Why foreign WordPress themes are not suitable for us to use at home

Often on themeforest friends will find that the number and quality of foreign WordPress themes to exceed the domestic a long way to the level of domestic WordPress theme development, to catch up with foreign development, at least two years of time. Then some friends will say, since foreign themes do so well, I do the site directly buy a theme on the good, themeforest on a theme but about 50 dollars, converted into RMB but more than 300 dollars. If someone really did this, not by the boss scolded to death only strange! Why? Because in many ways, foreign themes are not suitable for domestic use.

1, cultural differences, foreign themes do not understand the implicit, do not know the appropriate stop

This may be a bit of a big topic, but one of my deepest feelings about Chinese and foreign cultures was at the Spring Festival Gala one year, when a Chinese Peking Opera master, Yu Kui Zhi, and a foreigner, Thomas, sang a chorus of “Ushering in the Spring Colors of the World”, the part "Through the Sea of Forests and Across the Snowy Plains".watch online), Thomas singing Peking Opera is completely American vocal singing shouted out, the feeling of putting out on it can not be put back, very no tension, not to mention the singing and reading and playing the essence of the spirit, and then look at the Yu Kui Zhi, the difference came out at once.

Pulled a little far away, back to the WordPress theme we said, the application of new technologies abroad is always one or two years ahead of the domestic, coupled with the two years of HTML5 and CSS3 standards continue to improve, a large number of foreign WordPress themes to these new technologies, especially CSS3 animation, in the themeforest casually open a WordPress theme, full of animation elements, really dazzling. Although the effect is more gorgeous, but from the user experience, these effects on the user experience is not necessarily to enhance.

The application of these new technologies on the domestic website is relatively conservative, look at some of the pursuit of the site, the code can be seen in the application of HTML5 and CSS3, but not all the new technologies have a brain on the application of the site has a static and dynamic, static and dynamic combination is very good. Did not reject the new technology, but there is a choice of utilization, in the trade-offs to find a balance, the idea of stopping the application of new technologies on the Chinese website has a great impact on the way.

2, hardware conditions, many domestic websites also need to be compatible with the old immortal IE6

The application of new technologies requires hardware support, especially in terms of the website, through the Baidu Traffic Research Institute to get the data, by the end of November 2013, there are still 10.92% users in China is using the IE6 browser.

Technically we can just despise IE6, commercially, not compatible with IE6 means that we may lose the 10.92% users, which is a great loss for the company. Directly buy a foreign WordPress theme to build a website at the cost of either giving up this 10.92% users, or endless compatibility debugging, the time to solve compatibility issues has been enough to build a website from scratch. Therefore, from a technical point of view, foreign WordPress themes are not suitable for domestic use for the time being, at least in the disappearance of IE6 is not suitable for domestic use.

3, WordPress is excellent, how should we utilize the

WordPress is undoubtedly an excellent CMS, the purpose of adopting WordPress is to minimize the time spent on website construction unrelated to the core business, since foreign themes are not suitable for domestic use, how should we utilize WordPress?

Domestic does not have so many ready-made WordPress themes can be purchased for everyone to use, want to build a website with WordPress friends can look for some free domestic themes, the hands of the company is not bad to find some specializing in WordPress development of personal or business custom themes, in fact, the level of our domestic WordPress developers is not lower than foreign developers, just do not have the time and energy to engage in the development of WordPress themes, if you are paying someone to customize the theme, I believe we will find a reliable developer. Developers are not lower than foreign developers, just the pressure of life, no dedicated time and energy to engage in the development of WordPress themes, if you are paid to find someone to customize WordPress themes, I believe that you will find a reliable developer.