Today, we’re going to create a typewriter effect using CSS and JavaScript. It will happen when a user hovers over a postcard image. And to push things further, we’ll use JavaScript to play a typing sound on the page and sync it with the letters as they appear.

Note: we’ll assume that this effect is for desktop screens only. Covering its functionality on mobile/touch screens is beyond the scope of this exercise. At the end of the tutorial, I’ll propose two ways for optimizing it for responsive scenarios.

Our JavaScript Typewriter Effect

Check out the final demo! Click the sound toggle to turn audio on, and hover over each postcard to see the typewriter effect in action.

1. Begin by Downloading the Page Assets

For this exercise, we’re going to need some assets.

• So first, I’ve grabbed four images from Unsplash.
• Next, a sound icon from iconmonstr.

• Then, an old typewriter typing sound effect from Mixkit.

• Finally, a custom typewriter font (web font) from Envato Elements.

As a Pro member on CodePen, I’ll upload these files to the Asset Manager.

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2. Continue With the Page Markup

The page markup will consist of the following elements:

• A div element that will contain a title and a button. A button class will determine if a sound will play each time we hover over an image. By default, the sound won’t play. To enable it, we have to click the button.
• A div element that will contain four images along with their captions. By default, all captions will be invisible. Each one of them will appear as soon as we hover over the associated image. Lastly, ideally, they have to be short.
• An audio element that will be responsible for embedding the sound on the page. Although optional, we’ll give it preload="auto" to inform browsers that it should load on page load.

Here’s the page markup:  

<div class="grid grid-btn"><h1>...</h1><button type="button" class="btn-sound btn-sound-off" aria-label="Enable sound"><svg width="24" height="24" aria-hidden="true"><path d="M15 23l-9.309-6h-5.691v-10h5.691l9.309-6v22zm-9-15.009v8.018l8 5.157v-18.332l-8 5.157zm14.228-4.219c2.327 1.989 3.772 4.942 3.772 8.229 0 3.288-1.445 6.241-3.77 8.229l-.708-.708c2.136-1.791 3.478-4.501 3.478-7.522s-1.342-5.731-3.478-7.522l.706-.706zm-2.929 2.929c1.521 1.257 2.476 3.167 2.476 5.299 0 2.132-.955 4.042-2.476 5.299l-.706-.706c1.331-1.063 2.182-2.729 2.182-4.591 0-1.863-.851-3.529-2.184-4.593l.708-.708zm-12.299 1.299h-4v8h4v-8z" /></svg></button></div><div class="grid grid-images"><figure><img src="IMG_SRC" alt="IMG_ALT" width="IMG_WIDTH" height="IMG_HEIGHT"><figcaption class="animate">...</figcaption></figure><!-- more figure elements here --></div><audio preload="auto"><source src="AUDIO_SRC" type="audio/wav"></audio>

3. Define the Styles

Coming up next, we’ll discuss the most important aspects of our styles. For the sake of simplicity, as our main focus will be on JavaScript, we won’t cover the reset styles here. So, straight to the point:

• We’ll use CSS Grid to create the layout for the two wrapper divs.
• We’ll use the ::before pseudo-element of the toggle (sound) button to indicate that the sound is off. Initially, this will appear.
• The image captions will be absolutely positioned elements and invisible by default. Depending on the image, they will appear either on its top or bottom.
• All characters of each caption will appear sequentially on the image hover. This will be achieved thanks to the transition-delay property that we’ll add to them through JavaScript. However, they should simultaneously disappear when we stop hovering over an image.
• We’ll add 4px spacing to the empty spans (characters) of each caption. So far our markup doesn’t contain spans. But soon enough, we’ll generate them through JavaScript.

Here are our main styles:

/*CUSTOM VARIABLES HERE*/

.grid {
  display: grid;
  max-width: 1200px;
  margin: 0 auto;
}

.grid-btn {
  grid-template-columns: auto auto;
  grid-gap: 20px;
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: center;
  margin-bottom: 30px;
}

.grid-images {
  grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr;
  grid-gap: 20px 70px;
}

.grid-btn .btn-sound {
  position: relative;
  display: flex;
  padding: 5px;
  border: 2px solid var(--white);
}

.grid-btn .btn-sound-off::before {
  content: "";
  position: absolute;
  top: 50%;
  left: 0;
  width: 100%;
  border-top: 2px solid var(--white);
  transform: translateY(-50%) rotate(45deg);
}

.grid-btn .btn-sound svg {
  fill: var(--white);
}

.grid-images figure {
  position: relative;
  transform: rotate(5deg);
  transform-origin: bottom left;
  border: 10px solid var(--white);
  cursor: pointer;
  backface-visibility: hidden;
}

.grid-images figure:nth-child(even) {
  transform: rotate(-5deg);
  transform-origin: bottom right;
}

.grid-images img {
  display: block;
}

.grid-images .animate {
  position: absolute;
  top: 30px;
  left: 10px;
  right: 10px;
  display: flex;
  flex-wrap: wrap;
  justify-content: center;
  padding: 0 10px;
  overflow: hidden;
  text-align: center;
  mix-blend-mode: difference;
}

.grid-images figure:last-child .animate {
  top: auto;
  bottom: 30px;
}

.grid-images .animate span {
  font-size: clamp(18px, 2.5vw, 40px);
  opacity: 0;
  transition: all 0.01s ease-in-out;
}

.grid-images .animate span:empty {
  margin: 0 4px;
}

.grid-images figure:hover .animate span {
  opacity: 1;
}

.grid-images figure:not(:hover) .animate span[style] {
  transition-delay: 0s !important;
}

4. Add Interactivity

We’ll start by looping through all figures and for each one of them, several actions will take place:

const figures = document.querySelectorAll(".grid-images figure");

for (const figure of figures) {
  generateCharactersMarkup(figure);
  figure.addEventListener("mouseenter", mouseenterHandler);
  figure.addEventListener("mouseleave", mouseleaveHandler);
}

Note: even safer, you might want to run these actions on page load (listen for the load event).

Modify the Captions’ Markup 

First, we’ll call the generateCharactersMarkup() function and pass to it the related figure element.

Here’s the function declaration:

function generateCharactersMarkup(el) {
  let index = 0;
  const textBlock = el.querySelector(".animate");
  const characters = textBlock.textContent.split("");
  const charactersHTML = characters
    .map(function (character) {
      let markup = "";
      if (character == " ") {
        markup = "<span></span>";
        if (index == 0) index = 1;
      } else {
        let style = "";
        if (index != 0) {
          const sec = 0.15 * index;
          const secRounded = Math.round(sec * 100) / 100;
          style = `style="transition-delay:${secRounded}s"`;
        }
        markup = `<span ${style}>${character}</span>`;
        index++;
      }
      return markup;
    })
    .join(" ");
  textBlock.innerHTML = charactersHTML;
}

Inside this function:

• We’ll find the image caption and loop through its characters.
• We’ll wrap each character around a span element.
• We’ll check to see if the character is the first one or equal to space. 
• If this isn’t the case, it will receive the transition-delay property. The value of this property will specify the amount of time to wait before showing the target character. In our example, each transition will occur after 150ms of the start of its previous one. In your projects, you can adjust this number via the sec variable.

So, if we start with this markup:

<figcaption class="animate">Welcome to Iceland!</figcaption>

After executing the function, it will look as follows:

Notice that the first character and the spaces don’t receive an inline style.

Of course, instead of programmatically generating this markup, we could have added it by default on our HTML. But this will have two disadvantages. Firstly, it will bloat the HTML. Secondly, it will make its maintenance difficult in case any change is required.

Play Sound with JavaScript

At this point let’s put the sound in the loop.

Remember that it will be off by default.

Its state will be handled by the btn-sound-off CSS class and sound JavaScript flag.

Each time we click the button, both these will be updated. For instance, if the sound is on, the button won’t contain this class and the value of this flag will be true.

Here’s the related JavaScript code:

const btnSound = document.querySelector(".grid-btn .btn-sound");
let sound = false;

btnSound.addEventListener("click", function () {
  sound = !sound;
  const ariaLabel =
    this.getAttribute("aria-label") == "Enable sound"
      ? "Disable sound"
      : "Enable sound";
  this.setAttribute("aria-label", ariaLabel);
  this.classList.toggle("btn-sound-off");
});

When the sound is on, it should play on image hover. But, for how long? That’s the thing we need to consider. Well, our demo audio file is pretty long, about 24 seconds. Obviously, we don’t want to play it all. Just a small part of it until the transition effect finishes.

To do so, we first have to calculate the duration of this effect. Taking that into account, we’ll then initialize a timer that will play the sound for this amount of time.

To better understand it, let’s go through the effect of the first image. If you check your browser console, you’ll notice that its last character has a 2.4 seconds delay. That means, the total effect will last 2.4 seconds (we don’t count the transition duration as it is almost zero). To keep the synchronization between the transition effect and audio playtime, we’ll play the first 2.4 seconds of the audio and then pause it.

For this implementation, we’ll use the mouseenter event. Here’s the declaration of its callback:

...
let timer;

function mouseenterHandler() {
  if (sound) {
    const spans = this.querySelectorAll(".animate span[style]");
    const duration = spans.length * 0.15 * 1000;
    /*SECOND METHOD FOR CALCULATING THE AUDIO DURATION BASED ON THE EFFECT DURATION*/
    /*const style = window.getComputedStyle(
      this.querySelector(".animate span[style]:last-child")
    );
    const duration =
      style.getPropertyValue("transition-delay").split("s")[0] * 1000;*/
    clearTimeout(timer);
    audio.play();
    timer = setTimeout(function () {
      audio.pause();
    }, duration);
  }
}

Consider in the code above the different ways we can use to calculate the audio duration.

On the other hand, the sound should pause and reset back to its initial position on mouse out.

For this implementation, we’ll use the mouseleave event. Here’s the declaration of its callback:

...

function mouseleaveHandler() {
  if (sound) {
    audio.pause();
    audio.currentTime = 0;
  }
}

Conclusion

Phew, that’s all folks! Thank you for joining me on this long journey! We covered a lot of things today. Not only did we build a cool typing effect on hover, but also made it more realistic by synchronizing it with an old typewriter sound.

Here’s a reminder of what we built:

Touch and Mobile Devices

As we discussed in the introduction, this effect isn’t optimized for mobile/touch devices. Here are two possible solutions that you can try:

• Disable the effect on these interfaces. For example, write some code for touch screen detection, and in that case, show the captions by default.
• Oppositely, if you want to keep the effect for all devices, be sure to capture touch events.

Of course, depending on your needs, you can decouple the effect from the mouse events and keep it standalone or as a part of other events like the scroll one.

As the last thing, keep in mind that this effect might not work under all circumstances without extra customization. For example, as mentioned previously, the image captions should not be lengthy and split into multiple lines like this.

As always, thanks a lot for reading!

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For that reason, I’ve selected the best WooCommerce technology themes for computers and electronics for you to choose from.

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• Responsive design
• Ease of use (for the customer)

Without these features, your store will go unnoticed. Moreover, you won’t enjoy working on it if you constantly struggle with customizing and tweaking the design.

The Best WooCommerce Technology Themes on Themeforest

I've chosen some of the best themes available now to get you up and running with the minimum of fuss.

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8. Dimita—Electronics WordPress Theme for WooCommerce

This electronics theme comes with a very impressive design, a mass of features, and a large number of demos.

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9. Nitro—Universal WooCommerce Theme

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Whether you want to update your store or start a new one from scratch in 2021, check out more of our computers and electronics WooCommerce themes on ThemeForest to find the one that best suits your brand and needs. 

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This article showcases more than twenty of the best WordPress directory themes from ThemeForest, part of Envato Market. They’re packed with professional website design features.

What to Look for in the Best WordPress Directory Themes

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

• Ease of Use—a good directory theme is easy to use and navigate. Use of search function and the ability to filter the listings is a prerequisite
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Any theme chosen must include these features for a successful directory site. There just aren’t compromises possible here. 

Best WordPress Directory Themes (For 2021)

Here are a number of the best service directory WordPress themes. Browse to find a design to quickly create a great business directory site.

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2.  Listar—WordPress Directory and Listing Theme

Next up on the list of best WordPress directory themes is the Listar directory theme. This theme is flexible and can adapt to any type of directory website you're creating. Here are a few key features that make this directory theme a worthy condender:

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

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3. Point Finder—Business Directory WordPress Theme

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This WordPress business directory website design enables 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 loaded with additional features, such as: social login, Google Map geolocation and styling, a mail template system, and custom widgets.

4. Listify—WordPress Business Directory Theme for 2020

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It has a five star rating from many happy customers, like Chris Lema who states: 

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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.

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From the four layouts, the Classified Listing layout comes with several additional features such as Seller and Dealer registration, XML/CSV inventory import, Dealer Profile with user reviews and much more.

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

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What is great about this theme is it comes with OpenStreetMap. The Google Map API can be quite costly, so this is a great alternative. 

Here are a few notable features for this business directory web template:

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• 100% responsive
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7. 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 Resumé Manager your users can signup and upload their resumé, or complete their own using our predefined resumé submission form.

Additionally, further extend the theme with the Application Deadline that gives users the tools to apply, review, and manage job applications from the job dashboard.

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

8. Listable—Friendly Directory Listing WordPress Theme

Listable is a user-friendly, listing directory WordPress theme that helps 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 the website and monetize by charging for a listing or for a reservation fee.

This business directory template is fully responsive and may be customized either via the Style Presets or by changing colors and fonts and using 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.

9. 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.

10. Service Finder—Business Directory Listing Theme

The Service Finder business directory web template 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.

11. Directory—Multipurpose WordPress Business Listing Theme

This popular WordPress business directory theme is designed for flexible use. Build unlimited business directory websites 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.

12. 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: 

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This is a local business directory WordPress theme and it can 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. 

13. MyCity—Geolocation Directory and 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 a directory.

Users can 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.

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The business directory website design includes an online availability calendar, flexible booking room type, custom rates, destination, display on google map, and extra services.

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Manage hotel reservations quickly, easily, and much more efficiently, with this directory listing template.

15. Search and Go—Smart Business WP Directory Theme

Search and 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 and Go comes with.

Users can 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. 

Customers can 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. 

16. 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. 

17. Business Finder—Directory Listing WordPress Theme

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

All pages and sections of this business directory theme are created easily thanks to the drag-and-drop AIT Page Builder, that features over 30 elements to build a 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.

18. Autohub—Automotive and Car Dealer Theme

Autohub is a professional WordPress directory theme crafted to specifically fit the needs of automotive dealers and car hire firms.

A complete Automotive solution offering listing submissions, beautiful listing layouts, advanced stats, premium dashboard, user notifications, advanced searching options and much more.

No need to buy any extra plugins, everything is built into Autohub.

19. Coupon Hut—Business Deals WordPress Business Theme

CouponHut is modern and clean business directory web template featuring an easy page builder, two types of deals (coupons and discounts), one-click install and a 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 customize your deals site and set it apart. 

20. Corify—WordPress Car Listings and Dealership Theme

Corify is a must-have WordPress automotive directory theme for car dealerships and car listings websites.

Corify lets you list, manage and sell cars with advanced search, auto-populating for vehicle data, lead capture, gallery, and maps.

Integrating with Elementor page builder, Corify gives you endless possibilities to customize a car listings website.

Benefits include:

• Single vehicle listing detail page
• Image and Video gallery
• Google Maps integration
• Finance calculator
• Car and Dealer reviews
• Test drive registration, and
• Brochure download

21. 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.

22. Alliance—Intranet and Extranet Directory Theme

Alliance is a 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 business directory web template integrates with BuddyPress allowing 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.

23. Brikk—Directory and Listing WordPress Theme

Brikk is a listing and directory WordPress theme suitable for any business like booking, restaurants, place, events, jobs listings, classified ads, reservations, rental, hourly booking, experiences and more.

Brikk helps manage and monetize any listing and directory site.  The modular framework includes flexible drag-and-drop user interface to adapt any elements like listing fields, custom taxonomies, page layouts, search forms, review criteria, submission forms, action types and more.

24. Motor—Vehicle and Parts Business Directory Theme for WordPress

Motor is a professional business directory web template 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 helps you create an awesome automotive online presence.

25. Bello—Directory and Listing

The Bello service directory WordPress theme 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. 

26. 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 short-codes, social media widgets, and much more. 

One feature that helps this theme stand out from the rest is its advanced search filter.

When 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. 

27. 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 create their own listings, reports, wish-lists, claim items, and more. Here's 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."

28. Craigs—Directory Listing Template

Craigs is a service directory WordPress theme that is fully featured and ready for creating stunning and slick listings websites.

The theme features a minimalist design that is optimized for SEO and will give your users a great website experience. 

Here are a few notable features of this WordPress directory theme:

• Google Maps and MySQL
• geolocation and address autocomplete 
• font awesome icons
• four homepage templates

29. Listingo—Business Listing and Directory WordPress Theme

Listingo is a WordPress directory theme for service providers that has a clean and contemporary design. The theme has robust search functions, a fast load time, and is flexible for all types of businesses. 

The theme is ideal as a service provider directory, professional directory, engineers directory or lawyer directory.

All of the inner pages are carefully designed to provide all the essential information any directory business would need.

30. BizFinder—Business Directory Theme

Bizfinder is a high-quality Wordpress directory theme that is suitable for building business directories, classifieds and listing websites.

Website visitors browse the directory to find businesses by detailed search criteria including location, industry, or by price. 

The theme also comes with fully integrated Google Maps that can be customized to suit your particular needs. 

5 Tips to Get the Most Out of WordPress Directory Themes

The 20+ Wordpress directory themes listed in the article 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 the 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 best WordPress directory themes listed above have social media widgets that can be placed throughout a website. Again, our goal is to grow your directory business.

Having the option to share a particular listing on your site or the entire website will encourage customers to let their friends know about the 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 descriptions
• use lazy loading for images 
• include high search volume keywords on your webpages
• ensure all the webpages are mobile-friendly

Discover More Great WordPress Themes for 2021

The directory themes listed above will be a valuable asset to you when creating your directory website. Themeforest has the best-selling WordPress directory themes available on the web for a low one-time payment. 

Once you’ve purchased one of these themes, you may still need more resources and information explaining how to get the most out of your directory theme. Also, you may want to take your directory website to the next level by offering a mobile app as well. 

Feel free to check out these other Tuts+ articles on how to take your directory business to the next level:

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Get 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 some of the best WordPress directory themes on Themeforest and 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 a listing site and start your path to leveling-up 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.

Adobe XD is a vector-based UI and UX design tool and it can be used to design anything from smartwatch apps to fully fledged websites. Let’s take a look at what it offers designers and why it’s become such a powerful tool in the web design industry.

What is XD?

Adobe XD was first introduced as “Project Comet” back in 2015 at the annual Adobe MAX conference. Back then it offered a breath of fresh air to anyone still using Photoshop or Illustrator for their UI design. After all, the web presents very different design challenges to print.

I myself started out designing websites in Photoshop, so I know all about the struggles (especially where responsive and fluid design is concerned) but XD is completely different. It was developed from the ground up, specifically with UI and UX design in mind, so it has loads of features which never existed in other graphics applications.

What is Adobe XD Used For?

What’s important to remember is that Adobe XD addresses the two main problems Photoshop and other graphics applications couldn’t:

1. Interaction design isn’t static. A designer cannot communicate a fluid and dynamic design using pixels alone.
2. A modern design process involves more than a polished finished article. Wireframing, iteration, and behavior are all part of the collaborative decision making with UI and UX design.

Adobe XD is ideal for vector-based UI design, wireframing, interactive design, prototyping, and hi-fidelity web/app design, for solo designers or whole teams.

Adobe XD Graphic Templates on Envato Elements

You can create beautiful projects with unlimited downloads of high-quality Adobe XD graphic templates on Envato Elements. One monthly fee, all the design assets you need!

Adobe XD Features

Among Adobe XD’s features we can find the following:

• Prototyping design tools
• 3D transforms
• Animations and transition design
• Components (which are completely fluid)
• Support for 3rd party plugins and extensions
• Responsive resizing of content and layout
• Repeat grids

These are just some of the great features which have been possible to build into Adobe XD, because it started from a clean slate.

My 3 favorites among them are:

1. Repeat Grids

Repeat grids are awesome. They allow you to make copies of an element and automatically arrange them in a grid. Using controls you can easily change the vertical and horizontal spacing. This can save you a huge amount of time, preventing the need to manually copy and paste (and change) elements in your design.

2. Adobe XD Components

Second on my list would be components and component states. A component in Adobe XD is a reusable element which works on “main” and “instance” logic. 

A copy of the main component is called an “instance”. Any changes made to the main are reflected on the instance, but instances can be changed independently of the main. “States” are variations of the component, and in Adobe XD you can easily switch between states really easily in both design and prototype mode.

3. Document Assets

Finally, we have document assets, which allow you to save colors and character styles in a single repository, and then apply them to other elements.

These, along with components, are also saved in a document library which can be shared with other people. This is a really useful feature for creating design systems, for example, or collaborating on single pieces of work.

Prototyping in Adobe XD

That concludes my three personal favorite features, but for most people you’ll find prototyping comes top of the list–and for good reason. With it, you can create really smooth animations and demo your designs in a more genuine environment; with transitions, and multiple screens, and object states. Bringing your designs to life like this, and allowing users to interact with them is extremely valuable.

Price and Platform Availability

One thing I love about Adobe XD is that it’s free to use. It does have a paid plan for anyone who wants access to the collaboration features, but the free app itself is more than enough for most people. Another plus point is that it’s available on Mac OS and Windows, and you can also save all your XD files in Adobe Cloud, meaning you can access them from multiple devices.

To get hold of it visit https://www.adobe.com/products/xd or if you have Creative Cloud app installed and you have a valid subscription you can download it directly from there.

You Should Try Adobe XD 

In short, Adobe XD is an amazing tool for anyone interested in UI and UX design, and it certainly elevates your work beyond what Photoshop or Illustrator are capable of. It’s fast, it’s easy to learn, and it’s constantly being updated with new features and improvements.

On Tuts+ you’ll find lots of Adobe XD tutorials and courses:

• Adobe XD for Beginners

• Adobe XD
  Advanced Adobe XD for Everyone
  Adi Purdila
• Adobe XD
  Better Design Systems With Adobe XD for Visual Studio Code
  Adi Purdila
• Adobe XD
  How to Create a Hotel Booking UI Design in Adobe XD
  Andrei Marius
• Adobe XD
  How to Create a Finance App UI Design in Adobe XD
  Andrei Marius

And you’ll find resources which are regularly updated:

• Adobe XD
  15+ Adobe XD UI Kits for Your Next Project
  Aladin Bensassi
• UI Design
  15 Top Soft UI and Neumorphic UI Kits
  Eric Karkovack
• Figma
  21+ Best Premium UI Kits for Adobe XD and Figma
  Paula Borowska

There is no shortage of bright and beautiful WordPress themes that catch visitors’ attention. But sometimes, a colorful website loaded with animations is not the right choice. It could well be that you need a WordPress website theme that presents your products and services in an elegant and simple fashion. And that’s exactly where clean WordPress themes fit in.

