Comment on Stallion WordPress SEO Theme by SEO Dave.

WordPress SEO Theme Some of the above suggestions are on my list of things to add to Stallion, especially new website designs like a magazine style. I just got the new sidebar layouts listed above coded which should make it easier to port in more web design options.

In Stallion 6.1 I’ve added background colours to the outside of the main 1,000px area. Other than on the new dark blue colour scheme (set to blue) I’ve set them all to white background (as they look now), a simple edit (change one colour code) of the colour scheme css file used will change the outside background colour (in Stallion 6.0.1 it’s a lot more hassle to make that change because the background colour would come through sidebars etc…).

I would like to add the ability to change important fonts and colours within an options page, but the only way to do this is to add inline css to the header which is easy to do, but not ideal (you don’t want dozens of lines of css loaded in the head of every page). There is a way to do this via PHP, but it’s not reliable, so can’t use it with a public theme. Real shame there isn’t an easy way to have options within a css file. I could add a blank css file for users to add their own CSS that would override the main styling, but it wouldn’t be options based.

It is difficult to have an AdSense ad shown in the middle of a post without manually adding the AdSense ad code yourself, for that to work it would require the person writing a WordPress post to add something in the content (like a shortcode) and right now that’s not a high priority (really difficult to code :-)).

Above the fold is definitely the best for high CTR which is why there are so many areas for adding ads above the fold in Stallion. Two AdSense sidebar content ads is on the list of things to do, want it coded so it won’t result in 4 AdSense content ad units used as some who don’t know the AdSense rules will add too many ad units (happened with Talian 5 which has two widget AdSense ad units).

I’m looking at adding more promotion like features to Stallion, added a Flickr widget and a custom banner ad widget and looking for more features to add. It’s really easy to find interesting features to add that have the potential to generate more traffic/revenue, but it’s not so easy to achieve this without compromising search engine optimization (for example the Flickr widget is javascript based which has no negative SEO impact).

Thanks for the ideas, keep them coming :-)

David