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StudioPress – WordPress themes do not get much better than this…

About a year ago, I was searching for a new theme for this website along with a couple of my other blogs. There are some nice free themes that would have done the the trick but then I stumbled upon a theme created by a company called StudioPress.

I was extremely impressed by the theme layout and went to StudioPress.com to see how much it would cost to purchase that theme template. When I entered their website, I saw the theme I was looking at and found that it would cost around $79. After looking at some of their other themes, I found their Pro-Plus All Theme Package for $250. This package included, not only the theme that I wanted but all current and future themes that they might release.

I fought with spending $250 on WordPress themes but I took a chance and have no regrets. Not only did I get access to all of their themes, they also have comprehensive support and tutorials that cover how to use and personalize their themes.

Some of the features that sold me are:

Updated themes and access to future theme releases
SEO optimized themes
Theme options page in WordPress for simplified configuration
Themes can be used as many times, on as many websites a I want, including client websites
Themes can be modified as much as I want
Comprehensive support and tutorials

The current theme on this website is StudioPress’s Magazine theme. I spent about five or six total hours modifying this theme to my liking and installing and configuring some WordPress plug-ins that I wanted. I used to spend weeks working on free themes or modifying standard themes to work with much less functionality than I have with this theme.

One thing to remember, even though StudioPress has made it easy to setup and customize their themes, you still need a good understanding of WordPress and some web programming knowledge. Also, to change colors or font styles, you will need some knowledge of CSS too.

I am so impressed, I signed up to be an affiliate for StudioPress. I normally don’t endorse products but I am a very satisfied customer and think that they have something that other theme vendors do not come close to offering.

Like I mentioned in a previous post here, Spend time on your content and let someone else take credit for your theme. Using these themes from StudioPress is allowing me to practice what I preach.

Click here to visit StudioPress. WordPress Themes by StudioPress

Spend time on your blog content, not your theme.

Let someone else take the credit for your theme.

For the longest time, I wanted to create my own custom theme for my WordPress blogs. I spent hours working on the classic theme, trying to make it look like I wanted but for some odd reason, it never turned out how I expected.

All this time I spent working on my themes is time lost writing content. Instead of doing what I really enjoy, writing, I was playing with code. Even though I have been designing and maintaining websites since 1998, I just couldn’t come up with a design that I was happy with. Finally, after installing the automatic WordPress update plug-in, more about that later, I went to http://themes.wordpress.net/ and started browsing the hundreds of really nice theme designs. I finally picked a couple, for this blog and a couple of my other blogs.

Because I now have a design that I can live with, I can spend more time writing content instead of trying to inflate my web designers ego. I was so caught up in making an original design, I forget why I setup my blogs in the first place.

A nice theme is good but good content is better.

I ended up wasting nine months on this blog alone because I could not come up with what I felt was a good enough design when I should have just been working on my content, like this post here. If you are a blogger / web designer and cannot create a design that you really like, just pick one of the excellent themes scattered around the internet and start putting your time into your content instead of your design.