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If you´re about to start making your first WordPress theme, there are a few design concepts you need to get familiar with before you go any further.

Asking for feedback of your web designs can help you to know new things and sharpen your skills. To enjoy the benefits of feedback, adopt an open approach. Avoid taking negative feedback personally. Rather, evaluate it from a neutral point of view. It will help you to understand the weak points of your designs.

"List Category Posts allows you to list posts from a category into a post/page using the [catlist] shortcode. The shortcode accepts a category name or id, the order in which you want the posts to display, and the number of posts to display. You can also display the post author, date, excerpt, custom field values, even the content! The [catlist] shortcode can be used as many times as needed with different arguments on each post/page."

"Knews is a powerful multilingual language plug-in that allows you to build professional looking newsletters, segment subscribers in different mailing lists as well as segment them by language all in a matter of minutes. Includes a custom, unique modular WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor. Based on templates, with no need to know HTML."

"Adds shortcodes to easily create columns in your posts or pages Adds shortcodes to easily create columns in your posts or pages. Sometimes you just need to divide your page into different columns. With this plugin you just select a column shortcode and it will add the column to the page. There are 9 different column widths available from which you can make all combinations"

"Adds an AJAX poll system to your WordPress blog. You can also easily add a poll into your WordPress's blog post/page. WP-Polls is extremely customizable via templates and css styles and there are tons of options for you to choose to ensure that WP-Polls runs the way you wanted. It now supports multiple selection of answers."

"Widget Logic lets you control on which pages widgets appear using WP's conditional tags. It also adds a 'widget_content' filter. Download Version 0.56 ❤ Favorite Description Installation FAQ Screenshots Other Notes Changelog Stats Support Reviews Developers This plugin gives every widget an extra control field called "Widget logic" that lets you control the pages that the widget will appear on. The text field lets you use WP's Conditional Tags, or any general PHP code."

"Sell tickets with WooCommerce With the WooCommerce Tickets add-on for The Events Calendar/Events Calendar PRO, taking control of ticket sales for an upcoming event has never been easier. No third-party websites, no ticket fees…just you, your attendees and one kick ass event. WooCommerce Tickets allows you to add as many tickets as you wish to a given event, and then sell those tickets entirely within your site. Each ticket can have it's own price, stock, SKU and specified timeframe for when ticket sales open/close. Want to have cheap tickets or special packages for the first 100 buyers? Aiming to give discounts to those who buy earlier than a week before the event? Need different ticket "packages" and a way to easily differentiate between what they contain on the frontend?"

"Social Networks Auto Poster {SNAP} - Free plugin for WordPress SNAP can publish nicely formatted messages to your Facebook, Twitter, Google+(Google Plus), Blogger, LiveJournal, Delicious, Diigo, Stumbleupon, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Plurk, VKontakte(VK.com), WordPress, and Tumblr accounts. You can reach the most audience and let all your friends, readers and followers about your new post automatically. Plugin works with profiles, business pages, community pages, groups, etc. Plugin makes 100% White Labeled Posts. The main idea behind the plugin is to give you the ability to promote only yourself. Plugin uses your own apps and all posts to all networks come only from you. No "Shared via NextScripts.com" or "Posted by SNAP for WordPress" messages."

"In celebration of Cyber Monday, today we're going to show you a technique for creating a custom "Splash Page" for your WordPress theme. You're probably seeing a lot of these around the net today, so you know that they're great for running quick promotions of products or events... but you can have fun with it and come up with creative ways to use a splash page such as advertising, donation button, radio pledge drives, highlight of an upcoming race, or highlight of a new product."

"The Editorial Calendar makes it possible to see all your posts and drag and drop them to manage your blog. Did you remember to write a post for next Tuesday? What about the Tuesday after that? WordPress doesn't make it easy to see when your posts are scheduled. The editorial calendar gives you an overview of your blog and when each post will be published. You can drag and drop to move posts, edit posts right in the calendar, and manage your entire blog."

"Plugin to share about your old posts on twitter, facebook, linkedin to get more hits for them and keep them alive. What the plugin can do ? This plugin helps you to keeps your old posts alive by sharing them and driving more traffic to them from social networks. It also helps you to promote your content. You can set time and no of posts to share to drive more traffic."

"Reduce file sizes for images in WordPress including NextGEN, GRAND FlAGallery and more using lossless/lossy methods and image format conversion. The EWWW Image Optimizer is a WordPress plugin that will automatically optimize your images as you upload them to your blog. It can optimize the images that you have already uploaded, convert your images automatically to the file format that will produce the smallest image size (make sure you read the WARNINGS), and optionally apply lossy reductions for PNG and JPG images."

"Supercharge your WordPress theme with mega pack of shortcodes Shortcodes Ultimate is WordPress plugin that provides mega pack of shortcodes. This is really premium plugin that you can get absolutely for free! With this plugin you can easily create tabs, buttons, boxes, different sliders, responsive videos and much, much more. Turn your free theme to premium in just a few clicks. Using Shortcodes Ultimate you can quickly and easily retrieve premium themes features and display it on your site. See screenshots for more information."

"In this article, we'll look at how you can add your own custom links to the bar with code so you can quickly access parts of the front and backend of your site with ease. This will be a simple enough task, all we need is one function: add_node(). I recommend taking a look at what the Codex has to say about it, I'll show you the basics using a couple of examples."

"The easiest and most flexible way to add multiple quizzes, tests, and surveys to your website. The easiest and most flexible way to add multiple quizzes, tests, surveys, and contact forms to your website. This plugin allows for unlimited quizzes each with unlimited amount of questions. The plugin allows you to create the quiz, add it to any page using a customized shortcode, allows the user to take the quiz, and then saves the results. You can set up what the user sees after he or she takes the quiz based on the user's score. You can also have the plugin create a certificate for the user as well!"

Online surveys will be helpful for you to find out much-needed information about your visitors, customers, and readers. You catch hold of the most important information from the participants.

"Have you ever came across a site that style their posts differently? Some sites have different sticky posts highlighted whereas others have each category post styled with a different color, or some may even have a totally unique outlook altogether. Well, that is exactly what we are going to cover in this article. We will share how you can style different WordPress posts in different ways. So what are we going to use? We will use a function called post_class. Post Class function prints out different post container classes which can be added, typically, in the index.php, single.php, and other template files featuring post content. Note: This tutorial requires that you are somewhat familiar with WordPress theming, and know fairbits of HTML / CSS. "

"Improve WordPress image sizes generation and save your hosting space. If you were ever annoyed about the way WordPress handles images resizing, this is a plugin for you. What this plugin does is it optimizes the image handling in such a way that images are resized only when they are actually needed. What that means is that if your plugin/theme define a lot of image sizes, none of them will be generated on the image upload (like they would be usually), but only if they are actually requested in that size. Resizing is done only once and later normally served by WordPress, so there is no performance hit. Plugin also includes a method for removing all of the image sizes generated so far (useful when you install this plugin on a site with a lot of existing media)."

We have all heard this before: "you can do everything with WordPress." That's actually true. WordPress is a powerful open source content management system that can handle any type of website, as long as you have the right theme. Best of all, in most cases, you won't have to break the bank to get the job done.