Best wordpress theme. List of top 15 WordPress themes.

The best wordpress theme is that which has default schema data and should not use Jquery as it can make your site really slow. However, the popularity of the WordPress theme can vary in many aspects, like price, theme nature, features, support, stability, and market share.

There are lots and lots of WordPress themes currently present in the market and numbers can go in thousands, but there are only a few plugins that are preferable to use with your WordPress site. The very first step of theme selection involves- knowing the nature of your site as what kind of website you are working with. A blog site should have a different theme and while product selling and reviews websites should have different themes.

Each and every theme is made for different purposes on behalf of their different functions for various uses. So in this article, we will be talking about the top-best WordPress themes according to their uses and nature.

How to choose WordPress themes? What are features should a WordPress theme have?

We all know that there are more than 1000 WordPress themes currently sold in the market. Many of these WordPress themes are completely free with limited features, while some of them are fermium themes and some are completely paid themes.

The first step for selecting a WordPress theme should be based on the type of website you want to build with WordPress, but many webmasters choose those themes which have less file size and are faster in speed but this conclusion will not work since it depends on you that how you are customizing your WordPress theme.

In some cases, themes build with JavaScript instead of jquery are faster in speed, but don’t worry I will be providing you the list of best WordPress themes and all of them are better in speed.

There are lots of themes in the market and the majority of the theme developers are promising to provide a multipurpose theme that can be used for any purpose like: blog website, e-commerce website, product review website, and newspaper & magazine websites. But truth is that not every plugin is a multipurpose theme.

In the case of a WordPress website, you will need different types of themes for different purposes, but anyhow you can use any theme for any purpose but in that case, you will miss out on some core features that are required for some specific task.

For example, a theme like Astra is best for a blog website, magazines, and newspaper website but the team of Astra says that their theme is compatible with woocommerce and you can make an e-commerce website with an Astra theme, but the truth is different. An e-commerce theme needs to have some prebuild following features to make better e-commerce and product review website:

• Multi device compatible product and post layout
• Product swatches and advanced filters
• Multiple product selection option
• Wishlist features
• Specification and comparisons bars for multiple products
• Product price range like best gadgets under $30
• Price drop notification
• Advanced search filters

So the above were some core features that a pure e-commerce and product review website should have, but themes like Astra, newspaper, and magazine claim to be woocommerce compatible but they cannot be said to be proper eCommerce themes.

So from the above discussion, we can draw the conclusion that, not every theme is suitable for every task means you will need different themes for different and specific tasks. So for this purpose, we are providing you a list of the top 15 best WordPress themes along with their nature and core features.

List of top 15 best wordpress theme in 2021:

Astra theme

Astra is a fermium theme, which means that this theme is paid but they also provide you the free version of their theme but it will have some limitations like no control over header and footer design and no quick premium support.

Astra is a fast and lightweight theme but it depends on you that how you are customizing it. Astra theme can be used for multiple uses like for blog website, portfolio website, news, and magazine websites. This theme is widely used and this much famous that it is the most popular theme according to wordpress.org since currently this theme is being used by and powering more than 1 million WordPress websites.

Astra theme Demo:

Below are some core features of the Astra theme:

1. Astra provides the largest library of more than 100 pre-build websites, with can be downloaded and imported by anyone using Astra.

2. Astra is compatible and supports international web standards like “WCAG and AA” compliance. These are accessibility compliances which means if a website is following the norms of WCAG and AA, then the website can be easily accessed by a person with special abilities like blindness.

3. Astra can provide you with the default prebuild SEO-friendly structured data and markup. Click here to read about markups.

4. Compatible with all famous page builders.

5. Quick support within 24 hours for premium members.

6. Big market for video tutorials, in-depth tutorials, and community support as this theme is used by 1,00,000 + websites.

