High quality and good looking theme  is backbone for the any website, specially the blogger never wants to design or to have their website with poor and misleading theme. The theme of your website describe how much you are creative and what is the propose of your website. When it comes for choosing the best theme that matches your website, must bloggers move to the premium themes. However, some of bloggers still want to go for free theme first to try.

It will be quite difficult to find high quality and very professional free wordpress theme for your blog or website. However with thousands of free wordpress theme, you will able to find the best suitable theme for your website. Here we have compiled 10 out of thousand wordpress theme with amazing design and functionality. I hope our readers will find the wordpress theme of their of choice from the list.

1. Red Captik  -  More Info  | Demo  |  Download
   

2. iPhone Denati  -  More Info  | Demo  |  Download
   

3. Boxified  -  More Info  | Demo  |  Download
   

4. Design  -  More Info  | Demo  |  Download
   

5. Video  -  More Info  | Demo  |  Download
   

6. Placeholder  -  More Info  | Demo  |  Download (Register at theme info page to download)
   

7. JournalCrunch  -  More Info  | Demo  |  Download
   

8. Paragrams  -  More Info  | Demo  |  Download
   

9. ZoroSan  -  More Info  | Demo  |  Download
   

10. Causal  -  More Info  | Demo  |  Download
    

CformsII

CformsIICFormsII is a contact form that has an incredible amount of features and is very customizable. CFromsII offers lots of features. And some of the unique and notable features are “tell a friend” functionality, database tracking of submitted data, backup & restore, submission limitations (for registration etc) and widget support.

Contact Form 7

Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.

Fast Secure Contact Form

Fast Secure Contact Form lets site visitors send a quick E-mail message. It claims to blocks all common spammer tactics. Includes a CAPTCHA and Akismet support. Additionally, the plugin has a multi-form feature, optional extra fields, and an option to redirect visitors to any URL after the message is sent. Very much customizable.

Contact Me

The quickest and easiest way to put a contact form on your WordPress blog. Use the ContactMe button and contact form to turn visitors into customers. Visitors click eye-catching ContactMe button. The button opens a contact form in popup.

Tiny Contact Form

Tiny Contact Form is minimalist form that allows site visitors to contact you by email.

Did I missed any best ones? Please share which ones are your bests.

Skeptical themes is free wordpress theme provided by woothemes.com. This theme is primarily targeted for personal homepage.You can add your events, activities, and photos. This theme have got Custom topography, alternative sidebars, customized widget and foot area.
The color combination of the page is smooth and looks cool.The feature of the flickr stream at the base of the page looks great.

Click here to download the skeptical wordpress theme.

404 Notifier

This plugin from Alex King will help notify you of any 404 errors coming up on your site. It’s a very useful plugin to use if you’re changing your permalink structure or otherwise moving things around and are worried you may have missed some things and don’t want to risk broken URLs.

Smart 404

The Smart 404 plugin helps eliminate 404 pages automatically. If a visitor reaches a page that will return a 404 error, this plugin searches the requested URL to see if there’s some other post that likely matches. If there’s more than one potential match, it can return a list of possible links. It goes a long way to help remedy a high bounce rate caused by 404 errors.

Google 404

This widget makes it easy to embed a Google search box on your custom 404 page.

Useful 404s

A plugin that creates more useful 404 pages.

The Free 404 Plugin

This plugin creates a customized 404 page that includes related posts to whatever keywords appear in the requested URL.

JH 404 Logger

This plugin adds a dashboard widget that displays recent 404 errors. It’s a great, unintrusive way to see if your site is returning errors.

WP 404 Images Fix

This plugin lets you replace images returning a 404 error with a default image of your choosing. You also have the option to add a class to the img tag or hide the image entirely if it’s missing.

Dunstan-style Error Page

This plugin can be used to create a custom error page similar to the one used on Dunstan Orchard’s 1976design.com/blog. The custom page it creates is immensely useful to users, displaying the last five blog posts, a search box, and the option to report the error, among other options.

Permalinks Moved Permanently

This plugin is helpful if you change the permalink structure of your blog and don’t want to lose out on incoming links going to your old pages. In addition to redirecting the visitor to the new link, it also generates a “301 Moved Permanently” error so that visitors are automatically redirected in the future (along with search engine spiders).

