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Why You Need A Custom WordPress Theme

What’s the first thing we notice about a website? It is not the URL or the meta description that catches our attention. It is the catchy headlines, the placement of the headline, the layout and colors and blog post formats. Sometimes we are taken to liking by the revolutionized slider on the page or the animated graphics or the unique branding presented on the website. How do you accomplish a unique look for your website that potentially no other website has? 

Custom Themes!

What Is A Custom WordPress Theme? 

WordPress is the world’s most well-known content management system where people drop, drag and manage new content. It is free to use and once installed and has gazillion resources for everyone. WordPress is powerful and vouched for by major businesses over and over. Once people have WordPress effectively installed they are met with the choice of either using a pre-built theme for their site or installing a Custom WordPress theme. WordPress is home to more than 50,000 themes and they are bound to look repetitive. Even a premium theme may lack the desired unique look of a business or a personal blog site. 

custom wordpress theme

Themes are essential in running a fully functioning website. They bring color to your site, designs, layers and different looks along with features to your site. A normal free theme differs from a custom theme because we are making the theme from scratch based on our business needs, goals and looks. You either hire someone to provide a customized theme or you spend your knowledge in coding to craft your own customized WordPress theme. 

One of the more significant reasons for building a website is to bring a unique splash of colour to your brand. It also involves creating a competitive advantage, improving lead generation and amplifying your branding on digital platforms. A loud amplification is not truly possible without a good customization. I can go on and on about why you need to create your own customized theme but let’s take a look at some of the reasons to build your own custom wordpress theme!

Customized Theme Will Help You Stand Out 

What’s better than a complete one of a kind website to stand out among billions of websites? Competing even in our niche is hard in the digital world. Even the most unheard of niches have their own audiences with a handful of hundreds of websites. With billions of people to read and cater to, it is important to make sure your website is a reflection of your niche, goals and your passions. The generic prebuilt themes may not fit our visualized ideal image, requirements and content in mind. It is also important to note that people tend to leave the website if it is not visually engaging enough. It also won’t be a memorable experience for anyone who stays on the site. 

Improve Site Performance 

The biggest perk of actually building your own website from scratch is the ability to assure quality and performance. A prebuilt theme cannot beat the site speed and the user interface of a customized wordpress theme. The amount of conflicts, issues and lagging you have will be significantly reduced and the customer support you get for customized themes remains long term.  

Amplifies Branding Needs 

Creating a brand centric theme is crucial, especially if you are an all digital business or a platform. Accessing our reader, customers and users through a digital platform means our website is the ideal point of visualization of the business. The branding of the business lies in the designing of the site, the performance and the quality navigation, customer support and content on the site.  From email newsletter subscriptions to the features of live chat bots all make a difference in how customers perceive you. If your branding needs are not fulfilled by a prebuilt theme, it is time you opt for a customized theme. 

Less Dependant On Third Party Plugins 

When we build our own custom theme we are also setting out independence. Our need for 3rd party plugins decreases and hoarding of plugins becomes a fixed issue. Plugins are a vital part of the wordpress web building world. Without plugins you cannot build functionality into your site. So how does a custom built site reduce the need for plugins and still remain effective? When we build a custom site, the functionality is already incorporated. There is no longer any need to install 3rd party plugins that potentially slows down our site and decreases the satisfaction rate among users. 

Highly Secure And Well-protected 

Security should never be compromised when it comes to your website. A website is a huge part of your digital marketing and branding. Any vulnerabilities in the website among the rising number of hackers and cybercriminals are not an idea favored by anyone. So what can we do to improve the security of our WordPress site? Get a custom wordpress theme. A prebuilt website does not offer much security compared to custom wordpress themes. Custom wordpress themes are incorporated with security features to prevent any potential hazardous attacks of the website. 

Improved SEO and Mobile friendly 

A custom wordpress theme is definitely more SEO friendly compared to a prebuilt theme. Search engine optimization is absolutely vital in the world of websites. Without optimization you cannot improve your traffic, sales and brand awareness. It is key to make your website SEO friendly for all devices. Improved site speed in the custom theme, fewer plugins, improved security, and better compatibility with various devices all improves the relevancy of the website on the search engine. 

