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I bought a theme.
I liked the layout. (Not a Wordpress theme, this is not a Wordpress site.) What I don't like is the lack of step-by-step instructions.
Newbies need more hand-holding.
These theme companies could do a much better job for beginners of guiding newbies through the process of configuring their custom themes.
Free links to the theme company's website.
My purpose was not to inadvertently promote the theme company; however, if one does nothing but import their theme, then that is exactly what one is doing, setting up a new blog with background links to the company that issued the theme.
So, the company I used was soratemplates.com. This is NOT an affiliate link. This is 'call them out' link, lol. I suspect that most themes do this.
Xenu Link Checker is a great website detective.
One of the tools I use is Xenu. There are other link checkers, but I've been using Xenu for years. So, I ran Xenu on my newly created website to track-down from whence I was loading things.
I had expected to see that I was loading things (pages, posts, graphics, etc.) from my local Google Drive. (Blogger makes use of Google infra-structure.)
I was surprised to find lots of my new site components being loaded from soratemplates. This is a recommendation to theme companies that they not do this. By the power of Greyskull and other ancient Saturday morning cartoons, I command thee, stop doing free advertising by cluttering up your theme with links to yourself. I'm sure they care.
