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Super list of Magazine Themes for Wordpress

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Hearing the community requests, we prepared a Super List of magazine-like themes that we recommend. Before we get to the themes, though, we’d like to point a few things based on an article from Smashing Magazine:

What is a magazine theme?

  • Are theme theme use only headlines on the home page. Normal São temas que usam apenas chamthemes show entire posts or excerpts.
  • Content is more well organized by presenting a large options of posts in the front page.
  • They focus on featured posts, not only recent posts.

Benefits from a Magazine Theme

  • More content on the home page;
  • More control over featured posts;
  • Better navigation;
  • More professional look;
  • Excelent for sites with many content;
  • Nice use of categories for navigation;

Cons of a Magazine Theme

  • Can be more work for the blogger;
  • Blogs with few content can show up weird;
  • Require more clicks from the visitors;

Itens to consider when choosing the theme

  • Impact on visitors;
  • Size of the layout;
  • Post frequency;
  • Diversity of Content
  • Niches

The Super List of Themes

The Original Premium News

original_premium

Info | Demo

Mainstream

mainstream

Info | Demo

Meta-Morphosis

meta-morphosis

Info | Demo

Magazeen

magazeen

Info | Demo

Modularity

modularity

Info | Demo

ModSlider

modslider

Info | Demo

f8

f8

Info | Demo

Mimbo Magazine

mimbo

Info | Demo

Morning After

tma

Info | Demo

Brandford Magazine

brandford

Info | Demo

Arthemia

arthemia

Info | Demo

Hybrid News

hybrid-news

Info | Demo

No Way Out

no-way-out

Info | Demo

Magatheme

magatheme

Info | Demo

Plugin Review: qTranslate

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How to set up a bilingual site with Wordpress

After lots of searching and testing many different plugins to set up a bilingual wordpress instalation, We have finally chosen qTranslate plugin. We are now going to take a look on how this plugin works and the benefits you can extract from it.

qTranslate is already on version 2.4.1, which is compatible up to Wordpress 2.8.2 but if you are interested in version compatible to other wordpress plugins, you can find the list on the qTranslate Download Page

What can qTranslate do?

  • It can translate posts and pages via the tinyMCE editor.  It creates tabs for each language so you can write your posts.
  • It also tranlates the Wordpress admin area to the available languages.
  • It can work with permalinks. That’s how our site gets tranlated to english by adding /en to the address.
  • The plugin also detects the visitor’s browser language to determine the visible language.
  • Yes, it can translate Categories and Tags just via the admin Area, as you can see on the screenshots below.
  • It can hide content not available at the visitor’s language. Useful, but we prefer to write somehing like “post under translation, please check back soon” when we haven’t got the time to fully translate it.
  • It has template tags for translation!
  • And the most important: it has an active community to develop, question and help other users through the Forum.

What paths it still has to walk?

  • It has to improve translation of text widgets. This should be easily done trough the admin interface rather than sidebar.php
  • On our opinion, it should let users define wheter to use flags or some other images to link with languages. The using of flags can be troublesome to users, as Nielsen points it in this article. The use of standard language codes could be a solution.

Screenshots - Everyone longs for them…

This is how we acctually see the plugin working on our site:

Admin Menu to choose the admin language

admin

Insert Post Title

post-title

Switch post content language

editor

Translating Categories

category

Translating Tags

tags

Configuration Page

manage

Adding a Language

adding

Managing Languages.

manage2

Now it is your turn

You have seen how to set up a multilingual wordpress blog with the help of the qTranslate Plugin. Go ahead and try it out. Engage in the community or leave us a comment bellow or at twitter.

Until next review!

20 reasons for choosing Wordpress (portuguese article)

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Meet a few good reasons to choose Wordpress as the Content Management System (article in portuguese):

20 Razões para escolher o WordPress | Faz Dinheiro Online.