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Difference Between Free and Paid WordPress Themes

April 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment

By Dragan Palla -

Setting up a WordPress blog on your own website is fast and it is easy. The entire process becomes all the more simple if the installation is offered by the web hosting provider that you are already with. The web hosting company can install the WordPress blog from their own control panel and they will give you a choice of free WordPress themes or premium WordPress themes, also. If this is not possible you still have the choice of the default theme that is WordPress 3. However, if you are using your blog for your business or to attract a large amount of readers, using the default theme will make you look like everyone else which is not good for business. You can still obtain free themes or you can spend from your business budget and obtain a premium WordPress theme. Before doing anything, you should research so that you know the difference between free and paid WordPress themes.

You will notice the difference between the two due to one very obvious reason: one type is free and the other, premium, is paid. If you are asked to pay for a website, there will be obvious aspects of the theme that make it premium, such as different layouts or increased functionality. The default theme is very minimal in its functionality options which is just one of the reasons that this is a non-paid theme.

The support that you receive should be of quality if you opt for a paid WordPress theme. Theme designers test and retest their themes to assure the end user that the end product will be user friendly and free of viruses and any bugs in the system. There are also add-ons and extensions that you can purchase to extend the use of your theme, and some are even free. The main difference between the two is that the designer of a premium theme will pay much more attention to the design and the outcome of the theme, whereas designers of free themes do not put in as much work to ensure that the theme will work correctly simply because there is truly nothing in it for them except for the notoriety. It is also noteworthy to mention that the support that you receive if you have paid for a theme comes freely given.

As a rule of thumb, there are many more free themes than paid themes. In fact, if you do not want to host your own site, you can have your site hosted by WordPress itself. This is a great way to find fantastic free themes and the hosting for free, as well, which is one of the best parts of WordPress.

Regardless if you choose a free or a premium WordPress theme is a matter of some research, comparison, and finally, personal choice. You will even be able to get a screenshot of what your final site would look like before actually setting it up and paying (if you are getting a premium site).

I am a father of two gorgeous kids and lover of WordPress. My first intention was writing reviews on top webhosting and domain name providers but with time I’ve got more involved with WordPress and Web Design and I love it. You can visit my site DomainsFlow.

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Instantly Display Your Featured Articles in a WordPress Blog

March 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment

By Ralph Iser -

Most search engines nowadays are going after fresh, unique and authoritative articles. And where do we get most of these articles? Yes, on the blog sites. Numerous blog sites today are competing not only for greater ranking but also to become the leading sites in search engine marketing. WordPress is one of those sites that have been proven to be authoritative in article publishing.

Here are some techniques that could surely help you display your featured articles in WordPress blog.

Featured Content Slideshow

This plug-in is perhaps the best WordPress theme plug-in in terms of displaying featured articles. It can actually show as many as five articles in a very attractive slide show appearance. It features titles and small description for every featured post, Java-script effects, an image for every different featured post, navigation possibilities (when hitting a “Title” the image appears) and a powerful administration back-end for posts and styles of the slide-show.

Featured Content Slider

This plug-in is more or less the same with the plug-in mentioned above. But an additional feature is that it has a very nice JavaScript slider or slideshow for WordPress design. In fact, it can be used anywhere in the website or blog site. Other features of this plug-in include featured posts with excerpt, a Java script / CSS effect when sliding to another post, arrows for navigating through the posts, an administration setting for category and post items and a nice image next to the text which is selected via custom field.

Featured Articles Plug-in for WordPress (Moo Tools)

This plug-in is designed to give WordPress design an attractive appearance using slideshow and navigation between featured articles. Its features include numerous number of featured articles to display, additional featured post section title, thumbs display, limitation of the number of character for description and the display order (random, new, and old). Using this tool, you can have a powerful Admin back-end where you can control the order in which the articles will appear and the plug-in will always call the first image from the featured post and number of featured articles to display.

