WordPress has the distinct honor of being a highly configurable Content Management System (CMS), which was originally designed to address the needs of bloggers but eventually evolved into a platform that accommodates plugins and design widgets – adding not only aesthetic value, but also functionality.

There are numerous premium WP Themes available on the Web designers’ market, including ones that ThemeForest offers, and it can be difficult to pinpoint the optimum one – especially when people’s needs and business demands are constantly evolving. In addition, technology continues to develop, creating additional themes which better respond to changing user needs.

When it comes to content, it’s  no longer sufficient to use random, non-thematic images or to have a wall of text populating a website. To attract traffic, additional multimedia such as video and audio, links and quotes are often made a part of the site’s content. The text has also been given a fresh treatment and the more concise the text is, the better it engages the site’s users. Finally, design elements are sharper – reflecting the fast development of design technology.

Here are some of the best premium WordPress themes for 2020, categorized according to their specific and relative fields and yours for grabs! This latest collection of the best WordPress themes has recently been updated and includes some exciting new additions.

UPDATED – January 1st, 2020

We’ve updated the collection of best recent WordPress templates, adding popular themes and removing some outdated ones.

Divi – Multipurpose WordPress Theme

Category: Multi-purpose (special events, portfolio, business, special interests, eCommerce, IM)

Although Divi could be regarded as a multi-purpose premium WP theme, it’s especially recommended for use for life marker events such as weddings, or special interest sites such as those created for parenting advice and tips. It’s also excellent for promoting products and services through its custom post types. This theme has two homepage layouts available, together with multi-page templates.

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The X Theme – Multipurpose Template

Category: eCommerce, Business, Portfolio, Gallery

It’s called the X Theme and they’re dubbing it as the theme of 2020 – combining elements of premium design and functionality, enabling you to create unlimited websites using the same core theme. Introduced in early 2014, the theme became an instant success in the Themeforest marketplace receiving positive reviews by many high profile internet marketers. The X Theme really has it all! Check out the 30 demos they’ve created by visiting the preview below.

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Boundless – Multipurpose WordPress Theme

Category: eCommerce, Business, Portfolio, Gallery

Boundless is a modern layout with parallax effects. Utilizing the power of HTML5 and CSS3, it brings you a beautiful design with an extremely lightweight code, which enables fast loading times. The Revolution slider will astonish your visitors, and you’ll be amazed by its numerous features: animations, custom icons, pricing tables, and much more.

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Total –  Drag & Drop Template

Category: Page builder, Multipurpose

BeTheme Multipurpose WordPress Template

Category: Multipurpose, Portfolio, Business,  Photography

BeTheme is a modern multipurpose theme with a responsive and very beautiful design. When we say multi purpose, we mean it! BeTheme is perhaps one of the most complete themes and gives you a large array of options for building your next website. One indication of this is that over 55 different demos are included on purchase of the theme. A sample of the subjects included in the demos are: charity, loans, business, vet, author, DJ, restaurant, portfolio – and much more! This theme is extremely popular on Themeforest and receives rave reviews for design, functionality and support.

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Inspiro

Category:  Portfolio, Video

An overpowering website template design can be extremely harmful to a brand. The Inspiro portfolio theme enables your work to speak for itself with a modern photo and video-focused design that is brimming with custom features like a full screen slideshow, gallery module, and support for YouTube and self-hosted background videos. You can even sell your work using the included shopping cart functionality.

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Nexus Modern Magazine Layout

Category: Blog, News, Corporate

A versatile magazine styled template with numerous content modules, short-codes and styles allowing you to fully control your theme’s front & back end easily. Created by the brilliant guys over at Elegant Themes, Nexus makes it simple to blog a great amount of content in a magazine, hassle-free style, which in addition to old print-style design, brings edge to the table. With a grid layout, responsiveness and abundance of features, Nexus is the ultimate choice for a magazine type website.

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Infinite

Category: Blog, Portfolio

Infinite from GoodLayers is a theme that the company refers to as a new secret weapon. The reason for this probably lies in just how dynamic and powerful the template is. With the help of a page builder, users can fully customize the website of their dreams with 14 blog layouts, nine portfolio layouts, and six gallery layouts. SEO-optimized and responsive, the theme truly provides everything you need to wipe out the competition.

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Fashion Stormer eCommerce

Category:  Fashion, Multipurpose, Trending

Classy and modern, the Fashion Stormer eCommerce theme is great for creatives who are lured by the appeal of minimalist design. The retina-ready and responsive theme comes with six demos from which you can take inspiration. Other theme features include a revolution slider with double exposure and film strip effects, Google web fonts, unlimited color customization, and six different gallery types.

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Photocrati

Category: Photography, Portfolio, Gallery

Photocrati is a leading theme platform specializing in the photography niche. It provides a platform of themes & templates which include a built-in gallery system, a photography options panel and much more. Ideal for photographers and highly customizable, Photocrati has a great record! Check out the multiple demos by clicking below.

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Uncode

Category:  Performance, Creative

Although created in 2015, Uncode was recently revamped and re-introduced in late June 2016, featuring pixel perfect creative theme with amazing attention to detail. Being a top seller among the 30 all-timers on ThemeForest, this theme boasts 30+ pre-made concepts for you to choose from. With advanced grid, enhanced Visual Composer and a selection of pre made templates, no surprise it’s a favorite of ours – so check it out.  

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Bridge – Creative MP WordPress Theme

Category:  Creative, Multipurpose, Trending

Bridge is a leading WP layout currently leading the top 5 templates on ThemeForest. The unique twist of multi purpose features with a creative touch is surely refreshing! Add to this the ability to choose from 100 pre made demos, having 24 design concepts, 84 professionally made shortcodes and all the necessities – great support & documentation, responsiveness and much more.

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Underwood

Category: Blog, Creative

Bold and masculine, Underwood is a modern blog theme that is strong but not bloated. Users can choose from three different homepage layouts and nine custom post formats. Built on Bootstrap, the template loads quicks, is secure, and has fewer bugs than average. It can be customized using the native, beginner-friendly WordPress customizer and can handle all of your favorite plugins and features.

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Mozzy – Premium Portfolio & Blog Template

Category: Portfolio, Creative, Business

A stunning, simple portfolio & blog theme from the creators of CSSigniter. Enjoy multiple options on your portfolio dashboard and be sure to use the flexible homepage, which allows you to modify your website’s look in no time at all, while choosing column numbers, layout, contact forms and so much more. Grab a look and enjoy a full range theme company which offers a $39 bundle.

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Inception – Multipurpose Portfolio Theme

Category: Portfolio, One page, Corporate

Inception is the perfect one-page portfolio theme, with beautiful CSS3 animations, smooth section transitions, a customizable footer, and Google Maps integration. All of this means that you can easily showcase yourself and your business, regardless of whether it’s online or offline. And with its beautiful design, Inception is a theme that will leave a fantastic and lasting first impression on your visitors.

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The Nordic

Category: Creative, Portfolio

Part e-commerce store, part portfolio – the Nordic theme is every inch an online talent-showcasing tool. On the left you’ll find a variety of functional categories that can be customized to suit you, and in the center you’ll be able to exhibit exactly what you do, in style! It’s a fully responsive website that utilizes Ajax effects to their fullest – making it easy to achieve an interactive website that simply oozes staying power!

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Domino Magazine

Category: Magazine

The internet has been a boon for those looking to get into the news industry and with a theme like Domino Magazine, you, too, can create a site that commands respect from even the most skeptical of readers. This highly customizable template offers unique widgets like a Breaking News scroll, a spacious layout that delivers a ton of content above the fold, and a responsive design that can be viewed on any screen.

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Impreza 3.4 – With Exclusive Header Builder

Category: Retina, eCommerce, Multipurpose

Impreza is a multipurpose theme brought to you by UpSolution, a “Power Elite Author” from the Envato community. With close to 15,000 sales, 4.8 start average review and boasting comments from the community, this theme rocks the charts with it’s simplicity and elegancy. The layout is clean and comes with various add-on options, including the free trial option, where you actually migrate a website to test the template before purchasing. The theme will suit any photography, portfolio, store and corporate site easily and comes with pre-made templates to choose from.

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New York

Category: Blog, Magazine, Store

 

Asgard

Category: Magazine / Blog

Asgard is a template the supports multiple authors which makes it ideal for news and magazine-style blogs. The Wiloke Widgets Plugin is included and gives you access to 11 different widgets that you can use to customize your sidebar. It’s also powered by Visual Composer so you can build pages by dragging and dropping the elements you want onto the page. You have six different blog layouts and the template is fully responsive.

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The Abundance – eCommerce Store

Category: eCommerce, Store

If we had to choose a particular theme that does exactly what it’s supposed to, without the need to customize anything beyond the logo and images – it’s the Abundance theme. As far as portfolio templates go, this template should definitely be perched somewhere near the top of them. Where this theme really stands out from the crowd is in its ability to feature no fewer than 5 different slideshows. That’s a whole load of portfolio space for someone hoping to publicize what they do best! It also features HTML 5 support too – making it even easier for programmers to strut their stuff.

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Skylab Design

Category: Design, Minimal, Photography 

Beyond its pretty cool name, Skylab certainly has the features to back up its functionality. The demo neatly portrays a fashion photographer’s work; but there’s really no reason why any type of photographer couldn’t enjoy the benefits. The images can be customized, the design simply oozes style, the layout is both mobile responsive and search engine optimize-able, and there’s a great range of demo content included within the package to get the ball rolling.

