Ah, well. Last month I tried out a new blog theme, based on a so called framework.
Within 1 month my Google traffic went down 40%.
I could have changed some things on the new theme, but unfortunately the framework is badly documented. Only blatant, side wide changes are easy to implement. The moment you want to go beyond the most basic changes, there's zero documentation.
That's the bad thing about using WordPress frameworks instead of themes.
The excellent help you get from WordPress documentation (and from thousands of Blogs publishing wp tutorials) doesn't work with frameworks. Then, if the framework is badly documented, and support is lazy, you can't make the needed modifications to your site.
So, starting today, I'm back to my old theme. Instead of using a framework.
Since the theme is outdated and doesn't fulfill my current needs, I'll hire a designer for the good looks, and I'll write my own theme.
Back to work …
P.S. Excuse the mess. :-) Some things have stopped working, because I have deleted the plugins after I switched to the framework. Some others are working twice as good, for example images ans social buttons showing twice. Not sure if I fix this now, or simply wait until I have the new theme ready.
There have been a few services offering RSS feeds from your Google plus stream. One by one, they seem to go out of service. Another one just vanished, leaving my g+ site bar widget empty. I'm looking forward to the g+ API becoming good enough to pull the stream without external services! For now, my [...]
I'm releasing two new tools for everyone to use. They have been online for some time, but only for my team, and not officially linked on my blog. The Line Break Remover The name says it all. Enter any text, press the button, and you'll get your text back with line breaks removed. http://internetbusinessmastermind.com/remove-linebreaks The [...]
Today I'm switching to a new theme. It might be bumpy for a while, I have to recreate some custom programming. If you run into problems, especially with the online tools, please let me know.
UPDATE MARCH 2012: I've changed my internet business blog to a new WordPress theme, and the Disqus comments didn't look nice. So, for now, I'm disabling disqus. Maybe I'll come back to adjust the comments CSS, so that disqus will look ok, after everything else is working fine. At first, other theme changes have priority. [...]
I’ve added a new tool to Internet Business Mastermind that helps you to create high-quality articles in a shorter amount of time. This tool is called the “Free Article Rewriter,” and you can find it here: http://internetbusinessmastermind.com/free-article-rewriter I’ll publish a longer post about it Monday, but for now you should be good by just going [...]
UPDATE March 2012: To simplify things the password protected download system has been deactivated. I'll now send the direct download links via email to my subscribers. END UPDATE A few days ago I told you about a technical problem with the free downloads. I finally fixed it, simply by deactivating the plugin that caused the [...]
UPDATE March 2012: To simplify things the password protected download system has been deactivated. I'll now send the direct downloadlinks via email to my subscribers. END UPDATE When you login for the free downloads it seems that the login is not working and you can't get the download. Actually it is working, but you have [...]
The reality is that changes are coming… They must come. You must share in bringing them. ~John Hersey~ You’ve probably made that mistake yourself. Excited by unlimited opportunities you take on dozens or (in my case) hundreds of projects…and in the end there’s little chance of creating anything of excellence. Simply because you’re diverting your [...]
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My friends warned me never, never, ever to visit Thailand in April - of course I didn’t listen. So why did my friends warn me? Because in April the Thai people celebrate the New Year. They call it “Songkran” and funnily it’s not celebrated on the same day in the whole country, but the party moves through the country [...]
A few days ago I posted a tweet that I’d get my hair colored for the first time in my life. Well, Jeremy (Jezhunt) suggested I should go for green. It would probably look like this: