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UpThemes Scale Back On Theme Options Within Their WordPress Themes

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UpThemes a WordPress theme provider is the latest WordPress theme company to announce that they are no longer producing WordPress themes that have tons of theme options packaged within their themes. For me this is a fantastic step forward for UpThemes as these options should never really be packaged within a theme to begin with but is bad practice that has grown to become more common over the years.

It’s my opinion that a theme should do a single job and that’s is to change the design or layout of your website and this is really the only job a theme should be doing on a WordPress site. A theme should definitely not be adding custom post types or hundreds of options to changes colours for a links, navigation menus, selecting custom fonts, adding advertising banners, slider controls, site layouts and many many more unrequired settings.
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The Non-Techie Guide to Responsive WordPress Websites

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More and more mobile devices flood the market on a daily basis, and our way of using the Internet has significantly changed. Tablets and smartphones have changed our perspective toward user experience and design. The need for mobile-friendly, responsive and beautifully designed websites has also increased.

In the past, web designers did not have to worry about incorporating advanced web-browsing capabilities into websites. Their primary goal (and challenge) was to keep the same feel and look across their websites.
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