Why Bye Bye Mistique Theme from My Blog?
Astonished to find ICT Trends in new look again? Change brings freshness. I hope you’ll like this new look.
Yes I liked that Mystique theme. It was rich in feature, attractive in design and most customizable. There was some problem right since I installed it. I could not use the ‘Featured Content’ on the template. I thought it’s OK, as I don’t need to flash featured yet. I turned them on, whatever aspects were possible to activate, and I was satisfied. Thanked the developers of Mystique theme for WordPress.
Why I Selected Mystique for WordPress?
- It has high contrast color designs. Bright gray page evolves from the deep dark background.
- Provides option to apply two images for header – background and site logo. This enables you to give perfectly unique look for your blog.
- Supports two column, three column with different combination. You can configure one sidebar on the left and another on the right. Provides option to specify the width of each sidebars.
- Can be implemented for fixed width blog as well as fluid width blogs.
- Contains tabbed sidebar widget with nice effects
- Ready Ads implementation. Just paste the Ad Codes and use anywhere by using shortcode like [ad code=number]
- Supports threaded comment. Shows Comments and track-backs in different tab in comment area.
Making long list short, it had everything I needed. Above all it was completely FREE. There was no forceful request to link back to the developer (http://digitalnature.ro). Is there any reason I shouldn’t be tempted to use this theme for my personal blog?
Why I had to quit Mystique theme?
It was enjoying for all these days and reflected the cosy luxury with Mystique. It was since last few weeks I started to face issues. Some of the post page turned into blank when viewed on frontende when it was perfectly OK on administrator screen. Immediately after publishing the post would load completely on the browser and when loading completed the browser is empty again and the devil circle on the Firefox tab keeps on revolving for ever. It does not happen for all the posts. Most often everything is fine but only to some random post it will always turn blank on every browser. To overcome this problem I tried different things:
- Disabled all the plugins but problem was still there. (I traced it was not due to any pluggin)
- Created new post and pasted all the text from infected one into new and deleted the old one. But even new post could not load. (It was not due to the URL of post)
- Deleted everything from the post and made it empty post but I could not succeed. (I traced it was not due to any script or object embedded on the post)
- Disabled ‘Use Jquery’ option on Theme Settings page. (This time the post loaded completely and did not turn blank)
- Reinstalled the theme and updates many times.
I thought the problem is traced. Still, Mystique without Jquery, it was everything pale. The site looked suffering from sluggishness. All the attractive effects were lost. Comments section used to display all the comments and track-backs in two tabs but now the track-back tab is nowhere. There was a twitter bird and RSS button which would pop up from below the bar, now its sick and can’t stand up. I was totally confused and tried to look for solution. Made lots of googling. Read everything I could from forums. I was in dismay!
To make the matter worse, after some days, the same problem repeated when I post a new article. This time, ‘Use Jquery’ was already turned off. So it is not the cause anymore. What was that devil inside to engulf all my article? The pain did not stop just here. I got most irritation when I could not edit the theme settings. After making any change on settings and Save, Damn! its just wrangling to the frontend home page with same URL on address bar.
Now, there remain no option. I could not go though the every bits of code. I wish if they had a bit better support. So finally decided to move to a new theme. Lets hope, it won’t repeat anymore!
19 Responses to “Why Bye Bye Mistique Theme from My Blog?”
Ileane @ Ms. Ileane Speaks
Twitter: Ileane
on May 14, 2010
This theme is great! It’s very easy on the eyes and I think it will improve your engagement level. Good move.
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Suresh Khanal
Twitter: icttrends
on May 14, 2010
Thanks Ileane for good words. I’m not very choosy or I don’t know better how to choose. I hope it work better.
Omer Greenwald
Twitter: WebTechWise
on May 14, 2010
Suresh, your new theme is definitely better then the previous one. It looks more professional, clean and also very important – user friendly. Another thing I like is your social media buttons at the top and beneath each post.
Congrats!
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Tek3D
Twitter: Tek3D
on May 14, 2010
I can guarantee this is a great decision. Mistique Theme is too common, I can see many many blogs are using it. Your new theme looks much more professional and clearer than the old one.
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Suresh Khanal
Twitter: icttrends
on May 14, 2010
Thank you Omer and Tek for your reviews. One good thing about this theme is that I need not install too many plugins. Just Platinum SEO and a few security plugins. Rest everything are built in.
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Rocky on May 14, 2010
Nice theme suresh..
simple and beautiful.. i liked it
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Chase Mann on May 14, 2010
I had the same issue with Firefox and Google Chrome with this new theme. I could only get it to open in Safari. I think you might have been infected or hacked or something
Kevin@ShootingtheBreeze
Twitter: KevinMartineau
on May 14, 2010
I love the new look Suresh! It looks fantastic!
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Imran Yousaf
Twitter: bloggingjunkie
on May 14, 2010
Nice change Suresh.I am seeing multi tab side widget use in your blog. Great Job, cuz changing theme is time consuming job.
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Discount Printing Services on May 15, 2010
Theme is very important. If you don’t have a good theme then you will lose readers that judge a book by its cover. Don’t be that site. It’s not good to keep changing theme though, if you found one that works for you, keep it. So that people won’t be confused. When I got here I was like, am I in the right site? lol But it’s pretty nice.
Baba Pandey on May 16, 2010
The Current theme is far better than the previous one. It is looking professional and clean.
Suresh Khanal
Twitter: icttrends
on May 16, 2010
Thank you Baba for the appreciation. I believe it will do better.
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crazyblogger on June 15, 2010
I love this theme very much. I would love to use this theme in my blog as well. What is the name of this theme? Can you send me the link to download this theme?
deneme on June 16, 2010
can guarantee this is a great decision. Mistique Theme is too common, I can see many many blogs are using it.
Bill Wynne
Twitter: billtwynne
on October 16, 2010
I see some people think that Mystique is too common and it is getting used more and more because it is so powerful.
I have never had any problems with Mystique. Any glitch normally comes from updating a plugin.
Here are a couple sites that I used Mystique on but I don't think you would know it.
If you are willing to really work with the css and graphics you can have a unique look with all the power of Mystique.
http://www.mariannawynne.com
http://www.revitalizebeautifulskin.com
http://www.maxperformanceteam.com
Those are two of the many sites I have up with the Mystique theme. You see it is not the common black.
Cheers
Leah Rae
Twitter: SEObyELC
on November 4, 2010
I'm sorry to hear that you had so many problems with Mystique. I haven't had any issues beyond the last WordPress update caused it to crash completely. But, it's a free template so I can't get too upset, I got what I paid for
joy at editing and proofreading on December 28, 2010
Good that somebody is honest and subjective in observations.
It saves time fore the rest of us.
Yemek Tarifleri on May 2, 2011
Very well said indeed. Regards !
PTB Support on September 1, 2011
I always find that spending a modest amount on a commercial blog theme (like one from themeforest – google it) can reap dividends.
I’ve used these before on pretty much all the blogs I’ve setup for me and for friends as they always look fantastic.
Gives a great first impression….
Tony.