Wordpress Theme Tweaks

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Wordpress Theme Tweaks for Internet Marketing

As I learn more about using wordpress blogs I have been spending more time on tweaks to the themes. As far as SEO and Internet Marketing are concerned, most blog themes need some adjustments to make them search engine friendly. It’s not always fun but I must say I now have some bitchin’Â modified themes to use whenever I set up a new Wordpress blog for Internet Marketing purposes.

Usually I just upload the blog, try a few of the many availble themes and then I start tweaking away! Usually I figure things out by trial and error but I am sure there has to be a better way… but in the end it works and I have some nice blogs to show for it!

I just modified a free theme Wuhan and put my own little touches on it. It’s at Topica Articles if ya wanna see it in action.

If you are really fond of it and wanna use it on one of your sites, simply drop me a line and ask for the Topica Wordpress theme & I’ll send the themeÂ to ya in a zip. Since I didn’t code it from the ground up I am not sure about whether I can freely distribute it, but hey, if my friends ask for it – what am I supposted to do??

I nabbed a great little feature and dropped it on the sidebar and that’s the “latest posts” command which I rarely see included in a theme, yet it is such an obvious choice, especially if you want a little SEO power in your blogs as it will show the latest 10 posts on each page of your site, instead of how the stock themes just show them on the front page. That means each category page (usally higher PageRank) and each individual pots page will now send a little love to the newest posts on your blog! Pretty cool, eeh?

Of course I also dumped the Blogroll thang and replaced it with my own “on the net” links which you can add by tweaking the sidebar.php file. Simply replace one of my links (or keep them there and add you own).

Also, the header graphic can be easily customized. Just open up in any graphic editor and change the title to the name of your site. It’s also pretty easy to just wipe out my trees and blue sky and add your own image or design. This can really make your page look unique!

Also in the sidebar is a php include pointing to Mutated’s RSS feed and will randomly show one of the 20 latest article excerpts. This is a great way to add great words to your blog pages and of course you are free to leave it on the sidebar as I am always happy to get links from my friends :’>

The words are power words and can even bring you some extra traffic!

Well, hope you like theme and as I said, drop me a line if you’d like it to use on your web sites! The tweaks are on me!

Theme Resources:

Free Wordpress Blogging Themes – good selection of free themes.

Comments (204)

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Hi Mike,

Just a quick note to tell you as someone who have just joined – actually 2 days ago – your membership club and been busy going thru. as much info. as I can, I really appreciate your down-to-earth way of sharing, and the superb way you’ve formatted the network that we can benefit from.

I don’t know if this is the right place for me to request your WP theme, but I’d email you again anyway.

Thanks for being so generous!

Have a nice day!

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Hi Mike,
I think tweaking WP themes is great fun lol.

It’s a great way to learn html and some of those geeky stuff without cracking your head.

Cheers,
Kang

Comment by kang — December 7, 2006 @ 9:44 pm
Thanks for the info on Mutatedâ€™s RSS feed. I never heard of it before.

Comment by xybercode — March 12, 2007 @ 11:31 am
It sounds like you’re a “super tweaker”, Mike.

OK, I guess it’s just me who hates tweaking things like WP themes, CSS templates and MediaWiki’s code.

I find that I spend hours on it to get it looking how I want and then, with the next “security patch” it all gets broken.

Neil.

Comment by NeilShearing — December 11, 2007 @ 4:42 am
I have never tweaked successfully on my themes. I tend to go into the code and destroy something! I don’t know what I do!

My best blog which has over 200 RSS subscribers is the Wasters Blog. The home page is OK, but if you go to look at any of the single post pages there does not seem to be any formatting at all!

Is that curable, short of a complete reinstall?! Would it work for me to change the theme, or would I loose still more?

Comment by stevelast — January 17, 2008 @ 6:34 pm
Hey Mike,

Let me start by saying, “GREAT NAME!”

