Are you one of the curious ones who want to know what changed? Check out the changelog.

I will keep it short and simple.

Upgrade now

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Check out this short video that summarizes the things we think you’ll find are the cat’s pajamas:

Make sure you upgrade now. Download WordPress 3.3

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What’s new in Headway 3.0

Short answer: A lot. There is so much that was added to the 3.0 that its unbelievable. I have been playing around with it, and it is really the most beginner friendly WordPress theme. Our favorite is the grid system (See the video)

Below are some of the new things added:

• Headway 3 has been completely rewritten from scratch. It features an entirely new codebase that’s fast.
• You can now do more than ever without ever having to write a single line of code: even things like drop shadows and rounded corners in your designs.
• Headway now has child themes, some of which are ports of well-known themes from major theme developers such as Press75, Allure and Organic. Many others come from Headway directly and we’ll have new ones constantly. Any theme developer can create child themes for Headway, and even sell them in the Headway Marketplace!
• You can design your website just by drawing rectangles live on the page. We call them Blocks. Just click and drag, tell Headway what kind of Block you want (header, navigation, content and more) and hey presto: you’re creating a custom layout without coding.
• You can easily set fonts, colors, backgrounds, and other design elements in Headway’s Visual Editor. See your changes live right on the screen with no guesswork. Simply save your changes to bring them live to your website.
• We’ve added in rel=author for author links, a new SEO feature based on Google’s announcement they were going to factor in that xfn information into their rankings more heavily.
• For developers, the Live CSS editor now features syntax color-coding and there is a Blocks API so developers can create their own custom block types… and even sell them in the Headway marketplace!

Unfortunately, those of you who missed out on the grand-fathered pricing that’s a bummer. But there are few coupons floating around that you can use to get the best deal.

If you use the coupon: HW33 – you can get 33% OFF all plans except for BASE. (We don’t know when this coupon will expire).

But if it does expire, then you can use the never-expiring Headway coupon to get 25% OFF.

Yes the prices are a bit steep, but if you watch the video above, then you know this is well worth it. I know on their site, they are suggesting that Standard package is the Best Value. But I disagree. That price only includes 3 Headway Child themes and 1 year of support and updates. If you are going to invest in this great product, I would recommend going all the way to get the Lifetime Pass.

I am always a fan of getting lifetime updates and new child themes as they come out. That is why I have the Headway Lifetime Pass. Invest once and enjoy the benefits for life rather than paying for a new child theme that comes out.

What are your thoughts on Headway 3.0?

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Easy Theme $37 (Magazine)

Exciter $35 (Magazine)

Mandrake $37 (Business)

Complex $37 (Business)

MediaFlux $35 (Magazine)

LittleSmile $37 (Business)

Oddly $35 (Business)

Banter $37 (Business)

Box One $32 (One-Page)

Ampersand $35 (Magazine)

Chow $35 (Restaurant)

Launched Yet? $18 (Landing Page)

Fuse Music $35 (Music)

EStyle $35 (Fasion)

True North $35 (Church)

Get Mojo Themes Cyber Bundle Now

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If you don’t find anything here, then check out our WordPress coupons area which always have good deals.

Themify 40% OFF

Themify has announced 40% Off on all of their themes. They make gorgeous WordPress themes. We have written about some of their themes here such as: Simfo, Grido, FOLO, Minblr, Newsy, and Wumblr to name a few.

With a very easy to use admin panel and sleek options such as multiple color schemes for each theme, Themify themes are a steal. With this deal, you can get all 22 of their themes for only $41.40. The standard club includes all themes and requires no monthly membership. This is the best deal out of all.

Use the coupon “blackfriday” to get 40% OFF. Coupon will expire on Monday 28th, 2011.

Get Themify Themes NOW

StudioPress 25% OFF

We are big supporters of StudioPress and the Genesis framework. The last we recall from StudioPress came was last year on Black Friday. So if you have been wanting to get one of their themes, then this is the best time to do so. You probably will not see another discount from them anytime soon.

You can get 25% OFF if you use the coupon THANKS (Expires Monday, Nov 28, 2011 at 8 PM EST).

We recommend that the best deal possible is their pro-plus package. That is the package we bought last year when the discount was available. It includes all of their existing theme (retail value of $875), and all the future themes they will make (for a one-time fee). Just like after this years sale, the price of pro-plus package may increase. So jump on this because it gets you in the club for lifetime.

StudioPress is also introducing responsive designs, integration with WooCommerce, and bbPress. This is just another reason why you should just get the Pro-Plus package and get all the benefits for life.

Get 25% OFF on StudioPress

Premise Ultimate $70 OFF

Premise is a landing page builder by Copyblogger Media. It is by far one of the better landing page plugins for WordPress. It usually goes for $165 because it gives you:

• All the landing pages you can build
• Use on as many domains as you want
• Access to ongoing optimization seminars
• Copywriting advice from inside WordPress
• 1,100 custom graphics by our lead designer Rafal
• Unlimited technical support
• Unlimited updates (trust me, you’ll thank yourself for this next year)

But you can get this for ONLY $95 (savings of $70) when you use the coupon THANKS (Expires Monday, Nov 28, 2011 at 8 PM EST).

If you ever want to build landing pages in WordPress get this plugin. We will have tutorials on how to setup a landing page using Premise coming soon.

iThemes 28% OFF

Starting November 25th (12:01 am EST), iThemes will be doing a 28% OFF their iThemes, PluginBuddy (Backupbuddy), and their WebDesign.com courses. If there is one thing we would highly recommend you get from this package, then it would be BackupBuddy. It backups your entire WordPress site. It is a great tool, and we believe everyone should have it. All you have to do is:

use the coupon code “FREESHIPPING” (Expires on Midnight on Monday November 28th, 2011)

Save on iThemes and BackupBuddy now

Theme Junkie 35% OFF

Theme Junkie has announced 35% OFF on all of their products whether you are a new user or an existing user. This means that you can get their club membership for $32.95 for an entire year (which includes 19 existing themes + 12 coming themes). Sounds like a good deal. You can also get their individual themes from $12.95 – $19.47.

To get the discount, use the coupon THANKS (Coupon expires on November 30th, 2011 at 8PM EST)

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Standard Theme 30% OFF

Standard Theme is one of the best blogging themes available. We named it one of the best themes of 2010. Mashable also voted it one of the best blogging theme. On Black Friday, you can get 30% OFF.

Use the coupon code: BLACK2011 (coupon expires on November 29th, 2011)

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Live Theme 30% OFF

Live Theme is a video-centric WordPress theme designed for live event broadcasting, community interaction, and all around awesomeness. We named it one of the best themes of 2010. On Black Friday, you can get 30% OFF.

Use the coupon code: BLACK2011 (coupon expires on November 29th, 2011)

Get 30% Off on Live Theme Now

Pro Photo Theme 30% OFF

From the makers of Standard Theme, Pro Photo Theme is a supremely flexible layout for Photographers, Photo Bloggers & Image Enthusiasts. It has 4 unique looks for one great price. On Black Friday, you can get 30% OFF.

Use the coupon code: BLACK2011 (coupon expires on November 29th, 2011)

Get 30% Off on Pro Photo Press Theme Now

Rockable Themes 60% OFF

Get 60% off on their single or developer license. Grab your copy of their Euphoria theme now.

Use the coupon DEAL to get 60% OFF (coupon Expires on Nov. 28th)

Get Rockable Themes Now

Digging into WordPress

Digging into WordPress, one of the best books to learn more about WordPress is upto $10 off from the regular price. Authored by two of the most reputable figures in the WordPress and design industry, Jeff Starr and Chris Coyier, this book is a MUST have for every WordPress user who is looking to go the next level. These authors constantly update the book with the new releases of WP, so updates are included in the price. You are getting a great value.

Use the coupon “BlackFriday2011” to get $7 OFF.

Get Digging into WordPress now.

MaxCDN for only $1 for 1 TB

Yes, we are using MaxCDN. It speeds up our site. Check out our infographic on why you need a CDN. Normally it costs for $39.95 to get the first TB. MaxCDN is giving the first TB for $1. On most sites this will last you for a year. This is a well-worth it investment.