Embrace the Clean Beauty of Simplicity (To Make Better Websites in 2021)

Clean WordPress themes remove all the distracting elements and bring the focus onto your content. This allows your website visitors to see what you have to offer. 

“By thinking about the how you shape your layout and communicate with white space, your designs will look cleaner and clearer, and while being more usable, and converting better.” – David Kadavy

Freelancers and business owners, as well as authors, who want to put the focus on their products and services can benefit greatly from a minimal WordPress theme.

Find beautiful, clean WordPress themes on ThemeForest and browse through the best themes that are trending in 2021. 

Aside from minimalist design, simple WordPress themes are also equipped to load faster and make it much easier for visitors to browse your site, ingest your message, and appreciate your brand offer. 

To put it simply, a beautiful website theme with a clean modern design will be inviting and can encourage your target audience to spend more time browsing your content or products. In this roundup we feature a number of the best-selling, simple, clean WordPress themes to work with.

While free WordPress themes are tempting, we've chosen to showcase some great premium, modern WordPress themes in this post. Not only do they offer features that are hard to find in WordPress theme free downloads, they're made by professional designers. That quality makes a difference when you want to attract traffic to your site.

The Best Clean and Simple WordPress Themes (2021)

These themes will help you make a fresh, modern website design with a minimalist aesthetic to be on trend for 2021. 

1. Minim - Minimal Theme

If you like modern web design, you'll fall in love with Minim. It's crafted with business and contemporary style in mind. Minim comes with three unique home pages and more than 150 useful shortcodes. There are also many design elements included, like headers and creative inner pages. Not a bad way to kick off a list of clean WordPress themes, right?

2. Ozark - Minimal Portfolio WordPress Theme

If you've been hunting for modern WordPress themes for your portfolio, you'll want to know about Ozark. There are nine unique modern website layouts you can choose as a starting point, including blogs and inner pages. With the included Elementor page builder, you can drag and drop to style your pages quickly. On top of these features, Ozark is fast and responsive for all screen sizes.

3. WebGatha - Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme

First up we have WebGatha, a fantastic premium theme. With more than 20 complete pre-built sites, you'll have no trouble developing contemporary WordPress themes that fit your needs. And it doesn't matter what those needs are, because these multi-purpose themes suit everything from eCommerce to personal portfolios. If you need an inspiration WordPress theme, shoot for WebGatha.

4. Zonex Clean and Modern Fashion Theme

Clean themes for fashion don't get much better than Zonex. Keep the focus on your products with an image-driven WordPress site.You can customize product pages with different layouts while keeping each page easy to navigate for visitors. The 10 included unique homepages let your site's browsers find what interests them with ease. Even for WordPress beginners, the included documentation and support forum allow you to be an expert in modern WordPress themes.

5. Raha - Creative WordPress Theme

Blogging remains a popular activity in the internet age, but not every voice will be heard. Reach your audience with the Raha WordPress theme. Choose between five different home pages and 10 page layouts to make your personal blog unique. You can make changes on the fly with the live customizer, and make a site that suits you best at any moment. Multiple sidebars, widgets, and portfolio layouts mean your audience will never be bored with looking at your site. 

6. Roneous - Minimal Multipurpose WordPress Theme for 2021

The Roneous theme can be used for a variety of websites, including small businesses, freelancers, personal sites, music sites, and more. With comments like these:

“A really nice Theme to work with. Easy install, FANTASTIC support, quick very knowledgeable answers. The Theme is very well thought out, super flexible and easy to customize. Great hints in the right places!”

It’s clear why many customers are loving the theme and its modern web design. Some of the features include:

• 100% Fully Responsive
• 30+ Custom Visual Elements
• Child Theme Ready
• Advanced Blog, Portfolio, Product options
• Custom post types including Team, Testimonial and Client
• 12 Stunning Blog Pages
• Latest Google Web Fonts included
• WPML Multi-language ready
• Social Media Sharing Ready
• 950+ Retina Icons

Use this simple clean WordPress template to make a modern style website in 2021 with a beautiful minimal design. Learn how to install and setup the Roneous WordPress theme yourself in this Envato Tuts+ tutorial: 

• WordPress Themes
  How to Make Modern Websites With Clean WordPress Themes
  Brenda Barron

7. Airi - Clean, Minimal WooCommerce Theme

Airi is a clean, modern WooCommerce theme. Its design is minimal and it puts the focus on the display of the shop’s content. The design allows for a fun and vibrant branding and personality to shine through without unnecessary clutter and content overload. Airia is also an extensive theme featuring over 20 homepage demos, over 9 product page demos and a variety of creatively designed inner pages. It’s a fantastic choice for an eCommerce store that’s looking to have a simple but clean online presence.

8. The Ark - Modern and Elegant 2021 WordPress Theme

The Ark theme is a newcomer to the ThemeForest marketplace but is already breaking sales records. Theme buyers appreciate the ease of use and versatility of the theme, with comments like:

“Amazing theme! Easy to use out of box for any newbies. If you a "noob" that theme its for you, but if you geek you can create magic sites :) Love that :)”

The modern web design isn't the only attraction with The Ark. Some of the theme’s features include:

• Innovative design with 300+ pre-designed pages and more than 200 content blocks
• Powered by Fresh Builder that allows you to drag and drop the desired element into place quickly to create a unique layout fast
• Customizable theme options panel
• The ability to add both custom and Google Fonts

This is a one of the many modern WordPress themes similar to SquareSpace style simple site designs.

9. Werkstatt - Simple Creative Portfolio WordPress Theme

The Werkstatt theme was built with creatives in mind. It’s a great choice for architects, freelancers, or design agencies that want a minimal and clean look for their portfolios. The demos show that you can present your portfolio in a variety of ways using a masonry or column layout. This simple WordPress theme also integrates with WooCommerce and Visual Composer and is optimized for SEO and fast loading times.

10. CheerUp - 2021 Clean WordPress Blog Theme Design

Lifestyle or fashion bloggers who love a modern style and clean web page design should look no further than the CheerUp WP theme. It comes with several elegant layouts and over 200 possible layout combinations. It also boasts a high focus on images and allows you to start building your list thanks to easy integration with MailChimp. Contemporary WordPress themes don't come much better than CheerUp.

11. Authentic - Lifestyle WP Blog and Clean Magazine Theme

Authentic is a light and minimalist WordPress blog and magazine theme with plenty of features to make your site stand out in 2021. You can choose between different slider options and galleries and take advantage of the complete Pinterest and social media integration so your readers can share your content effortlessly. 

On top of that, the modern web design pays special attention to typography styling with drop caps and paragraph lead-ins. You can monetize this clean minimal WordPress theme using ads or selling your products. It’s also responsive and fully customizable.

12. XStore - Minimalist eCommerce Clean WordPress Theme

If you’re looking for a clean theme for your online store, consider the XStore theme. It offers a variety of clean modern homepage designs and different page layouts for individual products, allowing you to present them in a visually appealing way and share all the relevant details. 

This minimal modern WordPress theme also comes with several premium plugins such as Visual Composer, Revolution Slider, Smart Product Viewer 360, Subscription WooCommerce, and more. It’s also optimized for SEO and highly customizable for that perfect branded look. These features and more make XStore one of the best clean responsive WordPress themes on ThemeForest.

13. Merchandiser - Clean WooCommerce Theme for WordPress

The Merchandiser theme is another excellent choice for making a clean and minimal online store that has all the right features to create a powerful WooCommerce store. This modern WordPress theme comes with extended shop catalog options, infinite loading, widgetized search, and the ability to include an off-canvas shopping cart and a quickview of products that doesn’t prevent your buyers from seeing the rest of the products in your store.

14. Once - Clean & Elegant WordPress Blog Theme

Once is a wonderful theme for bloggers who are seeking an interesting but clean and modern design. This theme has been optimized for the newest WordPress version and its Gutenberg block editing style. Additionally, it features a variety of customizable page layouts such as grid, list, or masonry. Once also features automatic AJAX fetching of next posts when a visitor scrolls all the way down the page, encouraging users to keep reading.

• WordPress
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This fantastic WordPress theme includes adaptive image sizes to help with loading speeds, free custom fonts, slide out menus and widgets on mobile screens, plus optimized code to keep your website loading even faster. Clean themes like Once are worth trying out.

15. Search and Go - Modern 2021 WordPress Directory Theme

Consider the Search and Go theme if you plan on launching a directory site in 2021. This minimal directory WordPress theme has powerful search options and clean design that allow your visitors to quickly find the listing they want.

Also, you can integrate Google Maps to show the location of places featured in your listing directory. Visitors can easily login using their Facebook or other social network account and you can offer custom pricing packages to charge for listing submission.

Find more great directory WordPress themes from ThemeForest: 

• WordPress Themes
  29+ Best WordPress Directory Themes to Make Business Websites (2021)
  Brenda Barron

16. Ratio - Beautiful Modern Architecture WordPress Theme

The Ratio theme has plenty to offer to any architect looking for a clean and modern WP theme to make their site in 2021. Several homepage layouts are available and you can add parallax effects to your slideshows to catch the visitor’s attention and highlight your recent projects. 

This is one of the modern WordPress themes like SquareSpace in style, but packs in so many more features and customizability. The theme also includes custom social sharing buttons and a place to include testimonials from your previous clients.

With a clean web page design and excellent features, Ratio is a top theme option available on ThemeForest.

17. Toro - Clean, Minimal WooCommerce Theme

Toro is a fantastic WordPress option for an eCommerce store that’s looking for a simple, minimal and of course, clean design aesthetic. Toro’s front-end builder, Elementor, makes it extremely easy to edit the theme to your liking and branding. The creators of Toro wanted to keep the experience of customization easy on for the owners as well:

"The goal was to design something that offers all the possible features you need to create your amazing website without having to add extra customization."

This clean and beautiful WordPress theme has many premade pages with a modern website layout, including 19+ homepage templates, 51+ mobile design layouts, and an additional 70+ ready-made design elements.

18. Overlap - High Performance Clean WordPress Theme for 2021

The modern Overlap WP theme not only looks good but it also comes with parallax backgrounds and extensive customization options on the page and post level. You'll be able to easily customize its modern website layout. This theme loads fast which means your portfolio will load instantly for your visitors. Also, each item will look great on mobile devices thanks to its responsive design. 

19. Sober - Beautiful Minimal WooCommerce WP Theme

Sober is a minimal and modern WooCommerce theme that can be used for digital stores, fashion stores, furniture stores or any other type of online store that wants to feature a clean look. It's one of the best clean responsive WordPress themes on ThemeForest. The theme’s features include:

• Mini cart
• Custom widgets
• Unlimited color schemes
• Slider with smooth transition effects
• Menu with multiple column styles and advanced widgets

This style of WordPress theme is similar to SquareSpace, but building your online store on WordPress in 2021 will give you much more customizability.

20. Anders - Clean Portfolio Theme

Anders is clean and light WordPress portfolio theme. Visually, Anders has a lively look and feel to it thanks to its use of colors, images, typography, and layout. For a clean and simple theme it has a playful, fun, and even vibrant personality. Moreover, this theme comes with over 12 creative and intriguing portfolio layouts which will impress and wow your visitors. Anders also features a wonderful blog and a shop to give your online portfolio a lot more functionality if you need it.

21. Grand News - Clean WordPress Magazine Theme for 2021

The Grand News theme lets you publish your magazine in style with multiple layouts designed specifically with news and editorial sites in mind. The simple WordPress theme also has a complete social media integration which makes it easier to share your stories and your readers can filter through posts with a little help from the filterable posts module. 

You can also share reviews, which is useful for tech sites that often showcase different products. The Grand News theme is fully customizable, mobile responsive, and optimized to load fast. Use it if you're looking for clean themes to quickly make a great news site in 2021.

22. Alia - Minimal Personal Blog

Up next we have the lovely Alia theme; perfect for personal bloggers who are looking for a clean and modern web page design that’s spacious, minimal and designed for reading longer content. Yes, it comes with all the features you’d need, such as GDPR compliance, retina readiness, mobile designs, and a live customizer. Above all, this clean WordPress theme has a super high customer rating on ThemeForest of 4.93/5 stars.

Here are a couple of happy reviews left by Alia’s customers:

"As a freelancer and an author this item is a very high quality of design and code, features are in place easy and clear, saved my time building blog for a client. What an amazing theme, absolutely loving it. Keei up up guys.""

"What I love about the Alia theme is that, it’s simple and clean, yet, still very attractive. Easy on the eye. Five stars for design, flexibility and customizability. Another 5 stars for customer support. They are a supportive, friendly bunch. I’m so happy and satisfied with this theme. Thank you, A-Works and more power!""

23. Gridlove - Grid Style WordPress Magazine Theme Design

The Gridlove WP theme allows you to share your news in a grid-based layout with the ability to highlight posts and widgets to encourage visitors to stay on your website longer. 

There are also plenty of places to insert third party ads and you can start building a community around your site through bbPress support. This simple WordPress theme is also translation-ready to allow you to publish your stories in any language you want. Accessible, contemporary WordPress themes like Gridlove are perfect for completing your online projects.

24. GrandPhotography - Clean WordPress Photography Theme

Consider the GrandPhotography theme for your photography website. It's one of the best clean responsive WordPress themes for photographers around. GrandPhotography has pre-built layouts that allow you to add slideshows, Ken Burns effects, video and parallax backgrounds, and much more to showcase your photography in style. Features include:

• 80+ templates for photo gallery & portfolio
• WooCommerce integration to sell your photography
• Password Protected Galleries so you can keep client images safe
• Photo Proofing so your clients can approve or reject their photos
• MailChimp integration
• Extensive Customization options

25. Arredo - Clean Furniture Store

Next, we have Arredo; a light, clean and beautiful eCommerce theme that’s perfect for sleek, high-end products such as selling furniture, clothing, accessories or home goods. Of course, this WordPress theme comes with an easy to use page builder and copious customization options. Arredo’s design has been optimized to highlight the beautiful style, and quality of your products and the pastel colors featured in the demo design are a wonderful touch of personality to such a simplistic WordPress theme.

26. Leona - Clean WordPress Theme for Writers and Authors

Get inspiration with this responsive WordPress theme. Leona is both clean and modern, which is everything an author or writer can ask for in 2021. Even though the written word is your domain, newcomers and fans alike will get a visual treat when they log onto your website.

This theme allows authors and writers to interact with a digital audience in a fresh, new way. Showcase your work, offer samples, post blog articles, sell books, and more with Leona. It's one of the best contemporary WordPress themes on ThemeForest.

27. Composer - Versatile and Simple 2021 WordPress Theme

How to make modern website with WordPress right starts with a pro theme design. Composer is a great choice for business or portfolio websites in 2021. It comes packed with features and premium plugins such as Visual Composer and Revolution Slider. 

This clean minimal WordPress theme includes unlimited header and footer combinations as well as complete control over your fonts and colors. The numerous amount of shortcodes allows you to add any element to your page quickly. On top of that, it’s fully responsive and integrates with MailChimp.

28. Miini - A Minimal WooCommerce Theme

Miini is a stunning minimal eCommerce store powered by WooCommerce. It’s an ideal theme for selling books, jewelry, furniture, home goods, accessories, women’s or men’s clothing, watches, and the like. The theme’s visual design is airy and fresh; it will work great for any high-end and luxury retailer.

This clean WordPress theme comes with eight homepage demos, customizable product pages, and Ajax cart functions. Additionally, Miini comes with the following features:

• WPML ready
• translation ready
• 5 preinstalled plugins including Elementor and Revolution Slider
• multiple shop category layouts: full, box and sidebar
• 100% responsive and mobile friendly
• and many more...

29. Adios - Sophisticated WordPress Theme for Creatives

The beautiful WordPress theme Adios offers a number of different homepage layouts, each of which have a sophisticated design that’s sure to put your projects into main focus. It comes with the Customizer framework that lets you preview the design changes in real time and includes 33 shortcodes for customizing the layout of your pages.

30. Proton - Simple Minimal Portfolio Theme for 2021

When you're looking for premium clean themes instead of free WordPress themes, simple is best. The simple Proton WordPress theme can be used for portfolios, agencies, or freelancer websites. The theme is fully responsive and offers a dark and a modern skin as well as parallax effects. You can customize every aspect of your website and take advantage of various portfolio layouts to showcase your work and stand out in 2021.

31. Raz - Clean, Minimal WooCommerce Theme

Raz is one of our great modern WordPress themes, and it's a minimal WooCommerce theme too. It features 14+ unique homepage designs as well as 10+ shop pages and 6+ product pages. All of the page designs put great focus on a simple design aesthetic that highlights the products on sale. The visual design of Raz is spacious and decluttered; hence, it’s a great contender for a clean looking online store.

Raz has put a lot of care into its mobile designs as well. The team behind this WordPress theme took the time to optimize the visual designs of its theme’s pages for an improved mobile experience. If many of your customers shop on their phones or tablets, this theme will take good care of them and help improve your mobile customer conversions.

32. Exeter Personal Portfolio Theme

Exeter may be a city in England, but what makes the beauty of this WordPress theme is understood globally. Creating a personal website and portfolio is quick and easy with Exeter. Find inspiration in this WordPress theme with its bold visual presence. Simply add your brand to the pre-designed pages for a unique look. There's even a shop function so you can showcase products in the light they deserve. This is one of the best modern WordPress themes, and it lets you have creative control of your site.

33. Conall - Clean Multipurpose WordPress Theme

To round out or list, we present Conall. This multipurpose theme is clean and modern, and it has a ton of personality. There are 12 homepages that you can customize so visitors can feel the inspiration of this responsive WordPress theme. And it's a very responsive theme under the hood, regardless of device size or screen type. The included custom shortcodes, widgets, contact forms, fonts, and more make this a very easy, and fun, WordPress theme to work with. 

34. Metro – Minimal WooCommerce WordPress Theme

Metro is an eCommerce WordPress theme with a stylish but clean visual design. The flow of the pages is smooth and easy-going for visitors. This modern website theme will work great for an online electronics shop, bookstore, boutique, and more. It features a broad range of pages and premium plugins. With more than 24 page elements, your site can look its best with little effort.

35. Minimal Portfolio - Arnold.

A list of the best clean responsive WordPress themes from ThemeForest wouldn't be complete without Arnold. Its clean web page design shines best as an online portfolio. Showcase your work with one of the eight premade layouts, or experiment with the custom portfolio builder. The clean and modern design of Arnold is eye-catching while letting the focus stay on your work.

Free WordPress Themes From ThemeForest

Premium WordPress templates are by far the best option for  your site, but it may not fit your current budget. If that's the case, there are some great free WordPress theme alternatives available on ThemeForest.

Every month ThemeForest offers a number of free premium WordPress themes. They're all easily customizable and come with the high quality that's expected in every other premium clean and modern WordPress theme. 

If a free download of a WordPress theme is all that's in your budget, check out what's available on ThemeForest. The links found in this section will let you see the latest free WordPress themes available.

When Should You Choose a Clean WordPress Theme?

How do you make a modern website with a great design quickly? It starts with the right website theme design and professional setup. 

A beautiful minimal WordPress theme with a clean site design is a great choice when you want to put your content first. It works well for anyone with a portfolio, but it’s also an excellent choice to consider if you're an author or freelance writer who wants to share their writing. 

Since clean website themes remove distractions, your content shines—allowing your customers to discover more about your work and to decide whether or not they want to work with you.

A clean modern WordPress theme like Arredo or Proton does exactly that; it puts the focus on presenting your best portfolio projects so you can impress new clients quickly.

However, creatives are not the only ones who can benefit from a clean theme. Online stores are the perfect candidate for a clean site theme, removing hurdles and helping visitors convert into paying customers. You can’t go wrong if you choose a theme like XStore or Sober.

More WordPress Themes Recommended by Tuts+

• Minimalist
  20+ Best Minimal WordPress Themes: With Simple, Elegant Designs
  Brenda Barron
• WordPress Themes
  Top 25 (Most Popular) Premium WordPress Themes of 2021
  Brenda Barron
• WordPress Themes
  25+ Simple WordPress Themes to Quickly Make Sites (2021)
  Brenda Barron
• WordPress Themes
  25 Best Agency WordPress Themes: For Creative Site Designs in 2021
  Brenda Barron

5 Common WordPress Questions (FAQ)

Choosing your WordPress theme is a great start to building your site. However, whether your a beginner or WordPress guru, you might still have questions about using the popular content management system. Thankfully, I've answered five common questions you might have.

1. Can I Duplicate Pages on My WordPress Site?

Duplicating your web pages is very simple, but you do need to download the Duplicate Post plugin. We walk you through it here if you don't know how to search for plugins and add them:

• WordPress
  How to Duplicate a Page in WordPress
  Adi Purdila

2. How Do I Keep My Site When I Switch Hosting Providers?

Some hosting providers can migrate your WordPress site for you with their built-in tools. If that's not possible, You'll need to do it manually. We've put together a tutorial to make this process easier:

• WordPress
  How to Migrate a WordPress Site
  Rachel McCollin

3. What Are Sidebars and How Can I Use Them?

Sidebars let you add information to your site without cluttering your pages. They're great if you have content you want to share without taking away from your main message to visitors. You can easily add a sidebar to your website:

• WordPress
  How to Add or Edit a Sidebar With Widgets in WordPress
  Jessica Thornsby

4. What's the Difference Between Front End and Back End?

The front end of a website is what visitors will see, while the back end allows you to manage your site.

As an administrator on WordPress, you have access to both views with the Admin Dashboard. All you need to do is log in:

• WordPress
  How to Login to Your WordPress Site Admin Dashboard
  Adi Purdila

5. Why Is My Website So Slow?

There could be many reasons for a slow WordPress website, from sizes to not caching site information. When your site starts running slowly, it's time to do some troubleshooting:

• WordPress
  WordPress Troubleshooting: How to Speed Up a Slow WordPress Site
  Kezz Bracey

Make a Modern Website Now (In 2021): With a Clean WordPress Theme

A clean minimal WordPress theme may features a minimal website aesthetic with a beautiful design. They're packed with features that allow you to make a modern, content-focused website that you can be proud of. 

Use our list as a starting point to find the perfect theme or check the full selection of clean, contemporary WordPress themes on ThemeForest. 

Editorial Note: Our staff updates this post regularly—adding the most popular WordPress themes with the best modern template designs.

Are you just getting started with Adobe XD, or looking for some tips and tricks to improve your skills? This collection of Adobe XD tutorials and free courses will show you how to use Adobe XD and how to make it your tool of choice for creating amazing UI designs.

Getting Started With Adobe XD

1. Adobe XD for Beginners

In this free Adobe XD course, instructor Adi Purdila will teach you how to use Adobe XD and all the essential features and techniques that someone should know. If you're just getting started with Adobe XD this should be your first stop.

