In a previous tutorial, we discussed how to build a responsive landing page with Bootstrap 4. Today, we’ll learn how to create an animated landing page with Material Kit, a free Bootstrap 4 UI Kit based on Google’s Material Design. 

To implement it, we’ll use a combination of Bootstrap 4’s helper classes, Material Kit’s additional classes, and custom code when needed.

What We’ll be Working Towards

Here’s the page we’ll be building during this tutorial (take a look at the full page view for maximum effect):

The concept behind this page is to provide a quick overview of Scotland. The text content will come from Wikipedia, while the images will come from Unsplash.

Note: This tutorial assumes you have some familiarity with Bootstrap 4. If you need a refresher, check out the following tutorials:

• Bootstrap 4
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• Bootstrap 4
  How to Quickly Build Layouts With Bootstrap 4’s Responsive Flexbox Utilities
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What is Material Kit?

As already mentioned, Material Kit is a free Bootstrap 4 UI Kit inspired by Google’s Material Design. 

“Material Design is a design language that Google developed in 2014. Expanding on the "card" motifs that debuted in Google Now, Material Design uses more grid-based layouts, responsive animations and transitions, padding, and depth effects such as lighting and shadows.”

Created by Creative Tim, not only does it customize the default appearance of Bootstrap 4 components, but also it implements its own styles.

Apart from the free standard version, there’s also a premium variant called Material Kit Pro with even more features and capabilities. Happily enough, this UI Kit comes with well-organized documentation and three pre-built pages for speeding up the learning process.

1. Include the Required CSS & JS Libraries

For the purposes of this exercise, we’ll have to download and include a bunch of files in our pen. 

First, we’ll import the required Material Kit files by following the instructions on this page. Keep in mind that we’ll only include the assets that we’re going to use. For example, our page won’t contain a range slider, so there’s no need to incorporate the noUISlider slider. 

Next, we’ll import AOS.js, an easy-to-use library which will reveal our elements as we scroll down the page.

With all the above in mind, in the CSS editor of our pen we’ll include three files:

Similarly, the JavaScript editor will contain five files:

2. Set Out the Markup

With all the required stuff in place, let’s examine the page markup. 

We’ll first define a header, five sections, a footer, and a back to top button. We’ll place the last four sections inside the main element. Later, as we’ll see, this wrapper element will receive a negative top margin, so its contents will overlap the bottom part of the first section.

Note: you might find this tutorial on collapsing margins interesting whilst we’re on the subject:

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Here’s the page structure:

<header>...</header><section>...</section><main><section>...</section><section>...</section><section>...</section><section>...</section></main><footer>...</footer><button>...</button>

3. Build the Header

The page header will behave as a fixed positioned element and include only an external call-to-action button. Initially, its background will be transparent, but after 50px of scrolling it will become white:

Here’s its structure:

<header class="navbar navbar-transparent navbar-color-on-scroll fixed-top navbar-expand-lg" color-on-scroll="50"><div class="container"><a class="btn btn-rose btn-round" href="" role="button" target="_blank"><strong>...</strong><i class="material-icons">flight</i></a></div></header>

Note that in a real page, inside the header we would have a navbar with links to the different sections.

4. Build the Hero Section

The hero section (or “banner section”) will contain a fullscreen background image and two headings. Plus, for readability reasons, we’ll create an empty image overlay by using the ::after pseudo-element:

Here’s its structure:

<section class="page-header text-center position-relative banner-section" style="background-image: url(scotland-unsplash.jpg);"><div class="container"><h1 class="title">...</h1><h3>...</h3></div></section>

And the styles for the overlay:

.banner-section::after {
  content: ’’;
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  right: 0;
  bottom: 0;
  left: 0;
  background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.25);
}

.banner-section .container {
  z-index: 1;
}

5. Build the Main Sections 

As we’ve discussed above, the main element will cover the bottom part of the hero section:

To achieve this layout, we have to append the main and main-raised classes to it:

<main class="main main-raised">...</main>

Section #1

The first section inside the main will contain a heading and two paragraphs:

The section markup:

<section class="section text-center"><div class="container"><div class="row justify-content-center"><div class="col-12 col-md-10"><h2 class="title mb-4">...</h2><p>...</p><p>...</p></div></div></div></section>  

Section #2

In this section, we’ll use tabs to present some details for the largest cities of Scotland:

Here’s the markup:

<section class="section text-center">  <div class="container"><div class="row justify-content-center"><div class="col-12 col-md-10"><h2 class="title mb-4">...</h2><ul class="nav nav-pills nav-pills-rose justify-content-center mt-5" role="tablist"><li class="nav-item"><a class="nav-link active" id="pills-edinburgh-tab" data-toggle="pill" href="#pills-edinburgh" role="tab" aria-controls="pills-edinburgh" aria-selected="true">Edinburgh</a></li><li class="nav-item"><a class="nav-link" id="pills-glasgow-tab" data-toggle="pill" href="#pills-glasgow" role="tab" aria-controls="pills-glasgow" aria-selected="false">Glasgow</a></li><li class="nav-item"><a class="nav-link" id="pills-aberdeen-tab" data-toggle="pill" href="#pills-aberdeen" role="tab" aria-controls="pills-aberdeen" aria-selected="false">Aberdeen</a></li></ul><div class="tab-content tab-space pb-0"><div class="tab-pane active" id="pills-edinburgh" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="pills-edinburgh-tab">...</div><div class="tab-pane" id="pills-glasgow" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="pills-glasgow-tab">...</div><div class="tab-pane" id="pills-aberdeen" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="pills-aberdeen-tab">...</div></div></div></div></div></section>

Note: We’ll build the tabs/pills mainly by following Bootstrap’s markup instead of entirely using Material Kit’s markup. I think Bootstrap’s example is more complete and makes more sense with regards to accessibility.

Lastly, we’ll specify some simple styles for making the tab links bigger:

.nav-pills .nav-item:not(:last-child) {
  margin-right: 20px;
}

.nav-pills .nav-item .nav-link {
  font-size: 18px;
  padding: 10px 25px;
  text-transform: none;
}

Section #3

The third section will contain a heading and a Masonry-like grid of cards. Each card will have an image along with a caption that will be part of its overlay. To do this, we’re going to take advantage of the CSS Multi-column Layout.

On small screens (< 576px), all cards will be stacked:

On larger screens though, we’ll have a two column layout:

Here’s the section structure:

<section class="section text-center"><div class="container"><h2 class="title mb-4">...</h2><div class="card-columns text-white"><div class="card bg-dark"><img class="card-img" src="IMG_SRC" alt="Card image"><div class="card-img-overlay d-flex flex-column align-items-center justify-content-center"><h4 class="card-title">...</h4><p class="card-text mt-0">...</p>    </div></div><!-- more cards here --></div></div></section>

The styles that will produce this behavior:

.card-columns {
  column-count: 1;
  column-gap: 20px;
}

.card-columns .card {
  margin: 0 0 20px 0;
}

.card-columns h4 {
  font-size: 22px;
}

.card-img-overlay {
  background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);
}

@media (min-width: 576px) {
  .card-columns {
    column-count: 2;
  }
}

Section #4

The fourth section will include a heading and a form. 

Similarly to the previous section, on small screens (< 576px), all cards will be stacked:

On larger screens, we’ll have a two column layout:

Here’s the section structure:

<section class="section pb-5"><div class="container"><h2 class="title text-center mb-4">...</h2><form><div class="form-row"><div class="col-12 col-md-6 mb-4"><input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Full Name"></div><div class="col col-md-6 mb-4"><input type="email" class="form-control" placeholder="Email"></div><div class="col-12 mb-4"><textarea class="form-control" rows="5" placeholder="Message"></textarea></div><div class="col-12 mb-4"><div class="form-check"><label class="form-check-label"><input class="form-check-input" type="checkbox" value="">
              ...<span class="form-check-sign"><span class="check"></span></span></label></div></div><div class="col-12 text-right"><button type="submit" class="btn btn-rose">Submit</button></div></div></form></div></section>

By default, Material Kit adds a purple color to the checkbox. In addition, the form elements receive an animated bottom purple border during the focus state. At this point, we’ll replace that color with the common rose (deep pink) one which is used throughout the page. 

The required styles:

:root {
  --rose: #e91e63;
}

.form-control,
.is-focused .form-control {
  background-image: linear-gradient(0deg, var(--rose) 2px, rgba(156, 39, 176, 0) 0),
    linear-gradient(0deg, #d2d2d2 1px, hsla(0, 0%, 82%, 0) 0);
}

.form-check .form-check-input:checked + .form-check-sign .check {
  background: var(--rose);
}

6. Build the “Back to Top” Button

The back to top button will be a fixed positioned element which will initially be hidden:

Here’s its structure:

<button class="btn btn-rose btn-fab btn-fab-mini btn-round position-fixed back-to-top is-hidden"><i class="material-icons">keyboard_arrow_up</i></button>

Notice the is-hidden class responsible for hiding it. 

The associated button styles:

.btn.back-to-top {
  bottom: 50px;
  right: 30px;
  z-index: 10;
  opacity: 0.5;
  transition: all 0.2s;
}

.btn.back-to-top.is-hidden {
  opacity: 0;
  visibility: hidden;
}

.btn.back-to-top:hover {
  opacity: 1;
}

As long as a user scrolls to the bottom of the page, the button will appear. Then, if the user clicks on it, they will smoothly return to the top of the page.

The following JavaScript code handles the aforementioned functionality:

const $backTop = $(".back-to-top");
const isHidden = "is-hidden";

$(window).on("scroll", function() {
  const $this = $(this);
  if ($this.scrollTop() + $this.height() == $(document).height()) {
    $backTop.removeClass(isHidden);
  } else {
    $backTop.addClass(isHidden);
  }
});

$backTop.on("click", () => {
  $("html, body").animate({ scrollTop: 0 }, "slow");
  return false;
});

Note that the footer section doesn’t include anything special, so we’ll omit it for the sake of simplicity. You can check it on your own!

Great job, folks! Without putting too much effort, we managed to build a beautiful Material Design landing page.

But, let’s be honest, there’s still enough room for improvement, right!

7. Animate Elements on Scroll

Up to this point, our page looks great! But, let’s go one step further and bring life to specific elements as they come into view. There are a number of different ways (e.g. JS plugins, Intersection Observer API, etc.) to accomplish it. In actual fact, I’ve already covered that requirement in previous tutorials:

• CSS
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For this example, we’re going to use AOS.js, a straightforward JavaScript library that I really like.

As a first step, we’ll add the custom data-aos attribute to the target elements. The value of this attribute can receive different keywords such as fade-up, fade-down and flip-left which indicate the type of effect. In our case, the majority of elements (apart from the masonry elements) will appear with a small slide animation, thus we’ll give them data-aos="fade-up", like this:

<h2 class="title mb-4" data-aos="fade-up">...</h2>

Next, we’ll initialize the plugin and modify a few of its default options. Most importantly, we’ll set once: true. That will cause the animations to fire only once. Specifically, as you scroll down the page for the first time:

AOS.init({
  offset: 200, //default 120
  delay: 50, //default 0
  once: true //default false
});

It’s worth noting that we also add a second custom attribute (data-aos-delay) to the last two tab links (cities): 

<li class="nav-item"><a class="nav-link active" data-aos="fade-up">...</a></li><li class="nav-item"><a class="nav-link" data-aos="fade-up" data-aos-delay="150">...</a></li><li class="nav-item"><a class="nav-link" data-aos="fade-up" data-aos-delay="300">...</a></li>

The value of this attribute will override the one passed within the configuration object (delay: 50). Its job is to sequentially animate the tab links/cities. By default, they would appear all at once because they have the same vertical position.

Lastly, as we navigate through the tabs, the page height will change. In such a scenario, we have to inform the plugin about this change and let it recalculate the positions of the target elements. Of course, this case makes sense only when the once option is set to true and animations happen all the time. Anyhow, if you ever need such behavior, here’s the required code:

$(’a[data-toggle="pill"]’).on("shown.bs.tab", e => {
  AOS.refresh();
});

Conclusion

That’s all folks! Thanks for following along, I hope the journey was worth the effort and you gained some new knowledge. If you have ever built any pages with Material Kit, or any other Material Design framework, be sure to share them with us in the comments below. 

What is your favorite Material Design framework?

Here’s a reminder of what we built:

As a last thought, just keep in mind that the best way to understand and perhaps extend this page is by checking the code via the developer tools. The same approach is recommended if you decide to dig into Material Kit’s pre-built pages.

As always, thanks a lot for reading!

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Running a venue is difficult to deal with as the weather can have a negative impact on your business. For golf courses, wedding destinations, and even restaurants with patios, bad weather can really take a toll on attendance. 

Add a visually pleasing and powerful WordPress weather plugin on your WordPress website to let your potential customers know what weather they can expect at your venue.

Even though we’re powerless against Mother Nature, you and your customers can plan around it. 

The weather WordPress plugins available on CodeCanyon will allow you to seamlessly integrate an upcoming weather forecast display on your website to keep everyone informed about the weather at your venue. 

The Best WordPress Weather Plugins on CodeCanyon 

Discover over seven thousand of the best WordPress plugins ever created on Envato Market's CodeCanyon. With a cheap one time payment, you can purchase these high-quality WordPress plugins. 

Here are a few of the best weather WordPress plugins available on CodeCanyon for 2020.

6 Best Weather WordPress Plugins (From CodeCanyon For 2020)

Here are six of the top-rated WordPress weather plugins that are available for you to download on CodeCanyon:

1. Astero WordPress Weather Plugin

The Astero WordPress Weather Plugin includes much of what you'll ever want in a weather WordPress plugin. With its clean lines, multiple sizes and styles, and solid feature set, your weather widget will be looking good, even if the weather isn't. Here are a few of the features of this plugin:

• HTML5 geolocation with IP fallback
• supports 600+ Google Fonts
• fully responsive layout
• local cache

2. Weather for Visual Composer

If you’re using WPBakery (formerly Visual Composer), this plugin gives you a number of easy-to-use elements to drop into your site. With an easily customizable, modern look, this add-on is perfect for websites that need to add basic weather functionality in a stylish way.

With available support for 17 languages, an easily changeable Celsius/Fahrenheit setting, and a set of stylish icons, this plugin puts a heavy focus on getting weather data onto your site quickly, without sacrificing looks. For those used to working in WPBakery, getting everything set up is as easy as dragging the element into your layout and setting a location.

If you like how this plugin looks but aren’t using WPBakery on your site, the publisher also has a standalone version with similar functionality.

3. Always Sunny

One of the more in-depth weather plugins available for WordPress, the Always Sunny Plugin gives a wide range of data and implementation options.

When it comes to adding this plugin to your site, you can place it in your pages in two ways: the first being as a widget, and the second as an embeddable shortcode. This mix makes it just as easy to show weather data in your sidebar as it is to drop it within a page’s content.

Beyond the basic weather measurements of temperature and weather patterns, this plugin throws a few other data points into the mix. Cloud coverage, wind patterns, and humidity levels make it a great addition for golf course websites, vacation spots, and restaurants with outdoor dining.

4. aWeather Forecast 

The aWeather Forecast plugin is one of the most uniquely designed weather WordPress widgets. It can display weather conditions with its cast of animated icons, animated headers, and full-color customization. This is one of the most charming weather widgets you'll find!

This widget can display:

• current weather icon and temperature
• current weather conditions
• wind speed and direction
• pressure, humidity, and more

Some features include, but are not limited to:

• Fahrenheit, Celsius, and Kelvin unit formats
• 18 animated icons and 4 animated headers
• select from over 700 Google Fonts

5. City Weather

This weather WordPress plugin allows you to easily add a stylish weather widget to your site. Whether you want to feature your weather widget in your sidebar or as the main display on a webpage, this plugin can easily do it. Here are a few of the features on the weather widget that you can customize to fit your businesses needs:

• background image
• background color
• forecast days
• Fahrenheit or Celsius display

6. WP Weather Widget and WPBakery Add-on

This plugin comes with a customizable element that can easily be dropped into your page template, but it also includes a widget that can be used by any WordPress build.

With all of the standard WPBakery element customization options and five layouts to choose from, you can quickly adjust your weather information to fit your page. Utilizing the OpenWeatherMap API, this plugin lets you display the temperature, daily highs and lows, humidity, and more.

Free Weather WordPress Plugins for Download in 2020

Without a doubt, paid weather WordPress plugins will offer you the most comprehensive set of tools and features. More features, customer support, and overall user experience will be higher with these premium plugins. However, you might not currently have the budget to spend on these premium weather plugins and still need to show the weather forecast to your website visitors. 

That is why I have collected a list of five of the best free WordPress weather plugins available. 

1. WP-Forecast

This WordPress weather plugin will let you display weather data from https://accuweather.com and https://weatherbug.com. You can also customize the display features such as location and language.

2. Weather Atlas Widget

The Weather Atlas Widget features a responsive design, a detailed forecast, and weather icons. This plugin is easy to set up and use. 

3. Weather Underground

This is the great-looking weather forecast plugin for WordPress. It fits perfectly with many different templates out of the box, including the default WordPress theme.

4. Location Weather

Location Weather is an easy to use and customizable weather plugin that allows you to add unlimited weather widgets and get up-to-date weather information to your web pages or sidebar.

5. Weather Station

This weather WordPress plugin collects meteorological data from public or personal weather stations and to display it in many elegant ways on your website. Like most other weather WordPress plugins, it can be installed with a shortcode. 

How to Customize the aWeather Forecast Weather WordPress Plugin

Now that we have already gone over all the best premium and free weather Wordpress plugins available, you might be wondering how you can add them to your website. 

Let's take a look at how you can customize one this premium weather plugin so it can fit seamlessly into your website. 

1. Insert aWeather Into Your Website

First, we need to insert the aWeather plugin into the site once the plugin is installed. Choose Appearance > Widgets from the WordPress admin sidebar. From there, we will look for the aWeather Forecast tab under Available Widgets. We would like the widget to appear in the footer of our website, so click on the tab and choose Footer. The widget will now be added to our website and we can begin customizing it. 

Next, click on the aWeather widget under the Footer section of the widget editor. This will open up the customization options for the widget. In order for the widget to display the current weather forecast for your desired location, we must add an API key in the OpenWeatherMap APP ID text field. To do this, click on the Get APP ID link next to the field title. You will then need to create an account on the OpenWeather website in order to obtain the API keys. Click the Sign-Up link on the webpage. Once you have signed up with a valid email, click on the API keys link on the second level menu header. Copy and paste the API key called default back on the OpenWeatherMap APP ID text field. Your widget will now be ready to display current forecasts from around the world. 

Finally, we can adjust the display of the widget, to display the weather forecast how we would like. Under the aWeather widget, type in "London, UK" as we would like to show the weather forecast for London. Next click the drop-down menu titled, Units format, and choose Fahrenheit. Lastly, click the save button at the bottom of the widget. You can now view the weather widget on the footer of all your pages. 

Install a Weather WordPress Plugin Now! 

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The plugins available will allow you to seamlessly integrate a weather display onto your website and give you the option to customize the display so it will fit with your website's theme. 

Also, there are thousands of other high-quality WordPress plugins on CodeCanyon that can help enhance your businesses website. Have a look through this large collection of plugins and you will find helpful plugins in all different types of categories from marketing, to eCommerce, to social media.

Find the perfect WordPress plugin to help your business succeed and motivate your customers. 

Making your own business listing website can be difficult. Thanks to quality WordPress directory themes, however, you can get the job done right and fast. 

Here we showcase over twenty of the best WordPress directory themes fromThemeForest. They’re packed with professional website design features.

What Features to Look for in the Best WordPress Themes for Directory Website

Aside from the obligatory responsiveness and fast loading times, the following features are quintessential for business directory WordPress themes:

• Ease of Use - A good directory theme will be easy to use and navigate. Use of search function and the ability to filter the listings is included in quality directory themes.
• Integration with Google Maps - Allowing for users to readily find listing locations, such as apartments, tourist attractions, or other featured locations. 
• Monetization - Easy integration with payment gateways so you can accept payments or ad networks to display ads on your site.
• Front-End User Submission - Allowing visitors to add their own business or attraction from the front-end.

Any theme you choose must have these features if you want to have a successful directory site. There just aren’t compromises allowed here. 

25+ Best WordPress Directory Themes (For 2020)

Here are a number of the best directory themes for WordPress. Browse through them to find a design you can use to quickly make a great business directory site.

1.  Listar - WordPress Directory and Listing Theme

• Woocommerce integration
• listings reviews
• drag and drop front end builder
• fully responsive layout
• WP job manager integration

This website theme is popular among the Themeforest community and has a five-star rating. Here is what user ThemeAtelier has to say about this high-quality directory theme.

"Really great product with awesome code quality and customisation features."

2. Point Finder - Business Directory WordPress Theme

Point Finder allows you to get your directory website up and running in a matter of minutes. This theme has a clean, responsive design, and has been fully updated for 2020. 

Learn how to quickly make your own business directory website with this WordPress theme: 

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This WordPress business directory theme gives you plenty of control over the design and appearance of your website thanks to the integration with the Visual Composer Builder. 

It’s main features include a customizable search area and item fields, front-end upload system, review system, and integration with multiple payment gateways. It’s also load with additional features, such as: social login, Google Map geolocation and styling, a mail template system, and custom widgets.

3. Listify - WordPress Business Directory Theme for 2020

Listify is a multi-purpose, responsive website directory template that not only looks good but has plenty of features to boot. This is one of the best directory WordPress themes featured in this curated list. It has a five star rating from many happy customers, like Chris Lema who states: 

Every month I get people asking me how to build a directory. I tell them the same thing every time - use Listify because the code is great, the options are fantastic, and you’ll love the support.

This business directory web template comes with pre-defined style kits and a drag-and-drop editor which allow you to brand your website fast and create completely custom layouts for your website. On top of that, Listify works with a geolocation feature so users will only get relevant listings. It’s also packed with additional features.

Some of the monetization methods include the ability to charge when a user claims an existing listing, submits a new listing, or when a visitor makes a reservation from your website.

4. Motors - Directory WP Theme for Vehicle Listings & More

Motors is a WordPress directory theme created with automotive and boat selling businesses in mind. The theme comes with four stunning premade demos ready to fuel your success. Out of the four layouts, the Classified Listing layout comes with several additional features like Seller and Dealer registration, XML/CSV inventory import, Dealer Profile with user reviews and much more.

Thanks to the theme’s enhanced Inventory Manager, you can easily input all the relevant information about a vehicle—an overview, photos, videos, technical details, and you can even include a loan calculator and a PDF brochure.

Motors is easy to use and customize thanks to the Visual Composer Builder and Theme Options panel which allow you to customize any aspect of your website.

5. Superlist - Business Listing Directory WordPress Theme

Superlist is another WP multi-purpose business directory theme for WordPress that features responsive design and a plethora of options under the hood. While you can find business directory template free online, you’re better off using a high quality Premium theme to make your site with.

Superlist comes with 12 predefined listing types and allows you to create your own custom listing via their unique Listing Manager which has an intuitive interface. Users can publish their own listings straight from the front-end and you can take advantage of the theme’s Package functionality to create different paid packages for user submissions.

This listing WordPress business directory template integrates well with Stripe and Paypal which makes accepting payments easy. Additional features include responsive design and plenty of customization options.

Finally, Superlist allows you to publish coupons, gather statistics by tracking all search queries in filters, manage invoices, include Google Maps, and more. Put this business listing website template to use now. 

6. Workscout - Job Board Directory WordPress Template

Workscout is a fully functioning job board theme for WordPress that makes use of the free WP Job Manager plugin to create a visually appealing website. Use it to build your new job board site. 

Thanks to the integration with Resume Manager your users can signup and upload their resume, or complete their own using our predefined resume submission form. Additionally, you can further extend the theme with the Application Deadline that gives your users the tools to apply, review, and manage job applications from your job dashboard.

Other features include responsive design, bookmarking ability, integration with Visual Composer Builder, and advanced filtering and search functionality. 

7. Listable - Friendly Directory Listing WordPress Theme

Listable is a user-friendly, listing directory WordPress theme that will help you create, manage and monetize a local or global directory site. Thanks to its unique listing cards system you can create listings for events, places, activities, services, and all the listings can be easily filtered.

Listable integrates with several popular free and paid plugins such WP Job Manager, WooCommerce and others which allow you to further extend the functionality of your website and monetize it by charging for a listing or for a reservation fee.

This business directory template is fully responsive and can be customized either via the Style Presets or by changing colors and fonts and utilizing a page builder plugin such as Visual Composer or Beaver Builder. Use this flexible global and local business directory WordPress theme to make your site now.

8. Jobify - WordPress Job Board Website Directory Template

Jobify is another job board WordPress theme directory for making listing sites that comes with pre-designed page templates, enhanced search function, and location filtering to get the most relevant results. 

While you can find free WordPress themes for directory listing sites, it’s better to use a Premium WordPress website template that has professional features and good support. This theme makes use of the WP Job Manager plugin and integrates with Indeed, Facebook, Xing, and Woo Testimonials addon, all of which make creating a job board website incredibly easy.

Jobify features a clean design with beautiful typography which can be completely customized. This WordPress directory website template is sure to make your job board stand out from the competition.

And if you’d like to learn how you can build your own job listing website using Jobify, check out this guide:

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9. Service Finder - WordPress Business Directory Listing Theme

The Service Finder WordPress listing theme is an advanced business and service directory theme. It’s chock-full of useful features like profile management, time slots management for booking, unavailability settings, staff management, booking management, invoice generation and payment system, service areas and services, featured providers, and more.

The theme integrates with WP Job Manager plugin, supports Stripe and Paypal payment gateways and gives you the ability to restrict sign ups by countries and filter search by location. Furthermore, Service Finder comes with two different homepage variations and offers plenty of customization options via the Theme Options panel.

10. Directory - Multipurpose WordPress Business Listing Theme

This popular WordPress business directory theme is designed for flexible use. You can build unlimited business directory websites with it quickly, form classified ad sites, to automobile listings, to marketplace listing sites, online job boards, and more. 

The theme is packed with helpful features, from Revolution Slider, a Complete Review System, and integration with multiple payment gateways. It also has time saving build features like creative FAQ sections, as well as both paid and free listing tools. It’s fully-responsive and ready to customize your site business directory site design with quickly.

11. Directory Portal - Business WordPress Listing Theme

Directory Portal is a powerful, responsive WordPress themes directory listing site suitable for creating various types of listing websites: from local businesses and companies to events and attractions. This highly rated theme has customers raving, with comments like: 

“Excellent theme and very easy to install and use. Maybe the best for directory website… I recommend it to everybody!”

