Keywords: web designer, website development

Web designers have plenty of options to use while making a website, for instance, cracked/nulled themes, plug ins or they can purchase premium ones. Mainly they go with the free ones and resultantly putting their websites on major risk. They might be good for small scale websites but for the bigger projects they prove to be disastrous.

What are nulled plugins and themes?

Use of several themes and plug-ins are used to improve user experience. Providing a good user experience is an integral part of website development. There are three types of them i.e. web, free, paid, and freemium. The nulled ones are cracked versions of paid themes and plugins. These cracked versions can harm the website and cause several security risks.

So are WordPress nulled themes and plugins illegal?

The cracked themes and plugins are available under a general public license. It means that they are available for everyone to download and use. All they have to do is attach GPL licensed software. So, downloading and using the nulled themes and plug-ins are not illegal. It is the reason why so many web designers are using them.

Why you must not use free and nulled themes and plugins

During website development using nulled themes and plug-ins attracts a lot of designers as it will save them high value of money. But later on they regret on their decision due to putting their websites at huge security risks. The main reason behind this is that these themes and plug-ins are developed by third party.

Top reasons to avoid nulled plugins and themes

Denied access to updates

The updates are very important to help fix bugs, improve security and add new features to the website. However, the nulled plugins and themes don’t get any updates. Since you get no updates, the quality of your website starts deteriorating with time. The issues increase several folds if the website is performance-driven.

Restricted documentation access

Documentations of WordPress plugins are very significant even for the veteran designers. They dictate us about how to install and plugins along with using the. However, in case of nulled version there is not any documentation and all the responsibility falls on your shoulders.

Access to new features

Usage of nulled version does not add new features to the themes and plugins like WordPress. In this way there is a high risk of lacking new features and inability of website to perform up to the mark. Moreover, we cannot update WordPress.

Legal problems

Even though the nulled themes and plugins are distributed under an open license yet there are some setbacks. There might be some parts of it that are under copyright protection. You will have to find it out before downloading the nulled theme or plugin. Moreover, they will put your website at risk of data theft, loss, and illegal distribution which will have a lot of negative impacts.

SEO might hurt

There are some spam links in nulled themes and plugins. Web designers cannot find them. However, search engines are capable of finding them. Due to this, the ranking of the website will starts to drop.