WordPress Themes

With the advent of WordPress 2.3 we now have tags, a bit like WordPress categories tags can be added to any post you create and so from an SEO perspective can be useful in creating new content from old. There’s more to WordPress 2.3 than just tag support, but from a theme perspective it’s the biggest change.

Pretty easy to make a WordPress theme 2.3 compatible, however in the process of doing so you make the theme no longer work with earlier versions of WordPress. Fortunately I’ve created some tag code that solves the problem (the basic tag code breaks earlier versions of WordPress if you don’t use the function exists coding below) and so rather than creating 2 versions of your WordPress themes, you only need to make one :-))

Kubrick is my fifth in a series of AdSense converted WordPress theme.

Kubrick Theme with AdSense Installation Instructions

Download the kubrick-adsense-02.zip file below

Download Kubrick with AdSense WordPress Theme

Unzip and edit the file adsense.php within the /kubrick-adsense-02/ directory to include your Google AdSense code (read the readme.txt file for more details). Upload, select theme “Kubrick AdSense 02″ and you are done.

Drop a quick comment below if you installed this theme, I’d really like to know what you think.

Ocadia is my fourth in a series of AdSense converted WordPress theme. Like the other themes I converted, Blix, Connections and Almost Spring, it uses 3 blended Google AdSense units per page

WordPress Ocadia theme with Google AdSense Ads

The screenshot below is the home page of Edo Blog which was used to test the theme. You can see the top AdSense ad units and the menu ad unit in the screenshot, the final AdSense unit is located at the bottom of the page (336×280 rectangle unit).

Click for large screenshot of theme

All archive type pages use the same ad units and placement.

Almost Spring is my third AdSense converted WordPress theme. Like the first two themes I converted, Blix and Connections, it uses 3 blended Google AdSense units per page

WordPress Almost Spring theme with Google AdSense Ads

The screenshot below is the home page of Music Red which was used to edit the theme. You can see the top AdSense ad units and the menu ad unit in the screenshot, the final AdSense unit is located at the base of the page (336×280 rectangle unit).

Click for large screenshot of theme

All archive type pages use the same ad units and placement.

Update: I no longer update Connections on this site, however I’ve created a new much better theme at Connections Reloaded with AdSense/SEO. Connections Reloaded with AdSense/SEO includes better SEO Optimization, better AdSense options and full widget and tag support. February 2009

Connections is my second AdSense converted WordPress theme. Like the first theme I converted, Blix, it uses 3 blended Google AdSense units per page in what I think are the best locations (without ruining the feel of a blog).

WordPress Connections theme with Google AdSense Ads

The first screenshot shows the home page of Internet PT which I used to edit this WordPress theme (may not be using it now). You can see two of the three AdSense ad units in the screenshot, the third unit is located at the bottom (336×280 rectangle ad unit).

Against my better judgement I’ve updated my old version 02 of Blix with AdSense and SEO to WordPress 2.5 compatible. Added widget support, tag support and fixed several code bugs that ruins the original Blix theme when used with WordPress 2.5 (WordPress 2.3+ actually).

Although I’ve updated the SEO version of the Blix theme (download link below) to work with WordPress 2.5 I’ve not added the same SEO improvements I added to my paid for AdSense themes at Google AdSense SEO Themes and Templates. Also the AdSense options are not as good.

Comparatively speaking the new Blix with AdSense/SEO version 03 is as SEO optimized as a WordPress theme can be, version 02 of Blix with AdSense/SEO is around 80% optimized (still really good, but I learnt a lot in the years between version 02 and version 03).

Updated March 2009 for adding Google AdSense to WordPress 2.8 themes. Works with WordPress 2.7 and WordPress 2.7.1.

As you can see I use the AdSense program on this the Make Money Online Guide. This post will explain how other WordPress 2.8 users can achieve a similar use of AdSense on their WordPress blogs.

If you are feeling lazy check out the WordPress 2.8 Themes on this site, you’ll find WordPress 2.8 themes with AdSense already added and SEO optimized code (better search engine rankings as well as money from AdSense).

Popular WordPress themes like Blix, Talian, Almost Spring and many more all with AdSense added and SEO optimization and updated to work in WordPress 2.8.