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WP Themes are Difficult to Select

Ayugen

Published on October 15, 2015

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They all look attractive and interesting at first but if you try many of them you will probably find there are problems with most and those problems will show up soon after you look through your work. Many other problems show up after doing some work, and especially adding corrections and deleting other stuff etc.

Things don't follow the font you are working with, picture titles never get centered, and titles in the sidebar become repeated and redundant for mysterious reasons. Often its impossible to find ways to change settings...I know with me I hit on that stuff almost accidentally. Then if I have to go back I mostly get lost looking for my place in the settings mode.

Do the free themes get put out there for free BECAUSE they are flawed? Why do some cost and others are free? Who thinks it would be worth it to pay for a "better" theme and find this work much easier as a result?

I mean it's ok but I just want to know if other people find these free themes much harder to tweak than we are led to believe?

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