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July 1, 2014 at 7:33 am #112411RavenManiacParticipant
I'm trying to decide on a third party theme provider and I'm torn between two of them.
I prefer the design and simplicity of the themes from themedy.com, but the zigzagpress.com themes seem to have more bells and whistles. Can any of the functionality seen in the zigzagpress.com themes, such as filtered portfolios, google maps, tabs, accordions, and mega menus, be added with plugins to the themedy.com themes?
Does anyone have any experience with support from these two companies?
Thanks,
KJuly 1, 2014 at 9:14 am #112444SummerMemberThe filtered portfolios some of ZigZagPress themes contain are custom code... moving some of those features to a differently coded theme from another shop would require someone familiar with coding, so if you're ready to go elbow deep in code, jump on in 🙂
That said, I did implement a filtered portfolio using code from ZigZag's Megalithe theme (previously available as a 3rd party theme here) in an older version of Themedy's Derby, but after a few weeks the client decided he didn't want the filtering, so out the code came.
But Google Maps, tabs & accordions and mega menus are common plugins, both in the repository and at Code Canyon.
As for support, I've had much much better response and results from Themedy than I have from ZigZag. I think I have one ticket with ZigZag that they just stopped working on (almost a year now, I think), and since their "suggestions" were unhelpful, I think they just didn't know what to do next to figure out what was causing the issue and resolve it, so they didn't.
To be fair, other than that one major problem they never resolved, I haven't had any technical problems using any other ZigZag themes. and I'm also a lifetime Themedy member (signed up during last year's intro sale).
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkJuly 1, 2014 at 9:21 am #112447RavenManiacParticipantThanks Summer. My preference is themedy so I think I will give them a shot. You don't happen to know of any discount codes for their service? 🙂
July 1, 2014 at 9:38 am #112450SummerMemberSorry, I don't... and now I'm wondering why I didn't sign up for their affiliate program. With as many sites as I've done with their themes, you'd think I'd have done that 🙂
Come to think of it, I've never heard of them giving discounts other than a few big sales they had last year and the year before... and I can't recall if they offered those sale discounts only to people who were already members or not.
Given the cost of their lifetime membership at the moment and what you get in return, that in itself is a comparative discount in my book, just in terms of how easy their themes are and how excellent their support has been so far (I've been using Themedy themes since either late 2011 or early 2012).
(now I remember... at the time, I didn't want to sign up for a Clickbank account...)
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