Aielman’s SEO Theme
This is what happens when I sit down to create a 2-column theme. When I had it the way I liked (yes, with a sidebar!) I thought why not try without sidebar, just one more time? And it looked even better.
What is an Aielman? Aielmen are the inhabitants of the Aiel Waste in Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time. If they created themes it would look a lot like this.
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I stripped everything unnecessary off, the result is very lean and very optimized for search engines.
While designing I listened to Rammstein in an endless loop:
- Das Alte Leid
- Sehnsucht
- Heirate Mich
- Du Riechst So Gut
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uberdose 2.0
L-l-look at you, hacker.
August 17th, 2007 at 8:09 pm
I am thrilled with this, Uber. Is exactly what I was trying to create when I stripped everything out of Zero a few months back.
Now … I want to lose the header as well, what would I need to do?
AND…. if I wanted to put a DIFFERENT header on different posts, what would I do?
A LOT to ask, I know. But how cool it would be.
August 17th, 2007 at 8:17 pm
By header you mean your blogname and tagline? You can get rid of that in header.php. Replace the “if (!is_single())” there with “if (0)” and that’s it.
Can you give an example of different headers on different posts? I have several implementations in mind but they depend on what exactly you want.
If you just want different headlines for different posts I recommend adjusting the header.php at the place where you modified the if().
August 17th, 2007 at 11:11 pm
First, thanks for tipping off to the problem with the comments plug-in on my blog. That’s fixed now, I think.
What I’m talking about is the header graphic. Not the headline.
Would it be possible to put a different graphic of choice on different posts.
That is, if one post were about cats, to have a cat graphic in the header spot. And if another were about Honda Civics, to have a header graphic on that post only, with a photo or drawing of a Honda Civic.
If you could do this, then you could use ONE blog in this theme to create multiple informational mini-sites. It would be VERY convenient.
See what I’m looking for?
Thanks.
August 18th, 2007 at 6:57 am
You could do that with Add you own headers. On every post you could decide which additional stylesheet to use. Web designers use to incorporate different background styles. This is a post-by-post method. You could also do it by category. If a post belongs to a certain category it gets this and that stylesheet. Let me know if the use of different stylesheets could be a solution. If not, also let me know how you’d like to categorize your posts or decide that on a post-by-post basis.
August 18th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
Excellent, Uberdose.
Have downloaded the add your own headers plug-in and the instructions. I think that is going to do exactly what I want to do. And think I’ll add it to installations of other themes as well as this new one. I’ll be working on this late this weekend, or on Monday and will report back after that.
Really grateful for this. It essentially allows you to create a theme within a theme so that you could indeed appear to be running multiple, completely different, websites from one Wordpress installation.
This is going to be VERY useful.
Lorelle told me long ago that I could do that, but the handcoding (and keeping track of it) was more complex than I wanted to deal with on a daily basis. This appears to greatly simplify that — sort of providing a control panel right on the Write Post screen.
Thank you, thank you.
August 21st, 2007 at 3:06 am
hello, i’d like to strip this back futher as i need it for a news section of a website, i need to Just the text and the header nothing else, (e.g. no comment boxes no “This entry was posted on Tuesday, August 21st, 2007 . . . ” hope this is possible to do. thanks
Anthony
August 21st, 2007 at 6:02 am
Yes, of course you can strip it further. Ken even managed to subtract from Zero, and Zero had much less of post meta information than Aielman’s SEO theme
August 21st, 2007 at 6:41 am
Dirk’s right. I’m busy setting up this new theme on a new server or I’d take the time to tell you exactly how to do it. Here’s the short version: Go into theme editor. Edit the templates that have templates and remove the stuff you don’t want.
If you’re new to this, go slowly, and always keep a clean pre-edit backup of each you’re changing. That way, if it doesn’t work right after the edit, you can compare and restore and play again until you get it right.
That’s the only way I think there is to learn WordPress. (Besides consulting the forums and tips blogs.)
Good luck. I’ll be stripping some of the metadata from this theme, too, as I progress with it.
If you are still having difficulty with it in a couple weeks, let me know what your new puzzle is and if I’ve solved that one, I’ll see if I can explain exactly what I did.
Best,
kwc
August 21st, 2007 at 6:42 am
ooops. should have previewed what I wrote. That sentence should read:
Edit the templates and remove the stuff you don’t want.
August 21st, 2007 at 2:45 pm
ok i managed to edit it where there is no comments or a search box. but i cant find anywhere to get rid of
“This entry was posted on Tuesday, August 21st, 2007 at 2:35 am and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Edit this entry.
News is proudly powered by WordPress with Aielman’s SEO Theme
Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS). ”
can you tell me where this would be
sorry i know you said your busy but whenever you can help
thanks
Anthony
August 21st, 2007 at 5:15 pm
It’s in single.php and in footer.php. With most editors /IDEs you have a search function where you can search through multiple files/directories for certain terms, on a UNIX box you can just use grep.
August 22nd, 2007 at 4:02 pm
uberdose, Great job.
I’ve been working on my Joomla! site for a a couple weeks now, and have been dreading getting the blog done.
The SEO theme will work great after some very minor tweaks, like header size, comment box size and hopefully the horizontal spacing. I’d like to get the blog closer to the edge so it fits in the wrapper better. But it dropped right in and made the site presentable immediately.
Check out A Musing Blog on the Main Menu at A Musing Scribe to see it.
Thank you.
August 22nd, 2007 at 8:09 pm
@Matt: The plain-ness of this theme obviously makes it very suitable for integrating into something else altogether, you’re not the only one
August 30th, 2007 at 11:08 am
LOL what a coincidence!
I just discovered the site while looking for a SEO plugin for my blog and guess what I am listening to Rammstein: “Du hast” ;-)))
September 7th, 2007 at 1:39 am
uberdose, Great job.
this theme is really clean , and fresh.
thank you very much.
September 19th, 2007 at 7:04 am
Hey Uberdose,
Very nice design. Just one thing. I noticed that if I put a link in the post that the link text is only hyperlinked on the actual post page. Not on the home page. I also added an image to the post but it only shows up on the actual post page. Not on the home page, too, where the post is listed. Any idea on how to get around these?
September 19th, 2007 at 7:09 am
@Rich: Edit index.php and exchange the_excerpt for the_content (you actually only need to exchange comments).
September 19th, 2007 at 7:17 am
Thanks! That worked. I use your SEO pack and have been looking for a theme like this for a long time. You’re the best!
September 19th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
“If they created themes it would look a lot like this” jajajaja good one!
September 22nd, 2007 at 4:22 pm
Excellent theme. However, how can I get rid of the […] and get my whole posts to show up on the front page, as well as Google Ads and YouTube videos?
Thanks so much. Sorry for the double post, didn’t see this one.
September 27th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
@Jaan: Sorry for the delay, the site was down
Look at index.php and comment in the “the_content” and comment out the “the_excerpt”. That’s it. I’m using this so the homepage is always vastly different from any other page, to avoid duplicate content.
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November 15th, 2007 at 1:22 am
great theme — fun and easy to tinker with. Still trying to get the attachment data (the description entered when I upload an image) to show on archive and category pages, but eventually I’ll figure it out. maybe
so far, i’ve got the attachment images and links showing, so that’s a start. basically, thanks for coding this one!
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Great theme! I was just looking for a simple seo’d up theme!
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