Hi all, Forgive me the title, maybe the worst I've ever seen but hope it catches the eye Like it says, I really need a theme to my website. I've been looking at millions of them but nothing seems to be good in my mind. Hopefully I get some help from you. What premium theme might fit best to my site? (link here) All I want is something different, clean and eye-catching. The ones I've tried, thesis that is with child themes, just don't do the purpose. And hiring a designer seems to be too much for me at this point. Thanks for reading, Jarkko
Hi Jarkko, Welcome to the forums There are a lot of good magazine and blogging themes available for less than $40 that would suit you. There are some good free options available too. I would recommend a good blogging theme that uses featured images and has good social media integration. Kevin
Hi Kevin, Thanks, free themes are out of question. I tried few of them, all really looked and felt free. But I will look for your keywords, will see what I find Free themes maybe a good catch for some but I'm not into them anymore. Jarkko
There are still some good free designs out there though the quality of affordable premium themes has increased so much over the last year or so that I usually search for a good premium design first. Let us know how you get on
If you ask me, wait for a little more for black Friday and Christmas promotions to start. You'll get premium themes for unbelievable discounts. I got 75% discount for ThemeFuse theme last Halloween.
Since it is a aviation news Kind of website then I suggest you try some magazine type of themes, I find Theme-Junkie, Gabfire themes, magazine3 have some good magazine type themes, also check out Themeforest. There are many free ones there too and some of them quite nicely designed, you just need to do some Googling around ..
You can try the Continuum theme from ThemeForest. It's really eve-catching... One of my favorite and lots of options.
Thanks guys, I've found what I was looking for. Should I change the theme, yes, but it makes me think if someone redesignes my current theme. I think I'll wait a few days and then make a desicion. So far, I have a new header, only rest of the theme is missing
Updating this post if someone finds it useful later on. I looked and looked the great themes and found several of them to use but... If I change the theme, all the modifications are lost, and there are plenty because I'm using Thesis theme at the moment. I changed the schedule to early next year and I'm planning to hire someone to do it for me. Someday, someday
I really think choosing the best wordpress theme depends on the nature of your blog. I don't believe in a one-theme-fits-all kind of theme. There are some themes that works best on certain industry so you have to know what industry you're in. Is your blog about web development as well?
I'm sort of in the same boat as Jarkko. I'm ready to move on with my blogs, especially my heritage blogs. Since I am not in the web development, web techie kind of business but in the historical, genealogical, tourism type business, I need to decide upon a better theme, one that my growing audience can query with greater ease and allows me to display my older articles and images in a cooler way. I can't trust a "friend" or web developer anymore as I've tried it before and they started doing weird stuff with my blogs- unauthorized stuff. I'm also hesitant to purchase premium themes as they don't always give what they claim to offer, support and clear documentation to help. Can't afford to be stuck with a dud right now. I'm sticking to using free wp themes and tweaking them whenever possible. Kevin, I'm exploring wpexplorer which is some help. But I need more help. Does anyone have any smart suggestions? Thank you a bunch in advance.
Feel free to post the themes you are looking at here. Explain what you need to use the theme for (and perhaps post the url of the site it's going to be used on) and I (and other members) can give you my opinion on that. Also, if you like a theme but feel that you need to modify it slightly to make it do something (e.g. featured thumbnails, different content or whatever), please let me know. I'll do my best to help but if I can't I should be able to point you in the right direction.
Kevin, Thank you so much for taking time to reply. You are always supportive in your responses. I have invested a lot of time and energy in using Coraline Theme which, as it says in the description, is a modification of Cutline and I like it but I wanted to look more professional, especially in the footer area which is a "mystery" area to me. Had my copyright statement in it at one time but months later it got stripped off. I feel clueless about this area so I started studying your tutorials. Also, I wanted to make it more SEO friendly, and perhaps monetize it better. The site I am dealing with is The Silver People Chronicle, among others. Again, thank you for all your help.
