Hi Guys, So I thought I'd start releasing Wordpress themes as all the cool kids are doing it! This is my first attempt at one, but I think it went ok. It's still fairly simple, but is very SEO friendly. It's obviously a work in progress, but everything seems to work fine out of the box (except the breadcrumb code up the top seems flakey, so I'll try to sort that out soon). How is it SEO friendly? In quite a number of ways. I've set it out the way I would normally set up a site. H1 and H2 tags come up first. Second is the content. Side Bars are displayed third. Navigation, Form Elements, Breadcrumbs, footer all come in last. H2 tag changes to whatever the page name is. It's Adsense ready, so just remove the 2 comment lines in the sidebar.php to enable adsense. Also make sure you add your google client number! There's a link in the footer to one of my sites. If you do decide to use it, remove it or keep it there. People will do that sort of thing anyway, but just to let you know, I don't really mind either way It's also validates XHTML1.0 Strict if you care about that sort of thing. I figured I'd see what people thought of it before I put it on any Wordpress Theme type sites, iron out any bugs or add any suggestions I might get. You can see a working demo of it here or you can download it here. I guess check it out and if anyone has time, offer some advice on how to better it! Thanks. Grant
I like it, maybe you can make the body more wide and make the 2 side columns less wide also, you can make more of this theme using more colors one red and one blue etc ....
Thanks for the feedback guys! Yeah I'll probably release a bunch of different themes based off of it (different colours, background image, header, etc) once I get the one right. Easier to fix one template rather than a whole bunch of them. I'll give the larger body area a go. Thanks again
Nice theme Grant. I like what you have done with the left side bar and something tells me this theme could really help with Adsense. Bookmarked to test on my next project Dont forget to submit your theme to all the major resource sites out there
Hope this doesn't look like I'm bumping my own post (I can't edit older posts honest!), but I've moved my blog and file over to another domain as it made sense to use a domain I wasn't actually doing anything with! You can now find the demo of it here and it can be downloaded here.
I already downloaded it few days ago, but just wanted to let you know about the broken link so others can download it waiting for more releases of that good template
Honestly, I don't like this design. The background color makes the text hard to read. It causes also bad contrast of website. And the layout of this is too simple and looks like old-fashion type. I really want to see a clean interface with usability WP theme.