What is the mission statement for your theme?
Selecting the type of content that your theme will focus on is no superficial decision; it will play a significant role in the design decisions you make, and the features you choose to include. For the most part, you can let your content do the work for you. Planning a set of features to complement your content is as easy as letting that content shine. There is an extensive variety of content types available, with an even larger number of hybrids that exist. Using the four sample mission statements we outlined in the last section, here are the content types each one will primarily serve:
The Blog Theme
The classic blog archetype that WordPress was modeled on is built around text content that’s frequently updated. Visitors to this type of site want to access the content that they’re after easily. This could be articles, tutorials, journals, reviews, or any other form that primarily uses
text to communicate. Authors will pick a text-based theme because it makes it easy to publish their writing, and because it makes it easy for their readers to find the content they’re looking for.
With this theme, the typography itself becomes a key feature: big, juicy, readable text is more than a luxury—it’s essential to the theme’s success in meeting the demands of its viewers. Text driven themes often carry a lot of blog posts as well, so it would be worth considering various methods that allow users to find relevant content.
Here are some good free blog wordpress themes you can find for you blog.
The Image-centric Theme
Photographers, design studios, illustrators, and image-rich magazines are just some of the types of businesses that want to publish content that’s centered around images. Visitors are likely to come to these sites for large, attractive images, and for the tools that make it easy to browse these images. Authors will generally pick a theme that caters towards this kind of content, giving images a lot of prominence in the layout. An image-centric theme needs to consider the size of the main content column, as this determines the maximum width of images. It’s also important to contemplate image-relevant features such as a lightbox, an image gallery template, custom thumbnails, and an image slider on the front page.
