WordPress provides facility to import your posts from your LiveJournal.com blogs to your self hosted WordPress blog. To import your posts,

[1] Login to your blog admin panel.
[2] Go to Tools -> Import.
[3] Click on “LiveJournal“. This will ask you to enter your LiveJournal username and password and then click on “Connect to LiveJournal and Import” button.

Note: If you have any entries on LiveJournal which are marked as private, they will be password-protected when they are imported so that only people who know the password can see them. If you don’t enter a password, ALL ENTRIES from your LiveJournal will be imported as public posts in WordPress.

Popularity: 14%

WordPress provides facility to import your posts and comments from your Moveable Type/TypePad blog to self hosted WordPress blog. To import your posts and comments, you require exporting your TypePad blog’s posts and comments in the Movable Type Import Format.

To create an export file, go to Blogs > Settings > Import/Export and scroll down to the Export section. Click the Export button to generate the export file. Once the export is complete, you will see a download link. If you are on Windows, click on the link with the right mouse button and choose Save Target As or Save Link As to save the export file to your computer. If you are on a Mac, hold down the Option key while clicking and choose the Save Link As menu option.

Once you export your TypePad posts and comments,

[1] Login to your WordPress blog admin panel.
[2] Go to Tools -> Import.
[3] Click on “Movable Type and TypePad” and follow the on screen instructions.

Popularity: 14%

Sometimes you may need to hide certain categories from your WordPress Blog. Currently there is no in-built facility available in WordPress to hide categories though there are many themes available to with this functionality. If your WordPress theme does not have this option, you will require making following changes to hide categories from your blog home page.

[1] Obtain category ID:

To obtain category ID, login to your WordPress admin and go to Posts > Categories. Click on the category name which you want to exclude from Home page. Copy the value of cat_ID from the URL.

categories.php?action=edit&cat_ID=XX

XX is your category ID.

[2]Add required code in theme’s functions.php:

Now, go to Appearance > Editor and open functions.php. Add the following function at the bottom:

function exclude_category($query) {
if ( $query->is_home ) {
$query->set('cat', '-xx');
}
return $query;
}
add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'exclude_category');

The above code must be written within php tag.

If you want to block multiple categories, use the following condition:

$query->set('cat', '-1 -2 -3 -4 -5');

Popularity: 20%

Diarise WordPress theme is a event management WordPress theme from WooThemes. Diarise showcases your company/organisation’s events in a neat home page tabber, along with past events, or featured posts in a slick scroller. You can easily add events straight to your calendar application and link your events to booking forms. The possibilities are limitless for churches, event organizing companies, sports clubs, schools, etc.

Unique features:

[1] Event Calendar
A custom home page event calendar to showcase your upcoming events in a neat tabber, navigated by month or event sequence. Buttons to add the calendar directly to your Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook or Apple iCal, and a button to link to your booking form for the event if applicable.

[2] Featured Posts Scroller
This could either be used to showcase highlights of past events, or notable blog posts. This Js scroller is tag and can be set to automatically scroll through slides.

[3] A Completely Modular Home Page
The Diarise home page can be set to show the Event Calendar, Featured Posts Scroller, Blog Section and Widgetized Footer or any combination of these. Modules can easily be disabled via the theme options.

[4] Custom Widgets
There are 9 Custom Woo Widgets for use in the widgetized sidebar and footer: Customer Feedback, Twitter, Recent Blog Posts, Featured Media, Blog Information, Ads & Search to name some of them.

[5] Alternative Styles
8 delicious colour schemes to choose from, and possible to change color of links and buttons in options panel.

Also, it supports WooThemes exclusive features as well as standard WooThemes features.

Popularity: 100%

Optimize builds on the popularity of Coffee Break theme, with stunning looks and super functionality built in to the brand spanking new WooFramework. The customizable front page will showcase your work or product in a sexy fashion.

[1] Featured Area
A custom home page featured area to showcase your work or products, with optional sub-featured area to give them more insight.

[2] Flexible Layout
Possible to shift the alignment of the featured area (images on the right side instead of left)

[3] Custom Homepage
Custom home page layout with optional Twitter box, Mini-features area, Info/Quotes box and option to insert any page above/below mini-features area.

[4] Integrated Lightbox
Sexy jQuery effects and PrettyPhoto (lightbox) integrated in theme.

[5] Portfolio Page Template
An optional integrated portfolio section to show off your work/products.

Also, it supports WooThemes exclusive features as well as standard WooThemes features.

Popularity: 52%

Boast is a modern business design with a lot of shine and gloss. The theme includes some nifty jQuery touches, which is especially present in the awesome slider on the homepage, as well as the scrolling widget boxes. This is a definite contender for your business makeover.

Theme Features:

[1] Featured Slider
A custom home page featured area to showcase your work or products, with optional sub-featured area to give them more insight.

[2] Nifty Widget Scrolling (Homepage)
Secondary featured section (widgetized) which includes some nifty jQuery scrolling to display your most important messages without wasting any prime homepage real estate..

[3] Custom Homepage
Custom home page layout with an optional widget space (for testimonials, portfolio items or mini text / info blocks) and a section for your blog.

[4] Custom Widgets
Custom Woo Widgets for use in the blog or page sidebar and in the widgetized footer: Testimonials, Twitter, Gallery / Portfolio, Blog Information, Ads & Search.

[5] Alternative Styles
10 delicious colour schemes to choose from, and possible to change color of links and buttons in options panel.

Also, it supports WooThemes exclusive features as well as standard WooThemes features.

Popularity: 59%

deVision is a complex Premium WordPress theme that lets you create a business website in minutes. Showcase your company or product with clean and professional design without any programming skills.

Theme Features

- WordPress 2.9 post thumbnails
- Comprehensive ThemeShift admin panel
- 4 color schemes (red, green, blue, grey)
- Optional jQuery style switcher on the front end
- deVision custom widgets (About, Comments, Features Box, Flickr, News, Newsletter, Search, Twitter)
- Nested widget sidebars (general, post, categories, page, home page)
- Customizable featured content slider (add posts or pages / open links or lightbox)
- Muli-level dropdown menu (optionally exclude home, pages and categories)
- Threaded comments
- Page templates (subpages, full width)
- deVision image gallery (attachments optionally open in lightbox)
- Fancy lightbox plugin built-in
- Search and comments form validation
- CSS styles for WP-PageNavi plugin – activate and you’re done (see plugin page)
- Included PSD files: logo.psd

Popularity: 43%