I would like to ask you all two questions. What are some options/features you wish some popular themes had? What are some things that these popular themes lack?
From a security perspective, many popular themes do not have any way for the website owner to check the theme files against the repository to see if any changes have happened. It’s a unique feature that I never see but I wish we did. Just press a button and compare with the core theme files from a clean copy at the dev site. That would be sweet.
Last time I used a popular theme, it’s been a few years, I hated that it was so bloated with no option of turning the bloat off. Not sure if that’s still the case
I don’t know if this answers your question, but I absolutely hate it when a theme has more plugin dependencies than I have ex-girlfriends.
You see this pretty theme, you buy it and then it asks you to install 15 plugins to function like in the demo. Most times, some of those plugins never get updated again and that’s a huge huge huge security risk. Or the plugins are of the “premium” variety kind and they ask you for a fee to get updates.
One recent theme a customer bought used some plugins that were last updated 3 years ago, it broke like 30% of the theme if you disabled them.
**GeneratePress** and **Blocksy** have one clean ass slate. They only require their main premium plugin and 2-3 on the side that don’t break half of the theme if you disable them.
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From a security perspective, many popular themes do not have any way for the website owner to check the theme files against the repository to see if any changes have happened. It’s a unique feature that I never see but I wish we did. Just press a button and compare with the core theme files from a clean copy at the dev site. That would be sweet.
Last time I used a popular theme, it’s been a few years, I hated that it was so bloated with no option of turning the bloat off. Not sure if that’s still the case
I don’t know if this answers your question, but I absolutely hate it when a theme has more plugin dependencies than I have ex-girlfriends.
You see this pretty theme, you buy it and then it asks you to install 15 plugins to function like in the demo. Most times, some of those plugins never get updated again and that’s a huge huge huge security risk. Or the plugins are of the “premium” variety kind and they ask you for a fee to get updates.
One recent theme a customer bought used some plugins that were last updated 3 years ago, it broke like 30% of the theme if you disabled them.
**GeneratePress** and **Blocksy** have one clean ass slate. They only require their main premium plugin and 2-3 on the side that don’t break half of the theme if you disable them.