My gripe with Thesis Theme for Wordpress.
- SEO |
Moreover, i slowly tend to think that those reviews are rather made by people who dont know too much about SEO, respective hype aka "Well Matt Cutts uses Thesis, so it must be good."
1) Flaw:
As soon as you make a static front page (static page or sticky blog on front page) Thesis exchanges H1 and H2 header tags. While with normal posts and blog entries titles are in H1 - all of a sudden, on the font page they set the PAGE/BLOG TITLE to H2 (!!) and use H1 for the blog "tagline".
The reasoning for this totally eludes me. I tried to understand the explanation for this given, but it still didnt make any sense whatsoever
2) HTML/XHTML validation errors. Thesis throws a LOT of them, even many of the showcase sites throw LOTS of W3 validation errors. This is sad since proper W3 validation is *also* somewhat important for SEO.
3) I think it's a little outrageous that you first have to purchase this expensive theme, otherwise you dont have access to the support forum.
Needless to say, you wont see the flaws of this theme unless you buy it. I dont like this philosophy AT ALL.
I am not saying that thesis is a bad theme, but in terms of SEO and customization it does NOT do more than what i already saw with other, often free themes. I don't think that thesis does anything special in regards to SEO what other good themes don't do already - and also in regards to customization i have seen themes which allowed more, for example "flexiblity theme".
It also lacks some more advanced features for design, IMHO.
For example: Instead of providing you options for different styles, buttons, shapes etc...all thesis does is throw a text editor in your face for *hand editing* the CSS styles... <--
They want $164 for this theme for an unlimited site license, in my opinion very overpriced for the features offered. $59 would be way more reasonable, and the fact that Matt Cutts uses it still doesn't make it the "best theme ever".
In terms of SEO, i think that with ANY other theme which doesn't do crucial SEO mistakes (like blog title in H1 throughout the site) in conjunction with the platinum/all-in-one SEO plugin you will get the same (if not better) SEO features easily.
Rant off..
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