The difficult choice of the right theme
I have been looking at a theme now for two months, VW Corporate Lite, and I thought it was good.
Nice clean lines, good white space and they had an upgrade version, at a modest cost (around $40 USD) so I was about to purchase this theme and keep on going.
But, then I noticed something. The colour in the header changed once you navigated to another page and the fonts in the menu were all capitalised. So I emailed them, the answer was to the effect that the upgraded version would allow the colour problem, and the menu text to be resolved.
At the same time I was setting up another site, and found a theme: OnePress.
This offered everything that I wanted and more without having to upgrade, and was just as nice and clean with good white space as the other theme!
Obviously I have not checked it out thoroughly as yet (as I installed it tonight).
You never can be too careful when choosing a theme, or any other product for that matter. Good theme-ing to all.
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I chose a theme without really thinking about it. Not sure if that is the best way to do it. Thankfully it has worked out fine for me.
Tried and true
Elaine
I had no idea what I was doing when I chose my theme in the first course of the certification course. I hate my theme, and want to change it, but am afraid I'll mess it up and lose my work. I know there is supposed to be a way you can see what the theme does and its options, but don't know how to find it. When I picked my theme, there was just a tiny picture of it on the screen along with a lot of others, and I had no idea of what to choose or why. Carol
Hi Carol,
How I found out these issues was to create a test site (using the free ones) and try out various themes. The downside is that unless you put posts and pages in to the test site there is a lack of issues to see.
So it is all a bit of work, but it saved me quite some effort in the long run, and only one change of theme on my production site was required.
If your site is new then changing a theme is not going to cause that many problems. If you lose something re-create or restore it.
Functionality within themes can be frustrating. I used to design themes when they were so much easier! LOL Wouldn't touch it for the world now. I just wish they would do better at explaining what functions that the theme has. Explain the functions not just list them. The theme I am using for some reason, takes my featured picture and blows it up really big, so I don't use it at all. You have to choose the one you like and make it work for you :)
I can do minor tweeks to some pages for themes,but only in the CSS files.
I guess developing a theme is something which you would need to be doing constantly to stay in the loop.
Being able to make some modifications with CSS would be a handy skill set to have.
Your point of explanations is what eventually led me to the change, there was a severe lack of desire to get it right, in my opinion.
I can certainly understand that! I dread looking through CSS files.There never seems to be any rhyme or reason!
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Wordpress and themes, have good points, and bad points.
Yes, just like life!