This is a local business directory WordPress theme and it can also make larger directory sites quickly as well. It’s completely responsive, the theme features a fresh and modern design with the ability to display seven different headers which include a standard Google Map, 3D Google Map, and video header.

Main features of the theme include geolocation search and filtering, front-end registration and submission, guest administration of listings, advertising spaces, unlimited packages, premium listings, featured listings, and more. 

12. MyCity - Geolocation Directory & Events WP Theme

MyCity is a gorgeous business directory theme for WordPress that has the potential to turn every visitor into a customer thanks to its promo widget, which encourages visitors to share interesting places on social media and thus boosts your rankings.

This theme offers integration with Stripe and Paypal, but also offers a unique integration with the Uber Service affiliate program as a way of monetizing your directory.

Users can quickly register for your site via email or a text message and the theme supports geolocation capabilities, user reviews, the ability to sell tickets with Tickera, as well as many additional features.

13. Price Compare - WordPress Theme for Business Directory

If you want to build your very own price comparison website, look no further than Price Compare. On top of attractive and responsive design, Price Compare allows you to easily import affiliate links and take advantage of affiliate networks such as Shareasale, ClickBank, and others.

This business directory website template is easy to use and navigate, which is extremely important for directory websites. Your users will be able to take advantage of user-friendly made categories, mega menu overview, and advanced ajax search.

Other features include front-end user and store registration, social login, MailChimp integration and five different payment gateways. This directory website template is packed with professional price comparison features and a great design.

14. Search & Go - Smart Business WP Directory Theme (2020)

Search & Go is another business directory WordPress theme that allows you to discover all the interesting places in your city. The theme has a modern, sharp design and is fully responsive.

While you can find a business directory template free online, it may not have the quality and secure code that a Premium WP theme like Search & Go comes with. Users can easily log in via social networks and the theme has advanced search and filtering functionality. It also has the ability to book appointments straight from your website. 

What’s more, they can easily manage their profiles, create wish lists, and claim listings. Each type of listing can have specifications and amenities added to it and all the relevant information is displayed in search results. 

15. Javo Spot - Multipurpose Directory WordPress Theme

Javo Spot is a multi-purpose business directory theme for WordPress suitable for any type of directory website. The theme comes with advanced search functionality, front-end user registration and submission, featured listings shortcode, integration with WooCommerce, Google Maps, and complete social integration.

This WordPress business directory website template is fully customizable thanks to the integration with Visual Composer Builder and unique Javo modules. Whether you need to create an online web directory with a global reach, feature local tourist attractions, create a classified website, or another type of listing site, this professional directory website template has you covered. This global and local directory WordPress theme is packed with features to help you build your business listing site with fast. 

16. Business Finder - Directory Listing WordPress Theme

Business Finder is an elegant and customizable Wordpress directory theme which allows you to display categorized items of any type: companies, shops, institutions, websites, events, and more.

All pages and sections of this business listing website template can be created easily thanks to the drag-and-drop AIT Page Builder, which features over 30 elements to build your website. 

The main features of this business listing website template include megamenu, sidebar manager, advanced search and filter options, featured items listing, responsive design, seven different header options, search context, street view, among other powerful features.

17. Reviews - Products & Services Review WP Theme for 2020

You can find free WordPress themes for directory listing sites, but much better to use a Premium WordPress theme that has the professional features and quality you need. Reviews is a complete system for reviewing products and services so users can find feedback on products and services they wish to purchase. 

You can create as many reviews as you want and once you publish the reviews, users are able to give their feedback separately as well as rate the product or service by the same criteria you have used.

This WordPress themes directory site for business has a responsive and clean design, supports Google Rich Snippets and social login, has powerful search functionality, and integrates with MailChimp.

18. Coupon Hut - Business Deals WordPress Business Theme

CouponHut is modern and clean Wordpress theme for business directory, featuring an easy page builder, two types of deals (coupons and discounts), one click install and multitude of custom widgets so you can customize your site just the way you want to. 

Combined with a rating system and a fantastic options panel, this WordPress business directory template is a great choice for coupons and deals websites.

It’s main features include membership integrations, front-end user registrations and submissions, filtering options, and front-page search. It also has a versatile, modern design with excellent attention to detail so you can quickly customize your deals site and set it apart. 

19. Medical WordPress - For Doctor Listings & Health Directories

Medical Wordpress is directory listing theme geared specifically towards doctors, health clinics, hospitals and medical organizations, and any health or beauty related business.

This flexible medical website template’s main features include filtering options by distance and geolocation, grid and row view of the listings, countdown timer field. It also has booking and availability calendar, reviews with custom multi-ratings, integration with WooCommerce and multiple payment gateways. 

This business directory website template is packed with the features needed to make a quality medical listing directory site for a variety of health professionals and related businesses.

20. Classiera – Classified Ads Directory Theme WordPress

Classiera is a powerful classified ads directory WordPress theme with stunning design and bold typography that’s easy to use and offers plenty of customization and styling options in the admin panel.

Responsive design paired with features such as filterable search functionality, customized category listings, integration with WooCommerce, six different layout designs, and free and paid ads posting make Classiera a powerful solution for a classified ads website.

21. Alliance - Intranet & Extranet WordPress Directory Theme

Alliance is a very specialized theme geared towards corporate users and meant to be used as an intranet theme which allows you to list all the important events, notifications, calendars, graphs and more.

The directory theme WordPress template integrates with BuddyPress allowing your employees to build fully functional community, organize in groups and departments, and communicate with ease and fun. Other features include file-sharing, polls, and user directory.

22. RealtyElite - Real Estate Best WordPress Directory Theme

This is a premium and feature-rich business directory theme that offers an amazing solution for real estate agents and companies, rental businesses, and listing sites.

RealtyElite gives you the option to allow your visitors to publish their own properties, effectively becoming their own agents. It’s fully integrated with PayPal, membership packages, and advanced agent and agencies custom post types. It has an intuitive theme options panel, allowing you to customize your theme to suit your business needs, and all without needing to be able to code. 

This WordPress directory template also comes with lots of Visual Composer Page Builder Elements to help you build a really extensive portal. Every aspect of this theme is properly optimized to ensure that your business will solidify its online presence.

23. Motor - Vehicle & Parts Business Directory Theme for WordPress

Motor is a professional business directory theme for car dealers, retailers, shops, and mechanics. List vehicles along with a range of pertinent features. This theme also delivers crucial e-commerce functionality; it’s a WordPress directory template that will help you build your automotive online presence very quickly.

24. Bello - Directory & Listing

The Bello WordPress directory has the features and customizability needed to create any type of business listing. Here is a list of a few notable features of this high-quality theme:

• responsive and retina ready design
• directory oriented custom icon sets
  
• user registration and login support
• easy to use page builder
• WooCommerce support
  

Another plus with this theme is the team over at Bello offers  24/7 customer support in case you are in need of any assistance. 

25. FindAll - Business Directory Theme

The FindAll business directory web template is equipped with all the essentials a modern business directory website can ever need. The theme includes a powerful admin panel, easy to implement shortcodes, social media widgets, and much more. 

One feature that helps this theme stand out from the rest is it’s, advanced search filter. When your website users are looking on a directory website, a comprehensive search feature needs to be present in order to help the user find exactly what they are looking for in the shortest time possible. 

26. UrbanGo - Directory and Listing Theme

The UrbanGo theme is all about creating a stylish and detail-oriented directory theme without knowing a single line of code. With this theme, users can create their own listings, reports, wishlists, claim items, and much more. Here is what Urban Go theme users are saying about this five-star theme. 

"I recommend this theme to everyone who wants to start their own business. It not only has a great design, but it also has great customer support that will help you with any technical problems you may have."

5 Tips to Get the Most Out Of Your WordPress Directory Themes

The 20+ Wordpress directory themes will help you create a fully functional and stylish website in no time for your directory business. With all the features available in these themes, it can be easy to lose track of the main goal, which is to provide a website that helps serve your particular customer and help grow your business. Below are a list of five tips that you should keep in mind when customizing your theme.  

1. Design for Your Specific Business

While this may seem obvious, you need to make sure you not only pick a theme that has the features that will suit your business, but you need to design the theme so you display all the information necessary for your directory business. Take the time to read the documentation for all of the themes that you are considering purchasing to make sure they offer what you need. 

2. Integrate With WooCommerce

WooCommerce is the most powerful WordPress eCommerce plugin on the market today. This powerhouse eCommerce plugin can be customized to fit exactly what your business needs when it comes to accepting payments. The WooCommerce plugin is free to use and has many extensions that can be purchased on Themeforest if needed for your business. 

3. Encourage Sharing

Many of the directory themes listed above have social media widgets that can be placed throughout your website. Again, our goal is to grow your directory business. Having the option to share a particular listing on your site or your entire website will encourage your customers to let their friends know about your directory business. 

Take advantage of the social media sharing options within the directory themes.

4. Simplicity is Key

Just because the premium WordPress directory themes on Themeforest have myriad features that you can implement, does not mean that you should implement all of them. 

Having too many features on your website can create a crowded webpage and make the site hard to navigate. Before you being creating your website write a list of all the functions that you think your customers will need and just implement those features. 

5. Make the Theme SEO Friendly

When you are designing your theme, you need to ensure it is SEO friendly so you have the best possible chance of having a high ranking website on search engines. Here are a few points to consider when designing your theme:

• add responsive images
• add alt des
• use lazy loading for images 
• include high search volume keywords on your webpages
• ensure all the webpages are mobile-friendly

Are You Ready to Launch a Directory Website Today?

Directory websites have a number of different uses and can cater to almost any niche imaginable. Thankfully there are plenty of ways to create that professional and modern website with a professional business directory WordPress theme. 

Grab the one that’s right for you and quickly start building your very own business directory site. Take advantage of the unique monetization and design features of these WP website directory templates to launch your listing site and start your path to leveling-up your earnings.

Also, if you’re on a budget, you can still get a premium website design with one of our free WordPress themes.

Editorial Note: Our staff updates this post regularly—removing inactive examples, and adding new WordPress business directory themes with the best, professional trending template designs.

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In this Sketch UI tutorial you will learn how to design a travel app login screen design.

For starters you will learn how to create simple buttons, how to copy style attributes, and how to save and use symbols or nested symbols. All these little features will ease your work throughout this Sketch UI design tutorial.

Next, using simple shapes, paths, and vector shape building techniques, you will learn how to add pixel perfect icons to your Sketch UI design. Finally, you’ll learn how to add text content and image fills to your Sketch design.

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For more inspiration on how to adjust or improve your final Sketch UI design you can find plenty of resources at GraphicRiver.

What You Will Need:

To recreate exactly what I walk through during this tutorial you will need the following resources available from Envato Elements. Alternatively you can substitute these assets with free fonts and images from elsewhere.

• Auro font
• Alma Mono font
• Web and social icons vector set
• Aerial view of rocks and blue sea lagoon in Greece photo

1. How to Set Up the Artboard

Go to Insert > Artboard from the toolbar or menu (or press A) and the Inspector will reveal a list of artboard templates. Click the iPhone 11 template to create a 414 x 896 px artboard. Once you’re done, hit Escape to deselect your artboard.

2. How to Save and Use Symbols in a Sketch App Design

Step 1

Go to Insert > Shape > Rectangle from the toolbar or menu (or press R). Create a shape the size of your artboard (282 x 150 px), make sure that it covers your entire artboard and that it stays selected.

Go to the Inspector panel and focus on the Style section. Uncheck the Borders checkbox to disable the border applied to your rectangle and keep the default Fill color.

Step 2

Go to Insert > Shape > Rectangle from the toolbar or menu (or press R). Create a 320 x 60 px shape, make sure that it stays selected and focus on the Inspector panel.

First, let’s use the X& Y input boxes to numerically place this new rectangle. Enter 47 in the X box and 730 in the Y box and your shape should move to the bottom side of the artboard, as shown in the following image.

Keep focusing on the Inspector panel, drag the Radius slider to 30 and then move to the Style section. Disable the existing Border and change the Fill color to #F9732E.

Step 3

Go to Insert > Text from the toolbar or menu (or press T). Click once on your artboard and focus on the Text section from the Inspector panel.

Select the Alma Mono font, set the size to 20 and the color to white (#FFFFFF), and then simply type the "SIGN UP" piece of text. Place it as shown in the following image.

Step 4

Select your orange rounded rectangle along with the "SIGN UP" piece of text and click the Create Symbol from the toolbar, or choose Layer > Create Symbol in the menu. Name your symbol "Button Orange" and click OK. This will create a master symbol separate from your artboard. If you make a change to a master this will also show in any instances of that symbol in your document.

Step 5

Go to Insert > Shape > Rectangle from the toolbar or menu (or press R). Create a new 320 x 60 px shape, make sure that it stays selected and focus on the Inspector panel.

Again, use the X& Y input boxes to numerically position your selection. Enter the values shown in the following image and then drag the Radius slider to 30.

Keep focusing on the Inspector panel and move to the Style section. Disable the existing Border and change the Fill color to #4FD44E.

Step 6

Make sure that your green shape is still selected and save it as a symbol using the same Create Symbol button from your toolbar. Name this new symbol "Button Green" and click OK.

Step 7

Focus on your two master symbols as you’re about to create a simple nested symbol.

Go to Insert > Document > Button Green to add an instance the green symbol. Place it perfectly above the "Button Orange" master symbol and then click the Backward button from your toolbar to move the newly added symbol instance behind the text. In the end things should look like in the second image.

Step 8

Return to your artboard and notice that the bottom button is now green. This simply happened because of the changes that were made to its master symbol in the previous step.

Select this symbol instance and focus on the Overrides section from the Inspector panel. Open that Button Green drop-down menu and select No Symbol to remove the "Button Green" symbol override and return to the original instance of the symbol.

Step 9

Move to the top button, right click it and go to Replace > Document > Button Orange. Move to the Symbol section from the Inspector panel, enter "SIGN IN" in the text override box and keep the "Button Green" symbol override.

3. How to Add the Social Buttons and the Message Boxes in a Sketch Design

Step 1

Go to Insert > Shape > Rectangle from the toolbar or menu (or press R). Create a 130 x 25 px shape, make sure that it stays selected and focus on the Inspector panel.

Use the X& Y input boxes to numerically position your selection as shown below and then drag the Radius slider to 12.5.

Focus on the Style section from the Inspector panel, disable the existing Border, change the Fill color to black (#000000) and lower its Opacity to 70%.

Once you’re done, hit the Commnad-Option-C keyboard shortcut to copy the style of your selection.

Step 2

Go to Insert > Text from the toolbar or menu (or press T). Click once on your artboard and focus on the Text section from the Inspector panel.

Select the San Francisco font, set the size to 10 and the color to white (#FFFFFF). Type the piece of text shown below and place it as shown in the following image.

Step 3

Go to Insert > Shape > Oval from the toolbar or menu (or press O). Create a 60 px circle, make sure that it stays selected and use the X& Y input boxes to numerically position your selection as shown below.

Focus on the Style section from the Inspector panel, disable the existing Border and change the Fill color to black (#000000).

Step 4

Make sure that your black circle is still selected and go to Arrange > Make Grid. Enter the attributes shown in the following image and then click the Make Grid button. This will add three copies of your black circle, as shown in the following image.

Select these circles one by one, go to the Style section from the Inspector panel and replace the black with the colors shown below.

Step 5

Go to View > Canvas > Show All Guides to enable the Smart Guides.

Import the four icons that you need from this Web and social icons vector set. Resize them, change the color to white (#FFFFFF) and place them as shown in the following image. The Smart Guides will make it easier for you to perfectly center these icons.

Step 6

Go to Insert > Shape > Rectangle from the toolbar or menu (or press R). Create a new 180 x 25 px shape, make sure that it stays selected and focus on the Inspector panel.

Use the Smart Guides to position your selection as shown below and then drag the Radius slider to 12.5.

Focus on the Style section from the Inspector panel, disable the existing Border, change the Fill color to white (#FFFFFF) and lower its Opacity to 70%.

Step 7

Go to Insert > Text from the toolbar or menu (or press T). Click once on your artboard and focus on the Text section from the Inspector panel.

Select the San Francisco font, set the size to 10 and the color to black (#000000). Type the piece of text shown below and place it as shown in the following image.

Step 8

Go to Insert > Shape > Rectangle from the toolbar or menu (or press R). Create a 110 x 25 px shape, make sure that it stays selected and hit Command-Option-V to paste the style attributes copied several steps ago.

Use the Smart Guides to position your selection as shown below and don’t forget to drag the Radius slider to 12.5.

Step 9

Go to Insert > Text from the toolbar or menu (or press T). Click once on your artboard and focus on the Text section from the Inspector panel.

Select the San Francisco font, set the size to 10 and the color to white (#FFFFFF). Type the piece of text shown below and place it as shown in the following image.

4. How to Add the Input Fields in a Sketch App Design

Step 1

Go to Insert > Shape > Rectangle from the toolbar or menu (or press R). Create a 320 x 60 px shape, make sure that it stays selected and hit Command-Option-V to paste the style attributes copied several steps ago.

Use the Smart Guides to position your selection as shown below and don’t forget to drag the Radius slider to 30.

Step 2

Focus on left side of the rounded rectangle made in the previous step. Go to Insert > Shape > Oval from the toolbar or menu (or press O). Create a 30 px circle, make sure that it stays selected and use the X& Y input boxes to numerically position your selection as shown below.

Focus on the Style section from the Inspector panel, disable the existing Border and change the Fill color to white (#FFFFFF).

Step 3

Select the black rounded rectangle and the white circle made in the previous two steps and duplicate them (Command-C > Command-V).

Make sure that only the copies are selected and place them as shown in the following image. Once again, the Smart Guides will come in handy.

Step 4

Focus on your bottom white circle. Go to Insert > Shape > Rectangle from the toolbar or menu (or press R). Create a 12 x 10 px shape and place it as shown in the first image. Drag the Radius slider to 2, disable the Border and set the Fill color to #D8D8D8.

Using the same tool, create an 8 x 10 px shape and place it as shown in the second image. This time drag the Radius slider to 4, disable the Fill and focus on the Border. Set the color to #D8D8D8, increase its Width to 3 and check the Inside alignment button. Make sure that this shape stays selected and go to Layer > Convert to Outlines to convert that stroke into an editable vector path.

Select both shapes made in this step and click the Union button from your toolbar.

Step 5

Go to Insert > Shape > Rectangle from the toolbar or menu (or press R). Create a 2 x 4 px shape and place it as shown in the first image. Drag the Radius slider to 1, disable the Border and set the Fill color to black.

Select this black rounded rectangle along with the shape made in the previous step and click the Subtract button from your toolbar.

Select your lock icon along with the white circle that lies in the back and click the Subtract button from your toolbar. In the end things should look like in the fourth image.

Step 6

Move up, to the remaining white circle. Focus on your bottom white circle. Go to Insert > Shape > Oval from the toolbar or menu (or press O). Create a 20 px circle and place it as shown in the first image. Duplicate this shape (Command-C > Command-V), select the copy and place it as shown in the second image.

Select both shapes made in this step and click the Intersect button from your toolbar.

Step 7

Go to Insert > Shape > Oval from the toolbar or menu (or press O). Create an 8 px circle and place it as shown in the first image.

Select the two grey shapes along with the white circle that lies in the back and click the Subtract button from your toolbar. In the end things should look like in the third image.

5. How to Add a Small Logo in a Sketch Design

Step 1

Go to Insert > Shape > Oval from the toolbar or menu (or press O). Create a 44 px circle, disable the Border and set the Fill color to #FFFFFF.

Double click this new shape to activate the Edit mode. Select the bottom point and drag it 22px down. Hold down the Shift key while dragging to constrain the movement of your selection to the vertical axis. Once you’re done, double click this point to turn it from a mirrored point into a straight point.

Step 2

Make sure that the shape made in the previous step is still selected and go to Layer > Path > Offset Path.... Drag the Offset slider to -8 and click OK. Select the resulting shape and change the Fill color to black.

Step 3

Go to Insert > Shape > Oval from the toolbar or menu (or press O). Create a 42 px circle and place it as shown in the first image. Select it along with the black shape and click the Intersect button from your toolbar.

Go again to Insert > Shape > Oval from the toolbar or menu (or press O). This time create a 16 px circle, fill it with black and place it as shown in the fourth image.

Step 4

Select the water drop shape and focus on the Style section from the Inspector panel. Disable the Fill and activate the Border. Change its color to white and increase the Width to 8, and then make sure that the Center and the Round Joins buttons are checked.

Step 5

Select the two black shapes and change their fill color to white.

Select the three shapes highlighted in the second image and click the Group button from your toolbar. Make sure that your group is selected and place it as shown in the third image.

Step 6

Go to Insert > Text from the toolbar or menu (or press T) and add two pieces of text.

Select the Auro font, set the size to 50 and the color to white (#FFFFFF). Type the pieces of text shown below and place them as shown in the following images.

6. How to Add the Image Background in a Sketch App Design

Step 1

First, download this Aerial view of rocks and blue sea lagoon in Greece photo or any other photo that you prefer.

Select the grey rectangle that covers your entire artboard and focus on the Style section from the Inspector panel.

Click the Fill color well and then click the Image Fill button on the right in the popover window. Select your image by choosing Choose Image… and you’re Sketch design is done.

Congratulations! Your Sketch UI Design is Done!

Here is how it should look. I hope you’ve enjoyed this Sketch app design tutorial and can apply these techniques in your future projects. Don’t hesitate to share your final result in the comments section.

Feel free to adjust the final Sketch design and make it your own. You can find some great sources of inspiration at GraphicRiver, with interesting solutions to improve your Sketch UI skills.

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Do you want to start earning money from your WordPress website?

There are lots of ways that you can turn your site into an additional revenue stream, but many of these options revolve around one-off payments. You could build an online store, sell advertising space, or fill your website with affiliate links—or you could sell membership subscriptions that'll guarantee you a steady income for the next few weeks, months or potentially even years.

In this article, we’ll be sharing 20 of our favourite free and premium plugins that you can use to transform your WordPress website into a thriving online community. 

Top 20 WordPress Membership Plugins (From CodeCanyon for 2020)

There are many different ways that you can add membership functionality to your WordPress website. You could restrict access to selected pages and then sell subscriptions to this premium content or you could turn your entire website into an exclusive, members-only portal. Or perhaps you already have an offline community and want a way to manage it online.

Whatever your motivation, the quickest and easiest way to build an online community, is to use a professionally-developed WordPress membership plugin.

To help you get your membership site up and running, here are 10 of the best WordPress membership plugins that are currently trending on CodeCanyon.

1. Ultimate Membership Pro WordPress Plugin

Ultimate Membership Pro (UMP) is a plugin that lets you sell membership subscriptions to your WordPress content. Once you’ve created one or more subscription levels, you can restrict access to your website’s content based on the visitor’s specific subscription level (or lack of subscription!)

This robust membership plugin integrates with all of the most popular payment and checkout systems, including PayPal, Stripe, and 2Checkout. 

If you’re a fan of the WooCommerce ecommerce platform, then you can also use UMP to restrict access to any WooCommerce product.

UMP is a robust plugin that doesn’t hold anything back—when you purchase this plugin, you’ll get 35 add-on packs included! 

2. ARMember Premium Membership Plugin

ARMember is a one-stop solution that has everything you need to create a membership website.

Some of the ARMember plugin’s stand-out features include: 

• Automatically-generated shortcode. Add plan selection, registration, payments and coupon creation functionality to your website with a single piece of shortcode. 
• Multiple memberships. A single user can hold multiple membership plans and add-on options simultaneously.
• Invite-only membership. Want to create an exclusive, invite-only website? Or perhaps you simply want more control over who uses your website? With ARMember, you can restrict sign-up so that users must receive an invite, before they can register.
• Grace period. If someone misses a payment or their membership expires, then you can allow them to continue accessing your content for a set period of time.
• Flexible payment options. ARMember lets users choose between making a manual payment every time their membership runs out, or setting up an auto-debit payment. 
• Countrywise tax. You can define different percentage tax for different counties, and these settings will then be applied automatically based on the country the user selects when purchasing their membership. 
• Built-in Security. ARMember helps protect your website with a range of security features, including brute force protection, IP and URL-based restriction, and the option to ban specific usernames and email addresses at sign-up.
• Lots of integrations. ARMember supports 8 different email tools, including Mailchimp, Mailster and ActiveCampaign. It also integrates with BuddyPress, bbPress, myCred, WooCommerce, Visual Composer, AfiiliateWP, and WPBakery Page Builder.

3. WooCommerce Membership: Sell Subscriptions via WooCommerce 

As of January 2019, 53 million websites were using WooCommerce. If your website is one of these millions, then you can transform your existing WooCommerce installation into a membership website, using the dedicated WooCommerce Membership plugin. 

Using this plugin, you can:

• Create multiple subscription plans. 
• Easily restrict access to your content, using WooCommece Membership's built-in shortcodes.
  

• Restrict access to hundreds of posts or pages simultaneously, with convenient bulk editing functionality.
• Convert any WooCommerce product into a membership product.
• Sell membership subscriptions via WooCommerce.
• Create an automatic content drip feed, by adding delays to your content. 

If you already have WooCommerce setup, or you plan to use it in the future, then you can save yourself a tonne of time and effort by choosing WooCommerce Membership as your membership plugin.

4. Youzer—Buddypress Community and User Profile Plugin

Of all the membership plugins on this list, Youzer places a particular focus on community and user profiles. When you add Youzer to your WordPress website, you can be confident that your users will be able to customize their profile and community pages in a way that’s akin to Facebook’s user profiles. 

Continuing the Facebook theme, Youzer has full support for many social networking features, including likes, mentions, comments and moods, and can provide social login and registration by integrating with Facebook, Twitter, Google, Instagram and LinkedIn. 

“If you want to create a community focused website with Wordpress, then a plugin like Youzer is essential," says Kyla Gloer.

Youzer has a responsive design and full support for ads, so you can potentially generate some additional income by advertising on your users’ profiles. It also integrates with MyCRED, BBpress, WooCommerce, Giphy, Mailchimp, and Mailster Newsletter. 

5. UserPro—Community Plugin With Social Login

UserPro provides everything you need to create a flourishing online community, including user profiles, login, registration and content restriction.

User Imtovi says:

“The most useful and powerful user profile Wordpress solution I have seen!” 

UserPro integrates with all the major social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn, so visitors can register with your website using their existing social media credentials. 

When a new user logs into their account, UserPro can sync their existing social media profiles with their new UserPro profile, helping them create an interesting and engaging profile with minimum effort.

“I've been using this plugin for years. Works great and looks professional on the front end," says ACleverCat.

UserPro also supports a range of social features, so users can connect with other members of the community, and view one another’s recent activities, including new posts, comments and follows. 

