In this post, you’ll find 6 best most popular WordPress themes that you can try this year to start your personal blog or online business from home.
It’s 2020 and I know many of you are already prepared because you have made up your mind to start a new blog this year.
RIGHT?
Well, you have two choices… FREE and PAID.
Beginners usually prefer free themes because they don’t want to spend money unnecessarily.
But free themes come up to with the less flexibility & customization features.
And most importantly they are unreliable and full of bugs.
On the other hand, premium WordPress themes are fully flexible and customizable.
Here are countless reasons to buy premium themes. A few of them are listed below…
| PREMIUM THEME | FREE THEME |
| They Look professional | Unprofessional, incomplete and unskilled |
| They provide you with the great user experience | Bad user experience |
| Compatible with browsers and plugins | Compatibility is quite less |
| Secured | Vulnerable |
| Regular updates and full customer support | Limited support and update |
| SEO optimized | Not fully optimized for SEO |
| Fully customizable and flexible | Limited features |
Just like any other blogger, we all fear what we can’t control and optimize. And sadly, free themes come up with the lack of control and flexibility.
This is why you need advanced fully-featured themes that include limitless features.
And luckily, I’ve found 6 best WordPress themes that you can choose and start a professional blog.
So let’s get started…
Avada | Responsive Multi-Purpose Theme
With over 500K sales, AVADA has become one of the best responsive, multipurpose themes for WordPress users to start an online business or blog.
Current Price: – $60
It provides you with complete design freedom. One can design its homepage, header and footer easily.
Let’s talk more about AVADA theme…
Major factors that you need to know before buying AVADA: –
DESIGN & FEATURES
AVADA is a fully responsive theme with over 60 different templates that cover a wide range of industry niches.
So either you are looking to start a grocery business or just a simple blog, you can start with AVADA.
AVADA comes with loads of design and customization options.
Some design features:
- You can customize single post, portfolio post and archive layouts that can help you decide what and how to display your content.
- You can create more personalized custom 404-page layouts.
- Footer builder helps you to design a footer that suit branding.
- AVADA comes with tons of theme customization options like Layout, Responsive, colours, header, menu, logo, page title bar, footer, sidebar and background.
- No manual coding is required. Everything is ready to use.
- You can control your site globally with fusion theme options.
- “AVADA dynamic content system” enables you to take your designing and flexibility to a new level.
- 70 design elements give you full control over the content on your site. And 8 layout section elements give you the full control over the layouts for single posts, portfolios and 404 pages
- Moreover, you can upload your custom icons to improve branding and visual message.
PRICING:
If you are looking to buy AVADA, you need to pay $60 to run it on a single site.
PURPOSE:
Like I said, you can use AVADA for any purpose. It’s a multipurpose theme with over 60 pre-designed templates. These all templates enable you to start a simple blog or even a restaurant business. So feel free to use this theme for any kind of business or blog you are about to start.
TECHNICAL ASPECTS
Avg. Loading time: 2 – 3 seconds; this data is based on demo themes. So the loading time may be slightly different because loading time depends on hosting, server response time, content delivery networks and HTTP requests.
Overall page score: 80 out of 100
Mobile friendly: YES
Compatibility: AVADA is compatible with all popular browsers like Chrome, Mozilla, Opera, IE10, IE11, Safari and Edge. Also compatible with all popular WordPress plugins including Woo Commerce, bbpress and BuddyPress.
REVIEWS:
4.9 out 5; in my opinion, AVADA is a great theme for all kind of blog or businesses. I think you should give it a try.
SUPPORT:
Great support!
Extended premium support – Free support is offered for 6 months after you buy this theme. And then you’re required to pay $18 to extend support to 12 months.
E-COMMERCE READY:
YES!
X | The Theme
X | THE THEME is another bestselling multipurpose WordPress theme that you can purchase to start a beautiful website.
Current price: $59
It has generated over 200K sales so far and continuously used by bloggers and businesses.
If you are looking for the alternatives to AVADA then “X | The Theme” could another choice.
Let’s talk more about it…
DESIGN & FEATURES:
- Fully responsive
- Custom fonts and icons
- Retina ready
- Drag and drop page builder
- It has tons of navigation option including one-page navigation
- 600 Google fonts
- Easy to use site layouts
- This theme is come up with the facility to update plugins automatically. No manual updating is required
PRICING:
$59 per site
PURPOSE:
Similar to AVADA, X theme is also a multipurpose theme used by several business and blogs including restaurant, agency, SPA, education, wedding and GYM.
