a) Currently if you purchase any of our themes, these come with free lifetime updates - so yes you will be able to upgrade to the v3.1 (and future) releases at no extra cost. We will soon be introducing an annual subscription fee, so if you make purchases after that is introduced then upgrades will be subject to an annual cost, however existing customers will continue to receive the free lifetime updates.
b) Yes, see above.
c) The only way the upgrade would effect an existing ClassiPress installation is if you have made a lot of code changes/customizations to the theme. In terms of ads, user data etc, this is not effected.
d) You can check both the
AppThemes Showcase as well as the "
Showcase& Feedback" section of our forums for live
customer sites.
The Photoshop .psd files are useful if you're planning to redesign the layout of the theme (mainly used by web designers). If you plan to keep to the general layout of the default theme then you probably won't need it. These files are the only difference between the Standard and Developer licenses. Also note, if you purchased Standard and decided later to upgrade to Developer, you could always do that anyway..