Thesis is a premium theme that has a number of features that make it a great choice. Thesis makes it easy to make your blog look exactly the way you want for Google to find your site and index its content.
Thesis is Great for Search Engine Optimzation
Thesis has a number of features that make it strong for SEO:
- Custom tags for title, meta description and keywords – this means you do not need the All IN One SEO Pack plugin
- If no custom tags are supplied then Thesis uses the post title as the title and the first 160 characters of the post content as the meta description
- Allows you to set noindex, nofollow meta tags on categories and tags page preventing duplicate content issues
- Makes it easy to set up your RSS feed
- Thesis encourages you to set up a meta description for your home page
Thesis makes is easy to give your Site a Distinctive Look
All of the following are easy to do using the Thesis Options and Design Options
- edit your fonts and styles
- configure one, two or no sidebars
- configure whether the order of the sidebars; content left, content middle or content right
- configure the width of the sidebars and content sections
- control what goes on your navigation menu: pages, categories and links
- control how many teasers go on your home page
- control if tags and previous and next post links are displayed
Thesis is Easy to Customize at Low Cost
Customization here covers two aspects; adding features and functionality to your blog and also making more dramatic changes to layout.
- Thesis options make it easy to add scripts to your header and footer
- It is easy to move the menu to the top or bottom of the header
- Makes it easy to customize individual posts or pages through Thesis hooks and custom functions
- makes maintenance much easier as it keeps all customizations in a single file custom_functions.php in the thesis/custom folder
- Thesis makes it easy for you to create ‘skins’ which are quicker and hence cheaper to create that building an entirely new WordPress theme
Thesis has a number of Cool Features that Delight your Visitors
The following are all about adding visual interest to your site, giving it a distinctive look and help to get your message across:
- Use teasers to create summary pages showing excerpts of your posts
- Use the multimedia box to display images or video or any other content on your site
- Use the Feature Box to create an eye catching message and call your visitors to take specific action
- Embed enticing images within your articles without having to learn CSS
- Automatically generate thumbnails of your images which add visual interest to your teasers on the summary pages
Thesis has a active community of users that can help you
The Thesis community is growing. Ask a reasonable question is the forum, having checked that it has not already been asked and answered, and you will typically get an answer from one or more experienced Thesis users who can help.
So as you can see for all the reasons above the Power Blog Service uses the WordPress Thesis Theme because we believe that it is a solid foundation for a business website that helps the site owner get more visitors to their site and then convert those visitors into customers.