look in the WordPress community and search for better anti-spam plugins, so today’s post is a round up of the plugins I found – I will make a follow up post later on with a full review of the plugin I chose.

The most quickest way to user stop registration spam – is by creating the user accounts, manually.

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5 Sites to Test Your Blog’s Performance

5 Sites to Test Your Blog’s PerformanceLoading speed plays a important role, as it helps to increase the user’s engagement and experience.

Google takes speed into consideration as important metric to rank the websites in search engines. Most of the bloggers already know about the importance of having fast loading site/blog.

If you’re looking on how to increase the blog speed, than you might want to check out James post - 8 Things You Can Do to Speed Up Your Site and Get More Traffic in 2012Read more…

Thesis Theme VS Genesis Theme

Genesis theme is making the buzz very fast and it is now being used by some great bloggers such as Darren Rowse, Brian Clark and Chris Brogan but the question is, thesis or genesis, which is more effective?

There is no such thing as best theme and “best” can depend on your need, if you want more SEO you might not care about design so far you have traffic and if all that matters to you is design you have no concern with SEO. By the time you finish reading this post you should be able to conclude which theme is best for you. Read more…

Weekly Roundup #6: The Best WordPress Resources from Around the Web

Its been a great week few weeks for WordPress and the great articles the community creates each week.

Its been a few weeks since a round was created here at wpkube, so I thought I thought it be a great idea to share some of my favorite WordPress articles from the last few weeks. Read more…