This week we have a real treat for you guys in the form of our new Wordpress theme: MetroVibes. This new template is a modern and responsive metro WordPress theme perfect for a creative agency or a portfolio showcase website and is bound to turn some heads. The elegant and minimalistic look will definitely give a modern vibe to your website and will impress each and every one of your visitors.

There's a common belief among professionals working with WordPress that having a self-hosted WordPress site is much better than "owning" a site at WordPress.com.
(First, why the quotation marks above? Well, the fact is that you will never actually own your site at WordPress.com. You're just leasing it. I know that the official material says otherwise, but the truth is, WordPress.com can shut you down completely at any moment and there's no legal action you can take to undo it.)

Links ... if I were to be poetic about them, I'd have to say that links are the main tool that allows us to browse the web and discover new and exciting sites. However, many site owners don't manage them in any particular way and don't pay much attention to what they link to, nor to who links to them.

To be honest, the topic of homepages for blogs isn't the most lively one out there. Everyone seems to focus on things like content, SEO, plugins and themes instead. But luckily, the time of change is finally here. A number of popular niche bloggers have decided to experiment and test various designs and layouts for their homepages. The most significant difference is that modern homepages are no longer classic listing pages.