Popular Adobe XD Tutorials

2. How to Create a Finance App UI Design in Adobe XD Tutorial

Once you finish the Adobe XD for beginners course, this might be a fun and creative way to learn Adobe XD tools.

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a finance app design, and (more importantly) how to easily animate parts of its UI. You will learn how to use Adobe XD's grid, how to save components, how to create a repeat grid and how to create interactive prototypes.

3. How to Create a Music Player App UI Design in Adobe XD Tutorial

Learn Adobe XD and test some of its features as you build this simple music player UI design. You will learn how to create your own mockup, how to create icons and set up a simple grid, how to save components, and how to create a repeat grid.

4. How to Create a Hotel Booking UI Design in Adobe XD Tutorial

Continue with this fun tutorial which will show you how to create a hotel booking app design. Being Adobe XD we’ll be able to build much more than just a static design; we’ll be building an interactive, animated prototype. To begin with we’ll walk through some common components of any hotel booking UI design.

5. How to Create a Resume CV Website Template in Adobe XD

Another fun way that you can use to learn Adobe XD is by using a resume website template. In this Adobe XD tutorial you’ll learn:

• how to easily animate elements
• how to mask and group objects
• how to animate horizontal and vertical scrolling
• how to save components
• how to create hover animations
• how to create interactive prototypes

If you're just getting started with Adobe XD, this tutorial will help you learn how to use Adobe XD and most of its features.

Popular Adobe XD Video Tutorials

This next section features a collection of Adobe XD video tutorials from the Envato Tuts+ YouTube channel, where you’ll find tutorials and free courses on all kinds of creative subjects.

6. How to Use 3D Transforms in Adobe XD

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to use 3D transforms in Adobe XD, a feature introduced at Adobe MAX in October 2020. 3D Transforms work harmoniously with auto-animate which opens the door for even more dynamic designs.

7. Better Design Systems With Adobe XD for Visual Studio Code

In this short Adobe XD tutorial, you will learn how to create Design System Packages (or DSPs) with Adobe XD and a new extension for Visual Studio Code.

8. How to Use Responsive Resize and Constraints in Adobe XD

In this Adobe XD screencast you can explore the responsive resize and constraints feature. These features allow real scaling of designs within Adobe XD, giving you genuinely responsive web design capabilities.

Popular Adobe XD Courses

9. Adobe XD Free Course: 15 Time-Saving Shortcuts for Adobe XD

Once you’ve become used to Adobe XD, you'll learn that keyboard shortcuts can considerably increase your work speed. This free Adobe XD course will show you 15 keyboard shortcuts to help you save time and be more efficient.

10. Adobe XD Free Course: Responsive Design

Want to learn how to use Adobe XD to make your design look good on any device? In this course, instructor Kezz Bracey will show you how to best use XD’s features to efficiently create responsive design mock-ups.

11. Adobe XD Free Course: Code-Friendly Design

Creating a great web design is one thing, but if you don't hand it off to a developer in the right way, it may not translate into code the way you expect it to. Fortunately, with a program like Adobe XD, you can make your web design work easy for developers to code. You can learn the full process in this free Adobe XD course.

12. Adobe XD Free Course: Icon Design

How about learning to design useful icons whilst learning how to use Adobe XD? In this short and free Adobe XD course, instructor Daniel White will show you the whole design process from start to finish, working through eight commonly used icons such as search, phone, pencil, cloud, and more.

13. Adobe XD Free Course : Adobe XD Auto-Animate

Auto-animate is a simple yet powerful feature in Adobe XD, which allows us to link together artboards in our prototype with beautiful, authentic animation. Learn how to use it in our short and free Adobe XD course.

Adobe XD vs Sketch vs Figma

Finally, you can learn about some of the alternatives that you have to Adobe XD. In such a volatile field it's important to stay informed and learn about apps that might work better for you.

14. Sketch vs. Adobe XD

In this short video, instructor Adi Purdila tries to answer a question that many designers ask: “Which is better, Sketch or Adobe XD?”.

15. Figma vs. Adobe XD

With the race between the Figma and Adobe XD getting much tighter, this tutorial goes through a deep and comprehensive comparison between these two applications.

Tutorials in the Wild

Learn from the rest of the XD community and Adobe Evangelists with these free tutorials:

• Designing a Portfolio Website in Adobe XD by Howard Pinsky
• How to Wireframe in Adobe XD by Howard Pinsky
• User Experience Design Course with Adobe XD by Daniel Scott
• Stacks & Omni-Directional Scrolling in Adobe XD by Dansky

Learn and Create With Envato

That concludes our list of free Adobe XD learning resources! Next, check out these collections of UI/UX Kits, compatible with Adobe XD, and all available with a single subscription to Envato Elements.

• Adobe XD
  15+ Adobe XD UI Kits for Your Next Project
  Aladin Bensassi
• UI Design
  15 Top Soft UI and Neumorphic UI Kits
  Eric Karkovack
• Figma
  21+ Best Premium UI Kits for Adobe XD and Figma
  Paula Borowska

It’s easy to see why both web and app designers have fallen in love with Figma. The web-based interface design tool lets you build, share and collaborate on interactive prototypes for your projects.

It also features plenty of ways to help you jumpstart the process. For instance, a Figma UI kit can be used to establish a consistent look right from the very beginning.

The right mobile UI design kit can save you a ton of time. Even better is that there is a huge selection available for download. This means that you’re likely to find several Figma UI kit examples that offer exactly what your project requires.

What’s more, these kits run the gamut of use cases. Use a Figma iOS UI kit or Android UI kit to get started on your next mobile app. Or find the perfect Bootstrap UI kit to craft a website prototype that utilizes Twitter’s popular front-end framework.

Today, we’ll introduce you to some of the top Figma UI kits to help you get your projects get off to a running start.

The Best Figma UI Kits on Envato Elements

Looking for the top Figma UI kits available? You’ll want to check out Envato Elements, part of the Envato marketplaces. Your subscription provides you with instant access to a growing library of 1,400+ Figma UI kits and a whole lot more. Check out our video of the top 10, or scroll further for a description of each UI kit:

Download These Outstanding Figma UI Kits

Now it’s time to browse some of the best Figma UI kits on the market. We’ve put together a list that covers a variety of styles and use cases. You’re sure to find one that suits your needs.

1. Marnie UI Kit

Do you want to build a modern eCommerce shopping app? This Figma iOS UI kit is a great option. Marnie is an elegant and clean e-commerce and clothing store app UI kit.  This Figma UI kit was designed specially to fit right into the new iOS. See some of its best features:

• 21+ highly-customizable vector screens
• 150+ elements
• Well layered and organized files
• Compatible with Sketch, Photoshop, XD & Figma

2. Prisma UI Kit

Prisma is a complete Figma iOS UI kit. The mobile UI design kit includes 70+ vector elements based on 7 categories: login and signup; walkthrough; navigation; profiles; articles; statistics and maps and tracking. 

This Figma wireframe kit was designed for iOS 12 and iPhone X. Other features include:

• 70 Premium iOS Screens
• 7 Most popular categories
• Fully layered and organized 
• Easy to change colors
• Well-documented help file
• Compatible with Sketch, XD and Figma

3. Storefront Android UI Kit

If you work with Android, we've also got Android UI kits. This Figma wireframe kit will help you build an e-commerce app. This Android UI kit includes:

• 4 Android templates
• 520+ icons
• Well organized files
• 100% vector
• 8 px Grid
• Pixel-Perfect Quality
• Compatible with Figma, Sketch and Adobe XD

4. Neumorphic UI Kit

Neumorphism has become one of the most popular design trends of 2021. This Figma UI kit offers 26 unique, customizable elements to help your project take advantage of the latest style. This mobile UI kit will be a great pick for any type of project that requires a contemporary feel.

5. Trainer Web UI Kit

Featuring a clean, modern design, Trainer Web UI Kit has been crafted with trainers, coaches and related businesses in mind. The included files are easy to customize and are well-organized. In addition, you’ll also have access to the free fonts used within the Figma desktop UI kit.

6. Shopper iOS UI Kit

Building an eCommerce mobile app? Use the Shopper iOS UI Kit to make it beautiful. This Figma iOS UI kit includes 520+ icons and premium templates for a number of recent iPhone models.

7. DarkDot - Wireframe UI Kit

Add the trendy “dark mode” to your project with DarkDot. This Figma wireframe kit is huge, with over 170 layouts to choose from. In addition, this is a Bootstrap UI kit that utilizes the framework’s famous 12-column grid.

8. Personal Portfolio Landing Page Template

Here’s a Figma desktop UI kit you can use to build a beautiful portfolio site. The package includes everything your landing page needs, including a hero image and other relevant sections. It also uses Google Fonts, making it easy to replicate the look on your own website.

9. Educational Web UI Kit

Online education is booming, and Educational Web UI Kit is here to help you take advantage. This Figma desktop UI kit offers a minimal design that looks great without overwhelming users. Plus, all elements can be customized to match your project’s needs.

10. Charts Android UI Kit

Add beautiful charts to your mobile app with this Android UI kit. There are a number of chart styles included that cover a variety of uses. You’ll also get 520+ icons and two premium Android templates.

11. Onboarding iOS UI Kit

The onboarding process for mobile apps is crucial. Onboarding iOS UI Kit has been crafted to make the process simple and beautiful. The Figma iOS UI kit includes six premium iOS templates, free fonts and will fit all iPhone models.

12. Dashboard For Invoice UI Kit Design

This beautiful dashboard Figma UI kit is perfect for building a customer account area for your website. There are plenty of components included, along with vector graphics. In addition, there are two design styles to choose from.

13. Tables Widgets Dashboard Ui Kit

Create stunning tables with this admin dashboard kit. Inside, you’ll find a dozen layout files that are easy to customize. Your tables will both look great and be easy for users to read.

14. Nuzie - Medical Ui Kits

Bring a modern design to your medical-related projects with Nuzie. This collection features dashboard components, plenty of icons and free fonts. The elements are Retina-ready and can be customized to match your color palette.

15. Orabel Web UI Kit

Looking for a Figma UI kit that offers something unique? Orabel Web UI Kit features a stunning, modern design for your web projects. It includes 23 layered page templates and utilizes a responsive grid layout. Also be sure to check out the companion mobile UI kit.

16. Fitness App UI Kit

Get your fitness app in tip-top shape with this lovely Figma UI kit. All elements are comprised of vector shapes and easy to customize. In addition, you’ll find the included assets are layered and nicely organized.

17. Cyane Teams UI Kit

Build a beautiful dashboard with this Figma desktop UI kit. With the included 16+ screens and 150+ premium elements, you’ll have everything you need to get up and running quickly. The vector layouts come in both dark and light styles.

18. Blog Template UI Kit

Use Blog Template UI Kit to create a stylish and easy-to-read blog. The kit includes lots of free fonts and icons, along with high-quality screen mockups. In all, it’s a complete Figma UI kit designed especially for bloggers.

19. Web UI Kit Business & Services

Make your business or service-related website shine with this Figma UI kit. The Figma desktop UI kit offers a minimalistic design and all the elements you’ll need to build a great-looking website. And, because each element is editable, you’ll be able to add your own personal touch with ease.

20. Sama - News & Events UI Kit

Sama is among the better UI kit examples for mobile news apps. Not only is it clean and attractive, but it also includes 16 screens. They cover common needs such as a user profiles, news articles and onboarding.

21. Merge Wireframing UI Kit

Designers looking to create wireframes will love the Merge Figma wireframe kit. Inside you’ll find a whopping 185 elements and components, along with 36 pre-designed examples. The kit also works with a number of different prototyping apps, including Figma.

22. Jazam - Social mobile app UI Kit

Jazam is a Figma iOS UI kit that is built with social app designers in mind. There are 30+ app screens included, optimized for the iPhone X. Other goodies include a style guide, along with typography and color palettes.

23. Atvantic - Music App Admin Dashboard UI Kit

Complete with a selection of 56 files, Atvantic is here to help you build the next hit music app. This Figma desktop UI kit utilizes Google’s Material Design and is Retina ready. A slick design and a huge selection of components make this kit a must-have.

24. MyTask - Task Management App UI Kit

Task management apps can be very useful. If you're planning to build one, take a look at this Figma iOS UI kit. MyTask is a mobile UI design kit easy to edit and customize. It comes with:

• 7 iOS Screens
• 100% color customizable
• Vector-based assets
• Free illustrations and vecor icons
• Well organized layers
• Compatibility with Figma, Adobe XD & Adobe Photoshop

25. Lesta - Real Estate UI Kit

Real estate businesses are moving to apps. And this Figma UI kit can work great for your next real estate app. This mobile UI design kit includes:

• 25 screens
• Vector-based elements
• Compatible with Sketch, Figma and Adobe XD 
• Organized files

Tips for Choosing and Making the Most of Your Figma UI Kit

1. Look for Icons That Fit Your Needs

Many Figma UI kits include a selection of icons – an important part of any app or website design. As such, look for icons that match the needs of your project. Sometimes, this may mean finding a niche UI kit. If that’s not available, you could go the completely opposite way by opting for something more generic.

2. Something Not Exactly Your Style? You Can Change It.

Figma utilizes vector graphics, which are incredibly easy to scale and edit. Thus, if an element isn’t the color or size you were hoping for, you can likely change as necessary. This opens up more possibilities when searching for a UI kit.

3. Don’t Be Afraid to Experiment and Extend Your Kit

Remember, Figma UI kits are there to help get your project started. But you don’t have to use any item as-is. Edit them to your liking or use them as a basis to go beyond what’s included in your chosen kit. Among Figma’s top features is the ability to create a design system–a UI kit can help you to establish one.

4. Find a Figma UI Kit That Fits Your Workflow

One of the great aspects of these UI kits is that many are built to work with other web and mobile technologies. For instance, if you develop Android or iOS apps, you’ll find that there is a wide array of Figma UI kits specifically designed for this purpose. The right kit will fit neatly into your workflow, rather than disrupt it.

5. UI Kits Are a Great Way to Learn Figma

While Figma is built to be user-friendly, there’s still a learning curve involved. One of the best ways to learn what the app can do is by exploring a UI kit. So, even if you’re not using a kit for a specific project, you can still download one, tear it apart and see what makes it tick. That can pay dividends later on as you do more with Figma.

Get Started With Figma Today

I hope you've the UI kit examples from Envato Elements I shared with you. Now, if you want to learn more about Figma and mobile UI design, check out our beginners’ tutorials and courses and improve your UI design skills right away.

• FREE
  UI Design
  Introduction to Figma
  Adi Purdila
• Figma
  4 Ways to Resize Elements in Figma
  Adi Purdila
• Figma
  Essential Figma Shortcuts for Working Efficiently
  Adi Purdila
• Figma
  A Quick Guide to Figma’s Image Fill Settings
  Adi Purdila
• Figma
  21+ Best Premium UI Kits for Adobe XD and Figma
  Paula Borowska
• Adobe XD
  Figma vs. Adobe XD in 2020
  Kezz Bracey
• Design Systems
  Creating a Figma Design System: Buttons, Links, Icons, and Images
  Adi Purdila
• Figma
  Creating a Figma Design System: Typography, Spacing, and Sizing
  Adi Purdila
• Figma
  Create a Shopping Cart Design with Figma Auto Layout
  Andrei Marius
• UX
  6 Figma Plugins to Give You Design Superpowers (And How to Use Them)
  Joanna Ngai

There’s a Figma UI Kit for Just About Every Need

Figma is revered for its flexibility, and UI kits are a big part of the app’s success. The right kit means not having to start your project from scratch. Instead, you’ll have access to the elements you need to do your job more efficiently.

The UI kit examples in this roundup are just a taste of what is possible with Figma. Regardless of what type of web or mobile application you’re building, you can do it better with a Figma UI kit.

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! Here’s a quick navigation menu for you.

What You’ll Learn In This JavaScript Weather API Tutorial:

1. Scaffolding the Weather App
   1. Find a Weather API
   2. What is OpenWeather?
   3. Where To Find Weather Icons and Weather UI Kits
2. Define the Page Markup
3. Specify Some Basic Styles
4. Set the Main Styles
5. Add the JavaScript

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 Weather 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. 

What is OpenWeather?

In our case, we’re going to use OpenWeatherMap, one of the most popular free choices. OpenWeather describes itself as a group of IT experts and data scientists that does deep weather data science since 2014. For each point on Earth, OpenWeather provides reliable historical, current and forecasted weather data via light-speed APIs.  

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.

Where To Find Weather Icons and Weather UI Kits 

Before we start with the weather API JavaScript code, we’ll need weather app 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. 

Now, if you’re a web designer or work on multiple web design projects, Envato Elements is the best option for you.

For a low monthly fee, this subscription-based marketplace gives you unlimited access to everything you’ll need for your projects.

Here we’ll review some top weather icon vector sets and weather UI kits. Keep browsing Envato Elements weather UI kit library for more! Note that you can also now find weather vector icons free on Elements. Check them out!

1. Weather Icons and Font

If you like simple weather app icons, these are for you. This weather icon vector set comes with 32 vector icons and a Forecast font. This complete weather icon vector set includes 32 SVG files as well as HTML and CSS references.

2. UICON Weather Icons

This weather icon vector set features a modern and fresh look. There are 12 weather app icons in two color versions. All weather icons are crafted in EPS with a minimal design.

3. Vector Weather Icons and Fonts

If you’re looking for a complete weather icon vector set, check this out. The weather app icons pack comes with 42 unique icons and one font. Weather icons come in AI, PSD and SVG formats.

4. Weather App Template

Now, if you’d like to build a weather app with a template, we’ve got this weather UI kit. You can edit your own weather app using this template in Photoshop, Illustrator and Adobe XD.

5. Weather Small Widget For Web or Mobile

This is another cool weather UI kit if you want to build a different weather app. This weather UI kit features a clean and minimal design. You can edit it using Sketch.

2. Define the Page Markup

Now that we’ve seen some top weather app icons, it’s time to build a weather website with JavaScript. 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>

3. Specify Some Basic Styles

With the markup for the weather 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 weather 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 weather 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 Weather 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:

Your Weather App Is Ready!

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 weather 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 weather 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!

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In this article, I'll show you how to use WordPress WooCommerce themes to build a high-quality website that doesn’t break the bank—as well as share some of my favorite themes. 

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Set Up a Store With a WooCommerce Clothing Theme

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Most templates come with page demos to show you a site may look. Take inspiration from there knowing that color schemes, fonts, page layouts, and many other features may be edited based on your needs. 

Top 18+ WooCommerce themes for Fashion and Clothing Stores 

Read on for my pick of some of the best fashion WooCommerce themes. 

1. Woncep—Fashion WooCommerce WordPress Theme

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6. Kapee—Fashion Store WooCommerce Theme

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7. Fashow—Minimal and Modern WooCommerce Fashion Theme

If stylish and simple is what you’re after then Fashow is a great choice. Scroll through the 15 demos and you’ll see how easy they are to navigate.

This WooCommerce theme for clothing also features a minimalist blog layout too which is a great way to not only tell the story around the business and products, but also build web traffic. 

8. Porto—Multipurpose and WooCommerce Theme

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9. GoodStore—WooCommerce Theme

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The first demo, called STYLE 1—default, features a large full-width header, a newsletter sign up bar, sale items, top-rated products, products reviews, and featured products. 

10. Kera—Fashion Elementor WooCommerce Theme

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It’s optimized for mobile and comes with Ajax live search for more user-friendly and interactive searches—a great way to improve the customer experience. 

11. WoodMart—Responsive WooCommerce WordPress Theme

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With a built-in wishlist to enable users to save their favored products, it has more than 60 demo layouts for customizing a theme to base on your needs. Users filter their searches via categories including color, price, and size. 

12. NexioFashion—WooCommerce Theme and RTL

If you’re looking for modern and cool, then Nexio is one of the best WooCommerce themes out there.

It’s linked to an Instagram shop that enables users to easily purchase, it comes with 14 header styles, a testimonials section, and the ability to pin the products that you don’t want visitors to miss. 

Head to the reviews section to see plenty of customers complimenting the WooCommerce clothing theme creators for customer support and design quality. 

13. AhaShop—Fashion Online Store WordPress Theme

Enter another simple yet super stylish WooCommerce clothing theme! It’s mobile-friendly and comes with many useful features including a contact form, a flexible slider, a newsletter subscribe form, and a product wish list.

With an average of five out of five stars, AhaShop is one of the best WooCommerce themes out there. 

14. APRIL—Fashion WooCommerce WordPress Theme

Designed with a seamless user experience in mind, APRIL is a WooCommerce clothing theme with everything you could need to create a successful online fashion and clothing store. 

It’s retina ready for sharp imagery, comes with more than ten demo homepages, 800+ Google fonts, and a smart megamenu.

Check out the demos to see the extent of customization—from a yoga template to cosmetics to jewelry—it would be simple to adapt APRIL to build your own unique fashion site. 

15. KuteShop—Fashion, Electronics. and Marketplace WooCommerce Theme (RTL Supported)

This WooCommerce clothing theme has been designed with eCommerce front and center—as you can see from the demos, products are organized simply via easy to access categories and as the user scrolls over a product, it automatically zooms so you can see in greater detail.

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16. Fashion—WooCommerce Responsive WordPress Theme

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17. Amely—Fashion Shop WordPress Theme for WooCommerce

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The Lookbook theme, for example, opts for full-width content blocks to quickly filter users to the right spot. Gutenberg-optimized, it couldn’t be easier to customize. 

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18. ZORKA—Wonderful Fashion WooCommerce Theme

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Shop Layout 01, for example, comes with three call-out boxes at the top to emphasize key information, i.e. free shipping worldwide, weekly giveaways, and upcoming sales.

It’s highly visual with an attractive email subscribe option. 

19. Eva—Fashion WooCommerce Theme

Eva screams high-end fashion magazine, so is a great option if you’re looking for a luxury WooCommerce theme for clothing. A full-width header introduces this demo, followed by content blocks signalling specific categories, and areas to signpost featured products. 

The Instagram section also works well as users can see a sample of the content before clicking through to the social media page. You can also check out the reviews to see many people voting five stars for design quality. 

Free WordPress eCommerce Themes

As you can see, there’s a huge variety of options at your fingertips when it comes to picking the best WooCommerce theme for your fashion and clothing store.

If you’d prefer, however, to keep the outlays right down or change your site as regularly as the seasons then you can pick a free template from WordPress.

Premium themes often come with greater features, functionality, and customization so make sure you make a decision that works best for you. 

20. LZ Fashion Ecommerce (Free WordPress Theme)

This free WooCommerce clothing theme has been designed for branded and local clothes, footwear, jewelry, cosmetics, accessories, watches, handbags in mind! It also comes with the option to design your own header and footer, where you can choose between a boxed and full-width layout as well as image, solid, or text background. 

