Frugal Blogger Skin Pack: 12 Skins, 6 Colors and 2 New Widgets
Even though the Frugal WordPress Theme is used for all kinds of website projects from business sites to sales pages to any number of purposes, at its core it’s a rock solid blogging platform. And to reflect this fact (as well as provide an awesome value to those Frugal users who want more Skins to play with) we designed and developed this all new Blogger Skin Pack.
To start it off we created a super clean, professional looking Skin design that would perfectly promote any content that was put on it’s pages. Then we used this fixed design and created a fluid version to offer the user two different layouts to choose from. After this we picked out 6 different colors to work with and created a total of 12 unique Skins for this awesome Skin Pack!
Finally, keeping with this Blogging Theme, we created two new Widgets and placed them in a plugin folder for easy installation (on a Frugal powered site or any other WordPress website).
One of the Widgets is an Author Profile Widget. What this does is provide you with a super easy way to display any author in a Widget area, showing their Gravatar, creating a Bio and even displaying a “Read more” link to take visitors to a more in-depth author page. The other Widget is a Banner Ad Widget that provides a simple, easy to use tool for displaying 125×125 Banner Ads in your sidebar, spacing them out perfectly. It also provides an option to display an “Advertise Here” banner, linked to whichever ad page you like (on or off your site) and even an option to choose whether or not it opens in a new window.
The idea behind including these bonus Widgets was to provide even more value to the blogger looking for that perfect Skin to help take their blog to the next level. And even if you’re not a blogger this Skin pack is perfect for just about any website in need of a clean, professional design.
So be sure to check out the Frugal Blogger Skin Pack Page as well as the Frugal Blogger Skin Demo Page and start mentally placing your blog content in it’s pages to see which color and layout is right for you. 
The Frugal Team
Frugal 3.5.5 – Staying ahead of the game
Since the early releases of WordPress 3.0 Beta, The Frugal Team has been constantly monitoring the WordPress Core Code to ensure that Frugal is fully compatible with all the fantastic new functionality.
We launched Frugal 3.5 while WordPress was still in Beta, with a commitment to launch Frugal 3.5.5 within a week of the official WordPress 3.0 release. Though there was nothing major, the WordPress Team did make some last minute changes to the WordPress 3.0 code. We’ve made adjustments to Frugal accordingly, and are happy to announce that Frugal is now even more totally WordPress 3.0 compatible than ever before with the launch of Frugal version 3.5.5!
If you haven’t already upgraded to the latest versions of WordPress and Frugal, we encourage you to take the plunge now. Both have some incredible new features to play with!
The Frugal Team
Frugal Skins vs. Child Themes In WordPress: Similar but Different
One of the Frugal Theme features that makes it so unique is its Skins. Giving the user the ability to Import a completely custom design with a few mouse clicks, the Frugal Skins provide a quick and easy way to give your WordPress/Frugal powered website a face lift in a matter of seconds. Not only that, you can then continue the customization process after the Skin Import, tweaking it to your liking, all from within the robust Frugal Admin Panel. Read more »
Frugal Theme 3.5 – Raw Power, Simple Elegance – Ready for WordPress 3.0 Release!
The Frugal Team is proud to announce the release of Frugal Theme version 3.5!
Frugal celebrated its first birthday just a couple weeks ago, and we’ve pulled out all the stops to bring you the most advanced Premium WordPress Theme around.
Here’s an overview of what we’ve been up to: Read more »
Cobalt WP Boost: A Free WordPress Plugin Solution For Low Memory Limit Problems
PLEASE NOTE: This plugin is no longer available.
Seth and I are always looking for simple solutions to WordPress problems and one escalating issue with WordPress is the continued memory limit of 32 megabytes and yet growing number and size of WordPress, Themes and Plugins. Whether you’ve received a low memory error or was just unable to install all the plugins necessary to do what you wanted with your WordPress website, this 32mb limit starts to become a hindrance to progress. Read more »
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