Get MaxCDN for $1

Get 35% OFF Gravity Froms

Gravity Forms which is one of the best form management plugin is on sale. You can get 35% OFF on the plugin when you use the coupon: GIMME35

Get Gravity Forms Now

Note: we use Gravity forms to power entire WordPress gallery section. We also refer to it in many tutorials because it is the most beginner friendly contact form.

Remember today is just Thursday. We will be updating this post through out the weekend as more deals come available. So we highly recommend that you stay updated with this article. If you know of a deal that we missed, then please add that in here.

If you don’t find anything here, then check out our WordPress coupons area which always have good deals.

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Change the Color, Font, and Background Image in Seconds

You can change the color, font, and background images in a matter of seconds as there are several built in skins that can be activated with a click of your mouse. Not only this but it comes with several custom widgets and an admin panel that makes customization of the theme easy and precise.

Custom Post Types and Fancy Jquery Slider

There are several built in custom post types so that you can include events, video, audio, and galleries in your theme. You can also use these to build out your homepage slider by adding media to the slides. If you need some help on using custom post types you can check out our article on how to use custom post types in WordPress 3.0.

Gallery for your Media

The theme includes a gallery for all of you media files and the PSD is layered so make some more detailed customizations. You can also add a lightbox effect to your gallery if want or modify the well documented code yourself.

Other Features

• Fully working AJAX Contact Form with spam protection
• Complete HTML template included
• Ready for WordPress 3.3!

Purchase Born Theme for WordPress

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Syed Balkhi here. So as most of you can already see, we unveiled the new WPBeginner design earlier this morning. After tweeting about it and facebook sharing it, I thought we owe our users an explanation and offer more details. Yes, you came to the site and you probably are like WTF! what is this site? Where did that big orange go? What’s going on. Yes, I owe you that explanation. I will format this as to why we made the switch, what changed, and what is the future benefits of these changes.

Why we switched to WPBeginner 3.0

Did you notice we skipped a version there. There was never an announcement about v2.0. Well that is because it never made it live. When it was done, I decided it was not the way I wanted to move forward. The old coupons and gallery was kinda a sneak into 2.0. Since July 4th, 2009 when we first launched, this site has grown to be a huge resource. We have added WPBeginner WordPress Coupons and WPBeginner WordPress Gallery. One of the problem I saw us running into was keeping a consistent user interface. It was becoming very hard to integrate newer sections into a wider scope of things. For instance after the launch, the gallery and coupons were buried. There was only one link under the Sections Drop down.

In version 2.0, we attempted to fix that issue while retaining our main design. Once done, the version looked freaking ugly. It looked like someone just plastered stuff. It was not organized, it was not structured the way I wanted. I as a user would hated that site.

The reason why we switched to this newer look was because it gives us room to grow. The coupons and gallery items will be displayed on each page. Currently they are being manually handled, but in a week or two this will be automated. You will see a random coupon and gallery on each page visit. If you see we have a video section coming soon. This will be live once we are back from BlogWorld Expo. We are hoping to add some very interesting sections that will be very useful.

This new design gives us that room to grow while giving users the ability to browse through our whole content as a network rather than each individual site.

So what the heck changed?

The whole darn thing changed. This new look was heavily inspired from WordPress 3.3 backend theme. We have all sections in the left navigation area. There is the new Explore button at the top. Click on it if you are feeling adventurous.

The design is semi-responsive. We are targeting popular resolutions/screen sizes. Our iPad display is not totally how we want it to be. Yes we are aware of that. We are working on that.

Someone brought up the point, you got rid of that big orange. Yes we did. When we first launched the site, that was very new. Now every other spammy site selling stuff has that. Sure it works in marketing, but we don’t want to look like that. We want to bring out our content more than our services. Content is #1 because it helps users. If as a user you like our content, you will inherently ask us to work for you. I personally am honored to work with so many of our users hands on.

What’s the Future?

This is crazy. I always wanted to keep the voice out. I wanted it written not in first person. But this site is getting much bigger. We are adding a revenue sharing program very soon for guest authors. Each author will get their own credit. So you will see a lot of first person views.

Editorial staff is mainly myself and David, so it may vary. It may still be in third person, or it might be in first based on the article.

