Semiologic Pro
Wordpress Theme by Denis de Bernardy
Semiologic Pro has been through many upgrades of Wordpress. A good choice for marketers and information sites alike, it’s flexible and can be used for a variety of site types. You can customize this theme to fit almost any look and feel with the addition of custom css styles and graphics. Get the Semiologic Pro Theme.
Design:
Semiologic Skin Switcher
Control over Layout: with many to choose from, 2 columns, 3 columns with multiple arrangements. Flexible, whether you need a content site with pages + blog or if you need a full blown blog – the layouts have you covered. Easy to switch on the fly, you can easily try out a layoutto see if it works for you. (Use the preview feature, you can see it without committing to the change)
Semiologic Layout Switcher
Skins: 24 skin variations make a great starting point. Use one as it is, or use one as the basis for your customization and get just the look you want. Reported: new skins coming in later releases. Skins can be modified by using custom.css – when upgrade time comes, your changes aren’t overwritten.
Upload a header graphic from admin, and choose several ways to use it.
Managing Your Site:
- Widgets: with Semiologic’s Widget Contexts plugin you gain control over what widgets appear on what types of pages and posts. Want a specific Newsletter opt-in widget to show up only on one section of your site? Set the context, done! Controlling your widgets is easy.
- Silo Navigation: love this for content sites. Generates a navigation block that automatically shows sub-pages when you’re in that section of the site. Great for theming. It’s information architecture you don’t have to think about.
- Nav Bars: manage your header and footer navigation, add links to pages on your site, or urls off-site.
- Semiologic Pro also adds SEO options to your site – manage page titles, meta-keywords, meta-descriptions.
- Manage Ads and ad placement on your site with the included plugin. Used
with Widget Contexts, it’s a powerful way to monetize your site. - Google Analytics - track everything on your site – including outbound
links with this plugin.
There’s many more plugins – together they make a great package.
Examples of Semiologic Pro designs: some using skins as is, some with minor css tweaks, some with css and custom graphics. There’s a huge range of things you can do to affect the design of a Semiologic Pro site, what do you want it to look like?
Get the Semiologic Pro Theme.