in this video I'm going to show you the best personal blog WordPress theme I'm
going to show you which WordPress theme I used to make my blog look like this
here on the front page and that theme also allows my blog page to look like
this and the actual post pages to look similar to what you can see here on the
screen very nice and neat I'll also show you some other really awesome WordPress
themes that are aimed at personal blogs so let's get right into it over the last
couple of months I have had a lot of inquiries on my youtube channel via
comments asking which WordPress theme I used to make my front page look like
this and the theme that I use is optimized press smart theme so this is
the home page for that actual theme and of course this page itself is also made
with the smart theme the thing that I really like about this theme is that it
looks great right out of the box as soon as you install it it makes your website
look really good it's super easy to use so I'm gonna walk you through some of
the options and the reasons why I actually love this theme the way that
all fonts and typography are set up I have not changed any options I basically
just installed the theme and activated it and it makes really nice font for the
header and for the actual text of the blog posts you can also see a different
implementation on the actual optimize press website here as you can see the
font is still the same but they've just done a slightly different color scheme
and here on their website they're giving another example of another
implementation on their Brian t.com blog you can see that this theme looks quite
similar but just a little bit different if you click on any of these blog posts
you'll see it's just a different implementation different color color
scheme but it's all the same WordPress theme so that's why I think that this
optimize press smart theme is actually the best WordPress theme for a personal
blog if you guys want to check it out for yourself just go into the
description below and click the link that will take you through to this page
where you can check out the smart member optimized press theme now the thing
about it is that smart member theme actually
forms package of the optimized press suite so if you want to get this smart
theme then you need to get the whole optimize press suite this is a premium
theme so it does cost money but it's very price effective so the package that
I've got is this essential $1.99 per year and basically what you get here is
you can see that smart theme WP marketing theme is actually part of this
overall suite but the main sort of part of the actual suite is the optimized
press page builder so you can see for example this page itself is built in the
optimize press page builder and the front page of my actual website so what
I've done here is built using the optimized press page builder now
optimize press in my opinion is the best page builder I use it myself for all of
the websites and landing pages and sales pages that I built it's a drag and drop
type page builder it's it can do everything that the click funnels page
builder can do but it's a lot cheaper obviously as you can see it's $99 per
year whereas clickfunnels is starts at $100 a month and goes up to $300 a month
so it's it's a lot cheaper and that's why I think that the optimized press
package is actually really competitive because a lot of you guys have told me
that you've considered getting click funnels at some stage and in my opinion
click funnels I think it's it's a good software it's marketed by amazing
marketers but optimized press is actually you know the package that I
personally use it just makes a lot more sense because for $99 per year I get a
great page builder that lets me build pages like this and also it includes the
actual theme as well so you don't need to buy two things separately you can
just get one thing and you give the theme you get the optimized press page
builder and you also get a bunch of other stuff there's you know lead
generation tools etc you can check out all of the kind of bells and whistles
but the two things that I use from here are the
page builder and the theme smart theme is actually really easy to customize
they've got if you go into appearance and then theme options it has this menu
on the left-hand side it's very logical it you can change all of the options
that you can possibly think of header footer styling blog pages everything is
customizable in particular for typography it's set up in a really easy
way you can choose any of the google fonts for body font and headline font
you can set up all of that from here easily it has everything that you would
expect from a professional WordPress theme regular updates you know
everything is customizable and so if you guys decide to investigate this and you
possibly want to pick up the whole optimize press package if you do it
through my link which is in the description below I'm actually going to
give you a pretty awesome bonus so just check out that link you will get one of
my courses traffic generation and blogging courses as a bonus if you
decide to get optimized press package including smart theme if you decide to
pick it up through my link theme number two that I really like and that I think
is a great theme for a personal blog or for any simple blog is this theme here
called flat 'some I'm here on the flat sum website and I have used this theme
on many of my blogs on 3 I think of my personal blogs and I've also installed
it on many of my clients websites as well so I'm very familiar with this
theme it's fully customizable it's got everything that you can possibly want
and it looks professional and very nice and clean it also comes with several
demos and various ways of kind of having it laid out you can run an e-commerce
enabled blog with it you can also have other types of shops and there are also
business sort of layouts so the one that I personally really like is this one
here called corporate it is a simple-looking layout but it's very
clean and very customizable so a post on flat some corporate would look like this
once again it's very clean and you can change the font of anything you want
it's nice and light and if you go back into demos and you choose some of these
other ones you'll see some awesome layouts that they've got so if you
choose this agency one for example you see that it looks completely different
this front page looks more like an agency and if you go into
the blog option to see what the blog pages look like you'll see that it's
styled differently as well if you want to buy flats and theme just watch out if
you type in buy flats um you will see these ads setting the theme for for nine
tonight these are actually pirated versions they're not going to be
supported so make sure that you buy it from the flats um theme forest page here
and the theme is $59 but you get what you pay for this is a premium theme and
it comes with support it's been updated and it's one of the best selling themes
on theme forest so there is a reason for that because the theme is actually
really good and very flexible you can see it's been sold 115,000 times
so no surprise is there it is well proven theme now if you guys do want to
pick this up through my link once again I'm going to give you my blogging in
traffic course if you pick this up from a link so just check the link in the
description below for details lastly I'm also gonna show you a free
option for a personal blog WordPress theme
there is a lot of choice out there but the one theme that I've recently
discovered and that I really like is this one Hestia they have a free version
of the theme as well as a paid version of the theme so here i'll focus on
showing you the free version of the theme you can just google it and you can
basically jump to this website and download the theme if you want you don't
have to pay anything and here is the live demo of the theme you can see that
it actually looks very slick very modern it's got beautiful fresh colors as well
and here is what a blog post would look like so here is the default fonts but
you can of course customize everything as well so I invite you to check out the
Hestia theme if you're on a budget and you don't want to go for a premium theme
then you can just download this Hestia theme and you can start your website
with this theme that's it these are the options check the links in the
description below so that you can go straight to those themes to use them and
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