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Studiopress Overview
There are plenty of Wordpress themes to choose from to customize your websites. The numerous available online services make it very challenging among many users in choosing which among the services to use. For this reason it is highly recommended to read reviews about a particular service in order to ensure that you are getting one of the best Wordpress themes for your site.
In line with this, we are conducting reviews on all major premium Wordpress theme providers online and Studiopress is one of the first that we reviewed.
With Brian Gardner as the founder, Studiopress is being managed by a group of six professional designers, graphic artists, and Wordpress experts.
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. First of all, make sure that they are experts in the field of website development and Wordpress specialists with years of experience behind them to back their competencies.
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.
Theme Functionality
The company offers various premium Wordpress designs and themes with wide variety of selections to choose from. They have 2 main themes to offer: the classic theme and the child theme.
As of July 2010, under the classic theme are four design choices while the child theme has more designs having 24 different child themes. They also offer Wordpress Genesis theme framework where you have more freedom in customizing your website according to your preferences.
The Genesis framework is optimized for SEO and you can view the video showing the SEO Options in Genesis ver1.2 running on WP 3.0 below.
Another important aspect that you should take note is to ensure that the themes are search engine optimized. In this case, all themes offered by Studiopress are optimized for better ranking among major search engines. In fact, one of the staff is an SEO expert to ensure that every theme that is being developed by the group is search engine optimized.
Moreover, all Wordpress themes have user friendly content management system with provisions for advertisements and monetizing the site. Sidebars are also provided for easier integration of gadgets and widgets in your site.
Theme Graphics
Another vital aspect to check is the theme graphics. Though the graphics of Studiopress themes are not as expertly made as themes developed by Elegantthemes and Woothemes, most of the themes have high resolution graphics that blend well with the theme.
With the release of the Genesis framework, other developers can potentially feature their theme design in Studiopress. We started to see more variations in the graphical and layout design. However, the standard is not as good as what you see in Elegantthemes and Templatelite.
Themes developed by Studiopress
Theme Pricing- base on July 2010 data
Similarly important is the pricing of the themes offered by Studiopress; generally they are affordable at $59.95 per theme. On top of that, they also offer a Pro-Plus All-Theme package for $249.95 which you can gain access to all themes offered by Studiopress including the newly
launched themes.
Theme Support
Studiopress offers theme support through their support forum where you can ask any questions and they shall be answered by helpful members and supportive staff. On the negative side, no email support is available and your issues will have to be posted in the forum where others can address it. Hence, there is no privacy on your part when it comes to asking for help.
However, this is not a big issue because the important thing is that you will get the support that you need either from other members or the staff.
When it comes to the use of the selected Wordpress theme for your website, there is support and detailed theme tutorial provided for the members in order to make integration of the theme to the website smooth and easier.
To conclude the Studiopress review, the overall assessment of this premium Wordpress theme provider is excellent and highly recommended, having wide variety of expertly developed SEO
Wordpress themes to offer to its prospects and customers.
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I had problems with studiopress support holding back information from me. They helped with very simple problems that’s all. Anything more than very basic questions like how to change the width of a sidebar or something they won’t help unless you pay them extra.
Wow, I had no idea real web designers are complaining here that the graphics included with the themes are not “highly visually stimulating.” Why in the world would someone want to use the graphics included with a theme that OTHER people are using? Like, “hey, local business, would you pay me to make you a rockin’ site using graphics that your competitors are using?!” Well, I learn something new every day.
I love the clean themes that make it easy to pop my own images in.
And, after the disaster of WordPress making an upgrade a few years back that made a lot of sites fall apart, I feel SO secure with the whole parent/child theme thing. And while I’d love more support, I realize I can’t pay for it, so realize I have to live with the bulletin board help. I’m lovin’ WordPress, thanks all!
p.s. and thanks for attending the WordPress Meetup groups in NYC sometimes!
I am very happy and satisfied with the services provided by Studiopress for quite a while now. I started using their themes back when the company was still called Revolution to develop an old video blog which unfortunately is no longer running due to personal reasons. Still, I can’t stress the quality of Studiopress.com’s theme graphic and functionality.
If you are a web developer like me, then I highly recommend the company’s Pro-Plus All-Theme package where you can access their over 25 professional quality WP themes, all for just $249.95 a year!
I personally love three of the companies WP themes – Amped, Going Green and Landscape – all of which are uniquely designed to cater to your readers’ tastes. If you are a newbie, however, don’t despair as the company provides the most user-friendly WP themes I have ever seen. And best of all, if you encounter any problems at all, the company has an excellent online support network to assist you, ain’t that great?
I love having a template from Studiopress for my blog. I’m pretty new at this kind of stuff and when you need support, Studiopress goes all out.
Through a support forum, any kind of question I have is answered quickly. However, support would become perfect if Studiopress provided email support for their customers as well. What if I want to ask about something that’s pretty private when it comes to the WordPress theme of my choice? I have to plaster it out on a forum for everyone in the world to see.
“Beautiful!”
I was browsing around one day and chanced upon the Lifestyle theme and I loved it instantly! It was beautiful. I did some minor changes to it though to support my blog site and I really am very happy!
StudioPress is surely doing a great job in fulfilling their goal of taking WordPress to places no one would ever think it would go. Themes from StudioPress are always given 10 stars when it comes to functionality and support.
