Premium WordPress themes can fill the basic need of putting a face on your blog. Here are three things that make a premium (paid) WordPress theme worth the money, if you want to use your blog to do more than just gather virtual dust.
You may not realize it, but without a theme, WordPress displays a blank page. The theme is what gives your blog its face.
A good premium WordPress theme will make it easy to put your personality into your blog design. Since it’s best to get up and running now and make improvements as you go, a premium theme should allow you to make those changes easily. In addition, your theme should protect you from changes to the environment like updates to WordPress or to the theme itself.
A premium theme should allow you to get more exposure then you would get from an unpaid theme. A good premium WordPress theme will separate the actual content of your blog from the styling code. This makes it easier for Google to know what audience you are targeting with you blog and give your blog more exposure with that crowd. You get more traffic, hopefully more money and the premium theme pays for itself.
A third feature that a good premium WordPress theme should offer is outstanding support. Even better than phone support is a user supported forum where expert users almost compete to give you the quickest answers to any questions related to the theme.
The one WordPress theme that I have found that gives you all the benefits described above is the Thesis theme for WordPress.
I use on all my sites and highly recommend it.
On this blog, I have seen my articles indexed on Google literally within minutes. With each update the theme has become more feature-rich and easier to use.
I have even made videos on Thesis which I include in a membership site called Thesis Theme Magic
All I can say is that if you go with the Thesis theme, you won’t be sorry.