I love Wordpress! Why do I love Wordpress? I love them because they are an awesome blogging platform that's ideal for bloggers, small businesses, web portals and publications.

What makes Wordpress so ideal? It's the customization ability it has. No matter the purpose of your site, there is a theme that will work for you. Below I will list some websites where you can get some awesome free themes. Yes, I said free. Nothing is better then free especially if you can get high quality themes. Check out my site to see how I've used Wordpress and hopefully it gives you an idea of how Wordpress can for you.

There are hundreds of sites that offer all kinds of themes to skin your wordpress site with but who wants to have to dig around the net for them. Well thank goodness, I'm here. I've done all the leg work to bring you the best sites for you're looking for.

Smashing Magazine:

They have been the biggest help when it came to me looking for the perfect theme for my site. I read both lists of wordpress and they give you links to live demos of theme before you install it.

These posts are a must read if you're looking for something different from the average theme Wordpress.org offers.

100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

83 Beautiful WordPress ThemesYou (Probably) Haven't Seen

WpSkins

Theses guys have hundreds of Wordpress themes that you can search through by color, type, downloads and more. The collection is huge even for me to go through. They have one of most extensive lists on the net. Check them out here.

FreeWordPressThemes.com

Another website that has collection of themes for your website. The only thing is you can't search the themes like you can with WpSkins. But you should at least check it out.

Plugins

A Wordpress Theme isn't complete without plugins. There are hundreds of plugins that you can use to further customize your site. Some of the popular ones are:

• Popularity Contest
• Page Navi
• LightBox
• Smooth Gallery
• Google Analytics
• All-in-One SEO Pack
• NextGEN Gallery

You can browse through a list of plugins here.

Help

If you ever have trouble with wordpress be sure to hit the forums to get answers to all of your question. Nine times out of ten, someone has had the same problem. So be sure to search the forum first before post a new topic. The WordPress Community is more then helpful.

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*Cheers*