Comments on: Thesis Review – A Premium Blog Theme For WordPress

By: Christopher Kabamba

Christopher Kabamba — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:04:34 +0000

Thanks very much. I will be going for Thesis Soon. I have seen it around many blogs and it just uplifts me

By: Naked DSL

Naked DSL — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:36:42 +0000

Cameron – definitely a good move to self host your blog and moving to a premium theme could make sense for you.

I am also a non-coder and hence give you some advice. I have taught myself to use Wordpress. I taught myself to use and edit themes by Studiopress and IThemes. But it takes time….a lot of it….and I am still not an expert. It was enough to get me started online though.

And being a non-coder it can be incredibly frustrating some days. Support forums are great and very helpful, but sometimes the people who help are speaking a foreign language – code!

We use Thesis for all of our sites now, but I also have someone else who does the coding. I think if you’re going to go down the path of a premium theme and you want to make some decent changes to it, then:
1) you need to be prepared to spend hundreds of hours learning code, wordpress etc Possibly even thousands of hours to get good at it.
2) Spend some money and get a professional to edit it for you. You could probably go on eLance and get it for as little as a couple of hundred bucks.

If I was you I’d definitely go with option 2. (But keep educating yourself in code and WP and its functionality – but you can probably do something more prouctive with your time that spend thousands of hours learning code if it’s not really your passion).

Good luck!

Luke

By: cameron plommer

cameron plommer — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:03:55 +0000

As someone that has a free wordpress theme I’ve been thinking about getting my blog self hosted and getting a premium theme like thesis.

I have concerns though. I have ZERO coding experience and know next to nothing about wordpress in general. What I want to to is change colors, font and add social media buttons and such.

So for a person like me with know coding knowledge what is my best option? I want to make customizations but it seems that thesis might be too difficult? Help me out please.

By: antonfkip @ Seo Motivation

antonfkip @ Seo Motivation — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:46:27 +0000

yeaah great theme for search engine, but for me it’s very expensive, in my opinion…..great theme must be unique, like yaro blog, i like the theme.

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By: How To Choose a Career

How To Choose a Career — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:09:21 +0000

This is one theme I would seriously recommend anyone. The admin features are really well done and the support is incredible. For a non-techie this theme is a boon.

By: Hunter Gatherer

Hunter Gatherer — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:12:25 +0000

That’s the same thing I see in Affiliate Theme. It’s set up just for Affiliates to redirect traffic to affiliate offers. I don’t see a way to capture any user data before redirecting or and redirected landing page/response pages.

It look great for what it does, but I want to capture the contact via cformsII or some other email post submitter. Then again, I couldn’t find specific references to the same thing for Thesis either; just a handful of indirect references that somewhat indicate it’s possible.

I mean, how can any of these “premium” templates not have forms creation; processing; autoresponders and email lead submission built in… with tutorials? Without it, they are only premium in price.

By: Andrew - We Build Your Blog

Andrew - We Build Your Blog — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:00:03 +0000

I’ve been using the Flexx theme and I’m really pleased with it. Need to look at this theme as an alternative.

Andrew

By: Sire

Sire — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 04:51:08 +0000

I’ve not tried Affiliate, but I do use Thesis on one of my blogs. I was hoping it was all that was said of it so that I could buy the developers license to use it on all my blogs, but I found it sorely lacking. I still use it on my Load Of BS site, but I found what I believe to be a lot better and after buying the developers license to the new theme I now run it on my other 7 blogs.