Premium WordPress Themes
September 30, 2010 Leave a Comment
I have been using WordPress on and off for a couple of years. What first attracted me to it was that it was free, and it was open source. I had little background with coding, so I didn’t want to build own my website from scratch. So when I first started using free themes on my wordpress sites. And I want to sincerely thank those people who spent their time developing free themes for people like me to use, and benefit from.
However, I had my photography on the website Smugmug.com. It was a great site, but it didn’t offer the options of WordPress since I had to work within their template, and could not choose my own theme like I can on any of my WordPress sites. So I switched it back over to WordPress. During my search for a good photography theme I decided to look at some premium theme providers. I finally settled on Infocus (link at the bottom of the post). It had everything that I wanted. It had a rotating splash page, and all different sorts of customizations, but the thing is when I started to set up the theme I was confused at stages. Each of these themes come with instructions for set up and use, however with all my technical prowess I still couldn’t figure out how to get some images working.
This is the difference between themes that you must pay for and free themes. I used the contact form provided by Themeforest and I received a reply within a day with how to get the theme working. That is the kind of support that one does not get with free themes. If one can’t figure out how to use the theme, or it isn’t compatible with a new version of WordPress then the user might be out of luck. The paid themes I have bought have all been upgraded to work with the new releases of WordPress, and also the author offers support for basic setup – not customizations.
While paid themes are not for everyone they do fill a specific niche, and very nicely. And if your website ever needs one please consider one of the friendly paid theme developers out there.
