WordPress Themes That Make Your Life Easier
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WordPress Themes That Make Your Life Easier
A lot of people online, already know the blessing of having a WordPress blog. With WordPress you can have any kind of site you would like: A blog, capture page, sales page, eCommerce site, membership site, auction site, classified site, etc. Yes, you can make all those sites or pages using WordPress themes.
Let’s just talk about having a nice looking blog. When I built my blog, I used couple of the free themes for a while, but I could never get my site to look like I wanted. So I started researching themes. I needed a theme I could change with ease. I am not a coder, so something easy was a must.
I had to have a theme that would save me time and frustration. I didn’t want to spend hours and hours setting it up. I wanted to make money. Doing the techy stuff doesn’t make me money, but publishing content does.
That is when I found a theme I could have full control over. It is called Thesis.
What can you do with Thesis?
Here is a picture of the Thesis menu bar.
First of all, you can upload a header image with ease. I skip to this section first because, when I first started my blog, I had to upload my image into the media file and then go to cpanel…yes into the code and add the link there. I had someone hold my hand through the process, so I didn’t mess up anything, too. LOL
Now, let’s take a look at Site Options.
I am going to show you a couple of these just to show you how much control you have with just a click of a mouse.
Big Ass Save Button
I know some of you will not like the words on the save button, but don’t worry you can change “Big Ass Save Button” to say whatever you want.
The Document Head Section is where you set your SEO settings. Stats and Sotware/Scripts sections is where you input your tracking software script.
Navigation Menu you can choose to use Thesis menu or WordPress. I like using the Thesis menu. Under the Pages tab you can choose which pages you want to show in your menu bar. I have some pages in my footer so I do not check these. Here take a look.
You see the first three pages I have placed in my footer and Resources is placed in my navigation menu bar underneath my header. You can also choose which categories you want to show in your navigation menu, too.
I want to show you Home Page SEO. Basically, all you have to do is tell what your website is about.
Site Options
This is a picture of 2 of the 3 columns on the Site Options Page. You can see you have so much control with a click of a mouse, I have not come across another theme that gives you so much control.
I will briefly go through a few things under Design Options for you. Site Layout, you can choose how many columns, what order and size you want your columns to be.
Display Options, you can show site name and tagline in page header, if you choose. In Bylines menu, you can choose to show Author’s name, date, and more. Under Posts menu you can select to show full or excerpt of the post.
I will stop here. You get the point that you have So Much Control over your website using this theme. I know you realize I didn’t go into some of the menu’s like the font and color, but there is so much here. I am going to have to write another post to cover just half of the features.
I know that this theme is one of the best ones on the internet today. It is easy to install and easy to setup.
Support
They have the best support, too. You will have access to a very detailed user’s manual. Each part of Thesis is explained in detail. You also have a support forum you can go to get answers immediately.
Go to get your copy of Thesis. You will be glad you did.
Your friend,
Jaden Daniels
http://jadendaniels.com
jaden@jadendaniels.com
PS. The developer’s of Thesis are always adding features. In fact, I haven’t downloaded the latest version, yet. I think I will do that now.