6. User Profiles Made Easy—Profile, Login and Registration Plugin

The User Profiles Made Easy (UPME) plugin does exactly what it says on the tin: it makes user profiles easy! 

UPME has all the features you’d expect from a profile, login and restriction plugin, plus a few interesting extras:

• A seamless front-experience with profile, registration and login pages that can be customized to match the rest of your website. 
• The ability to generate invitation codes and send them to specific users via email, allowing you to create an exclusive, invitation-only registration process.
• Advanced content restriction, including preventing non-registered visitors from accessing selected posts, pages, URLs, categories, content blocks, or even your entire website.
• 1-Click social login and registration thanks to seamless Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn integration. You can also use UPME to sync content from these popular social networks to your website. 
• Integration with WooCommerce and bbPress. 
• 7 free add-ons.
• All support queries are handled by User Profiles Made Easy’s lead developer. 

7. SUMO Memberships—Complete WooCommerce Membership System

Do you already have a WooCommerce store? SUMO Memberships is a comprehensive WooCommerce membership system that lets you sell memberships through your existing WooCommerce store.

Using the SUMO Membership plugin, you can restrict access to pages, posts, content blocks, URLs and custom post types, and grant access to specific WooCommerce products based on a user’s membership level. You can also provide alternate content for webpages that a user doesn’t have permission to view, such as an alternate page or post. 

By providing alternate content for people who aren’t subscribed, you can provide a better user experience for everyone who visits your website. 

“Excellent support and willingness to adopt feature requests. The plugin lacked an upgrade/downgrade function when I first bought it. I asked for it and bingo! It was there on the next major update. You can't ask for more than that," says SUMO Membership user now4dw.

Other interesting SUMO Membership features include giving members the option to pause their own plans, or transfer their membership to another user. Multiple membership plans can also be linked to the same account, so a single user can hold several membership plans simultaneously. 

SUMO Membership user AssetDrop says:

"Changing systems over to SUMO completely was the best decision we could have made. They have more features, more flexibility and fantastic levels of support. I'm incredibly happy we found them and recommend them to anyone who wants to offer subscriptions, reward points, or discounts.” 

8. PrivateContent—Multilevel Content Plugin

You can use PrivateContent to quickly and easily transform your WordPress website into a multilevel membership platform, by restricting access to every aspect of your site. 

Some of this plugin’s standout features include:

• Advanced user tracking. Stop wondering what users are doing on your website! With PrivateContent’s native Google Analytics integration, you can track every page view, login, logout and registration in real time.

• Restrict any element. PrivateContent can restrict menus, comments, widgets, posts, pages, categories, URLs, custom post types, custom taxonomies and more. To make content restriction as easy as possible, restrictions are inherited, for example if you restrict a parent category then PrivateContent will automatically restrict all of its child categories. By taking advantage of inherited restrictions, you can define all of your website’s premium content in seconds. 
• Forms blend seamlessly into your website. PrivateContent has three preset skins, but if none of these default skins quite meet your requirements then PrivateContent also has a built-in skin builder.
• Integration with Elementor, Visual Composer and Cornerstone. Stop struggling to decipher complex shortcodes, and start using real-time previews.
• Extreme mode. Lock down your entire website including all menus, with a single click—even search engines won’t be able to find your site!
• Log in from any WP-based system. PrivateContent users are synced with WordPress users, so visitors can log into your site using any WP-based system, including the popular WooCommerce platform.
• Developer-friendly. Extend PrivateContent by taking advantage of the powerful PHP API, which features dozens of actions and filters. 
• Completely translatable. PrivateContent has already been translated into 23 languages.
• Anti-spam systems. This plugin supports honey-pot and invisible reCAPTCHA.
• Fast and reliable support. If you encounter any issues with PrivateContent, then you’ll have easy access to the help you need - the PrivateContent team typically answer support queries in less than 12 hours, 7 days a week. 

The PrivateContent: Multilevel Content Plugin is a serious contender for anyone who wants to create a WordPress membership website. 

9. Ultimate Learning Pro—Learning Management System (LMS) 

Do you have a portfolio of e-learning materials that you want to monetize? Or perhaps you have some specialist knowledge that you want to share with the world, by creating your own online training course? 

Ultimate Learning Pro is a membership plugin that’s targeted squarely at students and instructors. This plugin has everything you need to create, publish, distribute, and manage your own online courses. 

Once students enroll with your website, they can use Ultimate Learning Pro’s extensive feature set to purchase, complete and review all of your e-learning materials.

After completing each course, you can use this plugin to issues students with certificates, badges and rewards points, and gather feedback about their experiences with your e-learning materials.

For instructors, Ultimate Learning Pro provides all the tools required to manage a class of online students, including posting announcements and pushing notifications to students’ smartphones to ensure they never miss an important event or deadline. Ultimate Learning Pro also has a drip content feature that makes it easy to release lessons at predefined intervals. 

Ultimate Learning Pro supports all the major payment services, including PayPal, Stripe and 2CheckOut. When you purchase Ultimate Learning Pro, you’ll also get access to 20 add-ons including WooCommerce, Ultimate Membership Pro, Easy Digital Downloads, and EDD payment integration.

Don't already have a portfolio of e-learning materials? Ultimate Learning Pro also features an intuitive course builder that makes it easy to start building your own online courses.

10. WPGYM—WordPress Gym Management System 

Unlike all the plugins we’ve covered so far, WordPress Gym Management System (WPGYM) is designed to help you manage an offline community, online—specifically, it’s a complete gym management solution. 

For gym owners and instructors, WPGYM provides all the tools you need to share nutrition plans, workout schedules, and class timetables, while gym members can use WPGYM to perform useful tasks such as tracking their physical stats over time, or reserving their spot at an upcoming exercise class.

“What a great team to work with, they always strive to make sure I'm happy and go the extra mile," says WPGYM user brokenbox. 

WPGYM includes the following modules: 

• Gym member module. Here, you can track the progress of all your gym members, including their vital statistics. 

• Workout module. Instructors can create a workout schedule for individual members, including unique sets, reps and weight for each activity, and define a date range for each workout. The gym subscriber can then view their assigned workout and log their daily progress for their instructor to review.

• Nutrition module. Instructors can prepare and assign nutrition plans to individual gym members.
• Attendance module. Here, you can manage the attendance of your staff and gym members, and monitor the attendance for each class.
• Facility management module. Record all the facilities available at your gym, reserve these facilities for various events and classes, and manage reservations for each facility.
• Message module. Send messages to all staff and gym subscribers - handy, if you ever need to notify subscibers about a cancelled or rescheduled class.
• Newsletter module. WPGYM integrates with MailChimp, so you can quickly and easily push a newsletter to all of your gym members using MailChimp’s newsletter system.
• Accountant module. This is where you can manage your income and expenses, and membership fees. You can also use WPGYM to accept payments via PayPal.

10 free WordPress membership plugins for download in 2020

Maybe you only require access to a limited feature set, or you simply want to experiment with membership functionality before deciding whether this is the right direction for your website. 

If you’re not ready to invest in a premium WordPress membership plugin just yet, then there’s plenty of free plugins available. 

Here, we’ve collected 10 of our favourite free plugins from across the web: 

1. User Registration

This lightweight plugin lets you quickly and easily build registration and login forms using drag and drop. 

If you need additional functionality, then there’s several premium addons available, including add-ons that enable social login, so users can register and log into your website with their existing Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn credentials. You can also purchase add-ons that integrate the User Registration plugin with popular services such as WooCommerce, PayPal and MailChimp.

2. Ultimate Member

The Ultimate Member plugin lets you create online communities and membership sites in seconds, by automatically generating all the pages required to offer complete membership functionality, including user profiles, login, registration, and a password reset page. 

If you need to modify any of Ultimate Member’s forms, then it also includes a drag and drop form editor that supports custom fields. By experimenting with custom fields, you can create an endless variety of unique login, registration and profile editing forms. 

3. Paid Memberships Pro

You can use this plugin to restrict access to your website’s content based on various membership levels, including one-time payments, recurring subscriptions and custom trial periods. 

Whenever an unregistered user attempts to access restricted content, they’ll be automatically re-routed into a funnel that’s designed to drive them towards making a purchase. 

Paid Memberships Pro supports PayPal, Stripe, Authorize.net, Braintree and 2Checkout, and is used by over 80,000 organizations worldwide. 

4. Simple Membership

This WordPress plugin lets you protect your posts and pages so only registered members can view your content. Simple Membership also gives you the option to add Google reCAPTCHA to your registration, login and password reset forms, and to require new users to accept your terms and conditions before they can register with your website. 

If you need to customize the Simple Membership plugin, then it also provides lots of action and filter hooks, plus an API that you can use to query, create and update member accounts. 

5. WP-Members Membership Plugin

When you restrict content using the WP-Members Membership plugin, it automatically generates post excerpt teaser content, to encourage non-registered users to purchase a subscription. 

If you’re a developer, then the WP-Members Membership is also highly customizable, and provides over 120 action and filter hooks, plus a library of API functions. 

6. Supsystic

This plugin has everything you need to create a revenue-generating membership website. 

The Supsystic plugin has a strong focus on social content, allowing members to connect via Follow and Add as friend features. 

You can also use the Supsystic plugin to create groups where like-minded members can engage with one another.

7. Users Ultra Membership

This plugin can generate all the forms users need to register, login and manage their membership. If the default forms don’t fulfill all of your requirements, then you can add your own fields using the plugin’s Fields Customizer tool. 

Users Ultra Membership offers lots of functionality that free plugins often reserve for their premium add-ons. Out-of-the-box, Users Ultra Membership supports social login, integrates with MailChimp, PayPal and bbPress, and auto-syncs with WooCommerce.

8. ProfileGrid

While ProfileGrid is fundamentally a membership plugin and profile builder, it also supports groups, so the people who visit your website can connect with other people who share their interests. These groups can be free or paid, public or private, and you can display different content depending on whether a user is signed up to a particular group. 

ProfileGrid is also notable, in that it offers a built-in private messaging system that works in real time, and allows users to submit and share blogs via your membership website. 

9. WP User Frontend

This plugin features an easy-to-use drag-and-drop form builder. Once you’ve created your perfect form, you can place it anywhere on your website using the shortcode that WP User Frontend generates automatically. 

WP User Frontend also allows registered users to post content on your website, so you could potentially create your own network of guest bloggers. Once a guest writer’s content is live on your site, they can go back and edit their work, and reply to comments, making this a great plugin for sparking discussion.

10. WP User Manager

WP User Manager has everything you need to create a membership website, but some standout features include:

• A handy shortcode editor that’s embedded within WordPress’ pages editor, so you no longer have to try and remember complicated shortcodes.
• A templating system that lets you customize all of this plugin’s templates.
• The ability to ban visitors from using certain usernames—perfect for ensuring no-one ever registers with your website using an offensive username!

WP User Manager also offers a free extension where users can request an export and erasure of their personal data, which can help ensure your website remains GDPR compliant. 

Create a Complete Membership Website in 2 Easy Steps

If you want to create an online community, then WordPress plugins are the easiest way to add membership functionality to your website. Don’t believe us? In this section we’ll show you how to generate all the pages required to create and support a flourishing online community, in just two steps. 

For this quick and easy tutorial, I’ll be demonstrating the UserPro plugin—if you opt for a different membership plugin then the steps may differ, but as long as you choose a professional, high-quality membership plugin, then the process should be just as easy.

1. Install the UserPro plugin

Assuming you’ve already purchased and downloaded UserPro, the first step is uploading this plugin to your WordPress website: 

• In WordPress’ left-hand menu, select Plugins > Add New > Upload plugin. 
• Scroll to the If you have a plugin in a .zip format section and select Choose file. 
• Select the userpro.zip file you downloaded as part of the purchasing process, and then click Install now.
• When prompted, select Activate plugin.

2. Enter Your purchase code

When you purchased UserPro, you should have received an email with the subject line [CodeCanyon] Purchase Confirmation. This email contains a purchase code that you’ll need to share with WordPress: 

• Open your purchase confirmation email and copy your unique Purchase code. 
• In WordPress’ left-hand menu, select UserPro.
• Select the Licensing tab.
• Scroll to the Activate UserPro section and paste your purchase code into the accompanying text field. 
• Select Save Changes. 

3. Your Community Website Is Ready to Go

And that’s it! UserPro has automatically created all the pages your new community website needs, including registration and login pages, fully-editable user profiles, and a searchable directory of everyone who’s registered with your website. To check out this content for yourself, select Pages > All Pages and spend some time exploring all the membership pages that UserPro has kindly created for you.

After just a few minutes’ work, you have everything you need to start your own online community, but UserPro has much more to offer, including giving visitors the option to register using their existing Twitter or Facebook credentials, and displaying the user's location via Google Maps integration. 

If you want to learn more about this plugin, then check out our two-part UserPro series where I show you how to implement social login, add Google Maps integration, and much more.

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4 tips for creating a successful membership website 

Choosing a professional, feature-packed membership plugin is the first step to creating a successful membership website, but there’s still lots you can do to help grow your audience.

In this final section, we’ll be sharing 4 ways that you can encourage people to sign up, engage with your community features, and ultimately renew their membership, so you generate the maximum revenue from your WordPress community website. 

1. Offer a Free Trial

Free trials are one of the most effective ways to market anything—and membership websites are no exception. 

Customers like to know exactly what they’re getting before they make a purchase. Giving potential new subscribers a way to experience all of your website’s great membership features, first-hand and for free, can encourage them to make a purchase.

2. Create Multiple Subscription Levels

To get the maximum number of registrations, your membership plans need to appeal to a wide audience. 

Unless you have a specific reason not to, it’s always a good idea to create multiple membership levels, for example you might offer Bronze, Silver and Gold subscriptions, or Monthly and Annual plans. For the best results, each membership should offer unique perks, and there should be a considerable difference in pricing.

If you’re trying to monetize your website, then multiple membership levels can also be a way to increase the average spend per member. If a new customer expresses an interest in a Silver subscription, then you have the opportunity to upsell them a Gold subscription.

Even after a user has purchased their subscription, there may still be upsell opportunities in the future. In these scenarios, it can often help to present the upsell as an exclusive bonus, for example if a subscriber's Silver membership is about to expire, then you could offer them a Gold membership at a discounted rate, as a special thank you for being such a loyal customer. 

3. Keep in Constant Communication With Your Community 

Today’s typical Internet user has a short attention span, so even after someone purchases a subscription you’ll need to work hard to keep them engaged with your website.

Most premium WordPress plugins have features that are designed to help you hold your audience’s attention, for example both ARMember and Youzer integrate with popular email marketing solutions Mailchimp and Mailster. You can encourage members to visit your website by sending them regular newsletters and email updates about all the new and exciting content they’re missing out on.

Other plugins, such as WooCommerce Membership and Ultimate Learning Pro allow you to “drip” content to your users. By carefully scheduling content in advance, you can ensure that something is always happening on your website, which will encourage members to get into the habit of regularly checking your site, in the hopes of discovering new content.

4. Create a Sense of Community

A successful online community needs to feel like a community, so you should try to give subscribers multiple ways to connect with one another.

As a minimum, visitors should be able to comment on your content and reply to comments left by other members, but you could also allow users to post their own content; view other people’s profiles; create and join groups, and exchange instant messages with other members of the community. 

Many premium WordPress plugins also include features that are inspired by social media, for example UserPro allows members to “follow” each other and view logs of every member’s recent activity, including any new content or comments that this person has posted.  

By fostering a sense of community, you can encourage members to build an emotional connection to this community, and by extension your website. 

Start Building Your WordPress Membership Website Today!

Are you ready to transform your website into a thriving and revenue-generating online community?  Using one of our premium WordPress membership plugins, you can add advanced membership features to your website within minutes.

Whether you want to generate additional income from your existing WordPress website, launch your own social platform, manage your existing offline community online, or sell elearning materials, a WordPress membership plugin can help you achieve your goals.

Whether you’re launching your hotel business or looking for a refresh, having a high-quality website can be make or break. These days, you don’t need to hire a designer or web developer to bring your website to life—instead, you can select a WordPress template from ThemeForest and easily edit it to make the site your own. It’s a budget-friendly option that doesn’t come at the cost of quality. 

Tips for Selecting Your WordPress Theme

1. Responsive, Responsive, Responsive

Staggeringly, up to 80% of hotel bookings are made on mobile devices so clearly, neglecting responsive design would be a very big mistake. Many themes are designed with this in mind, but make sure you check for responsive design before you invest. 

2. Don’t Underestimate Imagery!

The hotel industry is a competitive one. Of course, you want to wow users with your responsive design, but before they part with their money, they’re going to want to see what they’re paying for. 

Ensure you’re selecting a template with the option for image galleries or even video content. 

3. Let Them Book!

Once you’ve wowed them with your website design, make sure you provide a seamless user experience that enables them to book their stay! Selecting a WordPress template with a plugin for online booking, like Hotel Booking or Awebooking, is a hassle-free way for customers to select their chosen date and part with their funds. 

Best Selling Hotel Booking WordPress Themes 

Read on for the top 25+ hotel booking WordPress themes to take you into 2020 and beyond. 

1. KALLYAS - Creative eCommerce Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme

With more than 43,000 sales, KALLYAS certainly is a popular theme with a lot of fans. It offers more than 70 demos so you can see how the site can be customized to suit various industries, and if you’re looking for a hotel reservation WordPress theme, the Hotel Spa demo is worth checking out. 

Compatible with the WP Hotel Booking plugin, users can scroll to see the rooms available before deciding whether or not to invest. 

2. Hotel + Bed and Breakfast Booking Calendar Theme | Bellevue

This theme is packed full of demos specifically for the hotel industry, so you can see how it could look based on the services you have to offer. For instance, there’s the Hotel Demo, Chalet, Apartments, and Guest House—plus many more. The booking system is front and center in this template which will help to provide a simple user experience, and in turn, reduce bounce rate. 

3. Soho Hotel Calendar

If sleek and sophisticated is what you’re after then this may well be the template for you. The easy to use booking system also takes center-stage, and even includes additional features like seasonal pricing, booking restrictions, and booking restrictions. With iCal, you can also sync your booking data with websites including Airbnb and booking.com to ensure you never overfill rooms. 

4. Hotel Master Booking WordPress

Created way back in 2015, this WordPress hotel management theme definitely has experience on its side. However, it’s updated regularly, with the latest update in December 2019. In its version 3 release, it also offers the iCal function, there’s the ability to block out rooms on specific dates, plus the transaction page has been redesigned in the backend. This is a template that screams luxury. 

5. Hotel Booking

A simple name, and a simple navigation to match. With at least 3 demos, you can see the versatility offered by the team behind this theme—the Chalet theme, for example, includes booking info right at the top along with full-width imagery. This one also comes with the Revolution slider so imagery pleasingly scrolls to show users what could be in store for them if they book!

6. Tejal - WordPress Hotel Booking Theme

Released in March 2019, this WordPress hotel listing theme is a relative newcomer to the block. However, it’s already managed to collect an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars so it must be doing something right! 

It’s highly visual and there’s the option of being able to overlay imagery on top of each other which gives the site a feeling of depth. It’s fully responsive too. 

7. City Hostel | A Travel & Hotel Booking WordPress Theme

If you run a hostel or other low-cost hotel then this could be a great option for you. With a bright color scheme, illustrated icons, and spaces to clearly show the price, this has a young feel and is geared towards delivering value. Of course, like most templates, it offers flexible typography and color schemes so you can edit these features as required. 

8. Luxe - Hotel WordPress Theme

At the other end of the spectrum is this hospitality WordPress theme designed with luxury and elegance in mind. It comes with more than 7 built-in sliders which add to the high-end feel of the site, as imagery reveals itself in an aesthetically-pleasing way as the user scrolls. To give the user a hint as to what to expect from the full hotel experience, this theme is capable of supporting YouTube and self-hosted videos in the background so you can go deeper than imagery alone. 

9. Hotel XENIA - Resort & Booking WordPress Theme

This online booking theme WordPress comes with 2 modern hotel demos—Xenia Resort and City Hotel. Like many of the templates, it’s translation ready so it can easily be translated to suit your market, plus it is compatible with the WPML plugin for multilingual sites. Overlapping imagery and text boxes give this a strong editorial feel, plus the option to add testimonials within a simple slider works well. 

10. Sunway - Hotel Booking WordPress Theme

You just have to jump onto the reviews to see why customers enjoy this template—design quality and customer support are regularly praised! The online booking system accepts payment through PayPal, 2Checkout, Stripe, and Beanstream/Bambora. This template allows for paragraphs of text on the homepage, perfect if you really want to tell the story of your hotel or resort, something that could be especially useful if you’re looking to be considered for honeymoons or other special occasions. 

11. Monalisa | Hotel & Resort WordPress Theme

The demo homepage shows how much is possible with this template—including blog capability, testimonials, integration with Google Maps, and of course, the essential online booking system. The developers behind Monalisa praise the platform for its high-speed performance, with a 96% PageSpeed score, plus it’s responsive and retina ready. 

12. Keter-WP Theme for Small Hotels, Guesthouses, Rooms for Rent and B&B

Starting small? This WordPress hotel booking theme is a good place to start! The hotel and rooms page template with a sliding panel is a strong feature and you can also introduce news and information in ‘sticky’ posts at the bottom of the page. 

13. Travelz - WordPress Theme for Tour Agency

A great option if you’re running a tour agency, Travelz opts for the booking system right at the top followed by content blocks which enable potential customers to explore the available tours. Icons coupled with short lines of copy also help to quickly explain to visitors about key offerings. You can provide information about popular hotels in areas covered by the tour company. 

14. Solaz - An Elegant Hotel & Lodge WordPress Theme

Taking a step back towards the luxury, Solaz is another solid option for your hotel booking WordPress theme. It comes with at least 4 unique homepage layouts plus loads of other page demos for you to explore. You can also see exactly how this template will look on mobile, with a handy demo video to show off the simple user experience. There are also more than 16 predefined color schemes for you to try, or you can go your own way entirely as there are unlimited color options. 

15. Travel Booking WordPress Theme

With more than 7,000 sales, this is a popular contender on the list. Whether you’re setting up a tour, are looking for a WordPress hotel comparison theme, or have a single hotel to promote, there’s a demo to follow. The Single Hotel theme has a luxury feel but also includes the option for lots of fun sliders which help this template to stand out. The full-width header is eye-catching as imagery twists and turns when it comes into view. 

16. Moon - Responsive Hotel Booking WordPress Theme

Gutenberg optimized, this template will be super easy to navigate via drag and drop content blocks, meaning it’s a great option especially if you or your team and new to WordPress. There are 2 header options to choose form, 2 hotel landing pages, plus you can easily integrate email confirmations when a visitor books a hotel room. 

17. Mojado - Mobile Friendly Hotel WordPress Theme

Although the majority of WordPress developers now make responsive design a priority, the team behind Mojado even include it the template’s name! On the demo, you can click multiple device symbols, including tablet and mobile, to see how the theme adapts. 

This theme uses the Awebooking plugin which enables customers to easily setup any reservations with managing rooms, reservations, and price. Plus, the video header is a distinctive feature. 

18. Hillter - Responsive Hotel Booking for WordPress

Speaking of eye-catching headers, Hillter makes the most of animation in multiple sliders so new photography comes into focus in novel ways. The ability to incorporate testimonials onto hotel imagery is also a nice touch. 

There’s an image gallery that can be categorized according to particular areas in the hotel, i.e. if a user is most interested to see the bar or the restaurant, they can quickly navigate their way to the most relevant imagery. 

19. FiveStar - Hotel Booking Theme

With at least 6 demos to choose from, you can pick a template most relevant to your hotel niche and then edit it to make it distinctly your own. The Nature Resort demo, for example, is simple in terms of design but the template allows for imagery to be peppered throughout. 

FiveStar comes with more than 800 Google fonts, the option to style your mobile and desktop header differently, plus Contact Form 7—a plugin that enables people to get in touch. 

20. Milenia - Hotel & Booking WordPress Theme

Large image content blocks give you the opportunity to really sell your hotel facilities. Plus, the Hotel Booking Payment Requests extension enables owners of this template to send automatic payment reminders—it’s a great feature that saves time too. You can also customize email reminders to include specific personal information, another handy time-saving tactic. 

21. Hotel WordPress Theme | Sailing

This template strikes a great balance between imagery and copy—there’s plenty of space for photography, but also a small amount of copy to help provide wider context. It’s widely praised for its helpful customer support, plus has been built with SEO in mind to help give your site a greater chance to climb the Google search ranks. 

22. Calluna - Hotel & Resort WordPress Theme

Calluna has all the features you’d expect from a WordPress booking template, including a booking calendar, image gallery, plus testimonial functionality. It also offers 3 header styles, including the Transparent Overlay, Full Width, and Boxed, so you can decide which works best for your site. 

23. LordCros - Hotel Booking WordPress Theme

This theme does well to offer customers the option to pull out key hotel facilities on the homepage, i.e. the restaurant and spa. With each feature, you can add content blocks like imagery and copy, and you can then direct users to a separate child page to add further information. 

The theme was only introduced in 2019, but it’s already collected many five star reviews. 

24. Morrison Hotel - WordPress Booking Theme

Morrison Hotel is a room rent WordPress theme with a cool, chic feel—it’s simple and modern but subtle image sliders and low-key galleries to show the rooms available. 

It’s similar to LordCros in its use of separate content blocks to talk about important hotel facilities in greater detail. It’s also fully supported by PayPal. 

25. Lava - Luxury Hotel WordPress Theme

The tones used in this theme’s demo—black and gold—contribute to its luxurious appeal. It’s also optimized for speed, offers unlimited sidebars, plus a live customizer so you can make any site changes as you go. The subtle movement of the header color disappearing as you scroll is a nice touch. 

26. Iver - Modern Hotel Theme

This is a seriously cool theme and would work perfectly for a boutique, fashion-forward hotel. There are at least 6 homepages to choose from, but the Fullscreen Showcase, in particular, really stands out. 

Of course, with a site like this, you need to have the quality, high-res imagery to match as its success will depend on the selected photography. The navigation in the top right is small so as to not distract from the site’s overall look and feel. 

Time to Create!

Now you’ve explored some of my favorite hotel WordPress themes, it’s time for you to get creative! You can either select one of the templates mentioned in this post or head over to ThemeForest and choose between hundreds of hotel booking options. 

Do you have any other themes you think should have made the list? Let us know in the comments below!

WordPress features a built-in menu management system that makes it easy to add menus to your website. However, as you add more and more pages, posts and other miscellaneous content, it may become impossible to include every destination in your standard menu bar. 

In these scenarios, you can provide easy access to every section of your website without cluttering the menu bar, by replacing the standard horizontal menu bar with a dropdown menu.