J-Post Slider

This plug-in is designed to make your articles and photos look elegant and attractive in j-qurey box. Additional features of this plug-in include a powerful back-end where you can actually change the opacity, slider settings, colors, rotating time, post excerpt, number of featured articles, post order (latest, random, oldest), images for animation box, selection of featured category, rotating time and speed.

What a great way of displaying your featured articles!

Ralph Iser is a marketing executive that deals with people who are involved in online marketing. Interestingly, he wants to help those who are aiming for a successful online business by sharing his knowledge and expertise in the field of online marketing such as WordPress design, WordPress theme web development and other SEO-related topics. Moreover, he regularly writes blogs and writes articles about SEO topics.

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Choosing a Band WordPress Theme

January 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment

By James A Cooper -

WordPress is a the perfect tool to create a website for you band. It’s easy to use, looks great and offers a range of features that can be especially useful if you’re into music.

This are my tips on what features to look out for when choosing a WordPress theme for your new band website.

Gig Management or Calendar

As your a band you’ll probably be doing some gigs and shows. Well hopefully you are. Some band themes include a built in event template making it easy to clearly show your upcoming gigs. From these calendar pages you should also check if it’s easy to include “book tickets” buttons if required.

Photo Gallery

Your probably going to want to post all of those cool photos your have of the band playing and looking good. If that’s the case then make sure you choose a theme with a built in photo gallery template to show them off in the best possible way.

Built in Music Player

MySpace is dying a painfully, slow death. Therefore ideally you’ll want to be able to upload your own songs to your website and include them in the sidebar, blog posts and pages.

Social Media Features

Social media like Facebook, Twitter and flickr are a great way of promoting your band and keeping in touch with your fans. You’ll want to check what social media features the theme has like integrated twitter feed or an easy way to embed YouTube videos.

Integrated E-mail Newsletter

Along side social media, e-mail is an essential way to keep in touch with your fans. Make sure you get a WordPress theme that includes an integrated way of capturing e-mail addresses.

How easy is the theme to work on?

Some WordPress themes make it really easy to customise them and make them your own. When buying a theme you’ll want to check what features are included to make your life easy when working on your website.

WordPress is relatively easy to work with out of the box however theme designers can make it even easier by providing easy to use option panels for theme specific functions. Other things to check for are widgets, support for the WordPress menu system and integrated SEO options.

Don’t panic too much if your chosen favourite theme doesn’t tick all the boxes as some of the above features can be added by using plugins.

I hope you’ve found this article useful. Happy gigging!

Ready to start your search for the perfect WordPress Band Theme? Take a look at my list of WordPress Themes for Bands on my best WordPress themes blog

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Professional Templates For WordPress

January 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment

By Robert Vicky -

Templates for WordPress are actually the files that help in controlling the manner in which the WordPress site will appear on the internet. These help to draw the codes from the database and generate these codes in the correct format to the browser. The system is specifically designed to provide a strong feature of selecting the number of files one wishes to have under a single theme. Each and every template can be conveniently configured so as to be useful pertaining to certain situations. Themes can be developed and tips on doing the same can be taken from the development section.

The theme development section helps in knowing how one can design and develop a theme. Templates for WordPress can be understood in detail with the help of articles relating to the same. These help in knowing how some template files can be included in others. Apart from this, they can also consist of the basic fundamentals dealing with templates. The preference of such templates can also be known. If one goes through such articles, it is easy to know the order in which WordPress requires the various files to be in order to be displayed on the blog.

WordPress templates also include template tags that are used in such files. These tags are the core of any file. These are the functions that help in drawing the correct piece of information and displaying it. In order to have accurate template files, it is necessary to understand the importance, structure and usage of such tags. It is possible to refer to pages designed specifically for usage of such tags. The templates help to change the look of the site by changing the skin or the theme. This is because these templates are the files that help to control the overall look of the website.

