WordPress Premium Theme: Flexx Theme

Once you look into this theme you’ll understand why it is called the “Mega WP Blog Theme” And I have to agree it is “One of the most powerful, but easy to use blog themes on the planet”!

Check out the features and options:

• 15 styles/colors to choose from.
• Text header option – keep our rotating images script but include a text overlay of your blog title and tagline
• Feedburner widget – we’ve styled and coded a cool Feedburner widget that you can easily put into your sidebars for getting feed and email subscriptions
• Favicon uploader – put a personal touch on your site with a custom favicon
• Billboard Ad Management Feature
• 1,056 possible layout combinations
• Rotating header images
• Contact Form Page Template
• Plug and Play Graphic Changes
• Menu Builder
• Search Engine Optimization
• WP 2.7 Compatible!

I’ve worked with this theme and the ability to customize the theme to what you prefer is rarely found in most themes. Plus you have the confidence in knowing this theme is developed and more importantly, supported by one of the leaders in the theme market.

What more could you ask for? You’ll want to at least check out the Flexx MegaTheme if you’re thinking of moving your site to WordPress.

Top 5 Premium WordPress Themes

Anyone who talks to me hears in my voice my excitement over the potential that WordPress has brought back to the Web for small businesses and Netrepreneurs.

15 years ago when I started this adventure it was a level playing field. Then the “big guys” got online and priced out the average Joes and Janes when it came to getting found and paying for advertising. Add to that the bar had been raised as far as design and functionality. Quality sites became increasingly expensive to have developed, implemented and maintained which for small biz folks like you and I, meant it became even more prohibitive to compete.

Then, Blogging and WordPress started picking up steam. 4 years ago I thought to myself “Self, why can’t you use WordPress as a content management system?” I answered, you can!

My site had grown beyond efficient manageability and was a PIA to to update and intuitively organize. WordPress solved that for me. But what was more exciting was the fact I could finally offer my clients a positive answer to their most asked question:

“Can I make changes and do site modifications myself?”

To which I can now answer with a resounding, and confident, yes! The next step is then determining the look and feel of the new site — which is always subjective because that is all in the minds eye and clients have to like how the site looks. That’s where premium WordPress themes are so very important. They cover all these bases — and then some.

Several years ago there were two guys who were leaders in this new direction — they were ahead of the curve and then became the curve. They saw this wave coming and started creating feature rich, visually appealing and solidly coded WordPress premium themes. Brian Gardner of Studio Press and Corey Miller of iThemes were definitely leaders in this regard and whose themes I recommend and have used most. Much credit goes to these two gentlemen who create a superior — premium — product and back up their work with friendly, experienced and approachable support.

You may be thinking, but what about all those free themes out there? Well, folks, you’ve heard it before — with free you get what you pay for. Not to say that there are not quality themes available at no cost, but based on my experience, you have to deal with issues that simply do not exist when you use a premium WordPress theme.

For example; footer links. I don’t mind giving credit where credit is due but many free themes have encrypted links (meaning you remove the code and the theme breaks) to the author’s various affiliate programs as well. Sites you may not agree with or want to have a link to at the bottom of every page of your site.

Then you have the issue of quality — just because it’s free does not indicate the developer is skilled and experienced enough in WordPress and PHP to create solid bug-free code. And last but not least, who is going to upgrade that theme to keep up with WordPress and web trends — for free? These considerations are enough for you to not want to waste your valuable time and money having to deal with.

Instead, choose your site’s theme from the 5 sites below and you’ll not only look spiffy and be able to truly take advantage of everything Web 2.0, but you’ll have the confidence in knowing you are using a quality product backed with the type of support rarely found online.

Top 5 Premium WordPress Themes

1. Studio Press
2. iThemes
3. Theme Forest
4. WordPress Remix
5. Woo Themes