Topic
Choosing, customising and replacing WordPress themes.
Themes
A church site serves a stranger deciding whether to come on Sunday and a member looking for last week's sermon. The theme that handles both is the one that owns neither the sermons nor the giving.
Themes
A property is a record with a price, a status and a location, not a page with nice photography. Free real estate themes that register the property post type themselves take your entire portfolio hostage.
Themes
Comparison tables, pros-and-cons boxes and buttons are what earn on an affiliate site. If the theme supplies them, every review you have ever published breaks the day you switch.
Themes
Agencies rebrand their own site more often than they rebrand a client's. That makes portability, not the homepage animation, the thing to judge a theme on.
Themes
Astra's real selling point is that it gets out of a page builder's way. That is also the source of its two costs: the free version is deliberately thin, and its settings do not travel.
Themes
A store theme is judged on the product page and the checkout, not the homepage. Check WooCommerce template support, speed under a real catalogue, and how much it overrides.
Themes
A portfolio theme has to present images at full quality without making pages heavy, and get out of the way of the work. Grid flexibility and image handling decide it.
Themes
A blog theme has one job: make long text pleasant to read. Judge typography, measure and archive layouts with your own posts, and ignore the homepage demo entirely.
Themes
A business site needs speed, clear service pages and a conversion path — not sixty demo layouts. Judge candidates on performance, maintenance and how little you have to fight them.
Block Themes
Block themes look similar in screenshots and differ enormously in how much they constrain you. Judge them on theme.json depth, pattern quality and maintenance — not on the demo.
Block Themes
A working block theme needs four files. Build it from scratch, define the design system in theme.json, then let the Site Editor and the Create Block Theme plugin do the repetitive work.
Block Themes
Block themes replace PHP templates with HTML block markup and move styling into theme.json, so the whole site is editable visually. Here is what changes in practice.