The Morning After
The Morning After was the original magazine theme in the WordPress community and after more than a 100 000 downloads, it now has a place in our themes collection. It may be “old”, but this amazing theme is not yet dated! A definite download and one that you will thoroughly enjoy!

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Bueno
Bueno is a clean, minimalistic design which just oozes sophistication in both it’s typography & structure. Stripped of all fancy design elements; the reader’s focus should be on the great content that you produce. Bueno is perfect for the regular (and not-so-regular) blogger. Get it for free now!

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Rockstar
Adii’s previous custom design for his successful personal blog is now available as a free theme. It’s simple layout, and clean colour palette means easy customizations to this neatly coded theme on the ever-popular WooThemes framework.

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Mainstream
A vibrant personal blog theme with a colourful selection of styles, built on WooThemes flexible theme framework, boasting a selection of theme options, most importantly it’s FREE!

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Meta-Morphosis
Meta-Morphosis is a visually-rich personal blog, with a magazine layout approach. Incorporating some nifty javascript font replacement and javascript widget slider in the footer, Meta-Morphosis should meet all of your personal blogging needs. Best of all its FREE!

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Irresistible
Irresistible is a visually-rich personal blog, with a little bit of a multimedia focus. Incorporating some nifty video-options and widgets, Irresistible should meet all of your personal blogging needs. Just add your content to the mix.

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BlogTheme
BlogTheme does the simple things well and therein lies to power of this personal blog theme: great structure, trendy style and some nifty jQuery effects in the sidebar. So what’s left for you to do? Well, you can start by adding content…

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Typebased
Typebased is a free, personal blog design, with a very clean and elegant style. Along with the great design, we’ve also included all of the other Woo goodies in the backend i.e. custom widgets, integrated banner ad management etc. Gotta love Woo!

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Snapshot
Snapshot is the framework-equivalent of our very own WooThemes Showcase – so that already guarantees you an awesome experience! Snapshot is also flexible and can be used for either a photo showcase, portfolio or design gallery.

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The Original Premium News
The Original Premium News Theme, was the very first premium theme that we ever released. This theme may be a bit rough around the edges (in terms of its looks), but we’ve used the same solid base for all our subsequent themes. Enjoy this themes’ minimalistic beauty and make it your own today!

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If you like the way how posts are listed in our homepage, then you will love to read this tutorial. The top post is a sticky post limited by <!–more–> tag from the post editor. I choose this style because I can choose any posts to show content in this area by simply ticking the sticky button from the post edit menu.

The recent posts list below the sticky post shows the most 10 recent posts excluding the sticky post.

[ Remember page speed matters in Google. This tips will load your blog faster (homepage) and is an ideal way to show your blog posts than the traditional 10 blog post page.]

You can achieve this by using two loops, we had to also make sure that sticky post did not repeat itself and appear in the list of recent posts following it.

How to display a sticky post

<?php
$sticky = get_option( 'sticky_posts' );
query_posts( array( 'post__in' => $sticky, 'caller_get_posts' => 1, 'orderby' => ID, 'showposts' => 1 ) );
?>

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>">

<?php the_content( __( 'Read the rest of this entry →', '' ) ); ?>
<?php endwhile;?>
<?php endif; ?>

How to display a recent posts list excluding the sticky post

<?php
$args = array(
'showposts' => 10,
'post__not_in' => get_option('sticky_posts'),
'caller_get_posts'=>1
);

    $my_query = new WP_Query($args);
    if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
      while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
        <p><small><?php the_time('F j, Y') ?></small> <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
       <?php
      endwhile;
    } //if ($my_query)
  wp_reset_query();  // Restore global post data stomped by the_post().
?>

So there you have it: a workable way to have a WordPress sticky post with one style, and a list of recent posts excluding the sticky post with a completely different style below the sticky post.

define ( 'BP_ACTIVITY_SLUG', 'streams' );
define ( 'BP_BLOGS_SLUG', 'journals' );
define ( 'BP_MEMBERS_SLUG', 'users' );
define ( 'BP_FRIENDS_SLUG', 'peeps' );
define ( 'BP_GROUPS_SLUG', 'gatherings' );
define ( 'BP_FORUMS_SLUG', 'discussions' );
define ( 'BP_MESSAGES_SLUG', 'notes' );
define ( 'BP_WIRE_SLUG', 'pinboard' );
define ( 'BP_XPROFILE_SLUG', 'info' );
define ( 'BP_REGISTER_SLUG', 'signup' );
define ( 'BP_ACTIVATION_SLUG', 'enable' );
define ( 'BP_SEARCH_SLUG', 'find' );
define ( 'BP_HOME_BLOG_SLUG', 'news' );