Do you find yourself in one of these situations?
- You have great content on your blog, but visitor stats are continually disappointing.
- You Google keywords in your niche, and your blog isn’t showing up in results.
- You want your writing to be found by people!
If you fall into one of the above categories and you publish on WordPress, the Thesis framework might be the perfect solution for you. Let me tell you a little about my experiences with blogging first.
The idea of writing on the internet first came to me about two years ago. I was inexperienced back then, and I knew nothing about WordPress or Thesis. I didn’t know too much about CSS either. I was, what you might call, a “blogging noob”. In my defense, the idea of people actually reading my blog didn’t even cross my mind back then. I just wanted my own little corner in cyberspace to write about my thoughts. Conveniently, I was trying to get myself into designing websites in RapidWeaver at the time. There’s a blog feature in RapidWeaver, so I decided to use that without giving it a second thought. A month later, I regretted the decision. My RapidWeaver file became increasingly bulky because every blog post was contained in it’s own static page.
I did a little research and came across a plugin for RapidWeaver called WP-Blog. In simplified terms, this plugin allows you to use RapidWeaver as a front-end for a self-hosted WordPress installation. Content management would take place inside WordPress, but all the design elements comes from the selected RapidWeaver theme. Using WordPress was a much more elegant solution, and I was happy with it for a while.
I wrote a lot about music. They weren’t very good posts, and I eventually got rid of them because of this. Regardless, I noticed my posts just simply could not be found via Google search. Frustrated, I stopped writing “useful” posts, and resorted to writing more personal posts. My blog eventually resembled a digital journal. Since I wouldn’t be writing useful things anymore, I couldn’t justify paying for a hosting service. I spent the next week migrating over to Tumblr. I found a good looking minimal theme, and that became my personal blog for the next year or so. I still use it today for what I call “microblogging” – more on that in another post.
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