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10 Terrible Mistakes to Avoid When Choosing WordPress Themes

With WordPress themes, you can create different types of websites investing minimum effort. Besides, the number of themes available for WordPress is more than other CMS (Content Management Services).<br>However, not all of the WordPress themes are appropriate to create outstanding websites. Many novice developers make mistakes while selecting themes.<br>Here are ten common mistakes that are often conducted by the developers while selecting themes so that you can avoid them.<br>

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10 Terrible Mistakes to Avoid When Choosing WordPress Themes

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  1. 10 Terrible Mistakes You Shouldn’t Repeat When Choosing WordPress Themes

  2. Nail your business with an astounding website. Yes, a website is the new face of your business. Grow your business by reaching a wide range of customers using website. However, creating an amazing website is little tricky.

  3. To create an amazing website, you first need to choose a great theme. Your website theme should be impressive enough to engage your customers and guide them throughout the buyer’s decision making.

  4. WordPress is probably the most popular platform to create a website because of its extendibility. With WordPress theme, you can create different types of websites investing minimum effort. Besides, the number of themes available for WordPress is more than other CMS (Content Management Services). Why choose a WordPress theme?

  5. However, not all of the WordPress themes are appropriate to create outstanding websites. Many novice developers make mistakes while selecting themes.

  6. How to avoid mistakes while choosing WordPress themes?

  7. Many WordPress themes comes with specific plugins as ‘necessary' to reach maximum functionality of the theme. Unfortunately, for 85% cases, we found that these additional plugins tend to cause more headache than benefits. Mistake 1:Choosing a theme with multiple required plugins

  8. Whenever you are working on complex theme presentation, you are complicating the website design and maintenance process. Try to find a simple theme that contains functionality to fulfill your need and nothing less or nothing more. Mistake 2:Choosing a complicated theme

  9. Most of the themes come with three types of licensing approach: • One-time free with lifetime support and free update • Recurring per month or per annum for updates and support • Paid support based on ‘need’ – premium paid Unfortunately, many free themes come with ‘no support’ from the developers. So, check the license before installing any theme. Mistake 3:Not looking at the theme license

  10. If you are comfortable using Google Chrome and your theme is looking fine in Google Chrome it doesn’t mean the theme will look similar to other browsers like Opera, Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer. Before installing the theme check its browser compatibility in every browser possibly available. Mistake 4:Not considering browser compatibility of the theme

  11. Selecting a responsive theme is now no more an option but mandatory. The user experience is hugely dependent on the mobile responsiveness of a website. In fact, Google is considering mobile friendliness as a ranking factor. Mistake 5:Selecting unresponsive WordPress theme

  12. If your mind is set to create a specific website for e-commerce, photography or blogging, then never choose a general theme. There are hundreds of WordPress themes specifically developed for e-commerce sites, photography sites and blogging. Mistake 6:Selecting Theme without functionality

  13. A large number of themes don't come with the multilingual facility. If you are intending to create a website in a language other than English – check if your selected theme is multilingual supported. Mistake 7:Not choosing a multilingual theme

  14. Average loading speed of a website should be within five seconds. However, most of the users want to load a website in the mobile phone within two seconds. It is hard to match such demand when you have a heavy website. Mistake 8:Not considering the theme’s loading speed

  15. Buying older version theme could be the greatest blunder you can make while choosing your theme. Always go for updated latest versions because the updated versions are already improved by the developers for multiple times, which make them ‘hacking-proof’. Mistake 9:Picking up an older version theme

  16. WordPress theme is popular for supporting SEO. Yes - most of the popular WordPress themes built keeping in mind SEO while some are not. SEO friendly themes are a bonus to support your SEO strategy and boost your ranking in Google SERP. Mistake 9:Not paying attention to SEO friendliness

  17. When the mistakes are obvious … stand out from the ordinary crowd and choose your WordPress theme wisely.

  18. THANKS! Any questions? You can find us here: https://webmarketinguru.com/

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