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wycks (@wycks_s) I have bought and worked on approximately 35 themes from themeforest in the last 4 months, all of which are themes added after the improved themeforest changes (Nov 2013), I can say that 90% of them are still very poorly coded, out of the 35 I am happy with 2. I really think themeforest is hurting the greater WP community at this point because it leaves a wake of bad products and hard to maintain sites. I typically use a themeforest theme for the design and not the code, it’s unfortunate that theme makers feel the need to code in the kitchen sink when most of them have a very basic understanding of PHP, JS and even WP. Some of the major problems I find across the board: Very poorly named, poorly structured, and uncommented code. Unable to use child themes because of how theme is coded. Unable to easily change urls because of how theme settings are coded Large plugin-like frameworks attached to themes Plugin functionality in themes (event managers, review systems, booking systems, e-commerce, etc) Poor security practises Too much javascript and reliance on 3rd party scripts that load on every page etc, etc.
wycks (@wycks_s)
I have bought and worked on approximately 35 themes from themeforest in the last 4 months, all of which are themes added after the improved themeforest changes (Nov 2013), I can say that 90% of them are still very poorly coded, out of the 35 I am happy with 2. I really think themeforest is hurting the greater WP community at this point because it leaves a wake of bad products and hard to maintain sites.
I typically use a themeforest theme for the design and not the code, it’s unfortunate that theme makers feel the need to code in the kitchen sink when most of them have a very basic understanding of PHP, JS and even WP.
Some of the major problems I find across the board: Very poorly named, poorly structured, and uncommented code. Unable to use child themes because of how theme is coded. Unable to easily change urls because of how theme settings are coded Large plugin-like frameworks attached to themes Plugin functionality in themes (event managers, review systems, booking systems, e-commerce, etc) Poor security practises Too much javascript and reliance on 3rd party scripts that load on every page etc, etc.
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