WordPress Themes

Here’s my 2025 year-end review. This is about my 2025 in WordPress and the things that changed for me, tools I discovered, workflows that changed and all that. If you are looking for a generalized wide scoped year-end review, this one is not it. But if you are a WordPress builder (developer, freelancer, agency owner…

The last time I wrote an article about my themes toolset was over 5 years ago. A lot has happened for me personally since then as well as in the WordPress ecosystem. The rest of my toolset has also changed quite a bit since 2017, both for themes and the main plugins I use as…

My last post on the subject of WordPress themes was in 2014. At that time, I had just gone through a process of changing my themes toolset for my small business to Genesis from StudioPress. ( Note, April 2023 : when I wrote this article in 2017, the older themes I referenced were already obsolete…

These State of my Toolset blog posts are becoming a annual tradition on pixelyzed.com and this year will be no different. If 2012 had been a year of all around stability and growth for me and my business, 2013 was one of continued growth in my business but one of significant change in my toolset.…

This weekend I decided to work on my own projects for a change, something I had not had the luxury to do for quite a while, client work always coming first. I took the time to complete a redesign of this site which I’ve worked on very sporadically for months. Earlier today I finally updated…

Note (last updated: 2024-03-02): The basic concepts in this post are still valid in 2024. But please note that I’ m no longer recommending Headway, WooThemes Canvas or iThemes Builder that are mentionned in this article as valid theme solutions to use in new WordPress projects. All 3 themes have been abandoned for a long…

When I wrote the 2012 version of this post last year, I did not expect it to become the most commented post on this blog ever. It made me realize that there is a real hunger for information about premium WordPress themes and frameworks out there, a need for opinions from people working with some…

Note (2019-10-13): I’m leaving this article up for “historical” purposes but, please note that I no longer recommend Headway. I actually strongly recommend against it now for many reasons the first being that it’s clearly abandoned now. I’ve also had far too many problems with it in the past after I published this post and…