WordPress templates are very commonly used as this is widely used software meant for blogging. The process of using these templates is to download the file and unzip and then upload it. This can be done only by the administration of the website through the designing tab. Before final application, it is possible to get a preview of the template that is selected. If the selected template is not intended to be applied, it can be changed easily. This is a very simple process and the download does not take too much of time or memory space.

Iwebshop designed and implemented a custom templates for WordPress and templates for the Walby Farm Park website. Here you will find more attractive WordPress templates and wordpress templates. For more info please visit our website.

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Benefits of Acquiring Customize WordPress Designs Over Default WordPress Designs

December 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment

By Anne Gill -

Today, when web presence for both commercial and personal purpose have become so important, web designs are being paid great attention to. An attractive web design ensures the overall appearance of your website coerces visitors to explore the content and thus serve your sole purpose of being available on World Wide Web. By personalizing your website designs, you can definitely boost the motive of your online presence.

  • WordPress is one such easy and flexible open source Content Management System (CMS) that allows you to extend and customize website designs. There are a range of WordPress Development companies in the market that can perform the job for you and allow you to stand out in the crowd. Some of the major advantages of customized WordPress designs are:Uniqueness: Who doesn’t want to be only one of its kinds? Even if it is your website, you would like to showcase an exclusive experience to your visitors. Isn’t it? WordPress Developers bestow you with this opportunity. They research the technical idea, plan a sitemap, create a design of your choice and deploy the codes to give an altogether new look to the site.
  • Efficient reinforcement of your content: Customized designs, which are obliviously comprehensive, complement your content. A design for e-commerce applications can never be the same as a design used for an education site; likewise, a website showcasing art work can never use a web design preferred by retail sector. So, in order to make your content effective, you should choose a design wisely. And when you choose a suitable design, it strengthens your message.
  • No limitations: A default design comes with several limitations and hence does not allow you to maintain a creative approach in your endeavor. But when you choose a customized design, you can take your business to higher level in terms of its appearance and user-friendliness. A WordPress Designer can give your website a personal yet professional look.
  • Browser compatibility: By designing unique look for you website, you can write the codes that ensure compatibility of the site with all the web browsers available on the Internet. This will eventually allow people to access the website and thus avoid the obstruction.
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO): It is always easy to promote sites which are unique in both its design and content. You can never ignore the importance of SEO as it divert traffic towards you site that actually make your site popular on net.

Just imagine a scenario when you and your competitor are running a same business online and both of you have same design of your WordPress site to showcase your product. Suddenly, a third person starts the same business but with a unique customized WordPress design. Who is going to attract most of the visitors more? Off course the third one. Why? Well! It is because; his or her unique website design distinguishes him or her from you two. Website is your invitation card to visitor to explore your business. If the card is not designed well, it is less likely to encourage people to enter into your site.

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How to Change Your WordPress Theme

December 20, 2011 By 1 Comment

By Dean Z Robinson -

WordPress is an incredibly flexible CMS (Content Management System) and blogging platform, which enables you to change the ‘skin’ and functionality of your site with a few clicks.

Imagine that you no longer want your red themed site and want a blue one, or if you need a three column site rather than a one column site. That’s easy to do simply by changing the theme.

There are thousands of WordPress themes available to choose from, from free to premium quality, magazine style, blog style, corporate style, the list goes on.

OK, so how do you go about changing a WordPress theme?

First of all log into your WordPress Dashboard found at yoursite.com/wp-admin. From there you need to click Appearance on the left, and then Themes.

Clicking the Install Themes tab at the top will give you some options: you can Search for a theme using the search box and the filter tick boxes at the bottom, or you can Upload a theme from your computer, or search by Featured, Newest or Recently updated themes.

Let say that you’re going to look for a blue blog theme, type Blog into the search box and tick Blue and then hit search.

You will then be faced with all the possibilities from your search, which you can browse through. By clicking the Preview link below each Image you can see roughly how the them will look. When you have decided on your perfect theme, click the install button. WordPress will then download the theme. Once done click the Activate link.

