Do Not Change Your Blog Theme Too Often
Shifting to WordPress was very exciting for me for many reasons. I was very happy to get my blog running with my own hosting. Secondly, it felt very nice whenever I thought of installing new plugins and administering my blog. And third reason, not that important but important enough for me to get carried over, I will get to choose the theme of my blog and monitoring every stage of its development. But the search was tough once I started looking for free themes. It was a tough decision to make and I have to make one.
I got the theme I was looking for (not exactly) and after a month or so with that, I figured out that this is not the best one. I could change it and there are better themes available. I changed the theme and the aftermaths of it prompted me to write this post.
Changing themes too often is not a good idea. It gets complicated for both your users and you.
For you
1. It is boring every time to install the widgets you installed with the previous theme and adjust its settings and appearance.
2. You have to insert Google webmaster verification code every time you change the theme.
3. Testing your theme with every browser is a tiresome process and can take days to make minor adjustments.
For Readers
1. Readers do not like reading the same blog daily with a different layout and honestly guys, it piss them off.
2. They have to search for links every day in a new place in your blog which won’t do you any good.
3. The new theme might not work well with their browser and they will not care of visiting you again, so you lose a loyal visitor.
I will suggest you that if you really want to change the theme, wait for at least 6 months. Try and test your existing theme in various adjustments and it might work well.
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Tushar is a 23 year old blogger from Dehradun, India giving blogging tips in his blog BloggersPassion which has become a widely read blog in this niche in small period of time. To know more about him, visit the About Me pageTushar has written 97 superb article(s) on this blog
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- tushar agarwal
January 10, 2010 12:41 PM - myblog2day
January 14, 2010 4:09 AM
January 10, 2010
4:52 pm
Yes it is true. Free themes causes mess. But we should change theme to keep website refreshing.
January 10, 2010
6:23 pm
you should change but not very frequently….
January 10, 2010
8:46 pm
In addition to the above said reasons.. search robots don’t like changing themes regularly..
January 11, 2010
5:53 pm
that’s one more reason….nice one rajesh
January 13, 2010
1:17 am
m agree wid you buddy! its also not good for your se.-res.!
January 13, 2010
6:43 pm
hey d3monoid….what’s se.-res??
January 14, 2010
11:30 am
I used to change my theme every 3 months in the past, but no more after I used Thesis theme. I’ll just customize it a bit when I have some inspiration or I would like to make some little changes on the theme.
It took me few hours to change a theme in the past, if changing theme too frequent and your readers will panic about the blog they visit.
Best Regards,
Lee
January 14, 2010
6:05 pm
nice said lee….readers do panic and they do not like these frequent changes