Friday, October 4, 2013

Premium WordPress Theme - Making the right choice!

It takes time to choose a WordPress theme after legitimate question for free or pay and under the assumption that you opt for a premium, here are some tips to help you make the right choice!

What To Your WordPress Theme Premium?

Premium WordPress themes there are dozens of specialized marketplaces also from Themeforest via Elegant Themes, the offer is plethora. However, the first question you need to ask yourself what is the purpose you intend to do.

Indeed, your site is it corporate, window, is it a blog, magazine or even a WordPress site for photographers? Before making your choice, proceed by selection/elimination and start with sort/filter templates offered.

Take the example of the platform in ThemeForest catches below and follow these steps:

ThemeForest


Find the category that interests you, and then refine it using the following filters: Date, price, author, rating, and sales.

Find the category


Although Read What Proposes Paying Theme
One way to avoid mistakes is to read the description by the developer. Almost everything is said, features, update, shortcodes, etc ... The screenshot below shows you the points to note:

the points to note


Read the “Features" or main characteristics, this is where you will find more details on the proposed theme. If you have trouble with English, translate the page using your browser or via Google Trad.

Features of theme

Pay attention to the frequency of updates, a theme requires changes and/or modifications, including safety but also for problems and incompatibilities when major updates to WordPress.

Also, make sure that the developer is responsive and answer questions, also check the existence of a support. Finally you are interested in comments, ratings and number of sales, but not an absolute guarantee, it is a good way to get feedback from previous buyers.

buyers


Models Of Pages

One of the advantages of a premium theme from a free theme is the provision of page templates. There are all kinds but mainly pages include:

  • Welcome
  • Contact
  • Blog
  • Portfolio

These page templates allow formatting easier, simply pre-fill some elements and voila. Saving valuable time and valuable assistance when you are short of ideas!

page templates

The Shortcodes Embedded

The Shortcode, one of the major advances in the history of WordPress development and one of the main reasons for its success. It is far time or if you want a code, you should write it yourself...
Pieces of code in brackets that you can literally “drop" in your articles, your pages, your footer or in your sidebars.
The premium themes are very fond and generally offer many shortcodes for WordPress (more or less useful) such as adding columns, info boxes, buttons, bulleted list, etc...

Shortcodes


Translation Ready

Make sure the theme is "Translation Ready" that is "ready to translate”, today it is increasingly rare to find Premium that is not.
Some themes even offer integrated translations (you can change it later - see translate its theme). Otherwise, be sure to check the file .in & .mo is provided, you never know!

Translation Ready


Theme Responsive or Not?

A responsive WordPress theme is a web template that will fit all terminal such as a smartphone, a tablet, a screen 9-24 site.
More themes offer this feature; your site is visible, responsive and aesthetic whatever support!



Content for Dummies

Also called the “Dummy content”, it is the provision by the developer of the theme of an XML file reproducing the same demo/preview of the theme. To enable and use is simple, import this file into your premium WordPress once installed using the "import" function.

Once the imported content, you can simply modify the existing according to your needs (images, text, call to action, etc.) and the site is made. Of course, it will require changes so that it is not a stupid copy of the demo but what time saver!

demo/preview


Although the Final To Choose The WordPress Theme...

Property sold/noted, updates, a developer who responds to requests/questions from buyers theme is already guarantee of quality !

Using the Preview remembers to check the speed and rendering of disputes browsers, including Internet Explorer and especially...

Using a premium WordPress theme is synonymous with security? No of course, not, just as the free, some are encoded with the feet and may contain security flaws. Moreover, the platform Themeforest removed (after a while) and some non-compliant themes based on user feedback.

So do not base your choice solely on this criterion; however, returns will alert you and tell you that developers are mostly dedicated and highly reactive, so never neglect the proposed updates.
A clever mix of all these criteria should help you make the right choice ;)
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