In case you’re wondering about looking through the WordPress Themes gallery of ThemeFuse wordpress themes, you can find them here. Our gallery of ThemeFuse themes actually automatically orders the themes by popularity in terms of sales (not ratings) so you can quickly review the most popular ThemeFuse themes.

In case you’re interested in learning more about ThemeFuse, it’s a relatively new premium WordPress Theme company that is run out of Romania. The themefuse.com domain was actually registered only in May of 2010. Despite their youth, ThemeFuse has quickly gained a reputation as a top theme maker with innovative and high quality designs.

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First, we’ve added hundreds of new wordpress templates reviews since our last blog post. We’ve been adding promising theme companies such as Template Monster, PressCoders and many others. We’ve also added a ton of themes from a multitude of developers via the ThemeForest website. We plan on adding a number of additional companies in the future as well.

Second, we’ve realized that we have a problem. We have too many themes for our current sorting and search system. When we had 100 or 200 templates, it was pretty easy for our users to find themes within the main categories that we have. With nearly 500 themes, that’s no longer the case. So we’ve embarked on an ambitious project to rebuild our entire site from the ground up. In the process, we will also be rebranding and expanding the site in addition to redirecting the site to a new domain. We’ll soon be featuring information on WordPress hosting, WordPress plugins and more. We’re also building in a category-leading set of theme discovery tools that outpace even the official free theme directory on WordPress.org. We’re confident that our new system will be by far the best and most efficient way for users to search for themes. This should benefit everyone involved in the process!

Third, we’re looking forward to partnering with our sister site Graphic Design on various initiatives. As the leading premium WordPress theme directory, we come across a LOT of graphic design professionals who are interested in being in the theme industry and tons of theme professionals who are interested in increasing their skills with regards to graphic design. The bottom line is that theme development requires individuals who have excellent skills in photoshop, html, css, wordpress and php. We think that, by partnering with Graphic Design, we should be able to provide industry-leading tools for designers to find graphic design jobs, for companies to find graphic design professionals, for educators to provide their services to interested parties and so on. We’re excited about it!

Look for the new site in December, hopefully!

Since people search for different terms when looking for WordPress themes, it was necessary to create these different sites. In fact, there are over 500 different ways people will look for themes when searching on the Internet. Here are a few examples:

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Hopefully this gives you some insight as to why we created these sister sites. This doesn’t mean we will be working on WordPress Themes less. In fact, WordPress Themes will remain our flagship site. Thanks again to everyone for all your support.

WordPress Themes recently achieved another major milestone – we now have over 250 themes on our site. To help celebrate our latest achievement we are running a limited time offer to help get the word out. Simply purchase any theme on our site, tell people about your experience, and we’ll reimburse you for the cost of the theme (up to $50). It’s that simple. So what are you waiting for, get your free premium WordPress theme today!

Here’s how it works:

- Purchase any theme from our site. It doesn’t matter which one.

- Install the theme on your website.

- Write a blog post of at least 300 words telling people about your experience with WordPress Themes and your newly purchased premium WordPress theme. Please make sure to include two links back to our site – one to our homepage and one to the theme you purchased.

- Go to our contact form and let us know about your purchase and blog post. Please put “testimonial” as the subject. In the message, please include a link to your blog post, let us know which theme you purchased, and include your PayPal information.

- We will verify the information and PayPal you what your theme cost, up to $50. If your theme purchase was over $50, we will simply PayPal you $50. If your theme purchase was under $50, we’ll reimburse you for the entire amount.

The Fine Print:

- We can only make payments via PayPal.

- Fraud is prohibited and management reserves all rights to not make a payout if it suspects fraud. Any decision by management is final.

- This is a limited time offer and management will post in this thread when the promotion is over. We will give at least 72 hours notice.

Even though we have more than 200 themes on our site now we don’t plan on stopping here. We plan on adding at least 100 additional high-quality templates. Our goal is to make WordPress Themes the best resource on the Internet to discover the best team for your needs.

With the addition of our most recent themes, we now have themes from over a dozen developers. These companies include Elegant Themes, Studio Press, Page Lines, WPZOOM, and Organic Themes.

On a side note, we want to thank everybody for your positive comments since we launched our new template. Your comments are taken seriously and help improve the user experience for everyone. For instance, we just added some new features that were taken directly from your feedback. We now have a new preview image for all of our templates. Instead of having to go to each theme review page to see a full image of the theme, you can now simply hover over the preview image on the theme listing pages. We also added a small border around all of our images. This makes it easier to see a theme with a white background.

We will continue to improve our site and look forward to any other comments you might have. Please take advantage of our contact us page to submit any comments you might have. Over the next couple of weeks we will be posting even more themes and hope to have over 250 listings by late January or early February.

Thanks again for stopping by.