For all the themes they have on offer, it’s easy to find one that will suit your website. With their Genesis framework and child themes, you get to customize according to what you prefer for your website.
They’re also optimized to be the first sites on the list in various search engines.
I’ve worked with wp themes from a lot of companies and in comparison to others like Woothemes and Elegantthemes, StudioPress’ falls short.
Without the high resolution, themes from StudioPress just fade into the background. It’s hard to get the blend you like for your website with substandard graphics.
“Love the images”
I was surprised to see how vibrant the background colors were and my logo on top with using their theme! My images come to life because of the background that complements them. Thank you SP!
“Special effects galore”
Studiopress themes are fantastic. I got one of the two themes they offer and had a lot of tools to make my websites what they are now.
Drop-down menu, featured content, the works! I don’t need anything else.
It’s easy to get help if you need some with regard to customization, how to’s and the like with Studio Press support.
You can post a question on the forum and you’re sure to get answers from members or the staff. And even without the forum, theme tutorial is very detailed.
Part of being successful in business is offering something that’s personal. My website is personal in that I customized it to my heart’s content. It’s everything that I am and Studio Press made it all me.
“top notch support”
i’m not a very technically inclined person i admit, so i did have a few problems setting it up. but all the more i loved being with studio press because they had helped me all the way through!
“emphasis on content”
when you want to be read, you need a way to focus on content. studiopress did just that for my website and today, there’s no article that goes unread on my page. and that’s NEWS for me.
i always went with free premium theme providers because they were very simple to use and are free, but they don’t look very appealing so i went with studio press wp themes. the only problem is that it’s too complicated to use!
I just entered the real estate business and I needed a website to get me in the game. The real estate agent got the Agent theme and it’s been smooth sailing ever since I got the theme from them.
“Great Features!”
What I like about Studio Press themes first and foremost are their great features!
Ever since I went with their themes, my website has never looked so neat and professional! My clients love it too.
“Streamlined by Studiopress”
Of the 16 themes that Studiopress had, Streamline caught my eye and for a corporate looking design, it packed one heck of a punch. I never knew that monochrome could be so attractive. Way to go Studiopress.
“There are pastels”
Who’d have thought that you’d never find beautiful wp themes in pastels? I did and Studiopress ended my search.
It doesn’t look childish at all. I wanted a website in lighter colors and Lifestyle did it for me.
“the best child friendly themes”
studiopress child themes encouraged my daughter to write more often on her blog. She is able to practice writing through her blogs.
I think they are the only Wordpress theme developer that thought about making child themes.
“God Bless Studiopress!”
I’ve been a youth pastor in our local parish for years now and wanted to be able to relate and connect more to the younger generation to facilitate their spiritual growth so I thought, what better way to do it than with computer technology, right?
Seeing how popular the internet is to the younger crowd made me decide to learn more about social networking online and it worked perfectly and quite easily to my surprise, thanks to the help of Studiopress!
The youth in our parish have stayed connected with our church’s website through Twitter and Facebook since it has never been easier to do so!
i love the selections that SP has for their customers when it comes to wp themes.
you can select the various types of child themes built on the genesis framework. together with multiple choices, you can further customize your website!
“My Perfect Theme With Studio Press!”
I just finally opened my new blog site and was looking for a quality WordPress theme and had stumbled upon Studio Press. I wanted to go with a premium WP theme developer because I didn’t want to sacrifice the quality of my blog for a free one, especially when it comes to the service, support and help they provided.
I immediately felt a strong liking to their Lifestyle theme and after reviewing it a bit, have finally decided to try it out. So far so good, I love how it fits perfectly with my lifestyle blog and my readers seem to like it too, so there’s no problem there.
I especially like how my readers are easily able to follow me through the various social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook and the likes. I am not very crazy about their price, though, because it is a bit expensive.
“that’s exactly what i want!”
i am absolutely blessed to have found the perfect theme design for my church website with studiopress’ outreach 1.0 church + genesis theme framework! one look and I knew I have found what I was looking for.
“It is not as good as it seems…”
I would’ve wanted my theme from Studiopress to be something that’s highly visually stimulating in that the theme graphics are made with high resolution. Unfortunately, when you compare themes that Studiopress has with others like legantthemes, the graphics fall short. Even with the newly released Genesis framework for Studiopress WordPress themes that stretched the horizon further as far as the designs you can have for graphics as well as layout, these themes would fade in comparison to what other providers have.
“It is Visually Stimulating!”
I have to disagree with Lucy that Studiopress templates are not visually stimulating because as far as I am concerned it is. I love the fact that their graphics does not overpower the real content of my website.
What I most especially love about Studiopress many wonderful WP themes is that they are perfect for encouraging much traffic to your website because after all, that is the reason why many people develop their own websites and blogs – to broaden their readership and market reach. I never had a problem with using any of their professionally designed WordPress themes as the company promptly responds to even the simplest of my queries online.
I would greatly appreciate it though if they can provide some sort of anonymity to my posts as the company doesn’t really provide an email address where you can personally shoot them an email for any questions, rather than having to post most of your questions publicly online on their board. I also love the fact that they have a host of WP themes to choose from which is perfect for both web developers and website owners.