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Flashlight

Category: Full screen, Portfolio

If only there was a way to maximize the look and feel of a website, without having to spend weeks and weeks programming. Popping up to answer our prayers is the Flashlight theme – a visually stimulating design that makes it easy to represent your talents. As far as a portfolio template goes, the Flashlight has to be one of the most effective – and not just because of the 75% dedication to image space.

You can even customize the layout, typefaces and colors too – making this template a great solution for anyone hoping to get their message across in a unique way.

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uDesign Business Template

Category: Business, Minimal 

As its name might suggest, the uDesign template is all about you and your preferences. Every single element can be customized; from the typefaces used on any particular page, all the way to uniquely colored header bars or sectioned areas. It fully supports dozens of international languages, it comes with its very own visual composition tool for effects, and it’s entirely e-commerce ready. Overall, this theme allows a business to showcase what it does best and gets its message across perfectly; all while allowing you to sit back as the audience rolls in – thanks to the built-in SEO tool.

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Avada

Category: Business, Ecommerce, Portfolio, Multipurpose

An extremely popular theme, and for a reason. This is one of the most sold WordPress templates ever, number 1 seller on ThemeForest for years, thanks to its multi-purpose design. You can create anything from it – from blogs to online stores and beautiful creative portfolios. The theme is WooCommerce ready, has lots of gallery and slider options, as well as many other features that will leave you satisfied.

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 Lavish – Responsive Business Theme

Category: Corporate, Minimal, Business 

If you’re looking for a sophisticated design for your business website then the Lavish theme with it’s minimalist and responsive scheme provides it! With multiple available shortcodes, using Lavish, you can easily create as many buttons, tabs, and as much toggle content as needed. Show where you’re located with Google Maps Integration, and create multiple pages with the easy page builder.

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Flatsome – Best Selling Responsive WooCommerce Theme

Category: eCommerce, WooCommerce

Another great theme made by UXthemes, Flatsome is a Woocommerce template with raving reviews and fan base, and for a good reason. Being retina ready and appealing exclusively for store owners, the features of this item is great for the sole purpose of an online shop. Although you will not find any premade templates, using the xml import features give you the ability to start quickly with the demo design, which is fabulous and will allow you to create your online shop in no time. 

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The Retailer – A Diverse Business and eCommerce Template

Category: Business, eCommerce, Multipurpose

The Retailer is a stunning multipurpose theme with amazing support for WooCommerce and eCommerce sites. It has a modern design with a good layout and a powerful admin panel which allows you to customize how your theme looks without any hassle. Whether you want to build a corporate website, an online store or just a portfolio, The Retailer is a great theme to look at.

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Foodica

Category: Restaurant, Food

Foodie blogs have become so common that they stand in a category of their own. Unfortunately, with this popularity has come a lot of stale looking websites that offer a visual snack rather than a visual feast. The Foodica WordPress theme helps to alleviate this problem with a beautiful layout that is optimized for food-based blogs, magazines, and recipe sites. With a slider to showcase your best images and a layout that will keep your users clicking for more, Foodica makes for a tempting option.

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The Keynote

Category: Conference, Events

If you’re looking for a companion site for the conference you have coming up, look no further than The Keynote. This WordPress theme is specially designed to provide your guests with everything they need to know and includes a specially designed program, a section profiling your speakers, nearby accommodations, and all of the tools your visitors will need to have a great Web 2.0 experience.

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Shopkeeper – Ultimate eCommerce Layout

Category:  eCommerce, Multipurpose, Responsive

Shopkeeper is a truly awesome multipurpose layout made with passion, which you can use for plenty different purposes. Some of the most popular ones are: online stores, portfolio, business and blog. The theme comes with Visual Composer and Revolution Slider. Apart from that, Shopkeeper also has a great admin panel which promotes customization via easy to use settings. The eCommerce features of the theme are strong and the theme is clean, fast and responsive.

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ePix – Fullscreen Photography Gallery

Category: Creative, Photography, Fullscreen

ePix is a stunning fullscreen photography theme. It has over a dozen predefined skins and the tools to help you create thousands more. With AJAX lazy load, you will have the best loading times. Visual Composer will make sure that your pages are with the perfect layout and that they suit your work. In other words, ePix is one of the few photography themes that you will have success using. It is robust, responsive, and it’s regularly updated. Certainly a WordPress jewel.

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Moment

Category: Gallery, Blogging

Moment is a theme for bloggers who want to create something which is both unique and attractive at the same time. It has a really nice grid-based layout which displays the thumbnail images of the post – you’ll be amazed when you see the demo bring this to life! There are 4 layouts for your blog posts and a very powerful admin panel which allows you to easily customize the outlook of your theme.

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Cake

Category: Corporate, Responsive, Photography

Cake is an amazing multipurpose theme for WordPress. Though the name might be playful and funny, Cake is a theme which means business! It comes with a very powerful admin panel with options for all of the aspects of the theme – and we all know that a diversified admin panel is the building block of every excellent theme! On top of this, there’s a drag and drop builder which allows you to quickly and easily create custom pages. For greater usability, there are also lots of custom shortcodes making it easy for you to import content.

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Everly

Category: Lite, Blogging, Gallery

Everly is design to focus on your content first and foremost. This ‘hipster’ WordPress theme has a clean design that is optimized for SEO. Photographers can make use of features like templates for videos and galleries, a revolution slider, and an Instagram feed, while bloggers can rest assured knowing that the theme is also designed for readability with custom typography and blog-specific layouts.

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Karma

Category: Creative, Business

As a fully responsive parallax enabled premium WP theme, Karma is rightly rated among the best because of its special theme features which include an Isotope Gallery with Fancybox – ideal for video and image sharing sites such as YouTube and Instagram, and a vertical timeline layout that comes with its own set of media queries and icons. This theme truly lives up to its name, probably the best of the many Word Press themes currently out there, and vouched for by over 21,000 buyers on Themeforest!

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The7 Responsive Multi-Purpose Theme

Category: Business, Portfolio, Photography

This is a new premium theme with ultra modern design. The theme is multi-purpose and you can use it for anything from a regular blog, to a full-scale online store. An extremely flexible theme, which will be of great use for any and every project.

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Wiksi Premium Responsive Layout

Category: Magazine, News

If you want a sleek and fully responsive theme built solidly on HTML5 and CSS3 architecture, look no further than Wiksi. This theme’s designed sites can be seen using desktops, smartphones, and tablets. With a shortcode generator, it provides opportunities for endless customization, has a Revolution Slider and offers cross-browser support.

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Natural

Category: Environmental, Multipurpose

If you want to make a contribution to Mother Earth, it helps if you have a fresh looking website to support your goals. The Natural theme from Organic Themes is designed to suit the purpose of environmental blogs, organizations, or even nature-based businesses. The theme includes custom page templates, a portfolio template, a large slider, and an options panel that allows you to change every aspect of the layout if you wish.

It’s retina-ready and mobile responsive so that the message can be received by everyone no matter what computing device they’re using.

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Epicurean

Category: Food, Creative

Foodies rejoice! The Epicurean WordPress theme from Nimbus provides everything you need to share your fabulous feasts with the world on a beautiful and easy to use template. The food blog is specially designed to highlight your recipes, as well as images of the finished product. This mouthwatering theme includes color, font, and page customization options, in addition to SEO and social media tools.

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Underwood

Category: Blog, Creative

Bold and masculine, Underwood is a modern blog theme that is strong but not bloated. Users can choose from three different homepage layouts and nine custom post formats. Built on Bootstrap, the template loads quicks, is secure, and has fewer bugs than average. It can be customized using the native, beginner-friendly WordPress customizer and can handle all of your favorite plugins and features.

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Kallyas v4

Category: eCommerce, Multipurpose

If you’re looking for free ecommerce WordPress themes, then you may be excited to hear that the developers of the Kallyas theme actually provided a free version of the template – albeit on a trial basis. If you didn’t get a chance to try the free version, then we’d definitely recommend that you consider purchasing this theme anyway! We love the inclusion of the sliders that could help to showcase your latest products or services – and when considering that the theme comes fully loaded with dummy data; all that you’ll need to do is update the text and images, and you’re good to go. We can safely say this is one of the more notable WordPress premium themes out there.

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Solo

Category: Multipurpose, Minimal, One page

Solo is ideal for seamless jQuery effects that help you come up with a flawless style for your portfolio site. Visual expansion and automatic scrolling combine effortlessly for the best designer’s showcase.

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I Love Rockband

Category: Music

For designers who are creating websites for those in the music industry, or who are themselves musically inclined, it’s very hard to resist the appeal of the I Love Rockband theme. Although it’s specifically situated for dealing with rock-oriented musicality, it’s also highly open to being used to design any kind of site that’s meant for showcasing artists ranging from solo performers to complete bands or orchestral symphonies, and promotional musical events, irrespective of the musical genre. This music theme is one of the best wordpress themes for the year 2013 and will probably lead 2020 as well.

This theme is fully responsive, and comes with a multi-level dropdown menu. It’s also cross compatible with most new browsers.

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Adventure

Category: Travel, Blogging

If you are a traveling blogger, you will probably want to share your stories with the world and inspire people from all over the globe to embrace your lifestyle. Adventure is a perfect starting point for that mission. It has a very clean design which is focused entirely on readability and presenting your content. Sharing photographs is done very elegantly within the posts. Adventure is fully responsive and people will be able to follow you around the world from their mobile devices.

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Invictus

Category: Photography, Fullscreen

Here you can showcase your images and videos in full screen glory. It’s fully responsive too. The options panel allows you to customize a lot of the elements, and nifty effects are possible as well. It’s so easy to use it’s virtually unbeatable.