21. Fashionable Store (Free WordPress Theme)

Fashionable Store comes with many of the features included within premium themes—including a large header at the top of the site, as well as being mobile-friendly, customization options including a slider with unlimited slides.

As you can see from the demo, you can also list featured products to hero must-see items. 

22. Open Shop (Free WordPress Theme)

With multiple widget options and layouts, this is one of the best free WordPress WooCommerce themes out there for customization.

It also comes with features including advanced product search, multiple hero slider layouts, a product carousel, an about us widget, and a product list layout.

The colors used in the demo opt for a vibrant green, but the palette is also simple to adapt based on requirements.  

23. Agency Ecommerce (Free WordPress Theme)

And last but not least is Agency Ecommerce, a free WooCommerce WordPress theme that’s simple in design and easy to edit.

It features include sticky sidebars, header navigation, a flexible header and footer, and a WooCommerce cart and checkout template. 

More WooCommerce Theme Inspiration

If you're looking for something a little different, try these other WooCommerce theme roundups and tips:

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There’s a WooCommerce clothing theme to suit every person’s taste, style, and budget.

Now you’ve seen some of our favorite free and premium options, hopefully you have a better idea of the sort of themes that are out there today. If you’d like to see the full collection, head to ThemeForest to scroll through the world’s largest collection of WordPress templates. 

Are there any other WooCommerce clothing themes that you think should have made the cut? Let us know in the comments below!

How you update a WordPress theme depends on whether you want to batch update multiple themes at once or just a single theme at a time, and whether your theme was purchased from a location such as ThemeForest / Envato Market or came from the free repositories.

In this tutorial we’ll learn how to update a theme in WordPress three different ways, so you’re all set for any of the aforementioned scenarios:

1. How to Update WordPress Themes via the Updates Page
2. How to Update a Theme in WordPress’ Themes Page
3. How to Update a WordPress Theme Through the Envato Market Plugin

1. How to Update WordPress Themes via the Updates Page

This is the best method to use if you need to batch update themes installed from the free repositories.

1. Go to the updates page either by clicking the update icon in the top toolbar, or going to Dashboard > Updates in the admin sidebar.
2. Scroll to the Themes section.
3. Check the box for the theme(s) you wish to update, or click the Select All box at the top:
4. Press the Update Themes button.

2. How to Update a Theme in WordPress’ Themes Page

This is the best method to use to update a single theme installed from the WordPress repositories.

1. Go to Appearance > Themes in the admin sidebar.
2. Locate the thumbnail of the theme you wish to update.
3. Click the Update Now link in the light colored banner at the top of the thumbnail.

3. How to Update a WordPress Theme Through the Envato Market Plugin

If your theme was purchased from ThemeForest / Envato Market, and the theme developer has added support, you can handle updates through the Envato Market plugin.

Full instructions for use can be found on the plugin’s information page, but in short the process is:

1. Install the plugin
2. Input your Envato API Personal Token in the plugin’s settings page so you can securely connect to the update server
3. When you want to update a theme, go to the plugin’s themes tab and click the Update Available button along the top of the theme’s thumbnail. Alternatively, once the Envato Market plugin is in place you can update purchased themes using either off the above two methods

Wrapping Up

So there you have it, three seamless and efficient methods that answer the question of “How to Update a Theme in WordPress?”

Remember to always keep your themes up to date to ensure you have the latest additions for both security and feature sets.

Learn WordPress Basics

We have all kinds of beginners tutorials for WordPress users right here on Tuts+:

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  What Is a WordPress Theme?
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• WordPress
  How to Launch a WordPress Site
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• WordPress
  What WordPress Theme Is That?
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• WordPress
  How to Change Your WordPress Theme
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• WordPress
  How to Back Up Your WordPress Site
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  How to Uninstall WordPress
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In this showcase, we review 25 popular themes that will work perfectly for factories and industries of all types. The theme designers and developers we feature have done an outstanding job serving and addressing the business needs of those industries, through beautiful and highly functional designs. 

We only feature themes that are packed with extensive features, are easy to set up, and will be easy to update and support.

Best Industry & Factory WordPress Themes Available on ThemeForest

Let’s dive into our list of premium themes available on ThemeForest right now, giving you the guarantee of quality, support, and continued updates (things you won’t necessarily get with free WordPress themes). 

ThemeForest is home to thousands of premium WordPress themes; drill down through the categories to find the niche you’re looking for (there are hundreds of industry WordPress themes alone):

We’ve listed 25 of our favorite factory WP themes. Check out the showcase below:

1. Amwerk - Industry WordPress Theme

We get started with the excellent Amwerk industrial factory business WordPress theme. It features a modern design with three full demo sites and seven different home page layouts. Amwerk supports popular plugins like WooCommerce for setting up shops and Contact Form 7 for communication with clients. The factory WP theme is also translation ready for better accessibility.

2. Nex - Factory Industrial Manufacturing

Nex calls itself the ultimate niche factory WordPress theme for a reason. It was designed with multiple industrial industries in mind. Nex even includes custom icons related to multiple industries, like construction, oil and gas, engineering, and more.

With key features like a drag-and-drop page builder, you can create a functional site in no time. Unlike many free WordPress themes for a manufacturing company found online, Nex also includes multiple stock photos that you can use.

3. Stål - Industry WordPress Theme

An industrial factory business WordPress theme like Stål shows that you can have form and function. The contemporary layout is easy on the eyes and easy for visitors to navigate. Setup is also easy, thanks to its Elementor page builder compatibility. With a wide range of home pages, shortcodes, headers, and more, Stål will let you build the perfect website for your company.

4. Dustrial - Factory & Industrial WordPress Theme

Dustrial is a clean-looking, mobile-friendly factory & industry WordPress theme that features Visual Composer, a powerful theme options panel and a wealth of customization facilities. 

With WooCommerce compatibility and support for WP Bakery Builder, Revolution Slider and the Contact Form 7 plugin, this theme will let you get up and running in almost no-time!

5. Zidex - Industrial & Factory WordPress Theme

Zidex is an industry and factory-oriented premium WordPress theme that comes with RTL support, exclusive and thematic demo designs alongside a demo importer. 

With modern and unique post styling and included page builders, you can hardly go wrong with this theme. It looks and performs better than many factory WordPress theme free downloads.

6. Enginir - Industrial & Engineering Multipurpose WordPress Theme

Enginir is another premium WordPress theme that's oriented at the industry and engineering niches and comes with highly customizable designs, easy to use and fully responsive layouts that let you set the theme up in only a few minutes. 

Pair that with its 7 unique demo designs and you have yourself an outstanding factory WP theme at a great price.

7. Solustrid - Factory & Industrial Business WordPress Theme

Solustrid is a factory & industry premium business WordPress theme that comes with a beautiful and bright design with outstanding typography choices. 

Its ready-to-use template blocks and the powerful customizer will work great alongside the easy installation process through the demo content wizard. Try Solustrid instead of free WordPress themes for a manufacturing company found online.

8. Factrie - Manufacturing & Industrial Factory WordPress Theme

Factrie is a manufacturing and engineering-oriented premium WordPress theme that has been meticulously designed to cater to the specific needs of the industry. With an intuitive and easy to use set-up process, a bunch of necessary features for a more prominent online presence and several premium plugins this factory WP theme is a great choice out of the box.

9. Industic - Factory and Manufacturing WordPress Theme

Industic is another responsive WordPress theme designed for factory and engineering industries and their specific needs. With specific corporate demo pages and a clean & modern layout - this theme will definitely help you pass along feelings of professionalism and trustworthiness.

10. Indofact - Industry and factory WordPress Theme

Indofact is another premium WordPress theme oriented at manufacturing and factory industries, designed for all sectors like the chemical, energy and gas. 

With a unique design that has specific traits unique to the niche, thematic color schemes and bold typography choices, this theme is definitely an option worth considering for your next redesign.

11. Induxo - Factory & Industrial WordPress Theme

Induxo is a clean and classy looking business WordPress theme oriented at industry services, factories, and the energy sector. The factory WP theme comes with 4 homepage variations, the Elementor builder and optimization for Gutenberg.

12. Industro - Industry & Factory WordPress Theme 

Industro is another premium industrial industry & factory WordPress theme in our showcase that has been specifically designed for sectors like heavy industry, factories and manufacturing, construction and engineering. 

Having been built with the latest web technologies in mind (Bootstrap, Sass and icon fonts), this theme will work great on all browsers and mobile devices. It's a nice alternative to a factory WordPress theme free download.

13. Heavy - Industrial WordPress Theme

Heavy Construction is a premium WordPress theme that has been designed for building companies and firms and similar related websites. 

The theme comes with 2 ready-made homepage designs and 13 pre-built detailed pages that offer an optimal way of presenting your content through the huge collection of custom shortcodes and premium plugins included.

14. Facdori - Factory and Industrial Business WordPress Theme

Facdori is another great factory and industry business WordPress theme that has been designed specifically for factories, machinery, and oil & gas businesses. Its quality is hard to match in an industrial theme for WordPress that's free.

With a drag-and-drop page builder which can be used to create and rearrange content easily, the theme can be easily set up through the available one-click installer that comes along with the theme files.

15. Kingstrox - Factory and Industrial Business WordPress Theme

Kingstrox is another great choice among our factory and industrial business themes that has been designed for a range of niches, including, but not limited to, the machinery, construction, commodity and oil & gas businesses. 

Not only big industries like those mentioned could make good use of Kingstrox, but smaller businesses as well. With the included demo content and the drag-and-drop page builder that comes preinstalled, this theme will suit a wide range of business needs. 

16. Factora - Factory, Industry Business WordPress Theme

Factora is a premium WordPress theme that has been designed for factory and industry businesses; and due to its extensive premium integrations and functionality, it will let you quickly set up and create a website just like the demos. 

With a drag-and-drop page builder that lets you create and rearrange content easily and 5 unique thematic homepages, it’s no longer a hard task to put together a beautiful yet functional website. Few free WordPress themes for a manufacturing company are this easy to use.

17. Oktan – Oil & Gas Industry WordPress Theme 

Oktan is a premium WordPress theme that targets the oil and gas industry markets, featuring the revolution slider, Unyson framework support, and a dynamic color picker. Pair that with a modern design and a fully responsive layout, the theme also has a responsive support team ready to help you out with any difficulties. 

18. Enduz - Factory and Industry WordPress Theme 

Enduz, another great choice featured in our showcase of premium industry and manufacturing WordPress theme comes packed with a drag-and-drop page builder, the Revolution Slider and included demo content.

With a one-click installation process and responsive & retina-ready layouts, the theme also features advanced typography options and compatibility with child themes and the Redux framework. It's hard to find such useful features in an industrial theme for WordPress that's free.

19. Screwer - Factory and Industrial WordPress Theme 

Screwer is another premium WordPress theme that has been specifically designed and developed with technical and machinery-oriented businesses’ needs in mind. 

With the 1170px grid at its foundation, the design is an elegant and modern interpretation, with a multitude of features and extensive functionality (included, but not limited to the Revolution Slider, a responsive layout design, custom blog templates and usage of the Bootstrap framework).

20. Factory Industrial 

Factory Industrial is a building and construction business WordPress theme that features over a dozen homepage layouts including 3 shop pages. With an ultra-responsive design, an advanced theme options panel and unlimited features - this theme will definitely be of help with its drag-and-drop page builder and stunning sliders.

21. Karkhana - Industry & Factory WordPress Theme 

Karkhana, another industrial industry & factory WordPress theme, is a great theme that comes with a powerful theme options panel and the Visual Composer. 

With a clean and modern unique design layout and a fully responsive structure, the theme also comes with the WpBakery page builder, cross-browser compatibility and the Bootstrap grid system laying at its foundation.

22. Industris - Factory & Business WordPress Theme 

Industris is another premium business WordPress theme that has been specifically designed for industries, factories, and construction-oriented businesses. 

With the Elementor drag-and-drop page builder and the Bootstrap framework at its foundation, this theme provides a high level of code quality and available 3rd party plugins that come along it.

23. Indext - Industrial Business WordPress Theme

Indext is a stunning professional and flexible premium WordPress theme that’s oriented to factory and manufacturing industries. With a responsive layout and the Elementor page builder included, the theme also comes along with a one-click demo import. It's a fresh 2021 addition to ThemeForest that's a top alternative to an industrial theme for WordPress that's free.

24. Enginery - Industrial & Engineering WP Theme

Joining ThemeForest in early 2021, Enginery applies modern web design principles to its look. It features large, contemporary fonts and cool overlapping images. The layout is suited for attracting leads this year, but it's also editable with the Elementor page builder. Enginery also features a responsive design so your website looks great on any screen.

25. Patrai Industry - Industrial Manufacturer

Patrai Industry WordPress theme is designed with multiple trades in mind. The multipurpose layout can suit industries like construction, manufacturing, aerospace, recycling, and many more. Along with its unique inner pages, enjoy features like:

• appointment and reservation forms
• drag-and-drop page builder
• multiple premium plugins
• 150+ shortcode elements

If you want a premium theme instead of a factory WordPress theme free download, have a look at Patrai Industry.

Find Free WordPress Themes for a Manufacturing Company From ThemeForest

Premium factory WP themes are the best options for your business because of their features and how easy they are to use. But premium doesn't fit every budget. Unfortunately, factory WordPress theme free downloads can lack useful features.

That's where ThemeForest comes in. Every month, you can find premium WordPress themes for free on the site. That means your site can have professional design and top features at no cost to you. How cool is that?

If you want to see if you can find an industrial theme for WordPress that's free on ThemeForest, click on any of the links in this section.

Key Things to Look Out for in a Premium Industrial Industry & Factory WordPress Theme

You've seen 25 excellent premium factory WP themes. But are you unsure which design you should choose? Before you make a decision, have a look at a few tips that'll make your choice easier:

• Robust and bold type choices that complement factories and general industry (due to the usage of such type choices on clothing, signs and other relevant visuals within the sector).
• Use of bright color choices for user-interface elements such as buttons, icons, and logotypes. Colors such as orange and yellow are also widely used within these industries and therefore their usage brings up memory patterns, that are a part of the color psychology realm.
• Relevant imagery and iconography that makes the design more visually appealing and interesting due to cues like suggestive icons which make boring industry-related websites more fun.

Learn More About WordPress and Web Design With Envato Tuts+

In 2021, learn how to create better websites with Envato Tuts+. Our talented instructors have written many useful WordPress and web design tutorials and courses that you can access. Anyone from beginners to experienced designers can find something new to learn from our platform. You can see a few of them below:

• WordPress
  WordPress Troubleshooting: Where Is php.ini?
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• Flexbox
  How to Build a Responsive Navigation Bar With Flexbox
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• WordPress
  How to Make a WordPress Website
  Rachel McCollin
• Email Design
  Creating a Simple Responsive HTML Email
  Nicole Merlin

If you're a visual learner, check out our YouTube channel! We have many video tutorials and guides that you can walk through alongside our instructors. Have a peek at what you can learn about web design from our channel:

Wrapping Up Our Industry and Factory Theme Showcase

This wraps up our compilation of premium industry and factory WordPress themes that we believe will work great for your new website or redesign. 

With beautiful typography pairings, outstanding color choices and extensive functionality, these themes were hand-picked and researched so that you don’t have to! Be sure to let us know in the comment section below which one is your favorite.

Editorial Note: Our staff updates this post regularly—adding (new) Industry Themes with the best, trending new designs.

Looking for cool fonts for web design or some new web fonts to use on your website? In this article, we’ll take a look at some serif web fonts, sans serif web fonts, and other stylish fonts you can use on your website today. Whether you’re looking for the best web body fonts or some of the best web fonts for headlines and titles, there’s plenty to check out.

What Are Web Fonts?

Web fonts are a lot like how they sound: they’re fonts you can use on your website. While we could call upon system fonts when designing our website, we can’t guarantee that they’ll be installed on every computer that views the site. Web fonts, on the other hand, rely on a font outside of the user’s system fonts. These fonts, instead, are uploaded to a host, like your website, or another place on the web.

Check out this video for a simple explanation.

Looking for the Best Web Fonts?

Finding the perfect font for your project can be a challenge. There are some free options out there, like the web fonts on offer over at Google Fonts, but repetition can be an issue. We don’t always want to use the same fonts as every other website. How about something different?

If you’re looking for premium fonts at a bargain price, check out Envato Elements. You get access to a huge library of thousands of fonts, all for one low fee. They’re licensed for professional, commercial use too. Unlimited downloads means you can download as many fonts as you want. Try a whole bunch and download to your heart’s content.

But Envato Elements is more than just an awesome collection of web fonts. It also includes graphic templates, stock photos, audio, WordPress templates, and much more. All of this awesome, professional content is included with unlimited downloads.

So why not download some new web fonts, a website template, a new business card design, and more? It’s all included, so you can download all the assets you need for your professional projects, without worrying about the price tag adding up.

Here’s a collection of some of the best web fonts over on Envato Elements. Consider downloading some of these fonts today.

1. NORTH - Display Typeface + Web Fonts

This stylish font comes in two widths that you can mix and match. This one is an especially strong choice for headlines and points of interest.

2. Orion Pro Typeface Web Fonts

Here’s an all-around strong choice, if you’re looking for versatile, cool fonts for web design. It works well for both body copy and larger text.

3. Nerve Pro Typeface Web Fonts

This thin, condensed typeface could be a great fit for your headlines. Use it to command attention in key places in your layout.

4. Kyrion Pro Typeface Web Fonts

This elegant, modern sans serif font is a great addition to anyone’s font library. It’s versatile and has a neutral feel that could work for so many projects.

5. Friary Pro Typeface Web Fonts

Like a typewriter look and feel? Then you might fancy serif web fonts like this one. Download this font today and give it a try on your website.

6. HAMLIN Minimal Geometric Typeface Web Fonts

The best web body fonts are going to be legible at smaller sizes, and this one could be a strong choice. This minimalist font also includes four different weights to try.

7. LORIN Modern Geometric Typeface Web Fonts

Love geometric fonts? Check out this stylish sans serif typeface. If you’re looking for sans serif web fonts, this one is an awesome choice. 

8. Billy Handwritten UX Typeface Web Fonts

Looking for a whimsical font with some hand-drawn flair? Check out this font. It’s friendly, informal, and could be a fun choice.

9. Morrobay Unique Typeface With Web Fonts

Here’s another stylish choice, if you’re looking for a sans serif typeface. Its subtle decorative elements work well in display type situations.

10. Jadrien Duo Font Pack

Looking for serif web fonts? Check this one out. This download is actually a font duo, so you get two fonts in one. Try out both the serif and sans serif font.

11. VISIA Pro - Elegant Geometric Typeface Web Fonts

When you’re looking for the best web body fonts, make sure to look for a font that is clean and legible at smaller sizes, like this one.

12. BERLIN - Minimal Sans-Serif Typeface Web Font

Here’s another excellent choice for web fonts, especially if you’re looking for versatility. This one could work great for your body copy and for your headers too.

13. Exensa Grotesk Sans Serif Typeface & Web Fonts

This sans serif font has a clean, modern neutrality that makes it a great choice for so many different projects. Try this one on your website today.

14. ORIGIN Modern Sans-Serif Typeface Web Fonts

Love a modern look? Then web fonts like this one might be right up your alley. Download this one today and try it out in a variety of situations.

15. ACCESS Modern Sans Serif Typeface Web Fonts

Check out the five different weights in this versatile font family. Mix and match these weights on your website to help establish hierarchy.

16. ARTICA - Display / Sans-Serif Typeface Web Font

Here’s a web font that’s an excellent choice for display type. Make your headers really stand out with this beautifully designed sans serif.

17. METZLER Minimal Sans-Serif Typeface Web Font

This font is an excellent addition to any font library. It works well as a staple font; it’s the kind of font you can return to again and again, due to its neutral, adaptable aesthetic.

18. Frank Font Family (Web Fonts)

Looking for an impressive font family that you’ll turn to again and again? Check out this collection of 20 fonts, with web fonts included. It’s a content-packed download.

19. Fervour Sans Typeface Web Fonts With 3 Weights

Three weights are included in this minimal font family. It’s a great choice if you’re looking for some of the best web body fonts to add to your library.

20. NOMA Sans Serif Font

Check out this bold font family. This one is a great choice as a display font and for points of interest. Remember, these font downloads aren’t just for web fonts. You get OTF files too!

21. Cleon Sans Web Font

Isn’t this a stylish sans serif font? The geometric influence makes it a modern choice if you’re looking for aesthetic fonts to use on your website.

22. Perkin | Duo Font Pack

This font duo is an excellent choice if you’re looking for a pair of web fonts. Use these stylish serif web fonts paired with the sans serif for a completed look.

23. ATHENA Typeface Serif Web Fonts

Speaking of serif web fonts, check out this awesome typeface. It’s bold, stylish, and memorable. Try it out on your website’s headers.

24. SUNN Serif Extended Font

If you love a hand-drawn look and feel, there are web fonts out there for you too. Check out this fun serif font. It could be a great fit for school websites, projects, and more.

25. Modernhead Serif Typeface Modern Web Font

There are three weights in this stylish font family. Aren’t the serifs in this font design interesting? It’s a great choice if you’re looking to deviate from the norm.

26. Sandover Serif Font Family

Serif web fonts can be a great choice if they best match your branding. Here’s one to consider. It has a classy look and feel, perfect for a sophisticated look.

27. Zayley Serif Regular Font

This slender, serif font has blockier serifs than some of the others we’ve taken a look at. This one is likely a stronger choice for display type. Try it out in your headers.

28. Hughe Serif Font Family

This is such a versatile font. Try this out in your web projects and print projects! It works well for body copy, headers, logos, and much more.

29. Immani Serif Font Family Pack

There’s a lot to love about this blocky serif font. Not only is it a bold, clean choice, but it also includes multilingual options, extended characters, and two different weights.

30. Pierson: An Essential Serif Typeface

Here’s another great choice if you’re looking for a solid, all-around typeface that can serve many purposes. Try this out in your web work and your print work too.

The Best Web Fonts From GraphicRiver

But maybe you’re not looking for access to an entire font library. Sometimes, we’re only looking to download one or two fonts. If that's the case, consider checking out GraphicRiver. There’s the same professional level of content, but everything is a la carte.

GraphicRiver is a great option if you want to keep things simple. One download, one fee. Choose from thousands of fonts created by professional designers from around the world. Find your next favorite font today!

Here are some of the best web fonts from GraphicRiver you can download right now.

1.Enuy Rounded Web Font

This rounded sans serif web font is a fun choice. Check it out at larger and smaller sizes too. It’s a highly legible font, making it suitable for a variety of type treatments.

2. Maleah Sans Serif 4 Font Family Pack

A classy font family with four different weights, this font download is an elegant choice for your next design project. Use these fonts for both web and print projects.

3. Gerald Sans Font Geometric Modern Typeface

If you’re looking for one font download with a lot of content, check this font out. This font family has eight different weights, and it’s a sleek, clean design.

