CSSIgniter is a membership site for a collection of beautiful WordPress themes at an affordable price and with an
amazing standard of high-quality & technical support. Adding to the list of
amazing WordPress marketplaces on the web, CSSIgniter is comparatively a new
player in the market, debuting just five years back in 2010 but managing to
make waves in the industry. The company was started in the United States by
GerasimosTsiamalos and AnastisSourgoutsidis, in Wilmington, DE. Even though I
had mentioned that it is a membership site but, on the contrary, it also allows
the users just to buy one single theme if the user thinks he or she doesn’t
need any other themes frm the gallery. But just to make things interesting
CSSIgniter offers all their 68 themes in total for just $49 and if the user
wants to buy a single theme it costs $39, so now you know why I chose to call
them a “membership marketplace” in the first place.
They are a popular choice now especially
for developers and designers, since even if you buy a single theme or take the
membership package, with the exception of the “standard” membership plan, the
user gets the source Photoshop files as well as the HTML version of the same
theme. So CSSIgniter has now shaken the WordPress world by offering almost
everything for a price of $39 for a single theme with updates and technical
support for a year and also to provide beautiful design, awesome documentation,
and custom features.
Themes and features
CSSIgniter has managed to provide all kinds
of diverse WordPress themes and cater to almost all kinds of users frm
different domains and business backgrounds. Even though the whole site is based
on paid membership and paid themes, there are a few of themes that are offered
as free themes downloads for the users as well. As we have mentioned earlier,
they are quite generous that way, giving 68 themes for a pricing of $49 for a
year and then also providing a few quality themes for free downloads as well.
Currently, there are three free themes “True North” which is a portfolio theme,
and then there is “Hermoso”, which is a blogging theme, and we have
“Magnifique”, a free responsive blogging theme and last but not least. Other
than the free ones they have so many genres of WordPress themes to offer.
There are so many categories they cover in
the themes gallery they cater to the users. Themes for business users, fitness
and health, hotel & resorts as mentioned before, medical, photography, real
estate, vCard, Church, beauty and fashion, law, mobile app, restaurant, video,
blogging, conference, gaming, magazine, music, portfolio, woo commerce and
Tumblr or Pinterest-like.
Few of the popular ones are like “Medi”
which is a minimal business theme, ideal for health professionals and
businesses in the medical industry. Speaking of medical themes, we have
“Olympic” which is a theme mainly designed for fitness and health professionals
and companies. “Pinfinity” is a theme similar to Pinterest or Tumblr and then
there is four pretty awesome music themes “stereo squared“, “Berliner”,
“Hernan” & “Kontrol”, which are perfect for musicians, DJs, artists,
nightclubs and everyone in the entertainment industry. Similarly, we have a few
awesome themes for people who are looking to get themes in the category of
Hotels, resorts & restaurants, like “Igloo”, “Philoxenia”, “Santorini”,
“Aegean”, “Sixty One” and many more. Another popular category in which their
themes score a lot when it comes to being downloaded the most is the business
and portfolio category. “Business3ree”, “Mustache”, “Business One”, “Business
One”, “Mozzy” and “Nico” being most in demand in this particular genre, and
well appreciated by the users who have used it and gave pretty cool theme
reviews to each and every one of them. Another popular category is the Online
Magazine and e-commerce (including woo commerce based), in which themes like
“Femme”, “Agora”, “Dolce” and “Intrigue” are making the top of the list.
Another pretty simple and straight forward category is photography themes which
are taken over by themes like “Glare” and “Memories”.
Each theme, frm a viral video theme to a
music theme, has a list of consistent features like constant bug fixes and updates,
custom theme options & settings, translation ready or language files,
retina ready, plugins ready, shortcodes enabled, custom and featured sliders,
tutorials and theme guides, full documentation support, dedicated technical
support, SEO optimised, and speed optimized.
Pricing and Payment
Pricing has been offered in pretty simple
and straight forward way to the users of different demands. They have
considered the ones who want just the one theme and don’t want to play anything
else for any other product. And then they also have the plans for the users who
would like to get more with less, with no hidden charges with a one-time
payment option. They provide four different ways to access their products -
- Single theme for $39, with full year
technical support and theme updates but with no HTML and Photoshop files
included. It is great for the users or WordPress beginners, who just want to
just install and setup a site and start their business or work.
- Standard plan for $49 / year, which gives
you the full access to all the themes they have but still not including the
HTML and Photoshop files.
- Developer plan for $79 / year is the one
which gives you the actual full access to all the themes, including the source
Photoshop files and HTML template of the theme as well. It is great for
developers and designers who still want to make some customizations to the
theme which they want to use to add their look and feel to it.
- Lifetime plan for $399, which is the
ultimate package if you love their themes and want to get the full access to
all the resource files for the rest of your life and wouldn’t mind spending a
little more than usual.
CSSIgniter also have a store on
ThemeForest, called “cssignitervip”, where they sell some more products like
HTML templates for around $17, which are otherwise free with the paid WordPress
themes on their site, so as to offer the users a chance just to buy the
templates if they don’t want the WordPress theme for the same design. They have
made more than 4,000 sales on just these HTML templates with an average rating
of 4.5 / 5 on ThemeForest, pretty smart huh.
Contact and support
Well known for their customer and technical
support, CSSIgniter has given the users multiple options to contact them for
any problems or assistance, be it pre-sales, tips to optimize the theme,
setting up a theme, troubleshooting, account settings, etc. You can always
connect with them through the contact form they have on their site, but that is
not for technical support regarding the themes they provide. For that, you
would need to create an account on their support forum and login to post a
query for a particular problem or check out the ones already existing in the
forum. And the best part is that you will hear frm the CSSIgniter Team within
the next 24 working hours to resolve your issues.
They also have ticketing system called,
“CSSIgniter VIP” which also have a repository of tickets raised by other
customers and allows you to raise one for your problem as well. They also have
a knowledge base which is filled with tutorial articles that teach the users on
how to use WordPress and interact with the new themes and plugins.
Email: [email protected]
Address: 1209 ORANGE STREET
WILMINGTON, DE 19801