Free WordPress Theme Issues
I am having such a difficult time finding themes for my various sites. Sure I want them to look good, but I also want them to be widget ready, functioning properly, and be user friendly as I do not want to touch code.
I have other standards as well, as I’ve read and learned in various places that it is important to have dark writing on a light background, that girly sites can scare away male traffic, and that traditional link colors have higher conversion rates. I also prefer that the links are not only the right color, but also underlined. I also understand that a readable font is important. Which bugs me some because I liked the Glass theme except for the font.
I would like to choose a theme that has some style to it, as I don’t expect to be able to get around to customizing my sites for quite some time.
With these standards in mind, from within my WordPress I first searched for widget and widgets, I tried SEO. I was hoping to find all of my prefered elements.
I haven’t been good about keeping track of all of this until now. With 11 domains to dress up, I need to get a better grip on which themes work and which do not. So, as I trudge through this tedious process, I’ll write them down, and later put the entire list together.
Today I tried Modern Notepad and Contender, but I had widget difficulties with them.
I skipped Atahualpa, Black Glass, Inanis Glass, Amazing Grace, Wasteland, Blue Fusion, and Djupik due to link color.
Dangit, I really like Kanata, but the link colors are not standard.
I really like Daleri Sweet, but you can’t really tell where the links are, they look like just bold text if that.
I skipped over quite a few due to being able to tell that they were light text on dark background.
I was trying out Amazing, and the widgets were working, and then I saw “This item was filled under [ Science-based music ]“ … wait a minute… “filled” should be “filed”. This sounds a little like something that might be the normal usage in another country, just not mine, so it bugs me a little.
Then, near the bottom in the right side bar area are:
************
Place anything here!
about the author
But when I go to Theme Settings I can’t change it. I am annoyed, and am going to have to stop using the theme.
I haven’t had any problem with the one I’m using here yet, (iNove) so for now I’m using it on one of my other sites as well. I switched the Amazing theme over to INove with no loss of widgets that I had set.
Magic Blue and PhilNa2 might work, I’ll try them later.
Alice Norris
