![]() I do not have the bandwidth to respond via phone. I try an answer all presales questions, but can only do so via email. The theme developer’s workload, sales, and sale price will determine what level of support is offered. Theme support can be available by phone, email, video tutorial, instruction manuals, forums, etc. And if you buy a new theme and simple SEO plugins like All-in-One SEO don’t work, replace the theme because you’ve got way more issues than you realize. The bottom line is you should make sure your theme developer mentions SEO and discusses why their theme is SEO friendly. Some of the discussion will be overkill for new WordPress users. Yoast also warns buyers against themes that include: site name forced into title tag, static meta descriptions on pages, static robot tags, use H1 for the logo on every tag, place sidebars above content, hide links in the theme beyond theme creator. ![]() WordPress SEO guru Yoast, encourages theme buyers to validate their theme includes the following SEO fundamentals: displayed taxonomy descriptions, excerpts on archive pages, breadcrumbs, proper anchor text for post titles. Quality code and solid design architecture make it much easier for search engines to digest your content and present it to searchers. Clean, optimized theme code is important for achieving the best search engine rankings possible. While WordPress is SEO friendly by default, not every WordPress theme will adhere to SEO best practices. Then while theme shopping, make sure your theme can support your list of visitor to do items. You have to have a cohesive design with built-in options for call to actions to work well and look professional.īefore selecting your theme, figure out what actions you want visitors to take and document them. Every website or blog wants the visitor to do “something”. I want every stock theme and every custom theme we build to have these available. Before deciding what you need, know that requiring older browser support will limit your theme choices immensely. If you need support for older browsers you need to make sure that your future theme is designed to accommodate such requirements. Many theme developers will not support these older browsers due to the excessive levels or support and coding needed and their inability to support current design elements. For this reason, we find older browsers, like IE5 or IE6, painful. The more browsers a developer supports, the more development and support time will be required. Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tation ullamcorper suscipit lobortis nisl ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. Take the time to find a theme that meets 80% of your visual, layout, and content needs. When selecting a theme, know that you can tweak colors and some other things but that a major overhaul (particularly layout) is best left to a design professional. When an average person starts to hack the theme and move things around, the beauty starts to be degraded and the theme loses the original intent.Ģ/ Suspendisse feugiat diam quis mi vestibulum blandit They’re professionals and they see the world in a different way than everyone else. We have four professional graphic designers that create the design for our custom and stock themes. I used to think you could morph a premium theme into what you want with just a little tweaking. First and foremost you have to make sure the theme matches the look and feel you want and need.
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