Redirection

This plugin monitors 404 errors and lets you map them to 301 redirects. It also allows you to set a custom redirection that lets you pass a URL through to a different page, file or website. And it creates a full log of all redirections. It can be used to redirect both nonexistent pages and ones that exist and it can be set to redirect based on login status or other parameters.

And sometimes figuring out how to handle such errors when using a CMS such as WordPress can be even more challenging. WordPress has default settings for handling 404 errors, but they leave a lot to be desired.

What Causes Error 404 Pages in WordPress?

404 pages in WordPress are most often caused because of a change in the permalink structure of the site. If a site owner changes the permalink structure of their WP blog, they’re likely going to end up with incoming links pointing to pages that are no longer located at a particular address. This means those incoming visitors will be given a 404 page instead of the content they were looking for.

Other causes of 404 pages may be in the code of your index.php or search.php files. If there’s an error in the code in either file, it may return results with invalid addresses (or it may not return results at all). If you’ve made customizations to your index.php or search.php files, it’s a good idea to check and make sure they’re not serving up invalid addresses and that all of your pages are still working. Always save a backup of the previous version of each file before making changes in case you need to roll back to an earlier version.

Potential Damages of Error 404 Pages

The most obvious damage caused by getting a 404 page has to do with the bounce rate on your site. If a visitor follows a link to your site and they get a 404 page rather than the content they were looking for, it’s unlikely they’ll search your site to find it. They may assume that it no longer exists on your site at all, and simply look elsewhere.

How to Prevent Error 404 Pages

The best way to prevent 404 pages is to be proactive. First of all, set up your permalinks properly from the start. If you take the time when you first launch a blog to set up well-structured permalinks, you’ll be unlikely to need to change them in the future.

Be proactive about incoming links that aren’t correct. Send a quick note to the person who runs the site with the link and ask them to change it to the correct link. Most site owners will be more than happy to do so.

Don’t take down old content. If you have to take something down, rather than deleting it entirely, create a custom page at that address that provides some information on what used to be there, or links to other posts and pages that might be of interest to the visitor.

There are a variety of plugins out there that can help you prevent and manage 404 pages, too.

Education theme is specially designed wordpress theme for educational institute ,university and college.The minimum requirement needed for a educational system had been provided in the theme. A special featured section is also added to show the special news and article.

• Price: $59.95
• Click here to buy this theme.
• This theme is designed by StudioPress.

Version 3.0, is the 13th major release of the software, and contains over 2,700 changes—including 1,217 bug fixes—that were provided by 218 volunteers.

With this release, “WordPress is now becoming one of the most capable blogging platforms out there,” said Adriaan Bloem, an analyst for the Real Story Group, a research and consulting firm specializing in content management software.

Feature-wise, perhaps the most-discussed addition is the new ability of the software to run multiple blogs. Previously, each blog on a site had to be run on a separate copy of WordPress. Administrators could run multiple blogs from the same instance only by using another version of WordPress customized for this task, called WordPress MU.

That MU has been integrated into the main version of WordPress ensures that it should be easier to deploy, Bloem noted.

“WordPress MU … wasn’t the easiest to get working right. Also, there was a much smaller community using MU, so when users had trouble getting say, a plug-in to work for MU, it would also be hard to find kindred spirits working on the same problem,” Bloem said.

Also, the multi-blog capability erases “the final edge” that competing blog platform Movable Type had over WordPress. Movable Type has long offered the ability to run multiple blogs, though bloggers have shown a preference for WordPress, largely due to its interface, as well as to the fact that WordPress runs on PHP, which can be easier to understand than the Perl language that MovableType relies upon, Bloem said.
Another major feature is the ability to build custom post types. Instead of every page being tagged as a blog post, it can be defined in terms that the user specifies. So each page could represent a product, for instance, and have specific fields relating to that category, such as price and model.

Custom post types will further help establish WordPress as a good candidate for managing an entire Web site’s content, in addition to just the blogs.

“WP is starting to cross over into web content management system territory,” Bloem said.”It’s already used to power many non-blog Web sites, but as a system, it’s now starting to look more like Drupal.”
Other new features include the ability to update multiple plug-ins at once, and a new default theme and redesigned user interface.