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Themify Parallax

Category: Parallax, Portfolio, One Page

Maximize the use of the single page Themify theme and its parallax effects by using fly-in elements in relation to your images. Among other things, this theme has portfolio custom post type with Ajax expander and an option for lightbox or photoswipe gallery.

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MayaShop

Category: eCommerce

You can sell just about anything under the sun with this theme that uses the JigoShop and the WooCommerce plugins. Customization is a breeze even for non-developers, starting with the more than 50 custom backgrounds and 8 different sliders.

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TastyFood

Category: Lifestyle and Food Blogging

There’s nothing that can waste an elegantly cooked meal or spoil even the freshest images of ingredients than a site that does not do much by way of visual appeal.  The TastyFood theme is the ideal solution to the quest of foodies and those involved in the food and beverage industries for a stylish site that incorporates a strong sense of visual engagement.

Your recipes, food, and beverage items,  food presentations, and/or catering events can all be qualified and quantified with the theme’s Rating & Review feature. You can also quickly build an enticing and mouthwatering Gallery, with six advertisement placement options to help you earn on the side.

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The ROUA Theme

Category: Blog, Portfolio, Gallery

A beautiful theme that can double as both a blog and a portfolio is what Roua is all about. This is a new and modern theme which incorporates all of the web trends. Based on the very powerful Bootstrap framework, you can be sure that this is a theme that will allow you to customize every little bit about it.  Responsiveness is very important nowadays, so the developers have made sure that the theme displays perfectly on all kinds of devices.

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City Guide Premium Guide WordPress Theme

Category: Entertainment, Business

City Guide is one of the most modern WP themes of its kind. It presents you with the possibility to create a website which can be used for many reasons, but mainly concerning tourism and sightseeing. The theme has Google Maps integration and has made it very easy for you to manage.

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Bazar Shop

Category: eCommerce, Business, Store

Bazar Shop is a Woo Commerce powered theme which is highly creative yet super neat. Creating unlimited styles and using powerful options for your online shop with a custom builder, you can focus on your content and product list instead of back-end nonsense. This theme rocked the Themeforest marketplace in 2013 and will surely be a leader in 2020, so be sure to check out the demo below.

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Parasponsive

Category: eCommerce, Business, Flat design

Parasponsive is SEO optimized, making it ideal for businesses who want to get a good SERP position. The theme is compatible with smartphones and tablets, additionally to  640+ Google Fonts included. WooCommerce enabled and beautifully designed, Paraspnosive is a great theme to choose for business purposes.

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Event Premium Entertainment Theme

Category: Music, Events

Event is a beautiful theme by Themify, with an amazing design and cool scroll down effects. The Themify builder will allow you to create endless layouts and page styles without having to put in any effort at all. Managing a website has never been easier before!

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Propulsion

Category: Ecommerce, Business

If you are in the need of a responsive online store in just a few hours, then Propulsion can do the job for you. It has a simple and beautiful design and WooCommerce will help you create your online store in just a few minutes. There are great gallery options if you would like to create a catalog-type site.

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BlogNews

Category: News, Magazine, Blog

At the core of every site that richly features content is a blog. Weblogs have evolved from being personal outpourings of opinion and stories, to a wide variety of fashionable and vari-functional online forms. Must be one of the best Wordpress  news templates you can find today.

In the news/magazine/blog category, there’s the BlogNews theme as a robust contender.  It can be considered special because it makes available two layout options for your homepage – blog style and magazine style.  You can choose from its 6 color schemes, and font styles based on serif and sans-serif. For your images, this theme allows for the creation of automatic thumbnails. Its panel for theme settings provides designers with 74 different options.

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Parallax Pro Premium Narrative Parallax Theme

Category: Blog, Photography

Parallax Pro is an amazing parallax theme, allowing you to tell your story in this beautiful design with lots of options and settings for customization. Creating page sections is very easy and it does not require that you have any coding knowledge. You can easily switch between pre-defined skins.

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Titan

Category: Portfolio, Photograpy

Titan is an astonishing WordPress portfolio theme, which is a must for photographers. There are many gallery effects, slider options and animations, and many other features that are going to make your visitors’ jaws drop. Create your stunning unique portfolio in this easy to manage theme!

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Flatty 7

Category: Parallax, Multi-purpose, Flat design

Photo studios and agencies that rely heavily on the infusion of creative juices can find online site design fulfillment with Flatty 7. It combines the simplicity of a flat single page template a full screen slider aside from parallax scrolling, to come up with a true winner of template.

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Voyage

Category: Travel blog / agency

If you want your visitors to catch the traveling bug, you need to entice them with captivating images and videos of some amazing travel adventures, and that’s what the Voyage theme can do. It doesn’t matter if they’re seeing the site on a large PC monitor or on their smartphones, the theme’s responsive so it will work regardless of screen size.

Voyage also allows you to feature your tour and hotel packages, along with other functions that a travel agency website needs.

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CleanPort

Category: Portfolio, Business

CleanPort is a flat design theme with a very good-looking layout, created especially for businesses and agencies who want to create a reliable and enchanting portfolio without having to spends thousands on developers. Get this theme now and see how your audience will like the amazing slideshows and portfolio pages.

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Modernize

Category: Corporate, Education

Modernize has started a whole new age in WordPress theme creation. It is full of features and is a multi-purpose theme that could serve very different areas just as well. Our tests show that the people are most used to seeing this theme filled with business, or educational content, due to the clean and simple design which sets the focus entirely on the text.

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Ego

Category: Parallax, Portfolio, One Page

Ego has a fullscreen slider and 200+ design options covering fonts, colors, patterns, slider animations, loaders, and slider transition speeds. Great for fashion-oriented or celebrity publicity websites.

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MedPark

Category: Medical, HTML5, Responsive

MedPark is a premium WP theme that’s a sure bet for creating websites that have a medical, health care, or education focus. A functional and attractive slider allows you to show off medical services, present doctors with their credentials and specializations, and engage site visitors by giving them the ability to make appointments online.

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Chromatic WordPress Portfolio Theme By Graph Paper Press

Category:  Portfolio, eCommerce, Photography

Chromatic is a minimalist portfolio theme for photographers and all visual creatives. The layout is sleek with a menu on the left and block-based portfolio to the right. Everything about the theme is fully responsive and looks fantastic on mobile devices. Chromatic is eCommerce ready which means you can instantly sell your photographs, or licenses for them, directly on your website. The powerful admin panel, backed by the color picker, is the perfect tool for customizing your website and giving it that personalized touch.

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Pandora Box

Category: Design, Magazine

If you’re a designer or developer for mobile platforms who wants to show off your creative work, go with Pandora Box. It’s a single page HTML template that makes showcasing your works easy to do.

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Lawyer

Category: Law, Business

Setting up a website for your law firm is actually easy with the Lawyer theme for WordPress. The impressive admin options panel enables you to set up and customize each page to conform to your specifications. A few of the key features include the ability to upload your own images, icons, backgrounds, and logo, unlimited color choices with the color picker, helpful shortcodes, and a revolution slider for truly striking multi-layered slides.

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Freelancer

Category: Design, One Page

If you’re a web designer, chances are you’ve run across clients who insist on making sites “as colorful as possible!” With Freelancer, a fully-responsive theme, you can give them and yourself all the color variations they want, the choices are limitless.

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Medi

Category: Health and Medical

A health clinic obviously needs to be clean as a whistle, and with the responsive Medi theme you can emphasize the cleanliness and professionalism of your clinic or hospital. The Medi theme is laid out efficiently, and you can customize it by choosing one of the color scheme options available. You can then add custom widgets for a custom contact form with a map, along with widgets for scheduling, open hours, and even testimonials.

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Workality Lite

Category: Free, Portfolio

Had to list this free theme! Workality provides a great platform for portfolio websites with great features, documentation and support. For being free, who wouldn’t like it?

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UberGrid

Category: Photography, Portfolio, Blog

Any photographer knows that frames are important when it comes to showcasing photos, and in this case the Uber theme is the perfect frame for an online gallery. It includes smooth filtering animations and touch sideswipe slideshows. Background images can be customized for individual pages, and the full screen background can synchronize with the homepage slider.

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Rustik

Category: Creative

As a fully responsive parallax enabled WP theme, Rustik can be counted among the best because of its special theme features that include an Isotope Gallery with Fancybox which is ideal for video and image sharing sites such as YouTube and Instagram, and a vertical timeline layout that comes with its own set of media queries and icons. Still, Rustik is minimalistic and fast, which makes it stand out than other themes. This is a theme that fully lives up to its name.

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Foodie

Category: Food, Restaurants

Whether you’re a master chef, a food critic, or just someone who likes to share info about their favorite meals, the Foodie WordPress theme is the perfect theme for you. The huge post images can really showcase food to its best lip-smacking advantage, and the video embeds can demonstrate how the magic is done. The custom recipe and ingredients builder automatically creates an attractive recipe in your blog after you simply enter the ingredients on your site dashboard.

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Natural

Category: Multi-Purpose (eCommerce, Business, Portfolio)

Multi-purpose themes abound in the market, but not all can boast of a host of features that make designing a site a truly appealing endeavor. The Natural WordPress theme is one of the multi-purpose standouts. Designs based on this theme can encompass corporate sites, cause-oriented organizations, online shops, product or services portfolios, and, if you’re in the mood to be super-trendy, even a stylized blog.

This theme has a huge slider featured on the homepage and templates for customizable pages. A desirable characteristic of this theme include flexibility: it’s easy to modify colors, background images, and other visual highlights.

