Support Terms of Use

We’re super grateful to have you as a customer of Flothemes. We’re also committed to helping you achieve success with the use of our themes. To get the most use out of our support, you should first review our support terms and conditions to make sure you’re in the right place for support. On the following page you’ll find out more about the following:

Support Overview
Support Channels
Support Period
What is included in Support
Support limits

1. Support Overview

The following section we explain the terms of what is deemed support and what falls under support assistance:

Guidance in choosing right theme and services for your needs.
Explanation and help to achieve the demo output or questions on how to achieve a specific layout (using the product’s available options).
Answer to your specific questions about the features and functionality of the item.
Help you with issues related to using the item and getting the most value out of its functionality.
Bug fixes and help with defects.

Flothemes provides support for its own products only. We do not provide support for third party products or services, nor do we provide support for our own products when obtained through third parties. Our products are provided as is. We include numerous page layouts, blocks, custom functionality and options to our themes, which allows you to build various pages and layouts. We do not provide support with additional customization, nor do we guarantee that our products will be compatible with third party software, plugins or services. It is your responsibility to obtain a backup of your site prior to requesting support or granting access to support staff. We hold no liability for users that have not taken the necessary steps to maintain an active and up to date backup of their site. We are always here to listen, and adding new features and improvements to themes is important to us. On a regular basis we launch theme updates based on community feedback and market trends. Please submit any feature requests and feedback here.

2. Support Channels

There are various methods to contact Flothemes for support:

Documentation
Tickets

Many support queries and technical questions will already be answered in supporting documentation, it is the quickest method to find what you’re after. We highly recommend reviewing the documentation before submitting a ticket. You can also leave feedback on any article letting us know where we can improve. The more feedback we receive the better and easier we can make your Flothemes experience. You can find full documentation for our themes here. Flothemes Facebook community group is also a great channel to get quick support from thousands of existing users, ask how to’s and other advice. Note that is is a community group and we encourage you to help each other. We are under no obligation to respond to requests here. If after consulting with documentation and Facebook community, you can not find a solution to your issue, you can contact Support Team by submitting a ticket. Note that our Support team is available Mon-Fri, 7 AM to 6 PM EST. Our average response time is between 12 and 48 hours, and no more than 48 hours, during business days. During the busy season due to the number of tickets the response time limit is 64 hours.

3. Support period

To receive support for your products, one (or several) of the 3 following cases have to apply:

You have an active Theme Subscription
You have an active Support Subscription
You have a one time purchase Theme procured in the last 12 months.

We provide support for all themes as long as the current subscription is active, or in case of one time purchases, for 12 months from the theme’s purchase date.

All themes will also receive updates to be compatible with WordPress for up to 6 months after the theme is removed from our product line.

While theme license is for life for one time purchases, the theme’s lifespan is guaranteed by Flothemes for up to 18 months from the official creation release date, which is noted on the product page. You can still use your theme after this period until your hosting provider requirements will outgrow in 2-3 years.

4. What is included in Support

Flothemes provides support for its own products only. These include: Flexthemes (with exception Legacy and Classic themes) and Flo plugins. Support is performed for 12 months from the date of purchase for one time payment products. Subscription-based products will receive support as long as their package is active. The support offered includes bug fixes and help with defects throughout the whole support period. Additional customizations are no longer available for offering.

5. Support Limits

Whilst we aim to offer the best possible support to all clients, limits must be set in place to prevent abuse of our support system. The limits are related to the number of tickets lodged by an individual per month, and depending on the product you’re using, the number of allowed tickets varies from 10 to 30 tickets per month. Each support request should be lodged as a separate ticket.

5.1. What is not included with Support

Support limits are also related to what is not covered by Flothemes support team:

5.a. Theme/Item Setup and Customization

Support does not include services to modify or extend the item beyond the original features, style and functionality described on the item page. However we have additional customization services that will help you tailor the item to your specific requirements. We recommend getting in touch via ticket and one of our support staff will provide you with further details.

5.b. Technical Issues – Hosting

If your site is down or is not responding, contact your hosting provider for further details, we are not directly responsible for hosting related issues. If you’ve made an update to one of our themes and or plugins, and this causes an error with your site, please contact us directly via here.

5.c. Backups

We are not responsible for backups of your site. Please ensure you’ve taken the correct steps to maintain an up to date backup of your site offline and if possible online through your hosting company.

5.d. Technical Issues – Site Hacked

Please contact your hosting provider, or get in touch with services such as Sucuri who deal specifically with these issues. There are many reasons why this could have happened, WordPress vulnerabilities, out of date plugins, weak passwords, malware on your hardware etc.

5.e. Technical Issues – Emails

Having issues with your Flothemes Contact form, first refer to our documentation on contact form issues. If using a third party plugin for your contact form plugin, please contact the plugin provider for support. Still having issues with your form after reviewing the documentation, please submit a ticket.

5.f. Technical Issues – Browsers

Flothemes themes are up to date to be compatible with the latest 2 browser versions for Safari, Google Chrome and Firefox. Support does not cover issues related to outdated browser versions. It is recommended to update the version to ensure your digital product performs at its best capacity.

5.g. Technical Issues – Third Party Plugins

If using a third party plugin and there are issues, please contact the plugin provider for assistance. We are not liable for third party plugin integration and support. We do our best to integrate plugins with our themes, and you can see a list of recommended plugins here. These should work with our themes as standard. If not, please notify us. Debugging and resolving third party plugin issues will be a paid service. If you have recently installed a plugin and have had issues with your site, deactivate the new plugin, and clear your site / hosting cache. If you are still having issues continue to disable plugins one by one until you find the offending plugin.

Plugins affecting performance

Broken Link Checker — Overwhelms caching layers on servers with an inordinate amount of HTTP requests.
MyReviewPlugin — Slams the database with a fairly significant amount of writes.
LinkMan — Much like the MyReviewPlugin above, LinkMan utilizes an unscalable amount of database writes.
Fuzzy SEO Booster — Causes MySQL issues as a site becomes more popular.
WP PostViews — Inefficiently writes to the database on every page load.

Related Posts Plugins Almost all “Related Posts” plugins suffer from the same fundamental problems regarding MySQL, indexing, and search. These problems make the plugins extremely database intensive, slowing down your site:

Dynamic Related Posts
SEO Auto Links & Related Posts
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
Similar Posts
Contextual Related Posts

Other Plugins That aren’t Required

Hello Dolly! – add’s zero value to your site.
WP phpMyAdmin — Has a fairly major security issue.
Sweet Captcha – Sucuri revealed that the Sweet Captcha service was used to distribute adware.
EWWW Image Optimizer – While the original version can cause stress on the server to the point of negative impact, the Cloud version of the plugin located here is a great alternative that offloads the computing to the Cloud.
NextGen Gallery – conflicts with various theme functions.
Jetpack Photon Module – causes images to be bad quality.
W3 Total Cache – if incorrectly configured can cause issues with the site loading properly, or completely break the site. Simpler alternatives such as WP Super Cache work much better.

5. h. Styling of Visuals and Custom Fonts

We are not responsible for the styling of your site and/or adding of visuals and custom fonts. Adding custom fonts is very simple, and we’ve provided full documentation on how to do so for each theme. Documentation is also provided on how to set up each page template and the relevant options for this. Again if you feel documentation is lacking and need further assistance, please let us know.

5. i. Local Host Support

Without access to your site via an internet connection, we cannot help debug or resolve any issues you may be having whilst setting up your site on a local host machine. If you wish to receive support for any issues, make sure to use a live server that is hosted on the web.

Last updated 20th of September 2023.