Premium verses Free WordPress Themes
I still recommend using free WordPress themes for personal websites. If you are just wanting to blog or setup a family website, free themes are probably the way to go.
However, if you are wanting to create a small business website or something that you want full control over, you are probably going to want to avoid free WordPress themes, for the most part, and put just a little money into a paid premium WordPress theme design. I know there are exceptions, but in my opinion you are safer going the paid route for business.
Here is a list of why I have started going premium. And by the way, most premium theme designs are not that much money. You can get most of them for under 50 bucks so why not use them to your advantage?
- More design effort is put into premium themes.
- More options within the designs are becoming available.
- Many premium themes use
hooks
which are easy ways to change complicated aspects of the design. You change it in your WordPress dashboard interface instead of in the code. - Much more flexibility in changing footer information. Many free themes have links to luggage, casinos and other products that are sometimes difficult to remove. In fact you are not supposed to remove those links. I don’t want links to luggage in my footer, sorry.
- More effort is put into premium theme designs so you get better looking and more functional designs just for paying a few bucks.
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