It is needless to say that a custom wordpress theme is sure to burn a hole in our wallets. It may be expensive but the benefits outweigh the cost. Customized themes must be done based on our need for such a theme and whether it matters to our business goals. It depends on our budget and how much we are willing to spend on the digital marketing of the brand. However, in the long run if you want your brand to differentiate, remain unique and cater to a wider audience it is important to use a custom WordPress theme.

20 May
Posted Under : Design, Other News, Themes, Web Design, Wordpress |
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A Guide To Choosing A WordPress Theme For Your Website

We all need a website for our business. As Bill Gates said a business not on the business, will go out of business. So it is our duty to make sure we avoid that horrible outcome at all costs right?

So where do we get our website? Most people and businesses who need a website go to WordPress, which is the world’s largest web publishing software. If you are planning to create content on a website, or build an eCommerce platform you will need the WordPress web hosting service. There are currently over 455,000,000 websites that are using wordpress right now. 

If you have a website, you are still going to need to create a proper layout for the site. It needs a face. An appearance. Something that users can see and interact with. Also something that your search engine can read and find you. You are going to need a wordpress theme.

wordpress theme

What’s A WordPress Theme? 

A wordpress theme is what people see when they visit your site. From the navigation bar to where the shopping cart is determined by the wordpress theme file. WordPress theme is the graphical user interface that people interact with. A wordpress theme provides functionality and usability to the site. It provides the visual, the layout, the font styles, widgets, colours and the other little details of a website. 

A good wordpress theme has the power of making people interact with your website for a long period of time. A good theme can attract people towards you and entice them. It also adds to the brand reputation and the brand awareness among people.How many of us have seen a good looking website and were unable to leave it because it just looked so good? As business owners, our aim is to make sure people keep scrolling through our website. Hoping they enjoy the joyful theme and pages filled with content. Indeed, a good wordpress theme makes all the difference in the customer experience.

WordPress themes are so easily accessible. Whether we are just starting out or have an already established medium sized business, wordpress can cater to all budgets. WordPress themes are both free and come in premium design packages. Being a premium theme means you have higher customization power and more features. But free themes are not any less. They are powerful and fulfills all the basic necessities of the customer and the search engine. 

Free or premium, we must keep an open and conscious mind when choosing our wordpress theme. There are a lot of things we must consider when choosing the ideal wordpress theme for our website. It goes beyond the appearance and the visual of the theme.  

Let’s take a look at all the facts you must keep an eye out for when choosing your wordpress theme! 

Does It Meet Your Objectives? 

Your business objectives always take precession when choosing any elements of your website. Different themes have different functionalities and usabilities. Some have the ability to secure payments or sign up for emails while other themes may not have the same feature. Some themes are made for simple portfolio purposes while others are for blogs. So depending on the type of business you have, and the reason for your website, you may need to look at all the features required for your theme and whether the designated theme fulfills your requirements. 

Theme Speed 

You don’t want your website to look good and work at the speed of a snail. People tend to get frustrated easily when a page is too slow. When the content takes too long to load. When the shopping cart is slow to process or when it takes too much time to jump to the next page. Little things matter in the process of building your website and one such is speed of your theme. The right navigation and optimized speed of the theme can make all the difference when driving traffic to your site. Google also takes note of how fast your site is and how much time people spend there. It determines how SEo friendly your website is. The faster it is , the more relevant the site is. Did you know that people tend to leave the site if a page takes longer than 3 seconds to load? 

A combination of tools can be used to test the performance and speed of the theme. Google also has some tools that you can use such as the Google Pagespeed Insights. 

Responsive Design Of The Theme 

Does the website open up nicely on the desktop but looks like a mess when viewed from your mobile? Perhaps that’s the consequence of using a theme with an unresponsive design. Most people do their shopping, reading, and consuming entertainment using their mobiles. Without a responsive design, you cannot increase the mobile traffic or improve the satisfaction of users.  The improvement of user experience is crucial, especially since google made it a ranking factor that affects your visibility on the search engine. 