7. Better integration with default block editor Gutenberg in WordPress.

8. Above all the previous features, some common features of Astra are as follows:

• Header (along with primary header, above header and below header)
• Footer (along with primary footer, above footer and below footer)
• Sticky header
• Transparent header
• Page header, mobile header
• Mega menu
• Colour typography
• Multiple sidebars (left and right sidebar)
• Option for padding, spacing, boxed content and full width contents
• Responsive font and layout
• Multi device compatibility, along with mobile compatibility
• Date box, author name, related posts and infinite scroll options.
• Off-canvas sidebar for both mobile phone and desktop computer version.
• Logo option (left logo, centre logo, and right logo)
• Excerpt count for posts.

Some extra features of Astra theme:

1. Multiple other products for extending features, like:

• Ultimate addon for Gutenberg.
• Ultimate addon for beaver builder
• Ultimate addons for elementor
• Convert Pro
• Schema Pro
• WP Portfolio

2. Compatibility with woocommerce

3. Compatibility with Lifter LMS and Learn Dash plugin to make education site.

4. Self-hosted google fonts, which means that it will download google fonts on your server for better speed.

5. Address widget and social icon widgets.

Rehub Theme

Rehub theme is primarily designed for the product store websites; amazon affiliates websites, product reviews,s and e-commerce websites. However this can be used for various multiple purposes like for blog websites, magazine & newspaper websites, and for learning & educational sites, but this them has primarily been used for the product-based websites.

Rehub theme can be easily integrated with various other useful plugins and addons like a content egg (to import price and products from amazon and various other sites), page builders like elementor and divi, and SEO plugins like Yoast and Rankmath.

The Rehub theme is trusted because it’s being 8 years since its first launch and also it is this famous that it is being advised by amazon affiliates to be used for e-commerce websites. With this theme, you can easily build an amazing e-commerce or product review website by using its amazing features.

REhub theme Demo:

Below are some core features of the REhub theme:

1. Options for viewers to comment on products and articles.

2. Features of product listing, comparison, and specification table builder are provided.

3. Dynamic price update by using the content egg plugin.

4. Dynamic product comparison and specifications.

5. Options for top products, price range products, and product offers are provided.

6. You can also create educational and learning websites by using a plugin called “Learn Press”.

7. Cart and checkout pages are also included.

8. Compatibility with the Woocommerce plugin.

9. Compatible with the Gutenberg editor.

10. Rehub has default schema for videos, listing blocks, and FAQ.

Some extra features of the REhub theme:

1. Readymade 30 + free website layouts.

2. Bonus plugins worth 500$ are provided for free.

3. Rehub provides AR/3D features to woocommerce products and pages.

4. Provides features for multiple authors & communities.

5. Options for mobile responsive, dark layout and multiple add placement features.

6. Support for Multilanguage and RTL (right to left and vice versa).

Woodmart theme

Woodmart theme is also one of the best e-commerce and product-based theme because it has some best outstanding features that none of the e-commerce themes have.

This theme should be on the top list because of its speed optimization as this plugin separates different file types and loads them when required. As it separates HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and loads them individually when required. This plugin is also using the minified version of CSS and JavaScript to reduce the loading time.

Another amazing feature the Woodmart theme provides is the separate posts & pages for mobile devices and also the separate CSS and theme design for the mobile device. As if you are willing to pass any CSS rule then you can customize the CSS for computers and mobile separately.

Woodmart theme Demo:

Below are some core features of the Woodmart theme:

1. Support for page builders and woocommerce.

2. Responsive, retina enabled and cross-device compatible.

3. Visual drag and drop header design.

4. Big library of pre-build header layout and design.

5. Pagination and size filter for products.

6. Advanced products swatches for products with multiple colors.

7. Off-canvas hidden sidebar for both mobile and computer versions of web pages.

8. Support for mega menu and various product swatches design.

9. Compatibility with multi-vendor plugins like content egg, WCFM marketplace, dokan plugin, and woocommerce.

10. Compatibility with an SEO plugin, Page builder, contact forms, and forum plugin like Bb press.

Some extra features of the Woodmart theme:

1. 70+ website demo with 1 click import feature.

2. Social login and registration for users.

3. Induction of AJAZ or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML to load pages without flickering with multiple canonical URLs.

4. 35+ demo layout for designs.

5. Features like GDPR compliance, Multilanguage, and dummy content are provided for easy setup.

6. Child theme included.

7. 3 sidebar positions with advanced mobile navigation.

