Top Ten WordPress Themes

In this article we take a look at ten top WordPress themes which come from a variety of companies. Your choice will depend entirely on whether you can use an off-the-shelf design or whether your theme will need to be customized.

Before you begin shopping, you need to define your needs, not only for the present but as long as 5-10 years in the future. This will affect the choice you will make. As an example, if you want eCommerce, you will want to look at themes/companies that create themes for that space, and especially themes which can be customized and which support plugins.

Moboom is a platform which allows you to build customized layouts, whether that be for the desktop, tablet, or smartphone. Choose from a variety of built-in templates which you can use as is, or customize to build your own layout.

We’ve covered OptimizePress in previous articles at HTML Goodies. This is a theme with an optional plugin, a membership site payment system option and various pages you can build. Designed for the online marketer, you can build sales pages, landing pages, opt-in pages, membership portals, launch funnels, blogs and a lot more. The membership site plugin allows you to set up the theme to accept payment from services such as PayPal, JVZoo, Authorize.net, ClickBank, etc. It also integrates with various autoresponders such as Aweber, Mailchimp, etc.

The Headway Themes software allows you to create custom themes for your WordPress installation with a drag and drop creator. It allows you to build a blog or an eCommerce site and you can build unique pages for each part of your site. If you’re conversant with CSS, HTML, or PHP, you can use those within the themes.

LeadPages is popular with many online marketers as a way of quickly building pages which can be used for many marketing applications. Choose from over 350 templates. Leadpages allows you to collect leads and customer contacts from landing pages, pop-up forms, social media, text messaging, and email. The interface is designed to get you up and running, fast.

These are themes which make use of the Genesis Framework. When you install any of these themes, you install the Genesis theme first, then you install the theme you’ve purchased. From there, you can set up the theme to match your requirements.

Envato is a company with several digital spaces to help creative people. One of these is ThemeForest, where you can choose from over 7,000 WordPress themes. Among other things, you can hire a professional to design a theme for you or have one of these professionals install the theme. One of the things they offer is a beginner’s guide to WordPress.

ClickFunnels is a system designed for the serious online marketer. They offer email opt-in integration and autoresponders, landing page software, split testing, website hosting and more. Going to the site will be a bit overwhelming if you’re not used to seeing marketing sales pages.

WooCommerce gives you a number of options for themes. As an enticement, a number of them are free. WooCommerce also offers an All Themes Package for $399.00. The all themes package is designed for multi-site owners, freelancers, and web agencies. You can use these themes for client work, change between themes, create modifications, etc.

With the Thesis theme you have precise control over how your site is built. If you’re a person who needs this attention to detail, check out this theme.

Template Monster is a repository of themes for multiple platforms and CMS’s. On this site you’ll notice they have links to other template sites, such as WooCommerce and Shopify. All told, they have over 26,000 designs on a wide variety of platforms.

Above is the interface for creating Wufoo forms. While not an actual theme, Wufoo forms are godsend. They are easy to set up, build, customize and deploy on your website. A free membership allows you to create 3 forms which you can use. You can also customize the code to fit your site. Simply copy the generated code into a page of your choice and you’re all set.