Tips on Selecting A WordPress Theme

The main thing that will come to one’s head after deciding to write a blog on topic they want us the selection of the theme. There are number of blogging platforms like WordPress, Blogger, Typepad , etc. If you do a little research on Google for the blogging platforms, you’ll get a list of several of those and WordPress is most popular and has thousands of blogs built using this platform. It’s an open source projects and is for free.

This article will mainly show you steps in choosing your WordPress theme. A theme is basically software utilized in building a blog. It has varried templates which work together in the background to give you the desired look and feel for your blog.

Here are a few tips on choosing your blog theme more efficiently.

1. Category:

This is basically the synopsis of your blog. It defines the kind of audience you want to target your blog to. One example is if you want to write a blog about cats, then your blog goes to the pet’s category.

Finding your category aids you to arrive at the right theme thus saves you much time and energy in the process of setting it up. There are themes in every major category ranging from Travel to Music to Business. You can find these at the WP theme directory and even a number of websites like Free wordpress themes, Daily Blog tips, t hemestudio.

2. Designs and Colors:

Most people like having their favorite colors on their blogs. Try getting your themes in those colors as much as possible but this may not be possible always although there are hundreds of WP themes which match every desire. Also, there’s another advantage in utilizing a theme of your favorite color as you don’t need to change much in the theme in getting your color. However it’s advisable not to focus much on this aspect. Rather concentrate on the layout of the theme. Decide on the type of layout you would want.

There are several layouts available but some of the top choices are:

Single Column

Two Column (Without Sidebar)

Four column

Fluid width etc.

Also, there are layouts designed for media type blogs. If you have to select a theme which you can live with it for long term as you are the one who visits your blog the most. Try to experiment on some themes with some test posts and pages. Comment, categorize them and see how your selected theme looks.

3. Purpose:

This is crucial since it aids you in choosing your desired theme. If you’re going to write a blog only for you to vent out your emotions and thoughts, you do not need to give much importance to many other aspects of your blog like advertisements, widgets, etc. If you blog to aid others or as a source of income, then you need to also consider few other things in addition to the above ones. Also, some things you need to consider are, some things you need to consider are, if the theme supports advertisements and turning the code, does the theme supports the widgets or plugins, like RSS, good Protection, Search engine optimization, etc.

4. Support:

Make sure you’ll get the support you need when using the theme from the author. There many times, that the site owner from where the theme is downloaded could not able to help the user who have downloaded and used it for their blog because they are not developed by himself but somebody else. If this is the case then you will only be wasting your time so always check the author of the theme first.

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