5 Features Your WordPress Theme Must Have

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WordPress Theme

If you are looking for a WordPress theme for your website, as there are so many to choose from, it can be a daunting task. You must consider whether to go with a free one or a paid one for a start then after that, there are countless options. Regardless of the options available, there are several features that the theme you choose must have if you want your website to be successful. Here we have highlighted 5 of the most important and why your theme must have them.

#1 Mobile Friendly: We live in an age where there can be as many people online using their mobile devices to view your website than there are sitting at home on their PC or laptop. For this reason, your theme must be responsive in the sense that it adjusts its layout depending on the device or screen size it is being viewed on. If you already have a site, you can check if it is mobile friendly by visiting Google’s mobile friendly test page. Otherwise ensure you check prior to buying a new theme that it is mobile friendly.

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Natural Shop

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Natural Shop is a WooCommerce enabled WordPress theme that is great for use on beauty, natural spa and thrifty of craft related products, but could also be used for a more commercial application such as for criminal lawyers or drug rehab facility. It comes with a wide range of handy theme  options that allow you to configure it effortlessly, while the options panel section is unbranded allowing you to brand it to your company’s specifications. Considering that it is WooCommerce ready, your shop will be ready in a few minutes.

Doberman: Magazine Related WordPress Theme

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Doberman - Magazine & News theme for WordPress

If you are looking for some Magazine and News theme then search no more and keep reading to get to know more about what all is store in it. It is beautifully designed and very responsive web design theme which is also easy to use and install.

Once installed you get features like Trending as well as Popular articles with customizer options. Fresh articles, Mashshare integration,  Custom widgets, Drag & drop homepage, Instagram support and Social Integration, Contact Form 7 support, ability to control Typography, ability to SEO and also ability to ON/OFF sticky header.

The features list is long and if you’ve used this theme or have any query in mind, click here to know more.

X – The Theme

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X – The Theme is a highly popular theme marketed under the taglines “The ultimate WordPress theme”, “the last theme you will ever need” among others. For this reason we decided to dig deeper and find out if the claims are valid. We found that one of its main selling points is what they call “stacks” which offers unlimited layout options plus many other features. Currently it has 4 main stacks namely Integrity, Renew, Icon and Ethos all of which offer different homepage layouts for different purposes. This is a great multipurpose theme that would suit a multitude of different business websites such as home removalists or landscaping website – but you would be doing it a disservice if you used it for a blog only, considering its functionality and price.

Renovate The Beautiful Renovation and Construction WP Theme

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Renovate Renovation Construction Theme

Whether your business is in trading or you are a contractor, if you want more business you must have strong online business presence. Your business need to top search engine results, so to share your successful business projects with your prospective clients. You need to start with beautiful and powerful WordPress theme to step-up the ladder.

QuanticaLabs has built again a theme for professionals in the building & renovations, construction,  architecture, or engineering fields. Renovate is wonderfully WordPress theme, which is responsive as well, with clean and sleek professional design. Renovate is packed with Cost Calculator built-in tool – This tool aids your client by offering them an easy way to calculate estimated cost of constructions, additions, remodels, and repairs.

You also get Slider Revolution plugin in premium version, the page builder plugin, 12 page templates, as well as AJAX contact form, sticky menu, premium font icons, the sliders are touch friendly.

The7

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The7 is a retina ready, fully responsive and SEO optimised, multipurpose WordPress theme. The theme fits almost any type of website, from upmarket law firms, modern building companies to financial planners – whether big or small, and can be used on corporate, business websites, but you would do it a disservice by using it on a simple blog.  Some of The7 theme’s features include a minimalist design, 240 out of the box professional designs, high res graphics, full width layouts, a visual composer among others.

ProDentist: The Best Dental WordPress Theme

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Pro Dentist WordPress Theme

Dentist websites are unique and need special features related to dental professionals. Pro Dentist, as the name suggests, is a responsive WordPress theme best for dental websites. It has a built-in Live Customizer, which enables you to design your dentist website live to match your professional identity. The drag-and-drop page builder Power helps you create a layout unique to your needs without any coding.

