Review: Thesis Theme for Wordpress

Do More, Code Less, Buy Thesis Theme

Fall in love with the Thesis Theme for WordPress – we did!

My husband and I started out on the Internet in August 2008 and tried several free themes before finding Thesis Theme in that first month.

We purchased our first domain and hosting package in Sep 2008 and designed Tranquility HQ.com using a Personal License of Thesis Theme.

We quickly became hooked and my husband wanted his own site so we upgraded to the Developer’s License.

This was the best $164 we ever spent.
We now have the software and support to build, design and develop as many unique sites as we want.

If you only want the one site – you only need to spend $87.

You can always upgrade later to the developer’s licence for an extra $77.
No annual licence fees – just the one fee forever with unlimited ugrades and add ons.

A former work colleague of mine paid $2,500 for a 6-page static website with very little content and locked themselves into a 24-month contract. If they wanted anything extra they had to pay extra. Even simple changes they had to pay for because they didn’t have access to their server/cpanel.

Since their site was established in late 2008, I haven’t notice any updates to the site. So, unless you are looking for them specifically, they’re not going to be coming up in Google’s first 0.15 seconds any time soon.

For $4.95 a month for hosting and $7.25 a month (first year only for a Thesis Theme personal licence), they could have used Thesis Theme and designed as many pages as they wanted for a total of $12.20 a month! They could have saved at least $100 a month. But, I didn’t know about Thesis Theme then so I couldn’t advise them. (I don’t feel guilty, just bad for them).

Our Thesis Theme Success Story

In our first 3 months on the internet as professional bloggers (making money with advertising and affiliate income) we had developed 4 different Thesis Theme sites.

After just 2 months - we recovered our investment in Thesis Theme by having a link to the Thesis Theme affiliate program in our footer. We made nearly $2,000 USD in our first year with Thesis Theme and used this money to expand our internet empire (I say this very tongue in cheek. At this stage we’re still having lots of fun and just seeing where it takes us.

It did take us to New York in August 2009 but that’s another story – thanks Thesis!!!)

In our first 12 months online we developed 9 different Thesis sites – many of them going through a facelift every now and again as we learnt how to tweak the Thesis Theme to our will.

Beware: tweaking can be addictive!

Introducing Our Current and Former Thesis Theme Sites

Before we start reviewing other fantastic blogs that use the Thesis Theme, we thought we might introduce some of our sites that use the Thesis Theme.

1. Tranquility HQ

Virtual Retreat for Simply Being

A virtual retreat for simply being for spiritual warriors, executive stress bunnies and complete basket-cases.
Find knowledge and resources to guide you on your path to relaxation and enjoyment.

2. Timberwolf HQ

Spiritual Warrior & Seeker of the Way

A site where spiritual warriors may come and relax. Enjoy the sights, sounds and writings of Timberwolf.
Seekers of the way may find resources here to guide you on your path.

3. Thesis Theme HQ

Where you are now - we’ve had a few different looks for this one – with a recent revamp in November 2009 back to an earlier exciting colour scheme. For about 5 months Thesis Theme HQ looked like this…

4. Opportunities HQ

Creating Your Ideal Future – a former site with a design full of energy.

5. Beyond 2012 HQ – SOLD in February 2010

Your headquarters for understanding and preparing for the end of the Mayan Calendar on 21 December 2012.
This site needs some extra content but the design and SEO strategies make this our biggest Google AdSense earner.

6. Mind Mapping HQ

Another former site - I got a bit carried away with being able to design so many sites.

7. Bully – Just Do It!

A blog about Life, the Universe and Everything. Born in March 2009, we decided to put it on the backburner in Jan 2010. The screenshot below was its Thesis Theme skin – a dark variety with image navigation tabs.

8. Blogging Down Under

We initially built this site for an Australian audience but we realised very quickly that the content isn’t that different and we didn’t have enough time to dedicate to another site. So, we migrated a lot of stuff across in Thesis Theme HQ’s Blogging Strategies category.

9. Dome HQ

I love domes, futuristic design and dream homes – so this site is my baby to play with when I want to explore the web and record my findings. It will grow over time. I wanted a simple theme so the images stand out.

Showcasing The Thesis Theme

Most of our articles explain how to get the most our of Thesis, by making your site unique and employing successful blogging strategies.

As at January 2010, there were over 18,000 active Thesis Theme users in the Forum. Keeping in mind many Thesis Theme users have multiple sites – you can see how popular the theme is.

WordPress Makes Blogging Simple

I tried Joomla, I tossed Blogger away in a second when I realised how much control Google has over your content and gave up on all free hosted blogs when I read that you don’t make any money from advertising and they can turn your site off at anytime without any reason. All your hard work – gone!

WordPress is FREE!

WordPress is the world’s most popular Content Management System (CMS) - a fancy way of saying it organises your site content for you so Google and other search engines can index it really easily on the world’s library index = the Internet. There are thousands of plugins that can do virtually anything you can think of. Thesis is so flexible that it can accommodate almost anything as well.

All Thesis Theme purchase options give you: Lifetime theme upgrades, support and membership to Thesis Forums for the one low price.