10 Terrible Mistakes to Avoid When Choosing WordPress Themes

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10 Terrible Mistakes You Shouldnt Repeat When
Choosing WordPress Themes
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• Nail your business with an astounding website.
  Yes, a website is the new face of your business.
  Grow your business by reaching a wide range of
  customers using website.
• However, creating an amazing website is little
  tricky.

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• To create an amazing website, you first need to
  choose a great theme.
• Your website theme should be impressive enough to
  engage your customers and guide them throughout
  the buyers decision making.

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Why choose a WordPress theme?

• WordPress is probably the most popular platform
  to create a website because of its extendibility.
  With WordPress theme, you can create different
  types of websites investing minimum effort.
  Besides, the number of themes available for
  WordPress is more than other CMS (Content
  Management Services).

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• However, not all of the WordPress themes are
  appropriate to create outstanding websites. Many
  novice developers make mistakes while selecting
  themes.

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How to avoid mistakes while choosing WordPress
themes?
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Mistake 1 Choosing a theme with multiple
required plugins

• Many WordPress themes comes with specific plugins
  as necessary' to reach maximum functionality of
  the theme. Unfortunately, for 85 cases, we found
  that these additional plugins tend to cause more
  headache than benefits.

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Mistake 2 Choosing a complicated theme

• Whenever you are working on complex theme
  presentation, you are complicating the website
  design and maintenance process. Try to find a
  simple theme that contains functionality to
  fulfill your need and nothing less or nothing
  more.

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Mistake 3 Not looking at the theme license

• Most of the themes come with three types of
  licensing approach
• One-time free with lifetime support and free
  update
• Recurring per month or per annum for updates and
  support
• Paid support based on need premium paid
• Unfortunately, many free themes come with no
  support from the developers. So, check the
  license before installing any theme.

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Mistake 4 Not considering browser
compatibility of the theme

• If you are comfortable using Google Chrome and
  your theme is looking fine in Google Chrome it
  doesnt mean the theme will look similar to other
  browsers like Opera, Mozilla Firefox or Internet
  Explorer.
• Before installing the theme check its browser
  compatibility in every browser possibly available.

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Mistake 5 Selecting unresponsive WordPress
theme

• Selecting a responsive theme is now no more an
  option but mandatory. The user experience is
  hugely dependent on the mobile responsiveness of
  a website.
• In fact, Google is considering mobile
  friendliness as a ranking factor.

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Mistake 6 Selecting Theme without
functionality

• If your mind is set to create a specific website
  for e-commerce, photography or blogging, then
  never choose a general theme.
• There are hundreds of WordPress themes
  specifically developed for e-commerce sites,
  photography sites and blogging.

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Mistake 7 Not choosing a multilingual theme

• A large number of themes don't come with the
  multilingual facility.
• If you are intending to create a website in a
  language other than English check if your
  selected theme is multilingual supported.

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Mistake 8 Not considering the themes loading
speed

• Average loading speed of a website should be
  within five seconds.
• However, most of the users want to load a website
  in the mobile phone within two seconds.
• It is hard to match such demand when you have a
  heavy website.

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Mistake 9 Picking up an older version theme

• Buying older version theme could be the greatest
  blunder you can make while choosing your theme.
• Always go for updated latest versions because the
  updated versions are already improved by the
  developers for multiple times, which make them
  hacking-proof.

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Mistake 9 Not paying attention to SEO
friendliness

• WordPress theme is popular for supporting SEO.
  Yes - most of the popular WordPress themes built
  keeping in mind SEO while some are not. SEO
  friendly themes are a bonus to support your SEO
  strategy and boost your ranking in Google SERP.

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When the mistakes are obvious stand out from
the ordinary crowd and choose your WordPress
theme wisely.
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