Modified WordPress Theme Examples
by wordpress expert seth on August 25, 2010
Sometimes clients really don't have the time or budget to reinvent the wheel. In these cases, as a
WordPress Expert I recommend a really good theme and I do just a little bit of modification to it to add that touch of originality. This often gets the job done and allows the client to focus on other marketing efforts. Three good examples of sites that fit this category are
Pilates Space NJ, a
K-Cup review site, and
Bartenders School of America.
The first example is Pilates Space. This is a modified "
fancy" theme. I added a graphic header that had been created for other offline marketing, moved the navigation a bit and changed the background graphics and some other styles to match and viola - a brand new looking site at a fraction of the time and cost. This was a particularly low cost solution because fancy happens to be a free theme.
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The next example uses
Zildalgo's Magazine News theme. I did some basic changes to the header and took out a lot of the bells and whistles. I did some custom programming to make it switch automatically between major sections. This was one of my first forays in to WordPress and while there are things I would do differently today, by and large it has help up incredibly well.
This last theme has been turned in to a CMS theme and with a little tweaking, in my opinion, turned out pretty well. I added a custom graphic and also added video, a contact form and added graphics to jazz up the home page. This site has really helped make the drink recipe section more accessible and the site now gets a new article almost daily.
