Choose wordpress theme & plugins for your blog


There are numerous free wordpress themes available but I suggest you get a nicer theme with more features that comes with a paid theme.
Paid themes are a one time payment and may be used for Your unlimited domains.

I will suggest two paid theme: The
FlexSqueeze Theme which is one I use and It’s the theme you see on this site.

One other good and nice paid theme is: The
Socrates Theme

The FlexSqueeze Theme is “the ultimate wordpress theme for making money online”. FlexSqueeze cuts the time it takes to create a complete affiliate site down to a matter of minutes.

The theme is highly customizable. Once your site is published and up and running you just login to your blog settings and customize the looks, feelings, colors, columns, layout of your new site…. which is one nice feature of the FlexSqueeze Theme.

This theme also has a Squeeze page option built in so you can make a squeeze page with opt-in form to build a list of subscribers if you like.

One other feature of FlexSqueeze theme is an AdSense-ready one-click page layout!



get flexsqueeze theme




Install a wordpress theme + plugins on your Blog

Your wordpress blog is created with a default theme and you can choose to stay with this theme.

You can change theme very easily by just activating a new theme. But first a new theme should be uploaded to your host.

It’s easy to install a new theme in a wordpress blog.
A theme usually comes as a zip file and size 2-3 Mb. Unzip the file and you have a folder containing many files.

Upload the whole un-zipped folder to your host to the this folder/subfolder:
wp-content/themes

 Once the new theme folder is uploaded to your host, it appears in the backoffice of your blog.
Now just click “activate” to activate a certain theme.

Install Flexsqueeze theme.
Installing this theme is no different than other themes.
Upload the whole folder “flexsqueeze” to your host to the folder/subfolder: wp-content/themes
Login to your wp-admin and the flexsqueeze theme will appear. Now just click “activate” and it is ready.



Adjusting the design of Flexsqueeze theme


Adds in top & bottom
The adds in top and bottom can easily be removed: in left menu choose: appearance / FlexSqueeze theme options
In the top menu choose / header
Display optional feature section below header?: Yes/No
in menu /footer
Use footer feature section?: Yes/No

Save changes

move links in right sidebar (if you want to remove)
Click left menu/links delete links

 Right sidebar 1 or 2 colums?
If you want 1 only (it’s the right one)

Click left menu appearance / flexsqueeze theme options /
in “quick change settings” at the bottom: save “960 single sidebar”

adjust blog width:
click left menu appearance / flexsqueeze theme options / in “blog width” set to 960 / 740 / 0 / 200


Plugins for your blog

Plugins are small usual free programs that ad features and functions to your blog.

You may find hundreds of plugins here:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/

I use these 4 plugins:

platinum-seo-pack

google-sitemap-generator (Google XML Sitemaps)

MaxblogPress-Ping-Optimizer
MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer you need to register and subscribe to their newsletter to activate it.
Each time you make a post or change a comma you “Ping” to other blogcommunities that you made the post. However too many pings can get you banned.
This plugin is therefore important since it will limit the number of pings. fx. so you dont ping each time you update a post or change a little.

 Global-Translator (if you want a translation option of your website).

Download the plugins (unzip if zip file) and upload the plugin folder to your domain in the plugin folder: wp-content/plugins

Activate the Plugins
Login to your wordpress admin, Click plugins and you will see the plugins you uploaded.

Now activate the plugins you want.

Edit settings of Platinum SEO Pack at the bottom of left menu “Platinum SEO”
Put in the home page title, description and keywords. Save changes.

Permalinks
Click permalinks in left menu “settings”
Check: Custom Structure and put this into the field: /%postname%
Save changes.



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