Most popular & best WordPress themes

Do you use WordPress for your website or blog? It is one of the most famous and used CMS (content management system) worldwide. One of the main factors for which it is so well known, is the ease and the number of templates or themes that you can use to set up a simple website with WordPress. But, among all of them… What are the best WordPress themes?

It is clear that it is nice to have different options to choose from, but to a certain extent. There are times when, if we find too many, it can be an overwhelming situation and the choice becomes somewhat complicated. Here are the best WordPress templates or themes for different types of businesses to help you choose the right theme for your online store or blog.

And, just in case you don’t have much time to read, we summarize the whole post in a table with the themes we talk about, for what kind of sites we recommend them, their cost and their main advantages, so you can decide at a glance!

Best free WordPress themes…

Let’s start with the free themes for small and medium businesses or personal projects. The truth is that there are so many options in WordPress, you won’t necessarily have to pay for a theme, free themes offer very interesting options and look very professional.

Hello Elementor

This is a very lightweight native theme for the Elementor page builder. 

 

 

Its main features are…

• Prepared for accessibility.
• Customized colors.
• Customized logo.
• Custom menu.
• Featured images.
• Flexible header.
• RTL language support.
• Nested comments.
• Translation ready.

Other interesting facts about Hello Elementor...

• Last updated: July 11, 2022
• Active installations: +1 million
• WordPress version: 4.7 or higher
• PHP version: 5.6 or higher

GeneratePress

GeneratePress is a lightweight WordPress theme built with a focus on speed and usability. 

 

 

Its main features are…

• Blog.
• BuddyPress.
• Custom background.
• Custom colors.
• Custom header.
• Custom menu.
• Featured images.
• Flexible header.
• Footer widgets.
• Full width template.
• Left sidebar.
• Right sidebar.
• RTL language support.
• Fixed input.
• Theme options.
• Nested comments.
• Translation ready.

Other interesting facts about GeneratePress…

• Last updated: February 9, 2022
• Active Installations: 500,000+
• WordPress version: 5.2 or higher
• PHP version: 5.6 or higher

Astra

Astra is a fast, fully customizable and beautiful theme suitable for blogs, personal portfolios, business sites and WooCommerce online stores. It is very light (less than 50KB on the front page) and offers unparalleled speed. Very interesting if you want to boost your eCommerce Ads for WooCommerce.

 

 

Its main features are…

• Personalized colors.
• Custom logo.
• Custom menu.
• Style editor.
• Featured images.
• Full width template.
• Left and right sidebar.
• Microformats
• One or two columns. 
• Input formats.
• RTL language support.
• Nested comments.
• Translation ready.

Other interesting facts about Astra…

• Last update: September 7, 2022
• Active installations: +1 million
• WordPress version: 5.3 or higher
• PHP version: 5.3 or higher

Storefront

Storefront is the perfect theme for your next WooCommerce project. Designed and developed by WooCommerce core developers, it features deep integration with the WooCommerce plugin, as well as many of the extensions for that platform. It has several color and structure options for you to customize your store, several widget zones, responsive design and much more. 

 

 

Its main features are…

• Prepared for accessibility.
• Personalized background.
• Custom colors.
• Custom header.
• Custom menu.
• Style editor.
• Featured images.
• Footer widgets.
• Full width template.
• Left sidebar and right sidebar.
• RTL language support.
• Nested comments.

Other interesting facts about Storefront…

• Last updated: August 24, 2022
• Active Installations: 200,000+
• PHP version: 5.6.0 or higher

Inspiro

Inspiro is a professional and lightweight WordPress theme focused on photography and video with a modern design. Packed with features, including a fullscreen area that supports Vimeo, YouTube and self-hosted background video, integration with page layouts, Inspiro is perfect for showcasing your photography and video portfolio.

 

 

Its main features are…

• Block editor patterns.
• Block editor styles.
• Custom background.
• Custom colors.
• Custom header.
• Custom logo.
• Custom menu.
• Style editor.
• Header image.
• Featured images.
• Flexible header.
• Footer widgets.
• Full width template.
• RTL language support.
• Nested comments.
• Translation ready.

