Whether it's your own blog, your first company website or for a voluntary position - creating your first website is incredibly exciting.
Before you have to deal with complicated HTML and CSS codes, it's worth taking a look at WordPress. WordPress offers you the great opportunity to easily create your website on your own.
WordPress provides you with lots of tools and features, such as WordPress themes. Themes are designs with which you can design your website relatively easily according to your ideas.
The good thing is that there is a suitable theme for every website theme. Whether you need a design for a serious company or want to create a funny dog blog, you are sure to find the right theme in WordPress.
WordPress Themes - What is WordPress?
WordPress is one of the most popular open source content management systems (CMS). This means that anyone can use and modify the software free of charge. Over 43 percent of all websites are now created with WordPress. However, the popular plugins and themes are not necessarily programmed by the WordPress developers themselves, but often by external users. However, WordPress gives you access to this wide variety of plugins and themes, allowing you to design your website according to your personal preferences.
With WordPress, you can not only create and creatively model the design, e.g. the colors and fonts of your website, but also the page content and the menu. It is therefore particularly suitable for users who want to create a website without any programming knowledge.
Why do I need WordPress themes?
To begin with, the design of your website is simple. The default WordPress theme is not very original and only shows you the bare essentials. You don't necessarily need a WordPress theme. You can also switch to a headless WordPress, where the WordPress backend manages and publishes the content. Depending on your mood and programming skills, you can change or even remove the default theme yourself.
However, this is not usually necessary. With WordPress themes, you can easily design your site yourself, including navigation and headings, without any programming knowledge. The themes help you to concentrate fully on the texts. Since you no longer have to worry about the design, you are free to design your written content thanks to your WordPress theme. This saves you time that you can invest in your blog or website.
WordPress Themes - These are the best design templates
You can find your installed themes under Design - Themes. There you go to Add theme and you can search for new themes there. In the following, I will introduce you to 10 of the most popular and possibly also best-known WordPress themes that can be considered for both beginners and experts.
1. astra
Astra is one of the fastest growing themes. It has already been used on over 1.2 million websites and is therefore one of the most popular WordPress themes.
Astra has many convincing advantages:
- Fast loading times = good ranking
- Layouts for header and footer
- Different blog designs
- White label options
- Integration of LearnDash and LifterLMS Integration
- Designer for WooCommerce
With these features, Astra is a good theme for blogs or online stores. It is a free theme that also offers paid premium options.
2. divi
The Divi theme is an all-rounder. With Divi you can create websites for online stores, blogs or company websites. If you opt for Divi, you have a "you-see-what-you-get" page builder and numerous integrated themes at your disposal.
With the Page Builder, you can create your page quickly and easily using drag & drop. You can change your page in live mode and don't have to keep saving it.
You can use Divi to build blogs, WooCommerce stores, company websites or magazines. There are few limits with Divi. The Divi theme is unfortunately subject to a fee, in our WordPress hosting packages you get a free license for the theme and included Drag & Drop Pagebuilder with the Mini package.
The advantages:
- Uncomplicated design thanks to Live Page Builder
- Many templates in the layout library
- 40+ content modules
- Plugins and modules can be supplemented with paid variations
- Lifetime license
- New layout every 1 to 2 weeks
3. enfold
The theme Enfold is intuitive and not overloaded with functions, but also comes at a cost. In addition, the developers regularly develop the theme further.
The advantages are:
- Support in German language
- WPML & WooCommerce compatible
- Drag & Drop Page Builder
- PSD templates included
- Fast loading times = good ranking
4 Hello Elementor
The Hello Elementor is one of the fastest themes and impresses with its PageSpeed Score of 100%. This makes it not only fast, but also extremely SEO-friendly. All changes to the Elementor Builder are tested on the Hello theme and it is perfect for beginners and experienced WordPress users.
It is free of charge and particularly suitable for landing pages.
The advantages are:
- Free of charge
- Good for beginners
- Perfect for pagespeed
- Compatible with many plugins
- The best theme for Elementor
5. beTheme
BeTheme is for creative developers. It contains over 600 layouts, making it one of the most comprehensive themes in WordPress.
With BeTheme you can create a beautiful layout for almost any theme and any website, but it is also available for a fee.
Some of the layouts are based on the Elementor Page Builder, which Elementor users will like.
Further advantages:
- Many beautiful layouts
- 600+ demo layouts
- Various header and footer styles
- 1-click installation
- Compatible with WooCommerce
6. flatsome
Flatsome is a WooCommerce theme and ideal for online store developers.
Thanks to the beautiful styles, the user experience is particularly high. The with Flatsome stores impress with their fast loading time and appealing designs.
With Flatsome you can not only create stores, but also company websites. It is subject to a fee, but can be purchased with a one-off purchase.
The advantages are:
- One-click demo import
- Attractive designs for online stores and websites
- Very good loading speed
- Individual menus with the UX Builder
- 300+ layouts
7. the7
The installation process of The7 is simple and self-explanatory. Thanks to its high level of adaptability, it is suitable for many types of websites such as stores, blogs or information pages.
With the purchase you get many premium plugins, for example WPbakery, Slider Revolution or Layer Slider. It is one of the themes that restricts the user's individuality the least and offers the best creative freedom.
The advantages:
- Can be used with the Elementor Theme Builder
- 6 premium plug-ins included with purchase
- 1000+ theme options
- Lifelong free updates
8th Bridge
This theme is particularly creative, which is why it is often used by creative agencies. With the purchase of Bridge you get over 530 demos with which you can create stores and blogs. You can easily install Bridge with a single click and get started straight away.
Bridge now also supports the Elementor Builder and includes Prallax scroll effects, animations, various layouts and four additional premium plugins.
Advantages of Bridge:
- Flexible, creative and playful
- Well suited for stores and blog magazines
- 530+ demo layouts
- Four additional premium plugins
- Supports the popular Elementor Builder
9th GeneratePress
GeneratePress is a fast and small WordPress theme. It optimizes your site for pagespeed, SEO and userbility and can be used by beginners in particular.
In the free version, you can test it without obligation before deciding on the premium version.
GeneratePress works with any page builder and can be used in more than 20 languages. It now also works with the Gutenberg editor .
The advantages:
- Many templates available with one click
- Compatible with all page builders and the Gutenberg editor
- Optimizes your site in SEO, pagespeed and userbility
- Freeware available for testing
10. neve
Neve is the perfect theme when it comes to pagespeed. This theme works without jQuery and extensive code and takes 0.6 seconds to load in the default settings. This gives you a great ranking in the Google PageSpeed Insights test.
The Neve Theme supports WooCommerce, creates footers and headers via drag & drop and comes with many great layouts. You can import more than 80 ready-made pages with one click and look forward to new pages every month.
Neve is also compatible with Elementor, Brizy, Beaver Builder, Visual Composer, SiteOrigin, Gutenberg and Divi Builder.
It is subject to a fee and costs 59 euros for as many domains and websites as you like.
Advantages of Neve:
- Good page speed
- Compatible with many PageBuilders
- Header and footer via drag & drop
- 80+ ready-made pages available
Conclusion
In summary, it can be said that each of the 10 WordPress themes presented has its strengths. Most of the themes are subject to a fee, but often also offer free demo and test versions on their websites. As a user, you can decide for yourself which one best suits you and your needs. In general, it is always up to the user themselves, their personal preferences for individual freedom, their willingness to buy and especially the focus of the website to decide which theme ultimately suits them best. WordPress makes the search easy for you by allowing you to search directly for keywords, such as "blog", in the theme directory and display all matching and compatible themes directly.
