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Top 70+ Responsive Corporate WordPress Themes
One of the fundamental aspect of a good website is it’s layout: The design of your website might give you an edge over your competitors, as websites with attractive designs are often viewed as more credible to those with less attractive layouts.

There are loads of WordPress themes out there but we are focusing on the ones with responsive layout and easily customizeable. If you are wondering how a responsive site works, I’m going to give you an insight on how the browser renders responsive themes.

As mobile computing goes viral, the need for mobilized layout becomes piratically essential. Different users access your website via various devices and screen sizes: Some from small screen devices like Blackberry, iPhone, others from larger screen sizes like the iPad, Kindle or Netbook. Now, you cannot base your website layout on one device or screen size, as that will limit the access of users from other devices.

Responsive Web design prompts your design and development to respond to the user’s behavior and environment based on screen size, platform and orientation. The practice consists of a mix of flexible grids and layouts, images and an intelligent use of CSS media queries. As the user switches from their laptop to iPad, the website should automatically switch to accommodate for resolution, image size and scripting abilities. In other words, the website should have the technology to automatically respond to the user’s preferences. This would eliminate the need for a different design and development phase for each new gadget on the market.
In this post we shall be looking at 70 of such themes you can use on your WordPress self-hosted website.

1. The Wetro

The Wetro is Windows 8 Metro layout inspired HTML5 & CSS3 theme. With it’s powerful wordpress substructure you can manage everything. Most of the pages are built with drag and drop. It is so easy to manage pages with drag and drop content. It has 20 page elements which you can put where ever you want with just drag and drop. The Wetro comes with 2 menu options. Default one is left side menu. The other one is top menu with completely different layout. You can easily switch between them with just a click. Also, You can use our colorpicker tool to change color of The Wetro. You can either do it from admin panel or use WordPress’ theme customizer to see it live.

2. Second Touch

Second Touch is clean, light-weight, retina ready, fully responsive metro style WordPress theme. Its powerful customization capabilities enable you to create your outstanding website easy and fast.

3. Argo – Modern OnePage Metro UI WordPress Theme

ARGO is a unique and creative WordPress Theme with clean and modern design. It is perfect choice foryour corporate agency, creative studio or for portfolio. It can be customized easily to suit your wishes.

4. TechDesk

Clean and intuitive design with a tons of features & options: live search, widgetized areas, faq post format, shortcodes and much more. This theme can easily be used to build a FAQ site.

5. Metro – Responsive WordPress Theme

An elegant theme with cute layers. It gives your website a decent appearance.

6. Metrolium

Metrolium is a modern, metro inspired, multi-purpose, Retina Ready responsive WordPress theme. Beautifully designed, lovingly coded and absolutely bursting with functionality.

7. MetroVibes Responsive theme

MetroVibes Responsive theme is a modern and responsive metro WordPress theme perfect for a creative agency or a portfolio showcase website and is bound to turn some heads. The elegant and minimalistic look will definitely give a modern vibe to your website and will impress each and every one of your visitors.

8. Metpo

Metpo is a Responsive and HTML5 Ready Magazine Theme

9. Platinum Responsive Magazine Theme

Platinum Responsive Magazine Theme is a magazine based design or as what commonly called blogging theme its design is based and inspired by the popular Windows 8 OS.

10. Rocket Board

Rocket Board is a super awesome portfolio WordPress Theme with METRO style. You can set each thumbnail size as 1×1, 1×2, 2×1 or 2×2 easily. This theme also allow user to set specific colour on each metro box or just use the default colour from admin panel. You can also set the first state of metro box to show as colour box or show as feature image.

11. Fortis7 – Responsive Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme

Fortis7 is a responsive bbPress-compatible WordPress Theme, suited for business websites and users who want to showcase their work on a neat portfolio site.

12. Brandon – Responsive Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme

Brandon WordPress theme is a great, modern, responsive and easy to use theme for your business. The themes comes with an easy to use Muffin Builder which let you create any page you want without any knowledge in html, php or css.

13. Time

Time WordPress theme is suitable for a variety of site types: crative portfolio, big corporate site, personal blog, product-oriented site, video gallery & photo album – you name it. It is what you will call ‘a multipurpose’ theme.

14. Daisho

Daisho WordPress theme brings awesomeness to reality, giving your website an amazing clean layout that will surely keep your visitors comfortable.
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15. Revonge

If you are looking for a light weight theme with clean layouts; Revonge WordPress theme might be just the ideal theme.

