Top 5 Themes

[AngelSEO]

Back to my initial question "top 5 themes to start with when using wordpress"?

[Ryan]

Back to our initial question of "what type of site you are theme are you trying to build?"

The old StudioPress themes are great for building a magazine style theme from. Hybrid is great if you want to utilize a parent/child theme setup. P2 is great if you want a live front-end blogging style setup and my own theme is great if you want to create nothing but a stupidly simple static site.

[Ryan]

Back to our initial question of "what type of theme are you trying to build?"

The old StudioPress themes are great for building a magazine style theme from. Hybrid is great if you want to utilize a parent/child theme setup. P2 is great if you want a live front-end blogging style setup and my own theme is great if you want to create nothing but a stupidly simple static site.

[chipbennett]

And... to answer the general question, I'm looking for a good theme where I can add help guides, resources, educational content etc - maybe a 3 column layout and just plenty of flexiblity on what can be changed etc.

Technically, any theme allows for anything and everything to be changed - the question is, how willing/able are you to "get your hands dirty"? (In other words, are you looking for a theme with straightforward code that is easy to read (and to adapt), or a theme with comprehensive options to facilitate changes?

[andrea_r]

It depends.

When my mom started blogging, I gave her a certain set of themes to start with.

when I talk to a client about a theme for the main page of their mu install, I start with completely different themes.

You're asking a lot of devs here. ;)

[AngelSEO]

The old StudioPress themes are great for building a magazine style theme from.

Hey Ryan thanks for the feedback - will take a look at the old StudioPress theme later on

my own theme is great if you want to create nothing but a stupidly simple static site.

Haha, like this :-D

[AngelSEO]

Technically, any theme allows for anything and everything to be changed - the question is, how willing/able are you to "get your hands dirty"?

I'd say I'm an 8/10 with CSS, XHTML and PHP so getting my hands dirty isnt a problem :-)

[AngelSEO]

It depends.

When my mom started blogging, I gave her a certain set of themes to start with.

when I talk to a client about a theme for the main page of their mu install, I start with completely different themes.

You're asking a lot of devs here. ;)

Hi Andrea,

Thanks for the feedback and apologies on the late reply - I was just wondering what peoples thoughts were, but I fully know every wordpress job is different.