149 – How to a Pick a Perfect WordPress Theme
Listener Feedback
Chad Warner from Optimwise.com says “I believe StudioPress re-issues their child themes under new names when they’re updated. For example, they recently re-issued Executive as Executive Pro. The child themes don’t get automatic updates like Genesis does. So, you don’t need to worry about StudioPress child themes being overwritten. However, your approach still makes sense in cases where you want to manually update to a newer version of a child theme in the future.
My current process is renaming the child theme using instructions at http://www.digitalredeye.com/wordpress/how-to-rename-genesis-child-theme, but I may start using your approach.”
How to a pick a Perfect WordPress Theme
- Pick between a theme and a framework
- Genesis, Headway, Builder, Thesis
- Themeforest
- Make sure you are looking through WordPress themes
- Once you find one that you like visually
- Look to see how many times it’s been downloaded
- Look at the number of comments
- Look through the details of what’s included with the theme
- Free Themes
- Typically won’t have support included
- Typically won’t have built in sliders, shortcodes etc.
- Typically won’t have options to customize through a built in settings panel
- How important is support?
- WooCommerce has a team of 12 people
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