The Gabfire Widget Pack plugin contains 12 useful widgets to extend your WordPress site. It is a FREE plugin that will work with any theme, not just a Gabfire theme.

What’s Inside the Gabfire Widget Pack?

The Gabfire Widget Pack contains 12 awesome widgets:

• About Me
• Archive Search
• Flickr Images
• Search
• Social Icons
• Post Tabs
• Author Badge
• Feedburner Email Subscribe
• Related Posts
• Social Sharing
• Gabfire Text+ Widget
• Random, Recent, or Popular Posts

For more details on each of the widgets, click here.

Why a Plugin?

There are several reasons why we released the Gabfire Widget Pack plugin. Here are a few:

1) Contribute to the WP Community – Some of our widgets are quite popular, and we received several emails asking for the code. So rather than limit them to only the Gabfire community, we decided to package our most common widgets into a plugin that could be used by the entire WordPress community.

2) Give End-User Control – Our themes are quite robust in features and options. We found that some users took advantage of the various widgets, however some did not. Therefore, in an effort to allow the end user to decide which widgets they wanted on their site, moving the widgets into a plugin made more sense. Now, you can decide which widget to enable or disable on your site, and users can take advantage of them on any theme.

3) Less is More – There are plenty of plugins and widgets available through WordPress. Depending on your needs, some may be relevant and useful, whereas some are just extra bloat on your site. By transferring the widgets into a free plugin, our themes are lighter out-of-the-box.

Where do I download plugin?

Similar to any other WordPress plugin, you can grab the Gabfire Widget Pack plugin from the WordPress Plugin repository. Try it out. If you like it, give it a rating on the repository to let more people know about it. If you have any questions related to it, feel free to post a comment below.

DOWNLOAD HERE

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I thought the widely covered brute force attacks on WordPress sites were worth discussing in case any users aren’t aware of the this hot topic.

What are Brute Force Attacks?

Unlike hacks, brute force attacks take the easier approach of consistently trying to guess your username and password. Unfortunately, this works since not all site owners have the strongest credentials, especially those who still use the dreaded default ‘admin‘ username. Since brute force attacks don’t halt after a single failed attempt, they can take a devastating toll on your server memory causing performance issues.

How can you prevent brute force attacks?

To prevent these attacks on your WordPress site, follow these precautionary steps:

1. Do NOT use the ‘admin‘ username. Create a new user with Administrator rights. Log out and log back into WordPress as the new Adminstrator, and delete the user ‘admin‘.
2. Set a strong password with numbers, characters, and upper and lower case letters. Unfortunately, we occasionally see site owners with passwords that either match their domain, or are simple number strings such as 123456.
3. Protect your site using plugins. These are 3 plugins that I highly recommend – use the one (or two) that meet your needs:

• Limit Login Attempts – does what the name says.
• Google Authenticator – allows two-factor authentication to login to your WordPress site. For some, this may seem like overkill, but you can never be too safe.
• WordFence – a robust security plugin with built-in firewall, virus scanning, and a premium version to block specific countries.

Better Safe Than Sorry

Now that you’re informed, spend a few minutes to protect that awesome site. While you’re at it, take out the trash, spam, and erroneous users. Any questions or comments related to these brute force attacks, just ping us in the comments below.

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We are looking for an awesome PHP and WordPress Developer to join our team. We’ve got some great new and exciting projects in the pipeline and this lucky person will be actively involved in seeing them from concept to finished product. So if you’ve got the skills, love a flexible work arrangement, and just like working with awesome people, get in touch today.

Responsibilities?

Working alongside our small team at Gabfire, you will be responsible for taking on special projects and developing cool new functionality for upcoming products. If you can take a set of requirements and build something functional using finely crafted code, this job is for you. Projects may range from special WordPress theme features, plugins, to application-based functionality. To apply, you should rock at PHP / WordPres / MySQL. After all, we have to  produce awesome functionality, features and applications.

Work Details

• Location: Anywhere – it doesn’t matter. None of us are located in the same country!
• Time: Whenever – work at your own time, but just get things done.

