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WP Themes

by AJD101
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Anyone got any suggestions on the best and most customizable premium (or not) WP Themes
#themes
  • Profile picture of the author LovelyCornSyrup
    That's a really general question. Do you mind being a little more specific? Because there are plenty of highly customizable business themes, minimalist themes, blog themes, portfolio themes, corporate themes, etc. that are fantastic.
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  • Profile picture of the author paulie888
    I like Thesis a lot because it's really customizable, and in its most basic form is kind of like a blank slate where you can make it become any kind of site you want it to be...in other words, very chameleon-like!

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    Flexibility 3 Released
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    Hey

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  • Profile picture of the author Krieger
    Thesis is definitely one of the most customizable ones I know. Like paulie888 said it's more like a framework that you can easily build your own stuff on top of.

    That said, highly customizable themes can be a real resource hog. Every option it gives you needs to be stored in the database and even though settings don't change once you got your site up, every page request now requires WP to make so many more database lookups to read the current settings and to do the processing to apply them. It can really slow down your site if you get a lot of traffic.

    So, with a highly customizable theme, do not forget to install a caching plugin. Or what I often do, I hard-code the things that never change right into the template files.
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    • Profile picture of the author Karen Blundell
      the problem with Thesis is it is not newbie-friendly and everybody's using it..hohum...boring!

      I always recommend the free themes from WordPress.org...you can't get your theme listed on WordPress.org without adhering to WordPress's guidelines.
      So you know that any theme you download from WordPress.org will work properly.

      My personal favorite is Graphene...I've been able to create some nifty child themes for it.
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  • Profile picture of the author chooch
    I use the Socrates theme...it's premium...but not as expensive as Thesis.

    It's very customizable...easy to use (even for beginners). You can set up a basic blog or website in about 5 mins. It is made for WordPress. You can make squeeze pages and sales letters with this theme also.
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  • Profile picture of the author AJD101
    thanks to you all I went with thesis
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  • Profile picture of the author kenny5
    Wordpress has a new default theme, can't remember what it is called, that is actually very versatile. I like it a lot.

    Last time I used WP it was the default theme installed as soon as you install WP.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulie888
      Originally Posted by kenny5 View Post

      Wordpress has a new default theme, can't remember what it is called, that is actually very versatile. I like it a lot.

      Last time I used WP it was the default theme installed as soon as you install WP.
      I think you mean the WP Twenty Ten theme. Yes, this is amazingly useful out of the box, and is far more flexible and visually interesting than the previous WP default theme!

      Paul
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  • Profile picture of the author theentry
    There are many free premium themes out there, but I usually search for min. 30 minutes to find the most suitable one for my actual project.. It's hard to share the best because it highly depends on the site and on your mind which will you like
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