With 3.0 behind them, the lead developers will not immediately jump into working on version 3.1 of the software, but rather will skip a release cycle to work on some of the external issues that have arisen from the growing popularity of the software, according to the announcement, which was posted by WordPress co-developer Matt Mullenweg These chores might include improving the mailing lists, the theme and plug-in directories as well as the application programming interfaces.

New users can download the software and existing users can update from within their administration dashboards. The largest hosted provider of WordPress-based blogs, Automatic, has already updated all the blogs on WordPress.com to version 3.0, according to a company spokesperson.

Source: http://www.macworld.com

Authors: BraveNewCode, duanestorey, dalemugford

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2. WordPress PDA & iPhone
Wordpress PDA plugin enables the WordPress blog viewable for PDA and iPhone browsers. It is really simple plugin which detects the browser agent and loads a simple theme on fly. The plugin comes with a theme folder which acts like normal theme with all the functionality of WordPress theme.

Author: Imthiaz Rafiq

Click here to download the plugin.

3. iPhone / Mobile Admin
If you are searching for the plugin which can adapts the WordPress admin UI to be more friendly to mobile devices, specifically iphones, then might be one choice .You can manage your posts and contents using moblie .It is a beta version.

Author: jaredbangs, dancameron

Click here to download the plugin

Image Courtesy: www.mattstow.com

Image is one of the best option to show or present something on web. Picture expresses thousand more words than what we write with letters. So it is the must to handle and present the image in web page. WordPress have different options or plugins that can manage, present picture in attracted way. Today i am going to write about some popular plugins that can be used to handle these images.

1. NextGEN Gallery
NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option.

Features

• Templates : You can add custom templates for your theme.
• Media RSS feed : Add the Cooliris Effect to your gallery
• Role settings : Each gallery has a author
• AJAX based thumbnail generator : No more server limitation during the batch process
• Copy/Move : Copy or move images between galleries
• Sortable Albums : Create your own sets of images

etc

• Author:Alex Rabe
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2. Flickr Photo Album
This Flickr plugin for WordPress will allow you to pull in your Flickr photosets and display them as albums on your WordPress site.

Features

• Customizable
• Third party commenting services are also supported
• Visitors to comment on your photos
• A simple Flickr widget to include your photos into your blog’s sidebar

etc.

Author:Joe Tan
Click here to download this Plugin.

3. WP Photo Album
This plugin is designed to easily manage and display photo albums within WordPress site. This is one of the most popular plugins in WordPress. If you are searching for something simple, this might be one of the option.

Features

• Plugin admin section under Manage then submenu Photos.
• Manage and create albums.
• Move photos to and from albums
• Upload and delete photos
• Adjust thumbnail and full view picture sizes

Author: Rubin J. Kaplan
Click here to download the plugin.

4. Fotobook
Facebook, i think i dont need to explain about this. If you are searching for the plugins which can associate your photos from facebook albums to your webpage then this might be one good option .It uses the Facebook’s API so importing your photos.

Features:

• Interfaces with Facebook’s API
• Displays photo albums on a WordPress page
• Import photos from mulitple Facebook accounts
• Sidebar widgets for displaying random or recent photos & albums
• Creates an album of photos that the user’s tagged in
• Insert individual photos into posts/pages
• Easy-to-use Ajax album management panel
• Frontend validates as XHTML 1.0 Strict
• Works with PHP5 & PHP4

Author:Aaron Harp
Click here to download the plugin.

5. Lightbox2
If you are searching for the WordPress plugins that linked images into neat Javascript-powered overlay popups then this might be one option. There are various option to show the images.
Author: Lokesh Dhakar
Click here to download the plugin.

Now you know about them, you may download and give it a try in some of your sites.

Features:-

- A social profiles widgetized zone with custom widgets to display your Twitter, Facebook, Vimeo, Flickr, etc, profiles in the sidebar.

- Flexible 3 column layout with a variety of different widgetized spaces & layouts.

- 6 delicious colour schemes to choose from!

- Cross-browser compatible

- Auto-sizing thumbnails

- Localized for Translation

- Custom Page Templates

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