It’s been a while since I’ve posted an article here! I’ve been quite busy these past couple of weeks with clients and other jobs that life has thrown at me. Not to worry, I have prepared an extra special treat for all the readers here.
I’d like to introduce the “Optimized Overshadowed” theme that I have spent hours perfecting and optimizing. I’ve taken a WordPress template and have completely revamped the stylesheet, images and design to create a unique experience for blog owners.
The WordPress Theme:
Attractive and Professional Font Replacement:
As you can see, I have applied a custom font to the header and sub-title which I have utilized Cufon for. It also has a nice drop shadow effect to it – I’m always a sucker for those types of things! 
Then we have the content area. This area also uses Cufon for the H1, H2, H3 and H4 headers which keep the font family consistent. Perhaps the more important thing here is the SEO. I’ve spent a lot of time fine tuning this theme to give you the best rankings in the search engines as well as modifying the header.php to reflect your blog post title.
Free “SEO” WordPress Theme:
Now that Google is starting to look at page load speed as a ranking factor, I’ve kept this theme very lightweight and all of the images are compressed using Photoshops compression techniques and then compressed again with Smush.it by Yahoo. This ensures that you are serving the content as fast as possible to the new visitor. The backgrounds are all 1px in either height or width and then repeated using CSS, which also increases the page load speed.
I’ve even taken the initiative to compress the CSS for you in which all the whitespace is eliminated. I believe that I compressed the final filesize over 30% less!
Automatic Page Generation in Navigation Bar:
Thats right! If you make a new page in your WordPress admin area, the navigation bar will add the title of that page to the navigation bar, allowing fast access to your WordPress pages. No editing required. 
Clean Icons suitable for WordPress:
The sidebar has custom icons to reflect different aspects of a blog as you can see below:
Preview:
Go to http://blogpro.me to preview this theme.
How can you get this theme?
Simply subscribe to the RSS Feed! The link at the bottom of each post will have the direct download link.
Suggestions?
I’m always open to suggestions on how to make this WordPress theme better – Feel free to email me or comment below.
Conclusion:
As usual, stay tuned! I have some great website related tutorials and content coming soon.
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21 Comments
Just checked it. Loading is really fast.
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Thanks Jayce! Thats one of the major things I focused on in this theme
Wow!! Really fast! Does it have a cache system?
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Out of the box, it does not have a cache system. However, WordPress has many plugins that will cache your content and theme for you (IE – WP Super Cache, W3 Total Cache).
Page load as a ranking factor? That’s news to me. It’s something I’ve been concerned about lately anyway, since my sites are loading quite slowly. It’s bad enough if visitors walk away because the site’s slow, but if Google stops ranking because of it, it’s more or less game over for your website!
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So I hear, I read about the new “Caffiene” update and have since taken the time to make sure that every website loads as fast as it can through various methods.
That seems to be a great idea. I will definitely try out your theme and see how I get on.
Sounds good Joseph!
Let me know if you have any suggestions about the theme.
Just a quick question.
Do I have to wait for you to post a new article and view it in the subscription before I can download your theme?
Or is there another way of getting my paws on it?
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Hi Joseph,
I posted an article today so you should be able to download the WordPress theme at the bottom of the latest post – If not, send me an email and I’ll send the direct link.
I might have missed this somewhere but, where can I download this theme for my blog?
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Hi Trevor,
You’ll be able to download this theme if you are subscribed via RSS to this blog’s feed. Scroll to the top and insert your email address!
Hi Brad
It’s really a nice theme , gives me a vista aero like look
Thanks for the theme
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Not a problem Sunil! Glad you like it
Hi Brad
Thanks for taking the time to produce this theme.
Noticed in particular “page load speed as a ranking factor” has been one of your prime goals.
Images compressed and compressed again and whitespace eliminated in CSS!
Looks like you’ve really thought things through.
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Hey Keith,
Yeah – I really put some thought into the way this theme loads. Personally, I hate waiting for a website to load so fast loading templates has become a prime goal of mine.
Wowww…. that so fasttt…!!! I will use your template for next project. Thank you for sharing
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Great! Feel free to send me over a URL and I’ll check out your blog
Ok, I will send you url after complete. Thank you for sharing great template
Just love the theme.. content area loads really really faster! How?!? In anyway, I am impressed, was expecting this to be an commercial theme.. but here you are.. helping the web world for free. Great work!
Waiting for my download link..
Nice article.I really like this information.This is new for me and i think many readers.