Setup New Theme | Real Estate Blog Lab

Real Estate Blog Lab header image 4

Launching A New Theme

June 8th, 2008 · 4 Comments

There are any number of reasons you want or need a new theme for your blog. Some themes limit functionality and some are not easy to upgrade or customize. The reason for change isn’t as important as the process you go through to successfully change the theme of your blog.

[Read more →]

Tags: WP Themes Checklist

Email & RSS Feed

Subscribe in a reader

Didn't find what you were looking for? Try the site search right here.
Pages
Where They Fall
- Blogging In General (48)
- How To (10)
- Plug-ins (18)
- Real Estate Blogging (117)
- SEO (7)
- Setup (20)
- Single Listings (12)
- WP Themes Checklist (6)
Recent Posts
Recent Readers
Archives
- November 2008 (3)
- October 2008 (10)
- September 2008 (15)
- August 2008 (8)
- July 2008 (9)
- June 2008 (11)
- May 2008 (4)
- April 2008 (9)
- March 2008 (6)
- February 2008 (7)
- January 2008 (7)
- December 2007 (1)
- November 2007 (2)
- October 2007 (7)
- September 2007 (12)
- August 2007 (6)
- July 2007 (11)
- June 2007 (7)
- May 2007 (5)
- April 2007 (5)
- March 2007 (9)
- February 2007 (18)
- January 2007 (13)
- December 2006 (10)
Bent Thinking
- For No REal Reason
Photography
- DigaPixBlog
Real Estate Blogs
Real Estate Technology
Tucson Custom Homes
- Tucson Custom Home Builder
Copyright

