In Review Theme Review

It’s no secret that I am an avid fan of Elegant Themes and their very under-priced (I’m not complaining though) WordPress themes subscription. If you haven’t heard, they have just released a new theme, called In Review. This has been a theme that many members have been requesting for an extremely long time and finally they have delivered what is once again an extremely great product.

The timing could not have been better for this theme as I finally got around to setting up one of my favorite affiliate site ideas yet, that is Miche Bag Reviews. I’m confident exposing this site because it is a niche that is a personal passion of mine and I don’t think anyone would be able to match that, even if they decide to get into this niche.

Anyways, back to my review of the In Review theme. Just as all of the other themes from Elegant Themes go, this theme was simple to install and use. I prefer to upload all of my themes through FTP, so that’s how I installed it. I don’t know about you, but whenever I try to upload a theme or a plugin from my hard drive, I seem to run into problems.

Once uploaded, I had to change the logo on the theme for the header, I just used their blank template and typed in the name of my site using Gimp.

Then I went an updated my options through ePanel which I’ve shown here. Through the ePanel, you can pick and choose which pages are shown in the main menu of the site. You can also add Adsense code which would be shown on each page. Instead of using Adsense code, I decided to add a banner into this slot instead. It shows up right above the comments at the end of each post.

I also changed the navigation menu in ePanel to not show any of the categories in the navigation bar. I did this because I was getting duplicate navigation bars at the top of the blog and it looked real silly. One thing I could do is show my pages in the nav bar at the top of the blog and not show any categories, but for right now, I’m real happy with how things have turned out. Epanel is also where you would change the main color of your blog if you’re interested in that as well.

One thing I would like to point out if you are planning on using this theme, is you will need to add a thumbnail to every post in order to use the Timthumb script which is integrated right into the theme. This is real easy, all you have to do is add a custom field called “Thumbnail” at the end of your post, then enter the URL of your picture. If you choose not to use the thumbnail option, then this part is not necessary. Just like all of their other themes, this one is very well documented and I highly recommend reading through the help docs before getting too far into using this theme. They were very helpful for me. Otherwise, the forums at Elegant Themes are a great way to get answers to your questions as well, I have found it extremely helpful.

If you can’t guess, I would give the In Review Theme 5 stars if I was using it here at this blog. It is an excellent way to set up a review site if it’s in your plans for the future. AQ2BYRK9E73X

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Originally posted 2011-05-14 14:45:36. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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