WooThemes Review
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WooThemes claims to serve the needs of any kind of niche website. The site also boasts of collaborating with industry leading designers in producing their beautiful themes and templates. Among the designers they work with are Elliot Jay Stocks, Matt Brett, Veerle Pieters & Dan Rubin. Looking at the samples of the themes and templates that Woo Themes is offering, you can clearly see how professional it looks. These are not the designs of bored programmers.
At the moment, WooThemes carries 76 themes, but the team has promised that more themes will be released this year. The company’s promise is to release one theme every month. Every WooThemes them also has a custom backend that has been made so that you don’t need to touch the template code anymore. There is also a theme options page for additional customization and custom write panels for making additional custom fields. WooThemes claims that each one of their themes have been coded perfectly and maximizes the use of WordPress.
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Woothemes Features
- Backend theme options – Making simple changes without editing code, like adding your own logo, changing to an alternate colour style, adding Google Analytics code, couldn’t be easier with our WordPress backend theme option’s panel.
- Cross-browser compatible – We’ve tested our themes to ensure they are compatible with all the modern web browsers like Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Internet Explorer. They should also all be web standards compliant.
- Auto-sizing thumbnails – An image resizer script built into the Woo framework automatically scales your post images for pixel perfect display in our templates. No need to upload new cropped images when re-designing your website.
- Localized for translations – WooThemes come packaged with a .po file for easy WordPress theme translations into your desired language – editing one neat little file without hunting down text in all our theme templates. Supports WPML plugin(WordPress only)
- Woo framework – All our themes are built on the same stable WooThemes framework – modifications are a breeze, whilst all is neatly coded for search engine readiness and further theme development.
- Custom page templates – Our themes come packaged with a full width page template without the sidebar, and sitemap/archives page templates for efficient quick links to all the hidden posts you wrote ages ago that still deserve to be seen.
Design
Looking at any WooTheme you can not help but notice how amazingly designed these themes are. Not are WooThemes visually stimulating, but they are designed to provide great user interaction and keep up to modern web design trends.
Along with design, you must also note that WooThemes provides many different premium themes to match your needs. Visiting their site you can see the many different categories they cater for: Magazine/News, Personal Blog, Portfolio, CMS, Business, Multimedia and Free!
Ease of Customization
With every themes, customizing them is rather really easy. WooThemes does a great job at keeping the CSS and PHP files nicely coded so they are easy to follow. Some WooThemes also provide theme admin panels (“options tab) that allow you to customize certain aspects of the theme within your WP control panel, without needing any web design/coding skills.
Support
Customer support is a very important factor in Premium WordPress Themes because many people looking to purchase these themes may not know anything about web design/programming or will want to customize their theme to make it look how they want. Thus, they will need/want enough documentation and support to accomplish their goals. And since the themes are not free, than most people will consider support to be something that must come included.
Woothemes does a great job at providing necessary support. Every theme comes with documentation and they provide some videos exampling the options panel. But where they really excel is in the support forums. You can ask any questions in the support forum and there is already many ‘resolved issues” you can browse through as well and see if they help.
The Price?
Membership Package
Standard package : $70 – Unlimited Domain Uses, 2 Bonus Themes, Support Access and Theme Updates
Developer package : $150 – Unlimited Domain Uses, 3 Bonus Themes, Support Access, Theme Updates and Includes Photoshop files
Enterprise Themes : $200 – Unlimited Domain Uses, Support Access, Theme Updates, Includes Photoshop files and Advanced Functionality
Woothemes WordPress Theme Club
Standard Club : $125(startup fee) and $15(monthly) – Access to 76 Themes, 2+ new themes monthly, Support access, Regular theme updates and Unlimited concurrent domain uses
Developer Club : $125(startup fee) and $15(monthly) – Access to 76 Themes, 2+ new themes monthly, Support access, Regular theme updates, Unlimited concurrent domain uses and Photoshop File
