Blix WordPress SEO Theme version 3 was last tested on WordPress 3.1 and no issues found. Update June 2014, the free Blix AdSense WordPress theme hasn’t been updated for around 4 years, have no plans to update it in the near future. If you are looking for a free AdSense WordPress theme use the Talian 5 AdSense theme, looking for a WP theme with AdSense, Chitika, Kontera, Infolinks and custom ads built in, plus awesome SEO features see the Stallion Responsive Premium theme (not free). Consider Blix as an archived WP AdSense theme, will probably have issues with latest version of WordPress. AdSense Ready WordPress Theme Blix The Fresh design is a popular WordPress theme, apparently ported from another popular […]
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WordPress Blix theme FireFox bug fix
Hi,
Yesterday I purchased this theme. Currently I’m using it for my blog. This theme works very well in Internet Explorer, but in FireFox, it displays comments and posts in center. This causes the right rail all the way at the bottom of the page on the right after posts and comments are done.
How do I fix this issue in FireFox?
Here is the link:
Thank you,
Samir Patel
WordPress Blix theme FireFox bug fix
WordPress Theme Bug?
Hi Samir
I’ve looked at your site and one of mine using the same Blix theme with the latest version of FireFox and I don’t see anything wrong with them.
What are you seeing that I’m not?
David
WordPress Links Not Working
Hello,
I have issues with this theme. When I use wordpress default theme, the issue seems to resolve, but when i use this theme, i have issue.
Here is the link:
Now here is the issue:
Visit above link and take a look at first post. Find this text “Rate this recipe and see reviews here!” This text should be link. I checked database and I see link
But it shows up as regular text on the page. What is happened to hyperlink?
Please Help…
Thank you,
Samir Patel
WordPress Links Not Working
WP Post Excerpts
Hi Samir,
What your seeing is normal for my version of Blix and the original versions of Blix. When a theme uses the excerpt code so archive pages don’t completely copy every post resulting in an enormous home page etc… this results in the link part of links being removed (leaving only the anchor text) from the snippet of text from each post.
You may notice however my sites still show links within this content on archive pages (like the home page). This is through the post teaser plugin which you’ll find my SEO version at it’s better SEO wise than the original plugin since the anchor text of the “Continue reading” link is optimised (original isn’t).
So if you want the links you either replace the excerpt coding for the full code version and completely copy the entire post on archive pages (this can result in enormous archive pages so not recommended) or install the plugin.
Hope that solves the problem.
I noticed you’ve not updated to the latest version of Blix I sent out a while ago (you should have got the updated zip file by email). I know it’s an old version since added more translation links recently (latest Blix has 7, your version of Blix has 4). I also found a widget bug when updating to WordPress 2.5.1 so if you’ve updated WordPress and use widgets best to upgrade.
If you can’t find the latest zip drop me an email using the address you used to purchase the theme and I’ll send you a copy.
BTW snap –
David
WP Post Excerpts
How to Remove WP Post Excerpt?
Ok I just installed this. The theme in general works fine… but it’s doing this weird truncated and reformatted “post excerpt” thing instead of displaying the posts with the “more” placement that I have chosen.
How do I get rid of your post excerpt mechanism and revert to allowing me to manually pick where I want the break using “more” in the editor?
How to Remove WP Post Excerpt?
WordPress Post Excerpts SEO Theme Feature
The post excerpt is an SEO feature to stop your index and archive pages from being too big (without this you can have 10 full posts on your index page!). There’s also duplicate content issues with copying so much content like this.
Yes you can do similar with the more tag, but for SEO reasons I wouldn’t advice changing the code because you’ll loose the SEO’d anchor text you see now (the text links you see now use the title of the post as anchor text, you don’t get this when using the more tag).
That said if you want to make the change it’s not that hard.
Open index.php in a text editor and find
<?php /* Post Teaser Addon Fix */ ?><?php if (function_exists('post_teaser22')) : ?><?php the_content(); ?> <?php else : ?><?php the_excerpt(','); ?><p>Continue Reading <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p><?php endif; ?><?php /* Post Teaser Addon Fix */ ?>This code is there to take advantage of a great plugin I’ve added to this page and for those that don’t use the plugin some WordPress coding that does a similar job.
Replace the above code with-
<?php the_content('[Read more]'); ?>Save and upload the index.php file to your theme folder and check your home page.
Since I have no original Blix installations and don’t want to mess up the SEO of my own sites I didn’t test the above, but it should work.
If that worked OK do the same thing with your other archive template pages, archive.php and search.php.
For SEO reasons I would not make this change.
