The frugal Premium WordPress Theme
| Task: | The Way Frugal Does It | The Way Others Do It |
|---|---|---|
| Add/Remove Static Homepage: | Built-In Option | Use FTP software to add or remove a home.php file to the root of your theme directory. |
| Change Layout of Static Homepage: | Built-In Option | Add/Edit code in a home.php file as well as a Custom Stylesheet. |
| Upload Images: | Built-in Image Uploader | Use FTP software to locate the necessary server directory and upload images into this folder. |
| Change Background Colors: | Built-In Color Pickers | Edit the CSS Code in your theme’s Stylesheet file. |
| Chage Font Styles: | Built-In Option | Edit your themes styelsheet to adjust the code for each font. |
| Add Logo Image: | Image Uploader + Built-In Options | Use FTP Software to upload the image and then add/edit the necessary CSS and HTML code. |
| Add SEO content to Posts and Pages: | Built-In Option | Install a 3rd party SEO plugin to add this functionality to your theme. |
| Add Feature Widget Areas: | Built-In Feature Options | Use a text editor and FTP software to create and upload custom php files into your theme. |
| Add Fully Customized Designs: | One-Click Skin Import | Manually customize your site using CSS and HTML code, as well as FTP software to upload images and php files to your theme. |
| Fully Backup Options & Images: | One-Click Options Export | Use Plugins to backup your themes database settings and FTP Software to download your images. |
| Move Theme Options & Images To Another Site: | One-Click Import/Export | Use Plugins to backup your themes database settings and FTP Software to download your images and then do the same to re-upload the images and update the new database. |
| Restore Options To A Previous State: |
One-Click Restore | Try and remember what your settings were and then manually Re-Build ALL your options to their previous state. |
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Full Blown Built-In SEO (Search Engine Optimization):
- With frugal you’re giving your WordPress website a boost in SEO with In-Post/In-Page SEO options, along with full control over the layout of your many page titles, NoIndex/NoFollow options, Canonical URLs and much more!
A Theme With A Framework As Its Foundation:
- frugal is built off a framework design with many different hooks to give the user plenty of room to add custom content and grow as their website’s content requires it.
A Premium WordPress Theme With A Robust Set Of Layout Options:
- With frugal, when it comes to dimensions, you’re just a few mouse clicks and keyboard strokes away from the width of your choosing. All of the many sidebars have width control, as well as the main content column.
- Also, you’re given all kinds of layout options such as: sidebar right, sidebar left, double sidebar left, double sidebar right, double sidebar (on either side of the content) and no sidebar. And that’s just the main content area…
- Your CMS Page Templates have their own set of sidebars that give you both layout (left sidebar, right sidebar, double sidebar and no sidebar) and sidebar widths.
- And don’t forget your Static Homepage. If activated it gives you TONS of layout options to effectively feature your content. More on that further down the list…
Full Control Over The Design Of Your Website With NO CODING NECESSARY:
- You’ll be BLOWN AWAY when you first take a look at the back-end of frugal. Pages loaded with well organized theme options that allow you to adjust almost every aspect of design, layout and overall functionality with ZERO CODING REQUIRED!!
- We’re not just talking about changing your background color here (which, by the way, can easily be adjusted with the included color picker, along with most any other color option), but a wide array of detailed options that have been implemented so you can finally take control of your website’s design.
A WordPress Theme With Full Control Over Fonts:
- Continuing with the NO CODING mantra, frugal allows almost every aspect of adjustment for your fonts; all from your frugal Theme Options area. We’re talking FONT: type, size, color, link color, link hover color, weight, alignment, line-height and letter-spacing. Now that’s what I call FULL CONTROL!!
A Premium Theme That Is MUCH More Than Just A Blog (CMS Anyone?!):
- Having an amazing blog theme is great and all, but let’s face it, Web 2.0 is an ever expanding organism. Why should our WordPress websites be any different? frugal offers a WIDE ARRAY of CMS (content management system) options and page templates that give you all the flexibility you need to grow with your WordPress website.
- You’ll not only find a robust static homepage option to showcase your featured content, but you’ll enjoy the benefits of the multiple CMS Page Templates that house their very own sidebars and layout options.
Powerful Feature Options:
- With the Static Homepage you can activate and customize a page that takes the homepage of your WordPress Website far beyond the latest posts or a simple static page. You’re given the ability to showcase latest posts, specified posts or posts by categories. Also show case a specific page and add content to many of the different homepage widgets. It even gets its very own sidebar!