Interested? If so, contact us here and tell us about yourself and what you bring to the table. More information is always better.

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This is one responsive WordPress theme well worth the wait. You’ve heard us mention it within our community forums and now it’s ready for your next newspaper or magazine site.

This is no ordinary theme!

As always, we listened closely to our community and analyzed the most requested features. Even with our 5 years of newspaper design and development experience, it took our developer 2 months to perfect all (and there’s definitely a long list) the features of this theme. We’ll go into details further below, but rest assured you won’t find another theme that compares to the all new Patterns theme for WordPress.

Here’s the rundown of some noteworthy features inside the Patterns theme:

Responsive WordPress Theme

We know the importance of responsive design and for that reason we designed Patterns to work with larger screens as well as tablets and smart phones. Try it out yourself! Take a look at the demo of Patterns theme and resize your browser to test its responsiveness at different sizes.

Built on Twitter Bootstrap

Twitter Bootstrap is one of the most popular frameworks for designing responsive websites built by the nice folks over at Twitter. It’s now widely used, and we’ve adopted it for our own purposes. Due to its solid code library, ease of use, and wide acceptance, our themes will be built on this framework going forward.

News Ticker

Satisfying multiple requests from early users, a news ticker located at the upper left side of screen can display the latest posts – or – posts of a specific category or tag. It’s the perfect section for breaking news or sticky topics.

Featured Collage Area

Patterns is our first theme that comes without a slider on the front page. However, we designed something better for you – a neat featured collage are that displays posts based on a user-defined category or tag.

Smart Navigation

Want more than just basic drop-down navigation menus from a premium theme?

You can take advantage of Smart Navigation designed not only to provide easy navigation across your site, but also to encourage visitors to stay on your site longer. The Smart Navigation is a two-column panel divided into sub-navigation items and the most recent entries within that category.

Category Layouts

Blog layouts are boring! We work with some large and interesting clients in the online news world and they all have unique layouts for categories, and now you can too. We introduced the concept of custom inner page layouts with City Desk and carried that feature into every theme thereafter.

Patterns received some special attention with several category layouts to choose from so you don’t have to display all your categories / tags / author archives in the classic blog format. Take advantage of these unique magazine style layouts to give each category page some new life.

• Default Category Layout
• Category Template With Slider Support
• 2 column Grid
• 3 column Grid
• 4 column Grid

Post Templates

If a sleek front-page isn’t enough, and multiple category layouts haven’t got you convinced, then how about the ability to choose from four different post layouts?

Tell us what you think of this theme release in the comments below, or ask us a question.

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It’s that time again. Christmas is almost here and our annual sale has just begun.

As the new year approaches, we’re all probably thinking about resolutions. However, WordPress fans are constantly thinking about how to change their sites, and what theme to use. Luckily, this holiday sale will let you choose 1 or more themes for your website so don’t miss the opportunity to pick up any of our themes at 50% off.

Many of you have asked for this sale, and we’re happy to deliver just in time for Christmas cheer. If you’re the type of person that waits until the last minute to buy, then mark the 31st as the last day to get this offer. Start the new year off right with a new theme!

Wishing all you WordPress users a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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It’s already Thanksgiving in the east coast, and time sure is flying by quickly. To celebrate Turkey day, Black Friday, and of course Cyber Monday, we’re giving folks the opportunity to take advantage of 50% of any theme.

Rather than wait for Black Friday to get a good deal, this promotion starts today, and will run until midnight Monday, November 26th EST. That’s four days to secure a fantastic theme for your next project. If you’re not sure which theme to pick, feel free to ask us for advice in the comments below.

You can choose from popular themes such as City Desk and Advanced Newspaper, or more recent releases such as Opinions and Arts and Culture. Check out all the themes and pick one or more as as they’re all specially priced at 50% off. Choosing just one won’t be easy, but knowing they’re all 50% off sure makes the purchasing process a no-brainer.

These promotions don’t come often, so don’t wait. We will not be able to extend this special after Cyber Monday!

Gobble gobble! Happy Thanksgiving to the Gabfire community.

