ThemeForest has a pretty bad rap in the WordPress world. It's incredibly popular for anyone who doesn't know anything about HTML & CSS because of the cheap prices and huge selection. There is of course a catch – the cheap prices reflect the quality of some of these themes. While the screenshots look nice the code infrastructure that you pay for is very poorly built. If you have any aspirations to use one of these themes in anyway other than the author intended you'll likely run into a whole bunch of issues. I recently modified a ThemeForest theme (which I'm not going to name) for a friend and here are just some of the issues I ran into.
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Web 920 Presentation: Child Themes
Tonight I was able to present on WordPress Child Themes at Web920, our local web meetup group.
WooThemes for Silicon Valley Bloggers and Writers Presentation
Here's my slides from the WooThemes presentation at the Silicon Valley Bloggers & Writers meetup group.
WordPress Theme Providers
A fellow WordPresser sent me an email today asking about WordPress Theme Providers and I thought I'd spend a few more minutes on the response and share it here for everyone.
I’ve got a new project and I’m debating about recommending they purchase a responsive theme, or if I should design one myself. I was trying to remember something you said from past meetings. Did you say avoid ThemeForest? If yes, why?
WordPress Themes – What They Should Be
One of the requests we get asked all the time at WooThemes is, “Which theme should I choose?”. I understand why people ask this question but unfortunately it isn't a simple answer. There's a lot of variables and things you have to understand before you pick a theme. The most important of which is what themes shouldn't do…