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Dec 03

SEO WordPress Theme Gallery

When picking out a new WordPress theme, there are a lot of factors to consider. Do you want a 2-column theme or a 3-column theme? What about AJAX comments? Maybe you want specific colors? No matter what your preference is, one of the main factors you should probably consider is how search engine friendly your theme is going to be.

There are a lot of techniques that theme designers can use when creating their theme to help optimize it for search engines, and several authors have taken the time to do so. Here are what I feel are the best search engine optimized WordPress themes:

2-Column Search Engine Optimized WordPress Themes

Slick Blue Theme (Advertising Ready, SEO Friendly)

Source | Download

Sodelicious Theme

Source | Download | Demo

Modern Blue Green Theme

Source | Download | Demo

YourBlog 2.0 Theme

Source | Download | Demo

PassionDuo Theme (3 Colors)

Green: Demo | Download, Red: Demo | Download, Blue: Demo | Download

Yakuter Tema 2.0 Theme

Source | Download | Demo

3-Column Search Engine Optimized WordPress Themes

Big Blue Theme

Source | Download | Demo

Redie 3.0 Theme

Source | Download | Demo

Ambient Glo Theme

Source | Download | Demo

ProSense Theme

Source | Download (Orange, Blue, and Gray) | Demo

Cutline Theme

Source | Download | Demo

Courtney Tuttle has posted a great collection of SEO Friendly WordPress themes. It looks like these are existing WordPress themes that were modified to be more search engine friendly.

Have a search engine optimized WordPress theme you’d like to see included in this list? Feel free to comment below with a link and I’ll see about it getting added!

Dec 03

Display Any RSS Feed on Your WordPress Blog

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The problem. Do you have more than one blog, or do you manage a forum? If so, you may want to be able to display any RSS feed on your WordPress blog.

The solution. Many plug-ins can do the job, but they’re not necessary at all. WordPress has a built-in RSS reader that is used, for example, to display news on your dashboard. All you have to do is use it in your theme.

Paste the following code anywhere in your theme (personally, I’d put it in the sidebar, the footer or, even better, the page template):
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1. <?php include_once(ABSPATH.WPINC.‘/rss.php’);
2. wp_rss(‘http://feeds.feedburner.com/wprecipes’, 3); ?>
```
<?php include_once(ABSPATH.WPINC.'/rss.php');
wp_rss('http://feeds.feedburner.com/wprecipes', 3); ?>
```
Save it and you’re done. It’s as easy as that!

Code explanation. The first thing we have done is include the rss.php file from WordPress core. This file allows us to use the wp_rss() function, which takes two parameters: the first is the RSS feed’s URL, and the second is the number of RSS entries to be displayed.