16. Underground

Underground is a 2 in 1 (Onepage and Multipage) Responsive WordPress Theme. It is a multipurpose theme: Suitable for personal onepage or multipage websites/blogs, business websites, shop websites, users who want a very nice portfolio website where they can showcase their work, or for any other purpose website.

17. Stack

Stack is a clean, flexible, responsive on both layout & image and fully support retina display.

18. Sentinel

Sentinel WordPress theme is one of the most recent theme added to the already long list of WordPress theme. However, what makes this theme stand out among the rest is it’s highly SEO optimized structure. The theme also has elegant responsive layout with retina ready display.

19. Amzola WordPress Theme

Amzola WordPress Theme is specially designed for magazine websites. It is responsive, clean as well as beautiful.

20. Metro Rox HTML5 WordPress Multipurpose Theme

Metro Rox is a HTML5 WordPress Multipurpose Theme inspired by Windows 8 Metro UI

21. Smart7

Smart7 is a multipurpose WordPress theme with decent layout.

22. Safarica

Though, cannot be classified as a multipurpose theme; Safarica can be used on personal blogs as well as business blogs.

23. Built it yourself Responsive Theme

This theme is self explainable: It is totally customizeable, meaning that you can mold it to suite your taste without much knowledge on CSS, PHP or coding.

24. Black Pearl – Responsive WordPress Theme

Black Pearl responsive WordPress theme is work inspired by metro style design. It is multipurpose theme suitable for any kind of website.

25. Pacific

Pacific is a responsive & retina ready all in one theme, with good SEO optimization.

26. Ventus

High quality WordPress theme suitable for portfolio sites.

27. Sensica

Sensica is a responsive WordPress theme to easily show off your portfolio.

28. Venix

Venix is a very clean multipurpose wordpress theme based on responsive HTML5 & CSS3. The design is a new trend, it aim to highlight your work and services leaving away others graphic elements. This theme has been developed to to serve at all your needs, it comes with a wide range of options that will allow you to doing almost everything you want with the theme.

29. FacePress – Community Content Sharing

FacePress is a flexible well designed WordPress theme that allows you to make your site fully controllable. It’s elegant layout adds a decent feel to your website.

30. Express

This is a well designed multi-layout WordPress theme designed specially for portfolio websites. It can also be used on business blogs but not on personal blogs.

31. Increase – Premium Business WordPress Theme

32. Syncro | Grid Powered WordPress

33. NEWS24 | 4 in 1 News/Magazine WordPress Theme

34. Nemo

35. MetroStyle Responsive All Purpose WordPress Theme

36. Themify Metro WordPress Theme

37. Metrika

38. Everest – Premium WordPress Theme

39. Metro Facebook Timeline WordPress Template

40. MetroPix

41. OneCommunity

42. Metro Mobile Premium WordPress Mobile Template

43. Novelti

44. Metrofy WP

45. Success – WordPress Bootstrap Theme
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46. Appstract

47. Mukam

48. Good Bones: The WP SandBox Theme

49. Acid – Unique Horizontal Blog and Portfolio Theme

50. Diablo – Eye-candy Minimal Responsive WP Theme

51. Aeolus

52. Parkour | Unique Horizontal Layout With Options

53. Centre Responsive Metro WordPress Theme

54. Matrix

55. Arto

56. xSquare

57. K-BOOM – Events & Music Responsive WordPress Theme

58. Metro.press

59. Bloggit – Responsive WordPress Blog,Magazine,News

60. Blogbold

61. Touch Responsive & Bootstrap WordPress Theme

62. Edge – Professional Corporate and Portfolio WP

63.Total – Responsive Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme

64. Vetro
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65. Octavus Responsive Portfolio WP Theme

66. RedStar

67. One Touch

68. Gamma – Responsive Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme

69. Emulate

Emulate is a clean, modern design multipurpose wordpress theme can be used for any type of website build professional and modern websites.

70.BEE – Responsive & Retina Multi-Purpose WP Theme
December 13, 2013
EWT Quick Guides to Arvixe Hosting
Recently recognized as the 10th fastest growing company in the IT sector by Inc. Magazine, Arvixe has gradually made its name in the web development world.

Notably, the Arvixe Web Hosting Company has been the most recommended hosts, offering reliable but affordable hosting plan for Oxwall and WordPress hosting. It is therefore no surprise at the number of contacts I receive everyday asking for guides on how to setup their Arvixe hosting account.

Some Unique Features of Arvixe

Arvixe is largely popular with WordPress users partly because it fully adheres to all WordPress hosting system requirements (basically the same story with every other cms out there). Also the compatibility issues with Joomla 3.0 has been fixed as it is now fully compatible with Joomla 3.0!