4. Gerald Round Sans Font Geometric Elegant Soft Typeface

Love the previous font? Then you’re going to love its rounded cousin, right here. This design also includes web fonts, so you can use it in your next web project too.

5. Edina Sans Serif Minimal Typeface

Choose from five different styles in this elegant typeface. There’s even a fun outlined style to choose one, perfect for stand-out headers. Try this web font family today.

6. Enrique Sans Serif Font Family

This sans serif font has some stylish, rounded flair. Choose from three different weights: light, regular, and bold. Mix and match them in your next web project.

7. Ariona Simple and Clean Web Fonts

If simple, clean, and minimalist is your desired aesthetic, then these web fonts are a perfect choice. It has the perfect neutrality to pair with a variety of other fonts.

8. Myron Serif Typeface

This beautiful serif font is a wonderful choice for points of emphasis. You get fonts both for print and web in this download. Try this one out in a variety of design projects.

9. Aster Slab Serif Font Family

If you prefer a slab serif, check out this font family. Slabs can be a fun choice when looking for serif web fonts, especially for their bold, stand-out look.

10. Carra Serif Typeface

Here’s another fun serif font for your consideration. Try this one at large or smaller sizes too. It includes three different weights that you can mix and match.

11. Neuefay Sans Font

Some of the best web fonts are the clean, minimalist ones that can be used and paired in a variety of ways. Check out this one. It has plenty of versatile potential.

12. Zevida 4 Sans Serif Font Family

Check out this stylish sans serif font. This is an example of the thin weight, and there are four others to choose from. Check out the bolder variants as well.

Which Are Your Favorite Web Fonts?

So, what are some of your favorite web fonts? What do you look for when searching for the best web fonts for your design projects? The best web body fonts are often the most legible and readable for our audience. However, sometimes the best web fonts for headers and points of interest are more decorative and visually different.

If you’re looking to try out a whole collection of new web fonts today, remember to check out Envato Elements. Not only does it give you access to a huge library of thousands of fonts, including web fonts, but they’re licensed for commercial usage too.

Prefer single downloads? GraphicRiver has so many professional fonts to choose from. Remember to check out their stylish web fonts for even more inspiration and downloads.

Looking for even more font inspiration? Check out these font collections from Envato Tuts+.

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Every WordPress site needs a theme to pull content from the database and display that in a design. And theoretically you could run a site with just a theme and nothing else. But that site would be very limited without the addition of plugins.

Plugins add extra functionality to your WordPress site over and above what comes with WordPress core. Everything from a booking calendar or animated slider, to a full-featured learning management system or online marketplace—you can add them all to your site with plugins. 

In this guide, I’ll show you how to create your own WordPress plugin. I’ll show you how to use best practice in plugin development, how to get the code in your plugin to run, and how to structure your plugin’s code and files. I’ll also walk you through the process of creating your first plugin and answer some FAQs.

Free and Paid WordPress Plugins

If you want to add some specific features to your website, there are plenty of places you can buy or download plugins. The WordPress plugin directory includes thousands of free plugins that’ll help you create the site you need. But if you’re looking for more advanced features, a better user interface, or improved support, it’s worth buying premium plugins from authors on CodeCanyon.

But sometimes you might need to code your own plugin! This can be more efficient than using a third-party plugin, as you might only need a part of the code provided by those. It also means you can develop a plugin that meets your needs more precisely, or you can customize an existing plugin to adapt it for your site.

What Do You Need to Make a Plugin?

To build your own plugin and run it on your WordPress site, you’ll need:

• a code editor
• a development WordPress installation with a copy of your live site for testing

Don't test your plugin on your live site until you know it works!

If you don’t already have a local WordPress installation, follow our guide to copying your site to a local install. Or if you can’t install WordPress locally, use a duplicate of your site on a testing installation on your server. Find out how to copy your site.

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  How to Set Up a Killer WordPress Testing Environment Locally
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  How to Migrate a WordPress Site
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Types of WordPress Plugin

Plugins can carry out lots of tasks. What they all have in common is that they add extra functionality to your site. Types of WordPress plugin include:

• site maintenance plugins for things like security, performance, or backups
• marketing and sales plugins for things like SEO, social media, or eCommerce
• content plugins such as custom post types, widgets, shortcodes, forms, galleries, and video feeds
• API plugins that work with the WordPress REST API or pull in external content from services like Google Maps
• community plugins that add social networking features

…and lots more! For an idea of what plugins can do, check out the WordPress plugin directory and the CodeCanyon marketplace.

What Goes Into a Plugin? 

Before you get started building your plugin, it’s worth knowing what goes into a plugin. Exactly what the plugin code will look like will depend on your plugin: some are small, with just one plugin file, while others are massive, with multiple include files, scripts, stylesheets and template files. And there are plenty that fall somewhere in the middle.

The elements you’ll probably have in your plugin are:

• the main plugin file (this is essential)
• folders for different file types
• scripts
• stylesheets
• include files to organize the code

Let’s have a look at each of these.

The Main Plugin File

The main plugin file is essential. It will always be a PHP file, and it will always contain commented-out text that tells WordPress about your plugin.

Here’s an example, from the Akismet plugin:

<?php

/**

 * @package Akismet

 */

/*

Plugin Name: Akismet Anti-Spam

Plugin URI: https://akismet.com/

Description: Used by millions, Akismet is quite possibly the best way in the world to <strong>protect your blog from spam</strong>. It keeps your site protected even while you sleep. To get started: activate the Akismet plugin and then go to your Akismet Settings page to set up your API key.

Version: 4.1.7

Author: Automattic

Author URI: https://automattic.com/wordpress-plugins/

License: GPLv2 or later

Text Domain: akismet

*/

This tells WordPress what your plugin does, where to find out more about it, and who developed it. It also gives information about the version number and the text domain and path for internationalisation, as well as the license.

WordPress takes this information and uses it to populate the plugins screen in your site. Here’s how Akismet looks on that screen:

You can see that the information provided in the plugin file is used to populate this entry and provide links.

Other information about the plugin is contained in the README.txt file, which is used to populate the plugin's page in the plugin directory:

The main plugin file will also contain the code that makes the plugin run. Sometimes that will be all the PHP for the plugin, but for larger plugins, there’ll be calls to include files containing extra code. This helps you organize your code and means you don’t have one long disorganized file that’s difficult to work with. I’ll show you how to use include files later in this guide.

Folder Structure

While there are no hard and fast rules on how you organize the folders in your plugin, it makes sense to adopt the same structure that other plugin developers use. This will familiarize you with the way other plugins are built and mean that if you share your code in future, it will make sense to other people.

Folders in your plugin might include:

• css or styles for stylesheets
• scripts for JavaScript
• includes for include files
• templates for template files that your plugin outputs
• assets for media and other asset files
• i18n for internationalisation files

You might find you need to use more folders if your plugin is large or complex. For example, WooCommerce has folders for packages, sample data, and more. These in turn include subfolders for things like blocks and admin files.

Scripts and Stylesheets

If your plugin outputs content that needs styling, either in the front-end or in the admin screens, you may need stylesheets. And if your plugin will use scripts, you’ll need files for these.

It makes sense to keep these in their own folder, even if you only have one of each. You’ll need to enqueue these scripts and stylesheets using a dedicated function in your main plugin file. I’ll show you how to do this when we’re building the plugin.

Include Files

If your plugin needs organisation, you can do this by splitting your code into multiple files, called include files. You then put these files into their own folder and call them in your main plugin file using an include or require function.

This way, you can keep the bulk of your code in a well-organized file structure while your main plugin file remains lean and minimal.

If your plugin isn’t all that big, you don’t need to use include files: just add your code to the main plugin file. But you might find you need to organize this file and reorder functions within it as you add them, to maintain a logical structure.

These are the most common elements of a plugin. We’ve seen in the WooCommerce example that there can be many more. Or in smaller plugins there can be many fewer. But as you develop more plugins, you’ll find yourself using these elements more and more.

How to Run Your Plugin Code: Options

When you add code to your plugin, it won’t do anything until you activate it in some way. There are a few methods you can use to activate your code or pull in code from WordPress:

• functions
• action and filter hooks
• classes

Let’s take a look each of these.

Functions

Functions are the building blocks of WordPress code. They’re the easiest way to get started writing your own plugins and the quickest to code. You’ll find plenty of them in your themes' files too.

Each function will have its own name, followed by braces and the code inside those braces.

The code inside your plugin won’t run unless you call the function somehow. The simplest (but least flexible) way to do that is by directly calling the code in your theme or somewhere else in your plugin.

Here’s an example function:

tutsplus_myfunction {

// code goes here

}

To directly call that function in your theme, you’d simply type tutsplus_myfunction() in the place in your theme template files where you want it to run. Or you might add it somewhere in your plugin... but you’d also need to activate the code that calls it!

There are a few limitations to this:

• If the function does something that isn’t just adding content somewhere in a theme template file, you can’t activate it this way.
• If you want to call the function in multiple places, you’ll have to call it again and again.
• It can be hard to keep track of all the places you’ve manually called a function.

It’s much better practice to call functions by attaching them to a hook.

Action and Filter Hooks

By attaching your function to a hook, you run its code whenever that hook is fired. There are two types of hook: action hooks and filter hooks.

Action hooks are empty. When WordPress comes to them, it does nothing unless a function has been hooked to that hook.

Filter hooks contain code that will run unless there is a function hooked to that hook. If there is a function, it’ll run the code in that function instead. This means you can add default code to your plugin but override it in another plugin, or you can write a function that overrides default code that’s attached to a filter hook in WordPress itself.

Hooks are fired in three ways:

• By WordPress itself. The WordPress core code includes hundreds of hooks that fire at different times. Which one you hook your function to will depend on what your function does and when you want its code to run. You can find a list of WordPress hooks in the developer handbook.
• By your theme. Many themes include action and filter hooks that you can use to add extra content in key places in your website’s design. And all themes will include a wp_head and wp_footer hook. Combine these with conditional tags and you can run specific code on certain types of pages in your site.
• By your plugin or other plugins. You might add an action hook to your plugin and then add functions in your include files that attach code to that hook. Or you might write a filter hook and then have a function that overrides its contents under certain circumstances. Alternatively, if you’re creating a plugin to complement another plugin, you can hook your functions to the existing hook in the third-party plugin. I’ve done this with WooCommerce, for example, to customize what’s output on product pages.

Some of this is more advanced, but with your first plugin, you’ll probably be hooking your functions to an action or filter hook output by WordPress itself, most likely an action hook.

Classes

Classes are a way of coding more complex features such as widgets and customizer elements, that make use of the existing WordPress APIs. 

When you write a class in your plugin, you’ll probably be extending an existing class that’s coded into WordPress. This way, you can make use of the code provided by the class and tweak it to make it your own. An example would be the customizer, where you might write a class including a color picker, making use of the color picker UI that’s provided in the existing class for the customizer.

Using classes is more advanced than functions, and it’s unlikely you’ll do it in your first plugin. To find out more, see our guide to classes in WordPress.

If you do write classes, you’ll still have to use actions or filters to get them to run.

Plugin Best Practices

Before you start coding your plugin, it helps to understand best practices for plugins so your code can be high quality right from the start. 

These include:

• Write your code according to WordPress coding standards. If you want to submit your plugin to the plugin directory, you’ll have to do this.
• Use comments throughout your code so other people can work with it—and so you remember how your code works when you come back to it in the future.
• Name your functions, hooks, and classes using prefixes so they are unique to your plugin. You don’t want to give a function the same name as another function in a different plugin or in WordPress core.
• Organize your folders logically, and keep your code separated so other people can understand it and so you can add to it over time without it becoming a mess.

You might think that using best practice isn’t necessary because it’s just you working with the plugin. But your plugin might grow over time, you might let other people use it, or you might sell it. Or you might come back to it in two years and not be able to remember how the code is organized!

Creating Your First Plugin in 4 Steps

At last! You have a grounding in how plugins work, and it’s time to roll your sleeves up and create your first plugin. I’m going to take you through the process of creating a simple plugin that registers a custom post type.

This is a very common use of a plugin, and something you might then build on over time to add custom template files for your custom post type or other functionality.

I’ll show you the basic code for the plugin and give you an introduction to how you might add to it over time.

1. Create the Plugin Folder and File

Even if your plugin is starting out small with just one file, it’s good practice to give it its own folder. Start by creating a folder in your wp-content/plugins directory. Inside that, create a PHP file for your plugin.

Give them both a name that makes sense and includes a prefix. I’m calling my folder tutsplus-register-post-types and my file tutsplus-register-post-types.php.

Now open your plugin file and add the commented-out information at the top. You can take mine below and edit it to reflect the fact that this is your plugin, not mine.

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: Tuts+ Register Post Types

Plugin URI: https://tutsplus.com/

Description: Plugin to accompany tutsplus guide to creating plugins, registers a post type.

Version: 1.0

Author: Rachel McCollin

Author URI: https://rachelmccollin.com/

License: GPLv2 or later

Text Domain: tutsplus

*/

Now, if you save your file and go to the Plugins screen in your development site, you’ll see the plugin on the screen:

You can activate it if you want, but it won’t do anything yet because you haven’t added any code to it. Let’s do that.

2. Add Functions

Now it’s time to write the first function in our plugin. Start by making your plugin and adding the braces which will contain the code. Here’s mine:

function tutsplus_register_post_type() {

    // movies

    $labels = array( 

        'name' => __( 'Movies' , 'tutsplus' ),

        'singular_name' => __( 'Movie' , 'tutsplus' ),

        'add_new' => __( 'New Movie' , 'tutsplus' ),

        'add_new_item' => __( 'Add New Movie' , 'tutsplus' ),

        'edit_item' => __( 'Edit Movie' , 'tutsplus' ),

        'new_item' => __( 'New Movie' , 'tutsplus' ),

        'view_item' => __( 'View Movie' , 'tutsplus' ),

        'search_items' => __( 'Search Movies' , 'tutsplus' ),

        'not_found' =>  __( 'No Movies Found' , 'tutsplus' ),

        'not_found_in_trash' => __( 'No Movies found in Trash' , 'tutsplus' ),

    );

    $args = array(

        'labels' => $labels,

        'has_archive' => true,

        'public' => true,

        'hierarchical' => false,

        'supports' => array(

            'title', 

            'editor', 

            'excerpt', 

            'custom-fields', 

            'thumbnail',

            'page-attributes'

        ),

        'rewrite'   => array( 'slug' => 'movies' ),

        'show_in_rest' => true

    );

}

This includes all the labels and arguments for your post type and (crucially) the register_post_type() function which is provided by WordPress.

I’ve used movies as my post type here as I’m creating an imaginary movie review site. You might want to use something different.

Now, if you save your file and go back to your site, you’ll see that nothing has changed. That’s because you haven’t activated your code. The method we use to activate the function here is by hooking it to an action hook provided by WordPress, the init hook. When you use a function provided by WordPress (such as register_post_type), you’ll find that there’s a hook that you should use. You can find details in the WordPress handbook entry for registering custom post types.

So let’s add the hook. Under your code, and outside the braces, add this line:

add_action( 'init', 'tutsplus_register_post_type' );

We use the add_action() function to hook our code to an action hook, with two parameters: the name of the action hook and the name of our function.

Now try saving your files and going back to your site. You’ll see that the custom post type has been added to your admin menu (assuming you’ve activated the plugin).

Nice!

Now let’s add an extra function, to register a custom taxonomy. Below the code you’ve written so far, add this:

function tutsplus_register_taxonomy() {    
    // books
    $labels = array(
        'name' => __( 'Genres' , 'tutsplus' ),
        'singular_name' => __( 'Genre', 'tutsplus' ),
        'search_items' => __( 'Search Genres' , 'tutsplus' ),
        'all_items' => __( 'All Genres' , 'tutsplus' ),
        'edit_item' => __( 'Edit Genre' , 'tutsplus' ),
        'update_item' => __( 'Update Genres' , 'tutsplus' ),
        'add_new_item' => __( 'Add New Genre' , 'tutsplus' ),
        'new_item_name' => __( 'New Genre Name' , 'tutsplus' ),
        'menu_name' => __( 'Genres' , 'tutsplus' ),
    );
    $args = array(
        'labels' => $labels,
        'hierarchical' => true,
        'sort' => true,
        'args' => array( 'orderby' => 'term_order' ),
        'rewrite' => array( 'slug' => 'genres' ),
        'show_admin_column' => true,
        'show_in_rest' => true
    );
    register_taxonomy( 'tutsplus_genre', array( 'tutsplus_movie' ), $args);
}
add_action( 'init', 'tutsplus_register_taxonomy' );

Again, you might want to change the name of your custom taxonomy. Here, I’ve made the taxonomy apply to the post type I’ve just registered (the third parameter of the register_taxonomy function). If you gave your post type a different name, make sure to edit that bit.

Now save your file and take a look at your admin screens. When you hover over your post type in the admin menu, you’ll see the new taxonomy.

You now have a working plugin. Well done!

Let’s take a look at how you might add to it.

3. Enqueue Stylesheets and Scripts

If you need to use custom styling or scripts in your plugin, you could add them right into your plugin file—but that’s not best practice. Instead, you should create stylesheets and scripts as separate files in your plugin folder and enqueue those, using a function provided by WordPress.

Let’s imagine you want to add styling for your custom post type. You could add this to your theme, but you might want to add some specific styling to the plugin to make the post type stand out from other post types in any theme.

To do this, you create a new folder inside your plugin folder called css (or styles, it’s up to you). Inside that folder, create a stylesheet called style.css, or you can give it a more specific name for clarity. I’m going to call mine movies.css.

You then need to enqueue that file in your plugin so that it can be used by WordPress. Add this to your main plugin file, above the functions you already have. I like to add enqueuing and includes first in my plugin file so I can see what other files are being activated.

function tutsplus_movie_styles() {
    wp_enqueue_style( 'movies',  plugin_dir_url( __FILE__ ) . ‘/css/movies.css’ );                      
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', ‘tutsplus_movie_styles' );

If you save your file, you won’t see any difference in your admin screens—but if you’ve added posts of the custom post type and your stylesheet includes styling for them, you’ll now see that in the front-end of your site.

Note that the hook used for enqueuing both stylesheets and scripts is the same: they both use wp_enqueue_scripts. There isn’t a separate hook for styles.

Enqueuing scripts works in a very similar way. Follow these steps:

• Add a scripts or js folder to your plugin folder.
• Save your script files in that folder.
• Enqueue the script in the same way as the stylesheet above, replacing the wp_enqueue_style() function with wp_enqueue_script().

4. Using Include Files

Another option as you develop your plugin is to create extra PHP files, known as include files. If you have a lot of these, you might create multiple folders for different types of include file, or you might just create one folder called includes.

There are a few functions you can use to include files, which you’ll find in our comprehensive guide to including and requiring files.

• Creative Coding
  How to Include and Require Files and Templates in WordPress
  Tom McFarlin

For example, in our custom post type plugin, we might create some code to vary the way the content of the page is output, using the the_content filter hook to amend the code being run each time the content is output on a product page.

Instead of adding this code to the main plugin file, you could add it to a separate file called movie-content.php and then write the code in that file for the way the content is output for movies.

To include this file in your plugin, you add a folder called includes to your plugin, and then inside that folder you add the content-movie.php file.

To include that file in your plugin, you add this code at the beginning for the main plugin file:

include( plugin_dir_path( __FILE__ ) . ‘includes/movie-content.php' );

You don’t need to hook this to an action or filter hook—just use the include_once() function in your plugin file. That will then call the code from the include file as if it was in your main plugin file at that point.

How to Extend or Edit an Existing Plugin

Sometimes you might find a plugin in the plugin directory or from a plugin vendor that does most of what you need a plugin to do, but not quite all. Or you might be running a plugin and want to make some tweaks and customisations.

The fact that WordPress is open source makes this possible. You can take another plugin’s code and extend or edit it to make it work the way you want it to.

There are two ways to do this:

• Take an existing plugin and fork it—ie. edit it so it works differently, is more reliable or has extra features.
• Write your own plugin that extends the original plugin.

Taking an existing plugin and editing it is fairly straightforward: you make your own copy on a development site (never live!) and make edits to it as needed. Make sure you use version control to track your changes in case something goes wrong.

Extending a plugin by writing your own plugin is slightly more complicated, and won’t work with every plugin, but is a more robust way of doing things in my opinion.

Many of the most popular plugins will make extensive use of hooks and classes in their code. You can hook into action and filter hooks and extend classes to write your own code which uses the existing plugin’s code as a base but then adds to or edits it.

For example, WooCommerce has so many functions, hooks and classes that it has its own API and developer documentation. Each part of the WooCommerce system is powered by one or more of these functions, hooks, or classes. To make changes, you need to identify which code is driving the part of the system you want to change, and then write your own plugin which either attaches to the same hook(s) or extends the classes.

You’ll find you can create significant customizations to a plugin like WooCommerce in this way: I once used it to power a listings site that didn’t even include a checkout. I used hooks to remove all the elements I didn’t want and add new ones.

For some examples of how you can hook into WooCommerce and extend or edit it with your own plugin, see our guide to adding product descriptions to archive pages and to adding a product-based blog to your store. These examples scratch the surface of what you can achieve but give you an idea of how to start.

• WordPress
  WooCommerce: Adding the Product Short Description to Archive Pages
  Rachel McCollin
• WordPress
  Create a Blog for Each Category or Department in Your WooCommerce Store
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Taking It Further: Plugin Features

In this guide, I’ve shown you how plugins are coded and how to get started building a simple plugin.

Once you’ve got the hang of plugin development, you can build more complex and full-featured plugins to carry out more complex tasks on your site.

Let’s take a look at some examples.

Widget Plugins

Widget plugins involve working with classes but are a good introduction to the topic. Our guide to creating a widget plugin will help you do it.

• WordPress Widgets
  Creating Your Own Widgets Using Various WordPress APIs: Introduction
  Bonang Salemane

You can also find plenty of widget plugins on CodeCanyon, which will save you coding them yourself. In our blog, we’ve identified the best widget plugins for 2020, the best Facebook widgets, and the best Twitter widgets.

• WordPress
  Best WordPress Widgets for 2021
  Daniel Strongin

Shortcode Plugins

Creating a shortcode is a great place to start creating plugins as they’re relatively simple and very useful. Find out how to create them with our guide to coding shortcodes in WordPress.

• Plugins
  Getting Started With WordPress Shortcodes
  Rohan Mehta

CodeCanyon also has a bunch of useful shortcode plugins you can use to add extra functionality to your site.

Social Media Plugins

Social media plugins are incredibly popular as they let you display your Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram feed on your site and let your visitors share your content via their own social media accounts.

CodeCanyon has dozens of social media plugins. Learn about the best social media plugins and how to create an online community for your WordPress site.

