Stallion Responsive Theme version 8.4: added over 70 new color schemes! Stallion Responsive is not just a WordPress Theme that’s SEO friendly, it’s an entire WordPress SEO package of built-in plugins and SEO features taking WordPress to the next level in Post Panda SEO and Google performance metrics with advanced SEO measures to help take full advantage of the Google Hummingbird algorithm. Hummingbird is the Google search algorithm that understands human natural language patterns better than ever before: long tail keyword SERPs with a human touch and Stallion Responsive v8 includes multiple features to take advantage of Google: no other WordPress theme or SEO plugin has these Hummingbird features. Tested to WordPress Version 4.8.*. Note: It’s tested every day on […]
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What shop plugin is compatible with your theme
hello David,
If I want to use the Stallion theme in combination with a shop plugin like Woocommerce or Shopp, which one would you recommend, if any?
Regards,
Elza van Swieten
WooCommerce and Shopp Plugins
I’ve not tried the WooCommerce or the Shopp WordPress eccomerce plugins so don’t have a recommendation.
Based on the number of new addon plugins I see in the WordPress repository the WooCommerce appears to be more widely used. Doesn’t mean it’s the best, suggests a lot of people like it and add new features. Though I suppose you could equally argue it lacks so many features developers have to create addon plugins to make it work :-)
My guess would be the former.
I know some Stallion theme users use these plugins (popular shop plugins) and not had any reports of problems.
I’m afraid I can’t be more helpful, I only have affiliate shops which don’t need ecommerce plugins and they aren’t the sort of plugin you spend half an hour reviewing and determine if it’s the best or not.
If anyone runs into issues with a popular plugin let me know and I’ll look into it.
David
WooCommerce and Shopp Plugins
thanks David
will test it and let you know ;)
Looking for Web developer experienced with Stallion and WP Robot
Hi David,
Sorry, I can’t find any other way to contact you.
Do you provide the service, or know anyone with experience with Stallion and WPRobot that I can hire for reasonable fee to build blog/affiliate sites for me around niches I choose? While I can get technical and learn all the ins and outs of these programs and plug-ins, I’d rather not.
Thanks for letting me know.
Joseph
Looking for Web developer experienced with Stallion and WP Robot
Stallion Responsive and WPRobot Installation
I don’t do custom work and don’t know anyone who uses Stallion Responsive with WPRobot and offers a site building service.
Sorry I couldn’t be more helpful.
David
Christmas Sale, Stallion Responsive WordPress SEO Theme
Is there a site I could look at to see this theme live? Also, if I purchase, can I use the theme on all my WP sites?
Bob
Stallion Responsive SEO Theme Example Sites
This site runs Stallion Responsive as do:
# http://skinny-me.co.uk/
# http://www.general-election-2010.co.uk/
# http://www-news.co.uk/
Tend to use the same sort of layout, colours and settings (when you like something, tend to stick with it :-)) so doesn’t do full justice to Stallion’s options.
Have some test sites:
These will tend to look a mess because have lots of features turned on at the same time to test new colour schemes and that features interact correctly together (testing to breaking point).
On the verge of releasing Stallion Responsive 8.2 which will include a further ~50 override options, these are on a page by page basis override options.
This site for example has Gravatars active (see my Stallion horse avatar image), in 8.2 not only can Gravatars be turned on/off sitewide, they can be turned on/off one post at a time (this post could have Gravatars off, while the rest of the site shows them).
The overrides include the 12 layouts, the 40+ colour schemes (every post can use a different layout and/or colour scheme), each AdSense ad, the two different types of header areas, all the header images and banner images, whether a post should show the date it was published, comment dates, social media buttons and lots of other Stallion features.
When you create a post and think, this would work so much better if the AdSense ad floated to the left not the right or no ad at all or you don’t want the date on a post and it’s comments because though it’s old, the content is timeless and having old dates suggests out of date. With most WordPress themes you’d build a custom page template that lacked the date or the ad code… with Stallion Responsive 8.2 you Edit the post and tick a few boxes.
I’m testing Stallion Responsive 8.2 here and used the new override options to add a header image below the main header at https://stallion-theme.co.uk/wordpress-header-images/ see the 1000 px by 200px wide image near the top. It’s the only post on the site with an image there.
Yes, you can use the one Stallion Responsive license on all your WordPress sites.
David
Stallion Responsive SEO Theme Example Sites
Stallion Responsive 8.2.2 Update
New Stallion Responsive update version 8.2.2 includes new silo SEO options added to the Stallion SEO Posts Widget (see Popular Articles widget on menu for example output).
In Stallion v8.2.1 you could set the SEO widgets posts to be pulled from the categories a post was within, with the update posts can be pulled from tags. Since tags are optional, as a backup to the tags silo SEO option categories are used. If tags are selected as the silo SEO option and no tags exist, categories are used instead.
For those that have tags and categories adds another level of silo SEO to the Stallion SEO Posts widget output.
Added 7 new colour schemes.
Clean White n Blue
Clean White n Red
Clean White n Sea Green
Clean White n Rebecca Purple
Facebook Blue
Spring Tangerine
Fire Brick Red
Made it possible for me to add new colour schemes, font schemes and language translations without doing a full theme update. It’s really easy to make new Stallion colour schemes and font schemes (I can make a new colour scheme in about an hour), so with this modification you should see new colour/font schemes on a regular basis between major theme updates.
Enjoy.
David
Stallion Responsive 8.2.2 Update
HOw to Update Stallion seo responsive theme
HI David,
How are you?
I saw your last email and want to update my site with new versions of theme and child.
Its been a long time since I worked on the theme side of the site and I know i did edit a couple of changes in the fonts and formatting.