Seriously though, I know people don’t give
enough thought into the SEO value of their
blogs.

I think it’s because blogs are so good at
getting traffic quickly that many people
don’t even take the time to tweak them
to get even more traffic.

For example, one of my clients just setup
a blog and posted 1 article. Within 24
hours she had 85 unique visitors.

And she has done nothing for traffic! But,
by doing tweaks you can get even more traffic
for the same work.

I LOVE your idea about the latest posts and
making it show on every page. I’ll have to
look into that.

All around, though…great post!

Mike

Make Money With
Your Blog

Comment by Mike Antoni — January 17, 2008 @ 9:50 pm
Thanks to be so generous, “Super Tweaker Mike”!

Comment by vdp — February 5, 2008 @ 1:28 am
Really great tips in this article. I would like to know how to tweak things on my blog too, but I’m a tad afraid of looking at it after refreshing it and “poof” it’s gone! lol

Comment by LisaAlexander — April 4, 2008 @ 9:19 am
Hi Mike,

Thanks for the great tips about “tweaking” a WordPress. I’ve got a Wordpress blog, so I’ll try and put these suggestions in place.

BTW, Why do you say “Of course” about replacing Blogroll with your own â€œon the netâ€? links??? What is the advantage in what you are doing?

Thanks!

David Hurley
Internet Marketing Start-Up Options

Comment by David Hurley — July 2, 2008 @ 7:30 am
Great advice Mike. I’ve added some plugins to my Wordpress blog now, and have many more words on my blog, which enhances my theme.

One needs to get reminded of all the strategies, otherwise they’re forgotten…

-Riggie
List Building Tools

Comment by riggie11 — September 29, 2008 @ 5:45 am
Hi, How easy is it to change a base colour within a theme?
I have found a theme I really like but the base colour overall is a pinkish brown. Would love to change it to something different but am living with it currently as I like the design.

Not having played too much with internal codes
I presume it will be in Hex form in one of the files
would it be the style.css?

Sorry to ask but you do appear to be quite versed in the
Wordpress theme

Norman

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Agreed, Wordpress rocks – no doubt.

I like the idea about replacing “Blogroll” with “On the Net”

Here’s a beautiful (or at least nice) theme I just found today that someone might enjoy knowing more about.

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Thanks for the post. Its always nice to someone lending a helping hand. I have been trying to figure out how to tweak my themes. Thanks

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Like any website, SEO is important, but backlinks are still King! You can overcome average SEO with backlinks, but it is tough to overcome a lack of quality links.

Comment by Frank — July 2, 2009 @ 2:41 pm
good post on updating wordpress themes. because so many people download free themes it is important that you modify the theme because you do not want to leave a footprint that can be traced.

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Comment by Roy — July 6, 2009 @ 3:01 pm
great post, i think these little ways to change up a theme can really make a unique site. thanks for the tips.

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Comment by CarlatunScott — July 19, 2009 @ 3:59 am
I love playing around with the wordpress themes as well to see how they can be tweaked to make them more SEO friendly. Most of the time, I will heavily SEO the front page and then use a plugin to SEO the individual blog posts.

Hopefully Wordpress will continue to develop with SEO in mind and if not, we can count on sharing information that will help us to rank better in the search engines with what is available to us.

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Comment by Tim — July 21, 2009 @ 11:14 pm
Really great tips in this article. I would like to know how to tweak things on my blog too, but Iâ€™m a tad afraid of looking at it after refreshing it and â€œpoofâ€ itâ€™s gone

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I think tweaking WP themes is great fun lol.

Itâ€™s a great way to learn html and some of those geeky stuff without cracking your head.

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It looks like you are one (some) step(s) in front of me . I just start to investigate in Wordpress and I think your post gives me some inspiration and ideas what to do.

Comment by Timmy — July 24, 2009 @ 2:38 pm
Thanks Mike, good post I just had to throw away a theme I got from the a free theme website becuase their was simply too much wrong with it. It look great but worked terrible. So I think i’m going to ripp off your blog a little.

