Wordpress themes

Theme Activation before Installing, how do you see it?

Update on February 17, 2018: It seems the list of themes that require activation before installing is increasing and I will keep updating my list regularly. Recently I noticed that a lot of theme authors would force you to activate your theme before being able to properly install it or even install the demo content …

I thought I would try to create a list of themes I’ve used and found to have true 1-click demo installs to help anyone looking for the right theme with this important features to find it with ease.

Installing WordPress Demo Content – Why Still a Challenge?

Installing WordPress theme demo content is still a challenging task until now. In this article we discuss why is that and what are the solutions that can help solve this problem.

5 Reasons Why you Should Not Buy the Avada Theme!

Avada is a very famous WordPress and it’s the No. 1 Selling Theme of All Times, according to it’s authors! So, why then did I title my article”5 Reasons you Should Not Buy the Avada Theme“?

Are all demo content for themes alike?

Recently I started doing some Express WordPress Installation Services on Envato Studio, and I learned a lot of valuable lessons that I thought were worth sharing. First of all, you can see all sorts of ways themes are to be installed and to my surprise one area was so obvious which is installing demo content that …

When I first started modifying WordPress themes, I did that the wrong way, which involved editing existent themes with my styles, and how painful that was when one client did an auto-update for the theme a while later washing out all my work!

Then I took a step further by building my own themes based upon blank themes, those themes give you a fully functional WordPress template with no styling at all, and this went quite well for some time, although it was kind of doing a lot of work each time with the basic structure and formatting for all elements over and over again. I used Blank theme by Chris Coyier, then Starkers theme by Elliot Jay Stocks.

Recently I heard a lot about the concept of Child themes, and soon it became my favorite way of creating WordPress-based sites most of the time, and here is why…

Best WordPress themes I’ve worked with

As a WordPress designer I’ve worked with lots of themes from different sources, and over the time I could tell which were good ones and where were not.

I will try to cover here some of the best themes I’ve worked with to give you a heads up on where to go when looking for quality themes.

1. Blank or Bare-bones themes:

If you’re a designer like me, you would be looking for themes that have no styling at all to apply your custom work to it, and there are some really good ones for this:

Blank Theme by Chris Coyier
Starkers theme by Elliot Jay Stocks
Thematic by Theme Shaper which uses the principle of Child theme to customize.

2. Quality Free Themes:

One of the greatest thing about WordPress is the availability of thousands of quality free themes for it to make it super easy for you to find any style you’re looking for, and here are some of the best I’ve seen: