What’s Your Favorite Theme Feature?

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1. Lisa (3 comments.) says:

   10/21/2011 at 8:56 am

   I look for themes that have minimal features, because I generally want to create child themes for my sites. I try to avoid themes that boast a lengthy list of items that can be done in the admin screens, because that usually means extra work tracking down the specific things I might want to change in a child theme.
2. Chris M (1 comments.) says:

   10/21/2011 at 9:34 am

   Great topic!

   I like themes that come with a good number of options, provided the options are really simple. The more options, the easier it is to customize the theme and make it your own.

   In terms of the topic at hand, my favourite features normally involve the ability to change colours and replace logo’s.
3. Srinivas (1 comments.) says:

   10/21/2011 at 12:03 pm

   I like adaptability of themes to multiple screens apart from 2011, yoko is another special theme with such feature.
   Features apart typography and simplicity is very important to me. That’s why I still keep using Fresh theme, a design by bartelme ported by iLemoned to wordpress. It hasn’t been updated for almost three years. I fell in love so much that I paid a designer to update it to latest wp features.
4. Tom Coburn (67 comments.) says:

   10/21/2011 at 1:21 pm

   a theme is crap without draggable sidebar items. Doesn’t necessarily have to be brothercakes drag and drop javascript per se, it could be CSS it doesn’t matter, but I like those draggable sidebar items. I wouldn’t even consider putting a theme on my blog without them period!
5. Chris (12 comments.) says:

   10/21/2011 at 1:45 pm

   Documentation- commenting the code is what I like best :). Makes it easier to customize.
6. RG (12 comments.) says:

   10/21/2011 at 3:14 pm

   Built-in templates (for example being able to switch to >1 column content area)
7. gestroud says:

   10/21/2011 at 6:45 pm

   I prefer to work with themes that have magazine-style layouts, feature content galleries and only a few to zero options in the admin area.
8. Eleanor Munson, PhD (1 comments.) says:

   10/21/2011 at 7:10 pm

   I like themes with flexibility in terms of images. I think large images on blogs are captivating to readers.
9. Noel Williams (1 comments.) says:

   10/21/2011 at 7:29 pm

   I am a novice. Therefore, I like themes with all the bells and whistles, and easy to configure.
10. Thomas Wigington (1 comments.) says:

    10/21/2011 at 9:04 pm

    First, great typography, because that is what a blog (at least my blog) is all about.

    Second, post formats, because I like for an aside to be easily distinguishable from a quote or a link.

    I am drawn to minimal themes at this time.
11. Evl (2 comments.) says:

    10/22/2011 at 12:14 pm

    Lots of sidebar options, lots of widgets.
12. Saqib (1 comments.) says:

    10/23/2011 at 1:51 pm

    I want lots of widget areas, so that I can customize the theme as per my wish. It should be minimal and responsive.
13. Adrian (1 comments.) says:

    11/1/2011 at 1:30 pm

    My favorite feature or the most sought after items is consistent with Adwords to monetize effectively. There are some issues where it is very bright but very difficult to add advertising without making it look bad.
14. The Tech Legion (1 comments.) says:

    12/22/2011 at 2:08 am

    My favorite feature is to have different sidebar option for every category. The next is to have tabbed widget