So your working on your WordPress theme, and need to include some javascript or css, just throw it in the header or footer right? Well, actually Wordpress has it's own preferred way of including js and css. If you follow their best practices, you can avoid the risk of conflicting with other themes and plugins.

A blank WordPress theme to start your next custom WordPress theme from. Available as both a responsive and static theme. Using the 960 Grid. Built Around HTML5 Boilerplate. Insanely Detailed & Organized CSS File. Easy to Customize & Expand Upon.

Exhibition Theme is clean and modern WordPress theme with a blog like design. Great theme for artists to showcase their portfolio and blog about their work. Check out the demo page or the theme video provided to see how it works.

Great tips from the Envato team on what to look for when buying or creating a premium WordPress theme. This screencast details the process that each reviewer takes at Envato when reviewing new submissions. Everything from unique/proper design, coding quality, validation, psd, documentation and licensing.

"Sight is a powerful WordPress 3.0.1-ready theme which will work best for magazines and blogs. The theme was designed in modern minimalistic style and has two views: the standard blog view and a grid view. A big image slider on the top gives you extra ability to show the most important content. The theme was designed by WP Shower exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers. As usual, the theme is absolutely free to use in private and commerical projects."

The guys over at FuelCMS have documented a method of integrating CodeIgniter and Wordpress into the same website. By doing so you can call the $CI super object from within your Wordpress theme files.

The initial problem we had with using Wordpress was wanting to incorporate CodeIgniter functionality into our Wordpress theme files. For example, we often have a header and footer that we include in many of our CodeIgniter view files. That same header and footer also needed to be included in the Wordpress theme. Our answer was to create a Wordpress include file that executes the CodeIgniter bootstrap within Wordpress.

"Sharebar adds a dynamic and fully customizable vertical box to the left of a blog post that contains links/buttons to popular social networking sites. For wide blogs, a vertical bar with popular sharing icons appears on the left of your post. If the page is resized, the vertical bar disappears and a horizontal sharebar appears under the post title.

This Sharebar isn’t a new idea at all, in fact the plugin is meant to mimic Mashable’s bar almost exactly."

"This article is all about how to achieve better organization in WordPress. Whether you consider yourself a blogger or a website administrator, a beginner or a super-guru, there are a few rather easy things that you can do to help your visitors find the information that they are looking for. I have tried my best to make this topic digestible by every level of WordPress user therefore there are no code examples to speak of. Every customization can be made via free and open-source plugins. You can find a list of all plugins mentioned at the bottom of this page."

"WP e-Commerce is a free bolt-on shopping cart that lets customers buy your products, services and digital downloads online. We make setting up shop incredibly easy. Plus we’ve had over 750,000 downloads!"

"inspiration is what we often need before starting our own theme or interface design project."

Here's some great wordpress themes for inspiration...

Upgraded 3 blogs to #wordpress 3.0: 1) auto-upgraded 2) wouldn't upgrade til disabled plugins 3) upgrade wouldn't work, had to do manually

"The Morning After is a magazine-style theme for WordPress created by Arun Kale. The theme was created based on a brief survey on the WordPress forums about what people would want to see in a unique magazine-style theme.

• Clean grid-based design
• Detailed installation docs and customisation
• Support for WordPress widgets
• Three-column home page
• “Featured” post highlighting
• Recent posts w automatic thumbnails
• Customisable logo/header image
• Support WP’s in-built image wrapping classes
• Threaded comments
• Support for asides
• Support for Gravatars
• Option for readers to email posts to friends
• Print-friendly view to print posts"

"In this article, we are gonna show you a inclusive collection of 29 free but extremely tremendous portfolio wordpress themes that you can use for your portfolio. If you don’t have a portfolio site yet or are looking to create an interesting, easy to update, fast loading and professional looking portfolio than you must use these Portfolio themes of wordpress."

"FrogsThemes.com celebrates it's launch in style by offering you this Wordpress Portfolio Theme absolutely FREE!

Easy to reskin, all three themes contain no template images, all styling is done through the CSS file. No complicated and restrictive custom fields to handle. Low file size, ultra quick loading. Cross browser tested, even IE6 displays a neat looking portfolio. Ideal for all types of portfolio, FolioGrid is a creatives blank canvas"

"Acosmin5, as you might remember it, is a simple wordpress theme with nice lines and typography, which can be used on a personal or any type of blog. Some of the theme’s features are: Five color schemes, Simple control panel, jQuery Tabs system, Multiple advertising spots, Lightweight"

"In this post we are glad to release DesignPile WordPress Theme, a theme designed by Site 5 and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The theme comes with 3 color styles and a couple of jQuery-based goodies. It can be used for portfolios and blogs as well as corporate webAs usual, the theme is free to use in private and commerical projects."

"A free wordpress theme. Black Stone is a 2 column theme with theme options. The theme is released under GPL License and you can use it for all your projects for free and without any restrictions."

Installed #disqus on my #wordpress blog: 1click install & import existing comments! Kudos to @disqus well made product! http://j.mp/4rAwxC

"Flexibility, ease of use, etc. comes at a very high price and in fact Wordpress consumes enormous amounts of CPU and memory resources in order to respond to a single page request."

"With more than 7000+ plugins, WordPress is the most extendable Content Management System available; in fact, "WordPress is infinitely extensible" as Matt Mullenweg says. In this post, we'll examine twenty-one really useful plugins to take your blog to the next level."