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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.

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Theme-Junkie Overview

Theme-junkie is a newly opened premium WordPress theme provider in 2009. The company offers user-friendly, great looking, and efficient WordPress themes.

Like many other online WP theme providers in the likes of Graphpaperpress, Theme-junkie is also known to provide excellent support forums to all its clients. If there is a distinctive feature unique with the company, it is definitely their very affordable prices which is almost comparable to Wpnow.com’s rate, and is great for users and developers who are looking to save up on their start-up blog site costs.

Theme-junkie’s themes are licensed under GPL. Their themes are proud to be in full compliance with W3C standards and all the licenses set forth by WordPress.

Although the company offers great support network, unfortunately, this is only limited to their paying customers and not for their free account holders.

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Pliablepress Overview

Pliablepress is a premium WordPress themes provider which offers some of the most flawless and the most beautiful designs in the industry. If you are looking for professionally built WP themes, then this company is definitely good for you. You don’t have to be a pro at computer programming as they provide you with the easiest customizable themes with an innovative framework that gives you the most control out of your sites’ every aspect.

All of their themes are SEO friendly to ensure much traffic on your website. And, if you are looking for real attention to detail, you’ll definitely find it on their themes which your visitors will surely love.

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Chimerathemes Overview

Advertising has reached a scope farther than television, radio and newspapers and in order to get ahead, you must have a well designed website that’s conducive to potential customers staying and reading more. All this is possible with WordPress themes from Chimerathemes.

Incorporated in June 2010, Chimerathemes gives each and every person the ability to make influential and beautiful looking websites. Even if you don’t have a degree in web design or have computer programming skills, you can make a website that will generate more leads, more traffic and more business to your site.

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Newwpthemes Overview

Newwpthemes is a leader in free trustworthy WordPress themes. All of their themes are uniquely designed and developed by the company and are totally free for either commercial or personal use. Their themes are licensed under Creative Commons and are updated, regularly supported and are always compatible with the latest WordPress releases.

Currently, they have a total of 195 free themes so you should definitely find one, or maybe two, that would best suit your needs (and did we mention they are all free?).

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Wparcade Overview

Wparcade is relatively new to the premium WP theme business but what separates them from most is that they specialize in creating WordPress arcade themes – premium WP themes geared towards the gaming and arcade niches. They are a small company with a big vision, and their themes are licensed under the GNU general public license.

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Skinpress Overview

The demand for WordPress themes has risen over the last few years. Many new studios have joined the industry in an attempt to respond to the needs of customers. Skinpress is one of the fast developing providers of WordPress themes. They have a wide selection of products and the number of their clients is constantly growing.

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