Finding the best WordPress Commerce Theme
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by: MarkFosting
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It can be a time consuming and difficult task to find the right WordPress commerce themes for your website or blog is not that simple as you may think. In fact it can be a difficult process. There are thousands of nice themes available for WordPress both free and premium. This is one of the main reasons for its dominating role. The huge availability of both free and premium themes for WordPress makes it a challenge to find the best theme for the website you are building.
The first step is to decide if you want a free theme, a premium theme, or a custom theme. A fine and very popular fashion is to take an existing theme (free or premium) and tailor-make it to fit your needs.
For picking a template, here are some important things to consider:
1. Are you planning to make an income from the website? If so, you may want to go with a premium theme or a custom theme in order to make the site look and feel professional as possible and to get support on the theme. Unsupported themes can really get you in trouble when WordPress needs to be upgraded! If not, a free theme should do but consider a free theme form a premium vendor. Remember that even though some effort is needed you can pick another theme later.
2. What impact will the site design have on visitors and your ability to be successful? Many free themes have good quality and will be sufficient for a personal blog or website. For a businesses attempting to convey a professional image, spending the money for a professional theme design is more than worth it. Keep in mind that the look of your website is critical for building your online brand.
3. Is the theme you consider used by many other sites? It is quite common that the high quality free themes for WordPress is heavily used all around the Internet. Using such a theme for sure makes it hard to build an unique look and feel, but there are advantages as well. Popular themes are popular for a reason and in particular individuals go for a strong community, good support, regular updates and flexibility.
4. How much have the developer done to optimize the theme for search engines? Typically free themes are not coming with professional SEO tools. If you are not familiar with SEO, PHP and HTML it may be hard for you to rate the SEO capabilities of a theme. In this case, a safe decision is to take a premium theme from one of the major theme vendors or choose one of the popular and widely used free SEO-ready themes.
5. Can the design of the theme be easily updated to fit your needs? If you are not a skilled PHP, HTML and CSS developer you will need a theme with a powerful options page. Look for a good options page to avoid the need for doing a lot of complex coding to do even simple stuff! Further a theme with multiple color schemes, page templates, build in widgets and so on really can make a difference. This will certainly improve your ability to create an outstanding site!
6. Will the theme work well with your logo and be suitable for your niche? From experience I know that when adding a logo to a free theme it may not always look good. Have your logo and brand goals lined up when you start looking for a WordPress theme for your blog or website.
7. Is it widget-ready? If you want flexibility to add and change content in sidebar, footers etc. from the WordPress admin area it is certainly important that the theme is widgetized.
8. Is support available? Support is critical if you are not a technical genius yourself. Any upgrade of WordPress may require updates in the theme and trust me - keeping WordPress updated is so important for security reasons. Further if you want to do something smart and can't figure it out support can be very useful. If you can afford it buying a premium theme typically entitles you to get good support. Some free theme designers will provide limited support and others (vast majority) will provide none. Think ahead and make sure you are not saving little now with the risk of paying a lot at a later stage. Once you have live users hitting it changes are harder to carry out If you are familiar with themes and feel comfortable solving your own problems, don't worry about support.
9. Will the theme fit your monetization plans? There are themes that intentionally was designed to help you make money from your site or blog. Why not use one that fits your monetization plans? If it is part of the strategy, adding ads to a theme is simple for a web developer, but for most people it important that the theme comes with an ad management solution. Themes with a build ad management solution has also been prepared for it in the design.
10. Is the theme code good quality and does it validate? Having a website that validate is highly recommended, but most people don't know about this. Valid code e.g that follow the HTML specification, will give you the best chance of giving your visitors a problem-free visit. While users may not notice validation errors I can assure you that search engines will.
Recently Google updated their ranking logic and now it actually take a lot more factors into consideration and adding some keywords is far from enough any more.
11. Does the theme have a hidden agenda? Question is if the theme is free (sounds good right) but only released to the public because someone have added hidden links to build backlinks to some porn or poker site... In fact many free themes include some form of hidden links and they are not there to give you any benefits. If you use a popular free or premium theme you should be safe.
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