Other interesting facts about Inspiro…

• Last updated: August 23, 2022
• Active installations: 50,000+
• WordPress version: 5.3 or higher
• PHP version: 7.2 or higher

ColibriWP

Colibri is a beautiful, extremely customizable theme that you can use to create an amazing website. It comes with a pre-designed homepage, 5 header layouts and 35+ ready-to-use content blocks that you can easily customize. You can also design your own blocks by combining more than 25 components. It has many customization options (background video, slideshow background, header content types, etc.) that will help you create a standout website in no time.

 

 

Its main features are…

• Personalized header.
• Personalized logo.
• Custom menu.
• Featured images.
• Full width template.
• Grid or column layout. 
• Nested comments.
• Translation ready.

Other interesting facts about ColibriWP…

• Last updated: May 24, 2022
• Active Installations: 60,000+
• PHP version: 5.6 or higher

OceanWP

OceanWP is the perfect theme for your project. Lightweight and very extensible, it allows you to create any type of site, such as a blog, portfolio, corporate website or WooCommerce store with a beautiful and professional design. Very fast, responsive, RTL and translation ready, SEO best practices, unique features to improve WooCommerce conversions and much more. 

 

 

Its main features are…

• Accessibility ready.
• Block editor styles.
• BuddyPress.
• Custom background.
• Custom colors.
• Custom menu.
• Style editor.
• Featured images.
• Footer widgets.
• Full width template.
• RTL language support.
• Nested comments.
• Translation ready.

Other interesting facts about OceanWP…

• Last updated: September 14, 2022
• Active Installations: 700,000+
• WordPress version: 5.6 or higher
• PHP version: 7.2 or higher

Best paid WordPress themes

Next, we’ll talk about the premium themes that we like the most, because if your project is longer term, you need special features or capabilities, or it’s something very professional and specific,you might need a more prominent theme that has a more unique design and look and make your site stand out a little more.

Kayn

Kayn will showcase your work the way you’ve always wanted. With tons of layout designs and rich theme options, you’ll create your website in minutes, it’s well organized and visually stunning. You’ll find a basic version for $25 (a one-time fee) and an extended version that costs $60 (also a one-time fee). After the image you will find the main features of this paid WordPress theme.

 

 

The main features of Kayn are…

•  One-click demo import
•  GDPR Compliance
• Responsive & Retina Ready
• 1,2,3,4 grid layout… Columns
•  800+ Google Fonts
• Unlimited colors  
• SEO Optimization
• Speed optimization
• Translation ready
• Integrated ACF Pro
• Featured blog links (promotion boxes)
• Contact Form 7 support
• Image and text logos
• Instagram widget area
• MailPoet integration
• Left and right sidebars
• Advanced header background
• Advanced WooCommerce
• Advanced Post Options
• Advanced Page Options
• Post format support
• Post Sharing Icons
• 4x Different Pagination
• MailChimp Integration
• JetPack integration
•  Kayn Pro Widgets
• Support for popular plugins
• WP Recipe Maker support
• Theme preview

Neubau

Neubau is an artistic theme for blogs and magazines with an unusual and fresh design. With a single template or theme you will pay $19, and to download the whole gallery of templates or themes, you will have to pay $39.

 

 

The main features of Neubau are…

• Documentation: it offers detailed documentations and video tutorials for the various options, in order to give you a step-by-step guide on how to set up your theme. 
• Import demos: in case you don’t want to start your website completely from scratch, you can use the One Click Demo Imports plugin to easily import the live demo of the theme. 
• Updates: all Neubau themes are compatible with the latest version of WordPress and are regularly updated. 
• Support: if you have any questions about a theme, you can always ask Neubau theme support.

EcoCoded

A theme used by more than 4 million people… There must be a reason, right? EcoCoded themes are specialized in SEO, high conversion and lightweight code. They are one of the easiest to use and configure on the market. They have three pricing plans with different features each.

