Woo Themes Review – WooThemes.com

05. Oct, 2008 7 Comments

Review of Woo Themes

It’s official, J.R. is now a Woo Themes subscriber. Yep, I gave in and bought the developer subscription on Woo Themes. I did this about 2 months ago, but sadly I am just finding time to review them and give my thoughts about Woo Themes custom Worpdress Themes.

Before finding Woo Themes and eventually purchasing their subscription I began to follow Adii, one of the founders of WooThemes. I subscribed to his blog and followed him on Twitter. When I started to see post’s about their new project I was pretty anxious to see what they would come up with.

Who is Woo Themes?

WooThemes is a project started by three respected designers – Adii, Magnus Jepson and Mark Forrester – whom all share one thing: their passion for WordPress. All of the themes available on WooThemes are 100% unique and we can assure you that you won’t find similar CMS solutions elsewhere for any other platform.

We pride ourselves not only in the quality of our themes releases, but also that of our support & customer service. Our ultimate aim is to build a community of passionate WooThemes users, where future themes will be influenced by our userbase.

We truly love WordPress and after using any of our themes, you’ll not only love WordPress, but you’ll love WooThemes as well!

I won’t lie, there are plenty of “so-called” Custom Wordpress Themes, so I couldn’t imagine it being much different. I already had purchased one of Brian Gardner’s themes and he is one of the pioneers of custom Wordpress Themes.

The Bottom Line… Worth It or Not?

100% Yes. I am not new to Wordpress, I have had my fair share of free and premium Wordpress themes and these themes are worth every damn penny.

They include a one of kind “theme option tab” in the admin section which includes all kinds of goodies:

Easily change your logo
Add Feed Burner URL
Add Google Analytics
Add Flickr photos
Add Twitter updates
And More!

The best part is, all of those things I just mentioned take about 5 seconds flat to add to your site. There’s no digging through the code, not worrying if you placed it in the right section, it’s all laid out for you ready to go.

Lastly, WooThemes has collaborated with well respected designers (Elliot Jay Stocks), making their designs not only genuine but truly nothing you have ever seen before. They also guarantee that you’ll see at least 1 new theme every month. So far they have delivered.

UPDATE

Today is December 28th, 2009. It’s been well over a year since actually wrote this post and bought the Woo Themes club package. I’m happy to say, I’m still a customer. I pay my $15 every month and I have yet to be disappointed with Woo Themes. From fresh design to a speedy customer service team, they’ve got a handle on it. With that being said, just go and purchase a theme and I promise you won’t be disappointed.

You don’t need to take my advice though, go to their site and demo any of the themes, read what the community is saying on their blog and you’ll know what I am talking about.

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7 Responses to “Woo Themes Review – WooThemes.com”

Adii Reply 05. Oct, 2008 at 11:33 pm

Thanks for the kind words bud and glad that you have enjoyed working with our themes thus far. It is exactly for reasons like this, that we love creating themes – because who doesn’t want to hear nice things from their customers!?
JR Farr Reply 06. Oct, 2008 at 3:56 pm

Adii,

Wow, I’m impressed man. You commented on a post I wrote just an hour before.

That’s awesome. Thanks for responding and best of luck to you with {radiiate] and Woo Themes.

Take Care,

J.R. Farr
Patrick K. O'Brien Reply 08. Oct, 2008 at 9:51 am

This is a very nice looking site. It’s good to see more companies getting into the WordPress theme business.
JR Farr Reply 09. Oct, 2008 at 4:26 pm

Patrick,

Thanks for the compliment. Wordpress is getting bigger and bigger. There are a few Custom Wordpress Themes out there doing it right and Woo Themes is definitely one of them.

Thanks again for the comment.

-JR
Leslie Reply 30. Jul, 2009 at 1:05 am

OK, I’m convinced. After playing with a few free themes and even purchasing another theme. Those “blank canvas” themes are great for programmers, but for a Newbie, I just about pulled my hair out. It took me an entire day just to figure out how to add code to put in my logo!

I’ve realized that WordPress is not easy -even for a designer- and I’d rather start with something really nice that I can tweak a little and be up and running with most of the features I want.

They have some really nice designs at Woo and you’ve convinced me to go wtih them.
JR Farr Reply 30. Jul, 2009 at 8:53 am

Leslie,

I’m glad my review of Woo Themes was helpful for you

I wrote this post almost a year ago and I’m still a subscriber to their theme packages!

Just like you said, it’s much easier to take an existing template and make a few tweaks by adding your logo and what not. I think you’ll find that their themes are pretty simple to use as well. So I’m thinking you’ll catch on pretty fast!

Thanks for taking the time to comment, I’ll have to come check out your site when you get the new template up!

Best,
JR
Kathy H Reply 25. Nov, 2009 at 2:53 pm

Great post. I’m considering joining WooThemes, but want to be sure before I take the plunge.

Do you recommend any particular host for your Wordpress sites? My current host doesn’t specialize in Wordpress hosting, and I’d like to create future WP sites on a host that will be good about backups, upgrades, etc. Any good recommendations would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.