anyone making money with a Wootheme template or any of the major wordpress templates?

[steiner]

I am still torn between studiopress or woothemes templates. Does it really matter that much which framework/design to use? I want a simple design with good articles.

content on the left and sidebar on the right.

Or is a nice and cheap template from Themeforest good enough? I really do like Woothemes but not sure since I have been reading some negatives about them being too bloated. But they just look so much better than Studiopress' plain Jane looks.

[snakeair]

Originally Posted by steiner

I am still torn between studiopress or woothemes templates. Does it really matter that much which framework/design to use? I want a simple design with good articles.

content on the left and sidebar on the right.

Or is a nice and cheap template from Themeforest good enough? I really do like Woothemes but not sure since I have been reading some negatives about them being too bloated. But they just look so much better than Studiopress' plain Jane looks.

I'm more familiar with studiopress as I've been with them for almost 2 years now.

Not all there themes are plain jane ones. They are easy to customize to add your own stuff to it. In fact, at the beginning of this year, I hired a v7n mentor to create my header image for me. lol

Right now studiopress is working on there next framework release and beta version should be out soon, i'm going to test this version out on my blog when it's available. There are some designers who created themes that run off the genesis famework but as you know a good designer will be costly. (I'm not talking about the cheap designs that you feel that you got ripped off)

Even though the genesis framework comes with SEO options to use, I still use the Yoast SEO plugin as i've had it installed before I joined studiopress. I'm also on the websynthesis.com hosting which is only for studiopress clients (It's not mandatory to use them for your host but the security is top notch for the price I pay)

Woothemes, I promote them through there affiliate program but never actually used a theme/framework from them. I think StudioPress is the better way to go as they now converting all there existing themes to mobile responsive and any future ones that are created. I've wrote a few blog posts about there recent theme release's in the past.

[steiner]

Snakeair:

Thanks. Woo is okay but it takes some time to tweak their themes. I only like them because they look better than the other guys while providing decent support in the forums and they update their old themes. Although recently, they deleted some old unpopular ones, but they did give these people the option to get a new theme in its place.

The forums are decent, even if their people dont answer it...sometimes other users do, or if you search enough posts, you run into other people with similar issues who may have solved it previously.

As for designers, I am ignoring any designers from India or China.

I have not used Yoast. I've stuck to allinone. It's the granddaddyof SEO plugins for Wordpress and I still like it. The first thing I do with Woothemes is disable their built in SEO. I have heard that Studiopress is converting to responsive themes. I am sure Woo won't be too far behind in that regard. I usually test themes locally before deploying them online. But I have not spent too much time on Studiopress.