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Thesis theme review for WordPress

by Lee hughes on February 11, 2012

This website is built using the powerful Thesis Theme for Wordpress. Read more about how Thesis will be the last Wordpress theme you'll use in my Thesis theme review. Find out how you can build landing pages that convert with no code knowledge in my Premise review

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Thesis theme review

Since I’m moving my work life over to the internet one of the tools I use the most is the Thesis theme for WordPress.  I’m so impressed and love this product so much that I want others to quit wasting their time trying to find free themes that work (which they mostly don’t). I use Thesis on all my websites, including on one you’re on right now, a few niche websites and a e-commerce website. If you’re serious about having a solid website for your business or your interests then the Thesis theme is for you. I’ll explain why in this Thesis theme review.

Thesis Theme review


Why spend money on a WordPress theme when there’s so many out there for free?

Good question and the simplest explanation I can give you is in the form of another question. How much do you value your time? I have tried free themes for about 6 months, none of them did what I wanted. I had to learn code to get what I wanted. So refusing to pay for a theme I spent countless hours on coding forums asking questions about php and css getting headache after headache when the website looked a mess in Internet Explorer, I’m sure some of you know what I’m talking about. So much time wasted and I still wasn’t anywhere near completion for my website! I came across the Thesis theme and I was blown away, it was exactly what I wanted in a theme. Simple click and drop options. I don’t like parting with money but after so much time wasted with free themes I paid the $167 for the developers option and I haven’t looked back since which is why I’m writing this Thesis theme review to hopefully convince you to ditch those crappy themes, splash out, get Thesis and do something more interesting with your time than trying to get your website to look good in IE.

Thesis Theme for WordPress:  Options Galore and a Helpful Support Community

Thesis Theme Review

 

So lets get right into the Thesis theme review and why it is in my opinion one of the best purchases I have made for building my websites and also sustaining my businesses.

Thesis site options

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The Thesis site options section comes with various different options. Here you can add your analytics code to keep track of vistors coming to your site. No need to go into the code here, simply just add it to the stats/tracking scripts section (copy and paste), hit the big ass save button and you’re done. Simples. You can add a number of different scripts to this as well, if you are using such tools as Keyword Strategy then this script goes into that section. No more cracking open the theme add potentially messing up your code. Thesis is designed so that you don’t have to touch the core code making it fully optimised for SEO benefits, nice touch don’t you think?

Thesis also gives you the choice of two different types of navigation menus. You can use the WordPress navigation menu or the Thesis navigation menu, that’s totally up to you.

Thesis also allows you advanced controls on what you want to block from the search engines etc by including a robot meta tags section. This allows you further control to fine tune your SEO by giving you the option to exclude certain pages from Google and other search engines. Why would you want to do this? Some pages on your website you do not want to include in the search engines as they will dilute your site and thus you will not rank as high as you could. Thesis has this under control though and gives you the option to control this so that you can rank as high as possible using the Thesis theme.

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Thesis Design options

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The design section is the section which you design your website. No more coding folks. For a simple website you can just select how many columns you want and which side of the website you want your columns.

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Want a huge choice of fonts to pick from so you decide which one looks best on your brand new spanking website? Thesis has you covered.

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Thesis also gives you easy access to pick any colour you want for any part of your site with its simple colour selector

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Header Image

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Add your company logo, your own logo or whatever with ease. Simply upload it and you’re done.

Thesis manage options

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Created a design you like on Thesis and want to start another blog and transfer the design over? No problem, with the mange options section in Thesis you can simply download your current design and upload it on your new site in a matter of seconds. Pretty cool eh!

Break away from the norm & the untouchable Thesis support

 While Thesis gives you the option to create a website with total ease. The full power of what Thesis can do can be unleashed with your imagination and the customs functions, custom css file. This file is where you can add your bits of code to break away from the norm and create something truly unique, like this website ;) . Don’t know anything about code? Me neither, that’s why I always check out the Thesis user guide. It’s a fast growing resource for further customisations of your Thesis website. Need 6 ads on your sidebar to start making money from your website but don’t know where to start? Thesis shows you and gives you the code, copy and paste and start making money today! There are a ton of other code snippets that you can add to your website helping you to break free of the norm, if you run into trouble the forum support is top notch. Godhammer and Girlie do an excellent job in there.

Not just a normal theme

The folks at Thesis don’t want to give you the best theme available. They want you do grow your website into a business and be successful. This is why Derek Halpern from the popular Social Triggers is in control of the Thesis Blog. The blog is aimed at giving users tips about how to run a successful blog.

The Thesis showcase

How far does the Thesis rabbit hole go? Check out some of the best Thesis websites on the planet and see just how flexible the Thesis theme can be.

To be honest this would be more an beginners Thesis theme review. I haven’t even started on the advanced stuff Thesis can do such as the API, custom post types. Once I get my head around it I’ll be sure to post a more advanced Thesis theme review including details about the upcoming Thesis 2.0 which will no doubt set a higher standard for WordPress themes once again.

 

For a one time fee you are investing in a product that will only get better and better with every major update.

Oh and Thesis offers a 30 day money back guarantee. What are you waiting for?  

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