  • Multiple Layout Option: There are huge set of layout options available making it easy and fast for even layman to build pages.
  • Appointment Manager: In-built plugin that allows your customers to book an appointment right from home page of your website. Thus, save your time and increase your productivity.
  • Content Module: It enables you to choose various content types like buttons, contact forms, price tables, sliders, images, etc and add to your web pages. Each content module has extended options to choose and match your website style.

Tips On Choosing A Website Theme

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Choosing Right Theme

There are plenty of easy things to do on the internet, but choosing a website theme is certainly not one of them!

There are thousands of reasons to create a website, and there are just as many themes to suit your needs. It can often be daunting, as you can sift through hundreds if not thousands of different website themes. Not every template is created equally. Some themes are better suited for different genres, if you will, of websites. The worst thing to do is pick the wrong theme. We have all experienced stumbling upon a website with the worst possible theme choice before. “What in the world is your knitting blog doing within a home improvements theme?”

What makes matters worse, is that sometimes, the more themes you see the more confusing the process becomes. On top of that, if you are not a designer yourself, you have no knowledge to go off of in terms of choosing the right theme. You could rely on your web designer’s assistance, in choosing the right theme, but you also want to take matters into your own hands as you craft your webpage.

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Developers and Designers Theme: Ultra Theme Review

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Themify has brought a multi-purpose, powerful theme for WordPress websites: Ultra. Themify is marketing Ultra for WP developers but whosoever willing and aspiring to create modern WP site, this is a good go. So to say, it does not need any pre-acquired coding skills to work with Ultra. To know more about what you can do with such a wonderful theme, keep reading.

Theme Features

Ultra is full of wonderful features needed to build different varieties of websites, including ecommerce website. Being modern it is also multi-functional theme packed with untold customization options, multi-site demos, a drag-and-drop page builder and so many more.

This WordPress theme is very much suited to house and garden style websites, such as luxury lifestyle or home design.

Ultra has high standard, pre-built skins and demos for website building. It is user-friendly and backed by world-class support.

Jetpack

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Looking to increase speed of your website or optimize your images? Also want to protect it from unwanted ailments like hackers? Want to check how many people visit your website and other traffic related stats? Jetpack is answer and it is free WP plugin.

Jetpack makes it easy to manage your WP sites and helps you build more powerful online presence with its tools like Publicize, Sharing, Related Posts as well as Enhanced Distribution. The plugin is always updated so to monitor downtime of your website and safeguard against unauthorised attacks. It optimizes images automatically and thus saves web hosting costs plus speed up images.

At Slinky Web Hosting, they highly recommend Jetpack to their clients as it complements their hosting services and enhances overall website performance and security.

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WooCommerce

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WooCommerce is one of the most popular free plugins that allows you to sell anything, effortlessly. The plugin is built to integrate with WordPress seamlessly, offers endless flexibility, access to hundreds of premium and free WooCommerce extensions essentially extending its functionality. The WordPress plugin allows you to sell both physical and digital products, in all shapes and sizes, offer multiple product configurations, instant digital downloads or even affiliate products from online marketplaces and ship wherever you like around the world. You can also use WooCommerce on non-ecommerce websites such as holiday websites like Bali Villas where you wish to display items or properties and manage it through the WordPress backend.

Google XML Sitemaps

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A sitemap is one of the most important elements that you can install on your website to make it more search engine friendly. As a webmaster, you need a sitemap to help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask index your websites pages for better results. The plugin is easy to install and activate, and you don’t even have to change anything, but if you like you can change the settings. Actually, it is very hard to manually index any page or post, which makes this plugin beneficial for SEO. You can also set the time that you would like search engines to crawl your websites posts, author pages, static page, archives and tags, and you can even exclude the pages or posts you don’t want indexed using the Google XML Sitemaps plugin.

ROSA

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ROSA is an interesting easy to use parallax WordPress theme designed to use on restaurant websites. It comes with well-designed menus, open table reservations, it highlights high resolution photography and allows you to tell your story of your restaurant in South Perth on your website effortlessly which makes ROSA WordPress theme perfect for eateries, restaurants, coffee shops, bars and bakeries.

