Digs’em WordPress Theme Information
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Digs'em WordPress Theme, WordPress Themes January 25th, 2008Hello! My name is Garry Conn. I am a full time professional blogger and enjoy using WordPress very much. I started blogging about two years ago and like many, my blogging venture started at Blogger.com. It was long there after when I discovered WordPress. Quickly after discovering WordPress I learned that the look and feel of WordPress blogs could be modified and changed with using different WordPress Themes.
Upon discovering that the appearance of individual WordPress blogs could be changed and modified, I found a huge volunteer based community of designers who dedicate their free time to developing and designing WordPress themes. This gave me such a surreal feeling of commitment, dedication, teamwork and unity. Needless to say, I wanted in! I wanted to be apart of this group that gives so much to the community.
After two years of learning and gaining experience with WordPress and WordPress themes, I am proud to unveil my very first public release titled, Digs’em.
The Digs’em WordPress theme is a very powerful search engine optimized WordPress Theme designed for search engine marketing. Digs’em actually stands for Digg and SEM. The Digg look and feel to my theme was inspired by Digg.com. The SEM stands for, Search Engine Marketing.
As I mentioned above, I am a full time professional blogger who has made the career choice to run a home based blogging business. My focus since day one has been in search engines. Many people have different reasons for blogging and many people have different avenues they pursue to get traffic to their blogs. For me, I focus on gaining traffic direct from search engines. My area of expertise is in getting my content indexed, ranked well and seen in the major search engines.
In the two years time I have used WordPress, I quickly discovered that having WordPress out of the box gets you half way there to ranking well in the search engines. Unfortunately, the second half doesn’t come easy. That falls into the department of WordPress theme design. Many WordPress theme designers as professional as they may be, truly lack in the SEO and SEM department. It is not their fault and I don’t criticize them one bit. Again, not everyone blogs to score ranking and traffic in the search engines.
With that being said, I quickly noticed that there was a huge lack of free search engine optimized WordPress themes. The ones that I did find available were tainted with sponsored links and or the coding isn’t quite up to what I would consider standard. In the business of SEO and SEM, just like with many blog niches, unfortunately we are presented with people who claim to be an expert in their trade of interest, where in reality, we soon discover that this isn’t quite true.
Needless to say, I will not admit to being an SEO or SEM expert. However, I will admit to having the experience, skill and advanced ability to get my content indexed, ranked and seen in the major search engines. In order to be successful in the SEM business, you have to have a SEO blog or website designed to be friendly with the major search engines. From there, the level of quality in your content, level of popularity and the number of links that point back to your blog will reflect on how well you rank in the search engines. It all starts with the design. You can have the most creative, entertaining, popular and unique content on the Internet; however, if your blog or website isn’t search engine friendly, no one will find you when they do a relevant keyword search in the major search engines.
Why The Digg.com inspired design?
You may wonder why Digg.com inspired me to create Digs’em. The reason is fairly simple but somewhat complex to explain. I’ll take a stab at trying to explain.
In my 10 years of study and experience with SEO and SEM, in my opinion, Digg.com is a very search engine friendly website. It’s not just luck that has carried Digg.com into high levels popularity. In the early days and even still today, Digg.com capitalizes on the power of gaining free traffic from the major search engines. In a case study of their website design and coding structure, I discovered that their design style and HTML formatting structure is very similar to what I have proven to myself in many of my owns sites to be successful with gaining traffic from the search engines.
As beautiful as Digg.com appears on the front end, the coding and HTML structure is even more beautiful on the back end. Digg.com doesn’t over complicate things and their back end HTML structure is very simple and maintains a style that has been proven to be successful for many years. Digs’em WordPress Theme carries forth the same level of back end coding and HTML structure as Digg.com but is mashed up and fully compatible with WordPress.
Download and License Information:
Digs’em is a WordPress theme that has been developed after many years of experience studying search engines and many years of running very successful websites that capitalize on the free traffic that search engines can provide. Digs’ems is a free WordPress theme and can be used and shared among users in the WordPress community. Commercial use of the Digs’em WordPress Theme is forbidden unless prior written authorization has been granted by designer and Intellectual property owner Garry Conn. The Digs’em WordPress Theme is governed with a Creative Commons License. When you download and use the Digs’em WordPress theme you automatically accept responsibility and agree to comply with the terms set forth in the license. To learn more about the Creative Commons License, you can view the information and links made available at the bottom of the page.
- DOWNLOAD Digs’em Version 1.0
Use the comment form below to speak your mind or if you have questions related to the WordPress theme. I will be here to actively respond to your comments and provide support where needed.
January 25th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Way cool, Garry
I’m totally impressed. You’ve done a wonderful job and should be quite proud of yourself.
I’ll talk to you later.
January 25th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Thanks Christine!
I am happy that you like it. Now help me promote this bastard! LOL!!!
