BlogPress

The BlogPress theme is a minimal, light-weight WordPress blogging theme. A theme that is flexible and looks great on any device, big or small. BlogPress is extremely fast and SEO optimised For more information about the theme, view our theme page: Two most important aspects of this theme are SPEED and SEO optimization. Speed plays an important part in search engine positions, which directly effects the amount of traffic that you will receive on your website from a search engine. If you have a fast loading site then you are less likely to lose a visitor, which means someone else lost a visitor and that someone was your competitor. Speed helps you stay ahead of the competition. SEO optimizations can be achieved if the code follows the industry standards like Google Pagespeed, Pingdom, Schema, Microdata and many more. BlogPress is BETTTER than 95% of the WordPress themes Combination of speed and SEO optimized code makes you and your website unstoppable! Let's make your website awesome now! THEME FEATURES Coded with WordPress Standards We followed WordPress Standards while building this theme. The theme was checked with Debug mode using WP_DEBUG constant to make sure that there are no depreciated functions used in the theme, so the theme is always compatible with the latest WordPress released version. JavaScript was added using the standard way to ensure that the theme works normally with the plugins. This theme is written in HTML5 & CSS3 coding language. 93 / 100 Score in Google PageSpeed Google says "High performance web sites lead to higher visitor engagement, retention and conversions" on their PageSpeed section. Page Speed Insights measure the performance of a page for devices and desktop devices. The PageSpeed Score ranges from 0 to 100 points. A higher score is better and a score of 85 or above indicates that the page is performing well. Demo of this theme achieved 93 out of 100, which is far higher than many of our competitors page speed score. Get Started Lightning Fast. The 3 most recommended tools for checking the speed and performance of the website is Pingdom tools, GTmetrix and Webpagetest.org which is also recommended by Google . This theme received amazing results in those tests. It scored 96 out of 100 in Pingdom tools. In GTmetrix, it received 99% with 'A' page speed grade It also received positive results in the webpagetest.org test, which is one of the hardest tools to get scored on. 990ms avg Loading Time via Pingdom An article 'How Page Load Speed Impacts SEO And User Experience' published on WebProNews.com explains the importance of website speed in SEO in detail. We created this theme with keeping SEO of a website and the importance of the speed in mind. This theme scored 96 out of 100 points using Pingdom tool which is the standard and most popular tool for checking the performance of the website. It lets you identify what about a web page is fast, slow, too big, what best practices you're not following, and so on. Real time Visual Theme Customizer The Theme Customizer makes it easy for users to customize a theme and see the results real-time without opening or refreshing a new browser window. It is so easy to use that even a non-technical person can use it and configure their own website in just few minutes. It was created using the WordPress's built in customizer feature so you can be assured about the coding quality, unlike the themes from Themeforest which ruins the performance by hard coding the unnecessary options. OpenGraph & Twitter Cards Integrated The Open Graph protocol enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph. For instance, this is used on Facebook to allow any web page to have the same functionality as any other object on Facebook. Twitter cards make it possible for you to attach media experiences to Tweets that link to your content. Mobile Responsive Article by SearchEngineWatch.com has published this great article '3 Reasons Why Responsive Web Design is the Best Option For Your Mobile SEO Strategy' which helps you understand the importance of responsive websites. A recent report by Marketingland.com says that 'Mobile Now 28 Percent Of Total Web Traffic' which I think is enough to help you understand why responsive web design is most important. Valid HTML5 Markup As of today, there is little or no certification for Web professionals, and only a few universities teach Web technologies, leaving most Web-smiths to learn by themselves, with varied success. Seasoned, able professionals will take pride in creating Web content using semantic and well-formed markup, separation of style and content, etc. Validation can then be used as a quick check to determine whether the code is the clean work of a seasoned web developer, or quickly hacked-together tag soup. Google Authorship "Authorship was created with the goal of allowing writers to claim their content, as well as allowing search engine users to find more content written by the same writer. It also helps