Best WordPress Theme Company?

by larrylef

Posted: 12 years ago 38 replies

WEB DESIGN

Greetings All,

I would very much like to hear your opinions on which are the best WordPress themes. For me, they need to meet at least these criteria:

There needs to be a fairly wide assortment of templates, all based on the same frameowork. I would like to learn how to use one framework.
They need to have very professional design (at least a good number of them)
They need to come with a layered Photoshop file so they are easily customizable
They need to have a decent assortment of templates (page layouts) and widgets available (photo gallery, social media, seo etc.)
Well supported and updated regularly to fix bugs and keep up with changes in WordPress
They come from a company that's been around for a while and will be around for a while.

Right now, WooThemes and StudioPress are looking very good. Have you had any experience with other excellent templates?

All the Best,

Larry

#company #studiopress #theme #woo themes #wordpress #wordpress themes

pamb10

12 years ago

You should take a look at the Genesis framework from Studiopress. Lots of options and child templates are available. There is also Thesis Framework from DIYThemes.

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larrylef 12 years ago

Thanks Pam! I'll have a look.
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samsharen

12 years ago

Originally Posted by pamb10

You should take a look at the Genesis framework from Studiopress. Lots of options and child templates are available. There is also Thesis Framework from DIYThemes.

Hi Pamb. I thought Thesis Framework was for advance level.

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aeboi80 12 years ago

Originally Posted by samsharen

Hi Pamb. I thought Thesis Framework was for advance level.

Note: Pam recommended Genesis and not Thesis. You are correct though, for a brand new person to wordpress, Thesis is probably not the easiest theme to configure, but its certainly not difficult. I've never been much of a fan of it myself, but Genesis is nice :-)
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WebSouthSols

12 years ago

Originally Posted by pamb10

You should take a look at the Genesis framework from Studiopress. Lots of options and child templates are available. There is also Thesis Framework from DIYThemes.

I second that. Studiopress is great and if you have any issues their support forum is pretty good.

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larrylef 12 years ago

Thanks very much. A lot of people are liking Studiopress
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- larrylef 12 years ago
  
  Thank you. Very nice; especially Splendid.
  
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PromoDirect 12 years ago

Press75.com has some really amazing themes. Their packages are pretty affordable too.
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- larrylef 12 years ago
  
  Thanks promodirect. Indeed press75 has some very nice ones.
  
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- samsharen 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by PromoDirect
  
  Press75.com has some really amazing themes. Their packages are pretty affordable too.
  
  Your website is very professional.
  
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  larrylef 12 years ago
  
  Why thank you. My website is a from scratch custom design I did a few years ago.
  
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myeanne 12 years ago

Hi larrylef,

Feel free to check out freewordpresspremium.com

They offer great themes and services.
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- larrylef 12 years ago
  
  Thanks so much. Very nice. A lot of good suggestions here!
  
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TCstr8 12 years ago

I would check out Catayst. Brand new to websites, and am absolutely in love with all the customization that's possible. And the support forum has been outstanding.
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mmrumii 12 years ago

If you have enough time you can have a look on this site.
graphpaperpress(.)com , I'm not sure about this site but I'm hopeful.
I've visited few days ago. It's a good stuff.
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JerrickYeoh 12 years ago

Have you heard of themefuse.com? I think they do provide lot of professional themes that might suite you .
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Few days ago I got some wordpress themes from this site.
I hope you will find your best
freewordpresspremium(dot)com
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larrylef 12 years ago

I want to thank you for your excellent suggestions. I have checked them out and learning a lot. I will soon share some of the things I've learned here....
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- rhinocl 12 years ago
  
  You might take a look at themeframe by bytesforall
  
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seoproservices 12 years ago

studiopress and themeforest are good one..
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meatro 12 years ago

I personally prefer ThemeForest because there's so much more available there.

However, my favorite theme companies are RocketTheme, YooTheme, StudioPress..

The thing about ThemeForest, is that many of the makers there use the frameworks from these larger companies.. You can find plenty of themes on there using Genesis, Gantry, etc. frameworks.

BTW, my favorite framework is probably Gantry.
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nstephan 12 years ago

Genesis framework is a great one! Others generally are based on option, what you might like others might not... But Genesis framework is a great one to check into! Nice site as well, might want to add some ref images of the sites on your site, to keep the users from leaving your page as much... hope all is well!
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ColorVila 12 years ago

have a check colorvila.com
We supply quality WordPress Theme at affordable price, also the incredible support!
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pinterest01 12 years ago

i go with elegant and wootheme... they are amazing designer there...
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michael0109 12 years ago

I think citywpthemes.com this is best for all. This website provide for you reasons why choose the best wordpress themes for all category. Good luck!
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Wasim 12 years ago

I'm currently using Thesis on my site and everything seems ok but I would just like to say that, to a certain extent, to customise Thesis really well it helps to know atleast the basics of HTML & CSS, that's how I've managed to make my site look the way it does.

I'm not sure whether the other Themes mentioned in the above posts require this basic knowledge or not. It would be interesting to know this.
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hotlinks 12 years ago

premiumpress(.)com it's good
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Nurkholis Hidayat 12 years ago

you can try Colorlabsprojetc(.)com.

their themes are awesome and all of their themes are responsive !!!

Actually now they have a bundle promo for their themes. I think the price is pretty cheap
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- CampbellMcArthur 12 years ago
  
  Thesis and Genesis Frameworks are as good as it is going to get for premium theme Frameworks for WordPress. I have developed with both Genesis and Thesis and my verdict is that Thesis is the Better Framework between the two.
  
  Plus the Thesis Support Forum is Top Shelf and it literally takes minutes or possibly a couple of hours "tops" to get you questions answered even customization ones too. Where as with Genesis, bleh, you will some times have to wait 3 -4 days to get a simple question answered. That is if they do not Stone wall you and say that the question falls within the realm of customization beyond the scope of the forums.
  
  Personally, I got real sick of that B.S in a real hurry. Wait three days to get a lousy response and that would be what I ended up with.
  
  Genesis has gotten too big for their britches and the support has gone way down hill. As a point of interest Thesis is much faster by a long shot over Genesis as far as load times go even with the exact same plugins installed, The Genesis Site will definitely need a cache plugin where as the Thesis site absolutely will not! Yes there is that much difference!!!
  
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- ryanoryan 12 years ago
  
  What are people's opinions on Woo-themes?
  I've been looking at some nice templates over there.
  
  I already have Thesis, any good reccomendations for child themes?
  
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jayceeme2010 12 years ago

try searching in google. try Colorlabsprojetc(.)com.
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Dainis 12 years ago

not a fan of studiopress.

moving my whole site network over to pagelines.

mostly happy so far -- but pagelines kind of stumbled with their 2.0 release.

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- Certitude 12 years ago
  
  I like Mojo Themes and Elegant Themes.
  
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rantrally 12 years ago

I've used Woothemes in the past and been very happy with them. I'd recommend them to anyone.
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fixie 12 years ago

Elegant themes have great support and very nice themes. I would go with them.
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- ryanoryan 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by fixie
  
  Elegant themes have great support and very nice themes. I would go with them.
  
  Cheers, they look very good value. Only $89 for the developer versions.
  
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shantanu 12 years ago

Will this work for you >> Wordpress Corporate Template
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UMS 12 years ago

I recently came across Mysitemyway « Premium WordPress Themes

They have very good documentation and support. Themes are very flexible.
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