Immertation being the best form of flattery and everything.

Ed

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Great stuff thanks for posting that. I find Im reading your posts more and more.

Comment by Chloe — July 26, 2009 @ 6:33 pm
I came across this new WordPress theme that was designed for affiliate and internet marketers,i had to share.I knew this would change the game for a lot of people.Not just those of you that have experience with WordPress and installing themes, but also for internet marketers who are less technically inclined and need to be able to easily setup a custom theme themselves.

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I have been spending more time on tweaks to the themes.

Comment by Social Media Marketing company in india — July 28, 2009 @ 4:12 am
Hostestly I have never had to tweak a single wordpress theme I have used to get good SEO results, but I also usually pay a nice price to have it SEO ready from the start. I suppose if free themes is your thing, then go for it.

Truthfully I found more of a need to fix wordpress itself. By default things like your your “most recent comments”, your calendar links, and your page header link have no title attributes in the links (this is not something a theme can fix). Wordpresses inability to corrently format text is also a SEO problem. Wrapping things in paragraphs when they should have line breaks is also an issue. I have by far hacked more wordpress code then any theme code. It makes upgrading from one version to the next a real hassle.

Comment by Blog marketing — July 28, 2009 @ 8:51 am
I do tweak some of the themes myself. I have learned to build my own and after doing it a few times I don’t think it is really hard to do. I tend to use all in one seo plugin s google sitemap plugin and a related links plugin and do pretty well just keeping it simple.

Comment by Jim Sandler — July 29, 2009 @ 10:47 pm
I just upload the blog, try a few of the many availble themes and then i start tweaking away.

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Thanks for sharing
Nice article.

Comment by Jonas — August 2, 2009 @ 7:06 am
I’m new to Wordpress and found this helpful. But overall, it sounds like most people really tweak with the code to make Wordpress SEO friendly. I was hoping it would be a bit more straight forward than that.

Thanks for the article Mike.

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Great tips, Mike. I got two nuggets from this one – the Mutated Articles link and the plugin advice on latest posts. Way cool. Thanks!

Comment by Bill — August 3, 2009 @ 5:08 am
Great.
sometime i use wordpress to make a website.
Wordpress is easy to use and easy to tweak.
and your article show me how to tweak wordpress theme
thanks!

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I thought tweaking WP themes was very difficult (and it is, for me but I’m just starting…I like yout tweakings, they’re really nice!

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Comment by marco — August 17, 2009 @ 4:17 am
I am always afraid I’ll break the theme and not be able to fix it. I guess you need a backup copy, eh? Nice theme, btw.

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I dumped the Blogroll thang and replaced it with my own on the net links which you can add by tweaking the sidebar.php file.
Simply replace one of my links.

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I have never tweaked successfully on my themes. I tend to go into the code and destroy something! I donâ€™t know what I do!

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I found no success in tweaking my themes and I just can’t get it why i am encountering some problems with it, well up to now I am searching for some answers about it

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It’s no secret really. Just read carefully, or read forum discussions about it, or better yet join in the discussion. You’ll find your answers then.

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Comment by Clark — August 24, 2009 @ 11:23 am
I have to tweak my themes because I find code that is not necessary and at times some themes do not validate with with WC3. Make a big difference when you have nice clean code in you WordPress theme!

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I one tried to tweak a WP theme but didn’t succeed. Finally I was lost ..

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I think the ability to tweak the theme to your liking is a great benefit. I was using something that did not allow me to do that and I have to say getting the blog indexed was such a pain.

Comment by Simon — September 8, 2009 @ 2:32 pm
I like to start building a WP theme from scratch. Then validate it to make sure it’s not broken. After that you take the best of the best from various themes to tweak it to your own. Some of the packaged themes have code bloat. If you build it yourself, you know what you have.

