WordPress is a simple tool used by millions of webmasters. Did you know Google has a whole department dedicated to political adword accounts? We didn’t either until recently.
There are many political candidates using WordPress to manage their online presence. As the United States Presidential campaigns of Barack Obama and Howard Dean showed, the web is one of, if not the most important tool for political organizing.
Here are our picks for WordPress themes best suited for political applications. The criteria we used to evaluate themes were:
- Layout – political WordPress themes need to grab visitors’ attention quickly and convert visitors to action-takers.
- Design – political WordPress themes send a message about an individual candidate. They are not just a design, but a brand that must be sold.
- Function – themes should have lots of room for widgets and sidebar content.
- Integration – good political WordPress themes should integrate smoothly with social networking sites, social bookmarking, streaming media, Twitter and similar organizing tools.
- Customizable – no political candidate should use an out-of-the-box theme without customizing it to fit their campaign, their constituency and their message.
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Shailendra from Hotel Booking
Thanks a lot Cyrus for a great post.
The biggest advantage of WordPress is its ease of integration and customization. These two things along with many others have made it the most popular blogging platform in the world.
donnie from Website Design Chattanooga
I’m thinking that Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakle should have had a WordPress site. Seems like she didn’t do a good job getting her message across.
Inside the Webb
Really awesome wordpress blog you’re running here! I always love finding new and inspiring blogs to help me out with my own blogging, and this really takes the cake.
Simon
Thanks for the complement Bonita!
Darren from New Honda CRV Philippines
Good timing, it’s election time over here, maybe I’ll offer to design some websites
Outsourcing Europe
Very handy.. Thanks
Dan
I have actually started to get spam from political candidates. I am sure they are unaware of this tactic but man they need to be careful who they hire for their internet campaigns
Thalita from sultan costumes
Hi, you’ve pretty amazing post in here. I’m surprise to know that Google spent a lot space for politician. Thanks for sharing this information.
abgajoy from kek lapis sarawak
I like the MyStream theme I guess it look very suitable for my web. Thanks.