In the past couple weeks I’ve had several people ask me what theme I use for my WordPress blog. And for every person that asks there are usually 5 to 10 also want to know but haven’t asked.
So I am going to take a minute and tell you about the theme that I use and why I love it.
I have tried about 20 different themes for my WordPress blog in the last couple years. Some were good and some were terrible. But none of them had everything I wanted.
I wanted something that would look professional. I wanted something where I could adjust the number of columns my blog had. They go through different periods where I want my blog to have 3 columns and other periods where I wanted to have 2 columns.
I found Thesis
The WordPress theme I finally found is called Thesis. It has a professional look and feel and let me change the number of columns I have on my blog.
Thesis gives me the ability to change the width of a column. This was very handy when I started publishing videos and I needed the main column to be 200 pixels wider. This would have been a major pain with any other WordPress theme that I have tried.
All of this was done without having to know HTML or code anything.
Instead he says give you options to you can choose how many columns you want and how wide you want to:
It also allows you to choose what order your columns are in:
Search engine optimization
Thesis takes care of search engine optimization for me so I can spend more time writing blog posts and building my community.
The one downside to Thesis
The one downside I have found to Thesis is that it is not free. When I first heard about it I was reluctant to pay for a WordPress theme when there were so many free options available. After wasting many hours trying to find and customize various free themes I finally decided to pay for thesis. Since then I have saved a ton of time and never looked back.
So I understand if Thesis is not for you but it least take a look at it before you rule it out. They have several nice videos that go over its various features.
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I use thesis on one of my niche websites and it is great! There is so much opportunity for customisation.
Sounds like we found another fan of Thesis.