When it comes to true professional (you might even say “premium”) WordPress Themes you have two options at hand: It’s either gonna be the widespread Revolution Theme or the Thesis Theme. I will now not put any weight on comparing these gems because you should already know by now that I prefer option B – I do not only prefer Thesis, I LOVE THESIS.
Which WordPress Theme do you prefer?
Well, if we can believe Google’s nice and fluffy Insights for Search you are not so sure about your next professional theme. At least that was the case until March/April of this year – 2009 it is! – and we can clearly see how things change on the web. Look at the following picture. I made a screenshot of my little research in which I compared both the Revolution Theme and the Thesis Theme. My keywords were simple yet powerful and named “thesis theme” and “revolution theme”.
It seems the Pros are switching positions
Yes, indeed. Something happened and Chris Pearson can be very proud of whatever he did. It might be the affiliate program which is advertised like hell today. I think it might also be the big version change of Thesis when it finally came to 1.5 (see the original blog post). The news is dated April, 29th. If you compare this date with the sudden rise of search volume concerning “thesis theme” it’s hard to believe something else. And yes, the 1.5er made things even better. So logic is bound to spice up the WordPress Theme Shootout at that time.
I’m currently using Thesis 1.5 and pretty happy with it. Of course I’m going to upgrade as soon as 1.6 is released publicly. (I do like BETA statuses but I prefer FINAL in the end.)
Thesis 1.5.1 is a sure winner
Another spike in the graph above could be related to the next small step in version number counting. After 1.5.1 being announced and published to the fellow Thesis lovers (and those who love WordPress in general) the Thesis Theme (and the search volume for “thesis theme”) were going uphill again. Nice to see that.
Ok, now that we realized that Thesis has become the one and only option let us take a close look at the following number. I sometimes just sit there and cannot believe how popular WordPress is. Wow!
Some math doesn’t harm my Thesis much
While I am typing this post, the download count (just for WordPress v2.8) increases almost every second or two and the picture is of course outdated right now. I just wanted you to see how big all this blog thing is! Now back to the topic: Thesis Theme versus Revolution Theme.
I think that the Revolution Theme has been downloaded more often – until Thesis went 1.5.x. Today I am sure that Chris Pearson earns his fair share from those millions of bloggers out there. You might be one of them, already working on your blog with some sloppy theme you got for free – or thinking about a blog to share your thoughts with us.
Which type you belong to is not important. What is important anyway? If your were expecting some great graphics, stats and blood I’m sorry to disappoint you. I just wanted to do some serious ranting and so I did. Your interest in the Thesis Theme has now increased and I’m sure you want to visit diythemes.com and watch it in action!
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Revolution has had the street cred to make it a valid comparison to Thesis. Your next products to compare Thesis to is the online customizing-and-hosting site Squarespace, and the WordPress platform-theme called Headway. These seem like stiffer competition.
Thanks for mentioning those. I will have a look at them. You know, I was just playing around with Google’s Insights and I was struck by the idea to compare to well-known themes from a totally different point of view. Yeah!
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