January 25th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Hi Garry,
Looks like a winner. Great job.
I just downloaded Digs’em. I guess there goes my weekend as I’ll have to come up with a niche to put it to work in.
Thanks for the Theme!
January 25th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
Hey thanks man!
Coming from you… I appreciate it.
Love me, DIGG ME!!! [CLICK HERE] and help spread the word! Thanks again for your comment and support and I am very happy that you’ll be using the theme, I am sure that it will bring help forth quite a bit of success for you.
January 25th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
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January 26th, 2008 at 9:29 am
Garry,
I am trying out the theme, but I have a question.. Can you tell me where all the places are that the adsense code needs to be changed. I used another adsense freindly theme before, and didn’t find the codes to change for a few days..
I just want to be sure I get them all.
thanks
Mack
January 26th, 2008 at 9:41 am
@ Mack,
Careful consideration of this was made. You can see the three files labeled: wp-codec.php
Cheers!
January 26th, 2008 at 9:45 am
@ Mack,
Your site looks good… feel free to open up the flood gates a little bit and display more than 5 posts per page.
January 26th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Garry,
Yes I thought that was the case then I found some other adsense code in the single.php file… That made me ask the question…
January 26th, 2008 at 9:49 am
Yes yes!!! you are right,
I’ll have to fix that and thank you so much for pointing that out.
Someone is looking over the code with a fine tooth comb.
LOL!!!!
Thanks again for your help and support.
January 26th, 2008 at 9:56 am
Those changes have been made and are now reflected in the current download.
Off topic question:
What kind of camera do you have running this:
http://changecounts.com/birdwatching-webcam-live-streaming-ptz
January 26th, 2008 at 10:24 am
Garry, I hope this theme helps me!!! I get little , very little, search engine traffic. I know my site is not fully loaded.. very new , and needs a lot more content, which I am working on.
Thanks for the theme..
The camera is an old Polycom video conference cam. I am a geeky hacker.. I like to use old equipment ( My wife would call me cheap
I hope to get the time to add more to that page about the workings behind it. The cameras are really cheap on ebay..25$ range!
January 26th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Very cool, thanks for the info… It’s on my to do list to wire up many sections of my house for Garry Conn dot TV.
January 26th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
I really like this theme. Thank you Now I just have to figure our how to get Wordpress on my host, then this theme. Can you tell I’m a newbie? LOL
January 26th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
I would look for a hosting company that provides the “Push Button” WordPress install.
You can check this page that offers my personal review of paid host providers that include free WordPress hosting.
January 27th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
Great concept. I voted for your theme on digg and added to my site, wpthemez, where your readers can vote for it as their favorite WordPress theme.
January 27th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Hello , I must say that you have a great information on your blog em WordPress Theme Information . Even I could not understand the whole article it is nice to know that people are writing also for wordpress themes as that is how i found you on Google , anyway just i stop it to say hello and posted my thought on your blog em WordPress Theme Information comment section. Cheers and keep growing your blog.
January 28th, 2008 at 3:41 am
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January 28th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
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January 28th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Nice job! WPdesigner has a digg theme for wordpress too.
January 28th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
I love the theme, and I think it looks great. You did an awesome job and I’m hoping that someday I’ll learn how to make Wordpress themes and such. Keep up the good work.
January 28th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
Thanks for the comments everyone…
John Chow, thanks for the plug!
Tay, thanks so much for your comments, I am very glad you like it.
January 29th, 2008 at 11:54 am
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January 29th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
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January 30th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
[…] One of the big plus points of the Digs’em theme is that it is optimised for being indexed by the search engines and also has Digg integration included, these aspects of a Wordpress theme are vital to me, so ‘out-of-the-box’ this theme needs far less work than other themes might require. More information on the features of this theme can be found here - Dig’em Wordpress Theme Information. […]
January 30th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
The theme looks great Garry, I’ve been wondering whether you’d ever release a theme, I look forward to trying it and customizing it for my site!
February 3rd, 2008 at 7:31 pm
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February 4th, 2008 at 8:48 am
Hi Garry,
I just downloaded your digsem theme, and I like it. I’ll be using it on Daily Food Tips, since that’s a pretty niche site. Thanks again for the hard work.
February 11th, 2008 at 9:53 am
Hi Garry,
I tried changing the adsense code to my information (I should just need to change the ad client and ad slot numbers right) but it shows up blank… any suggestions?
–Justin
February 11th, 2008 at 9:59 am
Sorry my site I included there should have been .org not .com… I always forget that when I make .org sites
February 15th, 2008 at 3:30 am
Hi Garry, first of all great work on them but there is a little problem i dont know if it has been noticed by your self or others, problem is if you try to open any site that is using this theme with Internet Explore v6 the side bar drops below the posts, has anyone fixed this problem?