- Even if super simplicity is the goal frugal’s static homepage can easily be widdled down to a single selection of specific content, with all the other options removable.
- Also, you not only have a Static Homepage on/off switch, but you can specify whether you want it to be the homepage of your entire site or that of your Blog Page Template. This is just one more way that frugal lends itself to more than just a blog theme.
- Oh and did I mention the top and bottom feature sections? These areas provide different widget layouts to house your featured content and they can be turned on or off for different pages. This way you can choose to feature content on your whole website, just some of it or not at all…and, of course, all from your frugal Theme Options.
Simple, Minimalist, Clean Design, Yet As Powerful As You Need It To Be:
- frugal truly lives up to its name when you first lay eyes on its simple, super clean minimalist design. Every line laid when formatting frugal was done with the specific intent of getting the theme out of the way so your content could shine. Sure, you can make frugal as flashy as you like and it will blow your visitors away with its sophisticated eye appeal, but with frugal you don’t have to worry about ‘cleaning it up first’ so you can mold it into the look and feel your after. frugal is ready from the beginning to do whatever your online endeavors require.
Solid Logo Options:
- With frugal you can either choose to stick with the stock text logo, add your own image logo or even turn your header area into a custom hook to hook a fully custom header into its place. And with these options comes the ability to easily adjust fonts (and you know I’m not talking just font type) margins, padding, width, height, etc…
A Premium WordPress Theme That Finally Makes It Easy To Create Custom Content And Hook It Into Your Theme:
- An entire options page is dedicated to giving frugal users simple tools for custom content creation and site integration. You can create custom widgets, name them, give them color, float location, width, control their margins and padding and then easily hook them into most any location in your frugal WordPress Theme form a simple drop-down menu.
- Also, you’re able to write your very own custom code and hook it into your theme in the very same simple way. Sweet!!
A Powerful Set Of Navigation Tools:
- With frugal you not only get two different navigation bars to work with (standard and category based), but you are given full control over the look, layout and display properties of these navbars. From the robust font option you come to expect with frugal to the ability to place these navigation bars in various locations around your header…or to remove them completely.
- Also, designing your navbar in a wide array of looks is super easy with frugal. Full border/background options (colors, thickness, margins/padding) makes it a cinch to create awesome custom navbar looks.
- A few more notable frugal navbar features include the ability to exclude pages and a right-side area that allows you to display a fully customizable search box, RSS and Email links or a call to follow on Twitter.
FULL Background Options:
- With Frugal you get a Built-In Image Uploader and robust background options that make adding custom images to background areas a breeze. Most any area on your site has it’s own background controls which give you the ability to chose the ‘Type’ of background (like color, horizontal and/or vertical repeat, no-repeat, and even transparent), ‘Color’, which can easily be selected using the built-in color picker tool, and ‘Image Name’ (if you’re using an image for that background location you place the full name of the image file here). Then you just use the built-in image uploader to upload your image and it puts the image file exactly where it needs to be to work with these background options. It takes the work out of adding custom images and lets you focus on more important things like design!
FULL Border Options:
- If this wasn’t on your list it should have been. Having the ability to frame the different areas of your website can be an effective way of organizing your content and just making your WordPress Website look super sweet. But when I say full, I mean FULL Border Options…
- See, frugal doesn’t like to just give you one way of doing something and its border options are no different. You not only have the ability to give areas like…sidebars, content columns, the header, footer, featured areas, the entire content container and even the entire site…a simple border, but you are provided with border options like…type (ie. top, bottom, full), style (ie. solid, dashed, dotted and double), color, thickness and even adjustable margins and padding. Now you see what I mean when I say FULL.
A Theme That Is Just As At Home In The Hands Of A WordPress Website Developer:
- Though frugal is built with super ease of use in mind, this doesn’t mean it’s only for the beginner or non coder. With a custom stylesheet and custom functions file frugal gives the developer all the space they need to add their own code. And as a developer myself I can’t say enough how stinking easy it is to develop full featured WordPress websites and blogs withe the frugal Premium WordPress Theme. It just makes everything so easy! (I hear the same thing echoed by other developers as well…all the time).
A WordPress Theme With Effective Web Browser Caching And Super Clean Code That Provides Your Visitors With The Speed They Desire While Perusing Your Website:
- For starters frugal is packed with super clean code that, in stock form, provides you with STRICT Validation. Every text space (we’re talking about 10′s of thousands here) was typed with purpose.
