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ElegantThemes Overview
2023 Edition – ElegantThemes is owned by Nick Roach, an expert WordPress premium theme developer who has created all of the themes found on ElegantThemes.com. His first attempt in designing a website started from the tender age of thirteen when his 7th grade band required a website. He laughs at the first “site” he came up with, but more importantly – the passion for web design had been instilled.
Fast forward to today and Nick’s works are simple, clean, and elegant with a touch of style and originality. He is fully dedicated to creating innovative designs, and as of 23 he has over 80 themes and plugins, although he is best known for the popular Divi Theme
We invite you to go behind the scenes at Elegant Themes to learn just why over 800,000 customers trust Elegant Themes as the goto place for premium WordPress themes. From their humble beginnings, Elegant Themes has kept their focus on over-delivering to their customers, and they show no signs of slowing down any time soon.
Be sure to read our entire Elegant Themes Review: 2023 Edition – then check out our nearly 100 user comments and ratings below (and join the conversation by leaving your own comment and rating for Elegant Themes).
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StudioPress Overview
2013 Edition – Choosing the right theme provider is important! A poorly designed and coded theme can not only have devastating consequences on your visitors and sales it can also effect your brand and business.
In line with this, we are conducting reviews on all major premium WordPress theme providers and reporting back to you. Our first StudioPress review was in 2009, however it has been updated many times throughout the years with our current 2013 Edition being the latest.
With Brian Gardner as the founder, StudioPress is well-known in the WordPress community. Specifically, they have created the very popular Genesis Framework which allows users to quickly and easily build sites with WordPress.
The credentials of the company owners and managing officers are one of the aspects that you should check when selecting for the best provider of WordPress themes. It is important ake sure that they are experts in the field of website development and WordPress specialists with years of experience. Thankfully Brian and his team have been long standing members of the WordPress ecosystem.
Knowing the expertise of the people behind the services that you are subscribing is important because it can give you assurance that you are getting premium services and backed by exceptional support from experts who can provide excellent technical assistance if you encounter difficulties and issues on the use of your chosen theme. In this case, the people behind StudioPress have excellent credentials; each of them has their own specialty and expertise in different fields to ensure broader knowledge for the whole team.
Museumthemes Overview
Museum Themes
is from Arcane Palette Creative Design which was established in 2007. The founders, Erin and Chris, traded in their desk jobs for a more creative and unique approach to working. The founders created Museumthemes out of the industry’s need for more artistically designed themes.
Museumthemes has the creative and unique designs which, at the same time, is very functional. Function and beauty, that’s what Museumthemes is all about.
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Each and every one of the WordPress theme listed on ThemeGrade has gone through comprehensive tests. The tests cover general coding issues as well as the SEO.
In this post, we outline the tests being used, the weight of each test as well as the calculation details.
General Test
The general tests of a theme give you an idea of how well the designer coded the theme. When pass, the score will be added to the General Test. The tests with the higher score are more difficult to pass than the tests with the lower score.
| Description | Pt(s). | Info | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | W3C Compliant – HTML | 2 | Detail |
| 2 | W3C Compliant – CSS | 2 | Detail |
| 3 | Browser Compatibility – IE7 | 1 | Detail |
| 4 | Browser Compatibility – Firefox | 2 | Detail |
| 5 | Browser Compatibility – Chrome | 1 | Detail |
| 6 | Support from Designer | 2 | Detail |
| 7 | Post area – Proper Image Alignment | 1 | Detail |
| 8 | Post area – Floating Content | 1 | Detail |
| 9 | Post area – Auto Adjustment | 1 | Detail |
| 10 | Post area – Nested/Threaded Comments | 1 | Detail |
| 11 | Sidebar – Link Hierarchy | 1 | Detail |
| 12 | Sidebar – Auto Adjustment | 1 | Detail |
| 13 | Special Effect | variable | Detail |
| Total Points | 16 + variable | ||
If a theme passes all general tests, the theme will score 100%.
In all cases, a theme will be tested against the first 6 general tests.
For most of the times, a theme will be tested against the first 11 general tests.
Calculation method of the General Test.
- Step 1 – Find out how many items a theme has been tested on.
- Step 2 – Add the total score of the tested items
- Step 3 – Add the total score of the passed items
- Step 4 – Take the score of the tested items and divide it by the score of the passed items. Multiply that number with 100 to get the percentage score of the theme.
SEO Test
WordPress does a very good job in internal linking so that makes it easy for search engines to index the pages. To rank for the pages, generally, two main factors are considered: on-page optimization and off-page optimization.
The off-page optimization is relating to external links and it has nothing to do with the theme itself. To see if a theme is optimized for search engines, we need to review the theme coding (on-page optimization).
The SEO tests of a theme give you an idea of how well a theme had been optimized for search engines.
When pass, the score will be added to the SEO Test. The tests with the higher score are more difficult to pass than the tests with the lower score.
| Description | Pt(s). | Info | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | W3C Compliant – HTML | 1 | Detail |
| 2 | W3C Compliant – CSS | 1 | Detail |
| 3 | Home page Heading SEO | 1 | Detail |
| 4 | Post & Page Heading SEO | 1 | Detail |
| 5 | Post & Page Title Tag (Title as seen in SERPs) | 1 | Detail |
| 6 | Content Code Position | 2 | Detail |
| Total Points | 9 | ||
Calculation method of the SEO Test is the same as the General Test.
Calculation of the total score of a theme
General Test Score x 0.6 + SEO Test Score x 0.4