Themify WordPress Themes Review

Themify is a relative newcomer to the world of premium WordPress themes, but they do show a fair bit of promise. Right now their theme selection is rather limited, which is the reason we can really only recommend them for select niches and applications. Their prices are good however and their existing themes are of a high quality, so we hope to see some evolution in their company in the coming years. If they branch out into more niches and offer some more generic themes, they could do quite well.

Themify Pros

Themify has one of the better average price per theme for subscriptions.

Themify Cons

They don’t have many general theme options to choose from. Many themes are focused to one niche. Not many options for the corporate professional blog owner.

Licensing Terms

Themify has four tiers of packages. Two of them are single-theme-only purchases; these package are called Standard Theme and Developer Theme. What makes them packages is that they also include a bonus free, lifetime theme updates, lifetime forum access, and unlimited domain usage. PSD files are included with the Developer Theme. What you’re most likely interested in is the Standard Club or the Developer Club. These clubs provide you with access to all themes, including theme updates and forum access for one year and unlimited domain usage. PSD files are include in the Developer Club package. The standard club costs $69.00 per year and the developer club costs $89.99 per year. That’s one of the least expensive prices we’ve seen anywhere for developer membership.

Theme Quality

Themes are broken into categories for easy navigation on the website. These include blog, portfolio, free, responsive, restaurant, corporate, multimedia, magazine, eCommerce, post formats, and featured. As mentioned before, there are really only a handful of corporate themes, and most of the other themes would be better for specific niche applications and not for corporate websites. Since many developers who join theme clubs build corporate websites professionally, this may not make Themify an ideal option. The price is good, however, so it depends on how many sites you need to build and what types of sites you focus on.

Theme Options

Theme options and features include a responsive layout, header and footer sliders, multiple sidebar options, a customizable dual navigation menu, lightbox gallery, banner ad options for the header, optional search form and RSS features, social media features, footer options, widget columns, theme skins, child theme support, and more. The PSD Photoshop files are included in the Developer Package for easy backdrop modification.

Overall Value

Customer service is great overall except for the fact that there don’t seem to be any video tutorials, and these are quite helpful in learning how to work with theme options, so this is a detractor. As mentioned before, price per theme is very low, which is a major selling point. There are 29 paid themes at this point with 1-2 releases monthly. The average cost per theme for the Standard package is just $2.38, and the average cost per theme for the Developer package is just $3.07-which is impressively low. Being as Themify is a newer company to the premium WordPress theme business, we can understand the lack of tutorials and slight shortage of corporate themes at this point. As the company continues to release new themes, we hope to see higher quality themes in the future. TopFiveAdvisor gives Themify a 7/10. This is a company to watch!

Sujeet - July 8, 2014

I am using themify theme and what i feel is that they have awesome framework in whole WordPress theme industry. You can manage almost everything using their framework. As mentioned in review that “lack of video tutorials” i don’t think so that this is the issue because they provide pretty well support and within their support forum you will find most of your query already answered.

Gail Hagen - October 26, 2014

I love the drag and drop builder. As a graphic designer, I prefer not to do much coding and work visually on the front end. Hope to see many more corporate themes. Go Themify!

Lisa - January 9, 2015

I signed up for up for Themify in late 2013 early 2014, I was excited about the drop and drag design/menu as well as the layouts Themify has in their demos (see menu on demo). What a disappointment.

The drop and drag menu is not what it set out to be, I could sit here and write paragraph after paragraph. I tried to get help, I was always directed to videos, I would submit screenshots, never got anywhere.

The “layouts” section you’ll notice on the demo (in menu section you are given choices such as “magazine layout” etc) or if you activate the “import” when you install the theme, it installs extra files showing you what your site can look like, when previewing, the advertisement wouldn’t register the embedded codes, plus your full site will not look the demos, its done by post, regardless, the layouts never worked.

Themify I see now has a showcase, i noticed on Themify showcase; none of sites were set up that way. Themify does offer support, unfortunately, my experience wait time was 24-48 hours or more to get an answer; there were rare occasions within 2 hours. Most of the time 24-48 hours, which is a bummer because whenever you need help something seriously is going wrong majority of the time–most likely you will have to deactivate the theme until (if) your problems is (gets) resolved.

They do offer good support WHEN they do help you.! So it’s almost impossible to get your website to look like the demos, it doesn’t matter what size you have your featured pictures. The Funki theme is a prime example for that. I noticed after switching to another theme club, Word press.com listed the sizes, Themify does not.

WordPress(dot)com customers, so you understand, WordPress charges $129 per Themify theme, the packages (prices) at Themify, will do you no good. You pay wordpress(dot)com $1.29 per theme, I remember itheme2 was free for both, for Funki and Elemin, $129 a piece. At themify, packages started at $69 for a year membership Themify, if you are at wordpess.com, do not purchase a package.

theme.wordpress(dot)com/themes/funki/ on Themify, also Elemin theme,
theme.wordpress(dot)com/themes/elemin/

Now go look at the prices on these two themes at Themify, the club and individual themes prices are cheaper. I wont blame this on Themify, that is wordpress(dot)com greed.

If you have a blog or a magazine, my opinion is Themify is not for you, photographs; yes, a small store; iif it can be hooked up with e commerce, worth a try.