Picklewagon

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• First Release of my Picklewagon Wordpress Theme - Picklewagon says:

  October 23, 2008 at 3:07 pm

  [...] spent the last few nights getting my Picklewagon Wordpress Theme ready for release. The reason why I am releasing it is because that is what Wordpress is all about. [...]
• Greg Thompson says:

  March 19, 2009 at 5:48 pm

  Thanks for posting this theme. I’ll have to change the colors and some of the more minor things (like how comments are displayed and blockquotes) but the actual layout is very well done. I was scouring Wordpress.org for a good theme I could convert to use for sales sites and whatnot, and this is one of the rare few that fits the bill. Good thing I checked that last page of results!
• Greg Thompson says:

  March 21, 2009 at 8:56 pm

  Well actually now that you mention it, if you would like my ideas, here are a few:

  Firstly I think this layout would be very beneficial (and maybe even sell-able if you so desired) to marketers to use as a Wordpress theme for mini sales sites. Some of the smarter guys who use Adwords to direct traffic to their mini sites are now switching their sites over from html to Wordpress for the increased Quality Score that Google seems to award to Wordpress sites.

  To be suitable for that purpose, here are some of the changes that would have to be made (not a comprehensive list, but a good list)

  1. Eliminate the top menu navigation bar and move it down to the bottom in a footer. (on a pure sales page, we want to eliminate links that distract a percentage of visitors from reading the page and clicking away… but we still need the links so thats why put them in the footer) Hm, now that I think about it, this could probably be accomplished with a template page within this same theme. Other parts on the site could use the theme as-is, and then for the sales landing page(s) switch from the default to the modified template file. That would be awesome and very easy to use within the Wordpress backend.

  2. Various CSS changes to make elements like blockquotes, h1, h2, h3 tags, etc need to be formatted with certain colors and appearances. For example, all links need to be blue underlined just like Google uses, purple for vlinks, and hex 990000 for alinks. Post titles need to be big bold blue underlined links. (I’ve found that you get better click throughs on a site when the color schemes follow the original conventions of the web from the 1997-ish era. I think thats why Google still defaults to blue underlined links and purple vlinks – people understand them without hovering their mouse around the screen)

  3. Fully customizable header.php (I haven’t looked at your header file yet but I’m just adding this one for the heck of it)

  Hm, that’s about it. The sidebar can be taken away or kept there to use for testimonials, etc. (that option needs to be left to the user… so maybe make a template file with the sidebar and one without… again, this customization option would be wonderful)

  Everything else is pretty darn cool and would serve the functions of most of the mini sites.

  If you wanted to implement any of these, I would be happy to be a tester or whatever needed.
• Picklewagon | notebeta says:

  October 18, 2009 at 9:55 pm

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