The prices are quite affordable, here at EWT we have rounded up a few coupon codes that will enable you to purchase cheap hosting services from Arvixe (as low as $0.01 for the first month and 20% discount for every purchase) you may check it out at the Arvixe coupon page.

Less I forget, it is unlimited data transfer, 99% uptime, unlimited disk space, 1 free domain name for life, you know them right? Without wasting much time lets go down to the main business:

Getting Started

The moment you click here should take you to the Arvixe landing page. Kindly follow the steps below to setup your hosting account.
- Domain Search: On the top-right hand side of your screen, you will see a box label ‘Domain Search’. This is where you look up domain names. Kindly type a domain name (e.g. www.yourwebsitereg) into the box and select a TLD (e.g. .com, .net, .org etc) from the dropdown just beside the input box.
  Now click on the ‘Check Availability’ button. Please Note that the same method is applicable for both new domain registration and domain name transfer. The next page contains a list of TLD available for registration in regards to your search. If a domain name is available for registration, a button is placed just under it, you can simply click on this button to register the domain name. A button is used to denote that a TLD is neither available for new registration or for domain transfer.
- Domain Transfer: A button is placed below a TLD to signify that the domain name is not available for new registration but can be transferred to the Arvixe hosting account. You can also use this option if you are trying to transfer your domain name from a different domain name provider to Arvixe (Remember that Arvixe allows you to register 1 free domain name for life), so it’s quite a tempting offer for everyone.
- Now when you are done by selecting the options that fits your motives, you can proceed to the billing center by clicking on the next button at the top-right of the screen.
- Fill the required information on the billing form and click the next button.
- Select your hosting plan, eg. Personal Class, Personal Class Pro etc.
- From the drop down option choose a your model of payment e.g. 2years, 1year or payment on a monthly basis. Then click on Add to Cart to continue.
- The next page that comes up is where you select the services your opting for. You can choose whether you want to register a new domain name, transfer a domain name to Arvixe or simply point your domain name to Arvixe hosting. To do that, simply select the radio button corresponding to what you want to do and fill in your login details. Check the auto renew box if you want your account to be automatically renewed after expiration. Finally, click on next.
- Using Coupons: The coupon codes one way or the other minimize the cost of transaction for your hosting account. (Here at EWT we generate lots of coupon codes that offers you up to 20% discount for every purchase you make on Arvixe. You may check out this page for free Arvixe coupon codes). To use Promo/Coupon Code, paste your coupon code in the box at the top-right hand side of the screen and click use Note that to use a coupon code, you need to do this before the above step (before clicking next in the previous step).
Some Problems you are Likely to Encounter while Signing Up

“Good things” they said, “don’t come so easy”, as a young man I don’t think I’d totally agree with that saying but creating an Arvixe account doesn’t come on a silver platter. You are bound to get stuck on the way and that is why I’m writing this step to step guide.

You are a Fraud

If you have just completed the above step and receive a welcome message telling you that your account is a fraud. Well, don’t panic over this, as Arvixe tends to dislodge any registration from some countries outside the US. In this state your account status should be showing ‘Unverified’, all you have to do is to verify your account.

How to Verify your Arvixe Account

In Arvixe, you can verify your account regardless if you have purchased a plan already or not. This to ensures that there is no interruption of service most especially if you have already set up your website after receiving your Hosting Account Information via e-mail.

Arvixe Verification Process

There are two types of verification. The first one is Manual. Manual verification requires a customer to submit a scanned copy of one valid ID and a proof of payment.

Manual Verification For credit card payments, a scanned copy of the front side of the card showing the name and the last four-digits are required. The rest should be masked for security (recommended) If you paid using other payment methods such as PayPal, Skrill, or Google Checkout, you may chat with the billing support to ask the required documents for verification. They can help you verify your account quickly. Alternatively, you can verify your account over the phone. Phone verification is the easiest way to validate an account. The procedure is automated. You just need to provide a working phone number then Arvixe will call it. A unique verification code will be provided at the same time. Key-in the code within the allowed time to complete the verification.

Phone Verification To verify your account through the phone, go to Arvixe Verification page. This link will be provided to you via email after creating a billing account. If the code is correct, the automated voice prompt will confirm the account activation then ends the call immediately. If not, you can initiate phone verification again and a new code will be provided. The same phone number can be used. The code will appear in the top portion of the Arvixe Verification webpage so keep an eye on the page when you received the call. ‘That account is already verified.’ will show once verification is completed. Refresh the page to see the confirmation. Credit:starrguide.com

If you are signing up from Nigeria, just give them a scan copy of your Voter’s Card/National ID/Driving Licence and a scan copy of your Visa card. That should be all.