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  Best WordPress Social Media Plugins of 2019
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  Create an Online Community for Your WordPress Site With UserPro
  Jessica Thornsby

Gallery and Media Plugins

If you want to optimize the media on your site and display galleries or video feeds, a plugin will make everything look more professional. Find out how to find the best gallery plugins for images or video and how to code your own gallery plugin. Or browse the professional gallery and video plugins on CodeCanyon.

• WordPress
  How to Find the Best WordPress Gallery Plugins for Images or Video
  Franc Lucas
• WordPress
  Create a WordPress Image Gallery: Code the Plugin
  Rachel McCollin

Form Plugins

Adding forms to your site lets your visitors get in touch and helps build a relationship. CodeCanyon has plenty of premium form plugins that will make it easy for your visitors to contact you. Learn how to create a form with the bestselling QuForm plugin.

• WordPress Plugins
  How to Create a Form With the Quform WordPress Plugin
  Daniel Strongin

FAQs

Here are the answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about WordPress plugins.

Why can’t I just add the code I need to my theme functions file?

It’s tempting to simply keep on adding code to the functions.php file, and there is some code that should be there.

But if your code is related to functionality in your site, rather than the design or the output of content, then you should code it into a plugin. This means that if you switch themes in the future, you still have that functionality. And you can use the plugin on another site running a different theme.

I’ve added code to my plugin. Why is nothing happening?

This is probably because you haven’t hooked your code to an action or filter hook. Until you do that, nothing will happen.

When I edit my plugin and check my site, I get a white screen. Help!

You’ve probably added some code that’s got an error in it somewhere. PHP is an unforgiving language, and this might be as minor as a semicolon in the wrong place.

Try turning on WP_DEBUG in your wp-config.php file, and you’ll see a message telling you where the error is. Then you can fix it.

• WordPress
  Fixing the WordPress White Screen of Death
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When I activate my plugin, I get an error message telling me too many headers have been output. What does this mean?

All this normally means is that there are too many empty lines in your plugin file. Go back and check there are no empty lines at the beginning of the file.

If that doesn’t fix it, try turning on WP_DEBUG.

Where can I find out more about developing plugins?

We have lots of tutorials and courses helping you to build all kinds of plugins here on Envato Tuts+. See if you can find anything that inspires you.

Where can I download plugins for my site?

You can choose from thousands of free plugins in the WordPress plugin directory. You can also buy third-party plugins from CodeCanyon. Always buy plugins from a reputable supplier so you can be sure they follow WordPress coding standards and don’t contain malicious code.

Summary

Plugins will turn your site from a simple blog into a powerful website that includes advanced features and is secure and robust. Try adding plugins to your site today and coding your own to see how you can use plugins to improve your WordPress site.

The Best WordPress Themes and Plugins on Envato Market

Explore thousands of the best WordPress themes ever created on ThemeForest and leading WordPress plugins on CodeCanyon. Purchase these high-quality WordPress themes and plugins and improve your website experience for you and your visitors. 

Here are a few of the best-selling and up-and-coming WordPress themes and plugins available for 2020.

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  31+ Best Responsive WordPress Themes (For Sites in 2021)
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  30 Best Coaching & Consulting WordPress Themes for 2021
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Spa and beauty salon websites need to have an attractive and inviting design that paints a perfect image of what clients can expect when they book an appointment. It’s that attractive design that will help you convert visitors into clients that will be more than happy to come back to your salon for another relaxing session.

The best spa and beauty salon WordPress themes include not only attractive designs but features like “menu cards” for the different options on offer, opening times, information about service providers, and high-quality photos. In short, they offer everything you need to create a successful online presence for your beauty or health based business.

What to Look for in a Quality Premium WordPress Theme?

If this is your first time shopping for a premium WordPress theme, I have a few tips for you. They will help you find the perfect theme for your spa or hair salon website.

1. Pick the Right Look and Feel

Although all premium WordPress themes are customizable, it’s a good idea to start with a theme that you’ll need to make the least amount of changes to. This way, your new spa website only needs you to pick the right colors, upload your logo, and paste in your copy.

2. Pick Suitable Features

Each business has unique needs. If your spa website needs to manage online appointments as well as be translation ready for your international locations, buy a spa theme that supports these features. It’s that simple. Pay for what you need and nothing more.

3. Stick to Niche Themes

Sticking to niche-specific themes such as spa themes or hair salon themes is highly beneficial. These themes include plugins, features, and optimizations crafted specifically for that niche. You’re in the right place! 

Best Spa and Beauty Salon WordPress Themes on ThemeForest (2021)

In this curated selection, we’re featuring the best beauty and salon WordPress themes for 2021 that can be used for hair salons, barber shops, yoga websites, and any other type of website in the beauty and wellness niche. Browse through these beautiful designs to find just the right one for your business website.

1. Chérie - Beauty Salon WordPress Theme

Chérie is a new, professional and complete WordPress Theme. This is one of the best hair salon WordPress themes we've got. Chérie has four beautiful, ready-to-use demos: beauty, hair, nail and spa website. Check them out here. 

Beauty salon websites themes are designed with business goals in mind. It features WooCommerce integration and you don't need coding knowledge. See what user cettinanardulli says about this five-stars rated spa theme:

Support has been AMAZING so far! Extremely responsive to multiple inquiries within a day. I also love how easy it is to customize with Elementor and the overall aesthetic of the theme.

2. Curly - A Stylish Theme for Hairdressers and Hair Salons

Searching for top hair salon websites? Curly is a well-praised hair salon WordPress theme that you ought to check out. It’s a theme made to impress with its stunning and creative hair salon web design. It comes with a selection of premade layouts and demos that are easy to customize so you can make this theme into a hair salon website of your dream. Noteworthy features include:

• Revolution Slider
• WPBakery Page Builder Plugin
• One-click data import
• Responsive & Retina Ready
• Extensive Admin Interface
• WPML Plugin compatible
• Smooth Scrolling

Curly’s customers are leaving it many 5-star reviews in which they praise the theme’s design and customer service.

“I am giving this product a 5 star rating. The template is absolutely stunning and functional. Support is absolutely amazing. They provide prompt responses with detailed screenshots. I am so happy I decided to make this purchase and will definitely use Mikado Themes in the future.”

3. Grand Spa Beauty Massage WordPress Theme

Looking for modern spa themes? The Grand Spa Beauty Massage WordPress Theme is very image focused which helps paint a clear picture of the experience patrons can expect from visiting your spa or salon.

This is a massive theme coming with over forty premade layouts and pages. It's one of the best spa websites we've got. It includes online booking, reservations and payment functionality. Visitors can pay with their credit cards or PayPal and even use a discount code if you’re planning on running any promotions. Grand Spa comes with a variety of sections such as locations, pricing tables, packages, and more.

4. Aqua - Spa and Beauty Responsive WooCommerce WordPress Theme

Up next we have Aqua, a WordPress theme specially designed for spa and beauty websites. It features a minimalist design that will also suit hair salons or barbershops. And, it comes with many premium features:

• reservation management
• online shop
• multiple unique design samples
• spa services menu
• wellness classes schedule
• responsive design

Aqua is one of the top spa themes. It's been purchased by almost 1,500 people who have given this theme a 4.4-star rating.

5. Jacqueline - Beautiful Spa and Massage Salon WordPress ThemeWP Theme

The Jacqueline salon WordPress theme offers a beautiful design that stands out in 2021. It’s design is complemented with powerful features that allow you to create stunning page layouts. 

With this theme, you can quickly customize every aspect of your site, accept online bookings, and even sell beauty related products straight from your website. It comes with several pre-built page templates as well as complete Visual Builder integration for endless layout customizations. 

6. Therma - Spa, Beauty, Cosmetic WordPress Theme

Therma’s various customization features will work for many different types of spa or beauty salon websites. Off the bat, Therma comes with ten different service pages and four different blog page designs that are adaptable to a variety of business needs.

This spa theme's overall design aesthetic is modern, light, and clean. So far, buyers are leaving great reviews for this beauty salon theme, including this one:

Great design and excellent customer support. Very fast and responsive. Highly recommend

7. Beauty Hair Salon - Service Salon WordPress Theme

If you’re looking for the best hair salon WordPress themes, consider the Beauty Hair Salon theme. It features a nice hair salon web design and it's perfect for anyone who provides not only hairdressing but also offers manicures, makeup, pedicures, and other related services. 

This beauty theme WordPress comes with custom booking solutions, an area for reviews and FAQs, and pages where you can present your packages or offer discounts and coupons to your customers.

8. Edema - Wellness Spa WordPress Theme

What makes Edema one of the best spa WordPress themes? For starters, it’s a highly diverse theme with a large selection of features. By purchasing a premium WordPress beauty salon theme, you’ll get a professional set of features that are regularly kept up to date. Some of the key features include:

• Online appointments booking & management
• Advanced contact & booking forms
• Full WooCommerce store compatibility
• Premade price tables, services, products & shortcodes
• Mobile device optimization
• Powerful admin interface

On top of all of those great futures, it’s hard to miss the fact that Edema’s visual design is beautiful. If you’re looking to create stunning beauty salon websites or the best spa website, Edema’s visual design is going to be hard to beat!

9. BeautyPack - Elegant WordPress Theme for Beauty Businesses

Consider the BeautyPack WP theme if you want an elegant and versatile design that’s suitable for a variety of beauty niches. You can choose between layouts for massage therapy, beauty salons, wellness centers, spa salon, yoga studios, nail salons, and many more. 

This wellness WordPress theme is freshly designed. It has a booking system built-in and allows your clients to easily book their treatments online. It’s also ready for translations and optimized for search engines.

10. Helen Spa - Beauty & Wellness Theme

Helen’s Spa is a wonderful beauty salon WordPress theme that’s quickly customizable whatever your business needs may be. It’s a great theme that will work for spas, beauty parlors, hair salons, and the like. One of its great assets includes the variety of designs included in Helen’s Spa, such as blog and portfolio designs or header designs homepage.

All the theme settings can be managed from a single location. And, you can customize colors, fonts, header styles, icons, and so much more. Here’s what one happy customer had to say about it:

The theme is superb and very easy to use. The documentation is the same!

11. BeautySpot - WordPress Theme for Beauty Salons

Do you need to build hair salon websites? BeautySpot is a flexible WordPress theme that’s ideal for beauty or hair salons, wellness, or spa websites. It comes with a variety of different customization options and premium features including:

• WPBakery Page Builder
• Support for RTL languages
• Elementor plugin
• Inner pages such as people, FAQ, services or testimonials
• Mobile-friendly design
• Modular post types

As you can see, customizing BeautySpot to meet your business’ needs and brand requirements is easy. There are many different features and functionalities that you can leverage for your spa or salon website. No doubt, it's one of the best hair salon WordPress themes.

12. Lemon - Multipurpose Salon and Spa WordPress Theme

The Lemon Spa and Beauty WordPress theme is a great choice for yoga business and spa centers that want a modern online presence in 2021. 

The WP theme comes with several premade layouts, which can be imported with one-click and you can further customize them with the included Visual Composer page builder. 

Make your spa or salon website quickly with this versatile theme. It also includes the Revolution Slider and a powerful theme options panel so you can customize fonts, colors, and much more. 

13. Hermosa - Health, Beauty and Yoga WordPress Theme

The Hermosa theme is updated with fresh design features for 2021. It's made exclusively for yoga, fitness, wellness, and beauty websites. The theme integrates perfectly with MindBody and comes with pricing tables, class schedules, custom post types for classes, events, trainers, testimonials, and more. You can also sell fitness and beauty products thanks to WooCommerce integration.

14. Beauty Press - Beauty Salon Spa WordPress Theme

Beauty Press is a well-regarded WordPress theme for spa, hair salons, and beauty salon websites. It comes with five premade design layouts, which you can effortlessly edit and customize to make your own thanks to the included Elementor plugin. Additionally, this spa theme is well known for its ease of use and diverse functionality.

Customers who have purchased Beauty Press in the past all say great things. No wonder Beauty Press will make you the best spa website possible.

Great template with user friendly designs & features.

Extremely well crafted word press theme, great features, clean, fast and modern design, and great support team.

Beautiful theme for beauty and health business. I also want to mention the good work of the service - they solve the problems promptly and clear.

15. Holistic Center - Clean WordPress Wellness and Spa Theme

If you run a retreat or wellness center consider the using the Holistic Center WordPress theme. It’s made with a clean and elegant design and offers plenty of features to showcase events, master classes, and sell wellness related products. Some of the key features include:

• Visual Composer support – create unlimited variants of Homepage Layouts
• Different Header Styles
• Multi-Functional User Panel
• Shortcode Builder
• Custom Theme Options Panel
• WooCommerce ready
• Optimized for best performance
• Interactive Ajax Search mechanism

The theme also includes detailed documentation for an easy and guided setup process. You can give your wellness retreat or exclusive spa a great website design painlessly. 

16. Rela Spa - Massage Salon WordPress Theme

You don’t have to look much further than Rela Spa as it’s a fantastic WordPress spa theme. It was created specifically for the spa niche meaning all its functionality, features, and designs have been specifically tailored and optimized for a spa website. However, it can easily be adapted to related fields such as beauty salon websites.

What’s more, Rela is a fully responsive theme that’s also optimized for mobile browsing. That means all of your visitors checking out your spa on their phones will be significantly more pleased with the website experience your business is providing for them.

17. Labore - Spa & Beauty WordPress Theme

Although it’s newly released, Labore is easily one of the best spa and beauty websites and WordPress themes to check out! That’s because this spa theme is well optimized for improved user/visitor experiences. This includes a fully responsive design, cross-browser optimization and W3C validation.

Not to mention, Labore has a light and modern design look that’s ideal for any spa or beauty business. You can quickly create new pages and customize the colors or typography to match your branding with ease.

18. Depilex Salon - Flexible WordPress Theme for Spa Websites

The Depilex theme comes with all the necessary features needed to create a stunning spa, gym, or wellness WordPress website. It’s also easy to use and customize which is just one of the reasons why our customers love it:

This is an awesome theme! Simple to install – it literally took just around 10 minutes to have the site up and running exactly the same as the live preview. It’s fast, looks great, responsive and there are so many customization options which are simple and intuitive to use. And the drag and drop page builder option is just amazing. Thanks!!

19. Neo Salon - Trendy Website Salon WordPress Theme

The Neo Salon WP theme comes with four premade layouts suitable for all beauty and salon business websites. Some of the key features include:

• Testimonial Carousel
• Two Type of Contact form
• 10 different color scheme’s
• 50+ shortcodes
• Fully documented
• Crossbrowser Compatible
• Google Map easy to setup
• Parallax Backgrounds
• Sticky Menus

You can accept bookings and sell products straight from your website. Also, rest assured that your website will look great in 2021 no matter which device your visitors are using.

20. Salon - Classy Beauty Salon & Spa WordPress Theme

You can find free WordPress themes for making beauty salon websites online, but the code and feature quality can be questionable. Use this Premium Salon WP theme if you’re on the lookout for a pro template that’s perfect for a landing page that has all the information about your beauty business in one place. 

You can share brief information about your business, showcase testimonials and price lists and give your visitors an easy way to book appointments or get in touch with you. It features a complete hair salon web design.

Along with hundreds of Google Fonts, Revolution Slider integration, and tons of customization features, this fresh Salon WordPress theme has everything you need to quickly launch your beauty website with a professional design!

21. Oaza - Elegant Spa and Wellness Theme

Oaza is an excellent choice for any spa, beauty, or wellness business that wants to sell their products, show off their services, and book new clients. This spa theme is jam-packed with premium features that will allow you to create the most fantastic website for your business. Some of those features include:

• WooCommerce compatibility
• Extensive custom shortcode collection
• Responsive and retina ready
• Parallax sections
• Social sharing widgets
• Integrated Search
• 7 amazing font icon sets
• Translation ready

22. Sana - Fashion Stylist, Beauty Salon and Makeup Artist WordPress Theme

The Sana WordPress theme is an excellent beauty salon theme; it will undoubtedly make amazing spa websites too. It comes with WooCommerce integrations which means that in addition to featuring all of your services you can sell your products as well.

Additionally, the theme comes with everything you might need to make the most of your new spa or beauty salon website. It includes professionally designed homepage layouts, premium plugins, SEO optimization, and cross-browser compatibility.

It’s a stunning theme, and easy to navigate and customize. This 5-stars definitely goes to the customer support though, who are SUPER responsive, patient, and helpful! They went above and beyond to help me out to make my website perfect.

23. Lirena - Beauty and Spa Salon WordPress Theme

The Lirena beauty salon and spa theme features a light and feminine visual design. It includes Elementor which means creating pages, and editing content is going to be extremely easy for you.

Aside from the ability to book appointments and display your services, this WordPress theme is also capable of selling products through its WooCommerce integration. Talk about a powerful website that will work for you night and day!

24. Eller - Elegant Spa & Wellness WordPress Theme

This spa theme features a clean, modern, and highly intuitive design that’s going to wow and impress your clients. Without a doubt, it’s a beautiful WordPress theme fit for spa or beauty salon websites. Eller is fully responsive, making browsing, for your clients, on any device a delight.

Some of its noteworthy features include WPBakery Page Builder/Visual Composer, one-click install, WPML, RTL, translation ready, various layout options and lifetime theme updates.

25. Roxxe - Beauty Salon WooCommerce Theme

If you're always looking for the best salon WordPress themes, you'll like Roxxe. It's one of our newest beauty salon websites themes.

This WordPress theme has complete integration with WooCommerce, so you can sell your products. This theme is built with Elementor and comes with top-quality widgets.

This is one of our best salon WordPress themes, with a five-stars rating. User Sinolla says:

Great Theme! I was able to set up a good running store in a short time & will suggest this theme to future customers.

5 Free Beauty Salon Website Themes to Download in 2021

Now, you've seen our best hair salon WordPress themes from ThemeForest, our single purchase marketplace. You'll love our premium themes that are professionally designed and fully customizable. 

But if the budget is tight and you can't spend on the best salon WordPress themes, you can still get a functional spa website design. I’ll show you some free beauty WordPress themes.

Also, remember you can check our other amazing free WordPress themes on Themeforest, which change every month. 

1. Blossom Beauty Free Beauty Salon Website Theme

Use this free beauty WordPress theme to create a visually attractive and modern salon and spa website design without writing any code. One cool thing about this free WordPress theme is that it includes a built-in customizer to help you customize your website with live preview.

2. Spa Lite Free Spa Website Theme

Check this free beauty WordPress theme to get more spa website design inspiration. Free spa themes like this feature a minimalist and attractive design to attract your customers. This one is compatible with Visual Composer (WP Bakery), Elementor, Beaver and other page builders as well as WooCommerce.

3. Beauty Studio Free Beauty Salon Website Theme

Looking for the best hair salon WordPress themes for free? This one could work for you. This free beauty WordPress is user-friendly and anyone can customize it without coding knowledge. The free theme also works with WooCommerce to create an online store.

4. Blossom Spa Free Spa Website Theme

This is another free beauty WordPress theme with a fantastic spa website design. It's fully responsive and mobile friendly, so you can make a fully functional and professional website for your business.

5. Spa and Salon Free Spa Website Theme

This is a popular free beauty WordPress theme. It features an elegant and clean spa website design. This free theme includes a custom menu, an attractive banner with a Call to Action button, service section, testimonial section and more!

How to Book More Clients With Your Beauty WordPress Website

Once you find the perfect beauty theme for your WordPress website, you should spend some time making sure to implement the features that will help you book more clients. Here are a few tips to get you started right:

1. Show the List of Your Services

Before potential clients make the decision to book an appointment, they want to know you provide the service they are interested in. List the services you offer and consider including a price range so all they have to do is choose the right package and make the appointment. Themes like Sana and Salon make it easy to add your services and various packages.

2. Include a Call to Action

A prominent call to action button is a great way to give your visitors the final push they need to book an appointment. Make sure it stands out from the rest of your website with a contrasting color and action words.

3. Use a Booking Plugin

A booking plugin such as the one found in the BeautyPack theme makes it easy to accept bookings directly on your site without visitors having to call your number or email you. Along with a calendar of timeslots that you have available, they will be able to find an open time that works with their schedule, making them more inclined to schedule the appointment.

4. Provide an FAQ Section

In some cases, your visitors might have questions about the products you use, the duration of the treatment, and more. If they can’t find the answers, chances are they will hesitate to go ahead with the reservation. Avoid this by putting together a page that addresses their concerns and gives them an answer to the questions they have.

5. Make it Easy to Contact You

While online booking systems can greatly reduce the need to call you, your visitors still want to know they can contact you in case they need to reschedule their appointment for a different time. Make it easy to get in touch with you and consider including a map of your location like in the NEO Salon theme so they can easily get directions to your spa or salon.

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Beautify Your Salon and Spa WordPress Site

Whether you want to refresh the design of your website in 2021 or you’re just preparing for its launch, this collection of Wordpress Beauty themes has everything you need for making your beauty and spa website. Use it to find the perfect theme design for your site and start booking more clients ASAP.

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

Do you want to turn boring data into visually stimulating charts that will engage your website visitors? 

Some things can be communicated better using charts. And how do you build charts in a way that saves you time to focus on running your business?

This is where chart plugins for WordPress and WooCommerce come in. They help you turn data into interactive charts. On CodeCanyon you will find chart plugins that will help you build visually engaging charts so you can share information easily. 

Best-Selling Chart Plugins on CodeCanyon

With a one-time payment, you can purchase these high-quality WordPress chart plugins and improve how visitors engage with data on your website.

Here are some of the weekly best-selling chart plugins for WooCommerce and WordPress on CodeCanyon for 2021.

There are several advantages to using chart plugins:

• all resources you need to build your charts are collected in one place: spreadsheet editor, chart editors, table editors, chart rendering engines, chart layouts and more
• as your data changes you can keep your charts up to date
• you have access to tools that can make your charts interactive

Best Chart Plugins for WordPress

Let's have a look at some of the popular chart plugins available on CodeCanyon.

1. wpDataTables

You can't go wrong with a bestselling WordPress plugin like wpDataTables—trusted by over 21,000 companies and individuals. This chart, tables and spreadsheet management plugin will help you build tables and charts from various data sources including Excel, Google spreadsheets and more.

Your charts are built using tables you have as data source or you can build charts using a wizard. There is a wide range of chart types to choose from. Charts are rendered by three powerful engines and can be changed in real-time: Google Charts, Highcharts, and Chart.js.

2. UberChart

Create a great variety of charts with exceptional customizability using UberChart. This advanced WordPress chart plugin comes with 240 customizable options per chart and 30 customizable options per dataset. You can import and export data to and from UberChart embedded spreadsheet editor. You can install this multi-language ready WordPress chat plugin in a stand-alone site or a multisite network. 

3. Modal Survey

Modal Survey is a WordPress poll, survey and quiz plugin that allows you to visualize any poll results as charts. Polls are displayed in six different kinds of poll charts: pie chart, doughnut chart, bar chart, radar chart, line chart or polar chart.

All charts are interactive and display the exact values of the WordPress poll with a mouse hover. You have the option to hide survey values and only show percentages. For this you can use the progress bar or the line bar. 

