In the year that we’re about to leave behind, thousands of WordPress themes in various categories have met their users and visitors via ThemeForest. And some of them got their places in people’s minds with aesthetic details and creative touches. See, WPSelected has curated a collection of the best ThemeForest WordPress themes in 2018. It’s quite a detailed exploration for the readers!
Aldo – Gutenberg Blog WordPress Theme
Aldo WordPress theme is the ultimate solution for building topic-specific blogs. It’s well-suited to be used for the launch of viral blogs, personal portfolios, cryptocurrency, business, entertainment, and a range of other niche-specific online projects. The theme is made to be fully compatible with Gutenberg page builder. This allows you to create and edit multiple types of content in the intuitive visual mode. The download pack comes loaded with enhanced block styles and extra theme shortcodes, all of which are compatible with Gutenberg page editor.
The responsive layout of the theme is cross-browser compatible and SEO-friendly. This guarantees that a website built on its basis will be easy-to-find through search engines and easy-to-browse on all screens. Moreover, all elements of your theme’s design will look stunning on Retina screens.
In addition to full Gutenberg support, the theme contains Instagram Feed, MailChimp for WordPress, WooCommerce, and Contact Form 7. It’s made to be compatible with all the major plugins and extensions that you can find in the WordPress community. A range of pre-built pages and ready-to-go layout options are provided for a quick theme’s adjustment to any topic-specific online venture.
Gutentype – 100% Gutenberg WordPress Theme for Modern Blog
Gutentype WordPress theme is based on Gutenberg page builder. A fresh and clean layout of the theme it perfectly suited for the launch of niche blogs, guides, how-to blogs, media projects, and a whole lot of other topic-specific blogs and sites. The theme’s layout supports all the major types of content. So, you are given the complete freedom to build informative yet interactive online projects that will appeal to your web audience. The theme is ready to be used as a foundation of blogs, business, and eCommerce sites.
It contains WooCommerce ready-made shop that is ready to be adjusted for all types of eCommerce projects. The theme includes support of all Gutenberg blocks, enhanced block styles, and extra theme shortcode, which will make quick and easy to bring a fully personalized presentation to your online project.
Gutentype WordPress theme is fully compatible with GDPR. Thanks to the mobile-friendly layout of the theme, you do not need to worry about the way your website will perform on different screens. The theme contains boxed and full-width layouts, as well as a range of ready-made pages that you can use on your own site. All elements of the theme are fully editable. A powerful theme framework includes 750+ customizer options that allow you to optimize the theme for its best performance.
Vagabonds – Personal Travel & Lifestyle Blog WordPress Theme
Vegabonds WordPress theme is a clean and trendy ready-to-go solution that’s well suited to be used for the launch of travel and lifestyle blogs. The fully editable layout of the theme is quick and easy to modify to match any different niche-specific blog.
Downloading this theme to your own collection of premium web design items, you will be able to use a series of premium plugins and extra theme options that can boost the performance of your blog manifolds. One of the best features of Vegabonds is its integration with WPBakery Page Builder. This allows even those users who have little to no coding skills to modify the theme’s layout according to their needs without asking for the help of professionals. Additionally, the theme comes loaded with such useful WordPress plugins as WooCommerce, Instagram Feed, Essential Grid, and Give – Donation. Moreover, the theme is ready to be enhanced with a range of other extensions that you want to be present on your site.
Veso – Multipurpose Portfolio Theme
Themes that stay away from chaos always offer easiness and clean space for the user content. We’re talking about Veso, a multipurpose portfolio theme with a modern design. You’ll see some tiny touches in red, but the rest of the concept uses black & white color pattern. Thin shaped and soft fonts complete this simplicity.
Veso includes 12 demo alternatives and trusts us, all of them are different sources of inspiration for you. “Fall” is the default home view which you can see the images seem very nice over diverse background colors. Also, “Words” and “Carousel” layouts are one step ahead according to our taste. The theme comes with about 10 portfolio interfaces, a lightbox for the bigger versions of your images and WP Bakery Page Builder plugin. Online documentation is really helpful by the way. Despite 500+ sales and lots of 5-star ratings, Veso is waiting for new buyers excitedly!
Glytch – A Vibrant Music Theme
Now we have a quite different theme from the ones that we’re familiar with their spacious and feminine styles. By its masculine and dark atmosphere, Glytch is one of the best music WordPress themes of recent times. But don’t get this darkness wrong, it’s a highly customizable theme. So if you wish, you can create a clean and modern music site too.
We see that the theme has 9 demo variations. ”Parallax Showcase” is fairly conspicuous among them. And the “Video Showcase” layout is very suitable for an entrance with your music videos directly. At the same time, having 4 blogging interfaces is the generosity of the theme. You can just pick one and start to use your blog. Glytch also lets you bring together your goods like albums, posters and concert t-shirts with your fans since it’s compatible with WooCommerce. Generally, it provides an extensive and practical design, including diverse options for your discography and tours pages.
Starmile – Blog Monetization WordPress Theme
Feminine font choices and pastel color tones are the primary preferences of fashion bloggers. By taking this into consideration, Starmile hits the target on its demo site!
