Posts Tagged ‘themes

I recently wrote about the need for the website owner to take responsibility for  SEO and not rely 100% on a theme or a plugin. Themes and plugins do of course have some benefits if you understand what it is they do, and what they cannot do. The benefit of themes and plugins ‘SEO-friendly’ themes [...]

We’re going to get intimate with your WordPress theme in the next webinar! Simple WordPress Theme Tweaks September 29th, 6pm – 7pm PST to be rescheduled…. cost: $15 (hint, for discounts on future webinars, enter your email at the bottom of this page) Ever clicked on the “Editor” menu and had the living daylights scared [...]

WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious” has now been officially released (as you may have noticed from the upgrade prompt at the top of your WP dashboard). I’ll be doing a couple of posts about the new features – in this one I’ll be discussing the brand new default theme that you’ll find if you upgrade. New Default [...]

Teasers are nice default feature of the Thesis WordPress theme. However, to take them to the next level there are a couple of nice n’ easy customizations you can make to move beyond the default look. This post will discuss thumbnail images. A future post will address changing the width and styling of the teasers. [...]

This post follows on from – How To Choose A WordPress Theme -Free, Premium or Custom When choosing a theme you must consider design, layout and functionality. When considering these, keep in mind the general type of theme you are looking for (see previous post). If you are looking for a free theme,  you need [...]

One of the biggest sources of frustrations I hear from clients when using WordPress is choosing a theme that looks good and does what they want it to do.  The next couple of posts will attempt to provide some guidelines to help make this process easier. Selecting a theme is about more than the way [...]


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