You can also export the whole WordPress poll with the results to CSV, JSON, PDF, XML, and Excel. 

Modal Survey supports many newsletter providers including: Constant Contact, Freshmail, GetRespons, MailChimp, MailPoet and more.

4. Responsive Charts

Responsive Charts  allows you to create HTML5 animated charts easily in WordPress. It comes with seven types of fully customizable animated chart types rendered using Charts.js 

This WordPress chart plugin allows for multiple charts on a single page. Types of charts you can make include:

• pie chart
• doughnut chart
• bar chart
• line chart
• polar chart
• radar chart
• bootstrap progress bars

You can use multiple data sets for bar and line charts. You can also import data sets from CSV. 

5. Responsive Polls

The Responsive Poll plugin allows you to easily create polls in WordPress.  It comes with seven fully customizable, animated chart types for displaying voting results. You can create multiple polls on a single page and view poll results in the WordPress admin. This responsive WordPress poll plugins is built using Bootstrap 3 and has three layers of security to ensure your poll results are as accurate as possible. 

6. Premium Stock Market and Forex Widgets

You can make sense of stock market data from many exchanges around the world through beautifully crafted interactive charts created using Premium Stock & Forex Market Widgets. This multilingual WordPress stock chart plugin is equipped with dozens of unique handcrafted widget templates including financial widgets, news widgets, market widgets, search widgets, chart and table widgets. You have the ability to choose any color for smooth integration into your website. 

This is a must have tool for a wide range of websites—from news media and financial blogs to asset management firms and publicly traded companies. It supports FOREX and many exchanges around the globe, including, but not limited to: NASDAQ, the New York Stock Exchange, the Toronto Stock Exchange, the London Stock Exchange and more. It's compatible with all modern browsers and responsive on mobiles and tablets.

7. Corvid

The Coronavirus pandemic has turned the world upside down. To keep visitors informed, presenting the data in quickly digestible format is important. You can do that using Corvid: a WordPress chart plugin that allows you to add statistic table and widgets on your website via shortcode.  

8. Corona Charts 

You can also keep visitors updated on the Covid 19 using Corona Charts in your posts, pages, widgets, sidebar, footer and everywhere on your WordPress website.

Historical data and day-to-day live updates from 195 countries and all USA states are presented in vertical column charts, line column charts, pie charts or doughnut charts. 

The charts are responsive and can be viewed on mobile and tablets. The text is available in all languages. All data comes from https://worldometers.info/coronavirus and is updated every 10 minutes. 

9. WooCommerce Product Size Guide

WooCommerce Product Size Guide allows you to create detailed size guides for whole categories of products or single products. You can build your own size charts from three size guide layouts. Or you can edit the sample size guides with your details so you can get started fast. You can create unlimited numbers of size guides. 

The product size guide can be accessed by a link button. You can place the product size guide in different positions like next to the add to cart button or above the product summary tab. You can also make it a tab or embed it manually with shortcodes. It's mobile ready and the size guide can be viewed from any device. 

10. Interactive World Map with Cities

Interactive World Map with Cities is an interactive template of the world map that gives you an easy way to install and customize a professional-looking interactive world map with six clickable continents. It includes an option to add unlimited numbers of clickable pins anywhere on the map then embed the map in your website. You can also link each continent or city to any webpage.

11. Cryptocurrency Widgets Pro

Cryptocurrency Widgets Pro displays current prices, market cap, volume, coin charts of crypto coins of more than 2000 coins including bitcoin, litecoin, ethereum and more. You can display crypto widget anywhere on your site using simple shortcodes. This cypto plugin uses third-party crypto APIs to show current market prices of virtual coins by grabbing data from major crypto exchanges in real time.

12. Stock Market and Forex Charts WordPress Plugin

Stock Market Charts for WordPress Plugin allows to easily embed fully customizable interactive financial and stock charts into a WordPress website. This Wordpress stock chart plugin supports line, smoothed line, column, and step chart types. You can feature unlimited number of charts on a single page. You get daily and intraday data for equities, stock indexes, currencies, commodity futures and ETFs.

Stock market charts can be easily customized through the native WordPress admin interface and added to any page or post by copying and pasting the chart shortcode. Absolutely no technical skills are required to use the plugin.

13. WooCommerce Dashboard Widget Stats

WooCommerce Dashboard Widget Stats adds easy-to-read chart widgets directly to the WordPress dashboard. This way the store admin has a set of tools to immediately see stats like current month sales, sales per day, bestselling products, payment methods, refund, average and estimated sales, and which customers who spend the most. 

Store admin can restrict who sees the reports based on user roles, set custom time ranges, and display data by day, month or year. The admin can also exclude all the pending payment orders in order to have more accurate stats about real earned money.

14. Infographic Maker—iList Pro

If you want to effortlessly visualize data through infographics then go for Infographic Maker—iList Pro.

This WordPress infographic creator plugin allows you to create infographics and elegant text or graphic lists then integrate them charts and graphs. You can create and add charts and graphs directly from the iList interface. But if you want to create only charts or graphs, that is possible also.

iList comes with iChart visual editor button. iChart allows you to create stand-alone, beautiful HTML5 responsive charts and graphs using Google ChartJS. iChart supports multiple charts and graphs on the same page. Use the iChart button to generate and embed a chart on any page directly from WordPress visual page or post editor. iChart can be used in conjunction with your iList infographic maker or by itself from any of your WordPress page or post. 

15. Ultimate Charts Builder

Ultimate Charts Builder helps musicians to create top or trending charts for their websites including audio and video songs. This WordPress music chart plugin can also be used by other artists to display any other types of video collections: trending funny videos, trending sports videos, and more. 

You can build unlimited song charts or video charts and also display charts on specific pages. In addition to your own custom audio (MP3) and video (MP4) uploads from your computer, it supports YouTube, Sound Cloud, and Daily Motion.  

Free Chart Plugins for WordPress 

The premium chart plugins available on CodeCanyon will definitely give you the most advanced features but if you are on a tight budget there are free chart plugins that come with enough features that will help you get the job done. 

Below you'll find a collection of the five best free chart plugins for WooCommerce WordPress plugins available.

1. Product Size Charts Plugin for WooCommerce

Product Size Charts for WooCommerce allows you to assign size charts to any product or category, and create a custom size chart for any of your WooCommerce products.

You can also clone ready-made size chart templates to create your own size charts and assign them to a category or specific products.

2. M Chart

M Chart allows you to manage data sets via a spreadsheet interface and present that data in chart form via the Chart.js or Highcharts chart libraries. The charts can then be embedded into a regular post via a handy shortcode.

3. WP Charts & Graphs

The WP Charts and Graphs plugin gives you a powerful chart generator in your WordPress admin and allows you to see the chart immediately on the admin before you publish it. Easy to use: you specify the titles and the values, choose the chart type, then the plugin automatically generates the shortcode which you can include on any page or post.

4. Ninja Charts

Ninja Charts  is a powerful free WordPress data visualization plugin that allows you to create and use numerous types of charts in WordPress. Just by following a few simple steps, you can generate amazing charts in different formats. Its JavaScript-based chart rendering engine makes the chart creation process easier than ever.

5. Product Size Charts for WooCommerce

Product Size Charts for WooCommerce is another free WordPress size chart plugin, which allows you to place custom sizes on each of your product pages so that your customers could easily pick up the right size of the item they want to buy.

Get Your Chart Plugin for WordPress Now! 

If the chart plugins I've covered in this article are just a few that stood out for me. You can find more WordPress chart plugins for WooCommerce and WordPress on CodeCanyon.

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

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Add the best WPBakery add-ons and extensions ever developed to your page builder and give your website visitors the experience they need. From carousel add-ons to extra WooCommerce product extensions, these WPBakery add-ons and extensions will provide endless new possibilities.

The massive WPBakery add-ons and extensions available on CodeCanyon will allow you to add extra features not only for your website visitors but for you in the back end of your site, making it much easier to manage your WordPress website. 

Create a more powerful website by adding an extension or add-on to your WPBakery page builder today!

The Best WordPress WPBakery Page Builder Add-Ons & Extensions on CodeCanyon

Discover over 7,000 of the best WordPress plugins ever created on Envato Market's CodeCanyon. With a cheap one-time payment, you can purchase one of these high-quality WordPress plugins, extensions, and add-ons. 

Here are a few of the best WPBakery (Visual Composer) add-ons and extensions available on CodeCanyon for 2021.

These versatile and unique WPBakery add-ons and extensions will help you get the most out of your website. While WPBakery is a complete page builder, the feature-rich add-ons and extensions will allow you to add a wide variety of features to your website, such as:

• carousels 
• extra WooCommerce features
• audio players
• content boxes
• and much more

These extra features and functionality are a must-have for your WordPress website, so don't miss out! Head on over to CodeCanyon and choose from the premium add-ons and extensions available. 

18 Best WPBakery Page Builder Addons & Plugins

Here are 18 of the top-rated WPBakery (Visual Composer) add-ons and extensions that are available for you to download on CodeCanyon:

1. Ultimate Addons for Visual Composer

It’s no surprise that Ultimate Addons for Visual Composer is one of the highest-rated and best-selling addons for WPBakery Page Builder. With 20 updates since its inception, this is an addon that works consistently to stay ahead of the competition and deliver a product that meets the needs of a wide range of designers. Notable features:

• parallax and video backgrounds
• video tutorials
• over 40 unique elements
• 15 demo pages for inspiration
• and more

2. WooCommerce Extra Product Options

WooCommerce Extra Product Options helps you extend the functionality of your WooCommerce store by creating more product options, add conditional logic (within the form builder), and build a wide variety of forms. Notable features:

• control the placement of your new fields 
• full support for checkboxes, radio buttons, and select boxes
• prices can change depending on the selected product variation 
• enable different options for certain roles
• and more

3. Composium WPBakery WordPress Plugin

One of the top sellers at CodeCanyon, Composium WPBakery WordPress plugin is packed with a dizzying amount of features, including a Google Font Manager with more than 810 fonts, over 70 CSS3 animations, and the option to use any WPBakery Page Builder element in a sidebar. In addition, when you download this extension, you also get a built-in downtime/maintenance manager for your site, which allows you to create a custom maintenance page. Notable features:

• over 150 different elements
• icon and Google Font managers
• custom premium lightbox
• template and widget builder
• and more

4. Massive Addons WPBakery WordPress Plugin

Massive Addons WPBakery WordPress plugin is an all-in-one extension that's packed with enough features to make even the most demanding web designer happy. The latest version of this unlimited addons for wpbakery page builder plugin has incorporated a ton of user-suggested improvements. Most notably, it has integrated a feature called "container presets", allowing users to preset entire rows or columns.

Notable features:

• over 70 customisable shortcodes and addons
• 31 page templates
• supports WooCommerce
• over 15 training videos
• and more

5. Calendarize it! WPBakery (Visual Composer) Plugin

Calendarize it! is a feature-rich calendar for your WordPress site that can be used as a standalone plugin or as an addon for WPBakery Page Builder. Notable features include:

• events countdown
• events year view
• payment options
• social share panel
• and more

6. Templatera WPBakery WordPress Plugin

Created by the authors of WPBakery Page Builder, Templatera is a WordPress template manager that allows users to create, manage and set access to templates based on user roles or content types. Notable features include:

• easy content reuse across templates
• edit content across templates from one central place
• ability to import or export templates in XML format
• and more

7. Visual Composer All In One Addons

One of our most popular WPBakery (Visual Composer) plugins, Visual Composer All In One Addons combines 64 different functions in one powerful tool that extends WPBakery Page Builder wonderfully. Notable features:

• carousel and gallery
• to-do list and price table
• draggable timeline
• iHover with 35 transitions
• and more

8. WPBakery Page Builder Clipboard

Clipboard is a best-selling WPBakery WordPress plugin. This WPBakery (Visual Composer) add-on allows you to copy/cut and paste single elements to a stack of elements across pages without leaving the WPBakery interface.

Not only that, but you can also import and export content or save it in the cloud. A five-star rating proves this is one of the most loved plugins for Visual Composer. 

9. Unlimited Addons for WPBakery Page Builder

With over 700 addons and 30 predefined templates, Unlimited Addons for WPBakery Page Builder is the largest add-on bundle available for WPBakery Page Builder (Visual Composer). This mega-pack of components for WPBakery page builder will help you:

• build website headers and footers
• create pages or sections for team member profiles, testimonials, and reviews
• design simple sliders, carousels, and banners 

Notable features include:

• one-click import layout from any WPBakery Page Builder page
• import only the addons you want to use
• lifetime updates
• 24/7 support
• well-documented

10. Kaswara Modern Visual Composer Addons

Kaswara Modern Visual Composer Addons offers 45 fabulous elements and over 550 shortcode options, and in just two years it has become a powerful contender in the WPBakery Page Builder add-ons and extensions market. Notable features:

• contact form designer
• shortcode manager
• replica section
• icon and Google font managers
• and more

11. Super Bundle WPBakery WordPress Plugin

If you’re looking for a whole host of great effects all in one place, check out this bundle of over 20 fabulous plugins in a single add-on called Super Bundle WPBakery WordPress plugin. Notable features:

• hover animation
• animated text effects
• carousel
• background gradient
• and more

12. WPBakery Page Builder Add-on Image Hotspot With Tooltip

The Image Hotspot with Tooltip comes bundled with another best-selling CodeCanyon addon, All In One Addons, but for those who don’t own that plugin, this standalone enables you to add a hotspot icon with a popup tooltip to any image on your site. The plugin may not be for everyone but will be of great value to photographers and e-commerce or educational sites. Notable features:

• the tooltip feature supports text, images, video, and other kinds of content
• hotspot icon’s position easily customisable
• hotspot icons come in a variety of colours
• and more

13. VCKit WPBakery (Visual Composer) Plugin 

VCKit WPBakery (Visual Composer) plugin is a feature-rich collection of over 45 beautifully designed elements with highly customisable features. This handy addon continues to go from strength to strength every year. Notable features:

• five pre-designed demo homepage templates
• over 45 animation effects
• 30 gorgeous effects
• one-click installation
• and more

14. Cost Calculator WPBakery WordPress Plugin

If you’re looking for a WPBakery Page Builder addon that will enable you to create price estimates that give clients an idea of the costs involved in your service or product, Cost Calculator might be the perfect plugin for you. Cost Calculator allows you to easily create quote or price estimation forms for your WordPress site. Notable features:

• dropdown menus with image icons
• numeric slider
• on/off switch
• reCAPTCHA
• and more

15. FullPage for WPBakery Page Builder

This trending WPBakery WordPress plugin is the perfect addition to your website. This Full Page WPBakery (Visual Composer) add-on allows you to create full-page scrolling websites in WordPress in no time.

It's a great WPBakery plugin to download: it's fully responsive, easy to customize, and has clean code.

16. WooCommerce Page Builder

If you have an online store supported by WooCommerce, this WPBakery WordPress plugin is great for you. This WPBakery (Visual Composer) WooCommerce Page Builder provides a full set of easy-to-use WooCommerce shortcodes.

Use this trending WPBakery WordPress plugin to create fresh and unique WooCommerce stores thanks to its customized Single Product and Product Archive pages. 

17. Mega Addons for WPBakery Page Builder (Visual Composer)

This is a great WPBakery WordPress plugin to have. Mega Addons is a superb WPBakery (Visual Composer) plugin bundle. See what you'll get in this fully responsive plugin with 32+ unique elements like:

• team profile
• info banner
• advanced carousel
• flip box
• timeline
• countdown
• modal popup
• testimonial
• and more

It's one of our best-rated plugins for Visual Composer.

18. WP Post Modules

WP Post Modules is ideal for creating online magazine layouts, newspaper blocks, creative portfolio showcases, and regular blog feeds using a drag-and-drop interface. Notable features:

• seven display styles
• 20 pre-built home page layouts
• grid and list modes
• 100% responsive design, optimised for retina display
• and more

Free WPBakery Page Builder Addons & Extensions for Download in 2021

The premium plugins for Visual Composer available on CodeCanyon will offer you the most comprehensive set of features. If your current budget will not allow for the purchase of these high-quality add-ons and extensions, there are free alternatives that you can take advantage of.

Below is a collection of the four best WPBakery templates for free download.

1. Livemesh Visual Composer WordPress Free Plugin

Livemesh is a great tool to add to your arsenal if you don't have the budget for a premium WPBakery (Visual Composer) plugin. It features many different website building items such as post grids, bar charts, testimonial cards, and much more. Each element can easily be added to your website by dragging and dropping. 

2. Mega Addons Visual Composer WordPress Free Plugin

This add-on collection includes a whopping 28 add-ons that can help enhance your WordPress website. You can expect features such as member profiles, pricing tables, timelines, and countdowns.

3. Ultimate Carousel Visual Composer WordPress Free Plugin

Ultimate Carousel is a versatile extension for your WPBakery Page Builder that allows you to create carousels for any kind of content. Ultimate Carousel is responsive and touch-enabled and is compatible with mobile devices.

4. Image Hover Effects Visual Composer WordPress Free Plugin

This extension gives you the option to add over 80 hover effects for your images with captions. Most of the transitions have thumbnail support, lightboxes, or custom links. This gives your images an interactive component that your users will love. 

More Great WPBakery Resources on Envato Tuts+

In this article, we've gone over some of the best premium WPBakery (Visual Composer) addons and free WPBakery plugins available. However, just owning the WPBakery page builder and the add-ons and extensions will not be enough to create a feature-rich website that your users will love. You need to know how to use these tools in order to build a successful website.

Check out the articles below on how you can get the most out of WPBakery and its extensions and add-ons.

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Learn More About WordPress

We know WordPress can seem intimidating if you're just starting to use this awesome platform. But don't worry—here are some resources that might help you with your WordPress website.

Additionally, you can check our fantastic course: A Beginner’s Guide to Using WordPress and our Tuts+ YouTube channel, where you'll find awesome videos like these:

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Install a WPBakery Page Builder Addon or Extension Now! 

In order to give your website visitors the best possible experience on your WordPress website, you will need to have a feature-rich website.

The premium WPBakery add-ons and extensions available on CodeCanyon will help you add these extra features to your website so that you can gain more traffic and run your business more effectively. 

This list of WPBakery Page Builder add-ons and extensions just scratches the surface of the products available at CodeCanyon. So if none of the add-ons and extensions seem to suit your website's needs, there are plenty of other great options to choose from. 

In addition to the WPBakery extensions and add-ons, there are thousands of other high-quality WordPress plugins on CodeCanyon that can help you improve your website. The large library of plugins contains everything from marketing to eCommerce and social media plugins.

Find a WordPress plugin that helps your business succeed today!

 

When you’re setting out to do WordPress theme development, plugin development, or just offline site building, sooner or later you’ll have to learn how to install WordPress locally on your own machine, rather than awkwardly trying to work on a remote server.

To make that happen, you need a way to bring the server to you, and run the same type of infrastructure locally as is found on a typical WordPress host. One of the easiest ways to do that, especially on Windows, is to install WordPress on XAMPP.

XAMPP can automatically handle running the software prerequisites WordPress needs most, in typical cases that being Apache and MySQL. If you don’t know what these two things are don’t worry, you don’t really need to in order to get WordPress installed locally. All you need to know is they both need to be available, running, and then your good to go.

How to Install XAMPP, Ready for WordPress

XAMPP is available on all three desktop operating systems. However, in my experience XAMPP is the easiest to use on Windows, and for that reason this article will focus on Windows.

In Linux I feel it’s easier to manually install WordPress directly onto the operating system. On Mac it’s a little easier to use MAMP, which incidentally is also compatible with the new M1 chips.

We’ll also be assuming you’re doing just the one WordPress installation.

Head to https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html and download the installer for your operating system. You’ll probably want the one with the latest version of PHP, i.e. the one at the bottom of the list.

The installer is much the same as for any other software - just double click it to run then follow the prompts.

You won’t need to change any of the installation settings, the defaults are all good as is.

Of particular note, you should leave the installation drive as the C:\ drive in order for things to function correctly.

You may also need to grant approval for XAMPP’s Apache installation to have network access through Windows Defender or any other firewall you might be running.

Continue following the prompts. When the installation is complete, leave the option checked that says “Do you want to run the Control Panel now?”, then close the installer and you’ll see the Control Panel appear. If you missed the chance to leave that box checked, just run XAMPP from your list of installed software to start the Control Panel instead.

There are really only two buttons on this Control Panel you need to know about, and they’re the two Start buttons next to Apache and MySQL. Click both of those buttons and you’ll see their labels change to Running, signifying your local server is now up and running, ready for WordPress to be added to it.

How to Install WordPress Locally with Bitnami

Let’s go through how to install WordPress on XAMPP in the easiest possible way: through the automated installer provided by Bitnami. By using Bitnami to install WordPress you don’t have to do any of the manual tasks otherwise needed, such as setting up databases and configuring WordPress install settings.

Head to https://bitnami.com/stack/xampp#wordpress and download the WordPress module.

Make sure you still see MySQL running on the XAMPP Control Panel, then double click the Bitnami WordPress module to run it as you would a regular software installer.

On the first page of the install wizard you’ll be asked to specify the XAMPP install directory, and the field should be correctly pre-populated with C:\xampp.

On the next page you’ll setup the account details with which you’ll log onto your local WordPress site. Enter the login / user name you want to use, your full name or nickname, and an email address.

The next field will ask for you MySQL password. This is a trick question, because unless you went out of your way to change your XAMPP config, there’ll be no MySQL password. So just leave that field blank.

Finally, enter the password you want to use with your local WordPress site account, once in each of the two remaining fields.

On the next page give your local site a name. On the page after that, skip configuring email support by unchecking the box - you almost certainly won’t need it for typical theme or plugin dev tasks. In the following page, uncheck Launch wordpress in the cloud with Bitnami. You don’t need that for now either.

The last page just confirms installation is about to begin. Click the Next button and you’ll see Bitnami go to work installing WordPress.

When it’s done, click Finish, and you’re site is good to go.

How to Run WordPress Locally

Now that you have WordPress installed on XAMPP you’re ready to run it locally any time you need it.

The URLs to visit it are:

• Admin: http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/
• Front end: http://localhost/wordpress

It’s a good idea to bookmark these links for easy action.

When you come back for another session in the future you’ll always need to make sure that XAMPP is running, along with its Apache and MySQL services. If you go to the links above and don’t see your site or admin panel, it’s likely because one of those three isn’t running.

How to Locate WordPress Files

Given the main reason you’re installing WordPress locally is probably so you can easily access and edit theme and plugin files, you’ll of course need to find those files.

The location of your WordPress installation’s root directory on Windows should be:

C:\xampp\apps\wordpress\htdocs

In that directory you’ll see the wp-content sub-directory, and within that are the themes and plugins sub-directories. You can edit away on any of those files and see your changes immediately in your local WordPress site.

You’re All Set!

