Today I feel pleasure to announce that TricksDaddy is now powered by Thesis WordPress theme. I was planning to take this step for last 2 months as our pages are much slower than most of the other sites. I have heard a lot about thesis WordPress theme from most expert bloggers. So it was the best time to move to thesis.
I might have redesigned my blog theme immediately with Thesis WordPress theme when Google indicated that it will now take site speed as a parameter in search engine rankings. But due to lack of time in customizing this theme according to my previous WordPress theme, it got delayed. Well, we are now powered by thesis.
The theme is customized totally by me. I tried to customize it exactly like my previous theme. There are still some changes left which includes comment bar. I didn’t customize the comment bar. I’m looking forward for your suggestions to customize it more to make it more user-friendly.
Though thesis theme is not cheap but it is one of the best SEO optimized theme. Single user license of thesis is available at $87. You can also get Thesis theme to speed up your blog.
Simrandeep Singh is the Editor-in-chief of TricksDaddy and a blogger from Chandigarh (India).
He loves to write about WordPress, Freewares, Mobile Phones and Blogging Tips. Apart from Blogging, he loves travelling, photgraphy and cooking.
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Good work Simran.
Congrats Simran, you designed a clone of your old template to Thesis theme ? Gr8 work. how much time did it take to convert ?
Thanks Gagan.
It took me 3 days to completely design it. It was my first customization.
LoL you changed thesis theme to same as your old theme! Really good work yar.
Yeah.. I customized it according to my old theme. Thanks for praising my work
Cool, But site speed also depends on other factors….
Btw, Check Here : You find bugs in your current theme Here (http://tools.pingdom.com/?url=http://www.tricksdaddy.com/2010/07/tricksdaddy-now-powered-by-thesis-wordpress-theme.html&treeview=0&column=objectID&order=1&type=0&save=true) that will still slow you down in google’s eyes.
Fix them and you can get sitespeed… <5sec.
Thanks Debajyoti
Load time is already reduced to half. It was 23 sec and now it is 12.4 sec. Some images are showing in red color. I think that is because I have enabled hotlink protection. Let me try to fix it that.
@ Debajyoti .
That link was useful . I usually use website optimizer to check site speed .
Can you guys tell me , will it healp using Amazon S3 storage . As sites [hosting] which are close to their readers load fast . I am not sure if anyone of you are using s3
Congrats and welcome to the Thesis theme community. The site still looks the same to me, but you have said you still need to do a bit more. I hope you enjoy Thesis and shout if you need any help.
Thanks George. I will surely shout you if I need any help.
I want to add some more customizations to this theme but it may take some time.
WoW good to hear that Simran…btw I suggest you to consider changing the colors of header background..to get some new look…combination of blue n black as an example..if you could notice you got blue everywhere in the theme(footer part, comment names, yo social profiles)..wt do yo say? well its just a suggestion lol
Thanks for your suggestion Bharath.
I will try changing the colors of header background. If they suit my theme I’ll implement them here.
Great work simran
Even I am planning the same for my blog
I recommend you to move to thesis or any other fast loading speed.
If you need any help, le me know
its looking great with thesis….thesis rocks
Simran I need you help in customizing my blog
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