The future is very bright. We have some very interesting new features coming along. The first one you can kind of see is the Videos. It will be all FREE and totally for beginners. We are working on guides that users can simply get once they come to the site. Often new users feel too overwhelmed. In the beginning the site was very small. So it was easier for everyone. Now a lot of good content is being buried. We want to make them into free e-books for our users.

We are working on pimping up our coupons section. Currently we have over 30+ coupons but this will be growing very fast. The giveaways that we run on WPBeginner will have their own section. Its getting out of control to manage them as posts. We will be creating a separate section like giveaway.wpbeginner or something along the same line. It will be one page that you can monitor periodically. We will try to have continuous giveaways, so it never stops. Lets see how that goes. My fingers are crossed.

We are also working on cutting the number of ads. Yes, I want to make the ads more relevant. Instead of having 8 ugly 125 x 125 ads, we will only have 1 or 2 bigger ad sizes. We will mostly be promoting our own services that we are coming along with.

The future of WPBeginner is bright or at least I think so. Its been a fun ride, and I am on it for as long as we go.

I want to thank you guys for continuously supporting us. We would be nowhere without you.

I see that a lot of users are already adjusting to the design. I would love to hear from you. If you are going to comment I liked the old design better, you are not being helpful. We are not going to go back. But we really need your help. You can help us by letting us know on how we can improve.

This is a work in progress like everything we do here. It never stops. We want to build it the best we can, and we need your help. Looking forward to the comments.

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Below is the list of winners that have already been notified via Twitter Direct Message:

@PandorazBox80
@ahensnest
@SquidooMaestro
@oridusartic
@marj_asturias
@Jacob_Weber
@CocasBlog
@abdelhafidcom
@JU55IE
@warstwydotcom

There were a lot of users who entered. If you did not win, do not worry. We do these giveaways regularly, so you will have another chance. If you really like a specific theme, then you are more than welcome to buy it from Themefuse.

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Themefuse

Themefuse is having a monstrous 75% discount on all of their themes. This means that you can get any of their standard theme license for $13 or developer license for $20. Their best deal is the developer package which normally costs $349 for all available themes. Using the coupon, you can get the developer package for ONLY $87 << That's a monstrous steal.

Use the coupon: trickortreat to get 75% off

iThemes and PluginBuddy

Yes these are the same folks behind the famous BackupBuddy plugin, and the Builder framework. You can get 25% OFF any of their products when you use the coupon: BOO25

We highly recommend that you get BackupBuddy from them if you don’t have that plugin already. Its the best WordPress backup plugin out there.

The deals above will expire at Midnight on October 31st. We are not sure whether they are following EST or CST. But we recommend planning ahead.

Now some of you may have missed our other deals that we have got going that you should take advantage of.

Headway Themes

They have already announced the beta of version 3.0 which has an amazing grid system. We have been told that once they release 3.0, they will be changing the pricing modal from one-time fee to recurring. We STRONGLY recommend that you get in now, so you are grandfathered in. This will save you from paying yearly for updates and support. All current users will be grandfathered in, so they will get free updates and support for lifetime.

You can get 25% off if you use the coupon code: wpbeginner

Don’t believe us, then check out our video: hands-on with Headway Grid system.

For more deals, check out WPBeginner Coupons site.

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What exactly do you win?

10 lucky users will be chosen to win any commercial WordPress theme of their choice from Themefuse collection.

Themefuse has some very beautiful themes that you can pick from. Below are the screenshots of few of their themes, but if you want to check out full list of their themes, then please visit their site: Themefuse.

How to Win?

This will be a twitter exclusive contest. The guidelines are very simple. Just tweet:

Win a free copy of @themefuse #WordPress Themes from @wpbeginner – http://wpbeg.in/u4mK5G (RT to Enter)

Note: You may modify the tweet as long as you mention (@themefuse and @wpbeginner with a link to this post).

Once you have tweeted, simply come back to this post and comment with a link to your tweet and your username.

Make sure that you are following @wpbeginner on twitter, so we can send a Direct Message to notify the winners.

We want to thank Themefuse

We want to thank Themefuse for sponsoring this giveaway and supporting our site. If it wasn’t for them, then this giveaway would not have been possible. If you guys don’t mind, please check them out and follow them on twitter:

@themefuse

Winners will be chosen randomly, and we will announce the winners on November 1st, 2011 on this blog.

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