Articles on WordPress Themes

The articles listed below cover views and reviews of WordPress themes, and how they can affect your site’s performance. Click the headline to read the full article.

I upgraded to the official release of Thesis 1.5 over the weekend – here are some thoughts. Full disclosure up front: I’m an affiliate for Thesis. The official release of Thesis 1.5 must have been one of the longest drawn out sagas of any recent major product upgrade – there were seven (yes 7!) 1.5 [...]

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My friend Bob Hartman pointed me in the direction of the Open Hook plugin for Thesis yesterday – and what a discovery it was.  For me, that is – Bob already knew about it.  I’ve written elsewhere about the Thesis theme and mentioned that, in order to maximize its powerful capabilities, one of the things [...]

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I often see questions from people asking for the best free WordPress themes, or the best premium WordPress themes. Clearly ‘best’ is dependent on the target market of your blog, its content and the image you want to portray. For some, a Hello Kitty theme would hit all the right buttons.  But that wouldn’t be [...]

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The last WordPress theme you’ll ever need.  Bit of an extravagant claim, I know, but consider this: The Thesis theme for WordPress has been designed from the ground up specifically to enable non-techie users to customise and change the look of their site at will. Full Disclosure up front:  I use Thesis and I’m an [...]

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Important update – 30 June, 2009 This post was originally written when WordPress 2.6 was the current version. We’re now on WordPress 2.8, so I’ve created a video demonstrating how to change themes on WordPress 2.8 – you can find it here. I saw a question in a forum today where someone asked how to [...]

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