Thesis WordPress Theme Review (2026)

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• SharePinTweetShare0 SharesBible Money Matters has been live on the web since January of 2008, and in that time the site has gone through 3 d...
•   I think the site is now to a pretty decent place that I’m happy with.
• But let’s take a look back at some of the old designs.

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Bible Money Matters has been live on the web since January of 2008, and in that time the site has gone through 3 different designs, not all of them that excellent.   I think the site is now to a pretty decent place that I’m happy with. But let’s take a look back at some of the old designs.

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• The Old Designs
• The New Design Using Thesis WordPress Framework
• Why I Bought The Thesis WordPress Theme
• What Do You Think?

The Old Designs

The first look that I tried was when the site was hosted on blogspot.  The theme was a free one that I found on one of the “free blogspot theme” websites.   It wasn’t really all that excellent, but the design was functional, and at the time all I really knew was that I wanted to have a theme that was green and black.  It was indeed green and black:

After about 5 months of blogging I knew that I was going to continue the blog for more than just a few months, so I invested in a domain name and switched the site to be a self hosted wordpress installation.

Once I moved I immediately put up the new theme, one designed by Brian Gardner called Vertigo.   Brian Gardner does some excellent themes (and I stilll recommend them), and I customized the theme to my own liking.

The Vertigo theme is the design that most of you are probably familiar with as we have been using it since July of last year.

In the past few weeks I’ve been thinking about changing the site design because although I liked the Vertigo theme, it was starting to lack some of the compatibility and back end functionality that I really needed it to have.  The theme was limiting what I could do with this site.  Time to upgrade to something newer, better and better in just about every way.

The New Design Using Thesis WordPress Framework

I have another website called Logos For Websites where I design logos for other people’s blogs, websites, twitter pages and more.  Through that site I was beginning to hear more and more about the Thesis WordPress theme that is becoming so popular.  The theme, designed by Chris Pearson, is a highly customizable WordPress framework that you can use to give your site a nice clean look right out of the box, or customize as much as you’d like using the back end tools, CSS and other more advanced techniques.

After hearing more and more about the theme, especially from Thesis experts like Larry at Empty Cabin Media, I decided to take the plunge and purchase my own developer’s edition of the theme.  I wanted to use the theme on Bible Money Matters and Smart On Money in addition to my fitness site, Quick To Fit.

After putting together my own customized edition of the Thesis Theme over the past couple of weeks, I launched the new improved Bible Money Matters (version 3.0) yesterday.

I’d be extremely grateful if you could all check out the new theme, poke around, and let me know what you think!  If you find any problems, or things that are issues for you, please leave me a comment on this post or send me an email through the contact link at the top.

Why I Bought The Thesis WordPress Theme

There are a lot of reasons why I’ve decided to jump onto the Thesis Theme bandwagon.   I thought I would give a little mini review of the theme and talk about why I chose it for my site.

• Ease Of Use: While getting into the nitty gritty of customizing the look of the theme may take some extra knowledge of CSS and php, getting the theme up and running, changing layouts,  colors and customizing the site’s framework are all made simple through the Thesis Theme’s back end.  The  “Thesis Options” and “Design Options” screens allow you to change pretty much anything you could imagine.    Say you want only a content column and one sidebar? Just choose that 2 column option in the Thesis Design options.  Want to change your sidebar from the left to the right side?  Again, as simple as choosing that choice in the options panel.    Maybe you want to choose a new font for your site?  Choose the new font in the Design options screen, and you can even have different fonts for headlines, body content and bylines.  Customize it as little or as much as you want!
• Customizability: The theme looks nice right out of the box, but you can customize it as much as you want.  Customizing the theme is made easier through the theme’s custom.css and custom_functions.php files.  The custom files allow you to add all your custom CSS and PHP directly to your custom files in a separate directory, keeping your custom design safe when upgrading the theme.   No need to go tinkering and updating in your theme files every time you upgrade, what a relief!  Plus there are only two files you ever need to update!  Talk about keeping it simple!
• SEO Advantages: Thesis has a ton of SEO advantages built right into the theme and it’s options.  Things like Canonical URLs support, custom title tags, meta descriptions and custom meta keywords are just the start.
• Support And Community: The Thesis community and the support forums are second to none.  While there are a ton of good themes out there, I don’t think any of them have a support community as awesome as the Thesis Theme does.  If you’re ever looking to customize your theme and have questions about how to do it, just go onto the support forums and do a search. Nine times out of ten the question has already been answered there.   If not, do a google search and there will be tens of tutorials and reviews talking about your question.  It really is amazing how much support there is out there.

Those are a few of the main reasons that I decided to start using Thesis, but now that I’m using the theme I’m enjoying it even more.  I keep finding new little things to like about the theme, and can’t wait to get more into customizing the options.  I’m discovering new things every day that I didn’t even realize were there!

If you’re looking for a new theme for your blog, I’d highly recommend checking out the Thesis WordPress Theme.  The theme does cost $87 to use on a single site, or $164 for the developer’s option to use it on as numerous sites as you’d like, so it isn’t affordable.  I think you’ll find that it is completely worth it because of it’s ease of use, customizability, SEO advantages and it’s stellar support community.

Purchase Thesis WordPress Theme Here

What Do You Think?

So now that I’ve gone live with the new look, I’m looking for your feedback.

What do you think of the new design, and what do you think of Thesis WordPress framework?  

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Final Thoughts

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Originally published at biblemoneymatters.com.