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ToddW

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Looking for more resources of generic templates for WP, paid or premium.

Here's a bunch I'm aware of... anyone care to share other companies designs, etc they find useful with pre-made templates?



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http://www.elegantthemes.com/
http://themify.me/themes
http://www.solostream.com/
https://mythemeshop.com/themes/
http://teslathemes.com/wp-themes/
https://www.wphub.com/
http://my.studiopress.com/themes/
https://www.simplethemes.com/wordpress-themes
http://www.magpress.com/
http://cyberchimps.com/
http://www.solostream.com/
http://www.woothemes.com/product-category/themes/free-themes/
http://www.wpzoom.com/
https://www.gavick.com/wordpress-themes
https://graphpaperpress.com/
http://www.inkthemes.com/
http://www.freethemelayouts.com/
https://www.themelab.com/themes/
 


All Wordpress Themes provider source are here. It is helpful to find all wp theme source in one place.
 
Ideally you pick a framework set-up (ex. Bootstrap) and build child themes off of 1 theme you choose. If you create different structure child themes from the original theme that you can re-use whenever you want = huge savings.

This is practically what every larger dev firm does for their clients as well, they usually end up making that initial theme though.

Firmasite or DevDMBootstrap are 2 themes I've talked about on here for WP that are meant for this kind of process (creating a lot of child themes).

To give an idea of some of the benefits:

  • Creating/finding a set group of plugins that you know will work with your theme because you've used it in the past on same layout.
  • Better documentation for any quick developers your hiring, or long term ones that are more comfortable (they know where everything is).
  • Much faster development. You're pretty much just copy and pasting what you put on other websites from previous use of theme.
  • Much faster sites/leaner. Since you're only adding what you need to the sites there's no bloat.
  • Easier management. Is there an issue that needs updating? If you can do it easily on 1 site it would be easy to fix across all of them because they're similar coding.

SEO note: A lot of people worry about footprints across multiple websites and there's ways on top of this to change it up further.
 
JulianTrueFlynn said:
Ideally you pick a framework set-up (ex. Bootstrap) and build child themes off of 1 theme you choose. If you create different structure child themes from the original theme that you can re-use whenever you want = huge savings.

This is practically what every larger dev firm does for their clients as well, they usually end up making that initial theme though.

Firmasite or DevDMBootstrap are 2 themes I've talked about on here for WP that are meant for this kind of process (creating a lot of child themes).

To give an idea of some of the benefits:

  • Creating/finding a set group of plugins that you know will work with your theme because you've used it in the past on same layout.
  • Better documentation for any quick developers your hiring, or long term ones that are more comfortable (they know where everything is).
  • Much faster development. You're pretty much just copy and pasting what you put on other websites from previous use of theme.
  • Much faster sites/leaner. Since you're only adding what you need to the sites there's no bloat.
  • Easier management. Is there an issue that needs updating? If you can do it easily on 1 site it would be easy to fix across all of them because they're similar coding.

SEO note: A lot of people worry about footprints across multiple websites and there's ways on top of this to change it up further.
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I agree, we do custom WP themes, this was about pre-made themes ready to go :) and their sources. I like to have a ton of options for clients to "LOOK" at to get ideas from... and the occasional 'cheap' client who may just want a generic w/basic customizations.

Thanks for the input. I'll have to check out some of those frameworks. We usually do our own thing, and customize from there for the higher-end sites/clients.


Thanks Brandon - Will check that out!
 
Thanks for this, most of the wordpress theme providers are here in the list. How about a plug-ins? Anyway, thanks for the share. appreciate it :D
 
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Member8200 said:
Thanks for this, most of the wordpress theme providers are here in the list. How about a plug-ins? Anyway, thanks for the share. appreciate it :D
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ToddW said:
I agree, we do custom WP themes, this was about pre-made themes ready to go :) and their sources. I like to have a ton of options for clients to "LOOK" at to get ideas from... and the occasional 'cheap' client who may just want a generic w/basic customizations.

Thanks for the input. I'll have to check out some of those frameworks. We usually do our own thing, and customize from there for the higher-end sites/clients.


Thanks Brandon - Will check that out!
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Yea, I guess what I'm saying is even with the pre-made you're losing time/money. With the initial investment of setting up all the child themes for a framework everything improved (and happier clients). That investment is not that much either, just additional time to code some child themes up and with each new project you have another child theme to add into the mix and make your dev time even faster.

My process is more 'find me sites you like already and I will make my choices on top of it'. Then just grab one of the child themes I already made for the framework and copy and paste code that is already written up from all the other projects (this copy and paste code would go into WP functions.php which is meant for this stuff for quick scaling).
 
YooTheme also do good looking wordpress themes, but as a Joomla user I don't now how great they are. And I'm not linking to those cunts.

I only really mention them as one to avoid. I use them for Joomla and if you have any serious problems, forget about it. Anything but the most basic of shit will go ignored for a very long time, often never answered (when mentioned within their diabolically bad support forum thing).
 
I dunno, themes make it easier to handle the design, but also tend to load it up with unnecessary stuff.
 
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