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For themes designed by Templatelite.com, you can get the following support:
Top Priority – Functionality Issues
If you encounter functionality issues (eg. theme installation problem), we’ll look into that as first priority. You can post the problem in the comment section of the theme page.
Less Priority
For other issues, we’ll make your comments live and will address them whenever we have time. The solution is not guaranteed. I also hope that other users can help solve your issues while waiting for my reply.
As for plugin issues, we’ll only look into them if the plugins are widely used in the community.
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ThemeForest Overview
2013 Edition – ThemeForest.net is powered by Envato, an online company geared to help individuals earn and learn online.
Envato is based in Australia and was founded in 2006, although their huge network of workers come from all over the world. They are a world class open source (PHP code) and a creative company committed to creating high quality products and services for their worldwide clientele.
The company’s CEO is Collis Ta’eed and the company was co-founded by Collis and Cyan Ta’eed. Some of their many websites include a host of Envato marketplaces where you can buy and sell digital goods: Tuts+, which is a wide network of online educational sites where you can learn online fields in graphics and development, audio and motion productions; FreelanceSwitch, an online freelancer community website; AppStorm, a site for the latest in computer technology; Creattica, a site showcasing online galleries, 3D works, advertising, business cards, web design and more; and Rockable Press, which is an online publishing brand for freelance writers.
Their most profitable and well-known site is ThemeForest – a marketplace for html templates, themes (WordPress, Joomla, Magento etc), and more. Join us for this in-depth review of the ThemeForest marketplace including actual user feedback and ratings.
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Ranking in this category is system generated.
Welcome to the 2023 Edition of ThemeGrade’s popular Top 10. We have been very selective as to which themes are included in our directory. During months of relentless search for quality WordPress Themes, we now have listed 2584 Themes developed by 378 providers.
And among these providers, we are looking for the cream of the crop!
You have seen the top 10 Theme providers in the graphical, functionality and coding categories. This page combines the ratings in these 3 categories and reveals the top 10 Theme providers who excel in developing extraordinary WordPress Themes.
How Does The Ranking System Work?
The overall score of each developer is based on the sum of the providers’ score in each category. Theme providers with the highest overall score will be rated as the TOP WordPress Theme providers.
Take ElegantThemes for example: if they were to score 10, 9, and 9 in the graphical, functionality and coding categories respectively they would have the overall score of 28.
Our system takes into account user feedback and ratings as well as our own scoring system that is explained on each Theme review. Basically, we take into consideration all the important features of good WordPress Theme development, analyze these features on a Theme by Theme basis, then simplify it all down for our visitors to one, easy to understand score. Before buying your next WordPress Theme, be sure to check out their ThemeGrade!
Top 10 Best WordPress Theme Providers
ElegantThemes
1
Founded in 2008 by Nick Roach, ElegantThemes has been sticking to their principles of creating top notch WordPress Themes. They are the only provider which is ranked in the top 3 in all 3 categories (coding, functionality, and graphic design). With over 70 Themes to choose from at a price of $39 per year, it certainly is a the best bang for your WordPress buck.Read Full Review...
StudioPress
2
Led by Brian Gardner, a self-taught web designer, Studiopress is the pioneer in the premium Wordpress theme industry. They dedicate most of their time updating and upgrading their existing themes to fix bugs and compatibility issues so you can be assured of the quality of their themes. However, if you like nice graphics, Studiopress' themes are not the best choice for you.Read Full Review...
Templatic
3
Templatic is one of the more well known Premium Theme developers with a great portfolio of diverse and multi-functional WordPress Themes. While they got off to a relatively rocky start as you can read by some of our user comments, the entire team behind Templatic has been making an incredible effort to tighten up their code while continuing to innovate with eye-catching designs you simply won't find anywhere else.Read Full Review...
ThemeForest
4
Founded in late 2007, ThemeForest has gone on to become the most popular WordPress Theme marketplace with an astonishing 1700 Premium WordPress Themes and counting. Different from most "Theme Clubs," ThemeForest allows authors to list their digital files (WordPress Themes, HTML Templates, etc) for sale so as to leverage the huge community of buyers that actively shop the ThemeForest marketplace. Read Full Review...
