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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WP Blix Theme
Love the look, but have two problems. First The right sidebar is pushed to the bottom in Firefox. Second, my Adsense skyscraper wont show up in the sidebar. Any thought to why this would be. Looks fine in IE other than the adsense problem.
Thanks
Blix Theme with AdSense
Hi Shawn
After spending 30 minutes looking for a code problem in version 03 of Blix I noticed you are running the old version 02 of Blix with AdSense and SEO: would have been better to post on the other site or at least say it’s not the version sold here!
I no longer offer support for version 02 of my AdSense themes (which were free), unfortunately I don’t have the time to update two sets of themes and to be brutally honest it’s not in my best interests to keep them up to date.
Can say the paid for version works perfectly in Firefox and a year or two ago so did version 02.
If you find a fix feel free to post a comment on the other site for others to benefit from.
David Law
Blix Theme with AdSense
All In One SEO
hi
with this theme , could i stop using all in seo plugin ?
WordPress All In One SEO Themes
Hi April,
Yes all the important SEO features found within the All in One SEO Pack WordPress plugin are more than covered by all the themes on this site.
The All in One SEO Pack plugin adds the ability to add a little SEO to your theme, unfortunately it doesn’t remove poorly thought our theme code, for example we all know header(H1, H2 etc…) are important for SEO reasons, but 95% of WordPress themes use the H2 header on the sidebar for formatting the name of sidebar items, Blogroll, Categories, Recent Posts etc… and this is far from ideal from an SEO perspective.
There’s a similar problem with where you find the start of comments, it will say “15 Comments” or “No Comments” encased in a H3 header, total waste!
With my themes there are NO wasted headers, I’ve either removed them completely (as is the case on the sidebar) and replaced the H2 CSS coding so the theme doesn’t look terrible (looks almost identical to the original theme) or as in the case of the comments problem add the title of the post within the H3 header for add SEO optimisation.
The above sort of SEO theme issues can not be solved using a plugin, it can only be fixed by editing the theme code, one line at a time!
What you loose from the All in One SEO Pack plugin when using this theme is the ability to add unique meta tags the theme takes the excerpt of the post and uses that as the description and the title of the post as the meta keywords.
This has no negative SEO effect since the main search engines DO NOT use meta tags for ranking purposes anymore, they were abused too much in the past (today you could have no meta tags at all and rank just as high as with them, they have little value**).
** There is value in a meta description since Google sometimes uses it as the description of a SERP, this could result in a higher click through rate, but does not effect rankings directly.
I’ve not looked at the All in One SEO Pack for quite sometime (not needed), so if there’s a feature (maybe they added new ones since I last used it) in particular with the All in One SEO Pack you don’t want to loose let me know what it is and I’ll tell you if it’s in the theme.
David Law
WordPress All In One SEO Themes
WP Excerpt Plugin
i also realised i would not need the exercpt plugin with this theme.
However if shold i wish to disable the default excerpt which comes with this theme in order to allow me to use wp excerpt plugin…what would i need to edit ?
WordPress Excerpt Plugins
Hi April,
If you use my edited excerpt plugin you need do nothing, all the code is created so only one shows (default or the plugin version).
If you find another excerpt type plugin it won’t work with these themes as is, you’d need to do a little code changes. Not that hard, case of changing some code that says by default show an excerpt to show the entire contents of the post on every archive page, then the plugin should do the rest.
Not had a customer ask for help with that yet and doubt I will, but if you do use a different plugin and have problems let me know and I’ll help out.
David Law
WordPress Excerpt Plugins
Blix Theme
is this theme compatible to 2.8 ? the latest version. thankx
Blix WordPress Theme
Decided to upgrade a couple of WordPress blogs to 2.8 before I went to sleep :)
Upgraded this site (site your on now runs WordPress) with no problems, so I know Talian works fine.
Also updated another site running a red version of Blix that I’ve not released yet, (similar to Blue Blix, but Red). Since Blue Blix and Red Blix are Blix with different colours this Blix should work fine in WordPress 2.8.
Will update which runs original colour Blix with AdSense/SEO in the morning, I don’t expect problems.
Will update this page to say it Blix runs in WordPress 2.8 fine after upgrading multiple WordPress blogs running Blix, as then will have found any issues if there are any to find.
David Law
Blix WordPress Theme
Blix WordPress Theme Update
Yes Blix with AdSense/SEO is compatible with WordPress 2.8, 2.8.1, 2.8.2 and 2.8.3 and will be updated if anything breaks in the future.
David Law
WordPress Theme Blix Update
This version of Blix works fine with WordPress 3.0 and WordPress 3.01 (been tested, no issues found).
I’d not got around to updating the sales pages :-)
David
SEO Plugin Friendly
Nice design. I have had problems in the past with SEO plugins for WordPress. Is your SEO plugin friendly with other plugins? cheers
WordPress AdSense Plugins
The WordPress AdSense themes doesn’t use an AdSense plugin, it’s all built into the themes code and so shouldn’t be influenced by other WordPress plugins.
Obviously if you ran one of my WordPress AdSense themes and an AdSense WordPress plugin it’s going to be a bit of a mess.
David
Blix Forum Theme
Hi I am using this theme on my blog, but also I wanted to know if there is anyway you could make this type of theme for a mybb forum but without the adsense ready part
Also i found someone that said they would convert it to mybb for me are they allowed to
Any chance of this being a blogger template type thing also?
Creating a Forum Theme
I’ve no plans to use this theme as the basis for a forum theme.
I based this theme on the original Blix so nothing stopping you using that theme as a basis for a forum theme.
David
AdSense Click Through Rate
Nice theme, whats the click through rate for the standard design.