Wordpress templates
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Hi.
Anyone recommend a good source or membership scheme for 3.0 wordpress templates that are coded to be SEO friendly and with good support.
Looked at www.templatesold.com but they get very poor reviews
www.templatemonster.com seem to only sell templates individually
Peter
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If you're unable to accomplish what you need with Artisteer, then Headway may be an ideal solution for you. I agree wholeheartedly on Yoast's SEO package, BTW.
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Thanks for the responses.
I have no coding skills, so I pretty much have to stick with the exact template I get. I have used Artisteer 3 and its ok, but as easy as Artisteer 3 is supposed to be I am still not crazy about it. Thesis may have a lot going for it but as a non coder I would be lost with it.
The Headway Theme software which Gil has mentioned below, looks interesting for somebody who is illiterate at coding. As I already have a subscription for Artisteer 3, would I be wasting my money investing in Headway in the hope that is provides a real solution for a non-coder. I had the same expectation with Artisteer but it's still to complicated. On reading my own post, maybe I am looking for something that does not exist.
Peter
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Yeah always look at the feedback from those sites you are interested in. I am veyr happy with the one I use from TrueThemes - those guys cant do enough to help
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Themeforest - Good templates - offten more visually 'cutting edge' support levels can vary though - have used this too and been very pleased with results.
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Thesis is, for the most part, an excellent template. It frustrates me that Thesis insists on 'controlling' the SEO parameters, rather than allowing this to be done by a dedicated SEO plugin - like Yoast's Wordpress SEO plugin. I have to say the Thesis developer, Chris Pearson, has publicly announced (on twitter) it will be a 'cold day in hell' before he allows a plugin to control the SEO (See: http://yoast.com/themes-plugins-seo/ )
Frankly this 'Jobsian' attitude toward the various preferences/requirements of the Thesis user - drove me away from it...
(There is a compromise of sorts I found here: http://www.seomoz.org/q/thesis-vs-yoast-wordpress-seo-plugin )
Overall Thesis is inded an excellent framework, but this issue is too big to be completely overlooked.
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Themeforest - best ones I have come across :0) http://themeforest.net/
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Top SEOs seemed to be very happy with Thesis (see for example http://www.sugarrae.com/blogging-advice/a-review-of-the-thesis-wordpress-theme/, http://www.wolf-howl.com/blogs/thesis-wordpress-theme-review/) but recently some have been switching over to Headway (see http://www.chrisg.com/why-headway/). Generally Thesis seems more powerful. Headway's biggest edge seems to be that you can do some customizations visually, without coding.
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www.studiopress.com - excellent templates and support is first class!
EDIT: These all support WP 3.0 and are SEO friendly too! (They have modified the SEO functionality)
However, the framework also allows you to run Yoast Wordpress SEO - which is generally considered the best SEO plugin for WP. http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/
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