WordPress is a great blogging platform, no doubt. But if you’ve been surfing through various WordPress themes websites lately, you’ll find 90% of them plain suck. Really, the one featured on the homepage of many sites are not even worth looking. Why is this the case?
WordPress Theme Directories Suck For A Reason…
Technology is now in everyone’s hands. You too, might learn how to create a WordPress theme in a matter of days. People simply put every one of their experiments into these theme sites, and such theme sites happily accept them, for they need more content.
Theme directories also get spammed by people who simply want backlinks. And there are numerous other reasons why you’ll spend more time on a theme directory than on developing your own website. But we’re not discussing it here anyways.
Find The Perfect WordPress Theme NOW…
What I’m going to describe is only one of the many methods to get you started. I know you might have also used search engines fruitlessly to land on the perfect theme. This method makes use of search engines, a little differently.
A good theme is often downloaded more number of times. But the factor that separates the good from the bad is the amount of time it’s used, not just downloaded. So here are your steps…
- Type it up!
In your favorite search engine, type keyword “powered by wordpress”. Substitute keyword for the niche you want a theme for, i.e. technology etc. I won’t recommend using the word say, “technology”, but rather words that you’re sure a technology blog might contain, maybe a hardware name? - Follow the blogs!
Search engines return results in descending order of relevancy and importantly authority to some extent. So you can make a fair assumption that the top blogs might be more “theme” conscious. Go to the footers of these blogs, and if they’re using a free theme, it’ll mostly contain the reference to it in the footer. Follow it and if you like the theme, download it. - One more tip
If the footer doesn’t contain helpful information, maybe the blog is using a custom or paid theme, or a free theme allowing removal of copyright. Check out the blog’s source, you’ll find the name of the theme in the declaration of the css file used for the page, something like: <link rel=’stylesheet’ href=’DOMAIN-NAME.com/wp-content/themes/THEME-NAME/….whatever’ type=’text/css’/>. Search for this theme name on google, you’ll land up on some more info.
Now There Is A Problem….
Most of the good themes are just used “many times”. It might hardly make a difference to you, depending on your niche. But still, if you really want good and “not-overused” themes, you could have little luck with the free ones. If you care about getting a good theme and don’t mind investing, paid themes are a good choice. A lot of hardwork goes into designing and coding good themes, and thus developers expect at least something in return, which is normally a nominal fee.
Here are some of the so called “theme clubs” that might interest you. You don’t pay for individual theme, but a nominal fee to access the entire collection for a set period. Isn’t that great?
Elegant Themes: Elegant Themes is very affordable at $19.95 for a year’s access. The themes are, well, quite elegant as the name suggests. You get access to all themes currently released and the future themes released during your subscription period. This seems to be a real bargain.
Woo Themes: Is a bit costly at $150 per three months, but is surely worth it. You’ll get access to the already available themes and those released during your subscription.
Know of any others? Write a comment below and I’ll add it!
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