The theme will then be live on your site. You need to do a few things now. Firstly, have a look at the setting of the theme (most have these) and change what you need to, from colours, font sizes, to menus and widgets. Then have a look at your site and make sure everything is OK, as sometimes themes don’t always do what’s expected, especially free themes.

Downloaded a theme, and decide actually you don’t like it? No problem a few more clicks and you can revert back to your original theme. Simply go tot Appearances, Themes find your theme in the list of available themes and click Activate. Done.

So there you have it, changing a theme on WordPress is simple and quick, allowing you to change your sites look without coding knowledge or paying a web designer.

Dean Robinson is the creator and owner of http://www.ApinaPress.com, a site dedicated to all things WordPress and Internet Marketing. Should you want to learn more about using WordPress visit http://www.apinapress.com.

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How to Customize Default WordPress Header in 4 Easy Steps

December 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment

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WordPress is probably the most popular blogging platform on the web. It is easy to install and customize.

Today we will see how to change easily in four easy steps the default header, the big image in our home page provided with the default theme, the Twenty Eleven theme.

You have just installed the first blog. Now what? One of the first things to do is customize the home page to feel the blog as your blog. The default header image does not belong to you. The choice of an header image is one of the first decisions you make as a blogger. Is important. It’s your business card.

Now, we begin to customize your WordPress blog.

If you have a blog at WordPress.com or a self-hosted installation the procedure is the same.

I assume you have just installed the latest version of WordPress, now is the 3.2.1, and your actual theme is default Twenty Eleven theme.

  1. Please log in to your blog and then go to the dashboard through Meta >> Login.
  2. Now you’re in the dashboard of administration, the main administration tool. Click the “Appearance” tab in the left sidebar. Clicking on this item you can access the administration section of the current theme.
  3. On the working area, the large area at the center of the screen, click on “Header”.Clicking on this item you can access the header section of the current theme.
  4. Now you can load your image header. On the working area we now see the current image and a button underneath the image. Just choose a file using the Browse button and upload it. Remember that the images should be of a size of exactly 1000 x 288 pixels.

That’s it, your first WordPress customization is complete. Easy, is not it?

Last but not least, check out your blog from the point of view of safety. Install as soon as possible a backup plugin and perform regular backups.

The complete guide to customize the header of WordPress is here: http://en.support.WordPress.com/themes/custom-header-image/

If you have not installed your WordPress blog:

You can choose the quickest solution, creating a blog directly at WordPress.com or by downloading it from WordPress.org and installing it by your-self on a free or paid hosting.

If you adopted a hosting solution, take a look if your provider has Fantastico scripts: just a few clicks and you’re done. If not, Google for “five minutes WordPress install”.

Al Borg is a network system administrator who lives in Italy. He loves family, soccer and Italian food. He’s also a freelance sysadmin / webmaster and has founded borgyborgy.

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Make Your Website More Attractive With WordPress Templates

December 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment

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The best way to express and share your ideas is through blogs. Today, finding variety of templates to create your blog site is quite easy and the best advice is to use a WordPress template.

Are you into business? Then you need to make your business blog as impressive as possible by using good themes. All that you need to do is to consider buying some good WordPress templates on the internet. Well, if you cannot do this alone, there are many companies offering you their service in creating WordPress blog theme. But remember to look at the theme before deciding on it.

A WordPress theme is a bundle of files called template files and a theme helps to make a change in the site without bringing about a change in the software. When you talk about themes, it can be customized template files, image files, style sheets, custom pages or code files.

Well, you have quite a large number of these themes such as Easel, zBench, Adventure Journal, Suffusion, Toolbox, Liquorice, LightWord, Coraline, News, Twenty Ten and much more.

WordPress themes may differ giving many choices for site owners to bring about the desired outlook in their website. Sometimes, you may have to create a WordPress theme of your own choice to bring a unique look to your site. You make use of templates, template tags and WordPress loop to bring about a remarkable change to the appearance of the website.

