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WordPress Premium Theme and Framework

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As a WordPress developer, I am in love with all those premium themes and frameworks (both free and premium), the community did just the work we all looking for. After checking out several premium themes and frameworks, I find that:

Basically they are just an ordinary theme

They can be an odinary theme as well, if you want. A few premium themes from ThemeForest doesn’t do that though. Some premium theme tend to make you think and read just to make it works. Most, are just an ordinary theme comes with some function, you either use it or leave it.

Need advance knowledge, or at least some times to understand

I first check out premium theme was from WooThemes. They have all those needed functionality, including adding Sidebar widget. However, it required some knowledge, or time to read through their documentation to understand where and how it works.

Built-in EVERYTHING

Almost all premium themes and frameworks like to build everything in a theme, widgets, shortcodes, header image, background and etc. The thing is, they did not sync with what WordPress already offer. Eventually, you’ll have to keep using their theme to make sure things are still intact, especially shortcodes.

This way or that

The one thing I like checking them out is to see how they solve those problem, differently. Many premium themes has same options, but different way to present it. That is where the “Ah-Hah!” moment, which sometimes help me on my work :P

Well, I did tried to get more premium theme to test, by illegal mean :P But I didn’t do it though. Most premium themes I get are from my clients. Yes, even the basic user having hard time to setup the premium features.

Why you should avoid GoDaddy

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Been frustrated with GoDaddy this few days, and some bad experiences on the road of ZHNG design studio. I don’t know why GoDaddy still a top choice for many people, I mean the new comer to web and hosting. Perhaps, they spent a lot on women to advertise.

Here are some list I know about GoDaddy and you should definitely avoid it at all cost!

Pricing term

Don’t get hook up with GoDaddy alone, there are a lot of research you can do to compare it with GoDaddy. Nowadays selling domain name is not profitable, a lot of domain registars are getting a hand in web hosting as well, so with others, you too can get hosting and domain in one account on one site. But the price GoDaddy offer? Always higher than any other competitors.

Pending Hosting

The reason I mention “new comer” above, is because this “Pending” thing. When you are with GoDaddy as an experiences hosting user, you’ll get frustrated with the “Pending” or rather, “Status”, there are a few step to wait just to get into your hosting account. Which means, if you are transfering your website to GoDaddy, expect a long long downtime, all because the “Status”. I don’t understand why I can’t adjust/create/edit my website in an IP address like how cPanel, Plesk and all other web hosting provider?

Catching you

I just realise that, GoDaddy doesn’t allow a folder with more than 1024 files in it. Yes, no folder with more than 1024 files are allowed. Reason? It will slow down your website. Can anyone explain this to me?

No error logging for budget host

Or rather, cheap host. The economic package comes with no error logging. Which means, if one day, GoDaddy come to you and tell you your website eat their resources, that is that. You are to abide with it or leave. Well, they probably ask you to upgrade to another plan. Even so, I will not believe the log file anyway.

So far, I have never had a good experience with GoDaddy yet. Beside of course the GoGirls :) Consider other hosting like BlueHost, ExaBytes for budget hosting, or VPS.net, WiredTree for VPS power. Just forget about GoDaddy, too many terms hidding in there.