Having used a couple of free themes recently i have become aware of the problems they can cause. One theme actualy installed a list of products for sale on one of my blogs pages and the other instance was a theme that carried heavy advertising with it. I suppose nothing is free, but i dont mind giving a percentage of any monies made with the use of a adsense plugin
Its first time when I hear about this, my favourite theme Amazing Grace didn`t had any problems like this, can you point out what themes have you used so the other bloggers stay away from them.
I am also hearing this for the first time. Infact its been one year since i have started using wordpress and i have never bought a new theme for my blog. My blog is running om free theme and its perfectly fine.
I dont know Why People Act stupid!! Do you know why Advertisements come along? not to break the template quality in Stylizing!! A screenshot with all ads and advertisements made you intrested to the particular theme and once you install it, you see BAMN!! And then you speak up loudly "This isnt the theme i saw!" The basic thing is, the designer manually finds up the most fit adsizes to his template and we can Change it and keeping the same size ads would make it Awsome! thats the tactics! ~Thanks~
I am using free theme for my site too, and i am so happy with it. It really depends on the theme you're using, if its from reliable source, then it will be just fine just my opinion.
i have seen a few theme which have added in their adsense code and have encoded the footer and all it requires is to change out the adsense and decode the footer, if you use the theme as is then leave the footer links in as someone has gone to the trouble to make the theme