Storefront Elegance

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The Storefront Elegance theme is a popular minimalistic theme that uses a custom font so that the colour matches with whatever colour you choose from the theme options panel. You get full control of the logo, site background, colours, custom menus, templates and have the flexibility to build and organise your e-shop just the way you would like it. You also have the option of using the Nivo Slider on the homepage with 16 different effects. Not forgetting the google fonts API that give the theme a more customised look, and with 4 different templates, there will be at least one that is perfect for your website. If you are looking for an ecommerce theme this would be a great option. This theme would also suit a design style website such as a home design or construction industry website such as a stone cladding type of website.

 

Ultra

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The Ultra WordPress theme by Themify is responsive, highly flexible and comes with some of the most powerful features that suit any business website. From an internet marketing company, the theme can be customised using the different layout features, from the header to footer, which makes it very popular among web developers seeking a multipurpose WordPress theme.

Akismet Plugin

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akismet

Akismet is an anti-spam WordPress Plugin and a favourite with all digital agencies as it checks all the comments you get with their very own web service and filters out spam comments. The Plugin provide status history of each comment for the webmaster’s review. Any hidden or misleading URLs are also revealed in comment body. This Plugin automates filtering comments that appears to be spam while checking through all the comments received.

The personal blogs can use Akismet free API Key and the commercial and business site need to opt paid subscription. Now you can block the spam out of your website and thus save your disk space and enhance your website speed.

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LuckyFolio Photographer

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The LuckyFolio Photographer Theme is a great theme for both amateur and professional photographers but could easily be used for home renovation websites or a stunning kitchen design website. It comes with a photo portfolio presentation that you can manage via the WordPress admin section, but its greatest advantage is its functionality and ease of use, which means that WordPress management would be your last headache; you can focus on getting the best shots. It comes with 9 default backgrounds, social icons, logo title and several other features that make it easy to customise.

Music Pro

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Music Pro is a great lifestyle blog theme or music oriented WordPress theme that would be perfect for a music label, a band or a webzine. It is easy to use, fully customisable, and can also be used for other types of websites. You can use a number of plugins to enhance it including Wolf socials, Wolf shortcodes among others, and can use the Music Pro custom player to manage your playlists, add links to iTunes and or Amazon and upload songs.

Obsidian

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The Obsidian is a premium, natural looking theme with an inherent allure that’s both practical and aesthetically appealing, and is ideal for music and video. It comes with distinctive background options that are easily customisable, which makes it easy to create the ultimate online identity and would really suit a lot of different types of business websites from business marketing to home services such as a furniture removalists. The customizer allows you to add a business tagline, logo, website title, and comes with an optional Obsidian WordPress theme site wide player that rests at the bottom of the screen which allows you to add a custom audio playlist.

Appetite

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Appetite is a responsive, elegant WordPress theme with a modern look and feel. It is ideal for eateries, restaurants, cafes and food bloggers. It comes with a full width grid page template, and three column layout without a sidebar, however, if you don’t want to use the full width feature you can have a sidebar. The Appetite WordPress theme menu template displays menus, it supports a custom header, custom backgrounds and a dedicated testimonial page which adds to your business credibility and help lead to online success.

Javo Directory

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Javo Directory is a fully responsive WordPress theme whose purpose is to build directories. Based on the bootstrap framework, it works perfectly across all device screens including smartphones tablets and desktops. Some of its main features include a revolution slider, Google maps with Ajax, Javo Directory  is integrated with PayPal, has a visual composer, offers unlimited page styles and many others.

Blink

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Blink is a beautiful, functional premium WordPress theme to suit such diverse uses as a digital agency or travel related website that will allow you to tell your story in a visually appealing way. It has been carefully designed with keen focus on the ease of use, good performance and is responsive offering users a seamless experience across multiple devices. In addition, Blink WordPress theme comes with four different custom layouts and you can choose the one that works best for your needs, and utilize the full screen feature images for more visual appeal.

Increat

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Icreat by ProgressionStudios is a responsive, retina ready, multipurpose theme available on ThemeForest. The theme takes advantage of all new WordPress features including HTML5 CSS3, and supports high resolution screens. The Increat WordPress theme can be used on various websites including ecommerce, company websites, blogs and photography websites along with home services websites such as carpet cleaning like www.brilliancecarpetcleaningperth.com.au or a handyman website.

