Dividend Theme Review: Withdrawn, and What to Buy Instead
The verdict: Dividend is no longer sold. MyThemeShop’s catalogue is now down to eight products and Dividend is not one of them; its old product address lands on the Schema theme instead. If you came here wanting a magazine or deals theme for WordPress, buy CSSIgniter’s Public Opinion: $34.30 for the first year, unlimited websites, and a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Why Public Opinion is the replacement
Public Opinion does the job Dividend was bought for. It is a magazine theme with a flexible header and footer builder, reusable Global Sections, WooCommerce support, and blocks for both the WordPress editor and Elementor. Version 1.3.3 was last touched in February 2024, and CSSIgniter is still actively selling and supporting it, which is more than can be said for most of the 2017 magazine themes still being reviewed online.
Four ways to buy it, all covering unlimited websites, all with the 30-day guarantee:
- Public Opinion on its own: $34.30 for the first year, normally $49.
- Standard Club: $48.30 for the first year, normally $69, which opens up the whole theme library.
- Developer Club: $55.30 for the first year, normally $79.
- Lifetime Club: $174.30 one-off, normally $249.
Prices checked September 2026.
If you only want one theme, take the single-theme licence. If you build sites for other people, the club pays for itself on the second project. We go into more detail in our Public Opinion review.
What about Schema, since that is where Dividend’s link now points?
Schema is MyThemeShop’s surviving flagship and it is genuinely fast, but its changelog stopped in October 2021 and its own product page claims compatibility only up to a WordPress version that is already behind. Our Schema theme review sets out the case in full. For a site you are starting now, a maintained theme is worth more than a fast frozen one.
What Dividend offered
This section is for people who already own Dividend and want to know what they have, or who are deciding whether to migrate.
Dividend was a multipurpose magazine and deals theme. Its distinguishing feature was a custom post type for deals, with call-to-action buttons and expiry dates built in, which made it a reasonable base for a coupon or offers site without extra plugins. It shipped four homepage layouts, three sliders and carousels, four pagination types, parallax scrolling, off-canvas mobile navigation, unlimited colour and background options, WooCommerce support, translation readiness, and AdSense-oriented ad placements.
It leaned on MyThemeShop’s own plugin stack: the Theme/Plugin Updater, WP Review, WP Shortcode and WP Tab Widget. That dependency is now the practical problem with keeping the theme. A withdrawn theme whose companion plugins are also withdrawn will drift out of compatibility with WordPress and PHP, and no one will be issuing a fix.
The theme options panel
Configuration happened in MyThemeShop’s own options panel rather than the WordPress customizer, so you could not preview changes live. The panel covered general settings, performance, styling, header, footer, homepage, single posts, deals, social buttons, ad management, sidebars and typography, with 17 standard font sets plus the Google Fonts library.
Dividend also included a one-click demo importer offering three levels of import: theme options only, options plus widgets, or options, widgets and demo content. Four demo layouts were available: Default, Deals, Minimal and Magazine.
Social sharing
Sharing buttons could be placed above the content, below it, or floating alongside, and could be enabled for pages as well as posts. A second set of icons sat in the header.
If you already run Dividend
Nothing breaks the day a theme is withdrawn. What you lose is the update path, so plan a migration on your own timetable rather than under pressure. Export your content, stand up a maintained magazine theme on a staging copy, and move across before a WordPress or PHP release forces the issue.
Our roundups of viral WordPress themes for magazine sites and blog themes that are still on sale are both written around what can actually be bought today, which is the only useful way to shortlist a replacement.
