Jul 05 2007

Great looks for WordPress

Published by Bengt under Blogging

There are lots of WordPress themes available. A great place to start looking for free themes is at WordPress Theme viewer. Decide which features that are important to you, tick the list and search. My key features were three columns and widget ready.

My final choice is the Prosumer theme. Other options were Blue Wonder, Silver Lexus, Sumanasa Design03 and SeaShore.

Additional reading.
Meg writes about Top 5 Steps for Choosing a Blog Theme.

Alister Cameron writes that If your blog looks crap, it IS crap!.

Ben Yoskovitz writes about Does Your Blog Design Matter?.

A theme is not only about looks, it can also affect how search engines treat your blog. Blogging Expertise has an interesting post titled Is your blog theme keeping readers away? and also Five free, beautiful WordPress themes to help your SEO. ProBlogger writes about Is Your Blog Template Holding You Back?.

Here are some more lists of themes: 83 Beautiful Wordpress Themes You (Probably) Haven’t Seen, Wordpress Themes and at the WordPress Codex is a list of themes.

There is also Weblog Tools Collection WordPress Templates Wordpress Skins Wordpress Themes.