WordPress Themes isn’t your typical theme directory. We take painstaking steps to review each and every theme that we post. The theme is demoed, rated, and reviewed by our professional staff and the result is a better experience for all our users.

WordPress themes now has themes listed from over 10 theme developers including Elegant Themes, DIYthemes, PageLines, WooThemes, SoloStream, StudioPress, Templatic, Organic Themes, WPZOOM, and WPZoom. We’ll be tackling several of the themes on www.themeforest.com next as we head into 2011.

I want to thank all our users for stopping by and your great comments so far on our our template.

Have a great 2011!

-WordPress Themes Staff

Here are some of the features that I think will greatly benefit our customers and make for a better user experience.

1. The top section is BOLD and tells the visitor what this site is all about. At the time of writing this article, the site has 145 premium WordPress themes. This layout puts that number right in your face so you are aware of the extensive catalog this site has.

2. We have some featured themes listed at the top. These themes are our best selling themes and most flexible themes. Some even allow you to use drag and drop to organize your site.

3. We have 4 categories that our themes fall under now. Many of our visitors are looking for a particular type of theme and this layout allows them to narrow down their choice right away. Our theme categories are Business / CMS themes, Gallery / Photo themes, Magazine / News themes, and Personal / Blog themes.

4. We now display 15 themes per page so your search is much easier. We also are showing much larger preview images to give you a better idea of what the theme looks like before you open it.

5. One of my favorite new features is that we now allow user ratings of themes. Any visitor can rate a theme on a scale of 1-5. The ratings are tabulated on the sidebar in our top 10 list. They are also displayed on each individual theme.

Thanks for stopping by WordPress Themes and please let us know if you have any other suggestions for the site!

Where can you place that “subscribe” link and that orange icon?

At the very top of the page. If you’re really anxious to get your visitors to subscribe, putting a subscribe link at the very top, above everything else, should catch their attention. You can make use of a full-width bar in a contrasting color to grab their attention.

As part of the top navigation. Putting a feed link in your site navigation should be very easy since it’s just adding another item to your menu. But you might want it to be distinguishable from the rest of the links even just a bit.

At the top of the sidebar. A feed link, perhaps even an eye-catching feed icon, should do the trick when using the sidebar. Some people find their subscription links more valuable than other site elements, including the search bar, and put it at the very top.

Where do you put your feed subscription link? Are there any other clever places that can catch the reader’s eye?

But it comes with a price. Unfortunately, when you use the <!–more–> tag in your posts, it doesn’t just affect the homepage. It also translates into your feeds. And since it is generally not a good thing to publish partial feeds, we want to make sure that our subscribers are getting the entire post in their feed reader.

That means that you either toss out the <!–more–> tag altogether … along with the benefits … or you could pop the hood of your WordPress installation and do a little work.

In the wp-includes directory and find the file called “post-template.php” In this file, do a quick search for the following code:

if ( preg_match(‘/<!–more(.+?)?–>/’, $content, $matches) ) {

Once you find that code, all you have to do is change that line to this:

if ( preg_match(‘/<!–more(.+?)?–>/’, $content, $matches)
&& !is_feed() ) {

Let me explain what this does. The preg_match is a line of code that searches for stuff. In this instance, it’s looking for that <!–more–>. What we want to do is exclude that line of code from being executed when publishing the feed. So, the addition of && !is_feed() means, only execute the preceding code if you are not (the ! means “not”) outputting the feed.

If you’re not comfortable making changes to your WordPress installation, there are a few plugins that are supposed to do the same thing. I’ve never used them, but try them out and see if they work.

BTW, WordPress may have remedied this already … I’m not really sure. I haven’t seen any indication of this, but they may have. Also, it should be noted that this is a feature, not a bug. Some people prefer to only publish the text before the more tag in their feeds to encourage visiting their site. I personally don’t recommend that, but it’s worth noting.

I normally start with graphing paper. I can’t draw straight lines to save my life, and even the graphing paper can’t make it perfect, but at least it keeps track of spacing I normally draw the layout (no colors) and label my divs.

Once the layout is drawn, and my divs are named and listed (with a description), I open up an html template file with the CSS embedded. Depending on whether or not the design needs it, I’ll use Photoshop to get the colors and layout right. I chop the image up and upload the images to the test server (or use them locally).

Then, I go to work on the markup. I add my divs, add filler content, and start styling the design. Once the design is styled and looks good, I cut it up and paste it into the WP theme template files. When the file is cut up into the different template files, I cut and paste the CSS into the style.css file.

Then, I start adding and editing the WordPress functions to the template files to get them calling the correct stuff. Since I already have everything styled, this is a very easy step, especially if you’re familiar with the WP functions.

Finally, I activate the theme, do the final tweaks, style the comments, validate, etc., and zip it up.

Sound easy? It isn’t

Happy Coding!