In this quick tip, I’ll share two easy ways that you can transform any standard WordPress menu into a dropdown menu.

Best WordPress Navigation Plugins

Before we get started, I want to mention that over seven thousand of the best WordPress plugins ever created on CodeCanyon. With a cheap one time payment, you can purchase these high-quality WordPress plugins for navigation or other need. 

Create at Least One Standard WordPress Menu 

You can add dropdown functionality to any WordPress menu.

If you don’t have a standard menu that you want to convert into a dropdown menu, then you’ll need to create one:

Log into your WordPress account, if you haven’t already. In WordPress’ left-hand menu, select Appearance > Menus, then click the Create a new menu button. Give your menu a name, and then select Create new menu. 

Note that the menu’s name won’t appear anywhere on your website, so this is solely for your reference. The Add menu items section lists all the Pages, Posts, Custom Links, Categories, and Formats that you can add to your menu. Click any section to see all the available items within this category. When you find an item that you want to add to your menu, select its accompanying checkbox.

When you’re happy with your selection, click Add to menu. All of these items will now be added to your menu. 

At this point you’ve created a standard WordPress menu; your next task is adding the dropdown functionality.  

Convert Any WordPress Menu Into a Dropdown Menu

To turn a regular menu into a dropdown menu, you’ll need to use drag and drop to create “parent” items, which will displayed as part of the main menu, and “child” items which will appear as part of their parent’s dropdown.

For example, in the following screenshot Settings is the parent and Password Reset and Logout are its children.

This gives me the following dropdown:

You can separate your menu items into parents and children in the Menu structure area.

First, grab any item that want to turn into a child. Drag the child onto the parent item, but don’t release your mouse just yet. Move your mouse slightly to the right, so it’s embedded below the parent. Release your mouse, and the menu item should become a child of the parent item.

When you’re happy with how your dropdown menu is organized, click Save Menu.

Manage Locations: Displaying Your Menu

Now we need to place this dropdown menu on our website, so give the Manage Locations tab a click. 

Depending on how your site is set up, you may have different options for positioning your menu. However, if you want your menu to appear as part of your website’s header then you’ll typically need to select Top Menu, Primary Menu or Primary.

When you’re happy with your selection, click Save Changes. Your dropdown menu should now be displayed along the top of your website.

Building Dropdown Menus With Theme Customizer

Alternatively, you can create dropdown menus using WordPress’ live preview and customizer feature:

In WordPress’ left-hand menu, select Appearance > Menus.

Give the Manage with Live Preview button a click. This takes you to an area of Theme Customizer where you can build a standard WordPress menu, by giving the Create New Menu button a click. Give your menu a name, and then click Next.

Click Add items and select every item that you want to display as part of your menu. To turn a standard menu item into a child menu item, drag it onto the item you want to use as its parent. Before releasing your mouse, drag the child item a little to the right, and then release. This item should now be transformed into a child of the parent item, and will appear as part of its dropdown menu. 

As you divide your menu into parents and children, your changes will be automatically reflected in the live preview. Rinse and repeat until you’re happy with how your dropdown menu is configured.

Specify where your new dropdown menu should appear, by selecting one of the Menu Location checkboxes. Note that the available options will vary, depending on the WordPress theme you’re currently using. When you’re happy with how your dropdown menu is configured, click Publish.

Your new dropdown menu should now appear on your website.

Conclusion 

In this quick tip, I showed you how to create a standard WordPress menu, and then convert that menu into a dropdown menu. By opting for dropdown menus, you can ensure your website is easy to navigate, without cluttering the menu bar.

For more tips and tricks on how to get the most out of WordPress’ menus and other WordPress plugins, check out some of our other tutorials.

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UberMenu: the Best-Selling WordPress Mega Menu Plugin

If you're looking for a best-in class menu plugin for WordPress, check out UberMenu.

You can develop customized Mega Menus for your WordPress site quickly with UberMenu. One of CodeCanyon’s best-selling WordPress Mega Menu options, this plugin works right out the box to build fully responsive, touch-enabled menus that perform consistently across platforms. This user-friendly plugin lets you quickly build advanced submenu layouts in a system that you are already comfortable using.

This plugin is fully customizable, so you can build a Mega Menu that works perfectly with your website.

There is no shortage of options for monetizing your site nowadays. From affiliate marketing, to selling your own products or services, almost anyone can launch a successful online business.

However, you don’t necessarily need to have special skills or products to make money. Running a directory site can be just as efficient at creating a passive income stream.

You can create all kinds of directory sites from listing all the different attractions in your city to listing ads for things people want to sell.

They are especially useful as they allow users to quickly find what they are looking for in one central place instead of browsing multiple sites. 

One type of directory site that is bound to attract lots of visitors is job board sites. Considering there are always people who are either looking to enter the professional field or want a change of career, a job board site is a viable way to create a monetized site.

Where to Find Top Job Listing WordPress Themes in 2020

We have thousands of professional Wordpress themes available to download on ThemeForest. Some multipurpose and others made with specific niche site components built in. Our selection of Job Board WordPress themes has the pro features you need to make a great listing site fast: 

20+ Best Job Board Themes For Making Modern Listing Sites 

In this curated selection, we feature the best job listing Wordpress themes for making modern directory sites in 2020. They range from themes that can be used across multiple niches as well as a few specific ones. Browse through them to find the best one for your new listing site:

1. Cariera - Job Board WordPress Theme

The Cariera job board WordPress theme was designed with job sites or larger sites requiring a job board. It includes advanced search and front-end forms for job and resume submission. 

The Cariera theme comes with complete integration of “WP Job Manager” for the job directory functionality. Also included are: auto location and region compatibility, four layouts for the job boards, multiple homepage layouts and user profiles. Its most recent update even included GDPR compatibility.

2. StaffScout - Job Board and Employment Theme

The StaffScout theme features an elegant and simple design with an attention-grabbing search form. You can customize the search experience as you wish. Aside from beautiful design, it also comes with powerful features such as:

• Resume submission
• Large custom shortcode collection
• Fully responsive & retina ready
• Powerful sorting options for job listings and resumes
• 4 search bar types
• Simple one-click import of demo content

3. Nokri - Job Board WordPress Theme

The Nokri job board theme is an excellent template, ideal for running a job board for both employers and candidates. It supports a large database for both jobs, resumes, and profiles. It offers a wide range of tools such as:

• Search filters
• Job suggestions
• Social logins for user accounts
• WooCommerce integration
• Resume builder
• Front-end multi-currency settings
• Bookmarks for jobs
• Full dashboard for candidates and employers

4. WorkScout - Fast and Modern Job Board WordPress Theme

The WorkScout WP theme comes with a modern interface and plenty of features to get your job board up and running quickly. It has a set of pages that allow you to quickly create an area for employers and those looking for a job. 

Applicants can easily upload their resume or CV, bookmark specific jobs, and recruiting managers have an overview of all the applications. As the site owner, you can configure several pricing plans to charge for job submissions. This job listing WordPress theme has also been optimized to load fast to make the job search even easier.

5. JobMonster - Clean WordPress Theme for Job Listing Sites

The JobMonster WP theme has a clean design with two homepage variations and several premade demos, which can be installed with one-click. Employers looking to submit their job ads can easily do so from the front-end. Candidates can apply either by uploading a CV, applying online or submitting their application through LinkedIn. Custom email notifications are also enabled so everyone can get notified about important messages.

6. Jobseek - Agency Job Board WordPress Theme

Try the Jobseek WP theme if you want to build a job listing site for an agency. The theme has been updated for 2020. It accepts frontend submissions and comes perfectly integrated with the WP Job Board plugin. It’s also fully customizable and includes a variety of demos to make it easier to launch your site without having to start from scratch.  

7. JobCareer - Easy to Use Job Board WP Theme 20202020

Consider using JobCareer if you want a responsive job board WordPress theme that not only looks elegant but is also easy to use. Some of the main features of the theme include:

• Fully responsive demo layouts.
• Several premium add-ons included for free such as WC Paid Listings, Apply with Facebook, and Job Alerts.
• Complete integration with PayPal, Stripe, MailChimp, and more.
• Drag-and-drop page builder.
• And more.

Use this powerful theme to make a great job listing website quickly in 2020.

8. Jobify - The Most Popular WordPress Job Board Theme

The popular Jobify WP theme comes with a completely customizable homepage, live search and filtering, and an easy way to charge for job submissions and manage the approval of job ads. Customers cannot stop raving about the ease of use and features of this powerful job board WordPress theme:

“Love everything about Jobify. The add-ons open up so many options and the theme itself is incredibly user friendly. Customer support A++++ Overall I would highly recommend any of Astoundify’s options.”

9. WPJobus - Multipurpose WordPress Listing Theme

The WPJobus WordPress theme is a feature-rich andt can be used for job board sites as well as for resume websites. The theme comes with front-end submission, powerful admin area, and Stripe integration. It also comes with Google Maps integration and plenty of customization options as well as several page templates and custom shortcodes.

10. PetSitter - WordPress Theme for Pet Sitting Jobs 2020

If you want to create a website centered around pet sitting jobs, consider the PetSitter job listing theme. It includes a lot of Page Builder elements so you can create any type of layout and content you need. 

On top of allowing visitors to make use of the front-end submissions form and a powerful user dashboard, the theme integrates with the WP Job Board plugin. It also comes with plenty of customization options and several custom widgets such as social follow, Flickr feed, tabbed content, and more.

11. Nine to Five - Customizable Premium Job Board WP Theme

The Nine to Five WordPress job posting theme has a rather minimal design but still includes features that allow you to accept free and paid user submissions. It includes a light and dark color scheme, and offers plenty of customization options. 

This powerful WP theme can also be translated into any language so you can even create an international job portal. It’s also SEO optimized and coded to load fast for an even better visitor experience.

12. Craftory - Directory Listing Job Board WordPress Theme

This complete job board WordPress theme is the ideal solution for handymen, craftsmen, or contractors. When it comes to attracting new business from your website, the load time of your various pages is a key factor. Having a slow website can discourage potential customers from hiring you. WordPress themes can often be bulky and take a long time to load, but this optimized theme allows you to navigate the various pages quickly. 

Here are a few of the theme’s notable features. 

• 4 different payment methods
• compatible with Yoast SEO plugin
• fully responsive
• highly optimized site

13. Recruitment Agency - Multi-Industry Responsive Theme

The Recruitment Agency WP theme features a fully responsive design, a front-end user account section, and plenty of styling options. A unique feature of this job search WordPress theme is the job basket, which allows a candidate to add as many jobs as they want to their basket and apply for them all at once using the information they supplied in their profile. Users can also filter their job search in a number of ways and view the location of every job thanks to an interactive map view.

14. Babysitter - Responsive WP Theme For Babysitting Jobs

Those of you who want to create a job site for babysitters, look no further than the Babysitter WP theme. It comes with plenty of shortcodes so you can easily insert different content blocks to any of your pages. Some of the main features include:

• 5 Home Page Layouts
• List and Grid view for Jobs and Resumes
• Front End Submission
• AJAX Search and Filter functionality
• Post Formats support
• Powerful Theme Options Panel (Redux Framework)
• Several Icon Font Packs
• Custom Widgets (Flickr Feed, Latest Post, Tabbed widget, Social Links)
• Translation Ready (.pot file included)
• Google Maps integration
• Demo Content included (xml)

15. JobBoard - Attractive WordPress Job Search Theme

The Job Board WP theme has a modern and sophisticated design with powerful features geared to make job searching and hiring process easier. This job search WordPress theme includes a frontend submission form, advanced search functionality, design optimized for mobile and desktop devices, and much more. The users praise both the functionality and the design quality of this theme:

“Great theme.. well designed, clean and does contain almost any feature a job board or recruiting company need..!”

16. MeshJobs - Functional 2020 WordPress Job Portal Theme

The MeshJobs WP theme is perfect for job companies, startups, recruitment agencies, and HR companies. It comes with features such as WP Job Manager integration to supercharge your WordPress job listing site. It packs in the ability for your users to upload and manage their resumes, timely alerts about new jobs or applications, and much more.

17. ServiceFinder - Provider & Business WP Listing Theme

Service Finder is an advanced business and service directory WP theme that allows business and service providers to register and create their profile. Customers can see their profile and book their services only. 

Customers can give feedback on each booking completed. Other useful features include profile management, timeslots management, unavailability settings, invoice generation and payment system, and more.

18. Pet World - Pet Sitter WordPress Job Board Theme

Pet World is a complete pet sitter and job directory WordPress theme with options for job posting, management, and job search. This updated 2020 WP theme comes with many design elements like a gallery, header designs, a drag-and-drop page builder, color and font options, as well as support for several plugins including WooCommerce, bbPress, Event Calendar Pro, and many more.

19. Jobica - Elementor IT Job Board WordPress Theme

The Jobica theme takes inspiration from some of the best job board sites. This theme is perfect if you want candidates to find relevant jobs, have employers hire professionals, and have recruiters. By using the page builder, Elementor, this theme can be easily customized to suit your specific job board needs. Add this theme to your website and see just how easy it is to build a stunning website!

20. Careerfy - Job Board WordPress Theme

Careerfy allows you to load separate panels for employers and candidates for your job board website. What is great about this theme is it is compatible with very popular job feeds like indeed. 

This is an incredibly powerful feature to attract an audience onto your website. This theme is a best-seller and has a five-star rating on Themeforest for a reason. Check out what people are saying about this theme.

“Careerfy is a best theme for jobbaord in for WordPress. I use jobify before and migrated my data to careerfy it on ALL of my sites and with the each update new features I am even more in love.“ - euse2 

21. Workup – Job Board WordPress Theme

You can create a fully responsive job portal, career platform, recruitment, or job posting website with this robust theme. In this theme, you can have job alerts, application deadlines, and CV and cover letter displays. Also, this theme comes with a nice little bonus. You can add a social login feature to the site so your users don’t have to sign in with an email address. 

Here are a few of the helpful features in this theme:

• one-click demo import
• WooCommerce compatible
• extensive admin interface
• page templates
• no coding knowledge required

22. CareerUp - Job Board WordPress Theme

This powerhouse of a job listing theme has all the tools you need to create a successful website. This easy to customizable theme gives you a ton of features including: 

• multiple page templates
• one-click installation
• advanced search functions
• multiple dashboard views
• job application tracking

Here is what users of this theme are saying about it:

“Finally bought CareerUp theme after contemplating... for hours! I’m absolutely confident with my purchase! This theme is awesome!” -  justgeraldine

5 Tips For Building and Running Your Job Board WordPress Website

While the job board WordPress themes available will give you all the necessary features to create a successful job board, you will still need to know how to implement them to provide the best possible experience for your industry or niche. Not only that, you will need to know how if you are going to charge for your job board site and know how you will market it. Here are five tips that will help you build a successful job board website. 

1. Implement advanced search features

When it comes to job boards, the search function on your website will be used heavily. All the themes listed above include search functions and many of them included customizable search options. Take advantage of the customizable search options and make the search as comprehensible as possible so the user can find exactly what they are looking for on your job board website. 

2. Offer the necessary features for employers

To ensure that employers will have the necessary information to make hiring decisions you will want to include the following features for employer accounts on your website. 

• personal profiles
• job postings - this allows employers to post their open positions
• candidate search - this allows employers to use filters to find suitable candidates

3. Offer the necessary features for job seekers

Below are a list of the bare minimum features that should be present on your site, so job seekers can quickly and effectively find a job they want to apply for. 

• personal profiles
• upload resumes
• job search
• salary comparison
• contact employer

4. Decide how you want to make money from the website 

There are many different ways that you can monetize your job board website. You can charge listing fees, resume access fees, or subscriptions. Based on your target audience you can decide which of these routes you would like to take. Most all the job board themes above have WooCommerce integration so you can easily implement payments. 

5. Market your job board

Putting together a modern and complete job board website with the WordPress themes above is not enough to create a thriving website. You will need to market your website in order for it to attract traffic. Here are a few areas that you could focus on to market your job board website. 

• Google Adwords
• Social Media marketing
• job aggregators
• guest blogging

5 Best WordPress Job Board Plugins

The WP job board listing themes above have plenty of features to allow you to create a powerful job listing site as well as an attractive design. However, sometimes, you may already have a site and want to add a job board to your existing site, rather than starting from scratch. 

If that’s the case, you’ll be pleased to know that you don’t have to change your existing WordPress theme. You can make use of one of the job board plugins below. Here’s our pick of the best WordPress job board plugins that will add helpful functionality, and readily integrate with any WordPress theme:

1. WP Job Hunter

WP Job Hunter is a simple plugin with all the needed features to add job board functionality to your site. The plugin makes monetizing your site easier since it pulls jobs from sites like Indeed.com, CareerJet, SimplyHired, and others. 

All you have to do is register and sign up for an affiliate ID that you need to enter into the plugin’s settings. You can then display the jobs on your site and earn money as people click on the job links.

2. WP Job Manager

Developed by Automattic, the same company that’s behind WordPress, the WP Job Manager is a freemium job board plugin. It includes all the basic features such as frontend submissions, filterable job listings, and single job listings for free. However, if you need more advanced functionality, you can choose one or more of the premium plugin add-ons such as the ability to bookmark listings, Apply with Facebook, Resume Managers, and more.

3. Simple Job Board

The Simple Job Board is another free plugin available from the official repository that has a user-friendly interface and allows you to add multiple job listings and display them with application forms on any page of your website. The forms and listings can be added with simple shortcodes. This WP plugin also comes with a number of paid add-ons for even more functionality.

4. WP Job Board

The WP Job Board plugin is one of the most feature-rich solutions on the list, which includes a drag-and-drop editor interface so you can easily create the layout for your job board. While the plugin itself is a paid solution, it includes a number of free add-ons that extend its functionality. The plugin also integrates with PayPal and Stripe.

5. Apply Online

Apply Online is a free jobs board plugin that’s easy to use. It can also be used to add an advertisement board or a registration page for a course or class. The plugin has an intuitive interface which allows you to add and categorize job listings in your WordPress dashboard. It also included email notifications so you can instantly know when a new application has been received.

Start Making Your Own Job Listing Site Today

Starting your own directory site has never been easier with WordPress and the right theme or plugin. If you want to create a job board site and start making a passive income stream, take a look at our Job Board WordPress themes and launch your job listing site today.

Editorial Note: Our staff updates this post regularly—adding new WordPress themes with the best, trending designs.

Whether you want to show off customer testimonials, your latest blog posts, your best images, or other media on your website, there is a WordPress slider plugin or WordPress carousel slider plugin out there that’s right for you.

Add interactive and stylish looking sliders and carousels to your WordPress website to show off your website's content in an attractive way. 

Images, videos, and graphics are necessary to draw in and keep your audience's attention. Simply placing this media on your website is not enough. You must present this media in a way that fits in with your website's theme and invites the user to share the content.  

At CodeCanyon, you will be able to choose from all the premium plugins available and find the exact slider and carousel plugin that will fit your website's theme and grab your website viewers' attention. 

The Best WordPress Slider & Carousel Plugins on CodeCanyon

Discover CodeCanyon's extensive library of the best slider and carousel WordPress plugins ever created. With a cheap one-time payment, you can purchase these high-quality WordPress plugins and draw in more traffic to your website. 

Here are a few of the best-selling slider and carousel WordPress plugins available on CodeCanyon for 2020.

Using the default WordPress editor to add your media can damage your brand. Uploading your media this way leaves you with little to no flexibility when it comes to design and functionality. 

By taking advantage of the premium plugins available on CodeCanyon, you will have access to slider and carousel features such as:

• ready-to-go templates
• responsive designs
• drag-and-drop editors
• eye-catching animations

12 Best WordPress Slider & Carousel Plugins (From CodeCanyon for 2020)

1. RoyalSlider

The single most downloaded slider at CodeCanyon, RoyalSlider for WordPress is packed with irresistible features. Used by companies as diverse as Coca Cola, Ralph Lauren, and Land Rover, this plugin does just about everything you could possibly want from a slider.

The most appealing feature is the native HTML5 fullscreen support. Perfect for showing high-resolution photography!

Other standout features include:

• multiple sliders per page are allowed, even with different skins
• touch swipe navigation support
• responsive design
• vertical or horizontal thumbnails, bullets, or tabs for navigation

RoyalSlider will definitely wow your visitors with its clean design and professional functionality.

User frctech says:

"I have used RoyalSlider since 2011. It is reliable, well-designed, well-maintained, and well-supported. On the handful of occasions that I've needed support, answers have been prompt (freaky fast even), intelligent (no crappy canned responses), and have solved my issue."

2. Slider Pro

Slider Pro provides a clean and intuitive user interface in the admin area, with a smooth navigation experience for the end users.

Slider Pro avoids unnecessary fanciness, which many times is an obstacle for end users in getting the information they need, and instead focuses on simplicity and performance, while still providing a wide range of customisation possibilities.

My favourite feature is the deep linking, where each slide change will update the URL in the browser's navigation bar with the appropriate URL hash. That means users can copy and share links directly to individual slides!

Standout features include:

• optimised image loading
• easy customisation
• smooth animations
• multiple layouts

Slider Pro, as the name suggests, is the professional solution you need.

User LWWCRHI says:

"David was excellent in helping me get my slider to work with special effects. This is not your average slider and can do a lot more. Feature rich and support is really great giving it a 5 star rating."

3. Logos Showcase

The Logos Showcase plugin is specifically created for users who want to make a grid of images with external or internal links or need to display a list of clients' or sponsors' logos.

The standout feature with Logos Showcase is the ability to display logos in a grayscale version, with the option to display the original colours by hovering if desired.

Standout features include:

• choice of three different ways to display images
• control of transition speed and auto-scroll is enabled
• control of default size of logo images
• option to set URLs to each logo which can open on the same page or in a new page

Logos Showcase is the slider to choose if your priority is to display logos and lists most effectively.

User cross5 says:

"More than incredible customer support. The plugin is really easy to use, all needed features are available. Highly recommended!"

4. All Around

All Around, as the name suggests, is a really well-rounded slider. It gives you a clean, responsive design, a number of predefined styling options, and support for swipe gestures. Use one of the six layouts or customise the plugin manually as needed. 

Standout features include:

• six premade styles
• support for videos
• vertical or horizontal sliders
• supports multiple sliders on one page
• autoplay mode

The All Around slider isn't all-around by name only. If this is your first WordPress slider and carousel plugin, it just might also be the last one you'll ever need.

5. Super Bundle

One of the best slider plugins for WordPress, Super Bundle is a collection of terrific elements, settings, and tools that are designed to take your WPBakery Page Builder site to the next level. It lets you turn any content into a carousel, add a video lightbox, animate text, etc.

Standout features include:

• parallax background and video background options
• over 70 customisable, high-quality SVG row separator designs
• 13 entrance animations and 14 exit animations
• 6 unique text effects
• video or image thumbnails that when clicked open a large video lightbox popup

What's great about Super Bundle is that apart from creating great carousels, it allows you to add a ton of other cool features to your WordPress site. A great multipurpose plugin.

User alienflaky says:

"There are more than one reason I gave this product 5 stars. From an awesome product to a solid back-end support, it is definitely a must if you want to customize your WordPress beyond a purchased theme."

6. Global Gallery

Global Gallery is a WordPress image slider that helps you to create awesome galleries from a variety of image sources, including Flickr, Facebook or other social media platforms, WordPress custom elements, and any RSS feed. The plugin offers four gallery layouts and also includes both a responsive image slider and a full-featured carousel.

Standout features include:

• four gallery layouts
• drag-and-drop gallery builder
• image tags filter
• images slider with fixed or responsive sizing
• images carousel with multi-column layouts

With its fast, one-click setup, the Global Gallery plugin will help you create filterable, fully responsive and adaptive galleries on your website in no time.

User mkknop says:

"I am so happy with getting Global Gallery! It is really easy to set up and especially together with the Overlay Manager add-on, I was getting the 'really slow zoom-in' effect I was looking for. Also notable: The perfect customer support from the author, with same-day feedback / solutions. Very recommendable and worth the price."

7. Carousel Anything 

If you’re in the market for a highly versatile WordPress image carousel, Carousel Anything is for you. With Carousel Anything, you can create carousels for any of your content: blog posts, image sliders, video showcases, testimonials, team members, and more. The plugin comes with two designs: one displays your posts in a simple and clean layout, while the other offers a few more design features.

Standout features include:

• works great with touch devices
• create carousels from your post types
• lightweight 
• works with any theme

This WordPress carousel slider plugin gives you one of the easiest and quickest ways to create carousels for your website. 

User Pixelschiebr says:

"I really love this add on. I am not even halfway through all the ways I could use it. But so far I use it for Sliders on news pages as well as video Galleries on my pages. It works very well with Visual Composer and I love that I can have all the settings for background colors etc. Carousel Anything is way simpler and gives me all the options that I need."

8. Progress Map

Progress Map is unique among the WordPress plugins listed here in that it combines carousel slider features with a Google Maps feature. The plugin’s aim is to help users create WordPress sites that provide listings for hotels, real estate, restaurants, job posts, etc.

With this plugin, you can plot your listings on Google Maps using markers and then feature the same listings in photos on a carousel—with connections between them! When an item is selected on the carousel, its location on the map is indicated. Likewise, when the marker on the map is clicked, it activates the image carousel.

Standout features include:

• carousel can be positioned to the right, to the left, over or under the map
• provides clustered map markers for a map with a large number of locations
• carousel items are fully resizable and fully customisable
• connect the plugin with any custom post type

If you’re looking for a visually powerful way to display a number of different locations on a map using an image carousel, the Progress Map plugin is a great solution.

User GiulioNF says:

"Insane plugin! Everything you need using maps and front-end, Really easy to customize as well!"

9. Viba Portfolio

Viba Portfolio is all about showcasing your latest blog posts, portfolio, customer testimonials, etc. to their best advantage. This WordPress gallery slider provides you with four different gallery types, as well as 60 skins to change the looks of your slider easily and quickly. It also offers full control of all customisation features, from layouts to font size to colour and overlays.  

Standout features include:

• 60 skins
• 4 gallery types
• 3 filter types
• responsive grid and responsive carousel layouts

Use Viba Portfolio as a WordPress testimonial slider, WordPress post slider, or any other kind of slider you need. It's that versatile!

User galiabrener says:

"This is the best plugin ever! Not only does it look very beautiful, but the customer support is so amazing! Thank you dear Harun for your excellent work and outstanding support! I would recommend everyone to get this beautiful plugin!

10. Ultra Portfolio

Ultra Portfolio will primarily appeal to users who are interested in building portfolios with slider features included. It offers a large number of layout options and really delivers on flexibility and functionality. The most appealing feature of this slider is the ability to control animation effects and animation speed.

