Personal Press Premium WordPress Theme

Posted by Karl Foxley in Blog, Blogging, Themes, Wordpress

If you are in a rush and don’t have the time to read about the Personal Press Theme then skip straight ahead to grab your Elegant Themes membership by clicking right here (you’ll be be taken directly to their site).

ElegantThemes.com have done it again with their latest premium WordPress theme.

The latest theme, Personal Press, looks set to become a WordPress classic with its elegant (no pun intended) design.

Here is a screen shot of the theme’s home-page. Awesome I think you will agree!

Nick Roach, the designer, said that he wanted to return to his roots with this theme and create a traditional blog-style theme; what WordPress was originally designed for.

Along with quality design and ease of use, what else do you get with the…

PersonalPress Theme

As with all Elegant Themes, the PersonalPress theme is:

• Opera compatible
• Netscape compatible
• Safari compatible
• Firefox compatible
• IE8 + IE7 + IE6 compatible
• WordPress 2.9 Compatible
• Advertisement Ready
• Threaded Comments
• Optional Blog-style Structure
• Gravatar ready
• Widget ready sidebars
• Theme Options Page
• Custom thumbnail images
• PSD Files
• Valid XHTML + CSS

What if you like the theme but don’t like the default colour scheme? That’s okay, Personal Press comes in five unique colours schemes.

You can switch the colour scheme from the default red to blue, green, teal or purple in a matter of seconds using the easy-to-use theme settings (note: this changes colour elements of the theme but not the theme background).

Red

Green

Blue

Teal

Purple

Like all newer Elegant Themes, Personal Press comes complete with a webmaster’s true friend, ePanel, a complete theme management solution.

The Personal Press ePanel

General Settings

The General Settings allows you to choose between the different colour schemes, change the layout of your blog and control your featured articles slider. The ‘general settings’ tab gives you control over the basic functions of the theme.

Navigation

You’ll also be able to use ePanel to manage the navigation of your new theme. The ‘navigation management’ gives you the ability to choose which links to display, adjust their display order, disable top tier links and more.

Layout Settings

‘Layout settings’ allows you to modify what info appears in the post-info section, the option to enable / disable thumbails on posts, pages and index pages. You’ll also have the ability to change the dimensions of your thumbnails and the option to ebable / disable comments on posts and pages and more.

Advertisement Management

One of the greatest inclusions in the ePanel interface is the ‘advertisement management’. Using this you will be albe to input the destination URL and the banner image URL for each ad that you wish to promote (your own or an affiliate product), as well as the ability to toggle them on and off at any time.

Search Engine Optimisation

My favourite part of ePanel is the search engine optimisation features. You are given full control over your meta elements, you can easily add custom meta titles, descriptions and keywords for every section of the theme. You can also enable canonical URL’s to help you avoid duplicate content filters.

There are also other options / features built into the ePanel that you can read about over at the Elegant Themes website.

If you haven’t come across Elegant Themes before, you will probably wondering how much all of this costs?

Hold on to your hats because this is going to shock you.

You can get the PersonalPress theme for 19.95 per year. Yes, you did read that correctly.

Not only do you get your hands on this theme at this insanely low price, but for under $20 you will gain access to all themes in the Elegant Themes catalogue, including all future themes, all you have to do is stay a member.

With that being said, why are you still here! Get on over to Elegant Themes and start your blog with style.

To your success,

Karl Foxley

P.s. If you ever get stuck with your theme, the Elegant Themes guys have a great forum where they help their customers get the most out of their themes, even sharing customisation tips here and there.

About Karl Foxley

Karl Foxley has written 127 post(s) for FMS SEO.

Karl Foxley is an SEO Consultant, Internet Marketer, Small Business Advisor and Co-Founder of FMS SEO. Karl seeks to make SEO and Internet Marketing jargon free for the every day user.

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