For those of you who’ve been swaying back and forth about the thesis theme, let me tip you over to the thesis side:
After starting this blog I’ve tried a handful of different themes, but have never been really satisfied. I mean what’s the point of having a theme if you have to manually go into the code “editor” again and again to make simple custom changes (so stupid).
The worst part is when you’ve done a little bit of custom work and then decide to change themes for a different “look and feel”. WordPress changes the current theme to the new theme directory and you basically have to customize all over again, or reference your previous theme and track down all your custom work. And, if the theme you were using gets an upgrade, don’t even think about upgrading, you will wipe out all your work.
Now the thesis theme is a little different. The theme is basic in its design, so you won’t get a revolutionary look and feel change like you might with other themes, but thesis will be less painful to customize (and trust me, everyone always wants to customize). And, because it’s easy to make changes, you can custom build your site however you like, plus you won’t break your upgrade path.
Have a look at the thesis UI, these are all the things you can customize without ever ever having to use a code editor.
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“The worst part is when you’ve done a little bit of custom work and then decide to change themes for a different “look and feel”. WordPress changes the current theme to the new theme directory and you basically have to customize all over again, or reference your previous theme and track down all your custom work.”
- This is my favorite thing about having Thesis! You don’t have to worry about having to make all of your custom edits to the core code.
Now if only somebody could design a Magento theme that would accomplish what Thesis does, we’d be set.