This demo was created to show that with the central sheet border and padding removed, the sheet corners needn’t be squared but could be rounded instead. I’ve way overdone ’rounded’ here – if these corners were any more rounded you’d be looking at a circle, but it does make them very hard to miss and so in that respect it’s done it’s job! By way of a change we’re showing a single wide sidebar here, and title bars which are the same color as the central sheet – defined by a border above … read more

Depicting how to escape the regular magazine theme layout of a central sheet surrounded by the background, the header appears to have broken out of the box, sitting above the central sheet instead of within it. This is achieved by losing the central sheet padding and border, and blending the header into the background by making them the same color. The site is also showing three widgets in the widgetized area across the top.

http://demo3.abundancetheme.com/

Originally intended to illustrate that, with the use of image tiling, it’s possible to to leave the framed central sheet behind for a look more typical of a blog than a magazine site. The best use of this demo is probably to leave you with the empowering feeling that you can do substantially better, joyful in the knowledge that in creating the theme, I’ve provided you with all the tools you need to do so!

http://demo2.abundancetheme.com/

Most of us who’ve been using WordPress for any length of time have seen easily recognizable themes which have taken off in popularity to the point where they’re devalued to some degree because they’ve become common rather than desirable. This can pose a problem for site flippers once potential buyers start thinking ‘Oh no, not that theme again’ before sighing and moving on, and even those who regularly use an uncommon theme for their own sites sometimes wish that the appearance could be a bit less ‘samey’.

The Abundance theme has several options which … read more

The Abundance theme’s many widgetized areas allow ample scope for experimentation, as does the ability to choose whether to display the content to the left or right of the sidebar. My own testing has so far demonstrated that moving the navigation to the footer and leaving the sidebars almost exclusively for monetization does have a positive effect on revenue. If your home page is a lengthy one then it may seem a lot to expect your visitors to scroll to the bottom to navigate – it’s seldom a good idea to include everything, just because … read more