Customization Capability 

Sometimes we need to do a little fine tuning of our own to the prebuilt themes on wordpress. But some of the themes made by independent developers do not allow for much customization. A simple demo of the theme can tell you whether you can change it’s colours, switch up the styling fonts and change the overall appearance of the web page. The customization capability gives you the freedom to arrange the site according to your preferences 

Reviews Of The Theme  

Reviews are a great indicator of the performance of the theme. Always check for the reviews of a theme before clicking purchase or even before using the free wordpress theme. There are thousands of themes that are free and capable of meeting your objectives. But the deliverables and results of a theme can be easily identified by the status of the reviews. 

Support The Necessary Plugins 

The most desirable thing about wordpress is the availability of plugins to improve our functionality and usability of the site. But there are some themes that do not support various plugins for the site. It is important to check out the compatibility of  your theme with plugins such as Yoast SEO plugins, security plugins, site speed plugins and e-commerce plugins and so many more. It is also good to check for the plugins that already come with the theme. This is an indication of an updated theme that is good for your website.

13 May
Posted Under : Themes, Wordpress |

Beware of Free Versions

Hello all,

It has come to my attention that my theme has been sourced from other sites that are not my own or from my selected outlets. I just want to remind you all that by downloading the theme from these illicit, you are putting your computer and website at risk of malware and viruses. 

Please understand that we provide the theme as a means of getting some financial help along the sidelines, by getting premium versions of our theme you will be hampering our efforts to continue updating it. 

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Not only are free versions of our premium harmful to us, but it can be for your site as well as we will not be able to provide updates and support if you run into any issues.

If you want to know more you can visit here.

Until Next Time!

16 Nov
Posted Under : Themes |

Mobile optimisations Soon!

Hello all! I’m proud to announce that our theme will now have better web compatibility in the next update. I know full well that nearly most of all searches and web browsing is now done on mobile platforms, hence we saw the great importance of making sure that our theme is compatible with mobile platforms. 

This is so that users who come across your website won’t leave after seeing that our theme is not compatible, decreasing the readability of it all. It is highly recommended that you all download this new update and apply it to your website, otherwise you may be losing a good chunk or potential visitors out there.

Until Next Time!

You might also want to read about our others update here.

16 Nov
Posted Under : News, Other News, Themes, Upcoming, Updates |

Ugly Side of Custom Themes

While most custom WordPress Themes are well designed and well-built for blogger and companies to use for their website, there is always a risk of getting a theme that may completely turn your website upside down and damage it heavily. And maybe, even give your computer a virus, which may ruin your entire operations. 

The world of WordPress themes is, unfortunately, not safe from maliciousness. As many third party-themes outside of WordPress are premium and need to be paid for, many websites have set themselves up to become sources of free/ pirated versions of these themes. While it may be great for those who don’t want to dig in their wallets for a theme, there is always a catch, like making a deal with the devil. The risk of using these sites to download pirated versions of these themes is that there is an added risk of getting all sorts of nasties that can effectively disrupt your computer. Malware, Adware, Ransomware and the likes. The type of stuff you will surely like to avoid like the plague.

It is important to remember that these themes are made by people who spend lots of time to perfect them, and they will surely want to be paid for the work they do, hence why most custom themes are paid for. However, there are always free versions with limitations so that people may get a taste. To understand this, you will know why paying for a premium theme is better than just pirating it. 

If you want free themes, WordPress has a variety of themes under their platform which you can choose from, these themes are great as they are less likely to harm your computer or the operations of your site, plus, they are also built to ensure that all plugins which you choose to install are compatible.

It is best to avoid websites that offer free versions of a product you should pay for in general, because not only are you stealing from the hard work people put into making these themes and ensuring that they run smoothly, you are also putting your websites and online business at risk of falling apart due to viruses. So why take that needless risk. If you have the money, why not just pay for the theme that you have an interest in, consider it an investment on your website or online business. Or, if you are just starting up, just use the many free themes that WordPress has on offer 

So in conclusion, while it may be tempting, it is not a very good idea to be tempted with free downloads of a paid product, as it’s potential effects may really bite back on your business efforts and the efforts of others. You can read more about this on notepadchaos website.

