Working with WordPress opens up a global market of themes, with one-click you can instantly transform your website with a new look. Here’s my Theme Buyers Guide.
Before we start, let’s talk figures. There are over 10,000 themes available to you, approximately 3,000 are offered “FREE“. Many of these “FREE” themes give you a basic setup then charge you to upgrade to “premium features”.
I would personally avoid using “FREE” themes, many of them only give you a certain amount for free and offer “premium features” as an upgrade, let’s face it, these guys know you need those “premium features” and it often ends up costing more than a premium theme.
You should also consider the compliance and security of free themes.
Now I’m not saying they’re all bad, but in my early days of developing with WordPress I learned an important lesson with a free theme. I installed a popular free theme, it had poorly coded Javascript which led to my hosting being hacked.
The hackers took down every single site on the shared hosting server. This caused untold devastation to my clients and my reputation.
So my advice is to avoid the pitfalls of freeness and get a “premium theme” or custom built theme.