The new BlogTactics Free WordPress Themes are here, AT LAST!

Hi Matt,

Thanks man! I’ve been waiting for these to come out. I’ve downloaded them all although my fave is the Vintage theme. I’ll post a comment here once I get it live on my new website. Thanks again and keep rockin!

Hey Matt
Thank you, thank you for these great themes. Don’t know what I would do without you and your blog. I have learned so much. Thank you for your generosity and help.
Many thanks
Viv

Damn, you’re very generous!
Thank you for the WordPress themes, I’ll put them to good use.

Phil

Thanks Matt !
Been looking forward to having these…I honestly thought you would be charging for them…glad I was wrong ☺ ☻

Hi Matt,
Excellent themes for my blog. Thanks for all the support you have provided
God bless

i thank you for wordpress themes

Good work! seeing some interesting recent posts; as a WP addict I will be checking them, many thanks-
just as a rant: has anyone been talked into another platform (or whatever it’s called) like Joomla, were never happy with it, and ended back with WordPress? Stay with what works, right?

Glad you all like them!
don’t forget to post Q’s and feedback, as they’re far from perfect…

cheers,
Matt

Your WP themes are so nice! Thanks for your hard job. I’m a fan of your blog

Thanks Matt,
I appreciate you sharing these templates. I like the clean look and will be trying them out soon.

Downloaded all of them and happily playing around with one right now. These are brilliant. Way more versatile than other themes and I’ve tried literally hundreds over the past 2 years. None would do exactly what I wanted till now. Very happy camper. All of your advice is helpful but this particular act of generosity has ensured a very loyal fan. Thanks so much.

Louise

Thanks for all the kind comments!
I’m going tohave to point out that it’s not 100% “altruistic” to give away the themes for free though, as each one has a couple of links back to this site and one of my other main sites, so there is a benefit for me…
this is pretty standard with WP Themes and is why you can get such good ones for free.
So I’d like to thank you all for using them!
cheers,
Matt Garrett

Hi Matt
Thank you for the themes. Your help and advice is much
appreciated.

Michelle Jayes

Thanks for your generosity. It is very much appreciated.

Hoss

Hi Matt
Thanks for the themes. I like the video’s , and all of the training.
This is my first blog (I’m a newbie) – I am using Blue Simple 1.0 , and I am using wordpress version 2.6.2 – in the video you are using a different version of wordpress. My question is – I am not able to remove – Pages – Categories – Archives from Sidebar 1 and not able to remove – Recent Note – links – Meta from Sidebar 2 , I don’t even see the screen where I can drag and drop the widgets – the Sidebar Arrangement screen isn’t being displayed – help.

Hi Matt.
Your themes are useful for me.

Hi. I need some help ?Can you please help me to build a blog….
Thanks

Re: BlogTactics BOS Theme
Hi Matt;
I really appreciate these new themes. While I know that it is difficult to provide support on an individual basis, I thought I would ask about a small issue that I am having.

On my blog with the BOS theme, my blog title in the header is black, making it very difficult to read when on the dark background. I have checke the css files and see that it should be white but that is not happening. I have even changed the FFFFFF to another setting without luck.

Any thoughts?

Doh!! Sorry about that last post. I found the correct video to show me how to make the change. Very easy once you know how.

Thanks again
Phil

Sorry for all the newbie questions, but on the BOS theme, how do I get rid of the two sets of Meta and Archive sets?

Phil

Sorry about the poor description of my question.

When I use the BOS theme “out of the box” I have two columns down the right side. Each column contains a list of Archives and a list of Meta Links. In other words each of these “sets” of links appears twice.

I had thought that these might be controlled by Theme Management or Widgets, but that does not appear to be the case.

I am fairly confident with directly editing templates, but in the Theme Editor, I see sidebar.php, sidebar1.php and sidebar2.php. I note that there are scripts to call archive and meta links in the first two, and was wondering if I should just delete one “set” or if that would mess things up? Is it ok to just go in and delete these duplicate “sets” of links? Can I just add some of my own stuff in their place (eg Adsense, etc)?

I probably should just save a back up and jump in and test some changes to the php code, I was just wondering if there was some other way to deal with this.

Thanks again for the great themes.
Phil

Hi Matt

Where can I find the videos re installation and setup of the Blue Simple Theme?

Many Thanks
Viv

Using the SimpleBlue theme on my blog nigelbooker.com but in IE the Sidebar2 ends up at the bottom of the page instead of its rightful place at the top. In FF all seems well. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks, Nigel

Great, thanks.

What is the difference between Blogtactics wordpress themes and generic wordpress themes you can get from the wordpress web site?

Hi Matt

Hope you had a truly great festive break and my every good wish to you for a successful, safe and happy 2009.

Matt I downloaded your Blue Simple Theme (again thank you for this), but I have a ‘newbie question’ that I wonder if you would mind answering. I am constantly hearing that themes should be ‘SEO optimised’ and that they should include some Adsense adds to monetize. How do you SEO Optimise (do you have a video or a course on this) and the same for the Adsense – I have been recommend to use a plugin called Adsenseanna, do you recommend this for your theme?

Many thanks
Viv

BlogTactics BlueSimple is one of my favorite wordpress themes, Thanks for sharing these. I’ve seen people charging money for themes that aren’t even half as nice. I always look forward to seeing a new post from your site in my rss reader, Keep up the good work.

Thanks Matt!
Can I share my theme here?
Heres the my theme download link http://www.multrivia.com/fstat-themes.zip
Demo theme: http://www.multrivia.com/
Discussion the theme here: http://www.multrivia.com/themes

Thanks Matt!

Oh Matt
Here you are, been looking for you guy. hehe you can not hide from us looks like another great site Matt. Shows me I need to pay more attention to email when I get it. I wasnt into blogging. I knew I wanted one on my sight but didnt think that was going to be so easy, now with you at the helm showing me I know i can.
Thanks
Liz

Oh gosh Matt this is the greatest thanks so much.
Liz

Hi Matt
Themes are awesome! Thanks. I am using BYS and would like to change/remove the stripes either end. You mentioned there is a video to explain that. I cannot seem to find it on your site. Can you direct me to it, if not can you tell me where to modify the code and with what?
Thanks
Claude

thank you for your nice articel ,i really like and want to try use your template.you could check at my site.

hi,
all right, first comment in nearly 3 years! woo hoo. anyway, i’m commenting to ask if you think it’s still a good strategy for garnering backlinks by distributing FREE WP blog themes. if so, what is the best strategy in how/where to add your links to themes.

thanx,
alx

Hi Alex,
there’s two potential problems: -
1. as a “sitewide” link Google will at best discount the links heavily…
2. you could end up with an aweful lot of links for the same keyword, which Google do penalize now.
it can still work as a tactic, but I would suggest: -
a. only including the link back to your site on the index.php template, so that it’s just one backlink
b. using a generic anchor text that you’re not targeting for SEO, which could be your brand name or company name.
hope this helps!
cheers,
Matt