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WP Remix Review – Premium WordPress Theme

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I’ve just “discovered” version 3 of WP Remix so here’s my initial review of it.

WP Remix is a premium WordPress theme with an inbuilt page template editor.

Eh? An inbuilt page template editor? Wassat???

That means that, as a WordPress Theme, it’s pretty damn clever… because it allows you to “play” with over 50 different page layouts to create your websites without actually touching any of the template files to do it!

You see, without WP Remix, if I wanted to create a different layout (magazine style perhaps) for a page in WordPress, I would have to get my hands dirty and play around in the page.php code to (hopefully) get what I want – but that is something that a LOT of people really should NOT be attempting (and often that includes me)!

But with the WP Remix WordPress theme… it’s supposed to be simply a matter of

while creating your new page
simply insert the page layout of your choice in the WordPress visual editor
and edit it!

Just select the layout theme you want from any one of the more than 50 “strategically designed & coded custom static page templates” which include:

A Blog + 10 Homepage options + 20 Single page with different layout + 10 product/gallery page + 5 Miscellaneous page, Plugins compatibility, Ajax slider, Smart Drop menu, Tabs, Tables… and more including a bonus magazine module!

WP Remix allows pretty much anyone to publish snazzy looking sites literally in minutes (once you understand what you’re doing) and that saves weeks of time while maintaining top notch standards-compliant quality… that is also SEO ready!!!

I’m about to use this this theme for a new client website, and when I get up to speed on it, I’ll let you know what happened and review it in more detail (see my comments below for updates on that)

But in the meantime, if you use WordPress, you should check WP Remix out! Sure it’s a premium theme that does cost some money – a single site license is $75 and a multiple site license is $275 – but when you can get ONE theme that you can use to create a swag of totally different looking sites in a range of colour schemes…

Well… I’d say that’s worth having a look at!

So go check out the demo of WP Remix and get prepared to be amazed!

And yes… that is an affiliate link from which I will earn something if you buy it:)

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1 On March 25th, 2010, Stephen Spry said:

Well… after spending a very full day trying to work out what to do with this theme on my client site… here are a few observations.

I’m not too sure why, but I’ve spent a LOT of time in the HTML editor (and not the visual editor as I was supposed to). Maybe it’s because the editing box in WordPress is really far too small (is there a plugin that can make that bigger???)

Maybe it’s because I am so used to working in HTML, that I found it a lot easier to work out which bits I needed to cut and paste!

Surprise! Surprise! I STILL needed to edit some of the actual php template files to “tweak” the display to suit my needs – six in total, including creating a new sidebar, which wasn’t too hard.

So my comment of not needing to get your hands dirty by meddling with code – well… you can forget that!!! You WILL still need to do it, so a good understanding of HTML will be useful with this product.

I found myself flicking backwards and forwards from the client site to the demo, working out which page template would be best to use for each page… and found that a little frustrating. It would be useful to have a PRINTOUT of each template option which you can more easily refer to.

That said… I am fairly happy with the final result – built a whole heap of (14+) inter-connected pages (all good for SEO etc) in reasonably quick time – considering it was my first effort with the theme.

The only major problem I had was finding the recommended contact form plugin which doesn’t seem to be available any more. I ended up using Contact Form 7 instead.

Downsides? The header choices and colour schemes are far too limited, especially considering there are over 50 PAGE templates to choose from… So you might want to do a bit of CSS diving to change colours and headers if you have that knowledge.

Upsides? The final result looks pretty snazzy and I think my client will be impressed with the result. I’ll post the URL here when the site is live so you can check it out.

My final verdict?

Well, after a solid day of working with WP Remix, it has lived up to it’s promises and it is a product worth getting – but you WILL need to know HTML and understand how php templates work to use this theme to it’s full extent!

And as far as the “no-refunds” line goes… remember this IS currently selling as a ClickBank product, so THEY will honour a refund if you can’t work it out!

Cheers
Stephen

2 On April 15th, 2010, Stephen Spry said:

Client site has now been moved from my “testing” subdmain to her server.

The move was simple enough…
1. using the “EXPORT” function in WP to save the content as an XML file on my local hard drive
2. install WordPress on new domain
3. DELETE the hello-world post and about page (I forgot the about page and it stuffed up my imported one with the same name)
4. upload wp-remix theme to server
5. tweak WordPress and theme settings to match testing setup
6. use WordPress IMPORT function to upload XML file from PC to server

As well as the “about” page problem, I also had to fix some of the image paths because they were being drawn from the test server. My custom style sheet was also being called in addition to the default one (an unnecessary extra 50kb download) so fixed that problem.

So apart from those small issues, moving the content from one server to another with this theme wasn’t too hard to do (something I was slightly worried about with the custom settings etc attached to each page).

3 On April 15th, 2010, Stephen Spry said:

You can visit think.act.feel to see how my modifications to the wp-remix theme look.

Basically… you’ll notice:

1. “Common” link colours – the standard blue and underlined links that people expect (through my custom CSS mods)

2. Several static PAGES that talk about the business and the psychological and fitness services offered – using some of the different page templates offered by WP Remix

3. A tip sheets section which are actually blog POSTS (minus dates) and these will be used (through scheduling future posts) to keep adding useful keyword rich and relevant search engine fodder. They are also linked to from many of the “pages” and also link BACK to the relevant page for some on-site linking/optimisation.

4. Random testimonials are used on each page to inspire more confidence in the services offered.

5. The focus throughout the site is to get people to establish contact for personal follow-up to see if Kate will be a good fit to help solve their psychological/fitness issues or be useful in their business.

Time will tell how the site actually works… but when compared to the typical “brochure” style websites a lot of small businesses use, this one should certainly have the edge over them!

Cheers
Stephen

4 On April 24th, 2010, vickie said:

As a “beginner” I completely agree with everything you’ve said as just got it but really struggling badly.

Managed a standard wordpress theme ok but this really is more for a developer as I want a new sidebar and the only choice seems to be write your own so I’m stuck unless I can find some code to copy from somewhere.

Did manage to work out the contact form isn’t available and used Contact Form 7 too which was probably the only thing I did manage to work out! Hummmm, what to do next.

Will keep a look out for your finished site as I’m really curious what you can achieve if you know what you’re doing

5 On April 24th, 2010, vickie said:

ps Great website you did with it BTW, just checked it out, so good proof it can look good

6 On August 3rd, 2010, john said:

Thank you for this great WP Remix review!!! And nice, professional website for your client, too! While I was reading, I have one question, can you client update the web pages without any knowledge of html? & How? Especially for the static pages. Thanks for your time, -John

7 On August 23rd, 2010, Stephen Spry said:

Hi John

Sorry about the delay in responding to your comment… you’ll note I only published the shorter one – suggest you get the package and try it out for yourself to find the answers to your many other questions

Regarding this question… yes, the client can update the pages/posts. I would suggest they do it in HTML view. BUT they would need to be VERY CAREFUL or they might “accidentally” change the wrong bit!

So yes, they WILL require some basic knowledge of HTML to edit edit successfully.