If you are transfering to Arvixe, the whole process should take less than 48hours to complete. New registrars can proceed to their cpanel (your cpanel details will be mailed to you) and initiate the awesome!

Thanks for reading and Happy Sharing! Remember to contact the arvixe support should you ecounter any problem (those guys are ever ready to help out), if you have any question, contribution or suggestion feel free to use the comment box below, Nice to have you in our blog today 🙂
September 24, 2013
Build A Social Network With WordPress (Part 2)

Last time I wrote an article on Building A Social Network With WordPress (Part 1) today we are going to look at the top ten plugins you will need for your social network. This plugins combines well with the buddypress plugin to give make your website a user friendly community.

Top 10 Plugins for Your WordPress Social Network

✔ BP Community Activity on Profile

This is similar to the activities log on facebook.com; it plugin shows all the community activity on a user’s profile. It also include a menu titled “All Activity” to user activity.

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✔ BP Auto Login On Activation Plugin

This plugin automatically login users after creating an account. Unlike the buddypress usual behaviour the Bp Auto Plugin On Activation Plugin redirects users to their profile after registration.

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✔ Custom Admin Bar

The Custom Admin Bar allows you to customize the admin bar and add your quick links, it also allows you to use a logo on the admin bar.
This plugin is generally supported by any wordpress that has an admin bar.

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✔ BP Custom Background For User Profile

Some piece of twitter wonder? This plugin will let your users upload a custom background image to their profile like you do on twitter.

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✔ BP Username Changer

Lets your users change their usernames. This plugin runs an automatic search to see if a username is already in use before assigning it to a user.

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Must Read: https://ewtnet.com/2013/07/build-social-network-with-wordpress.html

✔ YD BuddyPress Feed Syndication

This plugin lets you syndicate external RSS feeds into your site’s BuddyPress activity feed. It enables each BuddyPress user to select as many external RSS feeds as he wants. Those feeds will be aggregated (mixed) into their activity feed automatically, with a title, an excerpt and a link to the original post.

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✔ BuddyPress Message Privacy Plugin

BuddyPress Message Privacy Plugin allow your users to control who can message them. It includes basic features such as: a user can opt to receive messages from everyone, friends only or even specify a custom list of users from whom he want to receive messages. He can also create a custom list for other users who can send him a message, as well as a blacklist of users who will never be able to send him a message.

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✔ BP Export Users

Just recently buddypress included the development of this feature in their roadmap. While waiting for the official core release buddypress users can still make due of this plugin to export all user data from WordPress and BuddyPress to CSV.

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✔ BuddyPress Group Suggest Widget

This plugin suggest groups already created on your social network to other users based on their friend’s group.

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✔ BuddyPress Simple Google Map

The BuddyPress Simple Google Map plugin uses the static Google map API to add the maps to groups. It also includes a widget to showcase the map in the sidebar.

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July 19, 2013
Build A Social Network With WordPress (Part 1)

The worst and the most mysterious attribute that is placed in every human by whoever made it, is probably the lack of satisfaction that is been found in every human being. Let’s take this for example: All you desired to have was a blog to share your ideas; and that is why you chose wordpress, now you have a lots of audience, more blog post, want your audience to be contributing effectively and that’s why you are searching for a social network 🙂 If you found yourself in this condition, do not feel sad because you are not alone. What’s more?“The horn can never be too heavy for the head that must carry it” Normally in a situation like this ideas like moving to a different cms often pop into your head but I can assure you that there will be no need for that. You can actually integrate social network into your wordpress blog.

How does it work? I don’t expect this information to be new to everyone, as a matter of fact if you are coming from a search engine, get ready to burst for excitement for this awesome wordpress plugin. BuddyPress is social networking, the wordPress way. Easily create a fully featured social network inside your wordpress.org powered site. Why BuddyPress? Not like I know another
alternative but whether an alternative exits or not buddypress combines pretty well with some cute wordpress plugins to give you a dream social network sooner than you expected. BuddyPress allows users
sign-up and creating profiles, posting messages, making connections, creating and interacting in groups, and much more. A social network in a box, BuddyPress lets you easily build a community for your company, school, sports team, or other niche community.

Getting Started with BuddyPress?
Starting is breeze, first you need to download and install the buddypress plugin also try the following buddypress compatible plugins:

Top 10 Plugins for YourWordPress Social Network

July 19, 2013