Please -- no more dirt themes. It's hard enough already. As a first time WP user, it was very difficult to find a theme and plugins from the myriad of mostly bad choices. I surfed through dozens of premium themes churned out for quick profit with zero support. Anyone who breaks this barrier to entry for the great unwashed, like me, will cash in big time.

Any technology goes though the same stages. Photoshop let everyone be a graphic designer. But after the dust settled, the overall effect is a greater proportion of good graphic design in the mainstream, IMHO. Tools that make the newest technology accessible to the public become killer apps. iThink you know what iMean.

Someone recommended 2 theme foundries with grand frameworks for creating anything. Big on trust and user support but difficult to navigate for the great unwashed -- and maybe that's the point, keep them out and keep the sacred knowledge to the members of the guild of coders. Anyone who breaks this barrier to entry will cash in big time.

It's difficult to find anything unique at the major foundries, the themes all look like some small variation of the 2011 theme. So lets go the other direction and start with the BLANK WordPress Theme or the HTML5 Reset WordPress Theme. Without knowing how to program in php, these minimalist themes are just empty. Tell me what plugins to use, for ecommerce, for social networks, for video. Then I found what I was looking for -- a full-width, mobile adaptive theme that wasn't bloated so badly with options that it loaded pretty fast. After buying the theme from a small time operator, I find ridiculous spelling and grammatical mistakes on the dashboard tabs. Imagine what the code looks like.

Theses are some lightweight themes from another blog: