Rating: 5 stars
great themes and great support! They’re kind and quick. I am very glad to use their themes
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I’m only sorry I didn’t discover this theme earlier. It has everything I need for my book and for potential buyers in a single place. I used another theme before finding this one and this is a big improvement.
Plus it’s backed up by Rara’s great customer service. This is my second theme with them.
Rating: 5 stars
It has the most important features an author needs in an uncluttered layout. It is especially well suited for a new author. Some of the features are edited through Post rather than Appearance menu, which I did not understand at first. The best aspect of all is the excellent, fast technical support – even for the free version. I plan to upgrade to professional as soon as my first book is ready.
]]>Rating: 3 stars
I was super happy when I originally found a theme designed just for authors. I still like this theme a lot, but the longer I used it the more little things about it bothered me.
Like the small issue of using posts to feature on their home page sections rather than pages – which really disrupts the flow if you have an actual blog alongside the site, because you have to use certain specific images for the header that you might not for the rest of the regular posts. Not sure if the paid version allows for pages, but the free one uses only posts.
Or the “About Admin” at the bottom of every page, instead of saying “About Author” (which you’d expect to be the default, in a theme called Author Landing Page).
Support was nice and helpful when I inquired on how to add a background to a custom post type and I’m really grateful for that, but when it came to changing the word “Admin” for “Author” (or “Me” or anything tangentially less generic than “admin”) they said it could only be done on the pro theme. I don’t mind paying for a theme when I’m able to, I like supporting people for their hard work, but I feel like this should have been a default, and I’m not shelling out $60 to change just one word in the whole theme, so my experience there was a little ruined.
If the “About Admin” wording doesn’t bother you (or you can spare the money to change it) and you don’t plan on having a blog along your author page, I still think this is a great theme choice for authors who want a simple site to showcase their works.
]]>Rating: 5 stars
I’m not illiterate when it comes to tech matters, but I’m no geek either. I thought I could put together a decent website with the theme I purchased, but I encountered a lot of hassles I didn’t want to mess with. Enter Nabin Jaiswal from Rara Theme Support. He initially installed the theme for me, which was all he was required to do. When I went back and asked him for extra help, I wasn’t exactly optimistic, but I thought I’d give it a shot. I even offered to pay extra. Bottom line: the dude did it for me! And it looks great! No extra charge. I can’t begin to tell you how happy I was to have the thing done. This review might not mean much to someone who thinks putting together a site is a breeze. But for those of you who don’t possess the know-how and don’t feel like spending hours tinkering with it, I can highly recommend.
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