Using a WordPress theme can be beneficial in many ways. First and foremost, it divides the presentation styles from the template files of the system files and so eventually it makes your site more appealing. It also lends a helping hand in bringing about a quick change in the visual design and layout of the site.

While you develop your own themes, use only well-designed, error-free PHP and also a valid HTML. Also make use of only clean and valid CSS and follow the guidelines for designing the site. Actually WordPress themes have three main files such as style sheet controlling the visual designing and layout of the web pages, the optional functions file and the template files.

In short, WordPress Templates bring the desired traffic to your website and so helps the business developers to bring in a new look to their website. So, there is no doubt that it is the most crucial tools in this tech savvy world.

Iwebshop designed and implemented a custom premium WordPress themes and templates for the Walby Farm Park website. Here you will find more attractive WordPress templates and wp themes. For more info please visit our website.

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How to Find the Best WordPress Theme for Your Business

November 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment

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You’ve probably already heard how WordPress is a very popular platform for bloggers, and chances are, a majority of the blogs you read every day were created with WordPress. While it is the best blogging software available, thanks to some great theme developers, WordPress has now also become arguably the best platform for business websites.

WordPress is very easy to learn how to use, very easy to customize and scale to your business, is incredibly affordable, and lets you chose your own hosting company (opposed to getting ripped off for hosting by hosted website solutions). WordPress.org software is free, and you can then then easily add themes (otherwise known as templates) that integrate perfectly with WordPress, letting you get virtually any type of website up and running within minutes. WordPress themes can let you have better websites than people and companies that pay thousands of dollars to developers to build their websites. Best of all, outstanding premium WordPress themes usually cost under $100. I’ve personally spent well over $100 a month for hosted website software that was honestly not as good as WordPress. Using WordPress can easily save you or your company a ton of cash that can be better used to market your business.

7 Steps to Finding the Perfect WordPress Theme for Your Business

1. Decide on the type of business website you are looking for. This may sound obvious, but there are WordPress themes available for a wide variety of businesses, from corporate websites, to directory sites, news & magazine sites, eCommerce businesses, daily deal sites, photography websites and much more. There are some WordPress themes available that are so good that they might even encourage you to start a type of business you hadn’t even considered!

2. Decide on must-have features for your website. Most themes have standard features such as multiple color schemes, giving you the ability to easily customize things like fonts and colors, and some pre-designed page templates, but are features such as Advanced Search, integration with Google Maps, Image Sliders, or the ability to sell digital products important to your business? In other words, focus on key features that might be specific to your business, or maybe features that would be a great improvement over your current website.

3. Decide on what type of style best suites your brand. Do you want to portray your company as professional, fun, modern or high-tech? What about minimalist, artsy, bold or retro? Do you want your website to be clean and organized or have more of a grungy look?

4. Decide on a your preferred website layout. This one is a bit tricky, since many of the best WordPress themes might have one layout by default, but give you the option to easily chose from various layout options. If you don’t love the default layout of a specific theme, but it has all the features you are looking for, you might want to check whether the theme includes multiple layout options. Also, it is often worth deciding whether you want a blog-type layout (generally with a widget-based sidebar on the right and comment fields below your posts) or more of a professional layout. Having a standard blog-style layout might work well for news sites (and it encourages discussion from your site visitors), but it might not be appropriate for corporate websites.

5. View theme demos. Browse theme demos as if you were a customer or a potential client. Is the website easy to understand and navigate, well organized and give you the search options you would want? Is it easy to browse photos on the gallery page? Does it give a professional image of the business?