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Creativity

Category: One page, Flat

Let your website be an epitome of trend-setting designs with the Creativity theme. Modify colors, add images, and complement them with the most awesome write-ups and you’re good to go.

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Teeshirt

Category: eCommerce, Photography

Photo sliders are one of the best friends of online shop owners. Teeshirt has that, and more: 3 homepage banners can be made for promotional deals, announcing events and trends, or featuring certain product pages that you can direct your customers to. Great theme for clothing lines, crafts, and creative blogs.

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VideoPro

Category: Video, Blog

Some video themes are only good for video sites, but VideoPro is also great for news and magazine-style websites. Still, with that name you know what it’s really for. It comes with multiple pages templates for various sections and categories, custom widgets, and a convenient way to manage ads. It’s already SEO optimized and W3C standards compliant, so it can be easily found and read perfectly no matter what browser is used.

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RT-Theme 17

Category: WooCommerce, Business

Despite the rather bland name, this responsive theme offers numerous styling options to enable you to come up with a very unique business webpage. You can start by choosing one of the 8 skin options, and then you can change the styling and fonts according to your preferences. You can also create any header or background you wish.

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Real Homes

Category: Real Estate

Some video themes are only good for video sites, but VideoPro is also great for news and magazine-style websites. Still, with that name you know what it’s really for. It comes with multiple pages templates for various sections and categories, custom widgets, and a convenient way to manage ads. It’s already SEO optimized and W3C standards compliant, so it can be easily found and read perfectly no matter what browser is used.

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Tripod

Category: Creative, Photography

With this responsive theme, building a website becomes child’s play. You get three default templates comprised of specific areas, and you just drag and drop the elements you want included in those areas. It’s that simple.

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Fest

Category: Events, Conference

For the corporate event planner, there’s Fest. The GK News Show Pro, GK Comments, and GK Speakers widgets make it a cinch to provide data relevant to the event. Speakers can make their own posts, deepening relevancy.

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Wedding

Category: Creative, Wedding

The Wedding theme is not just for weddings, it can be used for numerous kinds of websites. Your own creativity is the only limit, what with the unlimited color schemes, Ajax pagination, a gallery with multiple albums, 20+ shortcodes, 250+ icons using Entypo, and a slider generator.

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That wraps up our list of the 65+ best premium WordPress themes for 2020.  Would you like other premium themes to be featured here? In that case, send us your comments—we’d love to hear from you!

Websites like ThemeForest offer user discussion areas where members can compliment and critique user-created themes. Some of the larger developers even have their own websites and support teams to help you use their products.

In the interest of highlighting The Teams Behind the Themes, WPThemesChecker is proud to showcase iThemes.

The iThemes Team

Founded in 2008, iThemes is headquarted in Oklahoma City and is managed and run by a team consisting of over 20 team members. The company’s CEO, Cory Miller, is a former journalist who became a full-time entrepreneur to fill a void that he saw in the web design world.

When iThemes was named the seventh fastest growing company in Oklahoma City in 2011, Cory realized that his perception about the market was right and he now continues to grow his company in addition to helping others build the website of their dreams.

The rest of the team is equally motivated and talented, producing themes and plugins that are used by countless websites all over the world.

The iThemes Themes Catalog

iThemes has a catalog of over 100 different themes to choose from. They all run on the company’s core product, Builder.

Builder enables anyone to take a theme of their choice and quickly and easily change any element, including the header, sidebar, widgets, and even the layout, without the need for coding experience.

Users can choose to purchase single themes or pay for the Developer Pack, which grants access to all of the available themes.

The theme selection at iThemes is crisp, modern, and highly functional. Whether you are building a new personal site, a page for your business, or even an eCommerce store, there is a theme to meet your needs.

iThemes Plugins

As popular as the Builder platform is, iThemes has an even greater number of clients using the company’s proprietary plugins.  They include:

BackupBuddy

If you have a WordPress website, a backup plan is essential to ensure that you never lose your data in the event of a hack, server failure, malware, user error, or other issue. That is probably why iThemes’ BackupBuddy plugin is their most popular one.

BackupBuddy can be set to automatically back up, restore, and move your WordPress website if you ever change hosts. It provides users with the peace of mind that their website content will always be secure, be it posts, pages, theme settings, and even widgets.

DisplayBuddy

Now that everyone has access to a diverse set of tools to create amazing and beautiful websites, it’s important to differentiate yourself with a truly unique website. DisplayBuddy enables you to do that with a collection of 11 tools. They include:

• BoomBar – Create customizable notification bars.
• Tipsy – Enhanced on-page pop-up tips and tricks for your visitors.
• Rotating Text – Animated text that pulls eyes towards your most important points.
• Slides – Make custom slideshows with images and text.

iThemes Security Pro

A security suite is necessary for any WordPress site, but few people understand how to implement it. Security Pro takes the guesswork out of the process, changing your website from an easy target to Fort Knox!

The plugin helps protect your site from unwanted file changes, brute force attacks, and 404 errors. Additionally, it enforces strong passwords, locks out bad users, and can even prevent anyone from making changes during hours that you specify.

The iThemes Blog

As all marketing professionals understand, no website is complete without a blog. Unfortunately, most people believe that ANY content is better than no content, but that is simply untrue. From reading through (and subscribing to) the iThemes blog, it is clear that they understand this, too.

Not only is their content informative and interesting, it is created by some of the best known WordPress users out there and can provide you with tons of free information that will turn your good website into a GREAT one!

We hope you enjoyed our overview of iThemes and we encourage you to check out their website and themes selection. Let us know which of their themes is your favorite in the comments and if you would like to be featured on WPThemesChecker, don’t hesitate to reach out! 

Websites like ThemeForest offer user discussion areas where members can compliment and critique user-created themes. Some of the larger developers even have their own websites and support teams to help you use their products.

In the interest of highlighting The Teams Behind the Themes, WPThemesChecker is proud to showcase Gabfire.

The Gabfire Team

Gabfire was founded in 2007 by Mehmet Ozekinci and Charlie Patel. Although one resides in Estonia and the other in the United States, this dynamic duo came together out of a love for web development and the WordPress platform.

The decade-old company employs a small team which is responsible for creating, testing, marketing, and selling the dozens of WordPress themes and plugins it offers.

Known for their quality and highly-rated products, Gabfire is thriving today among people who want a website that is both attractive and functional.

The Gabfire Themes Catalog

Users can select from a library of 23 different website templates. They are divided into categories, including magazine, business, niche, and responsive. That means there is something for everyone.

Starting at just $59 per theme, each includes its own special features relevant to both the template and niche, which provides for a truly customized experience.

Features to be found in each theme include fully responsive design, infinite color options, HTML5 videos, BootStrap, Font Awesome, image sliders, SEO optimization, and specially designed Gabfire modules.

The Event Master theme, for example, is their solution for event planners and is designed to work for conferences, concerts, plays, meetups, festival, premieres, and more. This is accomplished via a theme control panel that allows you to make dozens of changes to how your website looks and functions.

You can demo any of the themes before you try them, or, alternatively, download the free QuickStart theme and take a more hands on approach. You can use it to learn about the Gabfire framework or even to base your website on.

If you are interested in purchasing a theme on the company’s website, you can use coupon code 25OFF on the checkout page to get 25% discount on your purchase.

Gabfire Plugins

While Gabfire’s themes are impressive in their own right, they are even further enhanced by a library of plugins, designed by sister company 99 Robots, that solve many common problems and increase your website’s effectiveness.

They so good, that it’s worth discussing a few just to whet your appetite:

WP Background Takeover

This is the most popular plugin in the company’s arsenal because what it does is so innovative that, if you monetize your website, it’s a must have.

Simply put, Background Takeover enables you to place background advertisements on your site, which are shown to increase sales, drive visitors where you want them, maximize ad visibility, and improve click-through rates.

This is something most you may have seen before, but probably didn’t consider until now. 

Author Box

With the expectations of an open and honest internet, it is not more important than ever before to provide author information to build trust with your audience.

You can showcase your post authors with the intuitive Author Box plugin, which allows you to create a customized bio and user profile for everyone working on your website. 

This simple concept has been shown to increase readership and your own trustworthiness.

Interstitial Overlays

No matter how you use your website, there is always a reason to consider a website overlay. An overlay presents visitors with a box of information that you want to call to their attention before they begin browsing your site. 

This can include an advertisement, an email signup prompt, a terms of service agreement, or even an age verification.

The best part is that the overlays you create are guaranteed to increase conversions and you can even track them independently from the rest of the content on your website. 

The Gabfire Blog

Finally, users will want to make their way over to the Gabfire blog. On it, you will find guest posts by experts in the field, discounts on Gabfire products, tutorials, coding secrets, and special previews of what’s to come.

We hope you enjoyed our overview of Gabfire and we encourage you to check out their website and themes selection. Let us know which of their themes is your favorite in the comments and if you would like to be featured on WPThemesChecker, don’t hesitate to reach out! 

Websites like ThemeForest offer user discussion areas where members can compliment and critique user-created themes. Some of the larger developers even have their own websites and support teams to help you use their products.

In the interest of highlighting The Teams Behind the Themes, WPThemesChecker is proud to showcase WPExplorer.

The WPExplorer Team

WPExplorer was founded in 2009 by a coder and prolific blogger, Alexander Clarke. The site provides the latest news about WordPress, website themes, plugins, tutorials, and even giveaways.