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Before I use wordpress and have not understood how I run, I feel that wordpress is indeed very difficult to use. However, when I try constantly to understand, I finally conclude that wordpress was very easy to use and user friendly with its users. Thanks

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Comment by Nick — December 3, 2009 @ 8:13 pm
Most common i find is removing excessive code or cleaning up the CSS. Better code, better performing website.

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Yum yum.. I think that wordpress is like the best system for creating sites..

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Thanks for sharing this as it will work great on my new blog. At least I hope that I can get it to work so seamlessly as you’ve described!

Comment by picture to painting — December 9, 2009 @ 3:48 pm
Personally I don’t like to edit the theme files myself. IF the them is any good, there will be updates requiring you to overwrite the edited files.

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Comment by Themes — December 10, 2009 @ 10:41 am
i don’t know how to edit wordpress theme.. luckily i have a brother knows everything about wordpress.. but i’m interested learning on wordpress.

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This is a very useful info, since i’m new to wordpress, it makes me to update quickly.

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Special thanks to Wordpress, it helps many companies to save lot of money and time in developing a website. Wordpress makes it so simple to develop a site.

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WordPress is a great tool to get people talking and reviewing companies. Your website even if it is a company can benefit incredibly from having a blog and RSS feed.

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Thank you for this posting, you’ve got a few solid points but will you be posting a follow up to this?

Comment by chicago insurance — December 18, 2009 @ 5:21 pm
Thanks for the tweaks.

I use Wordpress a lot and have a few plugins that are very useful for SEO:

1) Headspace: a lot of options to customize/tweak titles and descriptions
2) XML sitemaps: you will never have to manually create/submit a sitemap anymore
3) Robots meta: options to noindex,nofollow certain categories or pages.
4) YARPP: automatically creates internal links to relevant posts, VERY good for creating a natural and good internal linkstructure.

You can find all of the plugins on wordpress.org.

Comment by Best home based businesses — December 24, 2009 @ 4:29 am
Hello Mike,

This tweaks is very great for us especially for those love the wordpress. It will help you to made easy in your work. This is one of the few most remembering plugins.

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Hi Mike, It is a cool theme. If you’re interested, I have a site american singles dating. I use a new theme that’s kind of a cross between a blog and a typical site. See what you think.

Comment by Tom — December 25, 2009 @ 9:41 pm
This is a great post for beginning bloggers like myself. If it weren’t for the ability to tweak Wordpress, I would have quit a long time ago! Trial and error have been my best friends…

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Comment by gudangblog — December 27, 2009 @ 8:29 am
Does anyone know of a really great WP theme to use for Adsense ? Most of the themes i see look great but theres so much going off on them the adsense ads just get lost !
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Comment by Alex Burgess — December 29, 2009 @ 5:00 am
I think you can go crazy trying to optimise a WordPress blog, far too much time can be wasted on this. As long as:

a) you’re set post titles as URLs
b) your template uses the H1 feature
c) you have the SEO All-in-One pack installed

That’s pretty much all the OnPage SEO you need. The rest is down to content, pure and simple. A blog such as this, offers great reading which is the key to getting natural backlinks. And afterall, it’s backlinks that get you the rank, not OnPage SEO.

Comment by Modern Zen — December 29, 2009 @ 5:25 am
there are many things you can do in blogging and it’s fun too like the social bookmarking sites you can add yur favorite sites.

Comment by social bookmark buttons — December 29, 2009 @ 7:59 pm
I switched to drupal CMS for my blogging platform because the flexibility is greater. Plus, I think it’s easier to SEO.

Comment by Tim @ Tall Womens Clothing — December 29, 2009 @ 10:35 pm
Hi Mike,

It’s true that tweaking theme is fun and enjoy (if you know how to code it right lol), but if you’re doing it just for SEO, why don’t you just download the available plugin to make your blog more SE friendly?. The most famous and good plugin as far as im concern is All In One Seo.

