In contrast, the Abundance theme uses a simple script to draw the first image from each post and then re-sizes it – a major time saver if you’re using something like Amazon Autoposter, because it means that you don’t have to open and edit every post in order to add a custom field. If the script can’t find an image in the post, it then looks for a custom field and uses that instead. If it finds nothing, it simply displays nothing.

It takes a matter of minutes to do, and – preferably in combination with a little article content or something equally substantial – also makes a fast and easy way to produce an Amazon affiliate store using the output from a plugin such as Amazon Autoposter. Thumbnail images from such posts will automatically show on the site’s front page.

The Abundance theme recognises that sometimes a magazine is overkill, and allows you to publish the equivalent of an unillustrated pamphlet instead. It’s likely to be more profitable than just parking a domain – or worse, doing nothing with it – and doesn’t take much longer.

Gone is the need to repeatedly edit and upload CSS sheets until you’re either happy with the result or just prepared to settle for it – the color picker makes changes possible in seconds. This last is probably obvious, but what many website flippers fail to realise is that the little things that make life a bit easier for them will often make things a lot easier for their buyers. This in turn will make life easier for the website flipper – with less support requests from newer site owners asking how to FTP their stylesheets etc or desperately asking for help because they’ve overwritten parts of them, a startling increase productivity is possible.

It’s surprising how a seemingly minor feature can make a big difference to the bottom line.