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Thesis: The Smart WordPress Theme
August 4, 2008
How comfortable are you with your theme?
I’m pretty content with mine–at one point I wasn’t. I knew what it was like to have an awful looking theme. It’s like having to go outside on laundry day (before you’re finished). Obviously your best looking clothes are being washed because you want to wear them again, so you’re stuck dressed in the least of important–you’re just not comfortable in your skin.
If you’re a blogger and you have a free theme, or a theme that’s not well designed you might just feel this way about your theme–I know I did at one point. You don’t feel comfort in sending serious traffic to your site because you’re worried of how it looks.
So what do you do?
You go out, and start reading as many tutorials and “how-to” books on Web design you can get your hands on. You join a bunch of forums in hopes of finding help, and you do, but it’s not enough. You’re just not satisfied and you don’t feel you have full control over your blog design.
So you buy a theme. Great. You bought a theme which looked extremely pleasing and clean–pure eye-candy. You get so happy you immediately feel a rush of confidence and begin writing some posts, hitting the social media scene to gain some traffic, blog, blog, blog etc.
And then . . . you see someone else using your exact same theme. Same: colors, font, shape, size, everything! The only thing different is the content and pen name.
To make matters even worse the blog has not only: been around longer than yours, has a higher PageRank, and receives more comments, but it also receives a whole lot more traffic then your blog does–so if anything you’re the copycat.
Ouch! Did your heart break? I know mine did.
What can you do? All you can do is go back to the forums, tutorials, and “how-to” books to find ways to tweak the new theme you just bought–you’re back to the drawing board basically. The only real solution is to pay for a custom designed theme that’s completely unique.
But that can be expensive. So again what can you do? Free themes are all over the place, so are the ones you have to pay for. It’s like there are only 2 ways out: either learn to tweak your own theme or pay for a custom designed theme.
Luckily there is a solution
Thanks to Chris Pearson and a crusty old marketing guy, Thesis, a search engine optimized, HTML+CSS+PHP WordPress theme that comes with an innovative options panel was developed.
What Chris did with Thesis was remarkable. He created a theme that not only looked good and was search engine optimized, but also created an options panel to customize the theme from; this eliminates most of the code handling.
If you’re completely oblivious to Web design and don’t want to mess with code Thesis is the perfect theme you can customize in a way no one else has. Your Thesis will look unique compared to others, and you won’t need to read tutorials or “how to” books, nor go to forums for help, which by the way is completely OK–knowledge is power.
Check out some of the features Thesis Offers:
- Title and Tagline Control
- Smart Image Rotation
- Customizable, Automated Navigation Menu
- Easy RSS feed Management
- Simple Stats and Scripts Management
- Separation of Comments and Trackbacks
- Microformats Galore
- Author and Date Control on Posts and Pages
- Slick Tagging Control (with Microformats)
Just to name a few! Want more?
Thesis has shaken the WordPress community. It’s something that’s absolutely in a class of its own. If you want a theme you can customize to your own likings and have full control without worries of having to learn some code, Thesis is your answer.
Want to see how customizable Thesis can be? Check out the Showcase!
Compared to all the options I think Thesis is anyone’s best bet, unless you can afford to pay for your own custom designed theme. Thesis is affordable and can be customized enough to make your own without any knowledge of code.
Thesis also comes optimized for the search engines which is a huge plus for those starting out. Almost every aspect of Thesis can be changed, and Chris is always updating Thesis with new features. Everyone who purchased the theme gets free upgrades for life.
Now you can send all the traffic you want and be confident that your blog design is not only good looking, but also unique. So that when someone comes across your blog they won’t say: “Hey I’ve seen this exact theme before”.
Whether or not that’s a bad thing I think a unique design leaves a better impression than an imitated one–but that’s just me.
That big yellow banner at the top says something about support. What about support?
Yes. As easy as it is to customize Thesis with its options panel Chris didn’t stop there. Nope. He wanted to make it as easy as possible for people to customize their themes, so what did he do?
He added a support forum.
Not only do you have an options panel to customize your theme without touching the code, which no other theme has at the moment, but you also have access to a support forum where you can have any of your questions answered by the helpful people in that community.
Thesis is priced at a reasonable $87 for the Personal licence and $164 for the Developer’s license.
Click here to view a Live Demo
Click on the following link to Buy Thesis!
Want to make money selling Thesis?
Like Thesis so much you want to refer it to other people?
That’s cool–I liked it that much too. Anyways, the Thesis affiliate program is now open. That’s right. You can now sign up and join the Thesis affiliate program by clicking on the link that’s 15 words behind the period that ends this sentence.
Their affiliate program is pretty standard; nothing out of whack. The program pays out 33% on all sales you generate–that includes the Personal and Developer’s license package, and you get paid through PayPal.
I would love to hear what all of you think. Love, like, hate Thesis? Let us know!
PS: I hope none of you really counted back 15 words. 
I think the options panel is awesome and way ahead of the game.
It sure is Susan. Thesis is the only theme providing this kind of feature; it will pave the way for plenty themes to come.