Mimbo is a fresh new magazine-style Wordpress theme that will really put a luster on your blog. It’s a free theme with all the ingredients to make it a success. If you’re not already aware, magazine-styled blog templates are the latest fashion and are popping up all over the place.

Most of the high-quality ones like Adii’s Premium News Theme and the Revolution Magazine Theme charge you to download their premium WordPress themes and for good reason. They are really great quality and worth it if it’s in your budget. If cash is on the low side and you’d rather go the free route then Mimbo is one of the top free magazine-style themes I’ve seen out there.

We’ve got our own gallery of Premium WordPress themes that you might be interested in checking out as well.

You can check out a live working demo of Mimbo and let us know what you think.

Keep in mind that most magazine themes like this take some extra care and effort to setup. The author has put together an article on how to set everything up. I advise you to take a look at it before asking either eBlog Templates or the author for help. You can view the instructions for Mimbo here.

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Being a blog template designer and trying to showcase your work can be tough. You need to make sure you properly display your hard work in a digestible format so others can easily browse and download your goodies.

This nice and clean WordPress theme is called CSS Gallery and is perfect for website owners who are looking for a way to showcase web templates. If you’re a designer, distributor, or just want a fancy yet simple WordPress theme then you should download and use this template.

Once you download the theme it takes a little bit of configuring to get it working properly. Remember, this isn’t your ordinary theme and you’ll need to take screenshots of your website or blog themes in the correct size dimension before you can get it looking like the demo. It uses custom fields as well so make sure you’ve got a decent understanding about how WordPress uses them.

It comes with built in tagging, Google ads and a sidebar block with 125 x 125 banner ads. The theme is valid XHTML 1.0 transitional and valid CSS.

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Here’s another great make money online WordPress theme. It’s actually my new favorite non-magazine theme which I use on several of my blogs. I honestly have increased my daily adsense earnings just by installing and configuring this theme. It’s very well written and all the adsense blocks are already setup. You just need to go into one includes file and change the adsense publishers id to yours.

The sidebar has a great spot for those popular 125 x 125 ads so you can sell ad space or put in your own affiliate ads. The default comes with six of my favorite affiliate program ads so feel free to change the affiliate ids to yours (or signup if you don’t have accounts for them yet).

There’s also a nice 468 x 60 header banner spot where you can place another adsense block or just a regular ad. I recommend using a regular ad since adsense can only appear three times per page.

Enhancements

I did change a couple items in this template as I felt it was better suited for everyone. The sidebar uses the cool idTabs feature (javascript that changes the tab once you click on it) for three tabs. I removed the “Most Commented” tab and replaced it with the the “Popular Posts” tab instead which uses the Popularity Contest plugin. There were also some spelling errors I corrected which were minor. I also added some onblur javascript so when you click on the “subscribe via email” text it disappears instead of you having to erase the text in the box.

Other Areas

When you first install this theme you might experience a problem with the sidebar tabs (at least I did). The idTabs uses jquery and might conflict with one of your other plugins. For me, it was having trouble with the WP Lightbox plugin so I had to disable it before the idTabs would work properly. You’ll just need to disable any plugins that use jquery until you find the one it conflicts with.

The footer was also updated as well but feel free to move things around however you like. If you’re using widgets then you will appreciate the fact that the footer of this theme (4 columns) is actually widgetized, just drag and drop those widgets into place.

The author also states that it’s important to read the included “readme.txt” file because there’s lots of custom pieces to this theme.

Overall, this is a wonderfully built and designed WordPress theme by Moses. I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a free make money online theme that’s ready to go.

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