Comments on: What Makes a WordPress Theme Premium?

By: hillary bost

hillary bost — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 12:11:22 +0000

Plug ins and functionality are what make a good theme.

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WordPress Watch » Blog Archive » 5 June 2009 — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:42:30 +0000

[...] What Makes a WordPress Theme Premium? [...]

By: Sajid

Sajid — Tue, 12 May 2009 06:03:30 +0000

WordPress plugins are the one of the important part of this CMS which makes wordpress popular more than its other features. Great job on the theme.

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 07 May 2009 18:23:30 +0000

Premium themes should always come with support AND come with “cutting edge” or customized options that make it worthy of being a “premium themes”. I do think that all premium themes should come with a customized user-friendly theme editor to truly appeal to those that would need a premium theme. Otherwise I feel that most free theme users can modify themes enough on their own or can build their site accordingly to their own needs. If they needed something more ‘refined’, always hiring a professional designer for a unique design could be done.

By: Webdev

Webdev — Thu, 07 May 2009 12:28:10 +0000

I think I have to agree with Sushant: premium themes aren’t necessarily paid ones. A great example is the free Arthemia

By: Sushant

Sushant — Wed, 06 May 2009 20:17:56 +0000

We generally classify premium themes as paid themes. I think we need to distinguish between paid and premium themes. Free themes are now of premium standards. So we now have Paid themes, premium themes, commercial themes , free themes……

By: Cosmin

Cosmin — Wed, 06 May 2009 19:38:33 +0000

Hi Kyle,

I didn’t mean to be agressive or anything like that.

I know you encourage discussion, and that was my point of view

Regarding designers…well, it’s their choice…if they make money from something else and still have time for somewhat regular free themes, then hats off to those

Cheers mate!

By the way, thanks for all the articles, your feed is really useful

By: Kyle Eslick

Kyle Eslick — Wed, 06 May 2009 19:32:59 +0000

@ Cosmin – Thanks for your comment!

Yes, my post may not have “had a point”, but it wasn’t intended to. Some of our posts are guides and such, but sometimes we just like to initiate a discussion among the WordPress community.

With this post, I was hoping to gather opinions from our readers.

Also, those who create free premium-like themes are just doing it to make a name for themselves. All those will soon create only themes for sale, while maybe occasionally doing a free one.

I thought this was the case as well, but many of the top designers in the free theme space are still free after more than a year.

By: Cosmin

Cosmin — Wed, 06 May 2009 19:23:51 +0000

“It will never end”

So? What?

There has to be a line between themes that deserve paying for, and those that don’t.

Also, those who create free premium-like themes are just doing it to make a name for themselves. All those will soon create only themes for sale, while maybe occasionally doing a free one.

You don’t really make a point here. So what if premium themes will be tomorrow’s standard themes? It’s common sense, called evolution