Alexandria

Theme Alley pretends to have free themes, then requires payment for them to work. Unfortunately, after paying, you find the theme doesn’t appear or work as advertised.

They refuse to refund the money we paid in good faith.

Theme Alley Business right out of the box SEO improved 95 percent. W3c errors from 170 from old free theme Hueman to 4 simple errors.
Google is indexing site faster then ever. And the customer service is great.

5 stars for Alley!!

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Master Tech Lee

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Theme Alley Business right out of the box SEO improved 95 percent. W3c errors from 170 from old free theme Hueman to 4 simple errors.
Google is indexing site faster then ever. And the customer service is great.

5 stars for Alley!!

Who is going to ring in next?

Master Tech Lee

Downloaded, installed, began to customize but they wont let you even change your logo without paying them. Definitely a bait and switch. This is NOT a free theme.

I downloaded the free Alexandria theme, because it looked nice to me. Trying it out I noticed a problem with using the latin extended font type, one I happen to need.

The developer: Theme Alley (owner: Srikanth Koneru) says on its website it strictly ignores any support requests from users of the free version. I kind of understood that, so I bought the pro/paid version, assuming in that case I would be helped and that the font problem could be easily fixed. Besides, Theme Alley did not mention incompatibility with particular font types such as latin extended A (which is to some extent a standard nowadays), so I also saw it as my right as a consumer to just get a properly working website.

I followed Theme Alley’s support procedure for Pro customers and received an answer. The man (or woman, let’s assume it is a man, he never tells his name, even when I kindly asked for it) logged in on my account and tried to help, but in it didn’t seem to work on first sight. Later it did, but due to hosting problems I lost the changes and asked Theme Alley’s support person to help (once) again. He refused and informed me that his previous help was just a courtesy and he won’t do anything extra.

He had already informed me that there would be more font options in the Pro theme by the end of april. I just asked him about it today, just to check his credibility. His response was that those changes are included in a more expensive theme (he didn’t say so before), and if I like to use that, I will have to pay the difference. I asked for a refund to save us both time and stress, but to that e-mail I did not get an answer, which somehow does not surprise me. I already counted the $35 as a loss anyway, but I have to warn other consumers. Besides I cannot believe how such as poor support offering developer can produce such a high ranking when searching for a responsive theme in my WP webdesign ‘search themes’ option.

I always tried to stay kind to the guy, however assertive, but this person (I assume I had contact with one person only) is impolite and not a good business partner. Sometimes he just did not reply to (normal, not offensive) e-mails, as is the case today again. As the end of the month April was approaching, I decided not to wait, but to move on, and doing so found a great theme on the website of one of the world’s biggest online theme (and other graphic design) marketplace.

For just a few Euros more than Theme Alley’s (now: basic) Pro theme and for the same price as their new Pro extended version, so for $55 I have a truly great looking, fully responsive theme with many great options (including many page templates, thus better than Theme Alley) and a kind and professional support staff member who usually answers within one day and truly helps. What a relief!

If you want to save your nerves, do not do business with Theme Alley.

I purchased Alexandria Business Pro 3 days ago.

I must say that after having spent a few hours reading the forum, I am totally disappointed by the answers given by the Themealley developper(s)… I spent another few hours trying to get what I wanted for my website, and my opinion is that it’s the kind of theme that looks good at first glance, but that requires too much time in guessing what can be done with it, (no documentation) or trying to understand the developper(s) answer when they are as short as a “no”…

The only topic that seems to be explained in details, is their non-refund policy…

Other bad point, even though it says somewhere that it is “multilingual”, it’s not compatible with WPML and therefore is strictly limited to a single language publication. (They say you can translate pages… But what comes with the theme options cannot be translate…)

Really disappointed by the way ThemeAlley people treat their customers.
That was my first try… And last try with them before I spend too much time with it.

it’s got what I need!!

Despite being a technical dummy, I found Alexandria easy to work with (But that might be just because of WP interface). Nevertheless, it immediately caught my eye while browsing available free template selections. This might well be due to its blue default display, which happens to be my favorite color. I also like the crisp graphics and flexible customizations.

The main drawback I see so far is apparently difficult navigation and unclear instructions for many tasks. However, that might be merely due to my own technical ignorance.

All in all, though, no matter how you look at it (no pun intended), Alexandria offers a lot for the price tag of $0!

It is a cool theme but you have to pay for the rest of the version which is not bad, the author has to continue to update it now.

I believe I can get more business done with the sleek and business-class design.

Thank you so mucho for this theme!!!

A really nice theme!

Do not buy the PRO version. Support is forum-based only and the devs are awful at providing useful information.