As a WordPress user, I have come across many premium themes. Some were good, some were not so good. Several tims I was close to buying at least one of the premium themes (I believe it one of them was called “Revolution”) but none of the premium WordPress themes satisfy my website’s needs. So instead of going with a premium one I used to chose a free theme, and then tweak it, and tweak it, and tweak until I was satisfied with what I saw. The problem of course was that some WordPress theme developers have their own style (an some have no style at all) when it comes to coding the theme. The end result is that in many cases, one can waste considerable amount of time looking for example at CSS files and trying to figure out what controls what.

When I first heard of Thesis, I pretty much dismissed it as one of those premium themes that will not do much for my websites. However I was fortunate enough to have a closer look at this theme on a website of a friend of mine. Needless to say Thesis is on the top of my shopping list. The video (subscribers might need to visit this post to see it) bellow explains better than I ever could why I am falling in love with Thesis.

When trying Thesis on the website of a friend of mine, I immediately realized how easy and intuitive Thesis is. Most of the changes I made for example to the original theme that powers this blog, can be done via “options” in theses without need to modify themes files nor CSS. In addition it also can eliminate number of plugins you might be currently using. If you are looking for a suitable theme for your WordPress site, Thesis should be given serious consideration.

Choosing a new design for your blog is not my favourite activity. However, once in a while you might have to do it to accommodate the need of your website. When choosing a new WordPress theme one of the factors I look for is for the theme to be simple and easy to modify.

Outgoing Theme- Cleaker
For the past two years Go Beyond MLS was powered by a WordPress Theme called Cleaker. Cleaker is one of those themes that any WordPress beginner should consider using, especially if you are interested to learn how to hack your theme to modify your website’s look and feel. Cleaker has such clearly defined CSS and meticulously grouped so that an average user can understand it.

Incoming Theme StayPressed
The new theme that powers this blog is developed by CodeScheme. I have decided to go with StayPressed WordPress Theme for the same reason I have chosen the former theme- it’s simplicity that allows me to easy modify the look and feel of my blog. StayPressed is a very light theme and uses very limited number of background images, which was always a concern to me. It is a “widgitized” theme, with widgets defined for both left and right sidebars.