RKissane and behzad - I am really pleased that you raised the issue of updates to plug-ins to Wordpress a lot of clients ask for wordpress but have no concept of its limitations in terms of customisation or the potential impact of updates and potential consequential loss of functionality or cost to resolve.

The vast majority of my sites are built with Xara and I find it excellent in terms of producing exactly the look you want but am equally frustrated by the use of variants.

Suppose there is no real one size fits all.