Avada Theme

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Avada Theme

Looking for one-of-its-kind theme in market for your website, it none other than Avada. It is simple, varied and multi-purpose theme for WordPress. You might not even touch a single line of code and still achieve to build creative, unique as well as professional business site, using Avada. A lot of care and thinking is involved to make this theme easy to use. Avada theme is built using HTML5 with CSS3, thus operate beyond the boundaries. It is design tool with power to build responsive website which are equally beautiful.

Avada offer features from real world along with various user reviews for you to build great website. This WordPress theme works particularly well with design related designs such as landscape design or ecommerce layouts for fashion or outdoor furniture.

Build your Blog or business website or portfolio, ecommerce website or whatever type of website with well-packed Avada.

Luster

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Luster is one of the best, responsive real estate or villa WordPress themes that you can find in the market. The theme comes with a wide range of templates for customisations and is best suited for a real estate business. In addition, it comes with online payment integration including PayPal, can be used with agents and agencies, and has a register and login option giving you complete control on who accesses the website. Using the Luster WordPress theme’s option panel, you can change the visual theme skins, change the custom colours, and change the background, fonts and many other customisations.

Huntt

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Huntt is a responsive, minimalist aesthetically appealing WordPress magazine theme that’s designed to highlight visual content. It is ideal for photographers, fashion, graphics design, interior design, architecture as well as other creative categories. You can either choose the portrait or landscape pages, make your featured images wide or narrow, and it adapts seamlessly to fit both landscape and portrait images, which is why it’s ideal for photography. The other Huntt by Themes Kingdom features include different column layouts, easy colour and background customisation among others.

ChurcHope

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ChurcHope is an appealing responsive theme that is best suited for non-profits. It has everything that you need to design a functional, aesthetically appealing church or other organizational website. It has an organiser feature that allows you to add notes, schedule events, as well as content formatting features, social icons and other options that you can use to customise the ChurcHope WordPress theme to your taste and need.

BuddyPress

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When you think of a community plugin you want to use for your WP website that will take your blog beyond, look no more further – here comes BuddyPress. BuddyPress is a must when you are building a social network platform or community site with User Groups, Profile for Members, Messaging or even Notification or activity streams as well as Friendship connections. It is an open source social networking software package.

The BuddyPress components are well-build  to directly integrate with your blog theme and widgets and plugins. It uses same MySQL and PHP platform. So it is best designed to be used for Companies, Sports teams, Schools or colleges to start their very own communication platform.

WP Super Cache

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The plugin helps generate static HTML files from your dynamic WordPress website. After the file is generated, the web server then serves that file rather than processing the comparatively more expensive and heavier PHP scripts as is common with WordPress. The WP Super Cache plugin will serve at least 99% of your web visitors the static cached files, and in addition it will do ‘garbage collection’  which essentially is the act of cleaning up out of date, stale cached files that have no more value after their expiry date.

WP Maintenance Mode

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The WP Maintenance Mode plugin allows you to add a maintenance page to your blog or website, which lets your web visitors know that the site is down for maintenance. You can also add a coming soon page when the website is under development, but with admin rights you have full access to the blog including the front end. When you activate the plugin, only registered users with enough admin rights can view the front end. In addition, you can also include a countdown timer on WordPress WP Maintenance Mode letting visitors know when it will be up and running again.

Divi

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Divi by Elegant Themes is an exceptional multi-purpose theme. It makes for a pretty functional theme for any use, coupled with its powerful page builder and great graphics, this theme makes it to our top of the list in ‘best WordPress themes’. Both developers and amateurs find this theme easy to use, it’s elegant, minimalist and brings out the best in any website, blog, ecommerce website or could be used for any type of business website. Whatever the use this WP theme will be sure to give you the edge you need for your business online.

Google Analyticator

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Google Analyticator is a WordPress plugin that makes it easy to view your google analytics within the dashboard, eliminating the need to edit the template code in order to start logging. The plugin has a number of widgets that enable data display on the admin panel as well as your WordPress blog. The other Google Analyticator features include a widget that you can use to display visitor stats on the front end, event tracking, instant installation, language localisation, out-bound link tracking among others.