Choose a WordPress Theme carefully, there are literally 1000’s of Wordpress Themes available today, many are able to be downloaded directly once WordPress has been installed and activated on your server.
All of these themes are free, though generally have paid for versions available. The free versions all work well and generally get you started but you end up like I did, wanting more out of your theme. Many of the free WordPress themes are limited in their capabilities ie: If the front page has a slider it may only give you 2 slider options when your website may be better if you could have 4, 5 or 6, (yes too many is not good either). Do the sliders link to pages or are they just an image? Is the background able to be changed to a colour, a gradient, a pattern or an image? Do you have to test plugins to see if they will work in your chosen theme, I have tried and tried at times and still not got some to work so I look for another.
When you choose a wordpress theme from a specialist Theme producer like Elegant Themes you get a better package and great built in functionality which is not available in basic themes.
With Elegant Themes you get to:
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