Custom coded theme – feedback appreciated

  • Hey all you developers,

    I was wondering if you could take a look at https://www.apeldoorndirect.nl and tell me what you think of the themes functionality. The design was done by someone else, but all the coding was done by me, as my first ever WordPress project. For school as work experience as well so still a rookie ??

    So yea, thanks in advance to all who take some time out of their day!

    Nukeface

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  • I like the layout, nice job. A few suggestion:

    Do your SEO before going live, always. Doing later only takes away from your ranking and fills up the search engines with irrelevant description and keywords which won’t help you one bit.

    Ask your designer to optimize your header images, they are ungodly heavy. They are over 250kb and if I was on a bad connection, I would close your page in a heart beat.

    don’t show all the posts on the front page, that what you have your category pages for. it will speed up the site and also will give fresh content to each page.

    All in all i like it very much.

    Cheers,

    Chris

    Thread Starter Nukeface

    (@nukeface)

    Hey Chris,

    Thanks for the quick reply! I’ve told the designer about the large images and he’s going to look into it.

    The SEO was done by the company I do the work experience, but if I’m correct the SEO was already in place before the new theme replaced the ugly one they were using at the time.

    By the way, do you know of any sticky post position customisation plugins around? I’ve hacked a way through query_posts and calling the home page posts one at a time to allow for customly placed stickies, but it’s an ugly wee piece of code (though I couldn’t find a better option around).

    Anyway, thanks for the feedback! ??
    Nukeface

    <meta name="description" content="Jouw stadsbuzzz" />
	<meta name="keywords" content="" />

    your meta keywords, title tags, and descriptions are all empty on every page and post. Download the SEO ultimate plugin and hack your way through it. once you are completely finished, submit a sitemap to major search engines and directories.

    I’m not aware of any sticky plugin (I’ve never used any), but you’re doing the right thing. If it’s your own site, I wouldn’t worry about it since you know what you did, but if you’re building it for someone else, maybe finding a plugin or writing a function is in order.

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