I make WordPress sites so when I saw this I was excited. It took me some time however to pull the trigger on buying this deal. I did buy it today however and set up / am setting up 2 sites with the themes.
Here are bullet points from my experience thus far. - The sites install easy. - The themes look decent (*A bit dated in design - but not too bad) - I felt like there were limited options for customization of the theme in the setup options. (*Give more options for header layouts, logo placement, sizing, a costume code zone?... etc) - The 2 themes I did use had different options for theme customization, so no unified options for all themes I an assuming, this may make setting each one up a gamble with options) - Not a fan of the supplied page builder and installed Elemento - all worked (*USE ELEMENTO FOR YOU PAGE BUILDER) - Social media icons for links back to your other SM pages are not on all themes (*Them little icons like the FB square). (*These should be on all themes, they are key in a lot of marketing). - The themes do load fast. - As mentioned in the other post, a lot of dependent plugins. But this does not bother me.
For me what is keeping this from a 5 Tocco deal is the lack of options in the theme set up, the lack of Elemento as the page builder, and the lack of social media icon places in the theme.
I am excited to see however where the company goes and if they roll out new changes to the products.
Like other reviewers before me, I was impressed with the 'Woondershop-Jungle' theme that comes with this package, and I purchased a code. As I am installing the theme for the first time, I feel the need to warn others about two issues that are not apparently clear prior to purchase.
1. The theme requires a *big* list of plugins to be installed in order to operate as intended. At least one of these plugin is *not* free to buy (ACF Pro). It is not expensive and I have an unlimited dev license for it, so not an issue for me but others must know and plan around this.
Here's what the theme setup wizard asks to install: • Advanced Custom Fields PRO • Breadcrumb NavXT • Contact Form 7 • MailChimp widget by ProteusThemes • Page Builder by SiteOrigin • ProteusThemes Shortcodes • SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle • Smart WooCommerce Search • Themify - WooCommerce Product Filter • WP Featherlight - A Simple jQuery Lightbox • WooCommerce - excelling eCommerce
2. The theme may not be PHP7.x compatible I don't have time to analyze this further right now but the setup wizard crashed with a HTTP 500 error under PHP 7.3 and PHP 7.2. When I switched back to PHP 5.6, it proceeded to install.
I will revert back to PHP 7.3 after installation to see if I will keep getting issues, and if I get any more PHP errors I will request a refund; running PHP 5.6 is a no-no for me.
This is what I wanted to say, I was in a hurry to do so because it is a relatively new deal, the demo looks great and many people will probably decide to buy it. I feel they should know about this.
YMMV.
Founder Team
Jaka_ProteusThemes
May 9, 2024
Hi, there!
First of all I would like you to thank you for your point of view.
The reason why we include a couple of plugins into our theme is simple. We could either developed all those plugins themselves, but it would take us months and they defenetely wouldn’t be that powerfu, so we decided to rather find a couple of plugins from trustworthy developers and include them in our themes. And...
I only tried one of the templates so far: The WooCommerce Jungle Edition. Result: I am impressed!
The whole template is extremly well done until really tiny details. Even things that are not mentioned in the features-list and not shown in the demo are done well.
Example: The sidebar! The demo has a great sidebar with the categories and the price-range. Very usefull, but not so good for my products. After a support-request I realized, they did not only built the sidebar, they created the whole "sidebar-management" where I can easily turn off the price-range, add the Tags and many other options and, and, and ...
It´s a dream to work with templates which are done so well!
All the best, Julian!
Founder Team
Jaka_ProteusThemes
May 9, 2024
Julian, thank you so much for such feedback and for being our customer.
Here's a quick review for ProteusThemes. I got other themes on my toolkit and this one seems to fit the bill for some clients who wants a quick turnaround of their website.
Ok so they don't use elementor which is like most sumolings would prefer, but the thing is, for some clients, this does not matter! What matters is that they see their site working smoothly and fast! It just works out of the box.
This one theme I like the most which would be useful for e-commerce sites: WoonderShop
Hope you guys give them a try!
Cheers,
Mike Mrdzyn Studio
Founder Team
Jaka_ProteusThemes
May 9, 2024
This is exactly what our customers are saying to us. They usually don’t build the whole websites from scratch, but rather import the demo content of the theme they like and change a images, text and layout. And page builder by SiteOrigin is more than powerful enough tool to do such a job. Just like Photoshop is not always the best tool for resizing your photos.
Verified purchaser
Good for most sites, needs a few more options
Hello,
I make WordPress sites so when I saw this I was excited. It took me some time however to pull the trigger on buying this deal. I did buy it today however and set up / am setting up 2 sites with the themes.
Here are bullet points from my experience thus far.
- The sites install easy.
- The themes look decent (*A bit dated in design - but not too bad)
- I felt like there were limited options for customization of the theme in the setup options. (*Give more options for header layouts, logo placement, sizing, a costume code zone?... etc)
- The 2 themes I did use had different options for theme customization, so no unified options for all themes I an assuming, this may make setting each one up a gamble with options)
- Not a fan of the supplied page builder and installed Elemento - all worked (*USE ELEMENTO FOR YOU PAGE BUILDER)
- Social media icons for links back to your other SM pages are not on all themes (*Them little icons like the FB square). (*These should be on all themes, they are key in a lot of marketing).
- The themes do load fast.
- As mentioned in the other post, a lot of dependent plugins. But this does not bother me.
For me what is keeping this from a 5 Tocco deal is the lack of options in the theme set up, the lack of Elemento as the page builder, and the lack of social media icon places in the theme.
I am excited to see however where the company goes and if they roll out new changes to the products.
Cheers
Verified purchaser
I've removed 2 tacos for the 2 complaints I have
Like other reviewers before me, I was impressed with the 'Woondershop-Jungle' theme that comes with this package, and I purchased a code. As I am installing the theme for the first time, I feel the need to warn others about two issues that are not apparently clear prior to purchase.
1. The theme requires a *big* list of plugins to be installed in order to operate as intended. At least one of these plugin is *not* free to buy (ACF Pro). It is not expensive and I have an unlimited dev license for it, so not an issue for me but others must know and plan around this.
Here's what the theme setup wizard asks to install:
• Advanced Custom Fields PRO
• Breadcrumb NavXT
• Contact Form 7
• MailChimp widget by ProteusThemes
• Page Builder by SiteOrigin
• ProteusThemes Shortcodes
• SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle
• Smart WooCommerce Search
• Themify - WooCommerce Product Filter
• WP Featherlight - A Simple jQuery Lightbox
• WooCommerce - excelling eCommerce
2. The theme may not be PHP7.x compatible
I don't have time to analyze this further right now but the setup wizard crashed with a HTTP 500 error under PHP 7.3 and PHP 7.2. When I switched back to PHP 5.6, it proceeded to install.
I will revert back to PHP 7.3 after installation to see if I will keep getting issues, and if I get any more PHP errors I will request a refund; running PHP 5.6 is a no-no for me.
This is what I wanted to say, I was in a hurry to do so because it is a relatively new deal, the demo looks great and many people will probably decide to buy it. I feel they should know about this.
YMMV.
Jaka_ProteusThemes
May 9, 2024Hi, there!
First of all I would like you to thank you for your point of view.
The reason why we include a couple of plugins into our theme is simple. We could either developed all those plugins themselves, but it would take us months and they defenetely wouldn’t be that powerfu, so we decided to rather find a couple of plugins from trustworthy developers and include them in our themes. And...
Verified purchaser
Phantastic!
I only tried one of the templates so far: The WooCommerce Jungle Edition.
Result: I am impressed!
The whole template is extremly well done until really tiny details. Even things that are not mentioned in the features-list and not shown in the demo are done well.
Example: The sidebar!
The demo has a great sidebar with the categories and the price-range.
Very usefull, but not so good for my products. After a support-request I realized, they did not only built the sidebar, they created the whole "sidebar-management" where I can easily turn off the price-range, add the Tags and many other options and, and, and ...
It´s a dream to work with templates which are done so well!
All the best, Julian!
Jaka_ProteusThemes
May 9, 2024Julian, thank you so much for such feedback and for being our customer.
In case you need anything, please let us know :)
Kind regards,
Jaka
Verified purchaser
21 Wordpress themes for just 2 codes
Here's a quick review for ProteusThemes. I got other themes on my toolkit and this one seems to fit the bill for some clients who wants a quick turnaround of their website.
Ok so they don't use elementor which is like most sumolings would prefer, but the thing is, for some clients, this does not matter! What matters is that they see their site working smoothly and fast! It just works out of the box.
This one theme I like the most which would be useful for e-commerce sites: WoonderShop
Hope you guys give them a try!
Cheers,
Mike
Mrdzyn Studio
Jaka_ProteusThemes
May 9, 2024This is exactly what our customers are saying to us. They usually don’t build the whole websites from scratch, but rather import the demo content of the theme they like and change a images, text and layout. And page builder by SiteOrigin is more than powerful enough tool to do such a job. Just like Photoshop is not always the best tool for resizing your photos.
Mike, thank you for your feedback!