Designer: Wpthemescreator
Theme version: 1.0
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Memory Book Theme Review
Setting It Up
The Setting up of the Memory Book theme is quite simple enough and is done in quite the same way as any other Wordpress Theme. All that one has to do is download the memory-book.zip file and extract it to the /memory-book/ folder. Next, the folder has to be simply uploaded to the /wp-content/themes directory of an ftp client (say like Filezilla). All that remains to be done now is to activate the theme through the WordPress admin panel under the Appearance or Presentation Tab.
Features
The Memory Book is a free theme which can be used for personal blogs. The visuals of the Memory Book theme are simple enough. It just consists of four basic colors, namely white, orange, brown and gray. The background image is nothing very spectacular, let us face it; we have seen themes which have some awesome backgrounds. Moving on, the theme basically consist of two columns, the column on the right is a sidebar containing the RSS feed subscription link, the search bar, the Categories Section, the Archives section and the Recent Posts Section. The theme has links to its Pages incorporated in the header section of the theme. The topmost post in any page is a sticky post. The posts in the pages have the usual classifications, like there are posts with an image in them, posts where an excerpt is shown and also posts which have links and 3 pages within it.
There are a few major drawbacks of this theme though. The components of the theme are not quite well arranged. The quality of the code used by the designer in the design process of this theme is not quite up to the mark. A few very obvious discrepancies that can be seen are the RSS feed link creeping over the tab of a page. The date of the sticky post is overlapping on the current page name. All these defects have a negative effect on the person following the blog. There is no Help and Support section provided by the Designer for the users of this theme, so if they face any problems, they will have to work it out on their own. The Post Area is improperly aligned, with the area for images also being improperly aligned. The Memory Book theme also does not support nesting of comments, thus making it difficult for the blogger to keep track of who is replying to whom in the comments. There is also no feature for auto adjustment of the Side Bar. It might seem like a trivial issue, but it does complicate matters once an image or quite a lot of text is to be put in a section. In that case, the side bar may overlap with the text or image area, thus causing huge problems for the followers of the blog.
Theme Score
General : 69%SEO : 72%
Overall : 71%
Category
| no. | General Test Item | Point | Pass | Fail |
| 1 | W3C Compliant - XHTML | 2 |  | |
| 2 | W3C Compliant - CSS | 2 | | |
| 3 | Browser Compatibility - IE7 | 1 | | |
| 4 | Browser Compatibility - Firefox | 2 | | |
| 5 | Browser Compatibility - Chrome | 1 | | |
| 6 | Support from Designer | 2 |  | |
| 7 | Post area - Proper Image Alignment | 1 | | |
| 8 | Post area - Floating Content | 1 | | |
| 9 | Post area - Auto Adjustment | 1 | | |
| 10 | Post area - Nested/Threaded Comments | 1 | | |
| 11 | Sidebar - Auto Adjustment | 1 | | |
| 12 | Sidebar - Link Hierarchy | 1 | | |
| Total | 16 pts | 11 pts | ||
| Theme Score | 69% | |||
| no. | SEO Test Item | Point | Pass | Fail |
| 1 | W3C Compliant - XHTML | 1 | | |
| 2 | W3C Compliant - CSS | 1 | | |
| 3 | Home page Heading SEO | 1 | | |
| 4 | Post & Page Heading SEO | 1 | | |
| 5 | Post & Page Title Tag (Title as seen in SERPs) | 1 | | |
| 6 | Content Code Position | 2 | | |
| Total | 7 pts | 5 pts | ||
| Theme Score | 72% | |||
For the details of each of the tested criteria above, click here
Tested on: Wordpress ver 2.9Preview on: Wordpress ver 3.0.1 (Strict Test)
Why are there 2 Wordpress vers?
Theme testing in such detail is a tedious process. We try our very best to present the most accurate information about the theme.
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