TECHNICAL ASPECTS:
Avg. Loading time: 3 – 4 seconds. This data is based on demo themes. So the loading time may be slightly different because loading time depends on hosting, server response time, content delivery networks and HTTP requests.
Mobile friendly: YES
Overall page score: 60 out of 100
Compatibility: Similar to Avada, X is also compatible with all popular browsers like Chrome, Mozilla, Opera, IE10, IE11, Safari and Edge. Also compatible with all popular WordPress plugins including WooCommerce, bbpress and BuddyPress. But the only downside is that it is not optimized with Gutenberg.
REVIEWS:
4.8 out of 5; X-theme is purchased over 200K times by users and 85% of users are totally happy and satisfied with the item.
SUPPORT:
Great support with extended premium support ($18 per year)
E-COMMERCE READY:
YES!
Enfold – Responsive Multi-Purpose Theme
It is one of the best user-friendly WordPress themes ever made. With over 200K sales, this theme also becomes the bestselling WordPress theme of 2020.
Current price: $59
It’s clean and super flexible WordPress theme you can use to start any type of blog or website.
Learn More about Enfold WordPress theme…
DESIGN & FEATURES:
- Fully responsive
- Drag and drop editor to design WHAT and how you want to deliver your content
- Retina ready
- Easy to use admin area
- Easy documentation with videos tutorials
- Several Customization options enable you to modify layout, styling and colouring.
- Amazing Slideshows
- Woo-commerce ready
PRICING:
$59 per site
PURPOSE:
Enfold offers 7 different categories which include 20+ pre-build site designs that enable you to start a blog, business site, personal blog, portfolio blog or photography blog.
TECHNICAL ASPECTS
Avg. loading time: 2-3 seconds; this data is based on demo themes. So the loading time may be slightly different because loading time depends on hosting, server response time, content delivery networks and HTTP requests.
Overall Theme performance: 78 out of 100
Mobile friendly: YES
Compatibility: Compatible with all popular browsers like Chrome, Mozilla, Opera, IE10, IE11, Safari and Edge. Also compatible with all popular WordPress plugins including WooCommerce, bbpress and BuddyPress.
REVIEWS:
4.8 out of 5; in my opinion, it is a lightweight theme that can make your business load faster than others. With better design quality and customers support, I can recommend this theme to my readers confidently.
SUPPORT:
Great support with extended premium support ($18 per year)
E-COMMERCE READY:
YES!
BeTheme – Responsive Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme
BeTheme is the third and of course my favourite responsive multipurpose WordPress theme that can be used for any kind of online businesses or blogs.
With over 180K sales, this theme has become one of the bestselling WordPress themes.
Current price: $59
The cool thing is that it has almost 500 ready to use theme designs which give you the flexibility to choose what truly match your business or blog model.
Let’s learn more about this BeTheme…
DESIGN & FEATURES:
- Fully responsive
- Light in weight ( The older version was 31MB but now it’s just 6 MB)
- Complex layout builder
- Fully customizable with theme options
- Header builder for creating headers using pre-defined layouts
- Powerful admin area
- Build-in mega menus with the facility to upload background images.
- Similar to other themes, BeTheme enables you to create a one-page site
- You can choose different menus for different pages.
- Custom font uploader to upload and use premium fonts
- Visual icon selection
PRICING:
$59 per site
PURPOSE:
Use this theme for any purpose you can think of. It offers 529 pre-designed sites that you can use for food blogging, wedding, and photography blogging and more.
TECHNICAL ASPECTS
Overall Theme Performance: 75 out of 100
AVG. loading time: 2.5 – 3.5 seconds; this data is based on demo themes. So the loading time may be slightly different because loading time depends on hosting, server response time, content delivery networks and HTTP requests.
Mobile Ready: YES
Compatibility: Compatible with all popular browsers like Chrome, Mozilla, Opera, IE10, IE11, Safari and Edge. Also compatible with all popular WordPress plugins including WooCommerce, bbpress and BuddyPress.