LOL just had a quick look at an original Blix template and looks like it uses the excerpt code as well.
David
WordPress Post Excerpts SEO Theme Feature
Blix Theme Bug?
I have installed it in my blog. It looks very nice on the very first index page, but the sidebar become bottom bar when it shows the 2nd index page. Can anyone help me?
Basically, I like the design and ease of use very very much. Hope to solve this problem fast, and when I am ready (after I make some bucks from Adsense), I will definitely buy the version 03.
Good job! Thank you in advance.
Blix Theme Bug?
WordPress Theme Bug
I am having the same problem as beaulife. My “about us” is coming like a regular post. Otherwise everything else is just great.
SEO Dave please help!
Blix WordPress SEO Theme
I haven’t installed the free version (version 02) of my Blix AdSense for over 6 months, I use the Blix (version 03) I sell at which has got a LOT of code fixes that needed fixing as WordPress updated. Also has better SEO coding and better AdSense coding, overall a better theme.
I have no idea why Beaulife site is wrapping like that, (I don’t think it’s blix at fault) about the only thing that comes to mind (assuming no custom code changes) is if you’ve used widgets they broke for the original Blix (and this free AdSense version) in WordPress 2.5. Remove all your widgets and see what happens.
It’s to do with the custom functions page used by original Blix. When widgets broke in my latest version of Blix (the one you can buy) I removed the custom functions page to fix it. The original Blix coding is not fully compatible with WordPress 2.*.
I don’t have the time to fix the issues with the free version of Blix with AdSense and as you can appreciate if I did there would be less reason for anyone to buy the better AdSense/SEO version of Blix (03) at and that doesn’t make financial sense.
If I updated just the code fixes it would be about 80% as good SEO wise as the new theme and I know people will tolerate that sort of SEO loss to save a little cash.
From the Blix version 03 sales page-
“Blix is the 2nd AdSense WordPress theme for this website and my third version of the WordPress theme Blix with AdSense and SEO. The first two versions lack the detailed AdSense options available with this version and several original Blix features no longer work in the latest WordPress releases.
As of WordPress version 2.1 Blix has had a few compatibility problems. My Blix AdSense theme below includes multiple fixes that fix the page navigation bar (just below the header, About, Contact links etc…) and the way recent posts are handled. Also fixed the problem with the header where the bottom of letters are cut off. You can see the result of these fixes at another site of mine – More Earnings via Search Engine Optimization and Affiliate Marketing which uses the Blix theme with AdSense + SEO (version 03). ”
If you don’t wish to buy version 03 I’m afraid version 02 has the same problems you get with original Blix and I don’t plan to fix them in version 02.
I think the problems ash is reporting is the “the way recent posts are handled” bug I found and fixed. Basically when you list recent posts on your menu it also lists pages like the about page, which it shouldn’t. Required some detailed code changes to fix this issue in version 03.
Sorry I couldn’t be more help, but I can not support two sets of competing themes, if you had these problems with the paid version I’d do my best to help you fix them, but with a free theme I just don’t have the time.
David
Blix WordPress SEO Theme
Best SEO Theme
I would like to thanks for the theme you made.. I really believe that this theme is the best in SEO…..
anyway, if theres a update n this theme.. you will let us know thru email? or you can send the file?
SEO Theme Updates
Thanks jalmz for your kind comments.
When there’s an update it’s sent out automatically by email for free.
David
Charging for Free WordPress Themes
So, you’re charging for a theme that someone else created…and let people use free?
Premium WordPress Themes vs Free WordPress Themes
Yes Joe I’m charging for the time it takes to SEO the coding and add AdSense to the themes to make them Premium WordPress Themes.
If you think these themes take a few minutes to convert think again. I pretty much rewrite the coding with my own AdSense/SEO WordPress code (taken years to develop) without loosing the look of the original theme I’m working with (tend to fix a lot of mistakes as well).
With most WordPress themes that’s a couple of days work (I test the premium themes extensively on multiple sites) which is why there’s only 11 themes converted so far.
If you think there should be free WordPress SEO/AdSense themes online feel free to make some and give them away for free (I used to).
I can guarantee they won’t be as good as mine though and if you want the best, that usually means paying for it.
So confident that my themes are the best WordPress SEO themes online (free or paid for) that show me one that’s better and I’ll give mine for free to whoever finds one.
David Law
Premium WordPress Themes vs Free WordPress Themes
Adding Affiliate Product Ads to WordPress?
Can this template easily be used for Affiliate products ads rather than the Adsense?
Can the date/time be easily removed from posts?
Do you have detailed instructions on usage?
Thanks much!
Jennifer
Jennifer