Comment on Stallion WordPress SEO Theme by SEO Dave.

WordPress SEO Theme Currently there’s just under 30 built in Stallion colour schemes, those are all built into Stallion and can be used with two clicks of the mouse under the Stallion Colour options page.

Stallion is designed on options pages (over 300 options) where many features can be easily changed just by clicking an option or two. Many of the options were created to allow users to customize a website without having to mess with code changes, for example there’s a featured posts image slider that on most themes with a similar feature you’d be stuck with the default layout, with Stallion the slider can be set to show home page only, sitewide etc… with two locations and multiple sizes.

Stallion is all about customization without users having to edit code, I’ve added dozens of built in plugins and code snippets that solve problems and add features that would take even an expert theme developer 100s of hours to work seamlessly together (few plugins/code snippets work exactly how I want them to work and needed editing).

Imagine a website owner who wanted every feature they found interesting adding to a single WordPress theme, that’s me and unlike most website owners I have the skills to add all the features and ideas to one WordPress SEO package: Stallion is an SEO package for WordPress rather than just an SEO theme. I find an interesting feature or need a feature (I take feature requests from customers), it’s almost always added to Stallion. There are exceptions where there’s already a WordPress plugin that does everything I want and is well supported: WordPress caching plugins for example, there’s two good ones that are updated on a regular basis and work as you’d want them to work, would be nuts to add it to the Stallion package. So I do also use a few plugins: Akismet (comment SPAM), W3 Total Cache (caching plugin), Broken Link Checker (finds broken links), EWWW Image Optimizer (optimizes images), Subscribe to Comments Reloaded (allows users to subscribe to comments).

Included with Stallion are optional spaces for custom colours that do require CSS editing. These are basically empty CSS files, if you understand CSS you can create all sorts of colour schemes, it’s basically how I made the current colour schemes, started as a custom colour set and when it was as I wanted it added it into the options page. If you are happy with the built in colour schemes there’s no CSS editing required.

Stallion needs more colour schemes, in the next Stallion release (will be releasing soon) I’ve added the ability to use what is known as child themes with Stallion.

Child themes are addons to the parent theme to add new features or change current features like a colour scheme without having to edit the main Stallion themes code. I’ll be making child themes with new colours, image sets etc… and I’m hoping theme developers will also make and sell Stallion child themes. This will make Stallion far more customizable, there’s a very popular theme framework that is rubbish SEO wise that has loads of theme developers creating child themes (hundreds of child themes). With a bit of luck there will be dozens of new Stallion child themes by the end of the year.

Child themes will be optional, they are addons to main Stallion and I’ll be adding major features to main Stallion not child themes, I’ll be using child themes to add new colours schemes and image sets: the current Stallion zip file is around 8MBs in size because of all the images, not wanting to increase the zip file beyond 10MBs has limited what image sets I could add, with child themes there’s no limits :-) I already have some new image sets ready to go, for example a business set with 10 thumbnails, 8 large headers, 1 medium header and 10 banners which will be around 500KB of images.

Stallion SEO Theme License

Each purchase entitles the user to use Stallion on as many of their own domains as they like. There’s no developer license. If I find a customer selling sites with the same Stallion ID that Stallion ID will be disabled.

If you own 1,000 sites you need one Stallion ID for your entire network.

If you sell sites running Stallion each site needs its own ID.

Basically one Stallion ID per user.

To add to this I’d consider a married couple one user, so you’d only need one Stallion ID.

David