A self-taught WordPress pro, Clarke began using WordPress when an internship he took on during college put him in charge of site building and maintenance. Once completed, the enterprising Clarke decided to create a site of his own. He saw that the market was hungry for a better product and quickly pounced on the opportunity.

Since then, Clarke has been coding WordPress themes on his own (with the help of some friends, of course) and an ear to the ground. His high-quality templates are cleanly coded and feature designs influenced by the latest internet trends.

Always focused on the user, Alexander created his own custom admin panel that makes it easy to make website changes in a snap. This dedication to the WordPress community as a whole has been greatly rewarded and now WPExplorer claims some of the best selling themes on ThemeForest.

The WP Explorer Themes Catalog

WPExplorer currently offers over 20 different WordPress themes on ThemeForest. This serves as the company’s main source of revenue, although they also sell themes on behalf of other creators on their website.

The company doesn’t partner with just any companies, however. The themes featured on WPExplorer meet strict criteria and only those that offer a modern, easy to use, and aesthetic design make the cut.

WPExplorer’s most popular theme, Total, has over 25,000 sales and counting. This premium theme is so fully featured, that it can serve as the template for any kind of website. It includes a drag-and-drop builder, dozens of demos, over 100 building elements, a live customizer, and much more. 

Part of the secret to WPExplorer’s success is the attention to detail. Unlike many other companies which simply upload their theme and allow the user to figure out what it contains, WPExplorer provides users with a breakdown of every single feature that their themes include and descriptions of all of the demos.

This doubtlessly takes hours to compile and type, but the results speak for themselves. With an average user rating of 4.83/5 (based on 1,368 reviews), you don’t even have to take our word for it. This is not a rarity for WPExplorer, and all of the themes they offer are extremely highly rated by real users.

WPExplorer Freebies

Like all good themes companies, WPExplorer offers users a number of themes for free as a demonstration of the quality of their work and as a way of ‘giving back’ to the community.

Although these templates are more minimalist in nature than their premium assortment, they should not be written off. To the contrary, they are all of the utmost quality and are worthy of even the most discerning user’s consideration. 

The Elegant business and portfolio theme, for example, provides a modern and professional design for small businesses, freelancers, and bloggers. It includes a customizer tool, page templates, and even a video tutorial, making it feel more like a premium-level theme.

The WPExplorer Blog

One of the ways WPExplorer has been able to cement itself as a thought leader in the website building and WordPress world is through their blog. With over 1,000 posts in categories like news, hosting, security, tips, reviews, and SEO, there is nary a relevant topic that they don’t cover.

Much of the content is written by Alexander himself, but he also defers to expert guest writers from other sites. This further demonstrates the status of WPExplorer as a trusted resource and can teach one the importance of learning from others.

For those who are considering a purchase from WPExplorer in the future, we highly recommend taking a look at the blog for special offers and discounts.

We hope you enjoyed our overview of WPExplorer and we encourage you to check out their website and themes selection. Let us know which of their themes is your favorite in the comments and if you would like to be featured on WPThemesChecker, don’t hesitate to reach out! 

Websites like ThemeForest offer user discussion areas where members can compliment and critique user-created themes. Some of the larger developers even have their own websites and support teams to help you use their products.

In the interest of highlighting The Teams Behind the Themes, WPThemesChecker is proud to showcase PremiumCoding.

The PMCoding Team

Since 2010, the team at PremiumCoding has been developing WordPress themes with a focus on clean and minimal designs that are also professional and functional.

The five-member team’s design philosophy is to create templates with clean lines and solid colors. This results in themes that have a universal appeal and beauty.

Although the company is now well established, serving nearly 30,000 customers with 28 different themes, they original peddled their wares on ThemeForest.

In 2015 PMCoding decided to go mainstream, launching a theme club in addition to selling individual themes.

PMCoding Themes

PremiumCoding offers 28 different themes starting at $39 each. Divided into different categories, there is seemingly something for every purpose, including Blog, Business, eCommerce, and Portfolio.

The themes are not simple retreads either. Each one is created from the ground up and includes features specific to each purpose. A portfolio theme, for example, will feature plugins aimed at featured photos, while a blogger theme will focus on readability.

PMCoding follows design trends, but also creates templates that stand the test of time. With a clear focus on content, each theme is optimized for SEO.

Like many other companies, PMCoding now offers users the ability to subscribe to their service. For $89, you can access and download all themes with updates, support, and even access to new themes for an entire year. A lifetime membership costs $269.

When your membership expires you can keep and continue using all of the themes you downloaded.

Readers can enter the code PMC10 to get 10% off their next order.

PMCoding Freebies

In addition to the paid collection, users can also download Lite versions of many of the top themes made by PMCoding.

These freebies can serve as a way of taking a test run to see how well they work for your site and how easy they are to customize. Some users might find the Lite themes to be more than enough for their website, however.

In addition to free templates, PMCoding is also a great resource for learning about the latest plugins, internet trends, and fun facts. They also feature themes that others have made, a noble endeavor and a good display of sportsmanship. Their blog is well maintained and definitely worth checking out.

We hope you enjoyed our overview of PMCoding and we encourage you to check out their website and consider one of their many themes. Tell us which is your favorite in the comments and if you would like to be featured on WPThemesChecker, don’t hesitate to reach out!

Websites like ThemeForest offer user discussion areas where members can compliment and critique user-created themes. Some of the larger developers even have their own websites and support teams to help you use their products.

In the interest of highlighting The Teams Behind the Themes, WPThemesChecker is proud to showcase Nimbus Themes.

The Nimbus Themes Team

Nimbus Themes was created in 2013 by couple Evan and Kendall Scoboria. This husband-wife team spent years working for private graphic design and web development clients before taking their talents public.

Now a 16-person team, Nimbus Themes focuses not only on creating products for WordPress but also on providing users with a great resource via their online blog.

Unlike many companies which outsource their labor, Nimbus Themes keep things local, transparent, and honest, with images of all the team members, including their contact information, right on their website.

This business model has led to thousands of monthly site visitors and nearly one million theme downloads and counting.

The Nimbus Themes Catalog

The Nimbus Themes catalog currently includes 13 different themes. This may not sound like much, but instead of opting for quantity, the company works on creating the highest quality possible.

This means that when themes become outdated technologically or in design, they are retired from the catalog. The result is a 13 of the most cutting edge WordPress templates available.

Simple, modern, and highly visual, Nimbus Themes’ selection has something for everyone looking to create a blog, portfolio, business website, or eCommerce store on the most popular CMS in the world.

Themes cannot be downloaded individually. Instead, Nimbus Themes relies on a membership model.

For $49 per year, users can access all 13 themes and receive support and updates as they are pushed. All new themes will also be immediately available to members.

You can also opt for a lifetime membership, which grants you access to all themes and all new themes forever. At $99, it’s a no-brainer.

Nimbus Themes Magazine

Part of what makes Nimbus Themes such a community staple is their commitment to writing and documenting everything WordPress.

The Nimbus Themes Magazine is broken down into many different sections:

• Guides and Tutorials
• WordPress Themes
• Code Tools
• Marketing and Design
• Reviews 
• Plugins
• Freebies
• News 
• Infographics

The blog is kept up to date with the latest news and tips, and Nimbus Themes even shares the love by highlighting templates developed by other companies. 

Aimed at becoming a go-to online resource, the company keeps many writers under its employ and constantly seeks out the best content that is relevant to real users.

We hope you enjoyed our overview of Nimbus Themes and we encourage you to check out their website and online magazine. Let us  know which of their themes is your favorite in the comments and if you would like to be featured on WPThemesChecker, don’t hesitate to reach out!

Many theme providers offer user discussion areas where members can compliment and critique user-created themes. Some of the larger developers even have their own websites and support teams to help you use their products.

In the interest of highlighting The Teams Behind the Themes, WPThemesChecker is proud to showcase GoodLayers.

The GoodLayers Team

The GoodLayers team, which has been building WordPress themes for over five years, is comprised of designers, developers, and customer support agents who treat every release like their most important one.

Pouring their devotion and skills into each template, the results are both well-crafted and well-liked, with many of their projects garnering massive sales figures on ThemeForest.

All said, the team at GoodLayers has clocked over 14,000 working hours, cleared over 80,000 customer support tickets, and served over 90,000 customers.

This dedication to their craft enables GoodLayers to continue to produce and add to an exceptional catalog of themes.

GoodLayers Themes

GoodLayers themes start at $42, but when a purchase from their extensive catalog is not a one-time investment. That is because GoodLayers provides all users with support for the product whenever they need it. Additionally, the company is constantly updating and improving their themes, so that they remain technologically and visually up to date.

Some improvements they make to theme features (for free of charge) include adding retina readiness, WooCommerce, SEO optimization, and overall style layouts.

The most popular GoodLayers theme, Modernize, was created in January 2012. It was last updated in December 2016. This paints a story about the company’s commitment to customers and the product. With over 16,000 sales, it also clearly states what users think of their work. 

But Modernize isn’t a fluke. Nearly all of the themes offered by GoodLayer have 1,000 or more sales. This is an astounding number for any theme and most companies only dream of such success.

We hope you enjoyed our overview of GoodLayers and we encourage you to check out their website and wide selection of popular themes. Let us know which of their themes is your favorite in the comments and if you would like to be featured on WPThemesChecker, don’t hesitate to reach out!

Many people tend to overlook the adverse way a poor web host can affect that, however.

A web host is a key component in creating a great WordPress site and if you don’t choose the right one, you may end up with a page that users will find frustrating to use.

In order to ensure that you don’t end up using a service that is more trouble than it’s worth, we have compiled a list of the top WordPress web hosting providers available.

