Best wordpress theme for an internet marketing blog?

12 years ago

I wish I had a dollar for every time the topic of "favorite theme" came up here.

I like the Genesis platform for WordPress with a range of child themes. Go to StudioPress dot com for working examples.

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bostoncitymass

12 years ago

Good question.
For me it depends. For my "sniper sites" I just use free themes from the wordpress templates. If I'm building a site for a client I use premium themes. Most premium themes tend to be coded better for better SEO but if you are building a bunch of sites, it could get expensive buying a premium theme for each site. You can get one premium theme and use it on all your sites if it is a pretty well rounded theme and will work in different niches.

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Ivelin2008

12 years ago

I'm not talking about sniper sites or something like that..

just a good theme for your personal internet marketing related blog.

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Ivelin2008

12 years ago

Genesis Framework looks good, thanks Steve B

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julesw

12 years ago

OP does have a blog theme but it's more often used for squeeze, sales pages and membership portals. If you use it as a blog you can have it on the homepage and the squeeze pages behind it, or flip it around in an instant so the blog is on the .com/blog or whatever you call it and the sales page is on the homepage.

Here's an awesome regular WP blog them, it's paid by donation so pay what you think it's worth.Thrilling theme

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12 years ago

Originally Posted by julesw

OP does have a blog theme but it's more often used for squeeze, sales pages and membership portals. If you use it as a blog you can have it on the homepage and the squeeze pages behind it, or flip it around in an instant so the blog is on the .com/blog or whatever you call it and the sales page is on the homepage.

Here's an awesome regular WP blog them, it's paid by donation so pay what you think it's worth.Thrilling theme

I really like the look of Thrilling theme. Might try it out for one of my blog. Thanks for sharing.

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GeorgR.

12 years ago

It's like the question "what is the best movie?"
I personally come always back to "Thesis"..although there might better themes out now...but i still like Thesis.

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Osman_M

12 years ago

I really like the theme called, "simplish," because its exactly what the title says, simple. You can customize it to your liking but hands its very clear and clean.

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Your Brand Ebooks 12 years ago

Like GeorgR and others here said, you're asking a very general question.

If for example your blog will be video rich, then there are themes that focus on that. They include support for Youtube, Vimeo and all the players, plus allow you to place a player inline or inside a lightbox.

Visit themeforest.net and check out the various categories in the Wordpress Themes section. There is for example a subsection just for simple and "minimalist" themes. Check out the various subsections and the theme demos. Once you start looking thru the demos, you'll figure out what you want/need pretty quickly.

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  In my own experience, Optimize Press is weak for blog stuff, but absolutely ROCKS for marketing stuff like video squeeze pages.
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Dennisknows

12 years ago

Check out my blog and decide for yourself if you can use OptimizePress. I absolutely love it. I use it on 2 of my main blogs and anything for sales and getting leads, no question about it, im using OptimizePress.

Only flaws I see and I hate this about it is theres no footer setup. I like to have a footer so I can put links and stuff down there. I had to pay a coder to add a footer section to my blog..

Also, the sidebar is not wide enough. I'm getting a PHP coder to look into widening my sidebar to 300px but as of right now, I can really only fit 250 - 270px ad squares in there.

Granted they still some work to do on their blogging theme but as for the squeeze pages and sales letters, I'll use nothing else.

Reason being...Product comes out..I want to market it..

Instead of buying a whole new domain and setting up a new website, I create a squeeze page on my site, remove all headers and navigation so there there is no distinction with my site and drive traffic to it and build a list. I do this on all my sites.

If you want, you can buy a domain and just redirect it to your squeeze page. Most people dont look at the address bar.

Its really all in what you want to do with your site. I usually install a theme and go to work on the PHP to customize it and get it to my liking.

Best of luck and hope this helps

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retsek

12 years ago

Thesis is a great.
If you can't afford it, but have the ability to tweak themes yourself you can check out NeoClassical.

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12 years ago

zeeDisplay | ThemeZee.com

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BabyMama

12 years ago

I agree with other warriors optimize press is great for sales pages and squeeze pages but not so good for blogs.
I like to use artisteer to make blogs as its unique but yet simple. Its a paid software but you can create your own custom templates with it and its super easy to use.

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webmind

12 years ago

Why hasn't anyone mentioned Profits Theme? I hear from many this is even better than Optimize Press.

