Thesis for WordPress – Why Superbloggers Use Thesis

March 25, 2009PanahNo CommentsReviews

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If you have been spending some time online in the past few weeks, chances are you have heard about Thesis for WordPress. Thesis is without a doubt the most popular premium WordPress theme on the market. Many super bloggers are currently using Thesis to get more done with their blogs. Here are a few super blogs that are based on Thesis theme:

  • Copyblogger
  • Tipd.com
  • SimpleMom
  • Twitip

So why are all these guys using Thesis? After all, there are thousands of good looking premium themes out there. It’s not really that hard to figure out. Here is why:

  • Design: Thesis comes with a simple design. If you don’t intend to heavily customize your theme, you can use the origial design to get started with your blog fast. Things are where they’re supposed to be, and you save your readers a lot of guesswork by using Thesis.
  • Flexibility: most top bloggers have customized their Thesis design to make their sites unique. There are a lot of things that can do on the back-end. Not only that, you can completely change the look and feel of your site without doing too much coding.
  • SEO: if you have read Blogging Heroes, you have probably seen that a lot of top bloggers claim that they don’t pay too much attention to SEO. But they don’t have to with Thesis. It comes with clean HTML/CSS code and is highly optimized to help you get maximum ranking on search engines. Who doesn’t like free traffic?
  • Accessibility & Usability: Thesis designers have paid extra attention to web usability and accessibility. Aren’t you tired of those blogs that are all over the place and make you search for minutes to find what you are looking for? With Thesis, things are where they are supposed to be.
  • Layout: Thesis’ layout is highly customizable. If you look at the examples that I provided above, you can see it’s not tough to change things around on Thesis.
  • Cross-browser Compatibility: as much as I love my current theme, I didn’t know till a few days ago that it wasn’t showing up right on Internet Explorer. With Thesis, I have never had that problem. That’s what clean code is all about.
  • Lifetime Updates: Thesis comes with lifetime updates. That means you won’t have to spend a time to get your hands on updates done to this theme.
  • Support: if you are stuck, you can always count on the folks behind Thesis to help you out. Nice to have these guys around.
  • Affordable: you can buy this theme for only $87. If you want to put it on multiple sites, you can get it for $164. Very affordable for such a highly customizable theme.

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Thesis has a lot of features and is very good looking. But what sets it apart from other themes is its SEO-friendly code and highly customizable design. Whether you want to use the original design or just want to build a brand new theme, you can’t go wrong with Thesis. Super-bloggers wouldn’t be using it if it weren’t any good!

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