Wordpress Themes - How To Choose The Right One For You

I was talking to a friend today about using WordPress as a website

. She asked me a great question that I've received a few times so I thought it deserved a detailed response in an article format.

What changed it for me was discovering WordPress.org. It's so easy to use!! There are plug-ins - most of them free - to do most things. All the things that were huge challenges for me, now seem really simple to do.

Menu bar across the top. Some themes allow a menu on the left of the page. Again you want this area to be reserved for your sales copy.

One of the key things is choosing your THEME. It's very easy to change a theme, so don't worry if you already have one and want to change it. You can keep all of your content and change the theme. Choosing a theme that I could use easily has made a huge difference to me

Add to the fact that the tradition theme usually requires expensive website design software like Dreamweaver or Microsoft Expressions (where WordPress is free) the choice seems to be a no-brainer. So how does it work? Here's what happens when you change your theme: You choose a new theme and upload it to your dashboard. You go to the 'appearances' section of your dashboard, click your theme and confirm. That's it!

Here's a little description of the anatomy of a WordPress website along with which parts are 'theme-based' and which are 'content-based': Theme-Based Header - The header is that top portion of the website. The header changes with your theme. Columns - Many themes have two or three columns. The layout of these columns is based on the them. Footer - The footer is usually theme-based. This means if you do any major customizations in the footer (the very bottom of the site) they will usually need to be re-done or copy/pasted when you change themes.

Content-Based Pages - You can create pages of content within your site. They do not change when your theme does. Posts - These are very similar to pages and the only major difference is posts usually take comments and pages usually don't. Sidebar - If you use 'widgets' to add content in your sidebar then this will be content-based and there will be no effect when you change your theme. Comments - There's no effect on your comments when you change the theme other than to take on a possible new look of the theme you change it to. Plugins - Plugins are not affected by changes in themes.

So have fun exploring all the themes which are out there -free and paid and decide which one will work best for you. A good tip is to look at the footer of a site that you like- often it will tell you which theme is used, so you can find it for yourself and read up more about it.

by: Julio Sanches.

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