WordPress: WP Remix Theme Review
11 Mar
There are several paid theme options for WordPress and I have been trying out WP Remix. The WP Remix WordPress theme is very good looking at first and certainly helps transform wordpress into a CMS, but I am not a fan of the coding. If you want to use it, you should make sure that the pages you want look pretty close to the sample pages included in the template. If you want to change colors or adjust sizes, you are going to run into some major problems (time consuming, especially because the CSS is spread out over so many files, and the styles overlap each other and take quite a bit of troubleshooting to overcome).
The WP Remix theme is not very dynamic either. The subscribe buttons use the old feedburner code and will need to be updated, and there is no way to pull in feeds dynamically by category.
Pros: expands wordpress’s CMS capabilities, premade page templates, php and html can be inserted into the code.
Cons: not dynamic, clunky php and CSS, switching between html and visual editor breaks the code, expensive, it seems that development has stopped.
Have you had a different experience? Let me know…
Remix 3.0 was released a few months after you wrote this…do you know if any of the coding issues were fixed? I agree the theme looks great at first, but the first thing I’d like to do is alter a bit of CSS. And I don’t want it to turn into a nightmare.
Hey Anthony, I’m not sure if any issues were fixed in WP-Remix 3.0. I think a simple test drive with it would explain a lot, but I don’t know that the issues could really be fixed without a huge overhaul. The issue was that CSS was so spread out and that each page is hard-coded so you do not have widget areas or content areas to adjust things, instead you just have to hard code things. I wonder if anyone else has used it and could tell us?
Thank for this, i didnt know about this tool. Time to try it, i am bored with this css coding,