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Wondering about WPML plugin compatibility with Gabfire themes? Well rest assured, the fine folks over at WPML tested some of our themes and verified they are fully compatible with their awesome multilingual plugin. If you’re not already familiar with WPML, you should check out what they offer. In short, here’s what their plugin does:

WPML makes it easy to build multilingual sites and run them.
It’s powerful enough for corporate sites, yet simple for blogs.

With WPML you can translate pages, posts, custom types, taxonomy, menus and even the theme’s texts. Since many of our users are worldwide, this plugin is an excellent option for multilingual news sites and magazines. If you’re in the market for this, WPML should be at the top of the list. Now you have 1 more reason to do so with fully compatibility between Gabfire themes and WPML plugin.

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Opinions BuddyPress theme for WordPress is clean, responsive, and feature-rich.

Everyone has an Opinion! That’s the real substance behind great communities – a constant flow of different opinions. Our latest theme – aptly titled Opinions – really has all the bells-and-whistles needed to set up a community platform based on a magazine theme.

We received extremely positive feedback on our Connect theme which gave us plenty of motivation to build a second BuddyPress compatible WordPress theme. With Opinions, we wanted to display a large amount of content in a clean magazine layout while also taking advantage of BuddyPress functionality to create a truly social platform.

Responsive

The design of Opinions theme will scale to fit on all browser widths/resolutions and on all mobile devices.

Multiple Category Layouts

The theme is packed with 6 different category layouts. Think about the possibilities!

1. Unique Magazine Layout
2. New Grid Layout (my favorite!)
3. 4-column
4. 3-column
5. 2-column
6. Default blog layout

Multiple Post Layouts

Opinions has 3 custom post layouts. This is a very unique feature not found in many themes in the market.

1. Big Picture
2. No Sidebar
3. Default

BuddyPress Compatibility

Of course, this theme is BuddyPress compatible – another unique feature that is not widely available in the market.

Popular Posts

The home page features a vertical list of popular posts which can also revert to displaying a specific category’s posts.

Mega Dropdown with Category-Specific Ads

Since users loved this feature first introduced in Connect theme, we decided to integrate it into Opinions. After all, we’re all about listening to users’ opinions Now, go get your next theme!

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Build a community with the Connect BuddyPress theme for WordPress!

Connect is a WordPress and BuddyPress theme for those that want to build a community around their news site. Since BuddyPress has progressed so much in the last year, we figured a theme with social networking capabilities was overdue. Besides, our community has been asking for such a theme for quite some time. Now you have it with all these features below:

Responsive

The theme is fully responsive and ready for any device (table, mobile phone, etc).

Category Templates

Like many of our themes, Connect also has several category templates to give up your site some much needed variety. These include:

Post Templates

Connect has three post templates. You can decide exactly what layout a post should have. Here are examples of post layouts:

• Default layout
• Default layout with Big Picture
• Full-width

Mega Dropdown with Category-Specific Ads

To keep things interesting, you not only have the option to turn any category menu item into a mega drop-down, but you can also embed a category-specific ad within it. During our tests, we noticed many users clicked on those ads, so let’s hope you have the same results.

There’s More…

As with most of our themes, one blog post is never enough to capture all the theme features.

• Related Posts – eliminate another plugin! We got you covered.
• Gabfire Widgets – The entire site is widgetized, and includes all of our custom widgets.
• Shortcodes – need some additional styling to spice up that article, use shortcodes!
• and many more finer points that make this theme worth every penny.

BuddyPress’ tagline is Social networking, in a box. That’s exactly what you get with the Connect theme. Go ahead and start your own WordPress-powered social network!

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It’s 10PM here in NYC, and before I head out into the city that never sleeps, I wanted to finish some tweaks and tests on our upcoming theme. Here’s a sneak peek at what we’ve been working on behind the scenes. It’s next on the release schedule so stay tuned.

Connect – A WordPress and BuddyPress combo theme. Now you can run an online newspaper and a social network all on one site. Teaser image below:

What do you think? Like what you see? Tell us in the comments below.

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