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Hello everyone, It has been a long time since my last update and I do have a good (enough I hope) reason for doing so. I became aware that the domain name for this website is breaching the guidelines specified by WordPress.org. I apologize for my lack of sufficient research in the beginning and I am taking steps to correct the situation. However, due to personal life issues, I could not dedicate much time to this endeavor so far. I [...]

There have been some changes on the Special Offers front recently. Wordpress Herald brings you now the latest updates, so that you can make the best of your money.

First of all, Gorilla Themes dropped the discount on the Basic packages, but increased the one for Developers. You can now save $40 instead of $30 when you buy a theme in the Developer flavor.

Solostream has a Limited-Time Special Offer that allows you to save 50% on All Premium WordPress Themes. That’s right. When you buy 2 or more Premium WordPress Themes, you’ll get 50% off your total order. Just pick out the themes you want, and use discount code themedeal for a 50% discount when you checkout.

And last, but not least, Theme Trust has a 2-for-1 deal. Add any two themes to your shopping cart. Then enter the code “1free” at checkout to get both themes for the price of one.

For more special offers from the leading Premium Theme providers, make sure you check our Special Offers page.

The guys at WooThemes are up to great things. Last week they did a double launch: their first WordPress plugin and their first iPhone application. This week they come with a challenge for the Wordpress developers everywhere.

Wordpress Herald comes to you today with a bunch of special offers that will make your WordPress senses tingle with delight. 50% discount on Solostream themes, printed copies of the Digging into Wordpress book, 3 free sets from the Bundle Hunt and 20% discount on Themify themes await you.

Coding high quality WordPress themes is not easy work. Even more so, when you’re doing everything from scratch, without a framework to build upon. There are countless little things that you must take care of and it’s not always that easy to find the proper documentation.

This is where Wordpress Snippets comes into play. As its name says, this website has many tiny bits of code that solve a particular problem. Do you need to check if the user is logged in? Do you want to display the post time in twitter style (x days ago)? Highlight the author comments and so many more little details? There is a snippet of code for each of these problems.

Here we meet again, after a long enough break. The main cause for it was my relocation to Barcelona where I started my new job, so I could not pay enough attention to this website.

So what had happened in the community in this time?

An options panel is pretty much essential these days for any premium theme; they are a great step forward in theme design for the casual user as it gives them the abilility to customise certain aspects of their sites without having to delve through html and css which is alien to them.

If you were to pick a premium theme provider from our featured list, there are great chances that the theme you desire will be backed up by a separate section in the admin area, where you can play and tinker with all kind of elements of the theme. However the demos only feature the front end area running the theme. Most likely your first encounter with the Option Panel will be when you install it on your own website.

The ultimate list of premium wordpress theme providers comes back into attention. First of all the list is now featured as a stand-alone page, with a shorter, significant URL and its own link in the main menu. Also the list got updated with ten new entries, raising the total count to more than 60.

If an image is worth 1000 words, how much is a video screencast worth? There are people out there that learn a lot better by seeing a hands-on demonstration than by reading 10 books. This is the reason that guest writer Siva Kumar published on InstantShift.com a very well researched collection of more than 50 screencasts and video tutorials from all over the web.

Adii Rockstar, one of the core team members of WooThemes, is giving out a free copy of his new book for anyone who purchases one of the Business themes from today until the end of August. You got it right – you can get a free paperback copy of the book, shipped free anywhere in the world.

Club members are not forgotten either. For the same period the PDF version of the book is available for download for all club members.