6. Make sure the theme designer provides at least some form of technical support. Some theme companies provide phone service, while others use email or a ticketing system for support, and others use support forums to communicate with customers. Any of these options are usually fine, but make sure they offer some level of support and customer service. WordPress is easy to use and most themes (especially premium themes) work very well, but you can still have issues or encounter bugs once in a while. You want to purchase a theme from a company or individual who will be around to help you if you run into an issue 10 months after you purchase the theme. Technical Support is one of many features you’ll get when purchasing a premium free, as opposed to using a free WordPress theme.

7. To save a lot of time, rather than digging through the websites of numerous theme companies, check out a few online marketplaces that aggregate the best WordPress business themes from multiple theme designers into one place.

Summary

When it comes to online marketing, It seems like the focus of every small business these days is on places like Facebook and Twitter. While social media is important, and a great way to communicate with your customers and potential clients, your website is the real face of your business.

I constantly see small businesses spending a lot of money on things like pay-per-click ads, Facebook ads, SEO and more; all of which direct traffic to their websites. When you click through the company’s website, you’re often greeted with a stale, confusing and out-of-date website that the company probably paid a good chunk of cash to have built for them in 1992.

You can create the best products, offer the best services, make the best food of any restaurant in your area, or write an amazing e-book, but if your website is not easy to use, easy to understand, and easy to purchase from, you are most likely losing a lot of business. People DO judge a book by it’s cover, and your website is that ‘cover’ – it’s often the first impression people have with your business.

I was reminded of this recently as I was searching for a carpenter/contractor to do some work on our house. I searched on Google, clicked on some AdWords ads, and was repeatedly brought to cringe-worthy websites that make me leave their sites literally within seconds. My attitude was that if these ‘businesses’ cared so little about themselves to pay attention to their websites, I didn’t want to trust them renovating part of my house. They might have been amazing carpenters for all I know, but the first impression they gave me immediately turned me off to them.

It is simply so easy and affordable to have a great website these days, that there’s no excuse for businesses not to, regardless of what industry they’re in. WordPress and other website software options out there make it possible for virtually anyone, with any budget and any level of technical knowledge to have an amazing looking website.

Dustin Glass is the founder of Themespotter.com and is passionate about technology, web design, small business, and of course, WordPress. Themespotter is a WordPress theme marketplace designed to make finding the perfect theme for your business incredibly easy, allowing you to search, sort and demo themes from all the top designers in one place.

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One Of The Best Realtor WordPress Themes For Real Estate Agent Websites

November 17, 2011 By 1 Comment

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Do you know what I love? I love it when I get a client inquiry through my business website. My business website is one of the most cost-effective marketing activities I undertake. The reason it’s so cost-effective is I don’t pay for an expensive website with hefty ongoing fees.

Instead, I use a WordPress theme that I installed in less than a half hour. After that I just added loads of great content such as images, articles, videos. All of this content ranks well in the search engines and I gain a great deal of new business through this very inexpensive website.

Any business or professional can easily build a very high-converting (turning website visitors into customers) website using a WordPress theme. Realtors are no exception. In fact there are WordPress themes built specifically for realtors. One of my favorite realtor WordPress themes is AgentPress by StudioPress.

More than one real estate agent website equals more business

Beyond looking great, when you use a WordPress theme from StudioPress, you can build as many real estate websites as you like with a single theme purchase.

Why would a realtor want more than one website?

Let me illustrate with an example. Suppose you sell both condominiums and detached homes in an urban area. You know the demographics of those people. You also know that the benefits offered by a condominium and detached home are different. Instead of writing about both in one website, why not have one site dedicated to condominiums in your area and another site dedicated to detached homes. You can break it down even further such as waterfront, estates, home for under $100,000, etc.

These separate microsites serve two important purposes.

First, you look like the condo expert.

Second, you can target condo buyers easier when your website is dedicated to condo buyers and sellers.

I can tell you that the best thing I ever learned in running an offline service-based business is learning how to build my own websites and blogs. I have several websites that target each type of customer.

Now to the heart of the matter – the AgentPress Theme review

This realtor WordPress theme is built on the StudioPress Genesis Framework which gives you outstanding flexibility, customization, and extremely easy-to-use features.

