11 Mar Our Favourite WordPress Themes
Want to know our favourite WordPress Themes?
WordPress is a great content management system to base your website on, in fact it accounts for a huge portion of the frameworks websites are built with today. If you want to find out how a website is built, you can use a tool like BuiltWith to find out how a website has been made. A recent study by W3 shows that wordpress powers a whopping 25% of the websites on the internet!
Many think that a site based on wordpress might be a difficult way to build a website, but if you have even just a basic knowledge of coding (if not check out code academy) and word processing it shouldn’t be hard for you.
One thing to consider before starting off on this journey is the purpose of your online presence, what do you want to get out of this? What will be the objectives of the web site?
Generally the primary aim of your site should be to generate some kind of transaction, sometimes called a conversion, such as getting a view of an embedded video of your youtube blog, or a newsletter signup or a online sale/e-commerce transaction.
You can always use the free themes available for wordpress but for a minor fee (of up to $80) you can buy a professional theme from a website like Themeforest, a few reasons this is a great idea is that they are designed and developed by professional agencies, whose only job is to create themes! They also include a bunch of plugins that often cost many times more individually than what you pay for the plugin, these can include WooCommerce, Visual Composer and many more!
When you are building your online presence, you might want to consider hiring a designer to customize your website, sometimes this is expensive, we have known of designers taking around $3000-$4000 to design a website for you. Personally I consider this really excessive, especially when you consider that you can buy a great template online, which would include constant security updates, design updates and all the plugins you need to make the website work effectively, or around $60!
Here are our 3 ideas for creating a website in a manner like this:
1- Template Design
When you browse the live version of the demo of the website, try running the design through a website like WEB PAGE TEST to get an accurate understanding of the design’s performance. The page load time is a really important metric for Search Engine Ranking and conversions, as I am sure you know, traffic to your website will be severely impaired if it takes 4+ seconds to load.Issues with wordpress installation are quite common, but the great thing about it is that you can always find all the help you need online!
2- Check out the Item Support Page
The activity on the Item’s support page on Themeforest will be a good indicator of the customer service of the developer and issues that other people may have had with the template. This will help to inform your decision, for example if you are intending to use the site as an e-commerce site, and you see 50 comments saying the site is incompatible with WooCommerce, then you might really want to to think about another site, right?
3- Look at the Plugins
Getting plugins with the theme is a huge bonus, some of the plugins cost double the price of the theme on a stand-alone basis, so see what kind of value you are getting from the plugins that come with the app.
OUR FAVOURITE THEMES ON WORDPRESS:
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