8. All google fonts included with 15+ footer layouts.

Newspaper theme

Newspaper theme is a very famous theme and most of the webmasters are aware of this theme. This theme is very famous because, it is widely used by media houses and news channels because of its excellent layout, design, and features for the publishing industries.

Newspaper theme will be recommended from our side for News websites, magazine websites, and blog websites because this theme has been crafted for specific news and blog sites.

A newspaper theme is recommended from our side because what it can deliver for your news website is not expected from other themes, especially for press and print media houses. You can only experience the outcome of the Newspaper theme once you start using it.

Newspaper theme Demo

Core features of Newspaper theme:

1. Enhanced default review feature in the form of a star, percentage, and bar.

2. Live Ajax search enabled means that the search bar will show recommendations for the search terms.

3. Login system for users.

4. Build-in cross-device responsive image sliders.

5. Build-in support for font awesome library.

6. Language translation and compatibility with all page builders.

7. Amazing footer options with 52+ footer templates.

8. By default support for “SVG logo”, which is not possible in many themes.

9. Build-in category page template to make category pages attractive.10. Support for image effects, author box widget, social widget, popular category widget, typography option, and the option of multiple headers for pages and posts.

Some extra features of Newspaper theme:

1. Primarily designed for blog and news websites, but also provides amazing woocommerce builder with drag and drop blocks features and also provides pre-build woocommerce shops.

2. Free “Tag div” library with over 1300+ elements to design and make layouts easily.

3. 120+ unique website templates.

4. This theme is highly compatible with “google amp”, and trust me that there is no other theme like Newspaper by tag div theme that provides best results with amp either in case of speed or design.

5. Post-auto-loading feature with amazing responsive cross-device compatibility. It have a separate designer option for mobile devices.

6. Smart advertisement placement system, with over 14 predefined places and 5 custom places for add placement.

7. Extra features include- Instagram widget, currency exchange widget, and weather widget.

8. Support for upcoming news block and youtube playlist management for displaying youtube videos.

9. Amazing responsive grid layout for home page to manage posts from different categories.10. Lazy load effect for contents to reduce the loading time and helps to increase the user engagement.

Magazine theme

Magazine theme by studio press is one the best theme for magazine websites, story websites, and fashion blog websites. This theme has been primarily designed for magazine-type websites.

Magazine theme by studio press has all the quality features that are essential for a responsive, attractive, and professional blog and magazine website. In order to purchase this theme, you have to buy the subscription of “studio press”.

This theme is best to use for blog and magazine websites, but this theme is less recommended from our side as it provides fewer features when compared to the above themes.

Magazine Theme Demo

Core features of Magazine theme

1. Simple and professional website layout.

2. Enhanced Gutenberg editor by introducing an advanced block library for Gutenberg.

3. 20+ pre-built websites.

4. Advanced editorial blocks to make writing professionally.

5. Social media widget

6. Tag widget and categories widget.

7. Attractive menu design.

8. Cross-device responsive and AMP compatibility.

9. Advanced footer design with drag and drop blocks.

10. Variety of options for advertisement placement.

WPLMS Theme

WPLMS is an online learning management system and it’s this much famous that it is being used by 500+ start-ups ad firms. This theme is primarily designed for making educational websites in order to make a teaching platform and also one can sell his/ her online video courses.

This theme is best for making an educational website because it’s one feature is amazing, which is that it can embed private youtube videos and won’t allow anyone to download without your permission. So embedding a youtube video can save a lot of hosting expenses.

This learning management theme is best for teachers, schools, institutions, start-ups, and businesses to make educational websites and sell courses online.

WPLMS theme demo

Core features of WPLMS theme

1. Best simple and professional organized layout for an education site.

2. Video lock and unlock option provided, by using which you can easily allow your visitors to download your video or you can also restrict visitors from downloading video courses.

3. This theme allows subscription-based enrolment for users.

4. Easy integration with woo commerce plugin to sell online courses.

5. Option for course video player, question module, assignment module, quiz module, and course description is provided.

6. WPLMS theme can be easily be connected with various forum plugins like “buddy press”, to convert your learning website to a discussion website too.

7. Useful options for unfinished courses as a draft, in-built course editor, lock previous courses and manual remark features are provided.

8. Option for attendance and certificate & badges is provided.

9. Easy integration with woocommerce to make courses and sell them from your website.

10. WPLMS theme can be easily converted to a mobile app-like layout, which means that this theme is highly compatible with mobile devices and also it have responsive cross-device compatibility.

11. Feature for monitoring the student progress is also provided, as you can easily access the time taken by students to complete the course, and based on it you can also award them with reward points and remarks.

12. Easy integration with video chat providers like zoom meetings, means that you can do zoom meetings from inside your website.

Generate Press Theme

Generate press is one of the leading participants in the race of custom design and attractive websites. Generate press is one the first theme to introduce the block-based editor.

In generate press theme every single element on a web page is a block-based element, which means that every single block can be edited separately.

While generate press is also is leading theme for wordpress, but personally, we do not recommend using the generate press theme as we found that it provides fewer features when compared to the theme of a similar segment.

Generate Press theme demo

Core features of Generate press theme.

1. Best for the blog website (not suitable for news and e-commerce websites).

2. Provides more than 100 pre-made website templates.

3. Custom header and footer options are also provided, along with the import option for header and footers.

4. Sufficient blocks for Gutenberg to edit and publish posts.

5. Option for header menu and footer menu is also provided.

Newsmag Theme

Newsmag is also at my first priority and recommended theme to be used for blog websites, news websites, and magazine websites. Newsmag theme is also equivalent to Newspaper theme but have some extra and different features.

Newsmag is basically an alternative to a Newspaper theme. As both the newsmag and newspaper themes are developed by “Tag Div”, but both these themes are different from one another in terms of features.

Newsmag theme demo

Core features of Newsmag theme

1. Tag Div composer library provided.

2. Drag and drop features to design elements in posts and pages.

3. More than dozens of pre-build theme demos.

4. GDPR compliant as per European data sharing standards.

5. Easy integration with the WPML plugin to convert your website into any desired language.

6. Separate mobile theme for mobile responsive layout.

7. Can be easily converted to AMP by using the TAG Div widget.

8. Extra widgets such as currency converter, weather widget, social widget, author box widget, category widget, and Instagram widget are also provided.

9. In-post advertisement box widget for attractive add placement.

10. Intelligent add system provided to place add up to 10 predefined places and up to 5 custom places.

Extra Features of Newsmag theme

1. Smart slider button to navigate posts and pages upside down.

2. Build-in drag and drop responsive gallery.

3. Smart list option to serve listed contents, as this feature can let your post a better indexing opportunity in search results.

4. Options to insert and embed youtube videos to make a video library on your site.

5. Category templates to make category pages look better as the category pages cannot be designed separately with the page builders.

6. Rich options like TinyMCE, sticky menu header, organized theme panel, and advanced block system is available.

7. Free WPbakery page builder worth $45 is also provided for free of cost with Newsmag theme.

8. 25 Custom widgets also provided.

9. Attractive grid system for the home page is also present, in order to organize and maintain a clean look and show category-wise articles on the home page.

10. Extraordinary feature called “video thumbnail” is also provided, by using this feature you can easily assign video as a thumbnail for any post on the home page.

11. More extra features like lazy load, Ajax search, Ajax login, awesome fonts integration, review system, e-commerce support, and google fonts are also provided.

OceanWP Theme

OceanWP is also a top priority from my side as it also provides some best features for a blog website, magazine websites, and portfolio website.

This theme can offer you all the features which are essential and required for your blog website and also it have been made and crafted with the industry standards. Besides providing basic and advanced features, this theme also provides some extra addon extensions to expand the features of the OceanWP theme.

OceanWP theme demo

Core features of OceanWP theme

1. 5+ custom header styles.

2. 3 mobile menu styles.

3. Logo option and social widget

4. Breadcrumbs option for enhancing SEO

5. 9 post elements, 6 Metadata elements, next and previous posts, and related contents option.

