Comments on: Buying Thesis? Read This Before You Do!

By: SBA

SBA — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:43:26 +0000

I see how that could turn things real sour for you! Did you get a response from Thesis on what happened? I know from downloading another theme (not DIY) that files can be corrupted between the download, unzip and upload process — without explanation. I reported it in the forum and no one else had the problem (the moderator even downloaded and installed the same theme, no problem).

As for no ‘perfect theme’, you’re right and it’s folks like us (and Mr I) who make sure to find needed improvements! LOL

By: Doug C.

Doug C. — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:46:57 +0000

I had Thesis at first for my design site, but it froze up my WP dashboard and after a call to my hosting company (HostGator) the tech discovered it was a corrupt ‘js’ file within Thesis that was causing it. The theme had to be removed and then WP had to reinstalled to get back to a working site. So to all who are considering Thesis just be aware that this happened to me. I’m not saying it will happen to anyone else, but in my experience there’s no such thing as a “perfect” theme.

By: SBA

SBA — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:27:47 +0000

There are many bloggers who want a design that’s different from the crowd (to show off their great content). Like you, I’ve seen many blog designs where I know from the top of the home page that it’s by Thesis. But I’ve seen several that are highly customized and unique. The real key is feeling comfortable using child themes (some are free, so cost a few dollars) like the one we use here AND knowing CSS/Html. In addition you must be organized to keep track of modifications and detail oriented. That’s a fairly large order. Seems you could handle it.

By: Ramkumar

Ramkumar — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:26:05 +0000

Sharing my views on Thesis, regardless of the SEO power it has I strongly believe that it more common these days to see blogs with Thesis, I use a free theme and I have customized it in such a way that its the best for SEO, Whatever theme we use, they are finally HTML codes, so I directly cracked my free theme to render tags in best optimized SEO way and It really worked. Earlier 20% of my visitors are from Search Engines but now more than 50% . Im not avoiding thesis for the money I should pay , but for the commonness it has in the blogosphere.

By: SBA

SBA — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:38:27 +0000

Hi Susan,
Mr. I is unavailable, so I wanted to suggest you visit the Thesis forum and ask for help there. You may have to ask one of their Thesis consultants. I did see a lot of videos on an Elegant Themes blog — sort of a portfolio layout, similar to what a photographer or artist might have. So try elegantthemes.com

As for CSS and PhP resources,
try: http://www.davesite.com/websta.....ap01.shtml
and this one for php:
http://adambrown.info/b/widget.....ess-users/

Here’s a nice ‘cheat sheet’:
http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-t.....beginners/

By: Susan

Susan — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:05:20 +0000

Thanks for this insightful review. I’m really researching to find the best solution for my new online venture. I know enough about CSS, etc., to be dangerous, but do want to find something that won’t make me want to jump off a cliff to customize. The new blog is going to be a video blog. I can’t find any Thesis sites that have done this. All the premium themes that are specific to video blogs have lots of cons to them. Any suggestions on creating a niche Hulu/YouTube type site with Thesis? Also, any suggestions on the best resources for CSS and PHP? Thanks!

By: SBA

SBA — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:53:13 +0000

Glad you found a theme you could live with on your many blogs! Of course I took a peek at the others and they do look different! Read your informative comparison of your theme with Thesis. I see it costs almost as much for single use, but you can’t put a price on “happiness aka it does the job!”
Thanks for visiting.

By: Sire

Sire — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:58:45 +0000

Thesis was the first theme I ever purchased and I was sorely disappointed as it did not live up to the hype. I wanted something that would work straight out of the box, as it claimed to do and it just did not live up to it, although it is getting better with each update.

The thing is that I paid for it and I wasn’t going to waste my money by not using it so I am now using it on my loadofbullshit blog, a fitting home I reckon.

As I still wanted a theme that was easily customizable I kept looking until I found what I considered to be be far superior and I now use it on all my blogs, baring the LoadofBS one.

By: Jim Hardin

Jim Hardin — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:20:43 +0000

Nice review on Thesis. I have to say I have been looking at Thesis for a while and read some great reviews of it. Thanks for giving an honest review about the difficulties if you don’t know how to code.

By: the transformers toys

the transformers toys — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:58:22 +0000

Great tips and well said reviews, Buying thesis is not that useful. It really contribute a lot if we do our own thesis. It will mold our understanding in one thing.