The point I’m really trying to make is to see theme themes mocked up to a much wider range of business than just web fanatics and bloggers.

In that I suppose the question is whether you’re primarily selling to individuals setting up their own site, or small web businesses making fast sites for shopfront business clients.

As must be obvious by now, I’m in the latter group.

So the challenge for us is not to design niche themes, but design flexible themes (which I think we’re doing btw) which can be adapted for any niche. To do this, both the layout (diverse options across our entire themes collection) and optional elements (theme-specific widgets) need to add the variety of options to turn any theme into a small tourist hotel template.

Am I making any sense?

Maybe an interactive map, and a video welsome from the manager. No blog elements, no comments, no Facebook or other social media. Light, happy colours – no dark slabs or panels of gloomy black. Clear, serious typography for a slightly older and richer crowd than the usual web geeks.

Obviously some of our themes are totally blog-orientated and from my viewpoint they wouldn’t make a lot of sense if you removed the bloggy-type meta data and content. Not?

Not entirely sure what other features you’d like to see from our business / CMS themes…!?

BTW… I don’t mean this in a condescending way at all… Instead I’m trying to figure out what you guys mean / want, because that’ll enable us to meet your needs better.

I know Wordpress has its genesis in blogging, but I think the platform has moved past that now. Just as “wireless” is now FM and digital radio, and “horseless carriages” are F1 racing cars, so Wordpress is beyond the simple “blog only” concept.

What I’d like to see is more themes designed as CMS. It seems many of the WooThemes have the blog as the main feature of the site, or the content area is filled with blog posts with dates, comments, tags etc. I believe many people are just looking for an easy to manage, slick website powered by Wordpress without letting every visitor know, “Yeah, it’s a blog template site”.

I mean come on already, there is like 40 themes and every single one has a header at the top? Where are my menus at the bottom?

And what is with this continuing prominence of content in your designs? What are you guys trying to do make us read more now to? I use twitter, I cant be bothered with reading anymore. Wheres my big sidebar with focus on my twitter content?

And another thing, the comments, you put them below the content in every single theme. Sometimes comments are better than the content and deserve better placement.

haha just kidding.

Seriously, the themes don’t look any more similar than that they follow classic blog conventions. This is a wordpress theme club people and although WP and woothemes are capable of being oh so much more than a blog(just take a look the showcase) your going to find that the default design is usually geared toward blog.

The fact that wordpress is a blog engine greatly effects the designing process. Designers working on a wootheme will tend to gravitate towards a blog design.

There are a few exceptions but for the most part the default looking wootheme is usually going to be a blog one. So if you need more get a developer license, use the psd and extend the design. Then either use a wooninja or make the code modifications yourself.

Woothemes are excellent for tweaking and geared towards those who plan to modify them. Woothemes are some of the most well coded and easy to use themes around, take advantage of that.

Thanks for reading my long comment. And can you please modify the woo blog so that my comments are placed above or in the content? just kidding, although seriously can you? I would really appreciate it.

Note: All bookworm comments are considered non-serious posts and are not to be taking too seriously. Take them with several grains of salt or a tablespoon.