The kicker is that it’s a WordPress theme which doesn’t look anything like WordPress. It’s designed for creating single pages that look like standalone sales pages, or landing pages. There’s none of the usual ‘furniture’ that you get on blogs, so there’s nothing to take you off the page itself. No distractions = more sales, so the theory goes.

It’s a sound theory and as far as the product goes it’s not badly priced at $47. You can take a look at it by clicking here.

Before you do though, I should tell  you that it’s relatively easy to create a WordPress theme that does this. Easy, that is, if you already know how to do it. If you don’t know how, it’s as clear as mud.

I’d like to gauge the level of interest for such a specialized theme, because if there’s enough interest I’ll create one and sell it for considerably cheaper than $47!

So how could you use such a theme?

• Have a separate and unique landing page for every product you promote
• Control all your landing pages within your WordPress dashboard
• Use suitable keyword URLs for your pages – no more hunting for keyword domains
• Avoid ‘leakage’ – once a visitor lands on your page there’s nothing else to take them off it
• Use the scheduled post feature of WordPress to change the main “landing page” for your site every week – you could offer a special deal that lasts one week and then sit back and watch as it updates itself. You’re not limited to weekly deals – you could have a different deal every day of the year, if you wanted to. You could even have different deals hourly on special days, like 4th July! Keep your visitors coming back for more!
• Create single page product review ‘mini sites’ around a central topic. You can link them if you choose, or leave them unlinked and separate.

If you’re interested in acquiring such a theme please leave a comment here.

If there’s enough interest, I’ll create the theme and offer it for sale at $17. For anyone who leaves a comment here you can have it for just $7.

So to recap: if there’s enough interest in having such a theme I’ll create one especially and for anyone who comments on this specific post you can have a copy for:

$7

UPDATE 17 July 2009: I’ve created the theme and it’s sold well at $7 and it’s now selling at $17, although I’ll be raising the price to $27 soon because of all the extras I’m adding to it. For everyone who’s commented on this post I’ve decided to give you a copy of the theme for free as a thank you for joining in and commenting. Emails should be with you shortly. If you haven’t received an email please let me know and I’ll take care of it for you.

I’m creating a plugin that will make this theme even better. I haven’t yet decided whether to charge for it, or add it to the theme itself, but I think it will add a great deal of flexibility so I’m looking forward to announcing it once it’s ready.

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I’ve been promising myself a new look for ages, but never got around to it. I’ve bought a blog theme that I like and realized that with the content I currently have my blog doesn’t look as good as it might. The problem is that if I wait until I think it looks fine then it will almost be time to change it again.

So I’ve decided to activate the new theme and start working on it, even though for a while it could make my blog lookg messy. Hence the apology.

The one thing I’ve learned in this life is that if you wait for something to be perfect before you do it then you’ll never do it – so take the first step and work out kinks as you go.

EDIT: Well, after 30 minutes of tweaking, I’ve taken out most of the bits I didn’t like from this theme and I’ve customized it to my liking. I’ve been meaning to do this for a while and just haven’t got around to it. Yet when it came to do the actual customizing it didn’t take long at all.

How many times do you put something off that might actually be fairly quick to complete?

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