[Theme: Suffusion] MOST FLEXIBLE AND POWERFUL WordPress Theme I have ever seen!

  • marcnyc

    (@marcnyc)


    15 years ago

    I just spent a week looking at themes… I literally previewed and installed about 100 themes and saw some beautiful ones and some interesting ones, but the one thing all of these theme had in common was the lack of features to customize the theme. If you wanted to customize the theme you had to go in and code it differently, in other words make a new version of the theme.

    This is not the case with the “SUFFUSION” theme. Although the theme might not be the most beautiful them eat first sight, it is certainly the MOST CUSTOMIZABLE, the MOST FLEXIBLE and the MOST POWERFUL theme I have seen amongst the 100 or so that I installed on my blog.

    When I looked at the Theme Options (which are properly displayed under the “Appearance” tab) my eyes almost popped out! The features are ENDLESS, so many that it is intimidating at first! Other themes that I have seen lack the most basic features (such as the ability to replace their logo with yours), but with this theme you can change literally ANYTHING and EVERYTHING. You have a color palette picker for your colors, a set of pre-defined color themes, ability to add, change, append CSS, JavaScript, RSS etc without ever having to look at a line of code, sizes, fonts, sidebars and so much more.

    I am VERY IMPRESSED and THANKFUL that somebody understood the importance of giving a user the ability to fully customize a theme if they are making the theme available online for download.

    THIS IS WHAT EVERY OTHER THEME SHOULD STRIVE TO BE LIKE!

    In fact I would suggest that the WordPress theme takes a close look at this theme because it might want to consider making this the default theme, because of all the options for customization it offers. If this were the default theme, I am sure almost nobody would ever look at other themes.

    If I had to say something negative, just to balance out all of the positive things, I’d say that it could use some help with the general presentation of the graphics (one can tell it comes from a very experienced coder, rather than a web designer) and it could offer some options for different buttons or different sets of layouts, but other than that I really can’t find anything bad to say about this theme!

    I would STRONGLY recommend to anyone to try out this theme. Once you harness the power of this theme I assure you that you will never go back to another theme because every other theme will seem too limited in comparison.

    Download and install SUFFUSION, make the changes you need from the Theme Options (no coding required!) and you are good to go. If you know some CSS you can make pretty things without having to alter the SUFFUSION code at all so that it’s always easy to update to their new versions (I’ve been using the theme for 2 days and there already is a new version!).

    The theme even has a support forum of its own! I just don’t know how else to tell you: THIS IS HOW THEMES SHOULD WORK!

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  • I want to put my plug in for Sayontan and the Suffusion theme. I have hand coded my extensive site for years but have recently started using WordPress and the Suffusion theme for several dedicated sections. Bravo to Sayontan for providing incredible flexibility as well as excellent support. Also to the entire WordPress team.

    Thanks, @alanarnette!

    Hey, just spent a couple days experimenting with Suffusion and I really like it. There are so many options that it takes a while to learn where things are and that’s the beauty of it…when you need them, there are options that make it so much easier to customize your site. Thank you Sayontan for the great theme and all the WordPress coders.

    Thanks, @321mike!

    Suffusion is an incredible theme – probably the best I’ve seen and that’s coming from someone who has paid for themes too (btw, I sent sayontan a donation – would recommend others do too to keep his enthusiasm up in developing this theme more).

    To date, I only see one flaw in the theme and that is the inability to customize the right hand side of your Header. In other words, the space to the right of the blog title (or logo if that is what you are using) cannot be used in this theme. So I can’t put in a banner ad or Google Adsense, etc. and that space is PRIME real estate for any blog. Also, because of the way the theme is designed, you can’t just open header.php and stick your code there. It doesn’t work. But sayontan has said he will address this soon. Once he does I will be migrating more than one of my blogs to this theme.

    The theme does lack documentation, but everything is easily explained in the theme options on the dashboard (under Appearance). I think probably we, as a community that loves this theme, could pitch in and help with documentation so that he can focus on new features. At least lets keep buying him “coffee” to keep him buzzing about with more great features/themes.

    Thanks for your hard work, sayontan. You are truly an amazing theme developer.