But first…

Things to Consider Before Choosing a WordPress Host

On your quest to find a WordPress host you may encounter terms like security, speed, and reliability. While all of these are important features of any hosting service, you should also consider exactly what it is that you need.

Website hosting comes in many forms, but the three most popular are Shared, VPS, and Dedicated. Knowing the difference between these solutions is your first step in finding a host.

Shared Hosting

A shared web host is the most popular service among new and moderately-sized websites. Instead of paying for an entire server, a shared plan enables you to rent a small section of one.

This, in essence, means you’re sharing the server with potentially thousands of other websites, but in exchange the monthly cost to you is nominal.

Most shared hosting plans come with more than enough storage and bandwidth for the typical website.

VPS Hosting

A virtual private server, or VPS, is typically reserved for more advanced users who want the freedom of having their own private server, but don’t want to pay the costs associated with it.

Instead, a VPS creates a virtual server, where you are still sharing the space with others, but you have greater control over configurations like software and partitioning.

While VPS plans tend to be more expensive, they are a good solution for high-traffic websites that require greater server space and bandwidth.

Dedicated Hosting

Finally, there’s dedicated hosting, which consists of leasing a full server which you have full control over, including the physical hardware and the digital software that it runs.

Hosts that offer dedicated server plans general include software updates, monitoring, and high-end support since these clients have greater demands and typically pay quite a bit for the service.

Dedicated hosting is probably irrelevant to most users looking for a WordPress host, but if you already run a large website and are in the market for a dedicated hosting provider, this article should still come in handy.

With that out of the way, we can move on to…

The 5 Best WordPress Hosting Providers

Most web hosts claim they have the best service, but the truth is that they vary greatly in quality. Our list of hosts includes companies that not only provide WordPress users with a great experience but also serve as excellent hosts with good uptimes, loading times, and customer support.

SiteGround

SiteGround offers managed WordPress hosting on all plans and provides new users with a one-click installation of the CMS. Those joining the service with a pre-existing website will be able to transfer their site without missing a beat by using SiteGround’s free transfer service.

Automatic WordPress updates and a proprietary website caching service called SuperCacher round out SiteGround’s WordPress extras, but the benefits don’t end there.

SiteGround uses solid-state drives in all of their servers in addition to the latest speed technologies to ensure that your site loads quickly.

Customer support is available 24/7 and problems are often rectified directly by an agent, as opposed to through instruction — a service that other hosts charge for.

HostGator

The best WordPress hosts are the ones which realized there was a great need for special hosting plans early on. HostGator is one such host, offering a personalized WordPress cloud hosting package.

With load times that are up to 2.5 times faster than competitors using standard server framework, a HostGator website can tackle any request at a lightning-fast speed.

Similar to the platform for which it was built, HostGator’s WordPress plan focuses heavily on usability, reducing the noise commonly found on other hosts control interfaces.

With free migration, advanced security, and seamless scalability, HostGator is a tempting choice for WordPress hosting.

DreamHost

DreamHost offers users WordPress hosting plans that are easy to set up, offer automated updates and backups, have 100% uptime with no bandwidth limits, and 24/7 support.

What makes the service unique, however, is the DreamPress plan.

DreamPress is a fully managed hosting solution that allows you to focus on your website’s content while DreamHost takes care of the backend. The service is more than five times faster than the shared hosting plan, can handle traffic spikes with ease, and includes Jetpack Premium (a $99/year value).

At $16.95, DreamPress is not cheap, but, for many, this is the only WordPress hosting option.

Bluehost

BlueHost is unique in that all of their WordPress hosting plans use a VPS hosting plan, automatically placing their services (and their prices) in the high end of the spectrum.

With plans starting at $19.99 per month, the service is not cheap, but this is definitely an instance where you will get what you pay for.

Engineered exclusively for WordPress-based websites, Bluehost’s solutions provide you with everything you need to make your site secure with SiteLock Security, easy to use with WordPress-centric controls, and lightning fast using advanced NGINX architecture.

With a 30-day money back guarantee, Bluehost seems to be pretty confident in the service, making us confident in believing you will be, too.

1&1

1&1 makes it easy to install the WordPress platform with packages designed specifically for the CMS.

Their WordPress hosting plans come with a personalized assistant, pre-installed plugins to get you started quickly, automatic updates, free templates and themes,  a proprietary app store, and expert support from people who know the platform.

Users will also enjoy a fully solid-state server space, unlimited traffic and email accounts, and up to 2GB of RAM guaranteed.

WordPress plans start at just 99 cents per month for the first year, making 1&1 the cheapest option.

No matter which service you choose, we are sure that you will be happy. Whether you’re new to the website game or are simply looking for a change, each plan offers something for everyone.

Don’t just host your WordPress site, optimize it!

While it is true that most other CMSs and even website builders have this capability, WordPress is unique in the sheer vastness of both its existing catalog of third-party add-ons and the number that are added every single day.

With this immense selection and variety of plugins, it can be difficult sorting the good from the bad.

That’s where we come in! We have selected our top WordPress plugins to add to your website today…

1. Yoast SEO

If you are not familiar with search engine optimization (SEO), you have probably at least heard of it. Simply put, SEO refers to methods you can use to increase your ranking for keywords on search engines like Google and Bing.

The Yoast SEO plugin is the best way to optimize your website for SEO purposes and features everything you need to ensure that you ‘play by the rules’ when it comes to content creation. If you want your website to gain traction the right way, Yoast SEO is a must.

2. W3 Total Cache

Improving the user experience of your website can also improve your website’s SEO. This is because companies like Google want to not only index the best search results but also the websites that will provide the fastest and most polished interface.

The W3 Total Cache plugin increases the user friendliness of any website by increasing site performance and reducing download times. It accomplishes this by compressing elements on your site to make them smaller and thus faster to load. You will be surprised by the immediate performance upgrade your website gets using this popular add-on.

3. Jetpack

When Automattic, the company behind the WordPress software, created a plugin for the platform claiming to perform many tasks generally left to multiple addons, people were skeptical. After all, many companies have tried to do the same and ended up with a plugin that didn’t do anything right. Jetpack, however, delivered in spades.

Jetpack can be used to modify settings related to site security, website performance, engagement, image optimization, appearance, and more using an extremely simple layout which requires very little user input. Much like WordPress itself, it has become the must-have tool for anyone with a website.

4. Broken Link Checker

A website requires constant maintenance. Not only are you responsible for the things you can control, but also for the things you cannot. This includes broken outbound links to content that no longer exists, or worse, redirects to something you did not intend.

The aptly named Broken Link Checker will crawl your website for broken links in your posts and comments and report them to you. How you respond to the notification is up to you, but this handy tool will continue to keep an eye on your site even after the initial installation.

5. Social Icons

Social media is everywhere and if your website does not push content to at least one platform, you may be losing countless potential site visits. Of course, part of the beauty of social media websites is that users share your content for you, creating a nice quid pro quo between parties. Unfortunately, people are less likely to share your content if your website lacks quick-click sharing buttons.

Although the Social Icons plugin provides a simple service, it is a vital one for increasing eyes on your page. The add-on can be customized and features over one hundred icons to the most popular social website, drag-and-drop icon sorting, and the option to change icon size.

6. Akismet

The internet is synonymous with two things: cats and spammers. And while we quite like the former, the latter has been a blight on this wondrous marvel of human innovation since it was created. While we may never be able to get rid of them, we can certainly combat them.

The Akismet plugin can fight internet baddies by filtering out all comments that look like spam using a database of confirmed spammers and spamming techniques. Fear not, however, the tool does not automatically delete these comments but rather waits for the input of a moderator — namely, you.

7. Contact Form 7

No matter what kind of website you manage, you probably want to encourage users to reach out. This can serve to give your site legitimacy and create new opportunities to make connections and customers.

Contact Form 7 is the best plugin for creating and managing multiple contact forms. The add-on enables you to create customized inputs which support Ajax, CAPTCHA, and Akismet filtering.

8. TinyMCE Advanced

WordPress is the ideal blogging platform because the user interface serves as an extremely powerful word processor. It includes everything you need to create amazing looking content (like this!)… Well, almost everything.

For those times when you need to do things like change your font, increase font size, find and replace, and insert the date and time there’s the TinyMCE Advanced plugin. The ingenious add-on includes everything you always wished was included with WordPress.

We encourage you to download and add all of these plugins to your site today. The list will continue to grow, but we need your help!

Comment below to let us know your favorite WordPress add-ons and your suggestion might be featured here!

That is why so many are turning to website builders.

But what if WordPress could function like a website creator while still maintaining the interface that attracts so many to the popular CMS?

Several companies now have products that accomplish just that and we have compiled a list of our favorite ones below.

Why Use a Builder?

Starting a website using WordPress is fairly straightforward: Install the platform, choose a theme, and start posting. But personalizing your website beyond the theme preferences can be tricky.

WordPress sites are built using CSS, a computer language that determines the style of your website. For many, making changes within the CSS style sheet is a nonstarter. After all, if you don’t already have knowledge of the nomenclature, it can seem like a foreign language.

When using a website builder, this does not matter.

Instead of requiring users to edit a site’s CSS on their own, a builder enables them to make changes that are instantly visible and which can be done using a language anyone understands.

As an example, if you wanted to change the background color of your site, you would be required to enter this string:

body {
background-color: blue;
}

Using a website builder, however, you can simply choose from a list of colors:

With benefits so clear, for many, it is not a matter of whether to use a WordPress page builder, but which one to use.

