Comments on: Sponsored review: Woo Themes

By: cvili

cvili — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:41:04 +0000

I downloaded Premium News theme. Looks fine, inside problem, problem, problems. On WP 2.8 didnt works featured, on WP2.6 didnt work custom logo upload. They also hide support page so you can pay 125$ and you dont know if something realy works fine.

By: hollakmedia

hollakmedia — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:20:11 +0000

The WordPress market is definitely large enough to support a business model like that of Woo Themes.

Not everyone wanting to blog is a WordPress expert or HTML / CSS expert, yet they still don’t want to go with a free theme that has been overused in the marketplace. That’s where a business model, like Woo, comes into the marketplace.

I wouldn’t call the Woo model a “mature” business model yet, so it will be interesting to see where the marketplace takes this business model.

In the meantime, if you are using a Woo Theme, I’ve post a quick tutorial back on my site on how to code a rotating logo into the header file. It’s easy to follow even if you don’t consider yourself an HTML / CSS expert.

Also, the copy editor in me noticed that you missed a pretty obvious typo in the first sentence of your post.

By: David Peralty

David Peralty — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:21:17 +0000

I would disagree. Lots of time and energy is put into WordPress themes. Even if each theme was only given a total of 10 hours of development time, which isn’t outrageous for WordPress themes, that is $15/hr you’ve paid for some designer, developer, marketing manager, etc… I think it is more than fair considering people that use premium themes, usually have premium blogs making a fair bit above $150/year in revenue.

By: domain

domain — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:05:23 +0000

For some obvious reasons, people may decide not to join the club. Selling
themes to this group of people for $150 is outrageous i think.