6. 3 grid layouts for blog posts on the home page

7. Custom header and footer options

8. Woocommerce compatible

9. 130 website demos, RTL support, and cross-device responsiveness

10. Sidebar, retina logo, scroll to the top and default schema markup features are integrated.

Some extra features of the OceanWP theme

1. Short code options for importing the layout elements and design to any section of the page and posts.

2. Theme button and form styling.

3. Search options for posts.

4. Easy integrations with lifter LMS to manage and protect the online courses.

5. BbPress integration to make a discussion forum.

BeTheme

The best part of the Betheme is that it provides you with the function called live page builder, which can be used to design posts and pages.

If you are planning to make a beautiful website for blog, business, magazine, and recipe websites without using a page builder plugin like elementor and divi then the Betheme should be the first priority.

Betheme has an In-build page builder that is nearly much powerful as page builders like elementor and divi. So Betheme can help you to cut the cost of purchase of any additional page builders.

BeTheme demo

Core features of Betheme

1. Drag and drop live page builder.

2. 600+ prebuild website templates that can be used anytime.

3. 100+ Prebuild sections that can be imported into posts and pages.

4. Highly cross-device responsiveness.

5. 60+ typography options for posts to make publishing are easy.

6. Megamenu, sidebar, and header & footer

7. RTL and build in language translator.

8. Child theme and custom header & footer designer.

9. Font awesome integration for seamless logo experience.

10. Build-in code editor with error highlighter for custom codes

11. Advanced control over plugin designs and each plugin can be designed manually, like changing color and layout.

Eduma Theme

Eduma is also a top-selling theme in the education segment. Eduma theme is primarily built for educational and course selling websites.

Eduma theme is very powerful and is the best in the segment of the learning management system. This theme is this much famous that it is being used by 20,000+ educational institutions globally.

Eduma Theme Demo

Core features of Eduma theme

1. Default integration with Learn press LMS theme and its LMS theme demos.

2. 20+ prebuild website themes.

3. Compatible with all major page builders like elementor, wp bakery and, site origin.

4. GDPR ready (cookie policy according to European standards)

5. Easy integration with Bbpress and Buddy press to make an online discussion forum.

6. Woocommerce ready

7. Header-footer and mega menu options.

8. Multi-language ready

9. Cross-device compatibility and responsiveness

10. Easy integration with video conferencing applications like Zoom meeting.

Divi Website Builder Theme

Divi theme is all known for its outstanding designs that none other themes can provide. Divi theme is primarily known for its designing elements and also it has lots of addon products and plugins that can be used for making an ultra-responsive and beautiful website.

If you are planning to make a website and want a theme that should not restrict your designing progress then it’s recommended from my side to go with the Divi website builder theme.

Divi Website Builder Theme Demo

Core features of Divi website builder theme

1. Drag and drop responsive posts and page builders.

2. 40+ prebuild website elements.

3. 800+ pre-made designs and 100+ full prebuild website demos that can be imported.

4. Divi gives you the power to design and change the layout of any elements with a visual builder.

5. All types of 3D transforming effects are provided.

6. In-build filters and effects for photographs.

7. Effects like animation, block shadow, and text-shadow are provided.

8. Multi-element editing at a time

9. Header & footer builder with pre-made demos.

10. Feature of allotting keyboard shortcuts is also provided for easy workflow.

Some extra features of the Divi website builder

1. Email marketing module to make email list with divi plugin.

2. Pricing table block to make comparison table in posts and pages.

3. Contact form builder with divi contact form plugin.

4. Social widget and prebuild woocommerce elements.

5. Divi provides full support to manage and change the Working dashboard appearance with drag and drop features.

Avada website builder theme

While Avada website builder theme is also a professional theme that can be used for making a blog website, portfolio website, landing pages, business website, cooking site, and magazine website.

But in my opinion, the Avada theme should be the last option because it provides fewer features when compared to all the above themes. Anyhow, if you still want to use the Avada website builder theme then you can, because it can still generate the best results for normal websites.

Avada Website Builder theme demo

Core features of Avada website builder theme

1. Visual page builder.

2. Built-in performance optimizer.

3. Header & footer builder, form builder, and layout builder.

4. Cross-device compatibility and responsiveness.

5. Dynamic contents insertion with ID and shortcodes.

6. Set of some premium plugins also provided with the theme, which is as: ACF pro, slider 7evolution, file bird, layer slider and convert plus.

