You can find hundreds of premium WordPress themes list posts just searching on Google. Most of theme are 50+, 100+ WordPress themes list without no any researches. So, you can’t get accurate results from them. As a solution for this, I did research (this includes some many communications with top WordPress developers) and select the best free & premium WordPress themes. Here is a list of them (all of these themes are well SEO optimized clean code themes).
Top page builders like Elementor, Visual Composer, Beaver Builder are used by many WordPress developers. They need a clean theme which fully supported for those builders. Generally, most themes are compatible with page builders, but there are some themes which specially designed for those builders. You can get the full benefit when using such type of theme.
OceanWP
I built this site using OceanWP theme with some pro extensions. There are so many customization options available in this theme.
The sidebar of this theme is eye-catching when comparing the other two competitor themes (Astra & GeneratePress).
Key Points :
- 300,000+ active installations
- 1,800+ five star ratings
- 8 free extensions
- WooCommerce ready
Advantages of pro version :
- Full screen
- Cookie notice
- Popup login
- Instagram feed
- White label
- Portfolio
- Woo popup
- Side panel
- Sticky header
- Sticky footer
Astra
Astra is specially designed for page builders. It comes with a very clean design. It is the fastest loading WordPress theme in this list. If your main concern is “fast loading site” this is the theme you should use.
It returns following date with default WordPress Data.
- Pingdom : 100%
- Google Dev : 95%
- GT Matrix : 400ms
- Yslow : 91ms
Key Points :
- 200,000+ active installations
- 1,300+ five star ratings
- No jQuery
- Less than 50 KB
- Just 0.5 seconds load!
- WooCommerce ready
Advantages of pro version :
- Sticky header
- More colour controls
- Better typography
- Custom layouts
- Footer widgets
- White label
- Blog layouts
- Mobile header
- Mage menu & more
Most people used use themes in Themeforest marketplace. So I list down the best multi-purpose theme in the Themeforest. This list includes only WordPress 5.0 + , WooCommerce & WPML support themes. All the below themes have at least 50,000 sales with a 4.5+ rating. And all of the themes have been updated at least just two months before.
Jupiter
Jupiter theme completely redesigned with Elementor recently. It seems like the
- 150+ website templates
- 100+ page block templates
- 8 premium WordPress plugins included (Slider Revolution, Jet Popup, Advanced Custom Fields, etc )
- WooCommerce customiser
- Blog customiser
Avada
Avada is the number 01 selling theme on
- 6 premium plugins included (Fusion Builder, Revolution Slider Plugin , Awesome Parallax Layer Slider Plugin)
- 60 layered PSD’s included
- 25+ main theme option panels with 40+ sub theme options panels
- Mega menu supported
- WooCommerce compatible with so many custom design options
- Advanced portfolio option
- Advanced blog option
- Advanced header option
- Advanced footer option
- Built-in contact forms
- Advanced search options
Newspaper
If your building news website or magazine website, the best premium WordPress theme is Newspaper WordPress theme. It comes with many blog/magazine layouts.
Enfold
Enfold is another nice multi-purpose WordPress theme. This theme comes with a
- Ajax Instant Search
- Layerslider Plugin included
- Deactivate responsive features if you want
- Advanced typography options
- Advanced header options
It is really hard to mention that without knowing your extract requirements. Usually, I suggest using OceanWP or Astra if you are going to build your site with Elementor page builder or Beaver page builder. If you want to add a nice blog with nice sidebar, I suggest you
Best Free WordPress Themes
OceanWP: This might be the most downloaded third-party WordPress theme in the official WordPress theme directory with over 300,000 downloads. This theme is specially built for page builder lovers. OceanWP works with almost all page builders ( Beaver Builder, Elementor, Visual Composer, Brizy, Divi,) without any issue. If you look at the rating, you can find that there are over 2000 users rated this theme as 5-star rating and only 4 users rated as 1-star rating. It means almost all users love OceapWP free WordPress theme.
Neve: Neve is newly built theme by popular WordPress theme development company Themeisle. This theme is built to perfectly worked with Gutenberg editor and it supported to other popular page builders also.
Hestia: Hestia is another popular theme built by Themeisle. This theme is best for a business like start-ups, restaurants, agencies. If you have a plan to design a one-page website, this is one of the most suitable WordPress themes.
GeneratePress: GeneratePress is recommended by many popular persons in WordPress industry like Troy Dean (founder of WP Elevation), Brian Jackson (chief marketing officer at Kinsta), Kulwant Nagi (founder of BloggingCage). This is also one of the best themes if you have a plan to built your site with a page builder like Elementor.
Customify: When I writing this post, there are 78 5-star ratings and no 4-star,3-star,2-star,1-star rating. It shows how much users love this theme. Most users use this theme to build a shopping site using WooCommerce.
Hueman: Hueman theme is best for building an online magazine like Mashable. This is one of the most rated blog and magazine WordPress theme in the official WordPress directory.
MH Magazine Lite: MH Magazine theme is best for creating a news site, magazine site or blog. This is a very simple and fast theme. If you want more features you can try the pro version of this theme.
Boxstyle: Box style is very unique style theme. This theme is best for users who looking to build a personal blog with a very unique style.