Standout features include:

• unlimited layouts
• WooCommerce integration
• Google Font integration
• responsive layout lets you control the number of columns for different screens

Ultra Portfolio should be your choice if you want to combine slider functions with a wide range of portfolio options.

User iRoland says:

"Very good and easy to use plug-in for overall portfolio presentations."

11. Responsive Posts Carousel 

With this powerful carousel WordPress plugin, you can choose from 50+ ready-to-use templates that are fully customizable in the simple live template editor. You can create all types of sliders with this plugin, such as showcases, vertical sliders, multi-row sliders, and many more, thanks to the myriad of features offered. 

Here is what one of the plugins users, Hurri500, has to say about this five-star plugin:

"Great support and a very cool and useful plugin. I had a small styling issue in the admin area which the author sorted out pronto... outstanding!"

12. Before & After Image Slider for WPBakery Page Builder

This easy-to-use shortcode, which works with WPBakery Page Builder, allows you to build a rather nifty slider to showcase your before-and-after photos. Your website guests will be able to trigger the before-and-after slider either on a mouse hover, by click and drag, or by the use of a scroll bar. The plugin adjusts to your screen size. 

Standout features include:

• horizontal, vertical, and diagonal splits
• responsive and touch enabled
• customizable border and arrow colours
• scroll bars are available in the settings

Before & After Image Slider for WPBakery Page Builder is great for before-and-after shots of website redesigns, photo edits, makeover sessions, and more. 

User robCODE says:

"Super. Does what it says on the tin. Compatible, easy to install and looks good."

5 Free Slider and Carousel WordPress Plugins for Download in 2020

Without a doubt, paid slider and carousel WordPress plugins will offer you the most comprehensive set of tools. More features, customer support, and overall user experience will be higher with these premium plugins. However, you might not currently have the budget to spend on these premium slider plugins and still need to show the images to your website visitors. 

That is why I have collected a list of five of the best free WordPress slider and carousel plugins available. 

1. Soliloquy Slider 

Soliloquy Slider allows you to create a beautiful responsive image and video slider for your WordPress site in minutes. The team over at Soliloquy has made sure to optimize the plugin for web and server performance.

2. WP 1 Slider

WP 1 Slider has a ton of great features that can help you build an attractive-looking slider, including a responsive design, slider templates, and individual settings for each slide.

3. Responsive Slider

Responsive WordPress Slider has an intuitive drag-and-drop interface, swipe navigation, and responsive layout. Easily build SEO friendly slides with this handy little plugin.

4. MetaSlider

This slider plugin is easy to use. Simply select the images you want to display, drag and drop them into place, and then add captions, links, and SEO fields to each image, and you are ready to display the slider. 

5. SlideDeck

SlidDeck is a popular slider plugin for all your image and video slides. This free slider plugin allows you to choose from 50+ transition effects, create a video slider, add unlimited slides to one slider, and much more. 

Getting the Most Out of the WordPress Slider & Carousel Plugins

While the premium WordPress Slider & Carousel available on CodeCanyon have all you need to create a professional-looking display for your media, there are a few tips that you will want to consider to ensure you are getting the most out of these valuable plugins. 

1. Placement Is Key

In most cases, you will want to display your slider or carousel at the top of your webpage. One of the goals of these sliders and carousels is to draw the attention of your audience, and having them anywhere but the top of your webpage will make them seem less important. 

2. Optimize for Mobile

Much of today's website browsing is done on mobile phones. All the premium plugins have responsive designs that can be adjusted to look great on mobile devices. Make sure you spend the time adjusting these mobile view settings to give these viewers the best experience possible. In addition to optimizing your slider for mobile devices, make sure to optimize it for multiple screen sizes as well.

3. Use High-Quality Images and Videos

No matter how visually appealing your slider and carousel is, if the actual images and videos aren't of high quality, you will stand little chance of gaining the attention of your website visitors. Make sure you use the highest quality images and videos available. 

Add a Premium WordPress Slider and Carousel Plugin to Your Website Now!

If you are looking to create a more visually appealing website that highlights your websites media, then purchase a premium Wordpress slider and carousel plugin from CodeCanyon

These feature-rich plugins allow you to integrate an eye-catching display for your media that can be easily customized to fit your website's theme.

While you are on CodeCanyon, feel free to check out the thousands of premium WordPress plugins available, as well as the best-selling, trending WordPress plugins of the year. 

With the ever increasing popularity of hailing services like Uber and Lyft, some might say car ownership is becoming less and less justified. However, stats show that some areas (anywhere outside of Seattle!) are actually seeing an increase in car ownership. Car rental services are also seeing impressive growth worldwide.

For these reasons, we have compiled a handful of beautiful, versatile and feature-rich premium automotive WordPress themes that will assist you in creating an automobile-oriented website, be that a car rental, a magazine about cars, or a car service landing page. With a variety of themes across several niches, we are sure you’ll find one that will fit your needs in terms of finding the right theme for giving your next website a fresh look, or revamping your existing one. 

What to Look for in an Automotive WordPress Theme?

There are several factors you should pay attention to when choosing an automotive theme:

1. Be Sure the Theme You’re Picking Fits Your Niche

Make sure the theme you’re picking is well fitted to your niche. A car rental theme won’t suit an auto mechanic’s website so well, therefore picking a theme that has relevant design elements and appropriate functionality to the sector you’re operating in is important

2. Look for Distinctive Design Characteristics and Features

In this day and age, when there are swathes of stunning themes available, you should not limit yourself in the style and functionality you want to use on your website. Long gone is the time where there was a need to use a generic magazine theme for an automotive magazine because the market was lacking such specific themes. Profit from what’s available.

3. Don’t Go For the Most Supercharged Theme Just For the Sake Of It

With the amount of themes available nowadays and the great number of details designers and developers put into creating them, it’s easy to be tempted to just go for the most complex design. It is important, however, to go for the design that fits you better (even if that means fewer features or a couple less available integrations). Less is more. 

Best Automotive WordPress Themes

Here are 20 of the best automotive themes for WordPress available right now on Themeforest.

1. Autostar - Car Rental Theme

Autostar is a premium WordPress theme that is meant to be used on car dealerships and automotive-related websites. With extensive functionality providing the possibility to offer car rental, this theme is best used for companies providing such services. 

With a sleek and elegant design with bright colors, this theme is a good choice to consider.

2. CarPress - WordPress Theme For Mechanic Workshops

CarPress is another showcased, fully responsive and retina-ready WordPress theme that is WooCommerce compatible. A great choice for auto mechanics and car services, this theme provides an advanced admin panel that provides a lot of features to be adjusted to well-fit the scope of one’s business. Pair this with unlimited colors and layout styles and you have a great automotive theme. 

3. Auto Repair - Car Mechanic Services

Auto Service; another WooCommerce-integrated premium WordPress theme that is packed with the revolution slider, a drag and drop builder and a fully responsive layout. 

A sleek, elegant and minimalistic dark navy layout definitely adds sophistication from a color standpoint which well fits the automotive market and niche. With several thousand copies sold already and outstanding ratings, this theme is not worth passing by!

4. Chromium - Auto Parts Shop WordPress WooCommerce Theme

Chromium is an elegant, modern, and powerful automotive WordPress theme aimed primarily at sites that sell automobile accessories online. It will also suit perfectly if you are planning to build or refresh any kind of automobile related site like a car repair shop, a car wash, auto repair services company, oil changing company, etc. 

Chromium can also serve as a great theme for a car blog, auto dealer site, auto trader catalog, and pretty much any other site in the vehicle maintenance business

5. Car Repair Services & Auto Mechanic WordPress Theme

Car Repair is a premium automotive WordPress theme that features 3 different layouts with a responsive and retina-ready layout. The Visual Composer and WPML support are a great add-on to the template. 

Built on the Bootstrap framework, this is a great theme to extend yourself, if you enjoy getting your hands on the theme’s code.

6. Rentit - Multipurpose Vehicle Car Rental WordPress Theme

If you want to give your car rental business a spur by having an impactful online presence then Rentit a premium car rental WordPress theme is a good choice for cab service owners.

Rentit gives you what you need in order to reach the latest standards of design and technology. It comes with WooCommerce integration that unlocks the revenue potential of your web page coupled with the multiple payment option channels and coupon systems supported by the plugins that come packed with the theme. 

7. Car Shire - Auto Mechanic & Repair WordPress Theme

Carshire is a car repair service theme that is built on HTML5 and CSS3 and is paired with Visual Composer and Revolution Slider. With a thematic design oriented at auto mechanics and repair shops, this WordPress theme will serve as an alternative to the listed themes in our showcase. 

8. Driveme - Driving School WordPress Theme

Driveme driving school WordPress Theme has been custom designed to suit any type of training institute or school. The theme is acclaimed for its flexibility and versatile design that is meant to suit different training institutes and customer support for those schools. 

With a clean and well-written codebase at its foundation, the theme’s elements are used to list courses or trainers that can be modified to act as price lists and similar visual elements. The existing functionality and the additional course and booking pages serve well the needs of a driving school website.

9. Wheelsberry – Car Rental WordPress Theme

Wheelsberry is a premium automotive WordPress theme that is suitable for car rental services. It is designed as a landing page and allows customers to quickly receive all the necessary information, pick and rent a car, and then make a booking. 

With the appropriate plugin set to facilitate all this functionality and the Visual Composer which permits a vast array of other modifications, this theme is worth checking out. 

10. Car Parts Store & Auto Services WordPress Theme

AutoParts is a fresh, retina-ready and fully responsive premium WordPress theme that features bold interface elements and thematic icons and imagery. With a WooCommerce ready integration, easy installation and compatibility with Visual Composer - it is one of our great theme choices. 

11. Garax | Automotive WordPress Theme

Garax is another well-designed, fully responsive premium automotive WordPress theme built with the latest SEO requirements in mind. Its WooCommerce integration allows for the creation of a great website, be that for an auto mechanic’s store or dealership. 

Some of its key features are the drag & drop page builder, the Revolution Slider and the design source files being included alongside the theme files. 

12. Ireca - Car Rental Boat, Bike, Vehicle, Calendar WordPress Theme

iReca is a WooCommerce-based premium WordPress theme that features extensive functionality meant to satisfy the needs of a car rental business. With multiple payment gateways, a booking calendar, inventory management system and Visual Elementor as its features by default, it’s hard to go wrong if you consider this your next theme for your car rental business. 

13. CarRepair - Auto Mechanic & Adjustment WordPress Theme

CarRepair WordPress theme is a great choice for full-service auto maintenance and auto repair service websites. Besides, this auto mechanic premium WordPress theme will make for a great e-commerce shop for car parts and accessories, or basically any website that requires functionality that is close to the automotive industry. The theme comes with RTL support, support of bookings and a team management system.

14. Auto Spa, Mechanic Theme - Car Wash

CarWash is a premium automotive WordPress theme that is oriented towards mechanics, car wash shops, and detailing centers. With a dark and bold design, the theme comes as a fully responsive theme that features a multitude of unique and customizable elements and features. 

15. Driving School - WordPress Theme

Driving School is a Bootstrap based premium WordPress Theme targeted at driving schools and private driving teachers. The theme was created with the needs of auto schools in mind, featuring a great course management functionality. 

Combining the necessary modules and assembling the necessary pages, the theme comes as a great choice amongst the showcased options.

16. Autozone - Auto Dealer & Car Rental Theme

Autozone is a modern and well-structured premium auto dealer WordPress theme with a clean, sleek and intuitive design. The theme is a great fit for car rental services because of its targeted functionality at booking, managing, listing and displaying the available cars and accessories. 

The built in functionality also allows for monetization through advertisement banners and their management, and advanced integration with WooCommerce and various payment gateways.

17. Autoimage - Automotive Car Dealer

Auto Image is another premium automotive WordPress theme in our showcase that is a feature-rich theme that is a great choice for a car dealership or rental website. With a Visual CSS style editor, integrated Revolution Slider and page builder - the website proves to be a great choice because of its extensive functionality and flexibility in design.

18. Automotive Car Dealership Business WordPress Theme

Automotive is a sleek and well-designed premium WordPress theme oriented at car dealerships that doesn’t just look beautiful, but also includes a vast and easy-to-use functionality. 

Regardless of the size of your car dealership business, this theme proves to be a great choice. With source files included, visual composer, filterable listings, and an inventory management system, it’s hard to beat this theme functionality-wise. 

19. Quattro - Auto Booking & Automotive

Quattro is a modern WordPress theme that comes with an integrated car booking system that allows for the selection of a car according to certain parameters as well as thorough integration with WooCommerce. 

The theme was created with the latest plugins in mind, two of which being Visual Composer and Revolution Slider. The theme is perfect for a car dealer website, a parts store, or any site of a similar niche that is heavily search-based.

20. Auto Car WordPress Theme

This last premium automotive premium WordPress theme is perfect for any dealership business which allows for extensive listings. With a fully responsive framework, a script managing listings and filterable inventory, there are also 4 different page layouts to pick from for a car listing page.

You’ve Reached the Finish Line

This concludes our showcase of premium automotive WordPress themes but we’re curious to hear which you preferred, or whether there is a great theme you’re using that we missed–be sure to leave a comment below to let us know!

Add a feature-rich and easy to use form WordPress plugin on your WordPress website to help you collect information that is vital to the functionality and growth of your business.

One of the many high-quality WordPress form plugins available on CodeCanyon

The form WordPress plugins available on CodeCanyon will allow you to seamlessly integrate a customized form that your business needs to collect valuable information on your customers and potential customers. 

The Best WordPress Form Plugins on CodeCanyon

Explore over seven thousand of the best WordPress plugins ever created on CodeCanyon. With a low-cost one time payment, you can purchase these high-quality WordPress plugins and improve your website experience for you and your visitors. 

Here are a few of the weekly best-selling and up and coming form WordPress plugins available on CodeCanyon for 2020

These powerful form creating plugins all you to capture the most important information from your visitors. The flexibility and feature-rich form plugins allow you to add a wide variety of forms on your website such as:

• contact forms
• quizzes
• article submission forms
• price estimations
• booking forms

At the bare minimum, you will want to have a contact form on your website regardless of what type of website you have, so head on over to CodeCanyon and choose from the premium plugins available. 

Top 20 Form WordPress Form Plugins (From CodeCanyon For 2020)

Here are twenty of the top-rated weather WordPress plugins that are available for you to download on CodeCanyon:

1. FormCraft—Premium WordPress Form Builder

If you need to craft a form that's more than your standard contact form, this is what you're looking for.

FormCraft's feature set includes powerful options that are sure to meet almost anything you need to build a WordPress form.

Here are some of the highlights:

• form validation
• conditional logic
• customized notifications
• AJAX-powered interface
  
• submissions in your inbox
• drag and drop form builder
• forms presented as popup, slide up, fly in, or widget
• and much more
  

You'll find it fully responsive, with retina-optimized images for fields. And if you need to integrate multi-page forms and payment gateways? You can look to the available FormCraft - Premium WordPress Form Builder add-ons.

2. Quform—WordPress Form Builder

Quform does a good job setting itself apart from other WordPress form plugins.

The easy to use drag and drop interface and flexible styling are where this WordPress form plugin shines the most.

Fully responsive and with the new Google reCAPTCHA, you'll find this and more:

• conditional logic
• fully translatable
• live design preview
• drag and drop interface
• edit CSS in the form builder admin
• includes three themes with five variations
• export submitted data to Excel/OpenOffice
• entries submitted within WordPress and via email

The unique theming system makes it easy to make your forms look great, but without sacrificing many of the features users are looking for in a premium WordPress form plugin like Quform.

3. eForm—WordPress Form Builder

eForm (Previously FSQM Pro) is an advanced and flexible form builder that can be integrated into your existing WordPress site. This is a complete form management solution, for quizzes, surveys, data collection, payment / cost estimation and user feedback of all kinds. 

But don't let the "easy to use" tools deter you from its functionality.

Options include, but are certainly not limited to:

• fully responsive - state of the art design
• intuitive form builder - no coding required
• heavy on security - hard on bots
• automated quiz system
• survey system
• ecommerce system
• login, reg & guest blogging
• mathematics powerhouse
• reports & statistics

With the quick and easy drag and drop form builder, you can build unlimited forms and manage them from your admin dashboard. All submissions are stored in your eForm database, so you can view, track, analyze and act on the data you have captured. A user portal also allows registered users to review and track their submissions.

eForm - WordPress Form Builder is a robust and comprehensive form builder is the perfect combination of style and functionality: packed with all the elements you need, while clean and elegant to use.

4. NEX-Forms—The Ultimate WordPress Form Builder

NEX-Forms—The Ultimate WordPress Form Builder may be just that.

The ultimate.

At first glance, you'll see features you would expect:

• math logic
• drag and drop
• fully responsive
• conditional logic
• multi-step forms
• email autoresponder
  
• etc...

But when you begin to dig a little deeper, you'll see “the ultimate” isn't just over-zealous marketing.

More notable features include:

• popup forms
• 660+ vector icons
• 50+ form elements
• 1200+ Google Fonts
• Font Awesome integration
• more
  

Finally, it's the NEX-Forms—The Ultimate WordPress Form Builder grid layout system that gives you a lot of drag and drop control with your form layout.

5. WP Estimation & Payment Forms Builder

This plugin is great for freelancers and small businesses, offering itemized products and services. And WP Estimation & Payment Forms Builder can be used in conjunction with both Gravity Forms and WooCommerce and set up using PayPal for payment.

Setting up a cost estimation form with payment and subscription option has never been this easy. Additional features include:

• Uses a powerful conditional system.
• You can add a legal notice on the last step.
• Display a summary before the form is submitted.
• A progress bar can show either the total price or step number.
  
• Call the form with a CSS class on the link or a WordPress shortcode.
• And more!

The WP Estimation & Payment Forms Builder fills a niche in the WordPress form plugin space and fills it well.

6. ARForms: WordPress Form Builder Plugin

This WordPress form plugin hits a nice mix of features and easy customization.

ARForms is integrated with Twitter Bootstrap, supports seven autoresponder systems, and is fully compatible with WPML.org.

You can embed your forms in the page or choose to have them fly, stick, or pop up on page load. A great option for newsletter signups and announcements.

Additional features include:

• CSV export
• form analytics
• conditional logic
• supports Google Fonts
  
• multi-column form support
• password strength indicator
  
• collection of commonly used form templates
• and more

There are 24 elements and 500+ icons included with ARForms: WordPress Form Builder Plugin as well as a full-featured styling tool for CSS customization.

And if this isn't enough to get the job done, there are many helpful add-ons available for this full-featured form builder.

7. Usernoise Pro Modal Feedback & Contact Form

Capturing user and customer feedback is quick and easy with this modal feedback form.

The Usernoise Pro Modal Feedback & Contact Form has a great minimal style and is highly configurable.

You can:

• Use the four built-in categories or edit them as you like.
• Reply to feedback via email when you receive a notification.
  
• Insert a shortcode into any page to display feedback discussions.

And it integrates with Akismet to handle spam.

There aren't a lot of bells and whistles with the Usernoise Pro Modal Feedback & Contact Form, but it is a powerful way to connect and collect feedback.

8. Ninja Kick: WordPress Contact Form Plugin

Ninja Kick: WordPress Contact Form Plugin puts an extra kick into your WordPress forms.

You can use this as a stand-alone contact form or use its unique styling and effects in conjunction with popular form plugins like Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, and others.

Website users can immediately call up the contact form without having to wait for a page to load—complete with slide-in animation.

It features:

• MailChimp opt-in
• responsive design
• 30 built-in backgrounds
• color picker for easy styling
• supports swiping on mobile devices
• and more
  

This form plugin does support WPML, but it should be noted that RTL needs to be customized to work properly in Google Chrome.

Ninja Kick: WordPress Contact Form Plugin is a stylish, fast-loading plugin that works great as a contact or newsletter submission form—or even more complicated forms built using more robust WordPress form plugins.

9. WP Cost Estimation & Payment Forms Builder

This WordPress form plugin is more eCommerce centric. If you are selling any service or product, you can create your own responsive cost calculator or payment forms. 

Having this form is invaluable if you need to provide estimations for your potential customers as it saves you time from having to talk to customers that are not interested in your service. The popular payment platforms, PayPal, Razorpay, or Stripe are all available to use with this form. 

In addition to all of these great features, there is also a booking system that is included to help you manage your calendars, events, and reminders. This plugin is one of the best-selling form plugins on CodeCanyon for a reason!

10. PrivateContent—User Data add-on

User Data add-on boosts your PrivateContent plugin allowing you to create and use unlimited fields to record more information from your users.

A powerful but yet simple wizard will guide you creating them. Then, will be automatically integrated in the PrivateContent engine and ready to be used in registration or custom forms.

Each field is dynamically validated and is also really flexible, letting you target what will be required.

String length, numeric ranges, multi-option checks, preset texts (integer and floating mubers, e-mail address, dates, url, etc) and also room to use advanced regex. Say goodbye fake data stored!

Features include, and allow you to:

• extend your users database
• custom forms builder
• forced password reset system
• import system integration
• manage and export data
• conditional data restriction shortcode
• user data shortcode
• automatic updates
• walkthrough videos

The PrivateContent - User Data add-on is an add-on. You must have at least PrivateContent v6 to use it.

11. TotalPoll Pro—WordPress Poll Plugin

One does not simply set up a poll on WordPress.

TotalPoll Pro is a pro poll plugin for WordPress—boasting over 70 features.

Fully responsive and easy to include in WordPress using a shortcode, widget, or direct link, additional features include:

• custom fields
• beautiful templates
• six different anti-cheating layers
• reCaptcha service to protect against bots
• display archived poll results and export results as CSV
• and much more

Several language translations are available, and if you're planning on publishing many polls or building a site focused on polling, TotalPoll Pro is SEO friendly.

12. ez Form Calculator—WordPress Plugin

The ez Form Calculator can be used with WooCommerce and PayPal.

A few use case scenarios include:

• real estate
• event managers
• media agencies
• charity organizations
• freight costs
• photography studios
• etc...

Build your forms using the drag and drop editor or use the import/export feature.

Additional features include:

• discounts
• file uploads
• conditional logic
• MailChimp integration
• advanced calculation and backend security verification

Whether you're using ez Form Calculator - WordPress Plugin as your primary form or along with WooCommerce, you'll find that it really adds up.

13. Super Forms—Drag & Drop Form Builder

Super Forms is an incredibly powerful form plugin that allows you to design a form that functionally and stylistically fits your needs. The different options available for you to create your form are as follows:

• layout elements
• form elements
• HTML elements

You can adjust the form settings to send out a confirmation email to the user that filled out the form and send an email to notify you that a form was submitted. Super Forms lives up to its name with all of its advanced editing options. 

14. Event Booking Pro: Forms Manager Add On

Event Booking Pro: Forms Manager Add On extends the power of Event Booking Pro, giving you the ability to add custom fields to your event booking pages.

This is an add-on, so Event Booking Pro is required for this to work.

The Event Booking Pro: Forms Manager Add On includes many input types, including:

• text
• email
• select
• text area
• static text
• check box
• radio buttons
• terms and conditions
  

If you are already using Event Booking Pro, using the Event Booking Pro: Forms Manager Add On really expands its usability.

15. Contact Form 7 Pipedrive CRM Integration

This contact form is a bit more advanced than the others listed due to its integration with the customer relationship manager Pipedrive CRM. If you are running any type of eCommerce store, this form plugin will be a valuable addition to your website. 

By integrating this form with Pipedrive CRM, you will be able to automatically create new contacts and store information about these contacts an can send them down a sales funnel. If you are looking to take your eCommerce store seriously, the Contact Form 7 and Pipedrive CRM integration is a must-have. 

16. Storage for Contact Form 7

Extend the power of Contact Form 7 with Storage for Contact Form 7.

This plugin add-on is a good way to avoid servers mishandling Contact Form 7 submissions and losing them into the Black Hole of the Internet.

Just to be clear, Contact Form 7 is required for this to work.

All form submissions are stored in your WordPress database—including attachments. You can also have submissions sent to you via email, but all data is collected in the Admin and can also be exported to CSV.

Additional data collected by Storage for Contact Form 7 includes:

• time
• date
• email
• subject
• IP address
• attachments
• URL referrer
• and more

This plugin add-on is a great way to extend Contact Form 7's usability.

17. Exporter for eForm—Reports & Submissions

This is an add-on plugin; a very nice addition to eForm—WordPress Form Builder.

Exporter for eForm—Reports & Submissions takes the user data collected and imports it into a number of useful formats.

Exportable formats include:

• PDF
• HTML
• CSV
• XLS
• XLSX

You can also include charts with most export formats.

There are some extra customizations you can make to your PDF exports—handy for quick reports—but most users will find the raw data exports extremely useful.

Exporter for eForm—Reports & Submissions is a very useful add-on for the eForm WordPress Form Builder plugin.

18. AccessPress Anonymous Post Pro

Building a WordPress site that allows visitors to submit standard WordPress posts or post types, whether they're logged in or not, requires a particular set of features.

AccessPress Anonymous Post Pro has that exact feature set.

In full HTML5 responsiveness, you can customize a front-end posting form with all the right options. It's like having several plugins in one.

The included options and features are:

• captcha
• post details
• custom fields
• email notifications
• field type selectors
• media uploading tools
• media library integration
• drag and drop form builder
• post types and taxonomies
• templates and styling features
• select or exclude categories and tags
• and more
  

There are other plugins like this, but you'll be hard-pressed to find one that offers this much flexibility and options.

AccessPress Anonymous Post Pro does a great job of bringing everything that's in the post admin side of WordPress and bringing it to the front end.

19. Frontend Publishing Pro

Much like the previous plugin, Frontend Publishing Pro brings the back end of WordPress to the front.

Configure an unlimited number of forms—with your settings and restrictions for each form—and easily add them to any page using a shortcode.

You have the option to give users full access to their own post-management, including view, edit, and delete. Users can upload files within the limits you put in place, such as max upload size and file type.

Other features include:

• custom fields
• layered security
• email notifications
• CopyScape integration
• drag and drop form builder
• supports any post type and custom taxonomies
• more!
  

Quickly and easily set up front-end publishing with Frontend Publishing Pro.

20. WordPress Form Builder—Green Forms

The Green Forms for WordPress allows you to create multi-purpose stylish looking that match the design of your website. Here are a few of the features that you can adjust on this plugin:

• fonts
• colors
• conditional behavior
• integrations with marketing, newsletter and CRM systems

Each of the forms created can be embedded into posts, pages, and even sidebars, so you can find the perfect placement for them. Download this powerful form plugin now!

