How many times did you hear the sentence “Dress for success”? well, that is exactly what WordPress themes are all about.
Themes are the face of your website and they will have direct impact of your blog success.
Think about it as a display window of a store. Many times, the way that the merchandise is organized in the display window, will give you a good indication of what to expect inside the store. Same with WordPress themes.
Themes are more than just themes
When you enter a website, the first thing that you can see is the design. Is it clear and clean? is it easy to navigate? or is it messy or unwelcoming?
It does not matter how good your content is, if your website design come short, readers will most likely not going to stay.
We can easily say that bad theme will affect your conversion rate and will boost your bounce rate (bad SEO!).
Although that WordPress themes are great to set how your site will look like, the themes are also giving you the flexibility to determine how your site will function.
How come? by choosing the right theme that fit your needs the most. Do you want the sidebar on the right or on the left? do you want a header slider? Do you need a search bar?
Today themes are coming pre-loaded with many options for sidebar positions, variable of page templates, custom widgets, sliders and even portfolios.
By changing your wordpress theme, you not only going to change your site visually, but functionally as well.
How do I know which one to choose?
You don’t, but that is what nice about WordPress themes, you can install as many as you wish, and replace one with another. You can try one, and if you don’t like it, that’s ok, try a different one.
Conclusion
Sometimes, you need to kiss many frogs to find price charm, and that is about how to pick a theme, try them, eventually it will come, and you will be able to set your WordPress site exactly as you imagine.
How to install a WordPress theme?
It’s quick and easy, just watch the video below.
