You might have noticed I switched things up here a bit. The theme Friday Traffic Report is using now is called Thesis and it is Chris Pearson’s latest creation.
Chris Pearson is one of the best WordPress theme designers on the web today. He’s responsible for the look and feel of thousands of blogs around the web. Thesis changes the entire WordPress theme game for the better.
Why is Thesis Different?
This is the web’s first forward-compatible WordPress theme. What that means is you can do anything you want with design. The code underneath (what makes the blog run properly) never changes. In the old days you had to physically change the template pages.
With Thesis, you change the look and feel of the blog with “hooks” throughout the theme. Basically, your blog’s design floats on top of the code underneath, so when Pearson upgrades that code and you install a new version, your blog stays the same on the outside.
Free At Last!
This removes a major pain in the butt that all bloggers deal with when changing their themes or upgrading a theme. Thesis allows you to put in an upgrade and keep the blog exactly the same design-wise, thus, saving you major headaches.
If you’ve been following the Friday Traffic Report for awhile, you know I get bored with my theme about once a year. I am looking forward to next year now! Once I get this theme looking the way I want, then get tired of it and put together another design, I can do all of that while Pearson keeps me on the cutting edge of SEO and clean code on the backend.
We are putting clients on this theme as well, so I thought I’d recommend it to you too. Be sure to check out the demos so you can see that literally anything can be done with design on this theme.
