In reply to James Zelinski.

outside SSL certificates, hosting and the domain. you don't really need to spend $500 on plugins and themes.

Just because a theme or/and plugin is $100, it doesn't it will be better than a free plugin.

Just because a theme or/and plugin is free, it doesn't mean it is worse than a paid plugin.

The whole concept that a free theme/plugin is inferior, it needs to stop.