Title: theme vs html template + developer fixes?
Last modified: August 15, 2020

---

# theme vs html template + developer fixes?

 *  [ricborro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ricborro/)
 * (@ricborro)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-vs-html-template-developer-fixes/)
 * I’m building a product review website where I’ll be reviewing products in different
   categories. I have ecommerce experience (I’ve built a few Shopify websites), 
   but I’m new to WP.
    I’m trying to figure out the best way to build the website.
   I want it to be easy to use (make small changes, writing posts etc) but also 
   very fast and SEO friendly. I’m debating between purchasing a fully developed
   theme (I like ReHub) and purchasing an HTML template (ReHub is available in this
   format too). In the latter option, I would then hire a developer on upwork to
   customize the site.
 * My question is: which option is better based on your experience, and why? Is 
   any of the two better for ranking the website? Or easier to edit-maintain given
   my experience?
    NOTE: price is not an issue.
 * Thanks!
    -  This topic was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/).
      Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Developing with WordPress
      topic
    -  This topic was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/).
      Reason: subject de-capped, no shouting please

The topic ‘theme vs html template + developer fixes?’ is closed to new replies.

## Tags

 * [html](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/html/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 0 replies
 * 1 participant
 * Last reply from: [ricborro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ricborro/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-vs-html-template-developer-fixes/)
 * Status: not resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics