While starting this blog I scoured through 100’s of themes and their reviews and finally decided upon Chris Pearson’s Thesis Theme. It was a choice that I haven’t regretted once and one that has streamlined my blogging experience ever since.
Four reasons to drop $87 on the premium theme:
The Support.
The support you receive as a Thesis user from other owners as well as Chris Pearson himself is unbelievable. Once you purchase Thesis you are given access to a forum full of knowledgeable users and moderators. It really is one of the most interactive forums I’ve joined. The moderators, including Chris and his sidekick KingdomGeek, are insanely smart and usually respond within a few hours to every post. Another valuable benefit of the forums is that it sends traffic to your site!
There’s also support on Twitter. @pearsonified and @kingdomgeek are available or you could just include #thesiswp and make use of Twitter’s hashtag feature. Like anything on Twitter, there’s a thin line between active and annoying so be kind and don’t bombard anyone with unwanted messages etc.
Customization within Wordpress’ Dashboard.
Each release of the Thesis Theme makes it easier and easier to be as dumb as a nail and still customize your site. In Thesis 1.4, you are given two option pages, Thesis Options and Design Options, that allow you to tweak your site from within Wordpress!
The Thesis Options page allows you to adjust the appearance of title tags, authors, dates, comments, and a number of other things on each page of your site. You can also change the syndication service and analytics tool to whatever you prefer within Wordpress itself.
The Design Option page allows you to have some fun with; font styles and sizes, column layouts and proportions, and image positioning and treatment. No other theme I’ve encountered allows you to update these features without actually changing the HTML/CSS coding of your site.
Two Files to Worry About
There comes a point in any bloggers career that it becomes necessary to dabble and tweak like a true geek with the coding of your site. Thesis makes this easy by allowing full control of the layout and styling of your entire blog in just two files, custom_functions.php and custom.css. You do need to learn a little bit about “hooks” but again the support group for Thesis makes this a cinch. Oh, and when a new release of the theme comes out upgrading is easy since you only need to backup these two files.
Search Engine Optimization
Blogging by nature is a popularity contest and the only way to make is to make sure that search engines like Googe, Yahoo, and MSN are on your side. There’s a lot of factors that go into a theme’s design to make it search engine friendly. Thesis comes built in with all these things and more so that you never have to worry about a thing. If you’re really adventurous, Thesis allows you to adjust the metadata, title tags, alt tags, and more from within Wordpress’ Dashboard.
Thesis theme allows you to focus on what is most important to any blogger, blogging. I highly recommend that you buy thesis and start blogging right away! If you don’t trust me, here are some other reviews and showcases of this fabulous theme by other Thesis users.
If I didn’t feature your site or review below, please leave a link in the comments and I’ll give it a look.
Thesis Gallery – Rate Sites with Thesis!
Chris Hardwick’s Nerdist – Editor’s Pick!!!
ProBlogger’s Darren Rowse on Chris Pearson and Thesis
Sugarrae One of the best sites with Thesis tutorials and tidbits.
Kingdomgeek in his own words. A Thesis Moderator’s site on Thesis Hook’s. The other “best” site with Thesis tuts and tids.
9 Reasons to use the Thesis Wordpress Theme Thanks @doncampbell!
DIY Ninjas – A Place for Thesis Pros Mitch Cooper has built a great site and is a nice guy too!
A great Thesis support contributor – kristarella
Review: Thesis Theme for Wordpress – Tranquility HQ (This blogger runs 4 sites with the Thesis Theme!!)
A site dedicated to the Thesis Theme (same author as above)
A Bird Site powered by Thesis with a review too.
A more critical take on Thesis Theme.
An entire site dedicated to a Thesis Theme Review
Bonus! Thesis Reviews in German! Thanks @firstdayblack
Thesis – eines der besten Premium-Themes für WordPress
Das Thesis-Theme aus SEO-Sicht
And just to prove that Thesis Theme does not suck, I did a quick Google search for “Thesis Theme Sucks” which resulted in:
Thesis Theme, DIY Theme, Chris Pearson, Wordpress
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