Free Form WordPress Plugins for Download in 2020

By purchasing a premium from WordPress plugin you will receive the most comprehensive set of tools available. The number of features that these plugins will have and the overall user experience will be much higher with a premium plugin. 

If you are currently on a budget, you might not be able to afford to purchase these premium form plugins, but still, need to have these forms on your website. 

That is why I have collected a list of five of the best free WordPress form plugins available.

1. Forminator

Forminator is quite a diverse form creator. Besides the normal contact form, you can create interactive polls, quizzes, service estimators, and registration forms with payment options including PayPal and Stripe.

2. Contact Form 7

With Contact Form 7, you can manage multiple contact forms. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, and Akismet spam filtering.

3. Ninja Forms

Ninja Forms allows you to use their drag and drop form editor to quickly put together a simple form. There are no limitations on the number of forms, fields, emails, actions, or submissions that can be included in these forms.

4. Very Simple Contact Form

By adding the plugin's dedicated shortcode, you can add a simple form to your website. The Very Simple Contact Form has fields for name, email, subject, and messages. 

5. Caldera Forms

Caldera Forms visual editor helps you create a form for your website in minutes. You can set up your form with multiple columns, add additional pages, and filter user responses with conditional logic to get more relevant information from your website visitors. 

How to Add a Contact Form To Your Website Using Quform

To help show you just how easy it is to create a form with one of the premium form plugins available, we are going to go over how to create a simple contact form with the Quform form WordPress plugin. 

1Creating the Form

Once the plugin is installed, head on over to WP dashboard > Quform > Add New. We will then title our form "Contact Form." This will create our contact form and take use to the form editor

2. Adding Content to the Form

Once we are in the editor, we will want to add three different fields to the form. We will add the first name, last name, and text area. These fields will allow us to capture all the information we need from the website user. First, we will add in the first and last names to the form by clicking on the person icon in the Quform editor. This will automatically insert the first and last name fields in our form. 

Lastly, we will add the text field to the form so the user can insert a message to us. Click on the left align paragraph icon in the Quform editor to add this to your form. Next, click on the text area tab named Untitled on the left-hand side of the Quform editor and type in "Message." This will change the text in the form to say "Message" instead of "Untitled."

3. Adding the Form to Your Website

Now that we have created the form, it is time to add it to your website. At the top of the form editor, you will see a shortcode. 

Copy this shortcode and create a new page or post. Paste this shortcode into the location of the page that you want this form to be on and you are all set. You can view this page or post and see that the contact form was added.

For a more detailed tutorial on how to create a form with the Quform plugin check out the How to Create a Form With the Quform WordPress Plugin article.

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Install a Form WordPress Plugin Now! 

Regardless of what type of website you are running, you will need some type of form to add to your website. CodeCanyon offers the most flexible and feature-rich form WordPress plugins available that will help you implement the perfect form for your website.  

Whether you need to integrate a simple contact form, obtain files and documents from your website visitors, or even accept payments, the diverse plugins available on CodeCanyon can help you accomplish these tasks. 

In addition to all the high-quality form plugins available, there are also thousands of other high-quality WordPress plugins on CodeCanyon that can help enhance your website. Take look through this massive collection of plugins and you will find all types of plugins including gallery, newsletter, eCommerce, and marketing plugins.

Find the right WordPress plugin to help your website succeed and generate more traffic and sales!

An attractive website is crucial for an online store. The design is the first thing your visitors will notice so it’s important that your website looks inviting and provides potential customers with the best possible user experience.

There are many eCommerce platforms out there. However, thanks to WooCommerce, WordPress is perfectly capable of powering an online store. Aside from ease of use, there are thousands of themes and plugins that allow you to create a truly powerful, one of a kind online store.

If you’ve been thinking about starting an online store or if you already use WooCommerce and want to refresh your store’s design, you’ve come to the right place. In today’s post, we’re featuring the best eCommerce themes for online stores.

 Best WordPress eCommerce themes for online stores on Themeforest

5 Tips for Selecting Your eCommerce WordPress Themes for 2020

1. Simple User Experience

It can be all too easy to bombard users with every single product and service you offer as soon as they hit the homepage. But, in a world where we’re all inundated with content on a daily basis, your priority must be to offer your visitors a seamless user experience. Not only is ultra minimalist navigation predicted to be a key web design trend in 2020, this couldn’t be more important within an eCommerce site where you’re looking to direct people to point of purchase! 

2. Follow Trends 

Following trends isn’t something purely reserved for fashion houses or design studios, whatever you’re selling, you'll want to make sure your eCommerce template is future-facing and modern in its style. 

Key trends of 2020 include bold colors and simplicity, asymmetric layouts, and dynamic illustrations. You can find thousands of design eCommerce website templates on ThemeForest which can be edited based on the look and feel of your business. 

3. Make It Accessible

To ensure your website is as inclusive as possible, the best web templates for eCommerce will follow the latest Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. This could impact your site's design for example by adopting contrasting colors to ensure any text is as easy as possible to read. Not only is designing with accessibility in mind the right thing to do, by making sure your site is open to everyone you’re also expanding your potential customer base. 

4. Loading Speed

According to Google, 53% of mobile site visits leave a page that takes longer than 3 seconds to load. Make sure your site doesn’t fall victim to a high bounce rate! Select a theme that offers fast loading speed—thankfully, the majority of eCommerce website templates available on ThemeForest have been designed to be super quick. 

5. Customization is Key

Just as your products change and evolve with time, so should your site. Not only will regularly refreshing your site help to keep your content fresh and give your customers a reason to return, it offers greater opportunities to build your SEO. Plus, posting regular content can boost your domain authority—something that can prove invaluable in attracting new customers. Modern eCommerce website templates available on ThemeForest are quick and easy to update. 

Best eCommerce Themes for Online Stores

The WordPress eCommerce themes from ThemeForest on our list come with an attractive design. They also have plenty of features to help you attract more visitors and convert them into customers in 2020.

1. Shopkeeper - Versatile eCommerce WordPress Theme

The Shopkeeper theme comes with plenty of demo layouts and page templates that can be imported with a single click and allow you to get your store up and running as quickly as possible. When it comes to shop settings, you can show or hide the sidebar, adjust the number of displayed products in a single row, enable catalog and quick view features, as well as customize the way individual products are displayed. The WordPress eCommerce theme doesn’t lack in customization options either, allowing you to tweak every aspect of your WordPress eCommerce site from fonts to colors and layout. Customers praise the flexibility and the support from theme authors:

“Great theme, easy to work with. Also, the support is quick and helpful.”

2. Legenda - Responsive Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme

The Legenda theme features a beautiful and elegant WordPress eCommerce design. The theme is fully responsive, and is set up with WooCommerce as well. And, Legenda includes 16 premade pages templates as well as Visual Composer which makes page creation simple and easy to do. 

People who bough Legenda love it!

“Very good theme. easy to customize. 10/10 layout/code and really nice support.”

3. Lotus - Fresh and Minimal eCommerce Theme

Lotus is a simple and clean eCommerce WordPress theme that wows visitors with its striking full-width header slider. Your products are the center of attention and there’s also plenty of space on the homepage to feature testimonials from previous customers. The theme comes with a powerful yet easy to use options panel that lets you customize a WordPress eCommerce site to perfectly reflect your brand.

4. Flatsome - Multipurpose WooCommerce Theme

If you’re looking for an eCommerce WordPress theme packed with options, look no further than Flatsome. This theme was built to boost your conversions and wow your customers with its modern, flat design. The theme includes features such as a drag-and-drop page builder, SEO-optimized code, catalog mode and quick view features, built-in wish list, and more. On top of that, your customers will be able to see all their purchases and track their orders thanks to beautiful account pages.

5. WooPress - Responsive Ecommerce WordPress Theme

With almost 5,000 sales and an average 4.57 out of 5-star rating, WooPress is a Wordpress eCommerce theme with a fair few fans! 

Of course, the world of eCommerce is a varied one so this theme comes with more than 20 layouts with various designs—from pet shops to coffee shops, and furniture shops to kindergarten websites. It’s rated highly for page loading speed, gaining a score of 91%. As site speed is part of Google’s ranking algorithm, it’s good for SEO so you should make this a priority.

6. Gem - Elegant WordPress Theme for eCommerce Sites

If you sell high-end or luxury items, look no further than the Gem theme. This eCommerce WordPress theme’s elegant and stylish WordPress eCommerce design is perfect for online stores that sell jewelry, watches, or luxury fashion items. 

In terms of features, the theme is responsive, includes 6 predefined color schemes and more than 50 widget positions to add products or feature your content. It also supports megamenu and off-canvas navigation which is perfect for mobile devices.

7. X Store - Modern WooCommerce Theme

The X-Store is a modern theme that can be used for a variety of online stores. Thanks to multiple demos, you can create an electronics store, fashion store, furniture, app, and any other type of store. 

The theme includes all the PSD files as well so if you’ve got a knack for design, you can easily customize them and adapt the changes to the theme. Naturally, all the important eCommerce features such as mega menu, product filtering, quick view, catalog mode, and others are included as well as numerous customization options.

8. Storelikes - Fashion RTL Responsive WooCommerce Theme

This elegant online shop is so easy to create with Storelikes. You can just use the drag-and-drop page builder to position everything where you want it, and then use the options to customize the headers and footers, logo, menus, sidebars, and so on. 

It’s a fully responsive theme, so it’ll look great on whatever device your customers use. Give it a test-drive to see this modern, clean design in action!

9. Porto - Customizable eCommerce Theme

Porto is a responsive theme that is extremely customizable, easy to use, and suitable for every type of business, portfolio, blog and eCommerce sites. It includes 30 homepage layouts and is optimized to load fast. Main features include:

• Unlimited colors and layouts
• Ajax filtering in shop and product archive pages
• Woocommerce Catalog Mode
• Install demo content with one-click
• Lightbox feature
• Share icons on project and product pages
• Contact and newsletter forms
• Google web fonts

10. Woodmart - Colorful eCommerce Theme

The WoodMart theme features a colorful and bright WordPress eCommerce design that’s suitable for a variety of stores. It’s responsive and retina-ready and allows you to customize fonts, colors, header styles, and more through the theme options panel. 

Your customers will appreciate the ability to use filters and auto-completed search to help them find the product they’re looking for. You can even add product variants and use different layouts on product and shop pages. Our customers speak highly about the theme’s design and features:

I love your theme, it has a fantastic build quality, variety of plugins, functionalities, and superb quality of theme design and usability, on both desktop and mobile

11. Avada | Responsive Multi-Purpose Theme

Launched way back in 2012, Avada has been around for a while now. However, since its debut, it’s been downloaded more than 550,000 times—receiving a rather impressive average rating of 4.77 out of 5 stars! You just need to take a trip to the reviews section to see what people are saying about it, but many praise this popular theme’s customizability. 

With more than 50 panels of neatly organized options to easily control your site, this is a great option for WordPress beginners and experts alike. Gutenberg optimized, you can easily drag and drop any content blocks into place. For its ease of use alone, it certainly deserves its place on our list of best eCommerce WordPress themes for 2020. 

12. The Retailer - Easy to Use WordPress Theme

The Retailer is an easy to use WordPress store theme that comes with extensive documentation and video guides to help you set up your WordPress eCommerce site. It’s great for those who are just starting out with their online store. 

The theme features the ability to have a video background in the header and a clean grid-based layout for your featured and most popular products. With this theme, you can easily sell both physical and digital products, add product variations, and more.

13. Caden - Mega Store Responsive WordPress Theme 

Caden is a super flexible eCommerce theme that lets you run a variety of different kinds of online store, from furniture to fashion. You can easily set up cool, engaging sale features like a "Daily Deals" block where a product is discounted and a countdown timer shows how long the discount will last. This is a theme that not only looks great, but will also help you sell more products!

14. Ordo | Natural Cosmetics WooCommerce WordPress Theme

Ordo is another versatile theme that can be used for way more than simply cosmetics, as the name may suggest. You can scroll through plenty of demo options to see how the template could match your wares, including beauty, food, floristry, and even an online portfolio to show off your creative work. 

The color scheme used across all demos is simple and natural, but like all templates, you can easily customize until your site represents your brand most appropriately. With a page speed score of 98%, this one is as fast as lightning.

15. Uncode - Creative Multiuse WordPress Theme

This is one of those WordPress eCommerce templates that is just effortlessly cool. Many of the selected demos show just how well this would work as a template for an advertising agency, but there are also plenty to display what your online shop could look like. 

The Shop Creative theme in particular looks less like a website demo and more like a fully-fledged fashion brand that belongs in the coolest areas of New York, Paris, or London. A recent update includes a Frontend Editor to help streamline the editing process even further.

16. Sienna - Fashion Theme for WooCommerce and WordPress

Sienna features a clean WordPress eCommerce design and allows your fashion products to stand out. It comes with a smooth scrolling effect and the ability to filter products as well as a stunning product slider, so you can promote your most popular products or new additions to the store. You can tweak the layout of any page with Visual Composer builder as well as customize the visual style with theme options panel.

17. Electro - Vibrant Electronics WooCommerce Theme

 Electro WooCommerce Theme

The Electro is a robust and flexible WooCommerce theme that comes bundled with most of the advanced features available in most popular eCommerce websites like Amazon, Flipkart, Snapdeal, and others. 

The eCommerce WordPress theme also includes premium extensions for even more functionality such as advanced live search, advanced vertical menu, product carousel, product deals, and advanced reviews. Customers love the flexibility of this theme:

Awesome theme with nice and fresh layout. Easy to install and configure with help of tutorial videos released in YouTube. Support is also very professional and they are capable to solve tickets quickly.

18. KLEO - Pro Community Focused, Multi-Purpose BuddyPress Theme

The developers behind KLEO claim to have created “the success kit for your site”—it’s a bold claim, but with thousands of downloads and plenty of happy customers, they must be doing something right. Like many of the eCommerce templates, versatility is at the heart of KLEO and you can choose demos displaying almost anything and everything, including travel websites, technology shops, news magazines, and e-learning sites. Of course, it can be fully integrated with WooCommerce. 

19. BoxShop - Responsive WooCommerce WordPress Theme

Right at the top of the best-sellers list is this clean WordPress eCommerce theme that makes sales, sales, sales their absolute priority! You can add content blocks to display your products, which are also then supported with multiple banners to show what’s on offer etc. Like many of the templates, it comes with the Revolution slider which helps you to transition between product imagery in an aesthetically pleasing way.  

20. Franco - Elegant WooCommerce Theme

The Franco theme is a stylish WordPress eCommerce theme that comes with 16 premade demos and a robust admin panel allowing you to set up your WordPress eCommerce site just the way you want without any coding experience required. 

Aside from quick view feature and the ability to use live search, your customers can filter products by brand as well as product attributes. The theme also comes with built-in social sharing features and SEO optimized code.

21. Blaszok eCommerce Theme

You can’t get much more modern than this retail eCommerce theme—it cuts any unnecessary or distracting features from the homepage, instead focusing on what’s important. 

The new Molise demo is a particular favorite and its low-key but high-end style almost looks more like a luxurious fashion billboard than an eCommerce site. Like many of the themes included in this list, you can incorporate a blog into your site to help to tell the story or your website or share important updates about what fans should expect in the weeks or months ahead.

22. Amely - Fashion Shop WordPress Theme for WooCommerce

Only introduced in 2018, this retail WordPress theme doesn’t have as much time on its side as many of the others, but it certainly makes up for it in style. You can use the fun colorful content blocks to sell your products in interesting ways, or you can go bold and make one product the feature of your homepage (as shown in the Golden Sneaker demo above). 

With unlimited colors and more than 600 Google fonts to choose from, you can let your creativity run wild.

23. Upstore - Responsive Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme

With an average of 4.97 out of 5 stars, you can’t get much better than that! Upstore offers everything you could want from an eCommerce WordPress theme—versatility, functionality, flexibility, speed, and modern design. 

You just have to take a second to look at the comparison of the game homepage next to the kids homepage to see that they’re words apart. This flexibility is exactly what you need from a retail theme that will inevitably evolve with time. There are at least 11 header layouts so you can design yours based on your requirements.

24. Vonzot - Music Coriented WooCommerce Theme

Last but by no means least, Vonzot is designed with music shops in mind—and with the vibrant imagery used in the demos, you can see just what’s possible. Looking like the pages of an ultra cool design or fashion magazine, you’re bound to keep your visitors hooked. Full-width imagery, bold color, and a super simple navigation all make this template one not to miss. 

Where Can You Find eCommerce Themes?

One of the best places to find a high-quality eCommerce theme are marketplaces such as ThemeForest. Each of them has its own set of benefits and use cases.

Why ThemeForest?

ThemeForest, on the other hand, allows you to purchase a single item for a fixed price. You pay the price of the item and you can download your file, whether that’s a theme, a plugin, a logo template or something else. It’s a great choice for busy entrepreneurs who just need to buy an item once to satisfy their immediate need.

Update Your Store’s Design With a Brand-New WordPress eCommerce Theme

Finding a Premium WordPress eCommerce theme isn’t hard when you’ve got multiple choices. Use our list as a starting point and if you want to browse more themes, head on over to ThemeForest to find trending WordPress eCommerce themes.

Editorial Note: Our staff updates this post regularly—adding new WordPress themes with the best, trending designs.

So you’ve just created your first WordPress website—now what?

One of the best things about the WordPress platform is that you have access to thousands of free and premium plugins.

Plugins allow you to enhance any out-of-the-box WordPress website with a wide range of advanced, powerful, and even niche features. With the right plugin, you can integrate your website with popular social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter; create a Google-style live search bar; add user registration and login functionality; or even start selling Amazon products via WordPress.

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If you’re going to take your website to the next level, then you need to master the world of WordPress plugins, and in this tutorial I’ll show you how!  

By the end of this article, you’ll know how to install tens of thousands of free plugins using WordPress’s built-in plugin directory, how to upload premium plugins to your account, and even how to manually install plugins to wp-content using an FTP client—just in case your WordPress hosting provider’s file restrictions make it impossible to install plugins any other way. 

What Are WordPress Plugins, Anyway?

A WordPress plugin is a ready-made collection of code that you add to your website in order to perform a task, add a feature, or improve your site’s overall performance. For example, the popular Yoast plugin is designed to boost Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Akismet Anti-Spam protects against spammers, and W3 Total Cache can improve WordPress’s performance by adding browser, page, object, and database caching.

While lots of WordPress plugins are safe and reliable and can add real value to your site, they’re still third-party software, so you should always download your plugins from a reputable source.

For free plugins, the official WordPress plugin directory should be your go-to source, and it can even be accessed directly from the WordPress user interface. 

If you’re purchasing a premium plugin from a marketplace or directly from the developer's website, then you should always check whether users have experienced any problems with this plugin. This research might involve reading user reviews and comments, searching for mentions of the plugin on social media, or even performing a quick Google search to see whether the plug is mentioned on any blogs or third-party websites.  

Are You Using WordPress.com?

Before we start, it’s important to note that if you’re using WordPress.com then you cannot install WordPress plugins unless you upgrade to a business plan. 

If you downloaded the WordPress software from WordPress.org and installed it on your own server, then you can install plugins without purchasing any additional plans. 

Install a Plugin Using WordPress Plugin Search

The easiest way to install a free WordPress plugin is via the WordPress plugin directory, which at the time of writing provided easy access to almost 55,000 plugins. The downside is that this directory doesn’t contain any premium content, so if you’re interested in premium plugins then you’ll need to look elsewhere. 

To install a plugin via this directory, you’ll need to search for the name of the plugin in question. If you don’t already have a specific plugin in mind, then you may find it easier to explore the WordPress plugin directory in your web browser, until you find the plugin that’s right for you. 

To install your chosen plugin via the WordPress plugin directory:

• Log in to your WordPress account. 

• In WordPress’s left-hand menu, select Plugins > Add New.

• Search for the name of the plugin that you want to install. When your chosen plugin appears, click the Install Now button.

• When prompted, select Activate.

Depending on your chosen plugin, you may need to configure some settings before you can start using it. The location of a plugin’s settings may vary, but you can often locate them by selecting the plugin’s name from WordPress’s left-hand menu.

You may also be able to edit your plugin's settings by selecting Plugins > Installed Plugins from WordPress's left-hand menu.

Uploading a Plugin to Your WordPress Website

The WordPress plugin directory is restricted to free plugins, but you can find plenty of premium plugins on dedicated WordPress marketplaces such as CodeCanyon, in premium plugin repositories, or by purchasing a plugin directly from the developer’s website.

Once you’ve chosen and purchased your premium plugin, it’s time to upload it to your WordPress account:

• Download your chosen plugin from its source, which could be a marketplace, plugin repository, or a third-party website. This plugin should download to your computer as a ZIP file.  

• Head over to your WordPress account and select Plugins > Add New from the left-hand menu.

• Select the Upload Plugin button. 


• Scroll to the If you have a plugin in a .zip format section, and select Choose file.

• Select the ZIP file that you just downloaded.

• Click Install Now, and the plugin will be uploaded to your WordPress account.  

• After a few moments, you should see a Plugin installed successfully message; select its accompanying Activate Plugin button. 


Once again, you may need to configure this plugin before you can use it. You’ll typically find a plugin’s settings by selecting its name in WordPress’s left-hand menu and then looking for a dedicated Settings menu.

When you pay for a WordPress plugin, you’ll often get access to online documentation, FAQs, knowledge bases, and sometimes even live tech support, so if you’re struggling to configure your plugin then it’s always worth checking the developer’s website to see what resources are available. 

How to Install a Plugin to wp-content Using FTP 

Some WordPress hosting providers implement file restrictions that prevent you from installing premium plugins via the Plugins > Add New menu.

If this is the case with your website, then you can install plugins manually using an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client, which is a desktop application that connects your computer to your WordPress hosting account.

This method requires your FTP username and password, which you should have received in an email when you signed up for your web hosting account. If you’re using cPanel, then this information is also available via the cPanel dashboard. If you cannot locate your FTP username and password, then you should contact your WordPress hosting provider, as they should be able to help. 

To upload a plugin using FTP, first download the plugin’s source file, which will be in ZIP format. 
Unzip the file on your computer, which should create a new folder with the same name as the original ZIP; this is the file you’ll need to manually upload to your WordPress account. 


Now launch your FTP client and enter your username, password, and host—which is typically your website’s URL—and click the Connect button. 
Navigate to the wp-content folder within your WordPress installation. This directory typically contains several items, including a plugin directory. The location of this folder tends to vary between hosting providers, so you may need to refer to your hosting provider’s documentation, or contact your provider directly for more information. 


Open the /wp-content/plugins/ directory and upload your unzipped plugin to that directory.
 To verify that your plugin has been uploaded successfully, switch back to your WordPress account and navigate to Plugins > Installed Plugins. Your new plugin should now be listed in this section.


Give the plugin’s Activate link a click. 


As with all the previous methods, you may need to configure your plugin before you can use it, so spend some time exploring the plugin’s various settings; you can typically find a plugin’s settings by selecting its name in WordPress’s left-hand menu.

If your new plugin isn’t appearing in WordPress's Plugins > Installed Plugins section, then:

• Switch back to your FTP client.

• Navigate to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.

• Delete all the files you just uploaded, and then try uploading the plugin again.


How to Remove a Plugin From Your WordPress Website

At some point, you may decide that you no longer want to use a particular plugin.

Plugins are third-party software, so there’s always a chance that one plugin may clash with another, or an outdated plugin may even become incompatible with a newer version of WordPress. Or perhaps you got carried away installing plugins and desperately need to de-clutter your WordPress account.

If there’s a chance you may need a plugin again, then you can simply deactivate it, but if you want to permanently remove a plugin then you should deactivate and then delete it. 

To deactivate a plugin:

• Select Plugins > Installed Plugins from WordPress’s left-hand menu.

• Find the plugin in question, and select its accompanying Deactivate link. 


This plugin will now be deactivated. To reinstate the plugin, simply repeat the above steps but this time select the Activate link.

If you want to permanently delete a plugin, then deactivate it using the above steps. At this point you’ll gain access to a new Delete link; give it a click and the plugin in question will be gone forever.

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Conclusion 

By following the instructions in this article, you can add any plugin to your WordPress website. With almost 55,000 free plugins available via the official WordPress plugin directory and 7,100 premium WordPress plugins available via CodeCanyon, you’ll be spoilt for choice! 

Do you have any favourite WordPress plugins? Be sure to let us know in the comments below! 

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In today’s tutorial, we’ll learn how to build a simple, yet fully functional weather app with Vanilla JavaScript. We have a lot of interesting things to cover, so grab a cup of coffee and let’s get started!

What We’ll be Building

Here’s an introductory video which demonstrates the functionality of the app that we’re going to create:

Here’s the demo on CodePen for you to fork and play with:

Note: This tutorial assumes that you’re familiar with AJAX, an essential front-end technique. If you’re just beginning, check out this series.

1. Scaffolding the App

Before start creating our app, there are a few things that we have to take into consideration.

Find a Weather API

First things first, we have to find a provider that will let us incorporate its weather data into our app. Luckily enough, there are several different providers out there for developing weather apps. Most of them include a free package along with premium subscriptions that scale depending on the services/features. 

In our case, we’re going to use OpenWeatherMap, one of the most popular free choices. To take advantage of its capabilities, first, we have to sign up for an API key:

This service comes with different packages. As you can see from the visualization below, the starter (free) one allows 60 calls per minute which suits our needs:

So before continuing, please make sure that you’ve registered for an API key. Later, we’ll include that key in our script. 

Keep in mind that the best way to test the app is by forking the Codepen demo and including your own key. If we all share the same key, the app will probably not work due to API call limits.

Find Weather Icons

Next, for the purposes of this tutorial, we’re going to need a bunch of weather icons. It’s worth noting that OpenWeatherMap comes with its own icon set and we’ll take a look at those. However, we’ll go one step further and use some custom ones. 

Once more, we’ll take advantage of the Envato Elements library and download a pack of vector weather icons:

2. Define the Page Markup

We’ll define two sections. 

The first section will include a heading, a search form, and an empty span element. This element will become visible with an appropriate message under certain conditions. Specifically, if there isn’t any weather data available for a requested city or the data for this city are already known. 

The second section will include a list of cities. By default, it won’t contain any cities. But, as we start searching for the weather for a specific city, if weather data is available, a corresponding list item (city) will be appended to the unordered list.

Here’s the initial page markup:

<section class="top-banner"><div class="container"><h1 class="heading">Simple Weather App</h1><form><input type="text" placeholder="Search for a city" autofocus><button type="submit">SUBMIT</button><span class="msg"></span></form></div></section><section class="ajax-section"><div class="container"><ul class="cities"></ul></div></section>

Note: In our Codepen demo, the autofocus attribute of the search field won’t work. In fact, it’ll throw the following error which you can see if you open your browser console:

However, if you run this app locally (not as a Codepen project), this issue won’t exist.

