There are lots of free WordPress themes available on the net, but how many of them really can suit your needs and having professional design and look? Today I came across with 2011 new WordPress theme which is designed by talented designers Ellen and Manuel from Elmastudio.

Yoko is a modern and flexible WordPress theme. Check out the features and documentations as below:-

• for WordPress 3.1 +
• Cross-browser compatible (tested in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer 9 and 8 )
• HTML5 (with fallback for IE responsive layout (CSS3 media queries not supported in IE 9 wordpress post format (aside, gallery, image, video, link and quote)
• Theme options, individual background, individual header image
• optional sub-
• Social Links Widget (for RSS, Twitter, Facebook, Google +, Flickr, Vimeo, LinkedIn and Delicious)
• Google web fonts (Droid Sans and Droid Serif)
• Nested comments with Gravatar images
• full width page template
• Short codes for multiple columns, info boxes in yellow, green or red and highlighted text

The theme is released under GPL. You can use it for all your projects for free and without any restrictions. It is free for download and check out the live demo here!

Google had officially announced their Google+, a new social network that would battle Facebook and the Google Plus button works like the popular Facebook like button. If you are thinking to add Google+ button to your post automatically in order to generate more traffic, then you can try to add the following codes to functions.php file.

add_filter('the_content', 'wpr_google_plusone');
function wpr_google_plusone($content) {
	$content = $content.'<div><g:plusone size="tall" href="'.get_permalink().'"></g:plusone></div>';
	return $content;
}
add_action ('wp_enqueue_scripts','wpr_google_plusone_script');
function wpr_google_plusone_script() {
	wp_enqueue_script('google-plusone', 'https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js', array(), null);
}

That’s all and thanks Spyre Studios for the great code!

If you want to display youtube video thumbnail on your website or WordPress blog, below is the code that you can use to do it. First, you need to create a shortcode by copying the code below and paste it into your functions.php file.

/*
    Shortcode to display youtube thumbnail on your wordpress blog.
    Usage:
    [youtube_thumb id="VIDEO_ID" img="0" align="left"]
    VIDEO_ID= Youtube video id
    img=0,1,2 or 3
    align= left,right,center
*/
function wp_youtube_video_thumbnail($atts) {
     extract(shortcode_atts(array(
          'id' => '',
          'img' => '0',
          'align'=>'left'
     ), $atts));
    $align_class='align'.$align;
    return '<img src="<a href="http://img.youtube.com/vi/'.$id.'/'.$img.'.jpg&quot" rel="nofollow">http://img.youtube.com/vi/'.$id.'/'.$img.'.jpg&quot</a>; alt="" />';
}
add_shortcode('youtube_thumb', 'wp_youtube_video_thumbnail');

Once done, you can use this shortcode and it only can accept 3 parameters: The video ID, the image size (0 for 480*360px, 1 for 120*90) and the image alignment.

[youtube_thumb id="rNWeBVBqo2c" img="0" align="center"]

Thanks to Gunay for the code!

It’s been a long time I didn’t share the good and free WordPress theme, and today I found a Free WordPress theme that you will like it a lot. This is Mini Hyper WordPress theme, and it is free for download.

Mini Hyper is a home-made free WordPress theme by WpStyles.org, made with a lot of love and an ambition to serve bloggers world wide. It comes with a basic theme options page where you can add your Analytics tracking code and change the logo. Other than that, Mini Hyper is widget ready and works in all browsers.

Theme Features
- Theme Options Page
- Widget Ready
- WordPress 3.0+ Ready
- Cross browser compatible
- Custom Nav Menus