16 Nov
Posted Under : Themes, Wordpress |

We’re Back! Update and What’s Been Going On

Hello everyone, I guess some of you may have been wondering where we’ve been, and what we’ve been up to as of late. To put it short, we have been making sure that my theme is compatible with all the new WordPress. Updates that have come out and all the new plugins that come out too.  Needless to say, it is quite a task. But now we are here ready to come back and provide updates and support for the theme. 

But now we have released version v2.0 for those who want a new and improved theme. After listening in on your feedback and making the necessary adjustments, we hope to see that you will enjoy the latest update with our theme.

Our theme began its days as a simple project to expand and explore our skills in web development and design. And we are truly happy that many have downloaded and used our themes, it lets us know that we are at least doing something right. Over the years, we have continued to boost our expertise in ensuring that the theme works as intended, with new updates and systems coming in, we had to be on our toes so that our theme won’t be the ones causing your websites to stop working entirely. 

We were also working hard to ensure that our themes are only distributed from us, the creators. We have noticed that as our theme got a bit more popular, other less legitimate sites became sources to provide our theme, but instead of our lovely theme, users got spyware and malware. 

This was bad for both the users and ourselves. Firstly, the users will get downloads that harm their computers, secondly, our rep as a theme designer also gets tarnished too. So it is very important for us and for you to ensure that you obtain our theme from us and not other third-party sites.

We are also drafting up plans to make other variants of the theme which include, but not limited to, a dark theme, a minimalist theme, and a royal theme. But these are still being placed on the drafting table, so it may be a while till we formulate and develop a new theme style entirely. But if there are any suggestions on the behalf of our users, our ears are open and we can perhaps try to begin work on a theme that you want. 

We are aware that design taste may change over time so we are constantly trying to find ways to keep within the trends and keep our theme in the bubble of themes people can use on WordPress.

But in the meantime, enjoy version 2.0, we will be making quick patches for any issues that have been found, so please do be sure to report them to us, and we will get started on rectifying those fixes.

16 Nov
Posted Under : Themes, Web Design |

We Are Back!

We’re Back! Update and What’s Been Going On.

Hello everyone, I guess some of you may have been wondering where we’ve been, and what we’ve been up to as of late. To put it short, we have been making sure that my theme is compatible with all the new WordPress Updates that have come out and all the new plugins that come out too.  Needless to say, it is quite a task. But now we are here ready to come back and provide updates and support for the theme. 

But now we have released version v2.0 for those who want a new and improved theme. After listening in on your feedback and making the necessary adjustments, we hope to see that you will enjoy the latest update with our theme.

Our theme began its days as a simple project to expand and explore our skills in web development and design. And we are truly happy that many have downloaded and used our themes, it lets us know that we are at least doing something right. Over the years, we have continued to boost our expertise in ensuring that the theme works as intended, with new updates and systems coming in, we had to be on our toes so that our theme won’t be the ones causing your websites to stop working entirely. 

We were also working hard to ensure that our themes are only distributed from us, the creators. We have noticed that as our theme got a bit more popular, other less legitimate sites became sources to provide our theme, but instead of our lovely theme, users got spyware and malware. 

This was bad for both the users and ourselves. Firstly, the users will get downloads that harm their computers, secondly, our rep as a theme designer also gets tarnished too. So it is very important for us and for you to ensure that you obtain our theme from us, and not other third-party sites.

We are also drafting up plans to make other variants of the theme which include, but not limited to, a dark theme, a minimalist theme and royal theme. But these are still being placed on the drafting table, so it may be a while till we formulate and develop a new theme style entirely. But if there are any suggestions on the behalf of our users, our ears are open and we can perhaps try to begin work on a theme that you want. 

We are aware that design taste may change over time so we are constantly trying to find ways to keep within the trends and keep our theme in the bubble of themes people can use on WordPress. We don’t want to have a theme that makes 

But in the meantime, enjoy version 2.0, we will be making quick patches for any issues that have been found, so please do be sure to report them to us, and we will get started on rectifying those fixes. 

30 Sep
Posted Under : Design, Featured, Themes, Web Design, Wordpress |