Elementor

Elementor is a drag-and-drop website builder, much in the same vain as Wix.

It uses a visual, what you see is what you get editing platform that enables you to add new elements with ease.

Elementor includes the most commonly used website elements, like columns, headings, images, videos, and icons, but you can also add more advanced features like accordions, testimonials, social media icons, and sliders.

You can even add widgets created by third-party companies.

Best of all, Elementor includes pre-made templates, which you can use as the basis of your design if you don’t want to create a website from the ground up.

Elementor is free, open source, and can be downloaded directly from the company’s website.

Page Builder

SiteOrigin’s Page Builder has over a million active installs, making it one of the most popular WordPress builders.

Page Builder can be used with any WordPress theme and you can use it to add, change, or remove components using the intuitive column-based layout.

The builder works with standard WordPress widgets, making the platform ever-expandable. Users are encouraged to download the SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle, which includes the most popular plugins.

Using the live editor you can see exactly how your content will look in real-time. The included history browser tool lets you roll forward and back to see your progress or even revert to a previous iteration.

Page Builder is free and with so many users, it’s not difficult to find support when you need it.

Themify

The Themify website builder comes standard with all Themify-branded templates.

The simple page builder uses modules which you can easily add to your pages and posts, but they often require the installation of separate WordPress plugins.

You can use the page designer to select, drag, and drop elements right on the page. Although the builder is not quite as refined as other options, it is certainly more intuitive.

The Themify builder is available for $39 when purchased as a standalone product, or $59 for an included bundle of add-ons. There is also a lite version of the builder, which is free but has fewer features.

Divi

Divi is another drag-and-drop, what you see is what you get, WordPress site builder.

It is installed like a typical WordPress theme and includes more than 80 attractive and modern layouts which can be used and customized to meet any website requirement.

With Divi, you can just click and type. There are no settings panels to deal with, making it easy to customize everything about your website.

Included with the page builder is 46 content elements which should serve as more than enough to create even the most advanced website.

Divi is on the higher-end of website builders and at $89 per year (!) it isn’t cheap.

Pro

Pro touts itself as the most advanced website creator for WordPress and that might be true… As long as you don’t mind a steep learning curve.

Designed to help you edit elements on your site one piece at a time, Pro forgoes the popular drag-and-drop platform in favor of a more customizable and intentional design platform.

Pro can be used with any WordPress theme, or you can use it to create a website design from the ground up. Some features

Some features you will get with Pro that are not offered by other website builders include responsive modal windows, off-canvas content, and a sidebar option.

A single Pro license will cost you a one-time payment of $79. If you purchase several licenses, the cost is reduced.

With so many great options available to you, there is no reason to fear WordPress any longer! Whether you opt for a free tool or are willing to purchase a more premium product, you can’t go wrong with any of these selections.

We would love to hear about your experiences and your preferred WordPress page builders! Feel free to drop a line below.

Websites like ThemeForest offer user discussion areas where members can compliment and critique user-created themes. Some of the larger developers even have their own websites and support teams to help you use their products.

In the interest of highlighting The Teams Behind the Themes, WPThemesChecker is proud to showcase WPZOOM.

The WPZOOM Team

WPZOOM is a Moldova-based company that specializes in themes and plugins for WordPress.

With a staff of just six people based across three different countries, the small and scattered staff has managed to develop an impressive 100 themes since WPZOOM was established in 2009 by founders Pavel Ciorici and Dumitru Brinzan.

Despite its small size, WPZOOM has sold its digital wares to 40,000 customers in 115 countries and has produced themes that are seen by countless visitors every day.

Some of the high-end clientele who use the company’s themes include Wacom (Inspiro theme) and Party Pieces (Foodica theme), both of which are featured among our Top WordPress Themes.

Other companies of note that have employed WPZOOM’s services include Groupon, UNICEF, Citroen, Bloomberg, and Barnes and Noble.

WPZOOM Themes

WPZOOM currently offers 38 premium themes ranging from $59.00 – $69.00 each. There are also two free themes, which act as an enticing first step into the company’s world of products.

Also available directly from the WPZOOM website is the opportunity to purchase all 38 themes for just $99. This includes access to future themes and a full year of support and updates. This offer is unparalleled by its competitors.

Of course, any price is too high if a theme doesn’t deliver, but we were pleasantly surprised not only by the diversity of themes – whose categories range from eCommerce to magazine and everything in between – but also by how well-made, unique, and modern they are.

WPZOOM’s catalog of themes takes a page out of the Web 2.0 playbook. Fully responsive and optimized to look good on any device, each theme is SEO friendly, supports multiple languages, and includes a wide selection of shortcodes with which you can create more dynamic pages and posts.

The themes are beginner-friendly as well, featuring a simple installation, easy customization, and support from an expert staff.

A 14-day, no questions asked refund policy is something not often found on digital goods.

WPZOOM Plugins

The second strongest pull for users of the WordPress platform is the expandability of the CMS through add-ons. Although themes are the WPZOOM’s bread and butter, it has also ventured into the world of plugins, naturally.

The company’s widget offerings are available gratis. They include a social widget, which enables you to link to over 400 social networks, in addition to standalone widgets for Instagram and Twitter.

WPZOOM also has a plugin featured on the WordPress.org website. Customizer Reset is a handy tool that can reset all changes you make to a theme. With over 1,000 active installs, this 5-star customer rated tool is clearly a niche product that has found good use by many.

We hope you enjoyed our overview of WPZOOM and we encourage you to check out their website and consider one of their many themes. Tell us which is your favorite in the comments and if you would like to be featured on WPThemesChecker, don’t hesitate to reach out!

If you have a good eye for detail or are a WordPress connoisseur, you probably already have noticed a few changes (like the video headers in the theme named Twenty Seventeen). Many other trends are bound to pop up during the course of 2017, so let’s look at some of them in our overview.

An increase in mobile-first sites

Nowadays most consumers prefer mobile platforms for online shopping, browsing and keeping in touch with others on social media. This means that in 2017 we’ll most definitely see a boost in the expansion of mobile-first websites for an increasing number of mobile users.

Therefore, WordPress designers must follow suit and initially design with mobile in mind. They must keep in mind the importance of website structure, general web design, and functionality. Many developers are making use of Bootstrap, this is a mobile-first flexbox grid system for building layouts. Since also Google is in favor of mobile-first websites, we can be sure that this trend is not fading anytime soon.

We know that there are already plenty of fully responsive themes out there, but in 2017 you should expect its popularity to soar. If you’d like to get started, but would like to receive some help first, check out the many tutorials online. Another tip is to simply deconstruct a ready-made theme.

More multipurpose and virtual reality-optimized themes

Among WordPress developers and its users, multipurpose themes are a favorite. This helps them build all kinds of different websites with amazing functionality and beautiful designs. On more than 25% of the internet, WordPress is currently being used. There are more and more users with websites that specialize in various fields and the demand for multipurpose themes also increases.

In theme markets, the new Virtual Reality or VR-optimized themes are gaining popularity. The idea for virtual reality came from the gaming world, yet it can be useful for many more things. We’ll probably all soon be surfing online through virtual reality devices, and WordPress isn’t wasting any time getting involved.

Websites made with the help of WordPress are slowly starting to support VR videos and images, even some self-hosting websites are joining in. To many developers, the notion of adding VR in WordPress isn’t remotely revolutionary, since some even came up with the plug-in named WP-VR-view (compatible with Google Cardboard). Users can add VR images, Photo Sphere, and 360-degree videos to their WordPress.com website. And users who have smartphone devices can easily switch between regular and VR mode.

Software as a service model for business

A one-off payment has been the more traditional approach to selling your services, yet now a few premium WordPress service providers have adopted the Software as a Service (SaaS) business model. This model offers advanced functionality at an affordable price.

SaaS is a rather new approach that is increasingly being used by the WordPress crowd. For example, OptinMonster allows users to use products on a subscription basis, this lowers the entry bar and also increases profits and sales.

Before deciding whether the SaaS model is for you, first look at all the pros and cons. What may help you make up your mind would be to read the opinions of several WordPress experts. When you finally do decide to switch to a SaaS business model, make sure to follow some specific steps.

This model is gaining popularity at a rapid rate, and it should gain some more during the year.

It’s not difficult to create your site using WordPress, but your online success will partly depend on the way you use the plug-ins that are made available on this platform. We picked some essential plug-ins for your website, so make sure you have them to oversee your content more efficiently.

Yoast SEO (a search engine optimization plugin)

One of the most important facets of a website is the search engine optimization, also known as SEO. It simply necessitates the use of a plugin that can easily do it for you. This plugin used to be known as WordPress SEO by Yoast and was specifically designed to boost your website’s SEO in every way necessary.

To help you improve your search engine optimization there’s a whole team behind this plug-in to offer you guidance and step-by-step instructions. They’ll give tips on images titles, optimizing the content on your pages, meta descriptions, tags, keywords, XML sitemaps, and the list goes on.

Yoast SEO has a premium version with extra features like social previews, internet linking, premium support, the option to have multiple focus keywords, etc.

Google Analytics (a plugin that tracks traffic)

The first and last things you do during the day is to check how much traffic you garnered on your site. To analyze this and get more insight on the performance of your site, you’ll have to install the  Google Analytics plugin.

Thanks to Google Analytics you’ll be able to keep tabs on your website using their latest tracking code and within your WordPress install you’ll get a picture of the key Google Analytics stats.

This plug-in guarantees to offer you in-depth post reports and thorough page reports. It is completely customizable through hooks and options, and also offers advanced data collection making use of custom events and dimensions. There’s a Google Analytics report that you can consult for information about real-time acquisition channels, the number of visitors and traffic sources details, etc.

