Where does your Wordpress come from?

[Blue Wren]

Hello all

Just trying to get a consensus of where most people here get their Wordpress Themes from, and was it worth the cost (if any)?

Ones that spring to mind:

Elegant Themes
StudioPress
Artisteer
Builder Theme
Catalyst Theme

...and more.

Thank you

 

[draggar]

I make my own though Artisteer - it's probably the best non-domain / non-hosting investment I've made yet.

 

[INFORG]

elegantthemes.com

 

[Blue Wren]

:bump2:

Thank you.

 

[dmyre]

elegantthemes.com

+1

 

[DN BROKER]

I find a free one and modify it to a unique design myself.

 

[draggar]

elegantthemes.com

I tried them and while they are better than free templates you tend to get something that other people already have (plus when I signed up the $39 was a yearly fee).

$39 a year for them, $139 for Artisteer "standard" (or $50 for the home & academic version). For $130 you have an unlimited supply of custom themes - the only limitation is you have to make them but this program makes it very easy and the difficulty can range from a completely random theme (good for ideas and then modifying) to 100% custom from scratch.

 

[silentg]

I bought themes from: ThemeForest.net, WooThemes.com, and PremiumPress.com.

 

[INFORG]

I bought themes from: ThemeForest.net, WooThemes.com, and PremiumPress.com.

I also have some from PremiumPress.com - they make some nice directory, store, classified themes that are fully functional.

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I tried them and while they are better than free templates you tend to get something that other people already have (plus when I signed up the $39 was a yearly fee).

$39 a year for them, $139 for Artisteer "standard" (or $50 for the home & academic version). For $130 you have an unlimited supply of custom themes - the only limitation is you have to make them but this program makes it very easy and the difficulty can range from a completely random theme (good for ideas and then modifying) to 100% custom from scratch.

I am curious about "making your own". Seems like there are so many possible vulnerabilities with WordPress that the DIY thing would be dangerous? Most of the larger theme clubs use their own internal architecture and revise/update scripts to address any security holes - not only with the theme, but with commonly used plug-ins as well. If you use Artisteer, do you have to do all of that yourself, or is it not a real concern?

Can you create widgets?

 

[Vincent]

Studiopress.

I don't like the studiopress support. I'm fairly new to wordpress. When I asked them a question, it takes them days and days to answer. For my first question, they even missed it, and I had to repost. After a few days of wait and no answer, I honestly thought they went out of business. lol And this was my first question when I started with studiopress support forum.

But then, I don't know how other wp companies are because I haven't used them. I like premium press in that they have chat as their support. For a beginner, it's great.

I know Adam recommends studiopress for a beginner, which is why I went for it. Good price because you can have as many themes as you want, as many times. I'm sure it's it has other good things to it. But for learning purpose, it sucks. Video tutorials are outdated because they update their themes and not the instruction video. So, if you are totally new, you would try to follow the video step by step, looking for the button to click, as instructed by the video. The problem is, some of those buttons are not there lol. You post a question in the forum, wait a few days. Then, the support would help you. You ask why isn't it how it's instructed in the video? Because the video is for the old version, they say. Ok.

I will definitely try other themes once I get the hang of the basics.

 

[draggar]

I am curious about "making your own". Seems like there are so many possible vulnerabilities with WordPress that the DIY thing would be dangerous? Most of the larger theme clubs use their own internal architecture and revise/update scripts to address any security holes - not only with the theme, but with commonly used plug-ins as well. If you use Artisteer, do you have to do all of that yourself, or is it not a real concern?

Can you create widgets?[/QUOTE]

I haven't tried to make widgets yet with Artisteer so I do not know if you can but there are plugins and widgets you can download though Wordpress.org and it is standard in WP to be able to add / take away them as needed.

As for security - Artisteer only makes templates, as far as I know it doesn't mess with the core of Wordpress so any vulnerabilities would be from Wordpress and not the theme - as usual it is recommended to keep WP and all plugins current.

 

[Charles Sweeney]

My Wordpress doesn't come from anywhere, I don't use it! I used it once because I thought it would be convenient for a blog I was doing. It ended up driving me nuts trying to customise it so I just wrote my own script.