Among the 11 homepage alternatives, you may want to have a closer look at “Minimal Fashion” and “Mom” layouts. Especially the “Mom” is a popular blogging style lately which appeals to mom bloggers. Thus, we understand that the seller is open to meet today’s trends.
We have to say, experienced users would be more comfortable with Starmile. It focuses on monetization by many features and techniques that can not be seen in regular themes. The “Shop The Post” feature is one of them to pay attention particularly. Because, with this feature, you can let your visitors buy the products like clothes or accessories that you’ve mentioned in the post.
Including lots of options and settings for any kind of need, Starmile is a modern, comprehensive and highly functional blog theme. Exceedingly alluring both for visitors and bloggers!
Soma – Creative WooCommerce Theme
Soma has a colorful and cute style which make itself apart from the elegant and serious ones. Content adaptation and color pattern on the demo site is an important factor to achieve that. Light blue details add a characteristic view to the theme.
According to us, the biggest plus of Soma is a well organized and clear design. The concept has been applied in all details and supported by tiny hover animations. For example, even the “On Sale” badge over product images assures consistency. The theme is quite suitable for selling creative products. It also has 3 different blog layouts that again, go along beautifully with the rest of the design. We think the people who expect some harmony will love this theme.
Soma is based on AJAX and it comes with the WPBakery Page Builder plugin. Keep in mind that the seller provides top class support service. A profile which is full of perfect ratings explains a lot!
5th Avenue – WooCommerce WordPress Theme
A sleek and modern view, objects in harmony and a clear presentation. That’s what 5th Avenue promises. It creates a feminine texture with the domination of serif fonts and the combination of black, white and bronze. You can catch the professional view that we see on famous brand websites with this theme. What’s more, it’s possible to get an even better impact with the video background ability on your homepage.
Among the 4 demo alternatives, easily choose the design that suits you. Don’t miss the “Man’s Shop” layout! You’ll see that the theme is turning to a masculine view with dark blue and bronze colors. Which is a signal that it’s possible for you to have various styles with 5th Avenue. On product category pages, a nice detail is waiting for us. It’s a delicate touch from the creators, adding a separated interactive box for custom made products. Finally, blog alternatives are elegant and going along with the overall concept.
5th Avenue exhibits a user-friendly mobile version, while keeping the high performance. The theme provides what it promises. Buyer feedback proves this: “The best theme ever on ThemeForest. The level of design and customization is fantastic.”
Airtifact – Portfolio Creative WordPress Theme
Do you want to see one of the best designs that a portfolio theme could ever have? If your answer is yes, we recommend you to take a journey with Airtifact! A timeless concept with a unique and minimalistic approach. We’re pretty sure that you’ll love it.
You’ll discover a new creativity every time you hover on any links or images. By the way, creators have made an original font choice in this theme. HK Kontrast it is, for curious ones. Theme has got 2 different blog layouts called “Journal” and “Magazine”. It would be a good preference to use Journal, if you have simple content and want to present them in a creative way. On the other hand, Magazine is a kind of classic blog view that has been adapted to the style of Airtifact.
The seller says that Airtifact is faster than Usain Bolt! We must say he’s right. From image sizes to font sizes, developers have optimized everything according to the platform that you visit the site. Besides, it uses the Underscores framework and includes its own page builder. What’s more, you can disable AJAX based functionalities with a single click. When we evaluate what the theme brings generally, it is full of features that make us admire. If we had a Theme of The Year award, it would be an honour to give it to Airtifact, for 2018. Hey, maybe we should do it!
Brook – Creative Multipurpose WordPress Theme
Attention, please! We have a real multipurpose WordPress theme here. Brook targets quite a large scale of the audience from agencies to start-ups, from musicians to food lovers and so on. Furthermore, it’s doing this without giving up on its aesthetic and creativity.
Theme meets us with more than 35 homepage alternatives. Particularly, “Vertical Slide Portfolio” and “Creative Agency” layouts have attracted us. Also, it has more than 20 blog interfaces and again more than 20 variations for your portfolio. Apparently, creators have produced different ideas for all kind of users, one by one. In the end, they really have revealed functional work. Although it’s a very comprehensive theme, it does a great job at the SEO end. And do you know what? The premium plugins included in the theme cost around $150!
Brook has a couple of “How to Do” videos on YouTube. So, everyone can use it easily. Fast support service is also a big plus. And it’s a clear mark of high quality, that almost all of the buyers who drop feedback gave 5-star ratings. Isn’t it?
Barberry – Modern WooCommerce Theme
If you describe something as minimalist, modern and elegant, then you eliminate all of the possibilities except beauty! So to speak, Barberry is a beautiful theme with the great usage of typography, color and content placement. It succeeds a hard task by addressing the people who care about details too much.
The theme is suitable for furniture, clothing, electronics, accessories, watches or any other shop that you want to present your products in good design. Main menu items’ hover transitions are impressive, as well as the product detail page view. Product images cover the half of the page and you see the thumbnails like a film strip. By the way, number 3 of product layouts are quite assertive! Designers have also given a lot of space to product descriptions. Thanks to the AJAX based structure, the theme has fast filtering of products and navigation between product pages.
Finally, it’s worth to mention that Barberry which always gets positive feedbacks has sold more than 100 copies in only 2 weeks.
