You can find our in-depth Astra theme review below, but if you’re looking for a TL;DR version, here it is:

This text and video Quick Guide covers something simple and important in WordPress: how to install a WordPress theme from a zip file.

This year, it’s felt like change is in the air. The WordPress landscape seems to be shifting at the small-to-medium client level, with ever-stronger competitors driving attempted innovation within WordPress, while some giant players (huge hosting companies, “everything” themes) continue to gobble up huge numbers of the worst-informed customers and the rest of the marketplace starts to crunch.

On Friday, I posted about Caldera Forms, and how it’s the one well-functioning form plugin I’ve found that has a working responsive grid system.

Finding good WordPress themes can be really hard, because:

As someone who quite likes being controversial from time to time,  I thought I’d vent some steam on people releasing “modded” premium themes. This post attempts to take an unbiased view, considering both sides and producing a coherent and acceptable conclusion backed by evidence. Attempts, anyway… Throughout the post I’ll quote two people: Ben Gillbanks who co-founded ProThemeDesign and Foress, the guy behind PremiumMod who kicked this off. Thanks very much both of you.