How did it get stripped off? Coraline has 4 widget areas in the footer (in columns). You can easily add content to the footer via the widget area. You can add your own copyright to the footer by editing the footer.php template. You just need to edit inside the id="colophon" section. You can either add your copyright above this or edit the existing credit links there. PHP: <?php/*** @package WordPress* @subpackage Coraline* @since Coraline 1.0*/?> </div><!-- #content-box --> <div id="footer" role="contentinfo"> <?php get_sidebar( 'footer' ); ?> <div id="colophon"> <?php printf( __( 'Theme: %1$s by %2$s', 'coraline' ), 'Coraline', '<a href="http://automattic.com/" rel="designer">Automattic</a>.' ); ?> <span class="generator-link"><a href="<?php echo esc_url( __( 'http://wordpress.org/', 'coraline' ) ); ?>" title="<?php esc_attr_e( 'A Semantic Personal Publishing Platform', 'coraline' ); ?>" rel="generator"><?php printf( __( 'Proudly powered by %s.', 'coraline' ), 'WordPress' ); ?></a></span> </div><!-- #colophon --> </div><!-- #footer --> </div><!-- #container --> <?php wp_footer(); ?></body></html>
Thanks Kevin for getting back to me. The above code is what I did with my copyright statement and for some reason it got stripped off after having it there for almost the entire year. I noticed it got stripped after a visit from a Googlebot. I don't know if this had anything to do with the designer's requirements but I checked out Coraline theme's restrictions and the footer seemed pretty open. In any event, I will do this again and go ahead and dress up my footer widgets.
If you're having any problems with it, feel free to post your footer code here and I'll see if I can spot any errors
Kevin, I think I'm not getting it. I tried to paste in my footer php twice and got error (parse?) statements in my footer. The following is what I want to see: ©2012 thesilverpeoplechronicle.com All rights reserved. I would also like it centered. Exactly where do I place this? Thank you for your patience.
You just need to add a div with that text above the credit link (the colophon parent division is already centred so you don't have to worry about placing the text in the middle). i.e. you could use this PHP: <?php/*** @package WordPress* @subpackage Coraline* @since Coraline 1.0*/?> </div><!-- #content-box --> <div id="footer" role="contentinfo"> <?php get_sidebar( 'footer' ); ?> <div id="colophon"><div>©2012 thesilverpeoplechronicle.com All rights reserved.</div> <?php printf( __( 'Theme: %1$s by %2$s', 'coraline' ), 'Coraline', '<a href="http://automattic.com/" rel="designer">Automattic</a>.' ); ?> <span class="generator-link"><a href="<?php echo esc_url( __( 'http://wordpress.org/', 'coraline' ) ); ?>" title="<?php esc_attr_e( 'A Semantic Personal Publishing Platform', 'coraline' ); ?>" rel="generator"><?php printf( __( 'Proudly powered by %s.', 'coraline' ), 'WordPress' ); ?></a></span> </div><!-- #colophon --> </div><!-- #footer --> </div><!-- #container --> <?php wp_footer(); ?></body></html> You can remove the credit link to coraline and WordPress before it if you wish too. i.e. PHP: <?php/*** @package WordPress* @subpackage Coraline* @since Coraline 1.0*/?> </div><!-- #content-box --> <div id="footer" role="contentinfo"> <?php get_sidebar( 'footer' ); ?> <div id="colophon"><div>©2012 thesilverpeoplechronicle.com All rights reserved.</div> </div><!-- #colophon --> </div><!-- #footer --> </div><!-- #container --> <?php wp_footer(); ?></body></html>
Forgot to say. You can make the copyright update automatically every year by replacing ©2012 with echo the_date('Y') i.e. change PHP: <div>©2012 thesilverpeoplechronicle.com All rights reserved.</div> PHP: <div>© <?php echo the_date('Y'); ?> thesilverpeoplechronicle.com All rights reserved.</div>
