Spring Time – Free Wordpress Theme
February 28, 2009 by Blogboy
Spring Time - A free wordpress theme from Blogging for Noobs
The posts in the Spring Time Test Blog all come from Ezine Articles, a free directory, and are there to demonstrate this theme and because I thought they might enlighten a few of you on some link building techniques. I know I got a few ideas.
Spring Time Free Wordpress theme is an SEO enhanced theme distributed by Blogging for Noobs with most of the SEO, plugin, and advanced features coded by me, Bradley Hart. Spring Time Theme is the culmination of a few years fiddling around with different themes for myself and others. I would be remiss not to mention that the basic html and css framework of this theme has its origins on other Blogging for Noobs themes derived from the first release of RevolutionTwo’s free open source themes. Those Revolution themes are no long available for free nor did they have SEO up to my standards, but proper homage must be paid for solid css work.
Features:
- Wordpress 2.7 Functionality ready for threaded comments
- Plugin Ready
- Enhanced SEO
- Ad Ready
- Featured Video Ready
- Full Author Support with Forum
- Several auxiliary page templates
- distinct tag.php category.php and author.php (must download profile pic plugin to use)
- Three widget areas in the sidebar
- Blank logo file in photoshop and .png
Plugins Currently Coded For:
- WP-PageNavi
- Where did they go from here?
- WordPress Related Posts – this and where did they go from here are the two plugins used at the end of every Web Tools Collection post.
- Odiogo Listen Button – Give your blog a voice! Add a “Listen Now” button to your blog so your readers can listen to your posts and download podcasts. Free Sign up. By Odiogo.
- Yoast Breadcrumbs not only provides a breadcrumb path for site navigation it provides an effective SEO linking structure.
- Secure and Accessible PHP Contact Form – This powerful yet easy-to-install contact form features exceptional accessibility and usability while still providing extensive anti-spam and anti-exploit security features. A marriage of communication and peace-of-mind. By Mike Cherim and Mike Jolley.
- Tweetbacks – as some people are having problems with the with cron functionality in the latest I suggest using the 1.4.4 version which doesn’t utilize cron.
Current Page Templates
- Archive
- Contact
- Page with Comments – this page
- Sitemap (not the xml sitemap google uses) WP 2.7 has some issues with the coding I have been using it appears.
Special Features:
- Keywords are attached to Post Slug for improved SEO
- Tags are transformed into meta keywords
- Implementation of Google’s new Canonical Link system to avoid duplicate content, no plugin needed.
Notes:
- future plugin integration request was made for Smart 404
- some plugin integration into the functions.php file to reduce errors while editing will be done
See Spring Time Theme in Action Download: [download id="3"]
Very interesting article, but difficult to read because I’m new at this. Thanks…
If you are so new to blogging that you find this interesting but difficult to read then you are a stupid ass, but thanks for leaving your spam. The great thing about spammy comments is after I delink them is they enhance my PR and give me a place to vent and chastise idiots.
Hello there,
Do not you think the colors are too strong in this theme, by the way I am using “Artisteer 2″ in my wordpress themes designs , it is easy software and will make your theme validate with Xhtml and CSS .
P.S: I liked your reply to : “Online Money Maker” ;-)
excellent theme well designed thanks for the share and guide keep up the good work
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Strong Colors, It make me blind. Anyway I love Green/Yellow templates.
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