You may wonder why we think the Topaz WordPress theme is so great for architecture or interior design related blog / magazines. Well, that is because we have put a lot of effort into the way your content is display. With bold, vivid headers and beautiful geometric Visby font designed by Connary Fagen Typography that comes with the theme (you can purchase it separately here) and great usage of post formats all the content published on your blog will look amazing.
Considering the title of this post we don’t think it is really accurate, as the Topaz would also work well used for fashion, design, films, gossip, luxury stuff or lifestyle related blogs. In that case we think it is going to be better if we shed a bit more light on the theme features instead.
Full Post Formats Support
While creating Topaz WP theme we have focused on proper usage of post formats that come with WordPress, the feature that is often overlooked by theme developers.
Image Post Format Style
Let’s take Image Post Format into consideration. When creating new post you can choose between different post formats, including: standard, image, gallery, video, quote, etc. Then if you select Image Post format your image in the blog list (blog view) will use different elegant style. Heading will overlap the image in the blog view forcing user to click and see the rest of the post. This is great way to publish a content related to fashion, architecture or luxury goods. At the same time users will see cohesive look of your blog, but you will avoid the scenario when all the post look the same. So you will end up with the result when there will be always something happening on your blog.
Not So Standard Post Format Anymore
Standard post format is the default post type used by WordPress, so it will be use whenever you create new post and don’t choose post format at all. We made sure here that the headers are still displayed here in the same, consistent way, leaving a bit more space for the image though. In the standard post headings overlap the image from the top and this makes it easer for the user to asses what a post is about, yet it still looks modern and more elegant.
Publishing Videos With Topaz WordPress Theme
Let’s presume for a moment that you are running ‘magazine’ like blog or magazine website and you publish regular content on your blog related to luxury goods, design related items, technology stuff (mobiles, PCs, laptops)… you know better, use your imagination here. There are many things out there you can blog about to gain readers and grab their attentions. In this scenario you can use Video post format to enrich your content with embed Video to make it more appealing, publish reviews, unboxing stuff or video presentation.. What a heck.. you can publish movie trailers as well – just because you like the film. When using video post format you can add videos from 3-rd party video websites such as Youtube, Vimeo, Daily Motion or even Flickr. I bet you didn’t even know that you can find videos on Flickr, did you?Adding Video post is as easy as selecting Video from the format box (while adding new post) and pasting embed video code to special field. Then your video will be published instead of featured image.
Advertising Ready Equals Monetizing Your Blog
OK. Let’s say your head is almost going to explode from the content ideas and you would like to know how you can monetize your blog. Well, we are not going to show you what path of monetizing you should choose, there are to many options available these days, i.e. joining affiliate network, publishing banners of your sponsors, adding banners for affiliate links or any other partner programs, join fashion related affiliate sites that pay you for every purchase made through your post from the ‘Get The Look’ boxes… Do you reasearch and you will find that there are many option. What we would like to point out here is that The Topaz is advertising ready and allows you to publish banners between your posts. There are widgetized areas integrated in the theme, where you can publish either banners, affiliate links and so on. So where you can publish ads? Here are your options:
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- Ad Space showing after 1-st post
- Advertising Space after 5-th post
- Advert Area after 7-th post
- Widgetized Sidebar
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Ads, when published in the widgets will show automatically, also in the Archive (Categories) post list.
Additionally you can publish ads in the sidebar. Some of the widgets may become handy too: 125px x 125 px (square banners widgets), Banner Widget. Please note sidebar is set by default in the categories and on the single post pages and pages.
If you want to add extra code then you can use ‘Banner’ shortcode too.
Word About Built-in Shortcodes
We almost forgot to mention The Topaz comes with integrated shortcode system to help you out with your publishing options. So whenever you want to add any extra element, you name it: carousel, slider, accordion, tab, line, columns, dropcaps, buttons, lists and so on – then over 80 shortcodes are there for you. This way you can focus on what’s the most important – content, not on the coding.
Summary
Let’s wrap it all up now. In general there are many features included in the Topaz theme and it is not possible to consider all the options you will have with this modern WordPress theme. It’s great for almost any content and dedicated for all of you who appreciate elegant and modern design. Please make sure you see the demo site so you will know what we are writing about here.