    @jtracy,
    Thanks (for the comments and the donation). The widgets in the header area were in scope for release 3.5.6, but I had to pull them due to the unexpected volume of work. I even remarked the same in my release notes: https://www.aquoid.com/news/2010/07/suffusion-version-3-5-6/. I have been trying to get a version approved since the last 3+ weeks – that has a ton of other widget areas.

    That being said, you can always create a child theme and make the modifications to the PHP in your child theme – Suffusion supports that quite well.

    Documentation has in general been a challenge – some volunteers have tried, but given up because they couldn’t keep up with the speed of development.

    Sayontan.

    Sayontan… Great Work mate! I have been searching for a theme that was customisable and looked simple but effective… Your theme is a dream… I was using Atahualpa theme which was great but too complicated. So far it looks as though yours is fully 3.0.1 compatible too ??

    Nice One

    @alisamazing,
    Thanks!

    In fact I would suggest that the WordPress theme takes a close look at this theme because it might want to consider making this the default theme

    I agree. In fact I believe WordPress would see more users if Suffusion were the default theme. Think about how many new users install WordPress and then decide on something else because of…*cough* the crappy default theme.

    Suffusion blows every other theme away, premium or free, Suffusion just destroys everything else out there. Period.

    I keep wondering why anyone would buy Thesis when they could get Suffusion for free… then I think they must not KNOW about Suffusion!

    Great work Sayontan!

    One more fan here. By accident I stumbled upon this thread, installed it and…perfect, absolutely love it.
    I have managed to create my main page so far and I will deal with the rst as soon as I get the time. https://dvattika.com/gallery/
    Now, the main question I would like to ask you Sayontan is this. I like the way this guy has implemented the flash photo gallery in his wordpress site…https://www.digicasephotography.co.uk/portfolio/art-landscape , any idea how this can be done with Suffusion?

    @ilabs,
    Thank you. I do disagree on TwentyTen though. I think it is a very good theme for a default. It perfectly fits WordPress philosophy, which emphasizes “Decisions not Options”. Suffusion happens to sit at the other end of the spectrum.

    @dimitri_v,
    Thank you. My guess is that there are quite a few plugins that help you get that kind of a look. One user did it with Suffusion: https://www.januszsmolak.com/. I am not much into photography or galleries, so I cannot provide you a more helpful answer.

    Well, I did manage to get a plug-in and everything is working fine, so far but I am on a trial period of course.
    now, one thing that I can’t get my head around, Sayontan. In my “About” page, I have added some images. Although I have disabled all comments from everywhere (I hope I have), those images are click-able and they also take you to a different page where you can leave comments. How can I disable that? I don’t want any of the pictures to be click-able or at least not to allow comments?

    Thank you

    Well, I did manage to get a plug-in and everything is working fine, so far but I am on a trial period of course.
    now, one thing that I can’t get my head around, Sayontan. In my “About” page, I have added some images. Although I have disabled all comments from everywhere (I hope I have), those images are click-able and they also take you to a different page where you can leave comments. How can I disable that? I don’t want any of the pictures to be click-able or at least not to allow comments?

    Thank you

    Sorted, figured it out. I had to go to the html of the page and get it sorted in there.

    Sayontan,
    I love your theme! I’ve been using it for one year on my site and just upgraded. I’m using Suffusion 3.6.6 on wordpress version 3.0.1 and have a question:
    I have been trying to get a plugin called WP Favorite Posts to work, but am unable to get a call to posts to insert a certain link in all posts. Here’s the instructions:

    1. Place ‘<?php if (function_exists(‘wpfp_link’)) { wpfp_link(); } ?>’ in your single.php or page.php template file. Then favorite this post link will appear in all posts.
    2. OR if you DO NOT want the favorite link to appear in every post/page, DO NOT use the code above. Just type in ‘[wpfp-link]’ into the selected post/page content and it will embed the print link into that post/page only.
    3. Create a page e.g. “Your Favorites” and insert ‘{{wp-favorite-posts}}’ text into content section. This page will contain users favorite posts.

    When I do #2, the favorite posts link appears in the posts. But I want to do it where, as in #1, I just insert the code and it always appears in all posts. The problem is, when I put anything in single.php or page.php it doesn’t show up in the posts. for example HERE i type in, and it doesn’t appear in the posts. So I am wondering where I should put the code, and in which file.

    Would love any advice you can give me!

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