Free Theme for Your WordPress Blog May be Dangerous

Imagine you turn on your PC, to check out how your blog is going?And you are like where is my website”?I did alot hard work on my website and now i cant even see it. I know it is a risky new for you but yes it happens.I did not mean to scare you, but this happens with many bloggers who choose a free theme for blogging instead of a premium one.Well according to me a free theme is not good for WordPress and always go foe the premium one.In this post, I will show you why choosing a free theme could be serious for the blog.

Imp note: There are many good looking free themes who are of great quality and having free footer and extra plugin's. But, again their are still few side effects of using free WordPress themes over Premium WordPress themes.

Why Free WordPress themes are not important as your website is?

1. Unwanted URLs in the footer

When you select a free theme In exchange of the free theme these developers always want you to keep their affiliate URLs on your website’s footer.Remember, if you ever try to get rid of them then you will be violating the author’s agreement.Sometimes these links are hidden  with a template color, so you cannot notice them.

You may also get Trojan horse virus in your computer.

2. No SEO-optimization

As a blogger, we know the power of SEO and how important it is for a blog or site.

The following features make a theme SEO optimized:

Blank write in code – An easycode helps the search engines to understand your website better.
Light Weight – The size of the theme should be light so it donot take loading time.
Do not use a lot of java script and CSS computer code– Free topic takes multiple JavaScript and CSS codes. It is recommended that JS and CSS should in less amount.
Responsive Layout –The website must be view able for mobile. If your audience is not able to view your website in their mobile devices (tablets, smartphones, etc.), you are going to definitely lose them.
Responsive Design –Responsive themes attract audience. Free themes rarely come with a responsive design.
Plugins Compatibility – Some plugins are note supportable by free themes.There are thousands of plugins available on the WordPress that can boost your SEO. A free theme does not support these plugins.
Theme developers save other features for their premium themes.

3. Limited Features

So a free theme has limited features and it is difficult to maintain its structure.Superior themes come with allots of handy characteristics that can boost your website’s performance and usability.If you’re using free themes (with very basic features), it will be difficult to beat your competitors who are using premium themes (with advanced features).SO a free theme cannot help you to use all features.

4. Plugins compatibility problems

A free theme is not compatible with some advance plugin.Many free themes do not support advanced plugins, this could lead to risky user experience and hapless SEO performance.The problem occurs because Most plugins support an updated theme and a free theme is rarely updated.I have faced this event once when I was setting up a plugin to check my audience emails.

Final ideas on using Free of cost WordPress themes:

 Well a free theme is good for a short span of time.When you are working on a WordPress blog for short term, free theme are not bad if you could find something which is free from all the above reasons.If you are someone like me who prefer to focus on what we are good at, it’s better to buy a premium WordPress theme.So it depends according to your needs how much you need something.

ThriveThemes (Probably the only theme that you will need)
Genesis (watch-tutorials is using Genesis theme as back-end & using custom child skin)
ElegantTheme (This one is perfect for small sites)

I am curious to know your ideas. Have you always looked any trouble with a free theme. Please share your useful thoughts! And thank you for reading this post.I hope you have understood now how dangerous a free theme is.