I normally do not go about reviewing anything and everything. But this theme I wanted to review not because it is popular, but because unlike the many other themes, it servers its purpose well. In my thesis theme review, you will just find the good and the bad. I am not going into in depth as you can see the features on the thesis home page itself. Chris has prepared several videos for demonstrating the features.
Why You Should Trust My Thesis Theme Review?
I am not a web developer, but an internet marketer. Hence you can be assured that whatever I feel about the usability of the theme is what anyone including starters would feel. Besides the blog you are browsing now (BusinessheadAche.com) is developed using the thesis theme.
Well Get On With the Review Then…
I was about to begin. Here is a short review with the classical good vs. bad comparison. You will not need me to walk you through all the features as I do not intend to sell it to you. If Chris wants to sell it, let him sell it to you. I am just making my recommendations through my thesis theme review.
10 Reasons Why the Thesis Theme is so good.
I thought I would start off with the good things first.
- Thesis theme is very SEO friendly. You do not need any extra SEO plugins. Everything SEO is already built into thesis.
- Thesis theme is very easy to customize. Unlike the other wordpress themes, this wordpress theme works on the principle of hooks and hence is a developer friendly platform.
- The code generated is very clean. Great for search engines and some browsers which have problem in displaying in efficient or incorrect code.
- If you are looking for an out-of-the box theme you can use to build your wordpress blog, then thesis is definitely the choice you can make.
- Easy ad management, display tweaks, custom hacks and much more.
- Lot of tutorials available on the net to customize your thesis theme.
- One cool thing I like about thesis is the ability to modify the look of your blog without modifying the core files. Anything you do should be on the files in the custom folder. Most sites break when the wordpress is updated, which means you need to pay a coder again to fix the blog, if you are not a web developer yourself. With the thesis theme for wordpress, no such issues exist.
- Great support forum.
- Constantly updated with new features. Thesis is now version 1.7. They recently introduced the feature of downloading all the options we have set in the backend, should we need to re install it. It saved me a lot of time when I re installed businessheadache.com
- You can drop many of the must-have-plugins for wordpress such as all in one SEO plugin, Feedburner redirection plugin, Google Analytics plugin and such as they are already integrated with thesis. This will drastically improve your site load speed. All thanks to thesis theme.
Why Thesis Might Be a Bad Choice
Now I guess I need to share with you in this thesis theme review, why the SEO friendly wordpress theme might not be the right choice for you.
It costs $87 for a personal license and $164 for a developer license. If you do not have the money, you cannot own it. But in my opinion, the features provided by this theme are much more and the ROI is great if you are serious with your blogging.
Conclusion of My Thesis Review
In my opinion if you have to beg or take a loan for buying the thesis theme, do not buy it. Save the money and use it for something more useful in your life. However if you are seriously into an online business, then I suggest you go ahead and buy the thesis theme.