Comments on: A Case Against Using The Default WordPress Theme

By: Newbie Blogger

Newbie Blogger — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:10:47 +0000

Wow, I didn’t know that. I was actually using a different theme but I decided to go back to the default theme because it seems to look better to me now that I have more content on my site. I was curious why not a lot of people are using the default theme so I decided to do some research on google and found this post. Thanks for the info!

By: Teli Adlam

Teli Adlam — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 17:24:57 +0000

Thanks Kathleen,
And you’re right. I’ve added it to my drafts as a reminder to myself.

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 19:40:29 +0000

The permalink to the WordPress Default Theme Equals Spam article has changed again!

http://blog-marketing.blogfuse.com/wordpress-default-theme-equals-spam22

I think this proves the necessity for a permalink structure post!

By: Tom Johnson

Tom Johnson — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000

I like the way you integrated your newsletter signup. Can you tell me if that’s a plugin or something? I’d like to put one on my own site (http://www.stc-suncoast.org). Thanks,

Tom

By: Teli Adlam

Teli Adlam — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Hi Tom, Thanks for stopping by and for your comments. The newsletter is courtesy of a heavily modified version of the E-mail Notification plugin. There's a post called Powering the OptiNiche Blog that outlines all of the plugins I currently use on the site. Hope that helps out and if there's anything else, just let me know. ~ Teli

By: Teli Adlam

Teli Adlam — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 03:03:47 +0000

Thanks Kathleen,
I’ve gone ahead and fixed up the link. Maybe I should do a follow up post about switching permalink structures once a site is already established…

~ Teli

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 22:20:20 +0000

Excellent article.

Just to let you know, the WordPress Default Theme Equals Spam article is at this URL (the URL above returns a 404 error):

http://blog-marketing.blogfuse.com/wordpress-default-theme-equals-spam

By: Teli Adlam

Teli Adlam — Tue, 02 May 2006 00:08:56 +0000

You’re welcome Jerry and if there’s anything else I may be able to help with – just lemme know.

Regards,
~ Teli

By: J. Leventer

J. Leventer — Mon, 01 May 2006 04:22:26 +0000

Teli,

Turns out it was as simple as you pointed out. Apparently, it isn’t until you start modifying the templates themselves that you run into more difficulties. For example, this one does not have any menu buttons at the top, so I may have to add those myself. I’ll start playing around with it like I did with my zen-cart store.

Thanks for your assistance,
Jerry

By: Teli Adlam

Teli Adlam — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 15:43:40 +0000

Hello Jerry,
There is a section of the WordPress Codex dedicated to using/setting up themes.

Fist, upload via FTP the entire theme folder to [WP_INSTALL]/wp-content/themes/ (where WP_INSTALL is your root WordPress installation).

Then login to your WordPress admin panel, click on Presentation and select the theme you’ve just uploaded.

Hope that helps out,
~ Teli