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
Post Archives
November 2008 (3)
Detailed Monthly Archive
- 10: Testimonials on Your Real Estate Blog (6)
- 06: Embed YouTube High Resolution Video in your Blog (11)
- 02: PodCampAZ Day 2 (11)
October 2008 (10)
Detailed Monthly Archive
- 29: KB Advanced RSS Plugin (2)
- 26: Mobile Press Plugin for Mobile Browsing (3)
- 25: Landing Site Plugin Slow Your Bounce Rate (7)
- 24: The Combining of Two Blogs 55 Days Later (10)
- 23: Theme Graphics Bake Them Remake Them (1)
- 12: So You Think You Have A Catchy Title (13)
- 11: Apture Wordpress Plugin (1)
- 08: The Comment Spam Can Seal (3)
- 05: Hosting Your Images on Flickr (2)
- 01: The No Index Tabs Option in All-In-One-SEO (2)
September 2008 (15)
Detailed Monthly Archive
- 30: Writing Interesting and Targeted Excerpts (6)
- 29: Latest PR Update Some Interesting Observations (9)
- 27: The RSS Wigdet Under Utilized (9)
- 27: The LBC Designation for Comments (10)
- 24: ReBlogWorld BlogWorld Take Away (9)
- 16: Active Strain Lives as Outside Blog (9)
- 15: When It Is Okay To Say “Great Post” (22)
- 13: Wordpress Captions Nuisance or Opportunity (4)
- 12: Hosting Your Own Image Files (9)
- 10: Blog Lab Seemed to Have a Cold (2)
- 05: Have You Tried Google Chrome (11)
- 05: More Power Mr. Scott I need More Power (10)
- 04: WordPress Versions or GoDaddy Hosting (19)
- 02: Backup and Restore your MYSQL Database on GoDaddy (2)
- 01: Combining Two blogs into One A Geeks Holiday Weekend (2)
August 2008 (8)
Detailed Monthly Archive
- 29: Google Sitemap Generator 3.1.0.1 Issues (5)
- 29: Askimet 2.1.8 Issues (4)
- 29: Header Image Rotator and WP Super Cache (2)
- 27: The Lab Rat Report Continued (2)
- 25: Today I was the Lab Rat (2)
- 21: Hyper Local Target Marketing Subjects and Topics (12)
- 19: Blog Top Sites - Blog Top Lists Ego Stroking or Real Value (15)
- 18: Lights Dim in Blog Lab Aug. 1-16, 2008 (1)
July 2008 (9)
Detailed Monthly Archive
- 30: Tracking Tracking Tracking How much is too much (20)
- 26: Google PageRank Update It was nice while it lasted (23)
- 20: Wordpress Streamlining Cut the Code (14)
- 19: WordPress Theme Design Book (2)
- 16: Wordpress 2.6 a Bear at Image Handling (2)
- 16: Why I HATE! Wordpress 2.6 in less than one minute (15)
- 10: Theme CSS Style Sheet (9)
- 02: Do Follow and Lucia’s Link Love (34)
- 01: July is Clean Up Unused Plugins Month (12)
June 2008 (11)
Detailed Monthly Archive
- 30: Flock the Sports Car of Browsers (14)
- 25: Single Property Web site Documents Provide Transparency and More (14)
- 24: Firefox Spell Check Auto Save Publish (10)
- 22: Google Search Results Firefox and Internet Explorer (20)
- 21: Are You Experiencing the Google Bungee Bounce (10)
- 21: Modifying The Theme Header File (0)
- 18: John Lockwood REALTOR®(thingy goes here) Plugin (11)
- 17: The Theme Footer Where The Sneaky Stuff Resides (4)
- 12: Getting our Theme Tweaking Workshop Ready (6)
- 08: Launching A New Theme (4)
- 04: Customize Wordpress Insert/Edit Image (2)
May 2008 (4)
Detailed Monthly Archive
- 30: Disqus your Comments (16)
- 28: Rotating Header Images (10)
- 09: The Big Pictures and Indexed Too (11)
- 08: A Pro Flickr Account is a Good Idea to Enhance Your Blog Posts (5)
April 2008 (9)
Detailed Monthly Archive
- 28: Google PR Update Appearing (26)
- 25: WordPress 2.5 More Observations (6)
- 22: Trolling for Links vs Being a Backlink Troll (15)
- 21: Check Your Google Webmaster Tools Often (4)
- 19: Comment Kahuna Great Way to be Banned (16)
- 10: A Tool to Help Pick Keyword Targets (23)
- 07: Comment Spam Not an SEO Shortcut (29)
- 04: Don’t Be A Real Estate Blog John (21)
- 03: Control Key Plus Scroll Equal BIGGER Text (8)
March 2008 (6)
Detailed Monthly Archive
- 31: Dates are important even if you aren’t single (10)
- 29: Real Estate Blog Lab Running WordPress 2.5 (5)
- 11: Hyper Local Target Marketing with Images (14)
- 09: Hyper Local Target Marketing Driving Traffic or Herding It (11)
- 04: Hyper Local Target Marketing Local and National Events (7)
- 03: Hyper Local Target Marketing Title Tags (13)
February 2008 (7)
Detailed Monthly Archive
- 28: Splogs A Rite of Passage (11)
- 28: Google Content Analysis Tool (5)
- 28: Google PR Update I lost PR and I Couldn’t Be Happier (14)
- 25: Hyper Local Target Marketing Create Your Own Backlinks (25)
- 24: Hyper Local Blog Market Targeting (11)
- 19: PicLens One Sweet Add on for Your Browser (5)
- 03: Kicking a New Post to the Top of the Search Engines (32)
January 2008 (7)
Detailed Monthly Archive
- 31: Google Sitemap Stats (10)
- 30: My Blog Log - Goes Yahoo Gray (14)
- 29: Restore your WordPress Database From Mysql 4 to Mysql 5 (11)
- 19: IE 7 fonts on Firefox and ALL OF YOUR APPLICATIONS! (8)
- 14: Firefox and IE 7 Display (11)
- 02: Wordpress 2.3.2 Upgrade is Complete (19)
- 01: Windows Live Writer Deleted My Wordpress 2.3.2 Upgrade is Complete Post (4)
December 2007 (1)
Detailed Monthly Archive
- 31: Wordpress 2.3 Can An Interface Ruin Your Attitude About Blogging ? (17)
November 2007 (2)
Detailed Monthly Archive
- 22: The Chronicle of a Domain Name Change to a Blog (35)
- 01: Real Estate Weblogging 101 Revisited (97)
October 2007 (7)
Detailed Monthly Archive
- 31: Wordpress 2.3 and Askimet Approved Comments (7)
- 31: Lightbox your way to a quicker load (21)
- 29: Supreme Ruler Feasting & PR (15)
