Today I’m going to share our 7 favourite WordPress theme sources with you. You’ve most probably heard of WordPress, in fact you may even be using it for your own website or blog. This open source-software (which means it’s free) is the world’s most popular content management system, powering 34% (and rising) of all websites on the internet.
If you need a certain feature, tool or plugin you’ll almost certainly be able to find one that works, given that the WordPress Plugin Directory features 58,000+ plugins. In addition, WooCommerce powers 22% of the top 1 million ecommerce sites in the world.
As the leading website building platform, it has a wide selection of talented freelance developers who offer more competitive rates. Great if you need help with tweaking your website or adding complicated features that are beyond your own capability.
After installing WordPress via C-Panel, the first thing to do is to choose a WordPress theme.
Themes give your website a design and structure that you can then customise to fit with your own business. A great benefit of this is that you can get an “off-the-peg” website. One that has already been created for you by design and coding professionals. And more importantly you don’t need to find a tech person to build one for you.
I’d like to share seven of our favourite WordPress theme sources with you which are not in any specific order.
1. ThemeForest.net
“The largest collection of WordPress themes on offer”
This is the undisputed giant of WordPress theme stores with a massive archive. Themes are made by individuals and companies and rated by users to give you a good idea of their usability and the support offered.
2. ElegantThemes.com
“Home of Divi, the most popular WP theme in the world. “
Some eye-catching WordPress themes on offer here, all with clean template designs and clear calls to action that can be adapted and tweaked for any business or user. In addition, some useful and great quality plugins.
3. GabfireThemes.com
“Great for magazine or newspaper style blogs and websites”
A good option for newspaper and magazine-style blogs that use a lot of images and are particularly content and headline driven. There is an excellent support forum which you get access to for a fixed time after a purchase and that can be renewed later for a fee.
4. ThemeGrill.com
“Solid themes designed to suit a number of different sectors”
Theme Grill make some clean and nice-looking themes with user-friendly options for customisation. There are free and “pro” versions, and the pro themes can be bought individually or as a multi-licence package.
5. WooCommerce.com
“The WordPress giants, particularly when it comes to eCommerce”
Woo have the eCommerce scene pretty much wrapped up, so if you’re looking for a shop solution that’s hosted on WordPress and use their WooCommerce plugin then you can’t go far wrong (although many other themes also work seamlessly with this plugin too).
6. WordPress Directory
“WordPress’s own database of free themes you can use for your website”
There are some nice, clean professional-looking themes on here that you can use for free. Don’t expect a huge amount of room for customisation (these are free after all), but this is a great starting point if you’re on a tight budget. If you find you don’t have access to all the functionality you want with a free theme you can always change it to a paid version later.
7. Theme.co/x
“A superb theme that gives you huge flexibility to make visual edits without knowing coding”
You’ll find X Theme on the Envato Theme Forest market, but it deserves its own review because it’s a great theme. It’s perfect if you want a lot of creative and visual control but don’t fancy getting stuck into coding. It uses a “page builder” where you can drag and drop elements.
These types of themes won’t be perfect for everyone and if you want something “off the peg” that looks like the demo screenshots from the start then you might be better with one of the other themes, but this is well worth looking at.
I really hope you found Our 7 Favourite WordPress Theme Sources post helpful and that you’ll check some of them out for yourself.
To Your Success!