REVIEWS:
4.6 out of 5; this is just awesome! If you are planning to start a blog or online business this year then don’t think too much just go ahead and buy it. Its design quality, lightweight, customer support, customizability, flexibility are admirable.
SUPPORT:
Great support with extended premium support ($18 per year)
E-COMMERCE READY:
YES!
Jupiter – Multi-Purpose Responsive Theme
Jupiter comes up with a powerful visual editor called “Elementor”. With this, you can customize every bit of your website, blog or online shop.
Current price: $59
Similar to the above themes, Jupiter is also a multipurpose responsive WordPress theme that can be used for any kind of online business, website or blog.
With over 125K sales, Jupiter has become 5th bestselling theme of 2020.
DESIGN & FEATURES:
- Jupiter comes up with Elementor visual editor which makes it super customizable and flexible.
- Easy to customize
- Header builder that gives you unlimited header possibilities. (20+ pre-designed header is available)
- Footer builder to build a custom footer
- Portfolio customizer with real-time preview
- 250+ pre-made page block templates add awesome testimonials, pricing tables, newsletters and more.
- Easy form builder
- Limitless menus
- Pro pop-up builder
PRICING:
$59 per site
PURPOSE:
Similar to AVADA, Jupiter has over 250 pre-designed site templates from which you choose the best match for your business or blog. These templates have all categories including corporate, blog/magazine, health and beauty.
TECHNICAL ASPECTS:
Overall Theme Performance: 72 out of 100
AVG. loading time: 3 – 4 seconds; this data is based on demo themes. So the loading time may be slightly different because loading time depends on hosting, server response time, content delivery networks and HTTP requests.
Mobile Ready: YES
Compatibility: Compatible with all popular browsers like Chrome, Mozilla, Opera, IE10, IE11, Safari and Edge. Also compatible with all popular WordPress plugins including WooCommerce, bbpress and BuddyPress.
REVIEWS:
4.8 out of 5; another one of my favourite theme that you should be trying to start a new blog this year. I’ve read a ton of reviews & video reviews and come up with the conclusion that this theme is really worth your money.
SUPPORT:
Great support with extended premium support ($18 per year)
E-COMMERCE READY:
YES!
Bridge – Creative Multipurpose WordPress Theme
I’ve come across Bridge; another great but creative multipurpose WordPress theme for you to start an online store or a simple blog.
If you don’t like the above themes then I recommend you to try Bridge…
Current price: $59
DESIGN & FEATURES:
- Fully responsive, customizable and flexible
- 460 pre-designed sites of different-2 categories
- It comes with “Qode help centre”; a professional support
- Video documentation is available on YouTube that gives you step by step guide to set up your site completely.
- 200+ fully customizable elements
- Comprehensive admin panel
- Font icon pack
- Auto-update functionality
PRICING:
$59 per site
PURPOSE:
Similar to other themes, Bridge can also be used for multipurpose. It enables you to start a simple blog or even start a pro-level blog or an online store or an online business.
TECHNICAL ASPECTS:
Overall Theme Performance: 75 out of 100
AVG. loading time: 2 – 3 seconds; this data is based on demo themes. So the loading time may be slightly different because loading time depends on hosting, server response time, content delivery networks and HTTP requests.
Mobile Ready: YES
Compatibility: Compatible with all popular browsers like Chrome, Mozilla, Opera, IE10, IE11, Safari and Edge. Also compatible with all popular WordPress plugins including WooCommerce, bbpress and BuddyPress.
REVIEWS:
4.5 out of 5; whenever you look for a great theme you always come up with the price, flexibility, customizability and technical aspects. In my suggestion, the Bridge could be your choice.
SUPPORT:
Great customer support with Qode Help Center and extended for 1 year ($18 per year)
E-COMMERCE READY:
YES!
OVER TO YOU
These 6 themes are the bestselling WordPress theme of 2020. And if you are looking for starting a new blog or online business then better you choose one of these themes.
After reading this post, you might have a better idea to choose the best theme as I have provided you with parameters that can help you make better a better choice.
Each one of these themes has the same price and compatibility. The differences are in its design, features, overall theme performance and loading time.
You can make your choice based on the above parameters.
- Design
- features
- Overall theme performance
- Loading time
Which of these themes you are going to buy? Let me know in the comment section.
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