You can find lots of great free WordPress themes in the WordPress.org themes directory. That said, if you’re building a website that will be around, long-term, it’s a good idea to go with a premium WordPress theme. But you might be asking yourself “Why? Why would I want to pay for a premium WordPress theme when there are so many free ones available?” Let’s try to answer that question.
Premium WordPress Themes Come With Support
Many free WordPress themes do not offer any kind of support options. They may answer you through the WordPress forums but they do not have to. I use Avada (which is a Premium theme), personally, and I have contacted their support a number of times to figure out how to do little tweaks to my site. They’re technical support is very quick to respond and help me with my issue.
Lots of Premium Features
Free WordPress themes lack a lot of great features that premium WordPress themes offer. As you go through this list and look at a few of the templates, you’ll soon realize what I’m talking about. Needless to say, when you pay for a Premium WordPress Theme you are paying, in large part, for the amazing features they provide you that you would have to, otherwise, purchase as separate plug-ins with a free template.
Updates From The Developers
Free WordPress themes may not get updated as much as premium ones do. So if the theme essentially… breaks, then you are out of luck. Also, the updates, in large part address a number off issues from security-related concerns, to keeping up with the latest HTML and CSS best practices.
The market for WordPress Premium themes is pretty big. That’s a good thing for you, the customer, as these companies make it a priority to constantly improve the templates, add more features, and keep up excellent customer support.
Each WordPress theme listed is packed with so many features that makes creating a curated top 10 list difficult to do as this page would become very long very quickly in attempting to describe the myriad of features each one offers. So listed below are 10 of the best premium WordPress themes for 2021. The themes are listed in no particular order.
| Theme | Cost | Support |
|---|---|---|
| ElegantThemes | $89/year | Included |
| Avada – ThemeForest | $60 | 6 months included with purchase price. $18 to extend support up to 12 months |
| StudioPress Themes | $99.95 | Included. Themes also included as part of WPEngine. |
| $65 | 6 months included with purchase price. $19.88 to extend support up to 12 months | |
| HighEnd – Mojo Marketplace | $59 | Included |
| Uncode – ThemeForest | $59 | 6 months included with purchase price. $17.63 to extend support up to 12 months |
| Oshine – ThemeForest | $59 | 6 months included with purchase price. $17.63 to extend support up to 12 months |
| BeTheme – ThemeForest | $59 | 6 months included with purchase price. $17.63 to extend support up to 12 months |
| Venture – Nimbus Themes | $39 | Includes a 30 day free trial of support and updates, then $9/mo gets you ongoing access. |
Elegant Themes
- Complete access to entire collection of 87 themes for the price of one.
- 385,000+ customers
- Dedicated support staff
- Visual design interface where page is updated instantly
- 40+ content modules
- Draggable widths and heights.
- Instant undo, redo, and revision history
- Custom fonts and styles
Avada
- #1 Selling Theme Of All Time On ThemeForest
- Over 280,000 users
- Fusion Builder – Visually drag and drop content to create beautiful pages
- 80 new features
- Professional demos that can be easily installed
- Header option to center your logo
- Column spacing controlled down to the the exact pixel or % amount
- Create virtually any design style without touching a single line of code
- Excellent customer support
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StudioPress Themes
- Studiopress trusted by over 201,344 website owners.
- Run on the Genesis Framework
- Clean code & mobile friendly
- Fast performance
- Automatic updates
- Airtight security
- Customer header
So you can also sign up with WPEngine to get access to their themes along with amazing WordPress hosting. Best of both worlds.
X Theme
- Over 20 extensions
- 24/7/365 support
- Excellent customer reviews
- Only product on ThemeForest to sell more than $1,000,000 in the first 6 months
- Utilizes Cornerstone WordPress page builder – see and work on your site in real-time.
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HIGHEND
- Drag & drop – No coding skills required – Uses Visual Composer
- 13 high quality demos to easily import in just one click and then customize
- 12,000+ users and growing
- Comes with premium add-ons such as
- Slider Revolution
- Essential Grid
- IcoMoon
- Layerslider
- Automatic theme updates
Uncode
- Among the top 10 creative themes of all time
- 30+ concepts that are easily installable with 1 click
- Powered by Visual Composer.
- Adaptive images – detects your visitors screen size and creates appropriate re-scaled versions of your images
- Advanced grid system for to push layouts to the cutting edge
- 16+ Portfolio and Blog templates with custom options
- Complete online documentation with narrated video tutorials
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Oshine
- 10,000+ customers
- 5 star rated customer support
- 23 unique and stunning demos
- Rated on of the best portfolio & Photography themes in many popular blogs
- TATSU WYSWYG Page Builder
- 10 different header layout combintations
- MasterSlider and Slider Revolution plugins
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BeTheme
- 240+ pre-built websites cover almost any theme you can think of
- More than 200 shortcodes
- Muffin builder 3
- Over 60,000 users
- No coding skills required
- 20 customizable header styles
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Venture
- One page WordPress theme
- Unlimited support from real people
- Full featured parallax support
- 934,981 Nimbus users
