WordPress Themes Suck

They really suck and let me explain...

I strongly believe that you should use WordPress to run your websites because it's easy to setup, and you can add whatever you want onto it... add a quiz plugin, add an opt-in form plugin... you and your websites can stay on the cutting edge without coding, FTP, or geek stuff...

Plugins make your site "do those extra things"... and THEMES change how your WordPress sites look. Don't like that site design with the black background and 2 sidebars? Click a button and now you get a white background with 1 sidebar...

That's what great about WordPress themes... instantly change the look and feel... so what's my problem with it?

In my experience, 50% of the time, I buy a theme (usually 200 to 300 bucks) because of the demo they show me. It looks great -- I think to myself, I'll change this text, I'll remove this section, this is going to be the best looking site anyone's ever seen...

I buy the theme and set it up... and either I can't even get it to load up the "demo" or it turns out the demo involved some custom coding, custom CSS and custom graphics and there's no way I can match it...

Lance and I recently setup a theme and in order to get it to look as good as the demo, it took us about an hour on Skype (us, both computer geeks), and we had to install 6 additional plugins and set about 20 different settings JUST to get it to that demo mode... nevermind customizing the site...

When WordPress themes are concerned, I feel very "baited and switched" at times and I have to do a ton of customization just to make a landing page look decent...

Do you want to know what "just works" out of the box? Paper Template does.

With Paper Template, you can use any WordPress theme you want (even the default one) and then say... I want JUST this one page to be a landing page (sales letter, opt-in form, thank you download page, etc.) and please leave the rest of my site alone...

Or... set all your pages as Paper Template pages...

It's mobile responsive and is a plain white piece of paper OR you can click a button and give it a more modern look... those fancy fonts, bright colors and full-width web pages... it's all possible using the Paper Template plugin for your WordPress landing pages:

Download the "Paper Template" WordPress Landing Page Plugin

It's great if you want to skip the hassle and headache of "those" WordPress themes where the demo looks great but isn't customizable. Paper Template is the perfect solution for you if you want to create those "money pages" quickly within WordPress.

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