Flexibility and ease-of-use are what struck me first about the WP Remix theme for WordPress – especially regarding the ability to choose and change page and sidebar designs directly from the WYSIWYG editor. Trust me, after doing the work to create my own category pages and related sidebars, this feature alone sets WP Remix apart from other WordPress themes.
WP Remix also offers over 50 pre-structured, strategically built page templates that covers almost every layout possibility. Moreover, you can insert and edit page templates directly from the visual editor.
There are 10 different Home Page style options from which to choose. Shown below are just 2 of the 10 options.
You can also create a Product Gallery that renders in a number of different ways…
Horizontal navigation consists of drop-down menus with fly-outs for category children. You can choose the number of fly-out (child category) levels that you want to display.
Other features / benefits of the WP Remix theme for WordPress include:
7 Different Color Schemes and more to be added.
PHP and Javascript Coding – Unlike other themes that require an additional plugin to make PHP coding work within posts and pages, you can insert and execute PHP and Java script codes from visual editor in WP Remix. (Watch the video demo accessible from the homepage to see this in action).
Add-on modules – WP Remix offers optional add-on modules that you can use to empower the WP Remix theme such as a shopping cart, portfolio and dynamic gallery.
Famous Plugins Compatible – WP Remix is pre-configured and pre-formatted for the more popular plugins such as Contact-Form, Page Navi, Gravatar, Flickrss, Post Rating, Author Highlight and more.
Support – The theme is bundled with detailed documentation that explains basic to advanced modifications. There’s also a Support Forum should you need help with one of the theme’s features.
The only possible ‘downside’ (if you can call it that) is that you may not use the footer credit link to wpremix as affiliate link if you buy a single use licence. And to remove the footer credit link, you must purchase a multi-use licence… however this requirement is pretty much standard with WordPress theme developers and merchants.
I haven’t listed all the WP Remix features here – there are too many to list – so I recommend that you visit the WP Remix site, view the demo and check out its ease of use and flexibility.
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I know you knew this anyway Ros, but it’s really quite easy to change sidebars in the Revolution templates as well through the WP template editor; just go to Widgets and select the sidebar (1, 2 or 3) in the appropriate dropdown – enables me to have completely different sidebars on the content pages from the home page.
Hi Chris,
Which theme are you using?
I’m running Lifestyle_30 and the Widget dropdown allows for changes to the top, left, and right sidebars, as well as changes to the 2 built-in 468×60′s for Lifestyle… but any changes run site wide.
Cheers,
Ros
I run them all Ros – the one I’m looking at right now is News. You can do the same in any of the themes though.
Just save the sidebar.php as sidebar1.php, sidebar2.php etc. then, editing the type of page where you want the different sidebar to appear (home.php, archive.php etc.), change the relevant call to sidebar.php to sidebar1.php or whatever. Then you can use the Appearance -> Widgets page, and the dropdown selector at the top right, to choose the relevant sidebar version to make unique. I do it as standard now on all my Revolution themed sites.
And yes, by comparison, the Remix code is ‘interesting’!
Thanks Chris,
And yes of course creating new sidebars works like a charm… I thought perhaps you were seeing something ‘magic’ in the theme that I had not.
Cheers,
Ros
I bought this theme and it was a disaster. The code is a complete mess and the documentation is worthless – the instructions (and I use that term loosely) point to outdated code that isn’t even in the theme anymore.
The “support” forum is even worse. You’ll get a reply that is curt, unprofessional and most often points you back to the useless documentation.
Save your money and go straight to Studiopress or Thesis.
Brady!!
Thanks for the heads up!!
John
Hi Brady,
Can you tell us when you bought the theme?
Thanks,
Ros
Dang… I was REALLY excited about this one, due to its versatility.
I guess it’s back to my search.
I came to the comments section to ask if Ros had anyone I can hire to convert my current blog to this, but now I likely won’t get it.
If anyone has any other comments about the above post, I’d like to hear them. (or send me an e-mail)
Nick
Hey Ros!
Is Brady Right?
We kind of depend on you to only offer tried and true products or services.
I was thinking of buying until I saw his reply.
Keep up the good work any way!!!!
John
Hi John,
I don’t know exactly what code Brady is referring to and can’t locate a specific problem myself.
As to the support forum, as mentioned in the post – they’re now under new management and when I checked through the support forum questions, it seems that they are being answered fully in a timely manner.
Hope that helps.
Cheers,
Ros
I read through the Support Forum, and am astonished to find rude and unhelpful remarks by their support forum monitor. Bradley is right, in that the “help” are simple replies, “look at the documentation.” Support is supposed to be in addition to documentation, and, should, at the very least, be polite. I like the idea of wpremix, but, the reality is much less than what I expect from a premium purchase.
I’ve been searching for a new theme to use for my CMS site, and WP-Remix seems like a good candidate. The problem is (for users, not for people making $$ with their blogs) that Remix’s affiliate program is giving people 50% of the profit when someone buys WP-Remix linked from their site.
So it’s becoming harder and harder to find accurate reviews of Remix, because everyone’s making $$ off of it!!
I’ve been searching for accurate reviews and it seems that actual users (and buyers, not the people who get review copies for free) think the code is super messy, have issues with being able to customize it and find it really clunky. Ultimately, they always end up recommending to use a different theme!
The search continues…
John,
1st, I run multiple sites and am running WP Remix as a static site on one of them (for now.)
Tara is spot-on about reviews being skewed because of the affiliate program, and Brady is spot-on about the theme being a disaster. WP Remix is revolutionary in concept and offers some awesome features (e.g. 50 great templates) I haven’t found in other any other theme, BUT it can be a real p.i.t.a. to work with: the template-editor has serious bugs (the WYSIWYG editor is a complete failure and the HTML editor MUST be used, + more) you must edit multiple css files to edit the design of one little content area, and I’ve experienced a slew of other technical issues and bugs that I’ve never experienced on any other theme.
The “documentation” is a poor translation of poor instructions and if you skim through the support forums you’ll find a lot of users frustrated by their installation and lack of support.
Bottom line: I love the concept of WP Remix, but I’m throwing in the towel: the editor is too buggy, the code is too dirty, and it’s just not reliable.
I thought I’d be saving time and effort by choosing a theme “designed as a CMS” with 50+ templates, but now I’m realizing it’ll take me less time to beef up my xHTML, PHP, and CSS skills and turn a more reliable theme into a static site.
I use WP Vybe and WP Thesis on a few of my other sites, and have been VERY happy with both… and I can vouch for the support being light years ahead of WP Remix.
Actually? Now that I wrote all this down, I feel kinda ripped off.
Wow, I checked the site and saw it was under new management. I almost bought but them I checked the FAQ and after having the new v3 for months now, they refer to v2.
If they can’t even update a couple of pages on their Sales site, imaging the documentation.
When I click one of your links & try to buy the affiliate rewarded = none
I didn’t buy
Hi Elli.
Thank you SO much! I’ve made changes to that link now. Turns out they moved their program to Clickbank, and as far as I can tell, they didn’t bother to let their affiliates know. Grrrrrrr.
Cheers,
Ros
I didn’t trust it & bought a Studiopress theme – through your link
I hope it’s easy to use ; am a little afraid
Hi Elli,
Any theme has a learning curve before you will feel totally confident using it. Not sure if you know, but we specialize in teaching how to use StudioPress themes at http://netprofitstoday.com/go/affiliatebloggerpro.com
Good luck and don’t be afraid!
Cheers,
Ros
Don’t know why I was afraid ; it’s super !