Hi Gert-Jan,
I said that the popular, industry leading frameworks are not free. There are a lot of great frameworks that are free (like yours) – some are available in WordPress.org repository, as Vinod pointed out.

As for the budget, if I (as a customer), want the best possible features + design in a theme, then, a standalone theme costing 40-50 USD is a better choice than downloading a free framework and hiring a developer to design/modify a child theme based on that free framework – to achieve that exact design and features.

Nonetheless, it is good to see that you’re offering your framework for free, which helps novice developers.

Thanks for the offer, we appreciate it, and we will contact once we decide to review your theme.

Thanks,
Sourav

You said it Kris.
Genesis is the way to go.

Hi Gert Jan,

I am agree with your point that “The primal factor” is not (at least not always) budget, since there is free frameworks out there.

Thanks for directing me to your point.

I would like to see review of Nexus Framework.

Hi Vinod,

The point I was trying to make was that the “The primal factor” is not (at least not always) budget, since there is free frameworks out there (I don’t know if others are free too, but if I understand you correctly there are multiple ones, so in that case the primal factor is not budget, which was my point?).

> How your framework( Nexus Framework ) is different from these framework?

It would be better to ask reviewers / Sourav to compare the frameworks (which is what I was inviting/offering in my reply) since apparently not every framework offers the same features (just like not 2 themes are the same).

@Gert-Jan There are free frameworks which are GPL licensed and also provide free themes for the frameworks.

How your framework( Nexus Framework ) is different from these framework?

Your comment seems like advertisement… 🙂

Our framework is free, and we allow anyone interested to use / copy / adjust and tune our framework (its GPL licensed, meaning all source code is available for anyone to use, as long as the code you create is GPL too). All the code of our framework is stored in GitHub. We also provide a free theme that uses the framework. If you know how you can configure the free theme in such a way that you can create all paid (premium) themes yourself too.

If you would be interested, I would like to invite you to review our framework and/or themes using it. Would love to hear your thoughts – Gert-Jan

Using framework is making website update ready (I mean layout and functionality doesn’t change, when you update core files of framework). And the easy usage, you learn once and then just update the knowledge, no need to start over with every single theme panel, options, clicks, switches and so on.

Genesis is the easiest way to get good looking, fast and secure website. Beginner may get lost but there is simple hooks plugin, right? 🙂

The only thing is that i think it isn’t necessary to learn theme development for using theme framework.

Excellent write up mate! This is an absolute great round up for both.

Personally, I would rather use a framework like Genesis as I am no developer. Doing these codes could easily make my mind go spinning and thus, I am able to find useful support especially in Genesis.

Nonetheless, thanks for sharing this lovely write.

Thanks mate.