If you have a WordPress blog or are considering starting a WordPress Blog, I invite you to take a look at the professional themes from Michael Oeser at DER PRiNZ WordPress Themes and Digital Media (aff). Both my sites, the one you are reading this article on and my primary blog, Then Life Happens, use Michael’s Branford Magazine Pro Theme.

The theme is highly customizable from a very well done administrative settings page. It has fully customizable menu bars and category layouts and will even integrate WordPress special menus into it’s menu bars. You can select from several blog colors for your site or manually edit the specially created style sheet files to the color/style of your liking. The theme also allows for fully customizable headers and footers. It is, by far, one of the best magazine style themes available for WordPress today.

Furthermore, the theme comes with pre-defined special page layouts including a Featured Content Page and a special Three Column Page layout. Michael also includes special widgets that do a variety of functions from displaying your tweets to providing a list of articles from the current category – all of which integrate beautifully into the theme’s many styles. The widgets can be placed in any of the many widgetized areas in the theme including the specialty pages, sidebars, footers and pre/post content.

Michael doesn’t stop at providing a fantastic WordPress theme, however. At his support site, you have access to a number of tutorials and the tips and tricks necessary to make the very most out of his themes. Also located at the support site is his support forum… it’s a repository of intelligent conversation and questions/answers about the themes and how to troubleshoot any issues you may be having. I have always felt welcome at the forum, even as a relative newby to WordPress.

I don’t promote a lot of products and I certainly don’t associate my name with products that I don’t consider the best in the industry. In the two years I have been using Branford Magazine Pro, it has been updated/improved several times and, each time, Michael was available for any issues should they arise. DER PRiNZ themes will take your blog to the next level whether you’re a seasoned WordPress blogger or brand new to the community.