The Guru Theme for Marketers
Are you a guru, an expert, a coach or consultant? The The Guru Theme is what you need for personal branding and impressing your potential clients.
The Guru Theme for WordPress focuses on building your brand name and portfolio, by nurturing credibility and trust with your readers. It’s not a theme meant for Google Adsense advertising or annoying banners, although you can put them in if you want.
Right on top is a huge image space to create your own blog banners and headers, probably with a professional image of yourself.
Next, we have 3 sidebars in total, with the main wider sidebar on top of the other 2 sidebars, giving you massive flexibility on using WordPress widgets to completely customize the type of information you want to put out.
All the subscribe buttons and search form is neatly laid out right on top, with support for Feedburner RSS and email subscription.
However, the really cool part of The Guru Theme is the ability to have a complete testimonials page, with a rotating widget that displays a random testimonial.
To do this you need to install the WP Testimonials plugin and while creating your testimonials page, select the template “Testimonials” from the Page Templates section, and load up on the testimonials or portfolio information.
The plugin then allows you to add a random rotating testimonial in the sidebar, via widgets.
The Guru Theme Features List
Full features of The Guru Theme:
- Simple theme, 3 sidebars, widget-ready with enhanced tags usage
- Bigger branding space – header image comes in Photoshop (.psd) file which you can edit to put your face or other images
- Modify header image and blog titles easily from the options page
- Customize your FeedBurner RSS feed and email subscription links easily from the options page.
- One wide sidebar on top which you can use to rotate testimonials, your you tube videos, Flickr image of anything else via WordPress widgets
- Dedicated testimonials page to display all your client testimonials and portfolio
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Version / Changelog
Current Version: 2.1
- Compatible with Wordpress 2.7x
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I just downloaded this theme for my site. It looks great. My previous site used the Simplered theme. I love what comes from profitblogger.com.
However, there seems to be something wrong and my site randomly reverts to the default theme. Any advice/suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
@ Day – I think you didnt upload the style.css file completely, therefore it reverts to the default theme
Hi,
You need to delete your themes from the previous and sometime this happend because you installed too many WP on your Public_html. When people look into your keyword,you will see the previous template. Try to check on your theme editor also. TQ
Love the Guru Theme, Gobala!
Question about how you made the 3 column format into 2, like on
gobalakrishnan.com. Basically, how did you do that?
Sure it’s something easy I am overlooking.
Thanks!
@ Cara – gobalakrishnan.com is no longer using the Guru Theme. Used to but now Im testing some other theme
I just uploaded this very cool guru theme and would like to use the testimonial plug-in mentioned as well. The link above goes to an error page… can you point me in the right direction?
Thanks!
Hi Gobala..
I love the The Guru Theme too, thank you. But the page width is exceeding my screen width (1024 pixels). I like the page to fit nicely. Which code should I look for to adjust it. I’m using NotePad++ to edit.
Thank you again..
@ Yunus – 1024 pixels is pretty small for today’s monitor sizes, you may want to consider also that YOUR resolution may not be your readers resolution. That being said, you can edit the “wrapper” and “content” definitions in the CSS file. Using NotePad you may want to do a quick search for “px” and you can see all the different size variations in pixels.