8. Option to disable unused features.

9. Icon scanner to see, where are icons placed.

10. Lazy load and preloading feature for images.

11. Avada pre-build website import option.

12. Support various widgets like: custom icons, social media icons, menu elements, and alignment options.

Soledad wordpress theme

Soledad wordpress theme is primarily designed for the websites like blogs, magazines, and news. This theme can provide you all the features for making and managing your blog and news website.

The reason for listing this theme here is because this theme is amp ready and with the purchase of this theme, you will be provided with an amp plugin developed by the same developer and hence there will be seamless integration with its amp plugin.

This wordpress theme is known for its amp-ready feature and is always called as “Soledad multi-concept blog magazine amp wordpress theme”.

Soledad wordpress theme demo

Core features of Soledad wordpress theme

1. AMP-ready theme.

2. 30+ prebuild design elements.

3. Huge widget library support, such as:

• Video playlist
• Social media
• Login & register
• Gallery
• Image slider
• Map and much more…

4. Ready for import 6,880+ website demos.

5. 1000+ blog and magazine layouts.

6. Lots of premade post templates.

7. Live theme customizer.

8. Compatible with SEO plugin and have default schema and structured data for easy SEO.

9. Compatible with all major page builders like wpbakery and elementor.

10. Multi-language, RTL, GDPR compliance, and auto post-loading option are given.

Some extra features of the Soledad wordpress theme

1. Premium penci’s plugin provided for free for recipe and reviews.

2. Featured image size adjustments.

3. Woocommerce compatibility.

4. Buddy press and revolution slider compatibility.

5. Pinterest and Twitter widget with Gif image support.

Kadence block wordpress theme

Kadence block wordpress theme also falls in the premium and professional segment of wordpress themes. This theme is best for making blog and magazine websites.

The only reason to use the kadence block wordpress theme is the great support of its additional Gutenberg blocks and design capabilities.

Kadence is famous for its Gutenberg block plugin, but it have also a kadence theme which is the best fit for the kadence block plugin. If you are planning to make a beautiful website blog with lots of customization and editing options then you should use this theme.

Kadence block wordpress theme demo

Core features of Kadence block wordpress theme

1. Responsive control of page, post, blocks, and elements.

2. Lots of pre-build design libraries which can be easily imported.

3. Advanced typography options.

4. Pre-build 1500 SVG icons with image background control.

5. Cross-device compatibility and responsiveness.

6. Woocommerce ready.

7. AMP ready

8. Header & footer option with customizability.

9. Great library of rich plugins for seamless workflow, list of plugins are as:

• AMP plugin
• Kadence blocks for extra Gutenberg extendibility.
• Kadence woo extras for woocommerce.
• Kadence slider
• Woocommerce email designer.
• Kadence woocommerce elementor.
• Kadence woocommerce site origin builder
• Kadence galleries
• Kadence related contents
• Kadence simple share
• Kadence reading time
• Kadence page transitions
• Kadence custom fonts
• Kadence recaptcha
• Kadence widget dock
• Kadence pricing table
• Kadence full pane vertical slider

Conclusion

So till now, we have discussed the top 15 wordpress themes of all categories like blog, magazine, news, portfolio, business, and e-commerce. Currently, we have more than 1000 wordpress themes in the market but only a few of them are up to date and comply with industry standards.

Before heading towards purchasing the wordpress theme, you should always keep in mind the following factors: type of website you are building, price of them, and community support of that theme.

In the current market, every theme designing firm and developers claim that their theme is suitable for e-commerce website, but this is not correct, there are only a few e-commerce compatible themes in the market, like: Rehub.

In this article I have discussed the following themes:

Top wordpress theme in 2021:

• Astra
• Rehub
• Woodmart
• Newspaper
• Magazine
• WPLMS
• GeneratePress
• Newsmag
• OceanWP
• Betheme
• Eduma
• Divi
• Avada
• Soledad
• Kadence block theme

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