WooThemes
5
Started by 3 designers in 3 different countries, WooThemes has become one of the biggest Wordpress theme providers with several dozen team members. In 2012 they made some business changes that did not go over very well with their community, and they have been slowly re-evaluating some of those decisions. In early 2013, they abruptly closed their affiliate program leaving thousands with a sudden and unexpected turn of events. While they continue to create themes, WooCommerce has become a staple part of their product offering.Read Full Review...
Templatelite
6
Founded in 2008, Templatelite has got over 30 high quality themes in their portfolio. Professional graphic design and clean coding are what make it one of the best Wordpress theme providers. The best part is majority of the themes can be downloaded free. The drawback with their themes is the lack of functions. Read Full Review...
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| Category | Points | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Graphic | 2 | No Rank |
| Functionality | 0 | No Rank |
| Coding | 9 | Rank #2 |
| Overall | 11 | Rank #6 |
MyThemesShop
7
View all 11 themes from MyThemesShop
| Category | Points | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Graphic | 0 | No Rank |
| Functionality | 0 | No Rank |
| Coding | 10 | Rank #1 |
| Overall | 10 | Rank #7 |
Press75
8
Press75 is one of the earliest theme providers offering premium themes. It specializes in creating multimedia themes. Though most of their themes are fairly gray toned, they look professional nonetheless. Read Full Review...
Solostream
9
View all 6 themes from Solostream
| Category | Points | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Graphic | 2 | No Rank |
| Functionality | 7 | Rank #4 |
| Coding | 0 | No Rank |
| Overall | 9 | Rank #9 |
WPNow
10
Being ranked as one of the top 10 theme providers is not easy in this highly competitive market. Wpnow has proven that they deserve a spot here. If only they put in more effort in the coding and produce more themes, they definitely could have ranked in the top 5. Read Full Review...
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MY CONCLUSION
Woothemes affiliate program is legitimate. But the policy is NOT in favor of affiliates.
Woothemes affiliate program is legitimate. But the policy is NOT in favor of affiliates.
Woothemes is one of the best WordPress theme providers and received mostly positive reviews in the community. With about 378 theme providers listed on this site, Woothemes is now ranked on #2 in the Overall Best category. And many of their customers leave good comments about their themes and support on Woothemes’ review page too.
This article will touch on a different aspect of Woothemes. It is the experience I had with their affiliate program.
When it comes to treating the affiliates, it is to my dismay that Woothemes falls short.
What had happened?
On September 10, 2010, I login to my Woothemes’ account to check my affiliate sale. When I clicked on the August report, I found a sale reversal of $10.5.
See the screenshot below.
Immediately, I contacted Woothemes via their contact form and the following is what I wrote to them.
Hi,
I found out something about your affiliate program. I checked my affiliate report and found out that you reversed a sale in August (see the attached screenshot). Since there is no money back policy for your themes, why is it that you reversed the affiliate sale?
Please advise.
Regards,
Brian
Adii, the co-founder of Woothemes, replied within 12 hours with the following:
Brian,
The reversed sale was for a fraudulent transaction i.e. it was reversed by our payment processor.
Kind Regards
Adii
The WooThemes Team
It is perfectly normal to have fraudulent sale on internet but I decided to check my report in more details and found something not right.
I managed to track down that the reversed sale was locked in January 2010 and the commission had already been paid on Jun 02, 2010 (I input my payment info in May 2010 so this is my first commission payment).
It just didn’t make sense to reverse a sale which were paid out months ago! Obviously, I didn’t accept their explanation and wrote back to demand a better one.
Hi Adii,
This is not right. That transaction was locked in Jan 2010 and the commission was paid via Paypal on Jun 02, 2010
Paypal Transaction ID: 49487968K1215093J
So there is no reason that it is a fraudulent sale when you reversed it in August 2010.
Please give a valid explanation.
Thanks.
Regards,
Brianbtw, my account username is “xxxxx” (removed for privacy reason)
Adii replied with an explanation below:
Brian,
Chargebacks by Mastercard / VISA sometimes happen months after the actual purchase. That is the valid explanation; I realize it’s unfortunate, but this is a reality online with fraudulent purchases.
Kind Regards
Adii
Though they have the rights to do so but I don’t think it is good to treat their affiliates this way so I replied with the following:
Adii,
I have been earning affiliate income for many years and I understand about the chargebacks but this is the first time I encounter sale reversal after more than 6 months. I think all the other affiliate programs I joined absorb the loss if chargebacks happened after the commission had been paid out.
