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WordPress themes

WordPress, the popular blogging platform, has grown especially through its extraordinary and active support community. The WordPress theme developer community is absolutely amazing, churning day after day more and more themes, each more innovative than the other. Here is a list of useful resources and, as always, free WordPress Themes.

  1. The official WordPress theme repository
  2. A very useful collection of themes of various sizes, number of columns, styles, etc.
  3. Professional style WordPress templates
  4. Magazine Style WordPress templates (don’t forget our favorites, structure and Bandford)
  5. Portal Style WordPress templates (very cool but not free)
  6. A collection of 80+ wordpress templates wrapped into a nice zipped file ready to be extracted right in your skins folder

Sorin Adam Matei

Assistant Vice President for Partnerships in Strategic Defense Innnovation and Professor of Communication at Purdue University, Director of the FORCES initiative leads research teams that study the relationship between technological and social systems using big data, simulation, and mapping approaches. He published papers and articles in Journal of Communication, Communication Research, Information Society, National Interest, and Foreign Policy. He is the author or co-editor of several books. The most recent is Structural differentation in social media. He also co-edited Ethical Reasoning in Big Data,Transparency in social media and Roles, Trust, and Reputation in Social Media Knowledge Markets: Theory and Methods (Computational Social Sciences) , all three the product of the NSF funded KredibleNet project. Dr. Matei's teaching portfolio includes technology and strategy, online interaction, and digital media analytics classes. A former BBC World Service journalist, his contributions have been published in Esquire and several leading Romanian newspapers. In Romania, he is known for his books Boierii Mintii (The Mind Boyars), Idolii forului (Idols of the forum), and Idei de schimb (Spare ideas).

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