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WordPress Themes Review

While it’s always nice to start from scratch for projects I’m work­ing on at Lemon Pro­duc­tions, time and bud­get don’t always allow for that. Or some­times it’s just a per­fect fit for an idea with a theme or plu­gin that I’ve come across. And in those cases, I turn to WooThemes.

I first dis­cov­ered WooThemes when I built my first per­sonal port­fo­lio site back in 2008 using their Proud­Fo­lio theme. Since then I’ve used a vari­ety of their themes for per­sonal and client work.

Some of My Favourite Themes

Here’s a quick selec­tion of some of my favourite themes WooThemes offers.

Can­vas

Can­vas is the theme I usu­ally start with on most projects these days. It’s a great basis to start from and has a ton of cus­tomiz­able options and set­tings that some­one new to Word­Press could start with but also a lot of flex­i­bil­ity and power for a more expe­ri­enced user.

Briefed

I’ve held off buy­ing Briefed because I don’t want to need to redesign my port­fo­lio site now. But Briefed makes me want to redesign it. Again. But I can’t now. Right?

Must. Not. Buy.

There’s a E-​​commerce theme avail­able for Briefed if you have dig­i­tal prod­ucts you want to sell.

Statua

If you’re a pho­tog­ra­pher, Statua would make a great start­ing theme with its built-​​in cus­tom post types for your pho­tos. There’s also a E-​​commerce child theme for it if you want to try to sell your pho­tos or dig­i­tal work.

Sim­plic­ity

If you need a theme for a busi­ness, Sim­plic­ity is a great place to start and it’s also got a E-​​commerce option if you need to sell t-​​shirts.

Cur­rents

Cur­rents would make a great theme for any news and story/​article dri­ven website.

I’m actu­ally using this for a pod­cast called The YXE.

A Note on Reviews and Recommendations

These rec­om­mends pages are for prod­ucts and ser­vices that I actu­ally use myself. I won’t rec­om­mend some­thing unless I per­son­ally am using or have used it. If you decide to use or pur­chase the ser­vice rec­om­mended on this page, I will receive a com­mis­sion which goes towards sup­port­ing my writ­ing on this site as well as the pod­cast­ing I do at SSKTN. I appre­ci­ate your support!