So can I come to the conclusion that with Woothemes affiliate program, all the sales I got few months ago were not 100% secure even after the commission has been paid out?
Regards,
Brian
And Adii replied…
Brian,
All sales are 100% secure unless they were fraudulent to start off with. 🙂 I truly understand your frustration in this regard and unfortunately this is a byproduct of other companies’ policies (i.e. VISA / Mastercard).
Kind Regards
Adii
So I come to a conclusion that Woothemes will pass the chargeback to the affiliates no matter when the sale was made. I then replied to him.
Adii,
You have a point. But from the affiliates perspective, ALL the sales that we made in the past (no matter how long it was) may be reversed if they were fraudulent.
Thanks for the clarification. I think what I am experiencing is worth sharing with other affiliates.
Regards,
Brian
Are you one of Woothemes affiliates? If you are, we are eager to hear your experience.
What’s your thought on this? Kindly leave your comments below.
Idesigneco Overview
iDesigneco is a premium WordPress theme developer providing sophisticated, cutting edge yet simple to use WP themes. They boast of awesome designs bordering on appeal and original designs with templates created to boost your online presence and site traffic. The company has built their strategy on great visuals for a strong foundation which radiates their success as a business.
Idesigneco’s name resonates the company’s passion to promote eco-friendly consciousness which is manifested by their use of servers powered by wind turbines. They also boast of an excellent support network and webinars, on top of a massive online library which is great for your site creation resources. You can visit them at Idesigneco.com for more information about the company.
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iThemes Overview
iThemes is a world leader in the development and production of high quality premium WordPress themes. The company isn’t limited to designing premium WP themes for blog sites, though. They also create high quality WP themes for small business websites. They are an avid believer of the convenient, very affordable, and powerful WordPress technology in effectively designing your websites online.
iThemes Media LLC is based in Oklahoma City where they run iThemes, PluginBuddy (WordPress plugins), and WebDesigns.com (WordPress web design training site). They are working with a highly specialized team of web developers and designers with Corry Miller as the founder. Chris Jean is the company’s lead developer while Brad Ulrich is the company’s designer. iThemes also boasts of other talented individuals in the likes of Ronald Van Weerd as its support manager, Mat Daner as its WP developer, Sarah Sheldon as the company’s Video Guru, Skyler Moore works in support, Dustin Bolton is in charge of web codes and is also the developer in PluginBuddy.com, and last but not the least, Benjamin Bradley as the company’s instructor and trainer at Webdesign.com.
Gabfire Themes Overview
Gabfirethemes is owned by an independent web designer and web project consultant based in Estonia. Gabfire Themes has a large variety of themes suitable for personal website, business, magazines and especially news website. New themes are constantly created, and you can view a live demo of themes that you are interested in before buying them.
Themewars Overview
Themewars is one of the many good theme design websites that offer WordPress themes. The WordPress themes offered are distinct and can be used for a variety of websites, for Blogs, magazines, business websites and for portfolios as well.
Neatothemes Overview
Compared to other veteran online WP theme providers, Neatothemes is quite a new player in the industry, having opened just March 2010! Of course, this is not to downplay the company’s potential as they offer some of the neatest and cleanest WP themes available in the market today. Neatothemes has a diverse team of designers and developers coming from all over the world although their main headquarters is in Orlando, Florida.
They also have very affordable and competitive prices to boast of.
Their company name is largely based on how their themes generally look like (Neat + O = Neato) which also embodies their team, idea, technology and work ethics.
Themejam Overview
If you need a WordPress theme for your website, you can readily check out the products of Themejam. The small company, run by a single designer, offers a range of themes for websites and blogs in the lifestyle, science, news and business niches. Even though customers can choose from only 7 designs, it is possible to order a custom theme.
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WooThemes Overview
The mind behind the making of WooThemes is Adii Rockstar (born Adriaan Pienaar), entrepreneur, designer and developer. Adii designs and develops his themes using CSS, PHP and WordPress. Adii loves to design because he loves the freedom of creativity offered by it,
whereas development appeals to his more logical and analytical side. But his true love lies in running a business and that is where he hopes to layout and design his future in.
WooThemes is a provider of high quality WordPress themes. They have a wide selection of products to choose from. You can find big variety of themes from magazine, portfolio, gallery styles to business and personal types.