If you blog using WordPress, then you’ve probably heard about the Thesis theme, which is not only easy to use and customise, but also plays nice with the search engines. This site uses Thesis, and I can recommend it to anyone who wants to improve their blog, and make the whole experience of setting up and running a website more fun and less time consuming.
One of the many great aspects of The Thesis Theme for WordPress is the range of SEO (search engine optimisation) features. Thesis makes it easy to do things like customise the page title, write a Google-friendly meta description and add keywords to each and every blog post you produce.
A new version of Thesis has just been released, and includes what may seem like a small improvement, but it’s one I’ve been waiting for, and which should make life much easier for bloggers who are concerned about SEO.
What’s the feature? Character counts. Character counts for your page titles and meta descriptions. Search engines will only show a specific number of characters in these title and meta description fields, but previously, Thesis didn’t display a character count. You had to count them by hand or eye. Or cut and paste them into a word processor just to get an accurate count. Annoying. Very annoying.
Now that issue is solved, and it’s one of those small little additions that will actually make life significantly easier for bloggers.
Other changes and additions in Thesis 1.8 include:
- A header image uploader
- Google fonts – you can now use 28 free fonts from the Google web directory, and they are, of course, all web safe
- Support for the new WordPress Nav Menu
- A Favicon uploader
- Lots of other stuff that’s too technical for a writing site…
If you want to know more about how to optimise blogs and other online content for the search engines, see my SEO ebook.
And if you want to know more about The Thesis Theme for WordPress, click here. (Affiliate link, by the way).
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Thanks for the spam comment: I’ve removed your URL. But a word of advice, if I may. If you’re going to run a business writing people’s academic essays for them, maybe you should first of all learn to write English with some semblance of grammar. Anyone who paid you to write for them would need to be seriously desperate.
Do you plan to keep this site updated? I sure hope soâ?¦ its great!
Yes, I know I’ve been a bit slack in posting of late. The site is certainly still live, but is likely to get posts at a leisurely rate for the time being. But it is certainly going to continue. It’s more of a long-term site than a short-lived post-and-burn exercise.