Is this What I Should Expect From a Purchased Theme?

  • I’m new to WP – putting up a real estate blog/web site. I purchased a premium real estate theme that looked beautiful on the designers demo site. I did the install and viewed my site and much to my surprise it is a very basic framework of the designers demo site.

    There are a few things that can be edited through a ‘general settings’ tab in the Design section of the Admin panel. But the majority of the work will need to be done in the Theme Editor, where I have no clue what I’m doing.

    For $80 I really expected a plug-n-play theme. Am I wrong, what is the standard for premium $ themes?

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  • Have you added any content to your site yet? You can’t have any idea of what the site will look like when it is empty. An empty theme is really nothing more than a “very basic framework”. Create a few test posts and then see what it looks like.

    it also might be a good idea to delve into the documentation, since you appear to be a “Domains and Website Development” person. If you want to work with wordpress, youre going to need to get your feet wet and earn a little of that money.

    Thread Starter markpo

    (@markpo)

    To be more specific – the theme doesn’t have the header nav tabs shown in the demo, the header still contains the logo of the developer, there aren’t basic instructions on how to update the various sections or photos. I will spend more time with the documentation and the books I have.

    I can learn this stuff (even a marketing guy like me, who has never ‘earned’ anything). But, my question was and is, is this what I should expect from a premium theme – that it will still require a lot of customization using the theme editor to get it to the level shown on the developers site?

    But, my question was and is, is this what I should expect from a premium theme

    youre asking an unanswerable question. as youve, no doubt, discovered, there’s a money train with wordpress these days, and everyone wants to get on board. “Premium themes” is a catch phrase, intended, for the sole purpose, of getting someone to buy them. It doesnt necessarily mean its a better theme. It ought to, but thats not something that can be controlled.

    what one theme maker does or doesnt do isnt necessarily going to be the same as another.

    ‘buyer beware’ is the best advice you can hear.

    To be more specific – the theme doesn’t have the header nav tabs shown in the demo,

    Because you haven’t added content yet. The tabs only appear when pages are added.

    Thread Starter markpo

    (@markpo)

    Got it, Thanks!

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