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April 22nd, 2010

Behind the design

The point behind the current design on Valid Webs is not the aesthetic aw that most WordPress designs focus on using large graphics or fancy images.
My key focus in this design is a common layout to work with for my future VW Pro Theme releases.
The key points of interest being

  • Speed (Load Speed)
  • SEO optimized
  • Plenty of bells and whistles with caching
  • Overall very heavily featured theme without side affects!

The list goes on, look around and you’ll see all of the extra features added and there is only one required plug-in.
The rest is built in and cached.

At the same time having graphic that are minimal and optimized and also places as sprites.
My biggest goal is to cram as much feature rich functionality in as I can without dragging the page or site down.

I see a lot of premium themes loaded up with great features, but then the page load speed drops out.
My goal is to avoid this by highly optimizing the theme as a frame to work from in the future of my designs.

Keep in mind that Google’s newest item added to their page ranking algorithm is page speed!

April 5th, 2010

VW Pro Feature List

WordPress Optimized Premium Themes

Custom Theme Admin Options

1) Featured Article Options
2) Twitter Feed Options
3) ReTweet Options
4) Face Book Options
5) Extra Sexy Social Bookmark Options
6) Post Ad options (Show or Disable)
7) Custom Rating System (Editor Button also)
8.) Simple to use rating


Up to 5 stars Gold, Red, Green, Grey, Blue

9) SEO Post Editor Blocks (Title, Desc., & Key Words)
10) Ad Image & Ad Text post editor blocks
11) Automatic post thumb (upload any size auto adjust)
12) Post Thumb loads large image in animated Fancy Box
13) Fancy Box post button in post editor
14) Extra formatting buttons in editor
15) Custom user only content button in editor
16) Members only content button in editor via (Members Plug-in)

17) Lightweight, reduced Database queries and HTTP requests. All CSS, JavaScript, and icons are compiled.

18) Side Bar Follow Me block RSS, Twitter, Face Book, and Feed Burner form.

19) Side Bar About Me Option, Image & Text
20) Side Bar Ajax Tabbed standard block, Categories, Recent posts, and Archive

21) Side Bar Ajax Tabbed Links block, configuration. Roughly 3 link category tabs.

22) HTML Column posting buttons for 2 column posts.
23) Quick Admin Links block
24) Custom sidebar block positions
25) Side Bar ads block, up to 6, 125px x 125px images
26) All options have On/Off
27) Adjustable text
28) Custom read more icon
29) Side Bar login block
30) Ajax show/hide comments with cookie

Additional Theme Extras

1) Popular Posts
2) Recent Posts
3) Recent Comments
4) Related Articles
5) All icons are in a compiled Sprite
6) Ratings in 5 colors Gold, Red, Green, Blue, Gray. All in 1 sprite image.

7) Authors Block in each post, On/Off option
8.) Post meta On/Off option
9) Tiny Url Shortener on built in ReTweet
10) Custom Author Page
11) Custom Human readable Site Map of all links.
12) Integrated WP-pagenavi
13) Breadcrumn post navigation
14) Lower database queries beause of less pluggins.
15) Extra Templates =
16) Portfolio Layout
17) Portal featured blocks front page
18) Author page
19) Site Map
20) Members Only
21) SECURITY remover WP versioning in code

This list is not yet complete!

April 5th, 2010

VW Pro WP Theme Options

Sample editor features of VW Pro custom themes.

These features are built into the HTML editor through a custom script in VW Pro Word Press themes.
This allows creating fancy posts quick and easy with a ton of features to use in each post.

Custom information blocks
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Custom star ratings
  • Rate this one gold
  • How about a red
  • Some blue
Custom list with ticks
  • Item one
  • Item two

We even have custom members and non members buttons allowing you to have different content in a post for members and non members via a WP Members plugin.

More to come..

Screen shots of the post editor extras

View of the extra editor buttons

SEO and post image options built in.

Built in rating system with key FAQ’s, screenshot, and customizable rating definitions.

Custom taxonomy to relate posts to pages.

When using this feature a Related Posts list with links are shown on the page it is used on.