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How To Choose A Perfect Free Or PremiumWordPress Theme

WordPress is no doubt number 1 CMS to create websites and blogs. WordPress is most

popular and widely used Content Management System and blogging platform. It

started as a simple blogging tool now became a very powerful Content Management

System.

There are many reasons, why WordPress became no 1 CMS and blogging platform. One

of the most important thing that makes WordPress first choice of blogger and

companies its user friendly, easy to use interface and ability to customize WordPress.

WordPress allows you to easily create and publish content, with plugins you can add

additional functionality and with WordPress themes you can easily change the design of

your blog/website.

Design of your blog plays very important role even if you publish most amazing content

on your blog but your design sucks people will leave your blog immediately. Must pay

attention on the design of your blog, take some time and choose perfect theme for your

blog.

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Now a days we have so many devices, smart phones, tablets, large screen desktops,

notebooks and other devices. All these devices have different screen resolution. People

use different devices to browse Internet.

People use smart phones, tablets and other small screen devices to browse their

favorite blogs/website, buy products and read emails. That’s why you can not avoid a

large audience.

When buying a theme remember all these things. Don’t try to ignore mobile users. Make

sure you choose a fully responsive theme with elegant design or choose a plug in to

make your site responsive on small screen devices.

JetPack allows you to choose a mobile theme, free and premium plugins are also

available to make your theme responsive.

Now a days almost all premium themes are fully responsive and works well on small

screen devices. Premium theme developers pay attention on design and features of

themes.

But questions remains whether you should use a free theme or a buy a premium theme

for your blog, when there are so many awesome free themes with great design and

features available for you.

Here i will discuss some key points to remember before choosing a free or premium

theme for your blog.

8 Reasons To Buy Premium Themes

You can argue why spend money on premium themes, when you can download and use

free themes. There are many reasons, benefits and advantages of buying premium

themes. For professional looking blog don’t hesitate to spend few dollars.

1. Premium theme developers offer great support and you actually pay for premium

support

2. Reputable theme providers, developers use best practices and coding standards.

3. Premium themes are designed and developed with current web standards in mind

such as responsive web design, new HTML 5 features, Microformats etc.

4. Premium themes are always up to date (mostly) or updated on regular basis you pay

them to keep themes up to date all the time when a new version of WordPress is

released.

5. With timely updates, your themes does not break and your site does not look creepy

and weird.

6. Premium themes are most likely to be fully responsive and don’t forget that Google

highly recommend responsive web design.

7. Premium themes offers easy to use control panel/interface to change the design

and formatting of your blogs/website.

8. Security is very important and you can avoid security issues by purchasing premium

themes from trusted and reputable developers, resources.

8 Things To Remember When Choosing Free Themes

There are thousands of free and premium themes are available for you to choose. has

over 2000+ free themes as of writing this article. You can download and install your

favorite theme with few clicks.

There are developers who provide support and also try to update their free themes as

well. You can go with free themes as well. Here are few key points to remember when

choosing a free theme.

1. Never trust on google to find free themes, always download free themes from

trusted websites.

2. There are some bad guys who offer free themes with malicious code that can harm

2. There are some bad guys who offer free themes with malicious code that can harm

your blog. Your blog can be advertising stuff.

3. Download free themes from or trusted sites (popular premium theme providers).

4. You can download free themes from WordPress.org without any hesitations because

review and approve every theme submitted at wordpress.org

5. Check when the theme was last updated. Don’t use/download outdated themes

6. Read the reviews about theme and make sure all pages look great and there isn’t

anything weird.

7. Many premium theme developers offers free themes as well. You can download free

themes from premium theme providers.

8. When choosing a theme, make sure you know the theme developer. Somebody

introduced you or some one you know and trust.

10 Things To Consider When Choosing A Theme

Whenever you decide to install a new free or premium theme on your WordPress

website, make sure your theme offers

1. A clean and simple design and good color scheme

2. An easy and fully responsive Navigation

3. Easy to Customize

4. SEO Friendly

5. Social Media links

6. Must be mobile friendly and fully responsive

7. Text is easy to read on all type of devices

8. It must be light weigh

9. It is up to date and supports latest version of WordPress

9. It is up to date and supports latest version of WordPress

10. Theme is from trusted developer

Do You Really Need A Theme With Unlimited Features

There are many free and premium themes available with thousands of features sliders,

widgets, pages etc. You think it does everything in the world, you just download the

theme because everyone else is downloading the theme. Please don’t do this.

There is a problem it does not mean if someone has recommended a theme it is also

the best theme for you. Remember themes can increase and decrease the page load

time as well.

Choose a theme wisely, if you want to publish blogs post only, you don’t need a theme

with 10 different slider options. Do you really need a theme with 15 different pages and

unlimited widget areas.

Many themes have built in contact form, SEO features as well but it is not a good idea

to use theme’s SEO features and contact form. What if you decide to change the design

of your website/blog and you want to use a new theme from a different theme

provider.

There will be a lot of pain to update to a new theme, you will have to make sure

everything is working fine. For contact pages and SEO features always use

recommended and popular contact forms and SEO plugins for WordPress.

For example WordPress SEO by Yoast is very popular plug in for SEO. For contact form

there are many free plugin such as contact form 7 and others are available. I like to use

Jetpack. Jetpack offers so many useful features no need to install 10 different plugins

for different features.

Free Themes

Recently for an i article i decided to review few most popular free WordPreess themes.

There are many most popular themes are available. Premium version of these popular

themes are also available. I reviewed three WordPress themes ZerifLite, Customizr and

Graphene.

ZerifLite and Customizr are fully responsive and mobile friendly themes and recently

has been updated. Graphene offers some extra features but it is not responsive and

mobile friendly. Personally i really liked free versions of ZerifLite and Customizr.

Both themes are up to date, offers a lot of features, easy to customize and use. Design

is elegant. Both themes offer premium version but for my article i reviewed only free

version. I think it is always a good idea to install and test free version and if you like free

version of theme you can buy pro version.

As i discussed earlier always choose up to date theme which supports latest version of

WordPress. Both up to date and supports latest version of WordPress.

Both ZerifLite and Customizr are up to date WordPress themes, it means that developer

are serious. You can download free version from WordPress themes directory.

Customizr has 100,000+ and Zerif Lite has 90,000 active installs.

Download :

Download Zerif Lite

Caution : Before Buying Premium Themes

I hope now you have a clear understanding of premium and free themes. If you have

decided to purchase a premium theme, make sure you buy premium themes from

reputable market places and developers.

Any one can create and sell WordPress themes, there are individual developers who sell

WordPress themes and there are many reputable shops and marketplaces where you

WordPress themes and there are many reputable shops and marketplaces where you

can buy premium themes.

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