The Thesis Theme is #1 in My Eyes

I totally heart the Thesis theme for Wordpress.

The Thesis theme, designed by Chris Pearson of DIY Themes isn’t the first theme I used for Writer Dad, but it is the one I fell for.  I don’t love the Thesis theme like I love my wife or children, but I feel a similar affection for it as I do my Macbook or aluminum keyboard.  It’s just one of those things that helps to make my workday a pleasure. 

My days of blogging started with a whisper.  I had a Blogspot address (now orbiting the Blogoshpere like an abandoned satellite) and I fed that first blog with the absolute absence of regularity.  I loved the ease of one button publishing, but was far from serious about the endeavor.  It was my rough draft and I knew it.  The second as I started to grow serious about my aims, I found Blogger a bit too lacking for what I wanted to do.

I had no web design experience whatsoever, but after finding myself building a website I needed for only a single weekend (a terrific story I look forward to telling someday), I decided to move my secret blog into the open.  

I used a Mac app called Rapid Weaver to throw my temporary site together, and though a Thesis theme the site was not, I was pleased to find that at least I had the ability to build myself a website.  If I can build a five page site in a weekend, I thought, I can build myself a blog.

So I built a blog on Rapid Weaver, and even bought a custom template for twelve dollars called “Notebook.”   It was red, black and dumb all over.  I was instantly bored by its limitations and totally done with it by the end of the first weekend. 

I was still far from finding the Thesis theme, but I had done enough reading to know I needed WordPress.

I installed WordPress and started to play.  By that time, I’d been bandying about behind the scenes of blogging for about a month.  I was ready to take it seriously, but every theme I uploaded felt like I was walking around in clothes from another man’s closet.

Finally I found what I’d been searching for – the Thesis theme from DIY.  I loved it in the browser, never once questioned my purchase, and knew what I had a second after upload.  

I was home.  Thesis had removed my confusion.  It allowed me immediate, incredible flexibility, and enabled my site to look far more polished than it would have otherwise.  The Thesis theme also had enough power under the hood to handle SEO, a word I was not yet close to understanding.

In the time since, I’ve only come to love the Thesis theme more and more.  Each new update has improved upon the theme’s underlying foundation.  Additional help from my friends Eric and Dave have given me a site built on increasingly common architecture that still manages to look uniquely my own.

I purchased the developer’s license and have used the Thesis theme for my potty training help site as well as a few planned niche sites.  As of yesterday, DIY themes released the newest version of the Thesis theme, my most anticipated update ever.  The newest version will allow the front page of a WordPress site to appear as a magazine styled theme.

There are many choices for WordPress themes, and there isn’t a single best.  For me, however, the Thesis theme helped me become a better blogger by giving my site its immediate shine.

Sean

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