175 – 8 Things to Look for in a WordPress Demo Theme

Announcements

• Daily Blogcast for Internet Marketing with Mark and Brian Episode 106
• WordPress 3.8.2 Security Release is available
  • Fixes 9 bugs and 3 security hardening changes
  • If you are running WordPress 3.7.1, then you’ll update to WordPress 3.7.2
• WordPress 3.9. Release Candidate is available
  • The plan is to ship next week
  • No more changes features added to the beta, just last minute fixes
• WordPress.org rolls out new profiles
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  • Great way to keep track of your
    • activity
    • plugins
    • themes
    • favorites
• Work at Automattic (Summer 2014 Internship)
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Tools / Plugins

• WordPress Reset is a plugin that restores the WordPress database back to it’s default state and wipes out all customizations. Only resets the database and not any theme or plugin files.

8 Questions to Ask When Selecting WordPress Theme

• Is everything in the demo included in the theme?
• Does the theme come with dummy content?
• Does the theme come with a user guide?
• Does this restaurant site actually have to be for a restaurant website?
• Do I really need 24 sliders and 79 color schemes?
• Is this theme 100% customizable? ie Drag and Drop
• Is support important to me?
• Are you willing to hire a programmer if the developer quits or discontinues a theme?