Corporate Theme by StudioPress: The Good and the Bad, a Review

Did you know that you can build great websites (in addition to blogs) with WordPress? It’s all in the theme you use (WordPress themes are a template you install which provides your site’s look and feel, layout, and to a large degree, your site’s functionality).

Introducing StudioPress’ Corporate Theme for your small business website needs. Check out the Corporate Theme’s crisp, cool, and highly customizable home page. If you own a small business and are in the market for a great looking website that won’t cost you thousands of dollars, read the Corporate Theme’s features, details, strengths, complaints, feedback, and specifications below.

Corporate Theme by StudioPress Premium WordPress Themes:

Corporate Theme Features Overview
  • Corporate theme by StudioPress is WordPress them designed for small business websites.

  • 3-column option.

  • Some customization in the themes’ options panel.

  • Corporate Theme has a static homepage option with multiple widget placements giving you great home page layout flexibility.

  • Auto-size thumbnail management which automatically re-sizes images so the images can be thumbnail size at the top of your blog posts.  This greatly enhances the look and feel of blog posts.

  • Comment functionality included out-of-the-box.  Corporate theme is ready for threaded comments to your blog posts.

  • Photoshop files are included so you can work of existing graphics for customization.

  • Lifetime access to the Corporate Theme forum.  StudioPress forum has over 12,000 members making it a very thorough, informative, and comprehensive support feature.

  • Access to all future updates.
Color Options 2 color options out-of-the box: black and blue.  Of course, you can fully customize the colors using the CSS style sheet (which is very conveniently styled for easy editing).
Widget Ready? Yes.  In fact, it has excellent widget options which result in great customization options.
Customer Feedback “It is a true testament to how nicely thought out the StudioPress themes are, that a non-coding person like myself can produce professional looking site without too much difficulty… “ ~David, Totally Incorrect

Source: Studiopress.com

“What really sold me on going with one of your themes was being able to try it with your test site. I’ve used many themes that end up being a mess to actually work with – so getting to actually play around with it was incredibly useful.” ~Sharon, Techafina

Source: Studiopress.com

“Brian and the moderators at StudioPress not only provide FANTASTIC support and encouragement, they go beyond the call of duty! Their themes are so amazing and professional and user friendly…” ~D’Vorah, Send Out Cards

Source: Studiopress.com
Support StudioPress offers 14 premium themes.  Each theme has its own forum.  With the purchase of Corporate Theme, you gain full access forever to the Corporate Theme forum and the general WordPress forum.

If you buy the “all-theme” package, you gain access to all the theme forums.
Training Access to tutorials and a very well moderated forum.
Website Styles / Functions Business website and blog.  You’ll see that the home page is static and that the theme is designed to function as a small business website.  You have the option for a blog page so you can integrate a blog in the website.
Strengths of the Corporate Theme Multiple home page widget placement.Very stylish look and feel – ready for out-of-the-box use.  Actually, StudioPress is known for a very stylish look and feel in all their themes.

It’s creates a true website using the WordPress platform (WordPress was originally a blogging platform).

Layout options such as full-width (except the home page) and blog layouts for greater customization.
Complaints about the Corporate Theme
  • Only 2 color options out-of-the-box.
  • Home page doesn’t have a full-width option in the options panel (need to change the code for a full-width site).
  • Please note that the slide show presented in the demo is a plugin you must install and set up.  It’s very easy to set up and there is a tutorial to step you through it.  Just be warned that the slide show is not included out-of-the-box.
  • Limited styling options in the options panel.
Customization Restrictions None in the licensing.  You are free to customize Corporate Theme as much as you like.
About StudioPress
 StudioPress started as Revolution Themes.  Founded by Brian Gardner, StudioPress currently offers 14 premium WordPress Themes. StudioPress is a team of professional WordPress developers, designers, and graphic artists who are located throughout the USA.
Theme Specifications Corporate Theme is for WordPress.org (not WordPress.com).  With Corporate Theme you will need a self-hosted domain.  Typically people pay for hosting with a host provider such as bluehost.
Additional Services You can hire an approved StudioPress WordPress developers / designers at an hourly rate.
Price Click here for pricing.
Licencing When you purchase, you receive a GPL license.  You can use Corporate theme for as many websites and blogs as you wish, including using it for clients and selling websites using the Corporate Theme.
Refund No.

Check out a full StudioPress Corporate Theme DEMO here.

The following is a screenshot of the Corporate theme home page.  Clicking on it will take you to the demo page.  Notice the 5 widget areas on the home page.  In these Widget areas you can insert text, images, videos, navigation modules, and much more.

These widget placements render Corporate Theme by StudioPress highly customizable.  You’ll also see it has a static home page which is perfect for a website (versus a blog – which can be integrated by the way).


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