Most magazine-style themes draw their homepage and archive images from custom fields added to each post by the user as they’re written. This can be a time-consuming process, particularly if you’re using a plugin (Amazon Autoposter, for example) to create many posts automatically. It’s also a step that a lot of newcomers find confusing, and if you’re building websites to sell them you can find that even more of your time is eaten up in answering queries on the procedure.

In contrast, the Abundance theme uses a simple script to draw the first image … read more

The Featured Content Gallery is probably what’s most noticeable about the Abundance theme’s front page when you first see it, although it’s easily omitted if it’s unsuitable for the purposes of your site. It’s what catches your visitor’s eye as he or she is almost hypnotically drawn to watch what’s going to be shown next. Each of the images is linked to individual posts or a category, which you choose. It’s up to you to to find the images most likely to entice visitors to read the content.

The ‘Featured’ areas beneath it allow … read more