150 Best Theme Frameworks and Starter Themes for WordPress Development

Description

For our 150th episode, we discuss a busy week in WordPress news and our main topic, the best starter themes and theme frameworks for WordPress development.

Our panel this week:

Carrie Forde https://carrieforde.com/

Kim Shivler https://whiteglovewebtraining.com/

Sallie Goetsch https://www.wpfangirl.com/

Jonathan Denwood https://www.wp-tonic.com/

John Locke Lockedown SEO

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Episode 150 Table of Contents

0:00 Podcast Intros

2:06 WordPress News Story #1: State of the Word 2016: Mullenweg Pushes Calypso as Future of WordPress’ Interface, Proposes Major Changes to Release Cycle

https://wptavern.com/state-of-the-word-2016-mullenweg-pushes-calypso-as-future-of-wordpress-interface-proposes-major-changes-to-release-cycle

11:21 WordPress News Story #2: Pantheon’s $100K WordCamp US Sponsorship Revoked the Night Before the Event

https://wptavern.com/pantheons-100k-wordcamp-us-sponsorship-revoked-the-night-before-the-event

25:53 WordPress News Story #3: GoDaddy Acquires WP Curve: What This Means For Customers Of The WordPress Services Provider

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/187902/20161206/godaddy-acquires-wp-curve-what-this-means-for-customers-of-the-wordpress-services-provider.htm

38:45 What are the pros and cons of developing with a theme framework?

46:39 What are the learning curves of working with a theme framework?

52:32 Some of the other theme frameworks that aren't named Genesis.

1:03:58 Why do many agencies lean so heavily on ThemeForest themes instead of building custom themes using a theme framework? What are the considerations that go into this business model?

1:09:38 How long does it actually take to develop a basic theme framework?

1:11:39 More theme frameworks we've seen people using for building WordPress themes.

1:13:18 The trouble with "Swiss army knife" themes.

1:17:33 A quick discussion about ecommerce sites.

1:23:20 Thanks to the rest of the panel members not here today.

1:24:40 Podcast outros.

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Links mentioned during the show:

Siteground: PHP 7 available on all servers

https://www.siteground.com/blog/php7-available-on-all-siteground-servers/

CNN: Google will soon call out websites for not being secure

http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/08/technology/google-chrome-flag-non-secure-sites/