HeatMap Theme Pro Review - WPReviewLab

HeatMap Theme Pro by StuartCindy Art is a theme specifically developed for Adsense sites, review-based affiliate sites, squeeze pages, and blogs.

This theme supports natively two WordPress 3 menus – above or below the page header.

HeatMap Theme Pro adds three custom widgets to the default Widgets:

Feedburner
Recent Posts Plus Thumbnails
RSS Icons

This theme incorporates 24 widgetized areas:

5 widebar and sidebar areas
8 areas in the header, subheader and navigation
6 in the content area
5 in the footer and subfooter

The widebar are full sidebar width areas at the top and bottom of the sidebar, while the sidebar areas are narrow – about half sidebar width – areas in the sidebar.

The theme offers the following collection of page templates:

Default
Blog
Gallery – No Left/Right Widgets
Google Search Results
Page/Post Ads Off
Page/Post Ads Full Width
Page/Post Ads Full Width – No Widgets
Page/Post No Thumbs
Page/Post No Widgets
Page/Post With Auto Intro
Site Map

HeatMap Theme Pro extends the New/Edit Page and Post screen with SEO fields. The Post screen is further extended with an excerpt field for the Recent Posts Plus Widget, and a toggle box for affiliate related details:

Affiliate Link Text
Affiliate Link
Affiliate Link nofollow checkbox
Featured Image Link
Featured Image Link nofollow checkbox

The HeatMap Options

The HeatMap Pro Theme adds two pages to the Appearance Module – HeatMap Options and HeatMap Ads.

The options panel serves twelve toggle boxes with options to personalize your theme:

HeatMap Theme Options Panel
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Home Page
SEO
Theme Structure
Header and Logo
Navigation
Pages and Posts
Footers
Featured Images
Google
Social Network Icons
Header and Footer Locking
Additional Scripts and CSS

The Home Page options give you the opportunity to include the text of a page above the blog posts, or even set the homepage to a full width static page like for business websites.

When you prefer a third-party plugin for your search engine optimization, you can easily disable the theme’s SEO functions with one check box. Otherwise, you can tweak the theme’s SEO settings here.

Within the Theme Structure you can activate the Squeeze mode, disable all sidebars, or swap the sidebar to the other side of the content area.

You can upload your logo and favicon at the Header and Logo section.

The settings of the menus are customized within the Navigation box. You can choose from four styles (Classic, Below/Above Header, Wide), and determine in which menu where to integrate the search form. Alternatively, you can disable one or both of the menus.

Under Pages and Posts, you will find check boxes to hide titles, meta and comments on single page, single post and index pages.

Custom text for (sub)footers – left as well as right – can be entered in text areas in the Footer box.

The Featured Images area lets you position the Featured Images for index pages, and singular posts pages. For each of these, you can opt for left, right or off.

At the Google box, you can enter the code for your Custom Search Engine (CSE), and tracking with Google Analytics.

The Social Network Icons box lets you enter your details for Feedburner, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube, LinkedIn, Google+. These icons can be included in either of the two navigation menus. In addition, you can activate the share buttons for Google+, Twitter and Facebook.

With Header and Footer Locking you prevent the header respectively the footer to scroll, by fixing them on the screen. You can set your preference for header and footer locking here.

Last, but not least, you get two text boxes to enter JavaScript code and custom CSS for the header.

HeatMap Ads

HeatMap Ads – Additional Ad Units 1-5
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The HeatMap Ads can be considered as the ad manager of the HeatMap Pro Theme. HeatMap Ads serves 26 ad units – text boxes where you can enter the code for your ads.

Besides that, you can check on what pages the ad should be displayed. Your options are :

Home
Page
Post
Category
Search
Archive

Pricing

A license of HeatMap Theme Pro v5 comes $67 and allows you to use the theme on an unlimited number of domains. In addition, you get lifetime access to updates, the User Guide, and the HeatMap Insider Support Forum.