In the previous post we saw about TechMaish and Wp-Soul wordpress themes, today let us discuss about NicheWP 3.0 another free theme.
This two column theme features white background with thumbnails displayed on home page, Bookmark Buttons and Author bio at the end of every post, visible Search box at the header, Footer Widget, consumes very little CPU resource (Queries made to load home page – 18, Queries made to load single post – 20), and optimized for search engines (Basic optimization).
Note: Queries made may differ depending upon plugins and theme options.
Advantages:
- Clean design
- Consumes very little CPU resource, best for shared host blogs
- h1, h2 tags included
- Features mobile support
- Widgets at sidebar and footer
- Inbuilt search box
- Social share buttons
- subscribe buttons at the bottom
- Author box after post
- Avatars support
- Thumbnails support
- Easy navigation
- Works fine with WordPress 3.4
- Inbuilt popular Categories widget
- Free, you can get this theme here (http://www.nichewp.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/nichewp3.zip)
Disadvantages:
- No theme panel at dashboard to customize the theme easily
- No inbuilt image logo support
- No slots for advertisements
- Not available in different colors (However style sheet can be edited)
- No Meta tags at home page
- No specific section to add analytics code at footer