Could you let me know the steps to update and please remind me which files I need to check in main theme and child to see if I edited ( I only edited the text formatting and the fonts etc )
Man thanks and blessings!!!
Carl :-)
HOw to Update Stallion seo responsive theme
Updating Stallion Responsive Child Theme
If your last update has been a while and you modified fonts manually (manually editing CSS files) you’ll probably have to start again with the modifications: not possible for me to explain how to make changes when I don’t know what you did.
Earlier this year I rebuilt the colour scheme/font scheme system to break them into two features which can be edited individually (this is edited via options pages, not manually editing CSS files, though you can go manual as well, but not a good idea as makes future updates a pain). Rather than having one colour/font scheme CSS file now there’s two, one for colours the other for fonts.
If you don’t already have two options on the Stallion Colour Options page where you can select a Font Scheme (26 fonts schemes) and a Colour Scheme (39 colour schemes) you are missing out on an important update.
This means we can modify a font scheme/colour scheme independently multiplying the number of combinations.
Also changed the font size significantly to take into account the newer Google mobile usability metrics. Earlier versions of Stallion Responsive had relatively small fonts, these are too small according to Google’s PageSpeed Insights Tool so had to make them bigger, so you’ll probably see a big difference in font size after the update: this site is using Stallion Responsive 8.2.2 so you can see the new font sizes.
OK, to update.
The main Stallion Responsive Theme can be updated within WordPress under the Updates menu (you’ll see a theme update is available). If you find any blank Stallion Recent/Popular Posts widgets after an update go to Appearance >> Widgets and re-save those widgets: added new options to the Stallion SEO Posts widget and there’s no automated update for new widget options (clicking Save on the widget adds the missing options).
The Stallion Responsive Child Theme is a manual update using FTP, download the new child theme zip file (find the link in the main article at https://stallion-theme.co.uk/stallion-responsive-theme/).
Unzip the zip file (currently the child theme is version 8.2) and upload using FTP the folder /stallion-responsive-child/ to /wp-content/themes/.
Before making the update if you aren’t sure what modifications you made and you want to add them again after I suggest using FTP to download your current theme files before updating.
Using an FTP program go to /wp-content/themes/ and download the folders /stallion-responsive/ and /stallion-responsive-child/ this will mean you have a hard copy of modified files on your PC, so anything important can be re-added later.
As you can appreciate I don’t know what files you manually modified, so no idea how to maintain the modifications.
David
Updating Stallion Responsive Child Theme
Google Rankings Drop After Updating?
Hello Dave,
I updated my www.aid-renegade.com site with the Stallion Responsive update last week. My page insights results are now a little better, 89/100 for both mobile and desktop. Still not got around to doing that thing with my google ads yet to speed them up either.I did loose the google search option though. I also reclaimed my site in analitics / webmaster tools. I did change look to a single side bar instead of 2.
Strange thing is I used to have a ranking near top of google page 2 results for ‘south facing greenhouse’ but seems to have slumped to page 4 now. Wondering if this is just coincidental? Only realized when my last blog post didn’t seem to rank well, no where in the first 15 pages after 24 hours. Could it be google is just ‘re-evaluating’ my site? I know it was pinged as it shows on bloglovin.
Cheers,
David.
Google Rankings Drop After Updating?
Google Rankings Drop After WordPress Theme Update
Highly unlikely to be due to the Stallion update, looks like a coincidence.
I checked your cache and looks like you were running Stallion Responsive 8.2.1 (released January 2015) before the update. With the 8.2.2 (released April 15th 2015) the only SEO change between 8.2.1 and 8.2.2 is in the Stallion SEO Posts Widget (makes your recent/popular posts widget) which can now use tags as the silo SEO sorting option (before April 2015 it was no silo SEO or silo SEO via categories).
Looks like before/after the update you weren’t using the SILO SEO options built into the Stallion SEO Posts widget, so the April update per se has made minimal to no SEO changes to your site.
Changing the layout from 2 sidebars to 1 sidebar has no direct HTML/SEO changes to the site. The layout changes are CSS based which aren’t an SEO factor per se.
That being said Google has started to look at what your site looks like : see the PageSpeed Insights Tool Results, so Google does ‘see’ the output of a webpage like we do in a browser, so changing layout via CSS changes only (like Stallion does) could have a small SEO impact (I don’t know how important this is, if it is).
We know Google ranks content higher in the HTML code as more important, changing Stallion layout has no HTML code changes (the changes are small CSS code changes), so the question is does Google link actual output (what is seen in a browser) to ranking and that appears to be maybe (if it isn’t a factor today, I think it will be one day).
You would assume content loaded above the fold will be considered more important SEO wise, does changing the layout from 2 sidebars to 1 sidebar push the important content higher/lower in what you see in a browser?
When I look at the difference between a Stallion 2 sidebar layout vs a 1 sidebar layout the main content positioning doesn’t change that much, if anything the 1 sidebar layouts tend to push the important content higher in the code, so if anything switching to a 1 sidebar layout should improve rankings (if Google uses it as a ranking factor).
I see your site at the top of page 4 for the ‘south facing greenhouse’ SERP. With a SERP you were page 2 (not a great ranking) that sort of fluctuation isn’t unusual, I’d look at your backlink profile for if you are loosing important links over the past 6 months. Everyday new sites go online, more competition means we have to keep working on SEO to maintain rankings, if you aren’t regularly building new links your competition will pass you.
It’s also important if you regularly add new content to generate new backlinks to maintain overall link juice, every time you add a new webpage it costs link juice to index and rank it, if you only add new content and not build new links your older SERPs will drop because your older content is getting less link juice. Basically more content you add, more links you’ll need, if your content doesn’t generate natural backlinks you’ll have to find them or accept adding new content could loose you traffic long term.
David
Google Rankings Drop After WordPress Theme Update