- But what really gives frugal a boost in speed is its effective web browser caching abilities thanks to Expire’s Headers and CSS content. Whether you’re using the CSS or PHP version of the dynamic stylesheet you’ll find that browsers only update when necessary, but otherwise read off of the local copy of your content. What this means is that there is less load on your webserver and faster load time for you and your visitors.
One Of The Best Affiliate Programs Around:
- The fact is if you love your WordPress Theme then you won’t be able to resist the desire to spread the word. So why not make some cash in the process? With a 40% affiliate payout the frugal affiliate program rewards its affiliates better than most any WordPress theme affiliate program around!
In-Depth Documentation (not just a simple ‘readme’ file):
- With frugal you not only get the basic ‘readme’ file to show you how to install your theme, you receive a 15 page Handbook that is packed with useful information to get you started off on the right foot. Just one more way that frugal goes the extra mile to be the best!
ROCK SOLID SUPPORT To Backup Your Investment:
- From the frugal Support Forum where you’ll receive direct support to the growing number of video tutorials, frugal comes with all you need to make your online real estate something to be proud of.
To see what Frugal looks like on the Backend (in the WordPress Dashboard) CLICK HERE.
This is just a taste of what frugal has to offer its users. Over time, as you dig into all that frugal provides, you’ll come to fully appreciate the power that it puts in your hands. With frugal, your WordPress Website can be so much more, in much less time and with a lot less effort.
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What frugal Users Have To Say…
“frugal is one of our favorite themes, and we use and recommend it to our clients all the time. They love it, and here’s why:
frugal is easy for even non-techies to use – that’s saying something when other themes are becoming code-laden monsters full of too many bells and whistles!
frugal is clean-coded (none of that mucky, crappy code here!). It’s a delight to customize, easy to work with and a breeze for even people with beginning coding skills to make some changes.
Most importantly? frugal actually gets results for businesses. It’s one of the most visitor-friendly sites we’ve seen, with high usability that helps potential customers find what they want when they land.
This theme puts business first – not fancy-shmancy – and lets owners show off their products and services nicely, making frugal a winner for that so-important first impression to help land those sales.
What more could you ask for in a theme? We’re hooked.” ~ James Chartrand, Men With Pens
“frugal is the website designer’s new best friend! frugal’s dashboard customizations are the easiest and quickest to implement of any premium theme I’ve seen. Even if you’ve never customized a theme before, frugal gives you the tools to create something unique and great looking in a fraction of the time it normally takes. And with the new SEO features, I can say that frugal now has it all!” ~ David Wright, Collective Inkwell
“I’ve been using the frugal theme for months now and couldn’t be happier with it. It’s flexible, attractive, nicely laid out and very very easy to manage. On top of that Eric is an absolute joy to work with.” ~ John Ainsworth, Make Sports Fun
“I designed more than 100 websites before I moved to WordPress. When I searched the internet for WordPress themes, there were so many out there I didn’t know which ones to try. I purchased several but found them hard to learn and they just didn’t give me the freedom that I was looking for to design my new Blog the way I wanted it to look.
Then I found the Frugal Theme. What a difference it has made! It has been so easy to integrate into my website and due to the flexibility and control that it provides, my new Blog looks exactly like I envisioned. Being a web designer, it was important to me that the themes HTML code and CSS styling be standards compliant and clean. Frugal was designed to meet these requirements and the resulting code is clean, organized, and easy to follow.
I have contacted Frugal Support on several occasions and always received an almost immediate reply, containing the answers I needed.
Way to go Eric & Frugal Themes! I’m a customer for life – already starting on my next new website.” ~ Chuck Parish, Tid Bytes
“This is a “frugal” theme that is definitely not frugal in features and support. A highly recommended theme for any bloggers, be it beginner or professional. Especially with the latest frugal 3.0, you can style your blog in any way you want without any programming and on top of that, the A+ premium support you will get from Eric.” ~ Raymond Goh, Blogger Helpdesk
“I am very happy with the frugalTheme and feel it is the best out there. No coding required and great SEO!” ~ Jordan DeTillio, The Referral Generation
“For someone like me who’s a “tinkerer” at best, frugal theme was an absolute blessing! I love technology but from a distance only and to finally come across something that followed through on it’s promise of “no coding experience necessary” AND looked clean and professional too was a first! The support is excellent – all of my questions (no matter how misinformed or embarrassingly basic) were answered promptly and thoroughly. frugal is brilliant!” ~ Susan Living, SusanLiving.com
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