Btw, could you shoot me one Topica Wordpress theme?.

Thanks.

Regards,
David
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Comment by David — December 30, 2009 @ 9:07 pm
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Comment by Erin — December 30, 2009 @ 9:33 pm
Hi Mike,
It’s really clean looking. I’ll send an email after I hit submit here.

Margaret

Comment by Margaret Wagner — December 31, 2009 @ 9:01 pm
I definately agree that the latest posts command is very beneficial for internal linking purposes. I use a plugin called YARPP (yet another related posts plugin). I didn’t realize how much my website would benefit from it until I actually saw it in action. I was having trouble improving my SERP with offsite SEO (backlinking) As soon as I added YARPP, 3 of my SERP’s moved up substantially.

Also, I like the theme, can I have it? If so send it to my email.

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Comment by Deca101 — January 2, 2010 @ 12:03 am
Great post. Pretty long though. Anyway I am happy to see more internet marketers to tweak the WP for the best SEO results. I have always purchased Themes from many reputable Internet marketers, but had to tweak it anyway to find what works for my purpose. Actually today I have finish customization of some theme I got a week ago and by far it is outperforming any WP theme I had before…I even found plugins I only need and now do not clutter my space on my webhost.

Happy New Year 2010 guys

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Nice post.I want to keep my regular sub pages on my site but I want to use word press as well for the theme and use my own sub pages instead of the word press pages. How do I use my word press theme on my regular subpages.

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I didn’t know you can tweak Wordpress themes around. Very nice stuff!

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It never occurred to me that I needed to tweak the themes that I was using. I mean, I changed the widgets and things like that but I didn’t know about these other things. Thanks, I’ll give them a try.

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Does it do any harm to use a lot of plug ins with Word Press? I keep finding these fantastic things to add like the one you are recommending, and I’m wondering if they slow down loading time or conflict with each other or anything like that.

Comment by Mike T. — January 23, 2010 @ 10:32 am
Tweaking your wordpress theme just makes it more personal to your site, its surprising a few adjustments can make the theme look unique to your own site, especially if you have some of your own imagery.

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With all of the free WordPress themes available, is there any advantage to buying themes? I’m always a little leery of “free” things but with W.P., I can’t find any downside.

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Wuhan looks pretty nice. I’ve always been kind of concerned about whether all these themes are designed with SEO in mind. I’ll drop you a note about downloading it. Thanks.

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Word Press and Blogger are free platform that I’ve used to market my business and it did improved my site’s ranking in major search engines.

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Just getting started in online marketing and a friend sent me this link. He suggested there was a membership program that I should look into. Is the membership for the sole purpose of gaining access to the SEO themes?

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Nice to know that we can take these beautiful themes and tweak them to make them our own. Great information. Thanks.

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I don’t know if it’s new with the latest WordPress edition or not but the ability to use a static page is just awesome. It’s really making my life easier.

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The main reason why I choose wordpress is because of the flexibility of using different kinds of attractive themes. and by managing our themes, it helps us to attract visitors to our site.

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Comment by Peter — February 16, 2010 @ 3:01 pm
Great post. I personally use wordpress for all of my websites. I’ve thought of using Django, however, I always opt for wordpress as it’s much more simple and user friendly.

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Great article. have you ever thought of adding more images to keep us readers more interested just in case we’re visual learners? Just my two cents. I’ve added you on my blogroll.

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Yes it was a great article, more images would always help, images help everything especially for those of us w/ ADD…hehe!!

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I have ADD too!!! And yes Pictures help everything! But I like the article either way!!

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Pretty cool techniques that will be beneficial for many people. Thanks for sharing it with us.

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Thanks Mike for sharing some tricks and links to get free WP themes. As for men, I don’t have any technical background about WP so I’m quite apprehensive to tweak anything.

I guess for now I will stick with premium themes with good customer support to help me tweak my sites.

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