Written on February 4th, 2006 at 02:02 pm by Darren Rowse
The Benefits of Developing a WP Template
Kyle over at Warpspire has an interesting post reflecting upon the impact that releasing a WP blog template (which got picked up as one of the templates offered on WordPress.com) has had upon his blog’s success of late.
The results include increased traffic, loads of inbound links (which helps with SE traffic, ranking on Technorati and increased participation on his blog via comments).
This shows the power of developing a useful tool that is useful for others but that will also promote you.
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11 Responses to “The Benefits of Developing a WP Template” - Add Yours
Michael Hampton
February 4th, 2006 2:53 pm
It’s all part of the “giving something away” idea. I give something away myself, and it’s helped dramatically.
Eric
February 4th, 2006 6:45 pm
It’s true… I see a big wave of traffic come in every time I release a theme.
Khurrum
February 4th, 2006 11:15 pm
Totally. I developed a teeeny little wordpress plugin and I’m still getting lots of traffic because of it.
LaughingMachine
February 5th, 2006 2:36 am
Template Is Look Very Simple But I Seen It Before Somewhere I Think Rachel Blog
Aaron Brazell
February 5th, 2006 3:22 am
Yeah my stats shot through the ceiling last March when I released a public template. It was really incredible.
mark
February 5th, 2006 5:05 am
yup, who doesn’t like a nice template? Other than content, this is the 2nd thing I find attractive in a site.
Kates
February 5th, 2006 6:43 am
So true. My relatively simple plugins are the ones driving traffic to my blog. More than half of traffic to my blog came from wordpress.org plugin repositories. For a day’s work of hacking those plugin, I get a pretty decent PageRank. I love Wordpress.
SATISH BHARDWAJ
February 5th, 2006 8:01 am
Can you use these templates on blogger blogs. Please tell us how to use templates not suppllied by blogger. Thanks.
Darren Rowse
February 5th, 2006 9:47 am
No Satish – these templates are for WordPress blogs.
To be honest I’m not familiar with Blogger.com blogs these days and am not sure how their template system works.
Wordpress community, we gotta talk - Warpspire
May 9th, 2007 9:30 pm
[...] lot of my disheartening comes from fellow “developers.” It all started with a bit of an unexpected benefit of developing a template. From that point, we’ve progressed to the point of people selling [...]
butlimous
June 25th, 2007 12:11 am
If I’m not a web designer, what how can I create a WP template?!
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