Social Warfare (social sharing plugin)

Nowadays to own and manage your website something you must do is integrate social media buttons. To garner more traffic, this social sharing plug-in can come in handy, since your website’s visitors will easily be able to share your content on their favorite social media platforms.

Social Warfare is one of those plug-ins that is compatible with most of the available WordPress themes and supports all known social networks on the internet. You can customize this plugin, it supports add-ons and also floating share buttons. Social Warfare is an invaluable plugin if you ask us.

W3 Total Cache (a plugin for caching)

W3 Total Cache is used by some of the biggest websites out there and viewed as the best WordPress plug-in for caching. It diminishes download times through features like content delivery network integration, which in turn improves the user experience and the SEO of your site. By creating cached HTML files it manages to increase the number of visitors and reduces page load times. The plug-in also saves bandwidth, enhances web server performance to maintain high traffic periods, and offers database caching, browser caching, object caching, etc.

Wordfence Security (a security plugin)

We recommend that you add this plug-in to keep your website safe from online threats. Some of its features include malware scan, firewall, live traffic, blocking, login security, etc. Currently, it has been downloaded more than 22 million times.

You can get the Premium version of the plugin that comes with an API key with features like scheduled scans, country blocking, two-factor authentication, real-time updates on the threat defense feed, password auditing, etc. Also, the team that made the plug-in checks to see if the IP address of your website is also being spamvertised.

Stack

Stack is a new multi-purpose and robust HTML template which includes a page builder. This is the ideal WordPress theme for any type of website projects and is built with modularity and reuse at its core. It has crafted base elements, over 270 customizable interface blocks, and over 140 content layouts (including 30 tailored niche homepages).

Stack’s key features include fully responsive design, working AJAX forms via PHP, working social feeds, extensive eCommerce layouts, masonry and lightbox galleries, and more.

Cooper

Cooper is a brand new personal and creative WordPress theme. It is professional, fully responsive and multipurpose. Cooper has built-in scrolling page to exhibit your beautiful portfolios. It was made with photographers, designers, video producers, illustrators and architects in mind. Basically, anyone who’d like to share their art with their clients can’t go wrong with this theme.

Some handy features included in the template: SEO optimized, Shortcode Generator, 7 different style homepage, 4 different style portfolio page, custom widgets, contact form 7 plugin, etc.

Mint

Mint is a creative, up-to-date, multi-purpose, fully responsive and clean WordPress template. Boasting Revolution Slider plugin, multiple header layouts, Visual Composer (a drag & drop page builder), video backgrounds, theme options panel, parallax backgrounds, over 600 Google Font, Adobe typekit, and much more.

This theme has powerful features and has a contemporary design, ideal for anyone looking to create a business, a personal portfolio, a blogging site, a photography website or a creative agency.

Upshot

Upshot is a powerful, modern, flexible and intuitive WordPress theme, perfect for small business owners and creative professionals. This template boasts ready-made layouts, which shows that its designers first and foremost kept utility in mind. Some of your favorite premium plugins are included in Upshot, such as Revolution Slider, Visual Composer and Essential Grid. These plugins come in handy when you want to use a drag & drop interface, create any style of layout and lots of extra built-in elements.

Some other fun features include compatibility with the WPML plugin, translation ready, Retina ready, fully responsive, Font Awesome pack integration, Google Fonts, Parallax scrolling, contact form 7 compatibility, SEO ready, compatibility with popular plugins, etc.

Mood

Mood is a creative, modern, multipurpose, elegant and pixel perfect WordPress Theme. It is based on Visual Composer and focuses greatly on flexibility, details, and performance. Mood is great for different uses and businesses, whether it’s an eCommerce, a corporation website, a magazine or creative portfolios. The theme includes many builder sections ad lots of page templates.

More features of Mood are that it’s fully responsive, WPML ready, WooCommerce ready, has Contact Form 7 support, advanced parallax effects, ajax live search support, sticky sidebars, custom font icons, Google fonts, shortcodes, and much more.

Gloria

Gloria is a new, simple to use and modern WordPress theme, designed to easily help write blog posts and articles. It’s also great for magazines, news websites, online newspapers, and review or lifestyle websites. It features a handy rating system and supports video content from Video and YouTube.

A few features of the Gloria theme: live search with AJAX, SEO ready, drag & drop page builder, 6 unique demos with their own header variations, many customization options (layout, fonts, colors), AJAX member login and register, parallax, social media share system, translation and RTL support, etc.

NowaDays

NowaDays is a brand new WordPress theme, it is multi/one-page, powerful and multipurpose. It can be used to make any kind of website, but especially portfolios, blogs, agency sites and creative websites. This template comes with a Theme Options panel to build websites without the use of programming expertise, a visual drag & drop page builder, and a number of Page Builder elements.
Some handy features of NowaDays include 25+ designed layouts, 1-click demo install, full responsiveness, retina ready, more than 40.000 lines of code, smooth animation, hard optimization, more than 800 Google fonts, and much more.

Avalon

Avalon is a sleek, modern, easy-to-use WordPress theme for designers, photographers, painters and other artists. This theme showcases fullscreen photography and has many wonderful features. It will make any artwork look phenomenal and beautiful to its target audience and visitors.
A few Avalon features: 8 design styles with many options, a brand new flow slider, drag & drop page builder, fully responsive design, mixed gallery content, parallax, retina ready, more than 600 Google web fonts, custom made Themedo core plugin, SEO optimized, unlimited sidebars, WooCommerce ready, includes custom widgets, etc.

Milana

Milana is a WordPress blog theme that is multipurpose, unique and creative. Perfectly suited for personal or magazine blogs. The template is elegantly designed and has many options to choose from for customization purposes, changing colors, post views, fonts, layouts, etc. To make selling your product on Milana easier, they have integrated WooCommerce.
Features of Milana include a creative slider, promo boxes, responsive layouts, 7 demo pre-configured websites, plenty of blog styles and layout combos, many color themes, configurable options, a popular posts carousel, a customizable welcome block, WPML support, SEO optimized, and so much more.

Designed

Designed is an elegant, easy-to-use and fully responsive WordPress theme built specifically for news, magazine, blog and editorial websites that cover a wide range of topics like technology, entertainment, reviews, product promotion and the like. It’s also a premium money-making theme, so it integrates several dynamic ad sections and lets the website owner write/create advertising posts with links.
The features of Design are Layout Creator with mosaic, magazine and slider features, Google web fonts, color schemes, custom widgets, SEO optimized, translation ready, Ticker/Breaking News section, tiled galleries, and more.

We hope you enjoyed this review and got a good idea of what to expect within each theme. Whether you chose Avalon, Gloria or any other theme, hopefully, your choice has been made easier.

Nowadays video has become an important part of our daily lives, everybody has a smartphone or a tablet to watch them on. These mobile devices have great cameras and cheaper data costs, so people easily create a lot of video content. Even many of the popular videos on video-sharing websites have been shot using smartphones.

If you’re serious about making videos you’re probably looking for a way to showcase your work. You’d want your website to look professional, unique and visually appealing. This could result in more business opportunities for you as a filmmaker, videographer, etc.

In our list, we mention themes for social media websites, video blogging websites, and more.

Viduze

This is a video magazine WordPress theme and is perfect for building social media websites or video library websites. Viduze is extremely responsive, so whether visitors are using their smartphone, tablet or desktop doesn’t make a difference in the quality of the image.

An easy drag drop page builder is included in this theme to make it easier for you to create your pages. You’ll be able to create many different content styles, have an unlimited amount of pages, unlimited colors, layered PSD files, Google fonts, more than twenty background patterns, Font Awesome icons, a built-in logo manager, and more.

Viduze helps you and your visitors to share content via social media websites by adding built-in social share. You can post your own videos with the help of DailyMotion, Vimeo and other video-sharing sites by using their Iframe video support. To build a website like YouTube you can upload and host your videos using the Viduze theme. This theme also supports WooCommerce plugins and is optimized for SEO.

VideoTouch

This premium video WordPress theme is extremely flexible and built on a Twitter Bootstrap front-end framework. VideoTouch is completely responsive, which means that your website will function on smartphones and tablets too.

Installing the template is a piece of cake and offers a bunch of options and possibilities. To create a website that suits your needs, you’ll enjoy using the Touch Layout Builder.  This theme has amazing meta options to control setting sidebars, links, thumbnails, the layout of every single post and page, etc. it also comes with handy headers, customization options, sidebars, footers and custom widgets.

VideoTouch has four custom post types to build sliders, pricing tables, portfolios, and more. It already has two built-in sliders but is also compatible with other ones like Layer Slider for example. Other handy features include demo content for installing and adjust the theme, a custom theme options panel, and handy .po and .mo files to translate it into your language of choice.

TheMotion

TheMotion is a modern, creative, tech-savvy, responsive WordPress video blogging website theme. It was created for media-savvy video blog websites within different fields or industries as a complete toolkit for an easy and fast creation. It sports professionally and graphically designed homepage demo sites and template pages for various types of content.

The template was built on HTML5 coding, it easily manages modern media formats from local and remote hosted video files and also video streams. To build dynamic and creative sliders for your blog posts, you’ll be able to work with the Featured Slider Tool. TheMotion has functional social media channel features for you to smoothly integrate your website with social media strategies. Your content will be out there in no time!

Whether you picked Viduze, VideoTouch or TheMotion we hope you’ll have a great time showcasing your personal videos online or creating the next best video-sharing website.