Misleading “free” Themes and Plugins

  • I get it, WordPress is now full blown commercial and everyone wants to make money. Cool.

    But I think that theme providers should have to spell out what is and is not included in the free version of the theme BEFORE they are installed. They often show great landing pages and features on the demo that are NOT available on the free version. Usually all you really get is a few changes in color or fonts from the default themes.

    Same goes for plugins. You can search for features and find dozens of plugins only to discover AFTER you install them that the key features you wanted are NOT included.

    I’d even be more willing to pay for these items IF the sellers were more upfront about what is and is NOT included.

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  • Please try to remember that a THEME is just a collection of PHP templates, CSS and Javascript. It is your job as the website creator to create the design and look of your website. The preview image of a theme is what the developer/web designer created with the theme and not necessarily what you are capable of creating.

    Assume that if you are not creating the theme and plugins yourself, that you will have to pay for exactly what you need.

    Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    This really isn’t the place conversation. These are support forums not “What do you think” forums and there’s no place in these forums for that, thankfully.

    If you want to start a conversation that waxes philosophically about the state of open source, free to modify, GPL code on this site then please feel free to do so somewhere else. There is the /r/Wordpress site on Reddit, there is the Advanced WordPress on Facebook, there is even your own blog. I’ve nothing to do with either site but I believe they may let that conversation happen there.

    Or not, I’m not a moderator there and rarely post if at all there. But as this isn’t for here I am closing this topic.

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