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Should i change my blog theme?

Oct 13th, 2008 by Sailesh

Since some days i am thinking about changing the theme of my blog for many reasons but till now i haven’t reach any conclusion.
Many of you will say, why should i move to another one when i already have a nice looking theme?
Below are some of the reasons that are pushing me to adopt another theme

The theme i am currently using :
1. It was adapted for wordpress V1.x
2. It is not search engine friendly i.e ; (msn,google,yahoo etc…)
3. It is very time comsuming and complicated to maintain it
4. It does not support widgets
5. It gives weird displays at times
6. Many more….

Since this theme was built for wordpress version 1.x i had to rewrite some of the code structures to make it work with latest version(s) of wordpress
i cannot add any widgets to it since it does not support widgets system
i often have to do huge maintenance to make it work fine
but now i find it very hard and very often wordpress releases new version of its script and i cannot keep changing the theme codes to make it work,

Below is a screenshot of a theme i have tweaked and planning to use in a near future, however before any final decision i would like to know your views and comments about this one

Screenshot :

Reasons thats pushing me to chose this theme :
1. It is widget aware
2. It can be easily updated to support future/latest version of wordpress
3. It is search engine friendly
4. It loads fast and it is standard compliant

So guys/girls should i change to this new theme or stick with the current one?
All your comments will be greatly appreciated and this will help me take a final decision

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8 Responses to “Should i change my blog theme?”

on 14 Oct 2008 at 8:11 amAvish

i think u should go for the change…bt bu sure the new one is seo compliant. The current template u ar using got some problem while it load at my place… the structure load quick but the images appear after some time.

Try going for one which is easy to maintain firstly.
on 14 Oct 2008 at 8:24 amSailesh

Yeps avish i already knew that and as i mentioned above its one of the reason’s i want to make the change
also one of the major limitation of this theme is that is does not show all my blogroll links and categories
on 14 Oct 2008 at 10:04 pmChaya

The new design looks cool as well!

As conerns widget compatibility, updates etc…well, mo pa bien placée!
on 15 Oct 2008 at 7:19 amSailesh

Thanks for the advice
on 16 Oct 2008 at 7:45 pmTushal

hmmmmmm..angry with blog??
on 16 Oct 2008 at 7:54 pmSailesh

Nops not angry why?
on 16 Oct 2008 at 9:21 pmTushal

thought u were angry..since you were not present on blogs..^_^..
on 17 Oct 2008 at 7:31 amSailesh

Was just busy with things around