Templatic WordPress Themes Review

Templatic is a premium WordPress theme subscription service that provides high-quality themes for a monthly membership fee. The club provides regular updates on older themes, and definitely has a lot going for it. The costs are somewhat high, however, and customization is a little more difficult for Templatic themes than some other packages. Whether this theme club works for you or not will depend on your needs and budget. There is plenty to recommend them, and we’ll be sure to give you a thorough review of the positive features and the drawbacks.

Templatic Pros

We’ve noticed a continued effort to upgrade their older existing themes to add features such as responsive design. Has some great themes for niche site concepts.

Templatic Cons

Doesn’t offer a highly customizable framework. The backend system appears to lack functions other providers offer. Has a high cost-per-theme average.

Licensing Terms

There is only one package available for Templatic-the developer’s package, titled Full Access. This package allows you to download all of the 50+ themes Templatic has available as well as access any new themes that are released during the time you’re a member. You also get access to the community support forum and the member only support forum. The first month is expensive-there’s a startup fee of $299.00. After that it’s only $15.00 a month, which is pretty low for a recurring payment. You’re given multiple use licenses for all of the themes so that you can use them on as many websites as you like, commercial or personal. You may re-subscribe at any time after cancelling but only by paying the startup fee again. You get access to design PSD files as well for easy updating of background images.

Theme Quality

The theme quality is decent but not the best we’ve seen, mostly in the sense that the themes are difficult to customize (more about that in the section below). Themes are easy to search through using categories like portfolio themes, multimedia themes, magazine themes, eCommerce themes, and others. You’ll find themes for specific niches as well such as real estate, price comparison shopping, hotel bookings, deal sites, travel sites, and more. The specificity is great, and one of the best features of the service overall. If you have a very specific niche, you may not need to do as much customization as you normally would, which perhaps makes up a bit for the lack of theme options.

Theme Options

There are various theme options available including responsive design (themes which will display properly on any device), field customization, different types of buttons, custom widgets, multiple posts types, and blogging features. Nonetheless, this is actually a fairly exhaustive list, which isn’t that great. The backend system appears to lack functions that other providers offer. The framework is not highly customizable. Since there are so few options compared to other services, this is quite a detractor in general. We definitely would have preferred to have a greater level of control over the details, especially at the price per theme.

Overall Value

Customer service for Templatic is top notch with extensive documentation and video tutorials to help you learn how to use the platform. There is a support forum and an email/ticketing system you can use to get answers to your questions, as well as a blog and social networking features to provide you with updates.

Daniel Lynge Christophersen - April 13, 2013

Templatic owners are scammers, the themes are full of bugs. They don’t follow the laws of sales and customer laws. I had only bad experience with them. Never purchase their products, you will be very disappointed and they will take your money and deny you refund if you regret your purchase, even if you react the same day. I WILL NEVER RECOMMEND TEMPLATIC. Scammers Kindly Daniel

Fred Morgan - March 12, 2014

Two years ago I purchased the new Geoplaces 4 theme which was supposed to be next generation from Geoplaces 3. In the last two years it has taken a lot of hard work both from the templatic team but mainly from the users who were the actual testers and problem finders of the theme. 1. It will not work with a child theme so all personal changes have to be carried over on the new version updates ( approx. 1 every 3 weeks up to December 2013). 2. Once the year is passed you may purchase further support at a cost of 33% theme cost. However, without doing this you can not even access the theme forum most of which was contributed to by us – the suckers – whose contribution and background expertise made it way it looks today, 3. I paid for the second year which ended 3rd March 2014 and guess what? The latest Yoast WordPress SEO plugin has completely crashed the theme and site!!! Who can I contact? I now have no read access to the theme forum and also the contact page is only for a. those who have purchased in the last year or b. those who paid the annual 33% premium. c. those pre-sales enquirers I will never purchase another Templatic theme for me or any of my customers – it’s just tooooooo risky Fred Morgan

Ola Scaring - May 4, 2014

I was so fed up by Templatic from beginning with theit lies about the theme being WMPL (multilingual) certified, never fix the bugs, support hiding known issues with bugs. They say themselves that it is themes out of the box…. And yes it is! A box full of sh-t and themes with hundreds of links to theit own site and it take hour to clean them up. Since support stopped answering my tickets I used their Facebook page, BUT they censor it!! Only positive posts stay, the other ones are deleted by Vedran. That’s why I created a group at Facebook about it.

Manuel - May 13, 2014

I bought this theme for a client as sincerely it really looks promising in the website and with all features. It really helps to have a listing website. After 1 month of configuration of this theme I have realize that it have several problems which are not expected for a product like this considering the price. Latest version until 13 MAY 2014 have problems with the monetization module. It allow anyone to post unlimited listings for free packages. Paid packages contains errors as instruct user to pay for a subscription when they already have paid for one. Newsletter widget works partially and inconsistently, I ended up using a plugin to configure the newsletter functionality. The translation is really messy as translation files are in different folders and there is no professional documentation about where things are in which files, basically you have to trace the stuff and spend a lot of time customizing. Code is really bad written and not documented, after 10 years of coding experience, configuring out of the box systems this is one of the worst code I have ever seen, even for open source programs. Support in forums is not spectacular and sometimes you face the wall without short term solutions. If you will need to customize this theme you will face a lot of problems and spending time and money fixing what they have to fix. If you don’t need to customize it too much and you want a free website, go ahead as it contains several features. Don´t get me wrong the theme offer a lot of things but as some are badly tested or broken one of them can really hurt you if you need them. And yes they offer a fully functional front end and back-end, though is not really functional and you cannot really test all the process, receive all the emails and register stuff (at least for directory theme) They said that in the past they make mistake and the latest version have fixed problems, but I still experience problems, maybe they have a private version which I would be happy to receive. Lastly, this apply to the directory theme, so maybe for other themes you can have different experience.