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Cyberkntsean

12 years ago

The free Intrepidity Theme

From their site:

"Intrepidity is a well rounded Business WordPress theme designed to suit a variety of sites, topics and businesses. The theme includes both blog and landing page templates along with 4 distinct color schemes to fit your brand and image."

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DoubleOhDave

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Cyberkntsean

The free Intrepidity Theme

From their site:

"Intrepidity is a well rounded Business WordPress theme designed to suit a variety of sites, topics and businesses. The theme includes both blog and landing page templates along with 4 distinct color schemes to fit your brand and image."

I love this theme! I use it for my IM Blog sideline...

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colzinfobiz

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Cyberkntsean

The free Intrepidity Theme

From their site:

"Intrepidity is a well rounded Business WordPress theme designed to suit a variety of sites, topics and businesses. The theme includes both blog and landing page templates along with 4 distinct color schemes to fit your brand and image."

I just downloaded this one - looks great...Cheers

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markmcknight

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Cyberkntsean

The free Intrepidity Theme

From their site:

"Intrepidity is a well rounded Business WordPress theme designed to suit a variety of sites, topics and businesses. The theme includes both blog and landing page templates along with 4 distinct color schemes to fit your brand and image."

Just downloaded this theme to try. Thanks for recommendation.

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Barry Unruh

12 years ago

My number one choice would be Clickbump... At least with it I can "re-skin" it numerous ways without affecting the underpinnings of my site and changing the base theme.

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ebusinesstutor

12 years ago

I second the Artisteer recommendation. I have my graphic designer set up all my Wordpress themes with Artisteer now so we control the code.

Had a few bad experiences with some "free" themes that had garbage in the code.

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ebusinesstutor

12 years ago

I second the Artisteer recommendation. I have my graphic designer set up all my Wordpress themes with Artisteer now so we control the code.

Had a few bad experiences with some "free" themes that had garbage in the code.

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NickVCover 12 years ago

I've found Elegant Themes to be a pretty good deal. Forty-ish bucks for seventy odd themes.

The downfall I'd say is that it is an annual subscription which buys future updates and support. Hypothetically you could download them all in your first year and then drop the sub, but no future support that way.
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ukcarl

12 years ago

Im really liking profits theme at the minute, its very versatile and adds a lot of functionality to wordpress, its what Im using at the minute it has tonnes of child themes so you can make your site 100% original

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fin 12 years ago

Thesis is the only theme............................................. ...for me.
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Wade32

12 years ago

I think its really your preference. Whatever you think looks good and flows with your style of website design. I personally like Studio Press News Theme. Its clean and effective for Adsense(as I have recently figured out)

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UMS

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Ivelin2008

Can you have a blog using optimizepress, or is it just for squeeze, salespages?

OptimizePress is pretty flexible. It can be used for a blog.

Version 1.5 is due to be released pretty soon which has a bunch of nice new features.

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BeauJustin

12 years ago

For straight blogging I aim for excellent readability and semantics.

Thesis is great but it's a little on the complex side.

A couple of great alternatives:

The Presswork framework is free, and has some outstanding childthemes available. One of the things I love about Presswork which confused me at first; you make all of the changes using the toolbox on the frontend of the website rather than the backend.

Vigilance theme from the The Theme Foundry is also great out of the box. Excellent typography, and great ad placement, few frills, but highly customizable and very solid.

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Simon Farmer

11 years ago

Woo themes - Canvas. You literaly have a blank canvas to play with so you can design it any way you want.

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hustlinsmoke

11 years ago

My favorite theme is Thesis but for total IM I love Optimize press or Profits theme.
Your going to need a lot less plugins with the last two themes compared to thesis.

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usfemail

11 years ago

I love the Canvas theme from Woo Themes for setting up my blog. It is so easy to set up to your liking.

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hojo

11 years ago

Woo themes I just built out an IM blog this weekend the gazette theme took me all of 5 minutes

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Mogly

11 years ago

You need a custom one to stand out, IMO.

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Arief Ramadhan 11 years ago

I personally use Thesis theme for my personal and internet marketing blogs. It even gets better with Thesis 2.0 but don't have a time to test it yet.
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thatjc

11 years ago

I'm also a huge fan of StudioPress themes and their Genesis framework for WordPress.

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Geri Richmond

11 years ago

Hi,
I have the Woo Theme. It's simple, but effective.
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Ryan Draper

10 years ago

I recently did a blog post on this exact topic, you might wanna check it out:

The 5 Best WordPress Themes For Internet Marketers

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or need any help!