How To Customize Your WordPress Blog Theme?
For a Blog, customization of WordPress blog themes is a very vital step towards creating an online identity and brand. A customized WordPress theme on your blog will make it look inimitable and eventually attract more visitors which will eventually help you to create your own identity. However, most of the bloggers use either a free WordPress theme or the paid one on their blogs but do not make certain customized changes in the theme itself according to their own needs because they lack in customization tricks. But customization of a WP theme is pretty easy and for it you don’t need to learn or gather much knowledge about CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). If you are a blogger or even a web designer and looking to learn how and what to customize in the WP blog theme, then read this article further as it will give you some ideas about the WordPress customization of a theme.
Begin with the Theme Header
The header section of your blog theme is one of the most crucial areas you should put your focus on, because that is what the visitors will look at first sight, and if it is a captivating and sleek header, it will create a good impression on your blog readers. But if the blog header looks hard to please then it may create a negative impression on the visitors.
Post Thumbnails
There are certain areas in a blog, such as teasers, where showcasing a full-size post image would not work well due to space limitations but posts thumbnails will definitely work. For this, prefer using plugins like ‘Auto Post Thumbnail’ rather than adding codes in your theme files because a lot of coding would be needed for it and might require the help of a professional php developer.
Text Size
If you want to increase the readability of your blog then you must focus on the text size of your posts. Neither use very small fonts nor use very large fonts, always go for 12-14px font size and use simple and professional fonts like Arial, Calibri, etc., for better readability until and unless you have an artistic blog.
Social Media Buttons
Do not forget to use social media buttons on your posts. For this you can either use any of the existing social media plugins like ‘Social Media Widget’ or can add some codes in page.php file from the WP dashboard and under the appearance look for the option ‘editor’ or you can add codes in your theme file and then upload it via FTP. Doing this will help the readers to share your content via social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Google plus, and as a result you will get more and more readers.
But still if you think that you won’t be able to make changes on your own then prefer hiring a web design company which offers excellent WordPress customization services within your budget.
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