{"id":79,"date":"2024-09-19T08:51:39","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T07:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daily-updates.com\/?page_id=79"},"modified":"2024-09-19T08:51:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T07:51:39","slug":"i-spent-20-hours-testing-60-niche-wordpress-themes-and-there-are-some-elephants-in-the-repo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/daily-updates.com\/?page_id=79","title":{"rendered":"I Spent 20 Hours Testing 60+ Niche WordPress Themes, and There Are Some Elephants in the Repo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I was working on a rewrite of one of our theme list posts and in the process I tested over 30 themes. By the end, I came to the unfortunate conclusion that the majority were junk. My gut feeling was that the &#8220;shiny cover, empty box&#8221; syndrome I encountered was more widespread than only the niche I worked on. So I decided to fire up a test instance of WordPress and went through 31 additional themes in a separate niche. These are the results of my research.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I was working on a rewrite of one of our theme list posts and in the process I tested over 30 themes. By the end, I came to the unfortunate conclusion that the majority were junk. My gut feeling was that the &#8220;shiny cover, empty box&#8221; syndrome I encountered was more widespread than only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daily-updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daily-updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daily-updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daily-updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daily-updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daily-updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}