Upgrading From A Free Theme To A Paid theme

[pasockeye]

I'm ready to move on to a paid theme, hoping that'll be more current, easier to create a better looking store with more bells & whistles and yet still not having to know how to code, am I correct? Can I please get some verifications?  Thank you.

[PaulNewton]

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@pasockeye wrote:

I'm ready to move on to a paid theme, hoping that'll be more current, easier to create a better looking store with more bells & whistles and yet still not having to know how to code, am I correct? Can I please get some verifications?  Thank you.

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Not correct, it's a fallacy.

A premium theme does not guarantee any of the things your "hoping" for, nor does a free theme prevent achieving quality.

Hope is not substitute for an actual plan with dedicated design intent and specific feature requirements.

Themes are a starting point not magic, even premium themes may require custom code to get to a desired outcome or at minimum a heavy time investment in setting up a theme to look good for non-designers and not look like a drop shipping site,etc.