Creating a website using WordPress is much more comfortable with themes. We have to think of the content and the placement of it in our favorite way.
WordPress.org has a collection of themes from developers all over the world. It even lists a few from the creators of WordPress, automattic. All those themes went through a strict checking process before publishing.
WordPress offers a variety of free themes. But the beauty and features of premium themes will always attract us. It looks like like simple and easy to handle functions and modify the customization options.
The easiness to create websites with features provided by the premium themes is a real blessing. Drag and drop builder, page layouts, demo contents, shortcodes, and a lot of other customization help us to create a good website.
But sometimes this huge feature list will create chaos.
Careful while adding new plugins.
Most premium themes come with a pack of plugins that are made by the theme builders or from other providers which are recommended and are needed for the theme to function, as shown in their demos.
But there is always a chance that we, the users, need a list of plugins which is not supported by the theme builders. This requirement can sometimes lead to conflicts and show errors. Sometimes everything will work fine, and we are happily continuing the same. But one unfortunate day it may start to show fault, maybe because of the plugin update or any change that happens in the background.
Also, the plugins we added other than the plugins added by the theme builders will not come into consideration while they do bug fixes, updates, and improved theme versions. These can sometimes create issues. It can even result in a white screen of death.
So it is preferable to use the plugins that are supported by the theme builders and use those plugins that come along with the themes.
Look for updated themes
Themes that are updated and well-supported won’t usually make many issues. Make sure your theme is recently updated. Also check other themes by the same provider and go through its reviews. An active theme provider is what you have to look for while searching for a theme.
Coding standards
Also look for the theme reviews, even though it looks good in appearance. A poorly coded theme may invoke many PHP requests and can cause server errors.
Activating unnecessary plugins
Disable the extra plugins. Like a simple blog or a gym site won’t need woocommerce.
Think about your future.
Be sure you can take the content out for another theme.
Take care about the editor plugins that create shortcodes. It will add shortcodes in your content as required. Thus it can make the site a sea of shortcodes if that editor or builder is disabled. If we think of a theme change any time, it will be difficult to handle that situation and escape our content from a large site or blog.
Support and love
Check the theme support forums that they are active in handling the customer’s query and requests.
Always keep a local copy in your system
If you have a local copy of the current site, it is better first to carry out the WordPress and theme updates, plugin installs, code changes etc. over there to safeguard your website.
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