And here’s the markup associated with a list item that we’ll generate dynamically through JavaScript:

<li class="city"><h2 class="city-name" data-name="..."><span>...</span><sup>...</sup></h2><span class="city-temp">...<sup>°C</sup></span><figure><img class="city-icon" src="..." alt="..."><figcaption>...</figcaption></figure></li>

2. Specify Some Basic Styles

With the markup for the app ready, we’ll forge on with the CSS. The first step, as always, is to specify some CSS variables and common reset styles:

:root {
  --bg_main: #0a1f44;
  --text_light: #fff;
  --text_med: #53627c;
  --text_dark: #1e2432;
  --red: #ff1e42;
  --darkred: #c3112d;
  --orange: #ff8c00;
}

* {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  box-sizing: border-box;
  font-weight: normal;
}

button {
  cursor: pointer;
}
 
input {
  -webkit-appearance: none;
}
 
button,
input {
  border: none;
  background: none;
  outline: none;
  color: inherit;
}

img {
  display: block;
  max-width: 100%;
  height: auto;
}

ul {
  list-style: none;
}

body {
  font: 1rem/1.3 "Roboto", sans-serif;
  background: var(--bg_main);
  color: var(--text_dark);
  padding: 50px;
}

4. Set the Main Styles

Let’s now discuss the main styles of our app.

Section #1 Styles

First, we’ll add some straightforward styles to the elements of the first section. 

On medium screens and above (>700px) the layout should look like this:

On smaller screens the form elements will split into two lines:

Here are the associated styles:

/*CUSTOM VARIABLES HERE*/

.top-banner {
  color: var(--text_light);
}

.heading {
  font-weight: bold;
  font-size: 4rem;
  letter-spacing: 0.02em;
  padding: 0 0 30px 0;
}

.top-banner form {
  position: relative;
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
}

.top-banner form input {
  font-size: 2rem;
  height: 40px;
  padding: 5px 5px 10px;
  border-bottom: 1px solid;
}

.top-banner form input::placeholder {
  color: currentColor; 
}

.top-banner form button {
  font-size: 1rem;
  font-weight: bold;
  letter-spacing: 0.1em;
  padding: 15px 20px;
  margin-left: 15px;
  border-radius: 5px;
  background: var(--red);
  transition: background 0.3s ease-in-out;
}

.top-banner form button:hover {
  background: var(--darkred);
}

.top-banner form .msg {
  position: absolute;
  bottom: -40px;
  left: 0;
  max-width: 450px;
  min-height: 40px;
}

@media screen and (max-width: 700px) {
  .top-banner form {
    flex-direction: column;
  }
  
  .top-banner form input,
  .top-banner form button {
    width: 100%;
  }

  .top-banner form button {
    margin: 20px 0 0 0;
  }
  
  .top-banner form .msg {
    position: static;
    max-width: none;
    min-height: 0;
    margin-top: 10px;
  }
}

Section #2 Styles

We’ll use CSS Grid to lay out the list items. Remember that each list item will represent a city. Their width will depend on the screen size.

On large screens (>1000px) we’ll have a four column layout.

Then on medium screens (>700px and ≤1000px) a three column layout, on small screens (>500px and ≤700px) a two column layout, and finally on extra small screens (≤500px) all elements will be stacked.

Here are the corresponding styles:

.ajax-section {
  margin: 50px 0 20px;
}

.ajax-section .cities {
  display: grid;
  grid-gap: 32px 20px;
  grid-template-columns: repeat(4, 1fr);
}

@media screen and (max-width: 1000px) { 
  .ajax-section .cities {
    grid-template-columns: repeat(3, 1fr);
  }
}

@media screen and (max-width: 700px) {
  .ajax-section .cities {
    grid-template-columns: repeat(2, 1fr);
  }
}

@media screen and (max-width: 500px) {  
  .ajax-section .cities {
    grid-template-columns: repeat(1, 1fr);
  }
}

Each column will look like a card with a bottom shadow that will be added via the ::after pseudo-element. 

Inside the card, we’ll place weather information about the requested city. These will come from our request, apart from the icons. Those icons, which as mentioned above are grabbed from Envato Elements, will show the current weather condition of this city and match the equivalent OpenWeatherMap icons.

Below you can see a part of the CSS needed for this layout:

/*CUSTOM VARIABLES HERE*/

.ajax-section .city {
  position: relative;
  padding: 40px 10%;
  border-radius: 20px;
  background: var(--text_light);
  color: var(--text_med);
}

.ajax-section .city::after {
  content: ’’;
  width: 90%;
  height: 50px;
  position: absolute;
  bottom: -12px;
  left: 5%;
  z-index: -1;
  opacity: 0.3;
  border-radius: 20px;
  background: var(--text_light);
}

.ajax-section figcaption {
  margin-top: 10px;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  letter-spacing: 0.05em;
}

.ajax-section .city-temp {
  font-size: 5rem;
  font-weight: bold;
  margin-top: 10px;
  color: var(--text_dark);
}

.ajax-section .city sup {
  font-size: 0.5em;
}

.ajax-section .city-name sup {
  padding: 0.2em 0.6em;
  border-radius: 30px;
  color: var(--text_light);
  background: var(--orange);
}

.ajax-section .city-icon {
  margin-top: 10px;
  width: 100px;
  height: 100px;
}

5. Add the JavaScript

At this point, we’re ready to build the core functionality of our app. Let’s do it!

On Form Submission

Each time a user submits the form by pressing the Enter key or the Submit button, we’ll do two things:

1. Stop the form from submitting, hence prevent reloading the page.
2. Grab the value which is contained in the search field.

Here’s the starting code:

const form = document.querySelector(".top-banner form");

form.addEventListener("submit", e => {
  e.preventDefault();
  const inputVal = input.value;
});

Next, we’ll check to see whether there are list items (cities) inside the second section. 

Perform an AJAX Request

We’ll start with the assumption that the list is empty. That said, it has never run any AJAX request in the past. In such a case, we’ll execute a request to the OpenWeatherMap API and pass the following parameters:

1. The city name (e.g. athens) or the comma-separated city name along with the country code (e.g. athens,gr) which will be the value of the search field
2. The API key. Again, you should use your own key to avoid unexpected errors due to API call limits.
3. The unit of temperature for the requested city. In our case, we’ll go with Celcius.

With all the above in mind, by following the API documentation, our request URL should look something like this:

const apiKey = "YOUR_OWN_KEY";
const inputVal = input.value;

...

const url = `https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=${inputVal}&appid=${apiKey}&units=metric`;

To perform the AJAX request, we have a lot of options. We can use the plain old XMLHttpRequest API, the newer Fetch API, or even a JavaScript library like jQuery and Axios. For this example, we’ll go with the Fetch API. 

To grab the desired data, we have to do the following things:

• Pass the URL we want to access to the fetch() method. 
• This method will return a Promise containing the response (a Response object). But this won’t be the actual response, just an HTTP response. To grab the response data in the desired JSON format (this is the default data format of OpenWeatherMap), we’ll use Response object’s json() method.
• This method will return another Promise. When it’s fulfilled, the data will be available for manipulation.
• If for some reason the request is unsuccessful, a corresponding message will appear on the screen.

So, our AJAX request would look something like this:

...

 fetch(url)
  .then(response => response.json())
  .then(data => {
    // do stuff with the data
  })
  .catch(() => {
    msg.textContent = "Please search for a valid city 😩";
  });

Tip: Instead of chaining then()s, we could have used the newer and more readable async/await approach for the AJAX request.

Here’s an example of the response data:

Build the List Item Component

With the AJAX request in place, each time we type a city in the search field, the API will return its weather data, if they are available. Our job now is to collect only the data that we need, then create the associated list item and, lastly, append it to the unordered list.

Here’s the code responsible for this job:

const { main, name, sys, weather } = data;
const icon = `https://openweathermap.org/img/wn/${
  weather[0]["icon"]
}@2x.png`;

const li = document.createElement("li");
li.classList.add("city");
const markup = `
  <h2 class="city-name" data-name="${name},${sys.country}"><span>${name}</span><sup>${sys.country}</sup></h2><div class="city-temp">${Math.round(main.temp)}<sup>°C</sup></div><figure><img class="city-icon" src=${icon} alt=${weather[0]["main"]}><figcaption>${weather[0]["description"]}</figcaption></figure>
`;
li.innerHTML = markup;
list.appendChild(li);

There are two things here we have to discuss:

1. If you look again at the response visualization above, you’ll notice that the API returns an icon code (e.g. "50d") which holds the current weather condition for the target city. Based on this code, we’re able to construct the icon URL and display it in the card via the img tag.
2. Inside the .city-name element of each list item, we’ll append the data-name attribute with value the cityName,countryCode (e.g. madrid,es). Later we’ll use this value to prevent duplicate requests.

Reset Things

Lastly, after the AJAX request, we’ll clear the content of the .msg element, the value of the search field, and give focus to that field as well:

...

msg.textContent = "";
form.reset();
input.focus();

Great job, folks! We’ve just created the first version of our app. By the time you put your own API key and search for a city, you should see a card layout similar to that one:

Here’s the related Codepen demo:

Add Custom Icons

Let’s now customize a little bit the look and feel of our app. We’ll replace the default OpenWeatherMap PNG icons with the SVGs we downloaded earlier from Envato Elements.

To do this, I’ve uploaded all the new icons to Codepen (via the Asset Manager as I’m a PRO member) and changed their names, so they will match the names and the weather conditions of the original icons, like this:

Then, in the code, we only have to change the icon path:

 //BEFORE
const icon = `https://openweathermap.org/img/wn/${
  weather[0]["icon"]
}@2x.png`;

//AFTER
const icon = `https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/s.cdpn.io/162656/${
  weather[0]["icon"]
}.svg`;

Prevent Duplicate Requests

There’s still one thing we have to fix. So far, as we perform a successful AJAX request, a list item is created. That said, the list can contain multiple identical list items which refer to the same city, like so:

That’s bad user experience, so let’s make sure that only a single request is triggered for a specific city. 

But before that, there’s another thing for taking into consideration. The same city name can exist in more than one country. For example, if we search for “Athens” in the OpenWeatherMap’s search finder, we’ll see these results:

With all the above in mind, we’ll write some code which will ensure that only a single request per city, per country will be executed:

...

//1
const listItems = list.querySelectorAll(".ajax-section .city");
const listItemsArray = Array.from(listItems);

if (listItemsArray.length > 0) {
  //2
  const filteredArray = listItemsArray.filter(el => {
    let content = "";
    //athens,gr
    if (inputVal.includes(",")) {
      //athens,grrrrrr->invalid country code, so we keep only the first part of inputVal
      if (inputVal.split(",")[1].length > 2) {
        inputVal = inputVal.split(",")[0];
        content = el.querySelector(".city-name span").textContent.toLowerCase();
      } else {
        content = el.querySelector(".city-name").dataset.name.toLowerCase();
      }
    } else {
      //athens
      content = el.querySelector(".city-name span").textContent.toLowerCase();
    }
    return content == inputVal.toLowerCase();
  });
  //3
  if (filteredArray.length > 0) {
    msg.textContent = `You already know the weather for ${
      filteredArray[0].querySelector(".city-name span").textContent
    } ...otherwise be more specific by providing the country code as well 😉`;
    form.reset();
    input.focus();
    return;
  }
}

Let me explain what actions happen here:

1. Again during the submit handler, before making an AJAX request, we check to see whether the unordered list is empty or not. If it isn’t empty, that means at least one successful AJAX request has already been executed. 
2. Next, we check to see if there’s a list item who’s the city name or the value of its data-name attribute are equal to the search field’s value.
3. If so, that means the user already knows the weather for this city, so there’s no need to perform another AJAX request. As the following actions, we’ll show them a related message, clear the value of the search field and give it focus.

Note #1: As I’ve noticed, in case you search for a city with at most two-letters which don’t represent any country code (e.g. athens,aa), the API won’t return anything. On the other hand, if you search for a city along with at least three-letters which also don’t represent any country code (e.g. athens,aaaa), the API will ignore the part after the comma and return all cities named as the first part (e.g. athens).

Note #2: For this exercise, we won’t also cover the special case where a country contains more than one city with the same name (e.g. Athens in USA). So, for example, if a user searches for “athens,us” only one city will appear in the screen and not more. In order to cover the ideal scenario, users should somehow know the city ID (e.g. perhaps make them available as a dropdown) and search based on that instead of searching based on its name.

Excellent job, folks! We’ve just built our app. Let’s take a look:

Conclusion

And we’re done! This really was quite a long journey, but I hope that you enjoyed it and that it has helped enhance your front-end skills.

Once again, don’t forget to put your own key for live app testing! 

As a reminder, let’s look again at how the app works:

As always, thanks a lot for reading!

Next Steps

There are so many things that you can do to extend the functionality of this app. Here are some thoughts:

• Use geolocation to grab the user’s location, and then perform an AJAX request for retrieving weather data for their closest cities.
• Use localStorage to persist the data above or even a real-time database like Firebase.
• Use a charting library like Highcharts.js for building a meteogram that will give a weather forecast. If you do so, this tutorial might help.
• Use an image API like Flickr API to present as a gallery lightbox a list of photos for each city.

If there’s anything else that you might want to see as an app extension, let me know in the comments below! 

So you’ve spent days, weeks or perhaps even months perfecting your WordPress website, and you’re excited to finally publish it—and then you notice the Proudly Powered By WordPress disclaimer in your website’s footer.

WordPress may be one of the world’s most popular content management systems, but chances are you’ll want people to view your website as a unique entity, and not “just another” WordPress website. If you’re running a business, then you may even be worried that crediting another organization will make your business seem less professional.

While it’s possible to remove the Powered By WordPress footer, there isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution, as this process can vary depending on the WordPress theme you’re currently using.

In this quick tip, I’ll be sharing four ways that you can remove the WordPress copyright footer. I’ll start with the quickest and easiest method, before moving on to more obscure fixes—including one that you should only ever use as a last resort. 

Is It Legal to Remove the WordPress Copyright Footer? 

If you’re concerned about the legal ramifications of deleting the WordPress disclaimer, then don’t worry: WordPress is released under the GNU General Public License (GNU). This free software license gives you the legal right to run, share, redistribute, and even modify WordPress—and that includes modifying its footer text.

1. Remove “Powered by WordPress” Using Theme Customizer

First, you should check whether it’s possible to disable the footer credits via WordPress’s Theme Customizer: 

• In WordPress’s left-hand menu, select Appearance > Customize.
• Select Footer > Bottom bar.
• Find the Disable Footer Credits checkbox if one appears and click it.
• Save your changes by clicking Publish. 

If the Theme Customizer doesn’t feature a Disable Footer Credits checkbox, then look for any sections labelled Footer settings, Copyright area, or Copyright text, as these often contain settings that you can use to edit the footer or even disable it entirely. 

2. Consider Switching to a Different WordPress Theme

If you cannot edit your footer in the Theme Customizer, then it may be easier to switch to a different theme, since a large number of WordPress themes do allow you to remove the Powered by WordPress footnote using the Theme Customizer. 

If you’ve invested a significant amount of time into perfecting your website, then you may not be too eager to rip out your current theme, but the rest of the techniques covered in this article require you to touch your site’s code, which is far riskier than switching to a different theme.

If you do decide to change your website’s theme:

• Select Appearance > Themes from WordPress’s left-hand menu.
• Give the Add New Theme button a click, and browse through all the available themes.
• When you find a theme that you want to test, click Live Preview.
• If you’re happy with the results, then click Activate & Publish. 

Now, open the Theme Customizer from Appearance > Customize and check whether it’s possible to edit your website’s footer text. 

3. Modify Your Theme’s footer.php File 

Your theme’s footer.php file contains all the information needed to display your website’s footer, including the Powered By WordPress credit. 

You can often remove this credit by deleting the appropriate section of code from the footer.php file. Note that this method typically requires some Internet research, as the code you need to remove will vary depending on your theme.

To open the footer.php file for editing, select Appearance > Theme Editor from the WordPress admin menu. Open the Select theme to edit dropdown and select the theme that you’re currently using. If you’re unsure, then select Appearance > Themes from WordPress’s left-hand menu; your current theme will be labelled as Active.

Towards the right-hand side of the screen, you should see a Theme Files section; select the footer.php file.

Locate the footer code, and delete it. Unfortunately, the footer code can vary dramatically depending on which theme you’re using, so you may need to consult Google in order to pinpoint the line(s) of code that control your website’s footer. For example, since I’m using the Twenty Seventeen theme, I need to remove the following: 

get_template_part( 'template-parts/footer/site', 'info' );

Save your changes by clicking Update File.

4. Remove the "Powered by WordPress" Footer Using CSS

If all the above methods fail, then you can hide the footer credits by adding some CSS via the Theme Customizer—but there’s a catch. Spammers commonly use this technique to bury links inside their websites, in the hopes of artificially boosting that website’s Google rankings. 

If you hide your website’s footer using CSS, then there’s a chance your site may get flagged as spam, which will damage its search engine rankings. However, if you’re all out of options, or you’re developing a private website where SEO (Search Engine Optimization) isn’t a major concern, then this may be a viable option.

To hide your website’s footer using CSS:

• In WordPress’s left-hand menu, select Appearance > Customize.
• Select Additional CSS.

• Copy/paste the following code into the subsequent text field:

.site-info { display: none; }

Save your changes by clicking Publish.

Conclusion 

In this quick tip, I shared four possible ways that you can remove the WordPress disclaimer from your website’s footer. By changing, hiding, or deleting this text, or even disabling your website’s footer entirely, you can ensure that no-one will be able to tell that your website is proudly powered by WordPress.

• Flexbox
  How to Build a Responsive, Multi-Level, Sticky Footer With Flexbox
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• Responsive Web Design
  Examining Responsive Navigation: Footer Patterns
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Is it time to say goodbye to your WordPress website?

Maybe it’s time for a fresh start, or perhaps you want to distance yourself from the kind of content you used to create—whatever your reasons, you probably won’t want your abandoned website hanging around on the Internet forever.

In this article, I’ll show you how to permanently delete your WordPress website, regardless of whether you created your site via WordPress.com or WordPress.org. And, if you got carried away and created multiple WordPress.com websites, then I’ll also be showing you how to delete all of these sites simultaneously, by cancelling your WordPress account. 

WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org: What’s the Difference?

The process for deleting your website will differ depending on whether it’s a WordPress.com or a WordPress.org site, so let’s start by clarifying the differences between the two:

• WordPress.org, sometimes referred to as self-hosted WordPress, is where you download the free WordPress software and install it on your own server. With a WordPress.org website, you’re solely responsible for hosting and maintenance. 
• WordPress.com takes care of the hosting for you. Rather than downloading and installing the WordPress software, simply head over to WordPress.com, click Get started, complete a few forms, and WordPress.com will create your website for you.  

The Internet Is Forever

In this article, I’ll show you how to delete your website, so it no longer appears at its URL or appears in Google search results. However, if your website has been archived by third parties then there’s a chance your content will still be accessible via these third-party services. 

Deleting your website will make it less accessible, but there’s no guarantee that a determined third party won’t be able to recover some or all of your deleted content. 

How Do I Close My WordPress.com Account?

Are you performing some admin and want to delete all the accounts that you no longer use? Or perhaps you want to delete your existing WordPress account, so you can re-register and start again from scratch? 

When you close your account, WordPress will also delete all the websites associated with that account. If you got carried away and created multiple different websites, then cancelling your account may be easier than deleting each website individually.  

To close your WordPress.com account:

• Log in to your account, if you haven’t already.
• Head over to the Account Settings screen.
• Scroll to the bottom of the screen and select Close your account permanently.

• Review the list of content you’re about to delete, and if you’re happy to proceed then click Close account.

WordPress will now delete your username, all the sites you own, and all of your content. 

Deleting a WordPress.com Blog From the Dashboard

If you created your website via WordPress.com, then you can delete it directly from the WordPress Dashboard. Note that when you delete your WordPress.com website, you’ll also lose access to your site’s URL unless you purchased the domain. 

To delete your WordPress.com site, first log in to your WordPress account, if you haven’t already.

In the left-hand menu, select Manage > Settings. Now scroll to the very bottom of the screen and select Delete your site permanently.

At this point, you’ll have the option to export all of your posts, pages, and settings as a ZIP file. If you ever change your mind and want to reinstate your website, then you can upload this ZIP file to a new WordPress site and recover your content. This step is optional, but it’s also a one-time offer: if you don’t export now, then your content will be lost forever. If you do want to hang on to a copy of your content, then click Export all. Once the export is complete, click Back to resume deleting your website.

Review all the information about the content you’re about to delete, and if you’re happy to proceed, then click Delete site. When prompted, enter your website’s full URL for a final confirmation. 

This is it! If you’re still determined to permanently remove your website from the World Wide Web, then click the Delete this site button and your WordPress website will be gone forever.  

How to Delete Your Self-Hosted Website With cPanel

If you used cPanel to set up your self-hosted WordPress website, then you can also use cPanel to delete it:  

• Log in to your cPanel Dashboard.
• Select the Hosting tab. 
• Find the website that you want to delete and click its accompanying Switch button.
• On the subsequent screen, select WordPress. 
• Select Uninstall. After a few moments, you should see the following message: Software has been uninstalled.

Your WordPress website has now been deleted.

Delete Your Self-Hosted WordPress Website Manually 

If you installed the WordPress software on your server manually, then you’ll also need to remove it manually. This process can vary depending on whether you have FTP or SFTP access, or you access your web server via a web-based file manager:

1. I have FTP or SFTP Access

If you have FTP or SFTP access, then you can delete your WordPress website using an FTP client:

• Log in to your FTP server. 
• Locate your WordPress directory, and either Control-click or right-click it, depending on whether you’re running Windows or macOS. 
• When prompted, select Delete.

2. I Use a Web-Based File Manager

If you have access to a web-based file manager, then:

• Log in to your web hosting dashboard.
• Open your file manager application.
• Navigate to the WordPress directory that you want to delete, and hit the Delete button. 

Delete Your Website’s Database Using MySQL

After deleting your WordPress website, you may also want to delete your website’s MySQL database. You can remove this database using the following MySQL command: 

$ mysql -h HOST -u USERNAME -p PASSWORD -D wordpress
$ DROP wordpress

Note that you'll need to replace wordpress with the name of your WordPress database, which is located in your wp-config.php file. The process for locating this database will vary depending upon your hosting provider—for example, if you were using cPanel, then you would typically use the file manager to browse to your WordPress directory, which contains the wp-config.php file.

Delete Your Database Using cPanel

If you’re a cPanel user, then:

• Log in to your cPanel Dashboard.
• Scroll to the Databases section, and select MySQL Databases.
• Select the MySQL database that you want to delete.
• Find the Delete Database link, and give it a click. 
• Read the onscreen warning, and if you’re happy to proceed, then click Delete Database.

cPanel will now delete your website’s database. 

Conclusion 

In this quick tip, I showed you how to permanently delete your WordPress.com or WordPress.org website, and how to optionally delete your site’s MySQL database. 

Are you deleting an outdated WordPress website with the intention of starting again from scratch? If you’re creating a brand new WordPress website, then be sure to check out some of our other WordPress tutorials, as they contain all the information you need to create a modern, professional, and engaging WordPress website. 

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With the increasing popularity of WordPress (which now powers over a third of the internet) comes an equally growing market of premium WordPress themes. Considering the vast array of themes available on the market nowadays, it can seem that many themes are very similar in nature and style. 

This confusion is pushed by themes following common trends of design and functionality, therefore the plugins, components, and features found in themes are also often similar. This roundup will give you a way to find the best versatile WordPress theme for your personal or business needs. With a multipurpose theme you can tailor your website however you like, making it unique, and perfectly customised.

Things to Look for in a Versatile WordPress Theme 

There are a couple important things to look out for when it comes to picking a great versatile WordPress theme:

1. Pick the Theme That Suits You Best By Design

It’s important to outline that most versatile WordPress themes advertise that they can be fully customized, regardless of how the theme’s main layout looks. 

Although this is generally true, in a world where there are hundreds of designs available by default, it might be worth considering going with a design that’s closest to your expectations without having to make huge amounts of edits, thereby reducing your time investment.

2. Versatile Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Limitless

Although theme developers often suggest that their themes can cater to any need and can be used as the ultimate template, this might not always be the case for everybody. 

Sometimes using a specific and niche-oriented theme might be a better decision, simply because those themes contain more suitable plugins, add-ons and functionality. This doesn’t meant that versatile themes might not work well for you, it simply means that performing thorough research on which theme could better address your needs will always yield the best results.

Most Versatile Multipurpose WordPress Themes Available Now

Themeforest is home to thousands of multipurpose WordPress themes, covering any possible niche and purpose you can think of, from just $13. Take a look yourself and find the right WordPress theme for your own project!

1. Avada | Responsive Multi-Purpose Theme

Avada, with well over half a million sales, is regularly the monthly best-selling premium WordPress theme on Themeforest. It is targeted at all kinds of users, ranging from beginners, to professionals, and agencies. 

With hundreds of thousands of clients, and several years of constant improvement from a design and development standpoint, Avada is an outstanding choice considering its extensive functionality that can be achieved without touching a single line of code.

2. Total - Responsive Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme

Total is a modern and responsive WordPress theme that combines the power of WordPress’ own customizer and the Visual Composer page builder to allow anybody to create a website for virtually anything. 

The theme was created with many different niches and professions in mind–from large corporations to small businesses. With a plentitude of features and settings included, the theme lets you create pretty much anything.

3. Brooklyn - Creative Multipurpose Responsive WordPress Theme

Brooklyn is a drag and drop-based premium WordPress theme that features a functional visual page builder and customization options which require no coding experience at all. The theme is well suited for a vast array of businesses or niches, considering the dozens of premade homepage layouts and customizable elements it ships with.

4. Porto | Multipurpose & WooCommerce Theme

Porto Wordpress is a WooCommerce-based premium WordPress theme that is suitable for almost any business or online store. 

Porto provides plenty of elements and powerful features that can be configured just the way you want. Compared to other multi-purpose themes’ general eCommerce features, Porto provides extensive options with exclusive skins and layouts and features that are backed by great site speed and performance.

5. Stockholm - A Genuinely Multi-Concept Theme

Welcome to Stockholm; a creative, multipurpose premium WordPress theme that lets you easily create a modern website for your restaurant, hotel, or fully responsive blog. Based on a multitude of customizable elements and features, this theme has a beautiful and minimalistic design that would definitely suit any business or niche.

