I installed my first Socrates theme on an affiliate site my son is working on this morning. I watched the 20 min video showing how a compete Wordpress site could be setup and monetized using this theme.
Would this be just another false promise? I thought if this theme worked as good as they said it does I could change many of my affiliate sites that have been sitting around collecting dust.
After I purchased and downloaded Socrates I watched the video that they made on their site at easyauthoritysite.com. It was a piece of cake to install. Just use your favorite FTP program or upload the zip file in the Wordpress Admin area under Appearance > Add New Themes.
After activating the plugin I clicked on the link at the bottom of the left sidebar it took a minute to figure out where to go. I soon realized that you just need to click through each of the links in the sidebar. The first link was the Layout link. With 5 layouts to choose from it’s like building your own theme from scratch but without having to spend hours learning any programming languages.
Going down the page there is an area to add your Google Analytic ID. Since I use the Google analytic plugin I wasn’t sure if I should add it here or in the plugin admin. No instructions were given. The next areas are the monetization features. Is all you have to do is click on some buttons, copy and paste some code and now you have an advertising banner or Adsense bar.
Next you just add your social media links, Facebook, Twitter and your site’s RSS feed then save your work and your site is instantly monetized. This was as easy as I have seen. I tried the several others like Affiliate Theme and was never able to get the site looking quite right.
The next link is the Navigation area. Not sure if I understand their reasoning for this section because you have to manually input the Page urls for them to display properly. This also conflicted with a plugin I use called Exclude Pages plugin. I use this so that some of the pages I want displayed only in the footer won’t be used in the site’s main nav area. I hope they fix this area and make if a little more intuitive.
Then the next link called styling was a breeze. Just pick your color theme and your done.
The header section is one of the most powerful features in this plugin. There are a number of premade header graphics that you can customize slightly and in there members area on the blog I downloaded about 40 more that I could use for later niches. The biggest benefit I see is not having to wait for my graphics guy to make me a header for my affiliate site. I save time and money with this powerful feature. The site’s name and tag line are very customizable and worked like a charm.
Finally the last link is the background. I had picked out a nice looking background and was done in about 90 seconds. Would have been less but I was playing around with different looks.
Imagine having a text file with all of this information handy and you could have a complete blog setup and monetized in 10 minutes as Joel and Dan showed in the video presentation.
So here is their feature list:
Built in Header Generator
160+ Niche Header Designs (NOW OVER 200)
Custom Navigation Bars
Optional Built In Adsense and Clickbank Ad Bar
Social Media Slider
Choose from Dozens of Backgrounds On The Fly
Custom Styling and Color Options
Affiliate Program Integration
Custom HTML Rotator
Multiple Sidebar Layouts
Internet Marketing and Wordpress Training
Monetize With Any Affiliate Program or Network
My conclusion is that this theme is worth every penny they are charging. In fact I can’t believe they aren’t charging twice or three times as much. It is really cool! I have hired my son to install this on multiple sites as I have purchased a multisite license. Make sure you go over to Joel and Dan’s site at http://easyauthoritysite.com.
Disclaimer:
I have not been paid to write this review and if you use my link I will get an affiliate commission. In my opinion this was the fasted way to customize a wordpress theme and you will save hours searching for broken or incompatible themes on the Wordpress site.
Take Care,
P.S. You won’t go wrong so head over and buy Socrates Wordpress Theme right NOW!
