6 Criteria to Select Best WordPress Themes for Your Blog
All of us bloggers want the best of the world for our blogs. That’s why most of us prefer WordPress as our blogging platform. There are thousands of WordPress themes and choosing the best one out of them can be a daunting task.
I have created this post with an intention of making your theme selection process much easier and also to ensure that your blog gets only the very best WordPress theme in the market at unbeatable prices.
Crucial Factors in WordPress Theme Selection
Not many of us realize that that selecting a theme for our blogs is not as simple as using the default theme on installing WordPress. There are many crucial criteria to be evaluated and assessed before your blog / site can get the best of all options. Here is a list of important factors to consider:
1) Type- Blog / Website
2) Intention of your blog / site- Hobby / Business / News / Entertainment
3) Type of business
4) Type of content on your blog / site
5) Browser compatibility
6) Loading time
1) WordPress Theme for Blog / Site
Blogs and websites are totally different from each other in terms of content, function and design. Blogs have dynamic content which keeps on refreshing frequently (according to the frequency of new blog posts), whereas websites have static content. Once the info is published on a website, it usually remains unchanged and nothing new is added to it.
Also, blogs will have posts, categories, pages and also a comment section, unlike websites that usually only have pages. You have to keep these differences in mind when you select themes for your blog / website.
2) WordPress Theme Must Match Intention of Your Blog / Site
Not every blog or site has the same intention or the same niche. Some blogs are created for propagating a hobby like scrapbooking, crafts, etc while other blogs may be created as news blogs and some others for entertainment purposes.
Whatever the intention or purpose behind starting the blog, it should definitely have a WordPress theme that matches the general requirements of these intentions. If your blog deals with entertainment, you will need a theme that is bright, vibrant and lively. Look how lively this entertainment theme is:
A hobby blog will do very well with a bubbly and artistic theme. On the other hand a news blog should have a clean, smart and crisp theme.
3) Type of Your Business and Your Theme
Every business is unique, but it falls into certain general categories. There are many themes that have pre-designed templates suitable for each business category. For example a health website / blog can use a WordPress theme with a medical / health template or a finance site can use a finance based template.
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Match intention of your blog is so important. Definitely I agree.
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A Theme Should Look Good and shouldn’t be hard to Navigate,The Reader should easily be able to locate the content.
Nice list, also interesting to see some Hybrid themes here, looks as if it is becoming quite popular.
I run a site with some free wordpress themes available for download, there are also some magazine themes there although obviously since they are free, the quality varies
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Hi Kavita
Really that is something very informative, themes are the clear reflection of one’s persoanlity. In a span of 2 months I have changed my theme twice.
Blog loading time, browser compatibility and mobile friendly are the criterias which are more technical.
Thanks
Sapna
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Things were explained with your perspectives on wp themes.
Thanks for your visit and comment Kabenlah
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Nice post Kavita and you’ve analyzed it very well.
I take themes as personality of a blog. When you land on any new blog page, it is the theme that speaks out about its kind and how sincere the blogger is on that particular blog.
I do agree, there should be different kind of themes used for different kind of topic a blog uses.
Hope to see some more soon.
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Thanks for the kind words Suresh. I liked the way you described themes as ‘personality’ of a blog, awesome!
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Thanks for your nice words Shalu. You have done a pretty good job in selecting your theme as well.
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Good analysis Kavita. A good wordpress theme makes a lot of difference both visually and also content wise. So a blogger or business must choose an appropriate theme that goes well with their site.
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