You don’t need to know any website coding language in order to get a fantastic and highly functional website going when you use a WordPress theme, including a theme designed specifically for realtors.

Real Estate Listings Search Function

The AgentPress theme by StudioPress is an ideal WordPress theme for realtors / real estate agents because it’s designed for optimally featuring your listings. In addition, you can incorporate a blog and your visitors can search your listings with a multi-variable property search function.

Because this is a WordPress theme, you can add as much content as you like whenever you like without knowing any computer / html code. In fact, you can get this theme for your real estate business up and running without knowing any computer / html code. It’s incredibly easy-to-use and very professional looking.

SEO Ready

This realtor WordPress theme comes with a built-in SEO configuration panel which makes it very easy for you to properly optimize your real estate website and blog for search engine rankings. You still need to do some off-site SEO or hire it out, but the on-site SEO is very easy to properly configure with AgentPress theme by WordPress.

Navigation Made Easy for Your Prospective Real Estate Clients

The Genesis Framework offers numerous methods for you to customize the navigation menus in your website and blog. Additionally, the AgentPress theme offers a property search function that is ideal for having your website visitors search your property listings.

Ramp Up Your Realtor Marketing With Built-In Twitter

AgentPress includes a built-in Twitter widget that you can connect with your Twitter feed so your posts and tweets are tweeted to your followers. If you’re into social media marketing, this is a must-have feature on all your realtor websites.

Incredible Property Photograph Display Options

Your entire home page with AgentPress is your featured home gallery. You can add photographs of your listings along with property descriptions. You also have the option to have large featured property listings at the top of the home page that can be configured as a slide show creating a dynamic-looking website.

What if you simply want a WordPress blog?

Perhaps you already have an established realtor website with all your listings. If that’s the case, then consider starting a blog or a real estate WordPress website on something topical that targets your prospective clients. You could write a blog about local businesses, attractions, schools, the economy, detached home prices, condo-living, staging, etc.

If this is where you wish to take your realtor marketing, the consider any one of the StudioPress WordPress themes (my favorite WP theme developer by far). You convert pretty much any of the themes into a personal blog very easily or use the default layout.

What I Don’t Like About AgentPress

I have to minor complaints about AgentPress. They are:

  1. You can’t do multi-variable searches for listings. For example, if your visitor wishes to search by price and number of bedrooms, it can’t be done unless you install the “custom search” WordPress plugin and configure it for searches. However, if you subscribe to a listing service with an iframe code (or however your listing service provides code for inserting in your wbsite), you can insert it in your WordPress theme and then have your full listing search functionality installed on your realtor WordPress theme website.
  2. The drop down menus can be sticky.

More about the Genesis Framework

1. Customization:

You can customize your footers, headers, and sidebars.

2. Generous license granted:

You aren’t restricted to using AgentPress on only one domain. You can build as many realtor websites as you like.

3. Featured Posts function:

You can list out your blog post titles on your home page and/or your sidebar. For example, if you have a series of blog posts you’ll wish to make very easy for your website visitors to see, you can list them on your home page and/or sidebar very easily in the widget panel.

4. Widget friendly:

Widgets in WordPress enable you to place pretty much any type of content (text, images, and/or video) in various locations – wherever the widgets are configured. The key is having a WordPress theme that offers many widget locations. AgentPress (and many StudioPress themes) offers many widget locations which gives you huge flexibility in quickly and easily inserting all types of content throughout your website.

5. Support:

The StudioPress forum is extremely active. I know, because I’m on it weekly getting tips, ideas, and help for building and customizing my theme. There’s a limit to the design help you’ll receive; however, the StudioPress-approved moderators are very prompt in answering questions.

Read my 1,800 plus word Genesis Review to find out what Genesis and AgentPress can do for you.

Or, check out many other Genesis child themes to search for the perfect website solution for your business needs.

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