 

 

EcoCoded Premium

• One-time purchase
• $29
• Support for 1 domain
• Access to 4 child themes
• 1 month of Premium updates
• 1 month of Premium support

Business Subscription

• Annual renewal
• $69
• Support for an unlimited number of domains
• Access to 39 Premium Themes
• Access to 93 child themes
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• Priority feature requests
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• Unlimited Premium Upgrades
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• Unlimited Premium Support

Lifetime access

• One-time purchase
• $149
• Unlimited domain support
• Access to 39 Premium Themes
• Access to 93 child themes
• Access to all Premium plugins
• Priority feature requests
• Unlimited Premium Upgrades
• Unlimited Premium Support

Foodica

Foodica is the perfect theme for creating blogs, magazines, and recipe websites, i.e. any food-based website. Ten color schemes, recipe index, a beautiful featured slider and WooCommerce integration, we can see that Foodica is packed with features to help you stand out in the industry – and it has a new integration with Elementor!

You’ll be able to choose from three plans:

• Personal for $69/year.
• Professional/business for $179 one-time payment.
• All Themes Pack for $99

The main features of Foodica are…

• Theme options panel: advanced theme options panel, with which you can easily change every detail of the theme to better suit your needs.
• Responsive & Retina Ready: the design of this theme automatically adapts to fit any screen resolution on desktop and mobile devices (iPhone, iPad).
• 6 color schemes: Foodica includes 6 color schemes: pink, dark, yellow, blue, dark green and light green.
• Multiple banner ad zones: 4 banner placements where you can insert your ads, including Google Adsense.

Eimear

Eimear is an accessibility-ready WordPress theme, 100% GPL licensed, ideal for presenting your electronics website in a stylish, modern, inclusive and unique way. With full support for drag and drop WordPress Block Editor. The price is $80.

 

The main characteristics of Eimear are…

• Accessibility and Inclusion
• WordPress theme fully prepared for accessibility
• Compatible with keyboards and screen readers
• Sufficient color contrast
• Content area and typography optimized for readability
• Responsive, adapts to any device
• Multilingual support with RTL language support
• Mobile-first and optimized readability approach
• Complete and comprehensive WYSIWYG experience with drag-and-drop WordPress Gutenberg block editor (no need for page builders)
• Simple megamenu functionality included (with full-width megamenu support!)
• 100% WooCommerce plugin compatible, with elegant store and product pages
• 6 product gallery layouts
• Optimized reading experience
• Compatible with Jetpack plugin content options for greater display control
• Real-time quick preview of theme option changes

• Custom content width settings
• Support for all Google fonts for typography settings
• Integrated directly into the WordPress customizer with option pointers and partial update for easier and faster use
• Language support
• Compatible with Polylang plugin to create multilingual websites
• Compatible with Loco Translate plugin
• Right-to-left language (RTL) support (RTL demo preview)
• Compatible with Beaver Builder, Elementor and WPBakery Page Builder drag-and-drop plugins (actually, the theme is compatible with any page builder plugin out of the box)
• Use any slider plugin if needed, like Slider Revolution, Smart Slider 3, LayerSlider,….
• Compatible with any form plugin, such as Gravity Forms, Caldera Forms, Contact Form 7, WPForms, Ninja Forms…

Divi

And our last recommended WordPress theme, but not least, is Divi, a theme that more than a theme, is a completely new website building platform, which replaces the standard WordPress post editor with a far superior visual editor. You can enjoy it whether you are a design professional or a beginner in this web building thing, giving you the power to create spectacular designs with amazing ease and efficiency. You have two payment options, either $89 per year, or $249 in a single lifetime payment.

 

The main features of Divi are…

• Drag and drop construction: add, remove and move elements on the front-end of your website. No coding and no confusing back-end options.
• Visual editing: design your page in real time and see the results instantly. Create and customize your pages using intuitive visual controls.
• Custom CSS: developers can easily combine Divi’s visual design controls with their own custom CSS.
• Responsive editing: Building responsive websites is easy. Divi is responsive by nature and also gives you full control over how your website looks on mobile devices.
• Design options: enjoy dozens of unique page elements and thousands of design options. Divi gives you full control over your website design.
• Online text editing: Just click and start typing! Editing your page has never been easier. Write pages on the front end and see the results instantly as you type.
• Layout management: Save and manage an unlimited number of custom layouts.