- 13: Take a little Bounce out of your Bounce Rate (41)
- 10: Home Evaluation Sheets to Prevent Cerebral Jello (14)
- 08: Target and Focus Your Local Content (17)
- 06: SEO De-programmers Needed for RE Bloggers (28)
September 2007 (12)
Detailed Monthly Archive
- 29: Wordpress 2.3 All-in-One-SEO for Meta Tags in the Header (22)
- 29: Wordpress 2.3 Meta & Keyword Tagging (3)
- 27: RE Blog Lab Smoke Everywhere 2.3 WAIT A LITTLE WHILE (13)
- 23: Wordpress 2.3 Why we will wait (15)
- 22: Growing Peas in a Day! (8)
- 18: Powerset for Real Estate Bloggers (11)
- 17: Is your Blog a Serial Novel a Reference Book or Both (3)
- 13: Archive in your Sidebar (Tag Team Widgetize Anything and SRG Clean Archive (8)
- 10: Checking Your Site In Different Browsers (8)
- 09: Animoto First Real Estate Hip Hop Virtual Tours (15)
- 08: Animoto is a blast (5)
- 06: RealEstateWeblogging101 2 months old Plus (1)
August 2007 (6)
Detailed Monthly Archive
- 30: How to Get a High PR for Single Post and Stay in the Active Index (36)
- 27: Real Estate Blog Lab Nice to Have Plugins (17)
- 14: Eric Blackwell’s Must Have WordPress Plugins (32)
- 10: Google I’m in Love with You ! (14)
- 03: RE Photographers Get The Digital Photography Book (14)
- 03: Google Search Results faster than a speeding nanite (11)
July 2007 (11)
Detailed Monthly Archive
- 28: Hittail Search Hits (10)
- 26: Ping-O-Matic — Connection Time Out!!! (5)
- 24: Photos an Overlooked Part of Your Real Estate Blog Traffic (8)
- 23: Realivent CMA request Form on the Lab (5)
- 20: A Fable Do Follow and Comments (77)
- 19: Zillow Directory of Real Estate Blogs (13)
- 18: Tucson AZ Real Estate Blog (16)
- 17: Building A New Real Estate Blog Site or Refurbish the Existing (2)
- 16: Real Estate Blogging Hot topic of the Hour (12)
- 16: A Tucson Realtors Journey in Web Presence (0)
- 11: Real Estate Weblogging 101 (5)
June 2007 (7)
Detailed Monthly Archive
- 28: Wordpress Spellchecker Issues? (1)
- 27: Google Dance Update (21)
- 27: Wordpress 2.2.1 Upgrade (0)
- 27: Photo Evny Not a Pretty Thing (4)
- 11: Plugoo vs Meebo (12)
- 10: Counter Offer 10 how many have you had? (5)
- 05: Share This Social Bookmarking Plug-in (1)
May 2007 (5)
Detailed Monthly Archive
- 19: Wordpress 2.2 upgrade for Real Estate Blog Lab (4)
- 19: MyAvatars-Plugin for MyBlogLog Missing! (4)
- 18: Clean Archives Plugin One Cool Geek with Laptop (5)
- 14: Google Indexed and How (4)
- 05: Using the del.icio.us plugin (1)
April 2007 (5)
Detailed Monthly Archive
- 25: Building a Google Trustbox (7)
- 15: WriteToMyBlog Testing an Online Editor (2)
- 14: Single Property Websites No Conundrum (27)
- 02: Oro Valley Real Estate Hosting (0)
- 02: Oro Valley Real Estate Blog Lives (2)
March 2007 (9)
Detailed Monthly Archive
- 31: Google TiSP Going with the Flow Free Broadband (3)
- 26: Publish, Take it back, So You think (3)
- 25: Brother MFC-5460CN Much Less Than a Printer (4)
- 25: Single Property Site - Sidebar Widget (1)
- 20: Single Property Sites - Pages and Posts (1)
- 20: Single Property Sites - Maps (2)
- 13: Single Property Site - Plugins (3)
- 06: Real Estate Marketing and Video Technology (4)
- 04: Single Property Site - Categories (0)
February 2007 (18)
Detailed Monthly Archive
- 28: I’m calling about your ad in the paper (1)
- 27: Google Site Search (0)
- 26: Single Property Sites - Setting up Wordpress (3)
- 25: Ordie Tryin Realtor Extarodinaire (0)
- 25: Comment Spam Trap - Wordpress Plugin (10)
- 25: Single Property Sites - Hosting (4)
- 22: Fair Housing and Real Estate Blogging (4)
- 18: Open House Out House (5)
- 18: Single Property Sites - Video Display (9)
- 17: Single Property Sites - What’s in a Name (0)
- 13: Single Property Sites - A Time-shift Open House (8)
- 07: Check Your Permalinks with Wordpress 2.1 (0)
- 02: Consolidating URL and A Little Help from Friends (4)
- 02: Help I don’t know what to do (Site URL Change) :) (0)
- 01: Your URL-Technorati Rank and Google PageRank (0)
- 01: Meebo and WC3 Validation Errors (5)
- 01: Tiga - I Love Ya, but I gotta let you go. (0)
- 01: Wordpress 2.1 Text Editor Why I hate it (0)
January 2007 (13)
Detailed Monthly Archive
- 28: Feedback, will someone explain this to me? (4)
- 28: Wordpress 2.1 Upgrade Update 1.1 (0)
- 28: Tiga Theme updated for Wordpress 2.1 (0)
- 27: Tobey’s New Image (1)
- 24: Wordpress 2.1 Upgrade Update (7)
- 23: WordPress 2.1 is out Ella it is (2)
- 18: Describe That House (4)
- 16: When Your Blog Doesn’t Look Right (35)
- 13: Add a little margin to your blog photos (5)
- 12: A Great Real Estate Camera - Kodak V570 (8)
- 05: Sitemap Plugin (14)
- 03: Are You Losing Sight of Your Site? (2)
- 02: RE Lab is on the Road (0)
December 2006 (10)
Detailed Monthly Archive
- 26: I Survived A Bubble Blog Attack Badge (3)
- 22: Hittail, A Peek Behind The Curtain (2)
- 21: Urinal Marketing (9)
- 19: Permalinks SEO and Keywords in the URL (11)
- 19: Tiga Theme looses Formatting. (7)
- 18: RSS Chicklets in Sidebar Widget (6)
- 18: Mary, Mary, not contrary, how does your MeMe Grow (3)
- 14: Accessibility Widget | A Blessing for Older Eyes (1)
- 13: MyBlogLog Widget Code Produces W3C Errors (14)
- 13: Another Real Estate Blog Are You Kidding Me? (3)
Plugin by Geek With Laptop
Random Thoughts
- showing a friend how hashtags work
- microburst winds garbage cans flying, thunder and lightening I wonder what it is doing outside?