6. Ronneby - High-Performance WordPress Theme

Ronneby is another multipurpose creative WordPress theme that is a great choice if you’re looking to build a unique and stylish website regardless of the niche. 

With over 50 website layout designs, the theme comes with pre-built demos with one-click demo installation features. Based on the WPBakery Page Builder and paired with Slider Revolution, this theme creates a great opportunity for a bunch of mix-ups in terms of design and functionality capabilities.

7. REHub - Price Comparison, Multi Vendor Marketplace, Affiliate Marketing, Community Theme

ReHub is another premium modern multipurpose hybrid theme that is targeted towards several business models. The theme comes with a great design by default, yet the multiple available pre-made demos that can be chosen are definitely a great add-on to the main homepage designs 

8. Consulting - Business, Finance WordPress Theme

Using Consulting, this premium WordPress theme, you can quickly create a modern website for any service-based business. 

Easily edit existing content and compose the layout of any page with a powerful drag & drop page builder. Based on in-depth research into the field of business, finance and consulting, this theme was developed to suit even the most complex needs of a business owner.

9. Phlox Pro - Elementor MultiPurpose WordPress Theme

Phlox is a great multipurpose theme which comes with over 30 premade demos. The theme is even more customizable with its Elementor page builder, featuring more than 160 elements and 90 templates that are available for integration.

10. 907 - Responsive Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme

907 is another premium WordPress theme that is versatile and features a multitude of great options, being a perfect option for a vast array of businesses (from hospitals to bakeries and even gyms). 

The theme was built in a way that facilitates great design through its customizable elements and fully responsive layouts, guaranteeing a great experience for its users.

11. Unicon | Design-Driven Multipurpose Theme

Unicon is a premium, design-driven multipurpose WordPress theme which was designed with a great amount of detail, incredible features, and an intuitive user interface that features all of the necessary features needed for launching a functional website. 

Whether you are launching a creative agency, an eCommerce shop, or a portfolio, Unicon is the ultimate tool for creating immersive websites.

12. Foundry - Multipurpose, Multi-Concept WP Theme

Foundry is a robust, responsive multi-purpose HTML5 template compatible with Bootstrap. Taking your startup business website to the next level, showing off your one-page portfolio with smooth parallax effects, or boosting your blog is now easier than ever. 

Foundry makes use of reusable elements that blend with contemporary styling and clean markup.

13. Stack - Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme with Variant Page Builder & Visual Composer

Stack is a robust, responsive multi-purpose WordPress theme that is based on Bootstrap. Taking your startup business website to the next level is now easier than ever with the ever-growing functionality of Stack. 

By making use of minimalistic design techniques and elegant iconography and images, Stack provides a great design and proves to be a great choice amongst the plentitude of available WordPress themes out there.

14. Infinite - Multipurpose WordPress Theme

Infinite is a well-designed WordPress theme for various purposes. Featuring the latest version of the powerful and customizable framework by GoodLayers, the theme comes with a drag-drop page builder as well. 

It is super flexible with tons of great features such as background wrapper options, custom skin colors for specific item wrappers, three view modes, and prebuilt pages and blocks.

15. Fastor - Multipurpose Shopify Sections Theme

Fastor is a multipurpose and fully responsive shopify WordPress theme that features a mass of features, such as LTR and RTL language support, multiple skins, and SEO optimization. Based on the Bootstrap framework, the theme features a beautiful and sleek design that is ripe for further customization.

16. Royal - Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme

Royal is another responsive multipurpose theme that is integrated with popular plugins such as WooCommerce, making it a powerful, highly customizable and versatile theme. 

Royal features an installer with sample data available to shorten the set up time of the theme to a few minutes. Pair this with the already component-rich theme and a beautiful design, the theme proves to be a great option to be considered.

17. Specular - Responsive Multi-Purpose Business Theme

Specular is a beautiful, responsive and multipurpose business theme that has a design that is meant to fit a plethora of businesses. With over 20 layout designs readily available, Specular will get you up and running in 5 minutes. 

Because of its extensive functionality and design, this theme is worth considering not only because of its elegant design, but also because of the clean and well-written code that forms its foundation.

18. Directory | Multi-purpose WordPress Theme

Directory is a multi-purpose WordPress theme that has a unique design and well-written, clean code at its core. With everything being available via the front-end, the theme lets you submit listings, register and login, filter and sort search results, all without ever needing to access the WordPress dashboard.

19. Enfold - Responsive Multi-Purpose Theme

Enfold is a versatile, multipurpose premium WordPress theme that is advertised as a solution for building beautiful websites in only a couple minutes. 

With tons of variations and features, fantastic support, heavily optimized code, this might very well be a theme that could address all of your design and development needs.

20. H-Code Responsive & Multipurpose WordPress Theme

H-Code is a fully responsive, multi-purpose WordPress theme targeted at creative businesses looking for eCommerce functionality. H-Code comes with 6 months of support and a great list of extensive features and capabilities.

This Wraps Up our List of Multipurpose Themes

This wraps up the our list premium versatile WordPress themes  which we hope has helped you pick a theme for your existing or future website. Be sure to let us know in the comments below which one is your favorite!

From a simple blog platform, WordPress has grown to become the largest and most popular content management system there is. A huge number of websites you visit every day on the web are built on WordPress and the numbers are growing.

Nowadays WordPress has a whole new editor called “Gutenberg”, which was released together with WordPress 5.0. Named after Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of movable type print, this new WordPress editor aims to give users a seamless experience similar to how Visual Composer and other page builders operate. There is also a handy inline demo available to give WordPress users a taste and feel of how it works.

Gutenberg Usage Statistics

Head over to gutenstats.blog and you’ll find some interesting data around Gutenberg usage (numbers are based on information collected through wordpress.com and active JetPack installs). 

With over 30 million active Gutenberg sites, almost 60 million posts have now been composed using the Gutenberg editor. And perhaps unsurprisingly the vast majority of the Gutenberg blocks so far used are for the humble paragraph:

Gutenberg Ready WordPress Themes Available on Themeforest

With Gutenberg now shipping as standard, we’ve compiled a list of WordPress Gutenberg themes available on Envato Market, (some new, some updated) and our editorial team keep this list as current as possible:

1. Gutenote - Gutenberg Blog

Gutenote has a minimalist design but don’t let that fool you, because under the hood of this Gutenberg ready WordPress theme are tons of features that include gorgeous blog layouts that fit with a wide range of subjects. 

With the editing possibilities brought by the new visual editor, you can create beautiful posts, use beautiful typography, and an eye-catching homepage with Gutenote. What’s more, this theme is retina-ready, fully responsive, and perfect on all types of devices.

2. Gutentype | 100% Gutenberg WordPress Theme for Modern Blog 

Gutentype is a clean, modern blog theme, built for Gutenberg. Its latest version comes with 20 additional Gutenberg blocks, and its Yellow Pencil editor makes it easy to edit the front end without touching any code.

Gutentype is GDPR ready, comes with an Instagram feed, a custom WooCommerce store front, plus a ton of premade layouts for you to choose from.

3. Carrino - An Exciting Gutenberg Blog Theme

Carrino is a Gutenberg ready WordPress theme with a seriously bold and exciting design. If you’re a blogger looking to make a big impact this theme is for you! 

With a host of layout variants and options, plus support for all the most popular third party widgets, Carrino brings fun back to blogging!

4. Caverta - Fine Dining Restaurant WordPress Theme

This restaurant WordPress Gutenberg theme theme will surely increase the online brand presence of your restaurant, cafe, bistro, or any food service business.

Caverta has a live customizer which allows you to change your background, color, font, headers, blog layouts, and more. It has beautiful typography as well as being 100% responsive, making your website look great no matter what kind of device or OS you’re using. 

If Gutenberg isn’t enough for you, another notable feature is its Elementor drag & drop visual builder which enables even a neophyte designer to play with the design assets and layout with great ease.

5. Typograph – Content Focused Gutenberg WordPress Blog Theme

How about a Gutenberg ready WordPress theme for bloggers or writers? Typograph lives up to its name as a content-focused theme. It has features that will make your content appealing, not only in terms of its message but also its visuals. It has a multilingual feature which means that it readily supports any language you need.

Plus, it is compatible with a wide range of plugins so you can easily enhance your site with your favorite, social sharing, commenting engines, and more.

6. Skylith | Multipurpose Gutenberg WordPress Theme

With 30+ prebuilt demos Skylith shows perfectly how much of an impact Gutenberg has on the WordPress page-building landscape. Gutenberg really is more than a content editor; it’s a whole new way of building WordPress websites.

Other features from this popular Gutenberg ready WordPress theme include:

• Responsive Grid Editor
• Visual Portfolio
• Mega Menu
• Smooth animations on blocks
• Customizer theme options

7. GutenMag - Newspaper, Magazine Theme

Like its name suggests, GutenMag is a true Gutenberg WordPress theme. In other words, it supports all native Gutenberg blocks. As a theme made especially for magazines and newspapers, GutenMag aims to make your content the king through and through with more than five premade layouts, 800+ Google fonts, theme options with real-time WP customizer, parallax and video background, and more. 

It also has a lazy load effect, which enables your page to load quickly. No matter what type of content you write, GutenMag has your back covered.

8. Contentberg - Content Marketing & Personal Blog

Content is king, but if you have boring visuals, unsightly fonts, and a chaotic layout, you will be putting valuable content to waste. Contentberg–a WordPress blogging and content marketing theme–saves you from creating atrocious blogs, with its variety of layouts and styles. 

Have complete control of how your article and homepage will look by choosing from the dozens of layouts and post styles. It is also easy to share your content to different social media platforms because of its sticky social buttons. Want to sell your books and other products? No problem because Contentberg has WooCommerce integration as well.

9. Ebigale - Modern Gutenberg WordPress Blog Theme

Ebigale is a modern WordPress Gutenberg theme for bloggers with classic, grid, list, masonry, and mixed layouts. Those who have used this theme praise its simplicity and flexibility when it comes to customization. 

Aside from all its features, Ebigale has five-star customer care which allows you to chat real-time with the support staff in case you encounter issues or problems with the theme.

Create Your Content With Gutenberg Blocks

The Gutenberg editor allows users to build layouts and arrange content using “blocks”. Blocks can be text-based, contain media, images, code highlighters, forms. And they’re all movable and flexible as needed.

Take a look at this quick start video from Kezz Bracey to get a solid idea of designing with blocks:

And if you’re not ready to make the leap just yet, you can update to the latest WordPress and continue using the classic editor with WordPress’ Classic Editor plugin.

Either way, the amazing themes listed here above will surely help enhance your creativity whether you are writing your blog, creating your portfolio, or setting up your e-commerce store. 

And since all of them are Gutenberg ready WordPress themes, customizing your site to fit your brand and personality becomes much easier and more seamless. Take a look at more WordPress Gutenberg themes on Themeforest today.

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Finding a theme for your WordPress-powered website is no longer a challenge. The real challenge is in finding the best theme for you, and one which comes with as many genuinely usable features as possible. 

One key feature for themes nowadays is the use of a page builder. WPBakery Page Builder (formerly Visual Composer) is one such page builder, and it makes the customization options of any theme virtually unlimited. 

“Build any layout you can imagine with intuitive drag and drop builder – no programming knowledge required.” – WPBakery Page Builder

Best WPBakery Page Builder (Visual Composer) Wordpress Themes

Note: You’ll have to forgive the constant referral to “WPBakery’s Page Builder” and “Visual Composer”. The former is what it’s known as nowadays, the latter is what it was formerly known as. I know, confusing..

I’ve put together an amazing compilation of 20 best visual composer WordPress themes available on Themeforest (Envato Market) right now. These themes have seen thousands of customers and positive reviews over the years, so you can be confident of their quality and popularity.

1. Jupiter - Multi-Purpose Responsive Theme

Jupiter X is an all-in-one platform to easily create pixel perfect websites. It comes with WPBakery’s page builder as well as the Elementor page builder. 

Jupiter X can be customized globally by using the WordPress customiser, which also helps with every aspect of an online shop including checkout and cart page. Paired with the visual editors that come with the theme, Jupiter is a great choice when picking from premium visual composer WordPress themes.

2. X - The Theme

X is a beautiful yet powerful WordPress theme that is based on Stacks: a set of designs which let you take the customization of your design and components to a whole new level. 

With a multitude of unique demos that come packed with the theme, X lets you not only set the foundation of your site but offers a full-fledged solution with all the additional plugins the theme provides.

3. BeTheme - Responsive Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme

BeTheme is an advanced, multipurpose premium WordPress theme that uses a page builder at its foundation to provide unlimited possibilities in terms of customization options. 

With more than a dozen preinstalled website designs available straight away with the purchase of the theme, this product definitely is worth your consideration.

4. Bridge - Creative Multipurpose WordPress Theme

Bridge is a fully-responsive, retina ready multipurpose WordPress theme that is suited for a creative agency, a corporate office and even a personal or portfolio website. With an elegant design and multiple available components, based on visual composer, this theme is definitely one of the best options to pick amongst in our showcase.

5. KALLYAS - Creative eCommerce Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme

KALLYAS touts itself as the #1 selling most enjoyable and creative multipurpose WordPress theme, responsive, lightweight, with drag & drop visual page builders and no coding required. 

With a multitude of pre-made layouts and visual composer that will take the customization of those designs to a whole new level, this theme does set the standard at another level. 

6. Total - Responsive Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme

Total is a modern and responsive premium WordPress theme that features a WordPress customizer and the visual composer page builder that allows you to create a website for virtually anything. 

The theme is targeted at a multitude of niches and professions so it will definitely come in handy to almost anybody looking to build a beautiful and functional website.

7. Brooklyn - Creative Multipurpose Responsive WordPress Theme

Brooklyn, a popular premium visual composer WordPress theme, comes with more than 40 complete pre-built websites that can be activated and installed in one click. 

With several thousands existing customers and great ratings, this theme has proven to be a great choice for people who have built websites across a range of niches (from lawyers and startups to doctors and gym websites).

8. Kalium - Creative Theme for Professionals

Kalium is a great choice when it comes to creating a portfolio, agency or product-oriented website because of its tailored pre-existing layout designs. 

With a stack-based layout design and a user-friendly theme options panel plus visual composer, the theme is a great choice among our premium visual composer themes outlined here.

9. Stockholm - A Genuinely Multi-Concept Theme

Stockholm is a multiconcept, premium WordPress theme that lets you easily create modern websites for your restaurant, hotel, or shop. 

With a responsive layout at its foundation, the website comes with the functionality that lets you build a proper eCommerce shop, paired with parallax effects, multiple gallery styles, and (of course) WPBakery Page Builder (Visual Composer).

10. WPLMS Learning Management System for WordPress, Education Theme 

WPLMS is an enterprise grade learning management system that is based on WordPress and comes with BuddyPress and WooCommerce integrated. The theme provides a complete solution that could be easily used by colleges, universities, and schools, for creating better online educational platforms from scratch.

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11. Ronneby - High-Performance WordPress Theme

Ronneby is another premium WordPress theme that comes with over 50 layout designs, premium plugins, sliders, and WPBakery Page Builder. With its drag and drop visual page builder, a front-end editor, and 40+ custom shortcodes it will allow for the design of any page. 

The theme comes with extensive documentation and 6 months of premium support that will be of help when setting it up.

12. Soledad - Multi-Concept Blog Magazine WordPress Theme

Soledad is a premium WordPress theme with over 5,000 homepages demo suitable for a multitude of purposes and over 30 custom elements for Elementor & WPBakery. 

Lastly, get peace of mind from its compliance with the latest EU GDPR policy.

13. KLEO - Pro Community Focused, Multi-Purpose BuddyPress Theme

Kleo is a beautiful and highly-functional WordPress theme that has almost 20,000 clients who chose the theme for its easy integration with the majority of plugins, clean and well-documented code, paired with full front-end editing capabilities. 

With an ever-growing list of features and functionality added constantly, this theme will be a choice well worth considering.

14. Striking MultiFlex & Ecommerce Responsive WP Theme

Striking is a WooCommerce based theme that has compatibility with the revolution slider and the latest version of PHP at its core. 

With approved WPML functionality and a host of available plugins for integration, the theme will work great for an eCommerce store looking to provide a wide range of features.

15. KingSize Fullscreen Photography Theme

Kingsize is a fullscreen photography theme for WordPress that features unlimited galleries, sliders and Visual Composer to make it easier to customize and build the ideal photography-based website. 

With unlimited colors to pick from and eCommerce integration, be sure to check out this theme in more detail.

16. Massive Dynamic - WordPress Website Builder

Massive Builder provides a platform to simply drag & drop elements, choose styles, and see the result instantly. You can literally create a whole website in minutes! 

Massive Dynamic is a WordPress-based theme that was built with the latest user-interface trends in mind. Featuring the latest web technologies, WPBakery Page Builder (Visual Composer), an array of design elements to pick from, and a set of pre-designed styles, this theme will help you get started in literally a few minutes.

17. REHub - Price Comparison, Multi Vendor Marketplace, Affiliate Marketing, Community Theme

REHub is a modern multipurpose hybrid theme that is oriented towards various business and social niches. Each component of the theme can be configured and used separately or combined for an outstanding user-experience. 

By using the latest design trends and SEO techniques, this theme proves to be a good option amongst the showcased themes in this article.

18. Consulting - Business, Finance WordPress Theme

Consulting WP will let you quickly set up and create a modern website for any service-oriented business. 

Easily edit the existing content and compose a new page layout with the integrated page builder. Based on in-depth research in business, finance and consulting, this theme comes to address the needs of most finance and business-focused websites.

19. Residence Real Estate WordPress Theme

WP Residence Real Estate WordPress Theme is a premium theme designed for independent agents and agencies, but you can also use it to allow users to submit their properties for free, for a fee or based on a subscription.

The theme has all the flexibility you need to provide the best user experience. Over 400 neatly organized theme options are included to help you create a unique and modern real estate website. 12 pre-made demos are available to get you started in seconds. All available demos are created with theme admin options which you can enable/disable quickly.

20. The Ark - WordPress Theme made for Freelancers

The Ark is a premium WordPress visual composer theme that was built with the regular consumer’s needs in mind. Being rated as the best product of all time on ThemeForest, this theme definitely comes with strong social proof behind its success. 

With its various design options and superb integrations you definitely won’t regret choosing this theme for your next project.

Choose Your Theme and Start Visually Composing!

This concludes our showcase of premium visual composer WordPress themes  which we believe you will find useful. If so, we'd like to know which theme was your favorite and what you think makes a great WordPress theme!

Pricing tables are an important part of any website which sells some kind of services and products. You can use them to quickly list the features, similarities or differences between 2, 3 or 4 different products at once.

These tables give users all the required information they need when choosing between different products and services. This in turn can result in more business for you. In a way, tables are a win-win tool for both businesses and consumers.

One common problem that you might face when trying to add tables to your own website is that creating them from scratch can be a bit difficult. The table has to look good and it should also be responsive.

In this post, we have listed some of the best CSS pricing tables available on CodeCanyon that you can start using in your projects right away.

CSS Pricing Tables on CodeCanyon

There are currently over 110 CSS pricing tables listed on CodeCanyon. Many of them follow a unique approach when it comes to designing pricing tables. This means that you can easily pick a unique responsive pricing table design that makes you stand out from the competition.

The price of these tables starts from as low as $3. New tables are added to the collection every month. You can pick the right table for your business from the best sellers or the trending section.

We will also list briefly review some of these tables below to give you a quick start.

Best CSS Pricing Tables on CodeCanyon

Here are the top 8 CSS pricing tables that you can buy right now from CodeCanyon:

CSS3 Responsive Web Pricing Tables Grids

These CSS3 Responsive Web Pricing Tables are one of the highest rated and top selling tables on CodeCanyon. They offer a lot of features to back this popularity.

The tables are available in 20 different colors and two different styles. They are responsive and Retina ready. So, they will look good on devices with different screen sizes and resolutions.

You can make one of the columns active so that it pops out by default. This is useful if you want to highlight a popular plan or product on the website.

The columns have an extra hidden ribbon. You can display it on individual columns and edit its appearance using CSS.

Other features of the table include tooltips, yes/no icons and animated hover states. The table fully support old browsers like IE9.

The plugin description page links to a video that showcases all the features of this table.

Responsive Clean Simple Pricing Tables

Depending on the look that you are going for, sometimes simple tables with minimal use of colors can look great, instead of tables with lots of animation and elements.

These responsive clean simple pricing tables will be perfect for you if you want to create some basic tables.

As the name suggests, they are fully responsive and built entirely using CSS. There are seven different color options available. The main accent color of the tables can also be changed easily.

The tooltips are created using HTML custom data attributes with CSS tooltips.

The table supports all major browsers and comes with jQuery fallbacks for older browsers.

Round Pricing Tables

These round pricing tables are ideal for people who want to display multiple products or services on a single page.

These tables take very little space and still convey all the necessary information. This is because the services or features of a plan are shown only when the users hover over the tables.

The tables have a clean design without a lot of clutter. The animations are powered entirely by CSS and you can easily change the color of different elements in CSS itself. The tables are very lightweight because they don't rely on images to create the layout.

You should visit the description page and take a look at the screenshots of the table or the preview video.

Kote—Featured Tables Collection

If you are looking for modern and responsive CSS tables then Kote—Featured Tables Collection is perfect for you.

This collection has 34 different tables that should cover almost every scenario where you can use a pricing table.

The first set of templates contains tables that are packed closely together with the middle table popping out from the group. The middle pricing table also has a subtle pulsating animation applied to it to draw attention.

The second set of templates contains tables with a distinct header, body and footer. They have a simpler design with properly separated tables.

The third set of templates uses fully colored tables with background images that blend perfectly with the background. The downloadable zip archive contains separate SVG files for these backgrounds and other icons.

Overall, this collection of tables is suitable for anyone who wants to have a lot of design options available when creating a pricing table.

Colorful Pricing Table

Most pricing tables generally use different colors for only the header and the footer of a column. However, colorful pricing table uses a unique approach of adding a nice background color over the entire table. This gives the tables a unique catchy look.

These table have four distinct layouts to showcase your plans and products. All these styles are fully responsive so they look great even on mobile devices.

The smooth animation, fully colored columns and flat design used in creating these tables makes them unique among all the tables listed in this post.

You should visit the table description page and check out the preview video to see if the table are suitable for your projects.

Horizontal and Vertical Pricing Tables

If you are looking for unique layout options to display pricing tables on your website then these horizontal and vertical pricing tables are definitely worth checking out.

There are two things that make these tables stand out. First, they allow you to create pricing tables that are laid out horizontally. Most CSS pricing table solution only focus on vertical layouts. Second, the tables rely on a well thought-out combination of colors and animation to give you that feel of professionalism.

The smooth transition of colors when you hover over different tables is very satisfying to watch. The tables are divided into three distinct sections for the header, the main body and the footer. The tables are also fully responsive so they look great on all devices. Take a look at the live preview to experience it all yourself.

Modern—Bootstrap 4 Pricing Tables

Bootstrap is a popular framework used by many websites to quickly create their frontend. If your website has also been created using Bootstrap, then it makes sense to use pricing tables that were made specifically for Bootstrap.

This will make their integration into existing websites a lot easier and keep the size of CSS file a bit smaller. One of the best ways to quickly add Bootstrap based pricing tables to your website is to use the modern Bootstrap 4 pricing tables.

There are nine different table layouts with 6 different color options. The tables are fully responsive just like their parent framework.

You can present your products and services with a modern, clean and unique design using these Bootstrap 4 pricing tables.

Loki Pricing Table Generator

Not everyone is comfortable when it comes to making changes to HTML and CSS to customize a pricing table. The Loki Pricing Table Generator solves this problem by giving you the tools to easily customize the basic features of the pricing tables.

There are 8 different table layouts. However, you can change various aspects like the primary, secondary and background color to make them unique. Similarly, you can change the font size for the pricing, features and title etc.

The generator also gives you the option to change the text of different rows and columns without actually touching the pricing table markup. In the end, you can simply click on the Code button to directly download the HTML and CSS file for the table created.

Free CSS Pricing Tables

Before I start listing a few free CSS pricing tables, there are a few things that I should clear up.

There aren't a lot of dedicated libraries and frameworks out there created specifically to generate fancy pricing tables. You will have to look around for a while before you can find some pricing tables that look professional and go well with the overall design of your website.

Keeping these points in mind, it might simply be easier for you to buy one of the premium pricing tables, which come with different templates and clean, professional design. You also get lifetime free updates for any pricing tables you download.

If you still want to give some free CSS pricing tables a try, then the ones I listed below will be a good start.

Pricing Table with Hover Animation

This pricing table enlarges the table that users are hovering over with a nice and smooth animation.

Responsive Pricing Table

This responsive pricing table uses Flexbox to create the layout. Minimal use of colors and other styling elements makes it very easy to integrate with the design of existing websites.

Pricing Table with a Prominent Header

This multi-colored pricing table comes with prominent headers to display a big title for the product or service as well as its price.

The pricing columns are properly separated from each other and they don't have hover animation applied to them. There is a little badge that you can add to the top of a column to indicate the most popular plans etc.

Pricing Table with Enlarged Column

A common practice to highlight a popular product or service in a pricing table is to enlarge its columns to make it stand out. This pricing table helps you do exactly that. It has a very simple layout with a subtle background animation on hover.

Best Practices to Keep in Mind When Creating Pricing Tables

Pricing tables are generally placed at a prime location on a website and they are used to highlight the main products and services that you offer. Therefore, it makes sense to follow all the best practices when you create these tables.

Here are a few things that you should remember when creating pricing tables:

1. Make the Tables Responsive

A lot of traffic on website generally comes from mobile devices nowadays. There is no fixed resolution that you can target when creating pricing tables. Therefore, it is important to make sure that your pricing tables look good on all screen sizes. The premium CSS pricing tables from CodeCanyon are already responsive so you won't even have to worry about it when using them.

2. Use Fewer Words

Pricing tables are meant to give users all the necessary information they need about different products at a glance. Use them to list the most important distinguishing features of these products. Other details can be mentioned somewhere else on the website.

3. Include a Prominent Call to Action Button

Hopefully, the pricing tables that you create will give users all the necessary information that they want before making a purchasing decision. Once they decide to buy one of your products and services, you should make it as easy as possible for them to complete the purchase. The best way to do that is to include a button to make the purchase somewhere in the pricing table itself.

Final Thoughts

As we discussed at the beginning of this post, pricing tables are a great way to drive more business by allowing users to quickly compare different products and services.

Creating a responsive and nicely designed pricing table from scratch can be a daunting and time consuming task. That is why you should consider using one of the premium CSS pricing tables available on CodeCanyon.

Which pricing table do you like the most from the ones we mentioned in the post? Let us know in the comments.