That’s everything you need to know about how to install WordPress locally on XAMPP. Have fun with local, offline development and file editing!

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In the past few years cryptocurrency (certainly bitcoin) has become a term familiar to many. Starting as a concept with which only visionaries and fans were familiar, the ever-growing popularity of cryptocurrencies has become so mainstream that all kinds of people have invested in them, written about them, or even ventured into creating their own.

The high profile profits, the commonplace losses, corruption, mystery, and outspoken optimism and skepticism have been making headlines for years now. Stories such as John McAfee eating his own body parts if his BitCoin predictions fail to materialize, Elon Musk’s sporadicmarketinterference, and the tale of the Missing Crypto Queen have become part of the compelling crypto narrative.

Best Cryptocurrency WordPress Themes

I’ve put together an outstanding list premium cryptocurrency WordPress themes for writing about cryptocurrencies on a magazine-styled website, displaying the actual price of most popular currencies on a directory or listing styled website, or promoting your own Initial Coin Offer (ICO).

1. BitPal—Cryptocurrency WordPress Theme

BitPal is a contemporary WordPress theme for cryptocurrency that conveys an appealing website with refreshing colors.

As one of the best cryptocurrency WordPress themes, BitPal is suitable for a number of cryptocurrency-related projects and includes an ICO launch countdown, an ICO listing, Roadmaps, News, Blog, Portfolio and packs a number of powerful features including WooCommerce.

2. RexCoin—Multi-Purpose Cryptocurrency and Coin ICO WordPress Theme

RexCoin is a multi-purpose CryptoCurrency and Coin ICO blockchain WordPress theme. It is powerful, modern and bold, perfect for cryptocurrency and financial blog in general.

As a WordPress theme for forex websites, bitcoin exchange or other crypto exchange, this WordPress theme for cryptocurrency is suitable for a number of different types of crypto business.

3. Hoverex—Cryptocurrency and ICO WordPress Theme

When it comes to cryptocurrency theme wordpress sites, the Hoverex also includes cryptocurrency templates for WordPress in Spanish as well as English.

100% compatible with WordPress 5 and GDPR-ready, Hoverex is an excellent WordPress theme for cryptocurrency websites. So, if you're looking for a WordPress cryptocurrency theme, then try Hoverex.

4. Cryptoking—Bitcoin and ICO Theme

Cryptoking is a cryptocurrency WordPress theme exclusively built for ICO, bitcoin, other cryptocurrency, and coin websites. It's fully responsive, retina ready and easy to customize.

No need to code nor have coding knowledge. You don't need to be a developer to customize this theme.

5. CryptApp—Landing Page

CryptApp is a Crypto Currency landing page and bitcoin template WordPress theme. his cryptocurrency one-page theme helps you create informative crypto landing pages and app promotion.

With drag-and-drop design functionality for effortless and code-less website creation, CryptApp features a number of cryptocurrency widgets including a BitCoin calculator and WooCommerce functionality.

6. Crypterio—ICO Landing Page and Cryptocurrency WordPress Theme

Crypterio is a best-selling WordPress cryptocurrency theme targeted at digital consulting or crypto-oriented businesses which offer their consulting or investment services.

Whether you’re an ICO advisor or an expert focused on cryptocurrencies, this theme helps boost sales and popularity by means of great design and functionality.

7. Monyxi—ICO Cryptocurrency Trading Business Coach WordPress Theme

Monyxi is a multipurpose WordPress theme that's modern, powerful and bold. Designed for financial blogs it's also a great choice when choosing a layout for a financial advisory or consulting business. 

With a thematic design and beautiful crypto-oriented interface elements, this theme definitely helps a website stand out from the crowd.

8. Cryptico—ICO Crypto Landing & Cryptocurrency WordPress Theme​

Cryptico is a great website theme for ICO agencies and cryptocurrency investment companies. It provides everything needed to create a great looking website.

Built with the latest technologies in mind, the theme has its foundation on the Bootstrap framework and LESS, paired with an icon font set.

9. Cryption—ICO Landing, ICO Consulting, Cryptocurrency and Blockchain WordPress Theme 

Cryption is a premium WordPress cryptocurrency theme, optimized for the specifics of the industry, and is perfect for building websites for ICOs, ICO Advisors, and Cryptocurrency Agencies. 

If you’re in need of a stylish business website for your digital consulting agency or crypto investment website, then there aren’t many reasons to look any further.

10. Crypton—A Multi-Purpose Cryptocurrency and ICO WordPress Theme

Crypton is a multi-purpose cryptocurrency premium WordPress theme that's powerful, modern and bold. A perfect solution for a cryptocurrency or financial blog. 

Spreading the word about your business in the crypto industry is now easier than ever with the number of available integrations and extensive, integrated functionality in the theme.

11. Draaz—Cryptocurrency Business WordPress Theme

Draaz is a WooCommerce-compatible, ready-to-use cryptocurrency WordPress theme for buying and selling digital currency.

Shipping with demo data in seven unique homepage layouts, Draaz incorporates an advance theme and plugins update system. Personalise a BitCoin WordPress template, or other cryptocurrency, with your choice of fonts, colours and layouts.

12. Cryptro—Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Bitcoin and Financial Technology

Cryptro (yes, you read that right) is another premium WordPress cryptocurrency theme that's worthy of being included in this showcase of themes. It has numerous features such as a Live Composer, Auto-Update feature, a maintenance or coming soon page, and unlimited sidebar options. 

Having been built by a seasoned developer with more than 100,000 customers, the quality of the product is beyond question.

13. ChainPress—Financial WordPress Business Blog Theme

ChainPress is a trendy and clean multi-purpose cryptocurrency WordPress Theme. It's crafted for modern business and financial consulting, investment advising, tax assistance, contemporary corporate and individual companies.

ChainPress is supplied with pre-built pages and a choice of layouts to get you up and running in no time.

14. Bizdrone—ICO Crypto Landing and Cryptocurrency WordPress Theme​

Bizdrone is a multipurpose, responsive cryptocurrency, VPN, money exchange, cryptocurrency WordPress Theme. It includes a custom WHMCS Template based on WHMCS v7.10.x 

An Email Template pack also included in the package. Anyone can easily update and edit this template by following the theme's comprehensive online documentation.

15. Lymcoin—Cryptocurrency and ICO WordPress Theme

Lymcoin is a premium WordPress theme made for crypto stores and shops. It's designed for the promotion of ICOs and provides functionality that allows payments in popular cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Etherium. 

Furthermore, it comes with a one-click installation feature—helpful to both the experienced developer or somebody with little coding knowledge.

16. Cryptonite—Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies WordPress Theme

Cryptonite is a premium WordPress theme that's targeted at both experts and beginners alike, with a number of customization options. Be that a crypto-related landing page or an agency’s website, this theme definitely serves you well with multiple pre-designed layouts.

17. Blokco—ICO, Cryptocurrency and Consulting Business WordPress Theme

Blokco is a premium Bootstrap-based WordPress theme that features the Visual Composer, Revolution Slider and the Eventer Plugin as its key features. It allows for unlimited header and footer customization and is built on the Isotope grid system. The crypto widgets and tickers allow for a good layout that’s both beautiful and niche-themed.

18. ProCoin—ICO and Cryptocurrency WordPress Theme

ProCoin is a WordPress ICO and Cryptocurrency WordPress theme. The theme works perfectly for any crypto related business. It includes WPBakery Page Builder (formerly Visual Composer), Revolution slider, WooCommerce support and an advanced admin panel. 

You may set unlimited colors and create unlimited layouts. With all those features and their excellent support, you just can't go wrong.

19. Tolarcek—A Bitcoin and CryptoCurrency WordPress Blog Theme

Tolarcek is a bitcoin and cryptocurrency oriented WordPress theme that's a powerful tool for creating outstanding websites for the crypto market.

With real-time graphs and coin tickers, this theme is definitely a great choice.

20. Cryptox—Cryptocurrency WordPress Theme

Cryptox is a beautiful and functional WordPress theme for websites that trade, discuss, or have consulting businesses around cryptocurrencies.

Considering the WooCommerce integration is one of its key features, a testimonials and contact form and a currency calculator, the theme works well when it comes to creating any kind of informative portals about cryptocurrency.

21. Cryptoland—ICO Landing Pages WordPress Theme

Cryptoland is a beautiful, functional and powerful bitcoin and altcoin ICO theme that's backed by a rather unique and sleek design. 

This theme empowers anybody, with no coding skills, to get up and running using the integrated WPBakery page builder. A serious option to consider, especially if time is a sensitive issue and a fast launch is necessary.

22. Cryptoigo—Cryptocurrency WordPress Theme With Elementor Page Builder

Cryptoigo is another premium WordPress theme which is worthy of consideration, mainly down to the extensive features, beautiful design and structured layout.

With several unique ICO landing page designs, a fully responsive layout and an unlimited page builder—this theme is a great choice.

23. Crypterium—Crypto Theme

Crypterium is a Bitcoin (Blockchain) Cryptocurrency and ICO Landing Page WordPress theme that's built-in fully responsive, premium design, elegant style incorporating the flexibility of many customisation and functional features. 

24. Numismatico—Cryptocurrency Directory and Listings WordPress Theme

If you want to create an incredible ICO (Initial Coin Offering) Directory Listings website based on WordPress, and you're tired of testing and evaluating themes then take a look at Numismatico.

Choose the one completely versatile theme to create the website you need. Numismatico is continually updated and has reliable support and amazing features.

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25. Tradent—Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin WordPress Theme

Tradent is a modern Cryptocurrency and BitCoin and Crypto WordPress theme. It's perfectly tailored for Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, ICO Promotion page, BitCoin investments, Cryptocurrency Exchange, Consultancy services, and all Cryptocoin project business websites.

The Crypto WordPress theme incorporates multiple homepages with About Us, Cryptocurrency and Services pages, How it works, BitCoin Guide, and Portfolio Page to showcase your services.

Main Features to Look for in a Premium Cryptocurrency Theme:

Here are the main things to look out for when picking a premium cryptocurrency theme:

• A solid and robust design that doesn’t take shortcuts in terms of quality. Because cryptocurrency-related websites often have a single proposition they shouldn’t be overly complicated or overwhelming for the visitor
• Social-proof behind the design of the theme. Using trust-inspiring colors (such as navy blue) may help gain trust through color psychology. Pair that with some good typography and the level of professionalism of your website increases with just a few easy moves.
• Thematic design elements, imagery, icons and illustrations that make your website even more distinct from other websites your visitors are likely to interact with on a daily basis.

Your Turn to Let Us Know What You Think!

That concludes my list of premium cryptocurrency WordPress themes. I'm curious to know which one you think is the best out of the bunch; what do you think the key feature for a cryptocurrency theme is?

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In the past, we’ve discussed various Bootstrap 4 extensions. Today I’ll show you how to convert Bootstrap pills (tabs) into a dropdown. Most importantly we’ll keep both these components in sync. We’ll use pills for the desktop layout and a dropdown for mobile screens.

Note: for this exercise, I’m going to use Bootstrap 4 latest stable version (v4.6). As soon as v5 goes stable, I might revisit this topic and implement a solution for this version as well.

Our Bootstrap Extension

Check out the final demo! Click on a dropdown item to see how the corresponding tab panel appears. Additionally, open the demo and check its layout on a large screen. You’ll see that pills replace the dropdown without changing the active panel.

Here’s how they appear in their two states:

Why do this? By default Bootstrap tabs and pills don’t have responsive behavior, other than stacking/wrapping. A dropdown menu is a far more elegant solution for small screens.

Bootstrap Tabs and Pills

Bootstrap tabs help us divide content into multiple sections that live under a common parent. At any given time only one of these sections is visible. Imagine them like browser tabs; the difference being that you don’t have to change the page to view them all.

Bootstrap pills are essentially just tabs with a different layout. 

For this example, we’re going to use pills. However, you can just as easily use tabs instead. All you have to do is to change the tabs-related markup/classes with the pills-related one(s).

1. Include Bootstrap Assets

To kick things off, we’ll include the required CSS and JavaScript files within our Codepen demo:

2. Build the Project Layout

Our project on medium screens and above (≥768px) will look like this:

Here we’ll have a container that will include:

• The pills.
• The content for each pill (tab panels).
• The social links.

The required markup:

<div class="tabs-to-dropdown"><div class="nav-wrapper d-flex align-items-center justify-content-between"><ul class="nav nav-pills d-none d-md-flex" id="pills-tab" role="tablist"><li class="nav-item" role="presentation"><a class="nav-link active" id="pills-company-tab" data-toggle="pill" href="#pills-company" role="tab" aria-controls="pills-company" aria-selected="true">...</a></li><li class="nav-item" role="presentation"><a class="nav-link" id="pills-product-tab" data-toggle="pill" href="#pills-product" role="tab" aria-controls="pills-product" aria-selected="false">... </a></li><li class="nav-item" role="presentation"><a class="nav-link" id="pills-news-tab" data-toggle="pill" href="#pills-news" role="tab" aria-controls="pills-news" aria-selected="false">... </a></li><li class="nav-item" role="presentation"><a class="nav-link" id="pills-contact-tab" data-toggle="pill" href="#pills-contact" role="tab" aria-controls="pills-contact" aria-selected="false">...</a></li></ul><ul class="list-group list-group-horizontal"><!-- social links here --></ul></div><div class="tab-content" id="pills-tabContent"><div class="tab-pane fade show active" id="pills-company" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="pills-company-tab">...</div><div class="tab-pane fade" id="pills-product" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="pills-product-tab">...</div><div class="tab-pane fade" id="pills-news" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="pills-news-tab">...</div><div class="tab-pane fade" id="pills-contact" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="pills-contact-tab">...</div></div></div>

The majority of this markup comes from Bootstrap documentation, just a few things have changed.

On smaller screens (<768px), we’ll replace the pills with a dropdown like this:

But, here’s the interesting thing: if you check the markup above, you’ll notice that we haven’t defined any dropdown component. We’ll dynamically include it on the page through JavaScript.

3. Add Some Basic Styles

Next, we’ll specify some basic styles for our project. Pretty simple stuff. We’ll only override some of Bootstrap default styles to fit our layout. For example, we’ll change the aesthetics of the pills and give .container-fluid  a maximum width of 1250px.

The styles:

:root {
  --darkgreen: #005361;
  --white: #fff;
}

* {
  padding: 0;
  margin: 0;
  box-sizing: border-box;
}

body,
.tabs-to-dropdown .dropdown-toggle,
.tabs-to-dropdown .dropdown-item {
  font-size: 1.3rem;
}

.tabs-to-dropdown .nav-wrapper {
  padding: 15px;
  box-shadow: 0px 5px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12);
}

.tabs-to-dropdown .nav-wrapper a {
  color: var(--darkgreen);
}

.tabs-to-dropdown .nav-pills .nav-link.active {
  background-color: var(--darkgreen);
}

.tabs-to-dropdown .nav-pills li:not(:last-child) {
  margin-right: 30px;
}

.tabs-to-dropdown .tab-content .container-fluid {
  max-width: 1250px;
  padding-top: 70px;
  padding-bottom: 70px;
}

.tabs-to-dropdown .dropdown-menu {
  border: none;
  box-shadow: 0px 5px 14px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.08);
}

.tabs-to-dropdown .dropdown-item {
  padding: 14px 28px;
}

.tabs-to-dropdown .dropdown-item:active {
  color: var(--white);
}

@media (min-width: 1280px) {
  .tabs-to-dropdown .nav-wrapper {
    padding: 15px 30px;
  }
}

4. Add the JavaScript

We’ll start by looping through all .tabs-to-dropdown elements, and for each one of them, several actions will take place:

const $tabsToDropdown = $(".tabs-to-dropdown");

$tabsToDropdown.each(function () {
  const $this = $(this);
  const $pills = $this.find(’a[data-toggle="pill"]’);

  generateDropdownMarkup($this);

  const $dropdown = $this.find(".dropdown");
  const $dropdownLinks = $this.find(".dropdown-menu a");

  $dropdown.on("show.bs.dropdown", showDropdownHandler);
  $dropdownLinks.on("click", clickHandler);
  $pills.on("shown.bs.tab", shownTabsDropdown);
});

Note #1: we’ll use a loop here as we assume that our page can contain more than one .tabs-to-dropdown element.

Note #2: in the code above, first we’ll create the dropdown, then we’ll reference it. That’s why the generateDropdownMarkup() function comes before the dropdown-related variables. 

Create the Dropdown Component

First, we’ll call the generateDropdownMarkup() function and pass to it the related .tabs-to-dropdown element.

Here’s the function declaration:

function generateDropdownMarkup(container) {
  const $navWrapper = container.find(".nav-wrapper");
  const $navPills = container.find(".nav-pills");
  const firstTextLink = $navPills.find("li:first-child a").text();
  const $items = $navPills.find("li");
  const markup = `<div class="dropdown d-md-none"><button class="btn dropdown-toggle" type="button" id="dropdownMenuButton" data-toggle="dropdown" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false">
        ${firstTextLink}</button><div class="dropdown-menu" aria-labelledby="dropdownMenuButton"> 
        ${generateDropdownLinksMarkup($items)}</div></div>
  `;
  $navWrapper.prepend(markup);
}

This function will generate the code for the dropdown toggle component and prepend it to the .nav-wrapper element. To achieve this, inside this function, we’ll call the generateDropdownLinksMarkup() one that will be responsible for creating the dropdown menu items. Their text will match the text of the corresponding pills. 

Here’s the function declaration:

function generateDropdownLinksMarkup(items) {
  let markup = "";
  items.each(function () {
    const textLink = $(this).find("a").text();
    markup += `<a class="dropdown-item" href="#">${textLink}</a>`;
  });

  return markup;
}

After executing these functions, the dropdown markup will look like this:

Hide Duplicated Menu Item

Each time we open the dropdown, we should prevent the toggle button also appearing as a menu item. So, instead of this:

We want this:

In this scenario, when the “Company” tab panel is active, the “Company” menu item should be hidden.

To implement this functionality, we’ll take advantage of the show.bs.dropdown event that Bootstrap provides:

...

const $dropdown = $this.find(".dropdown");

$dropdown.on("show.bs.dropdown", showDropdownHandler);
  
function showDropdownHandler(e) {
  // works also
  //const $this = $(this);
  const $this = $(e.target);
  const $dropdownToggle = $this.find(".dropdown-toggle");
  const dropdownToggleText = $dropdownToggle.text().trim();
  const $dropdownMenuLinks = $this.find(".dropdown-menu a");
  const dNoneClass = "d-none";
  $dropdownMenuLinks.each(function () {
    const $this = $(this);
    if ($this.text() == dropdownToggleText) {
      $this.addClass(dNoneClass);
    } else {
      $this.removeClass(dNoneClass);
    }
  });
}

Inside the callback function, we’ll do the following things:

• Grab the text of the toggle button.
• Loop through the menu links and consider if their text matches the button’s text.
• If this is the case, they will receive the d-none class. Otherwise, they will lose this one.

Synchronize Dropdown With Pills

The last and most challenging step is to synchronize the dropdown and pills. 

So first, each time we click on a dropdown menu item, the corresponding tab panel should appear.

Here’s the required code:

...

const $dropdownLinks = $this.find(".dropdown-menu a");

$dropdownLinks.on("click", clickHandler);

function clickHandler(e) {
  e.preventDefault();
  const $this = $(this);
  const index = $this.index();
  const text = $this.text();
  $this.closest(".dropdown").find(".dropdown-toggle").text(`${text}`);
  $this
    .closest($tabsToDropdown)
    .find(`.nav-pills li:eq(${index}) a`)
    .tab("show");
}

Inside the callback function, we’ll do the following things:

• Grab the index and text of the target/active link.
• Replace the toggle button text with the text of the active link.
• Select the pill whose index matches the index of the active link and show its associated panel.

Then, each time we click on a pill, the toggle button text should change and match the text of the appropriate pill.

To implement this functionality, we’ll take advantage of the shown.bs.tab event that Bootstrap provides:

...

const $pills = $this.find(’a[data-toggle="pill"]’);

$pills.on("shown.bs.tab", shownTabsHandler);

function shownTabsHandler(e) {
  // works also
  //const $this = $(this);
  const $this = $(e.target);
  const index = $this.parent().index();
  const $parent = $this.closest($tabsToDropdown);
  const $targetDropdownLink = $parent.find(".dropdown-menu a").eq(index);
  const targetDropdownLinkText = $targetDropdownLink.text();
  $parent.find(".dropdown-toggle").text(targetDropdownLinkText);
}

Inside the callback function, we’ll do the following things:

• Grab the index of the active pill.
• Grab the text of the dropdown menu item whose index matches the index of the active pill.
• Replace the text of the dropdown toggle button with the text of the corresponding menu item.

Conclusion

That’s all, folks! Thanks for following along with another Bootstrap 4 tutorial. Hopefully, this extension gave you an idea about how to handle pills in a mobile layout. As you saw, converting them into a fully functional dropdown component isn’t as difficult as it might appear.

Go ahead and do the same work with the tabs this time!

If you found this solution helpful or in case you have any questions, drop me a line! Plus, let me know if you want to see any other Bootstrap extensions.

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As always, thanks a lot for reading!

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eCommerce is everything. But you probably already knew that. What you might not know, however, is just how dominant online sales and the sale of digital products has become–not in the past few years, but in the past few months. Yes, you read that correctly. Months. At the start of 2020, eCommerce experienced an absolute boom. McKinsey dubbed it the “quickening.” It was a period of time marked by ten year’s worth of online sales growth condensed into just three months. 

Now is the time to dive into online sales and if you have digital products, even better, because that’s what we’ll be focused on here today. By offering digital products, you can reach a new market. And the use of WordPress themes that support WooCommerce digital downloads make the setup and management processes even easier. 

We’ll be taking a look at several WordPress themes that are ideal for selling digital products in just a bit. But first, let’s explore how you can sell digital products with WooCommerce. 

How to Sell Digital Products with WooCommerce

Deciding you want to use WooCommerce to sell digital downloads isn’t a decision to make lightly. After all, this will determine how future customers interact with your products. A good thing to note is just how easy it is to set up WooCommerce digital downloads and how intuitive of an experience it is on your end as well as the customer’s. 

Setup is straightforward and can be broken down into 6 rough steps: 

1. With WooCommerce installed, make sure that the Downloadable product type is selected under General Settings. 
2. Upload the files you want to offer as downloadable products. 
3. Configure schema markup for each digital product. This is often as simple as selecting which type of product you’re offering from a dropdown menu. Then, the schema markup will be populated automatically based on the product info you input. 
4. Flesh out your product description(s) including price, compatibility, and other specifications. Be very specific about what the customer will receive, how they will receive it, and any other relevant details. 
5. Add screenshots, audio or video clips, or other samples that properly illustrate the digital product in action. 
6. Set download limits, if applicable. This can help to increase exclusivity of your products. Or, you can forego download limits altogether and instead use expiration dates. That is, the download link for digital products purchased will expire after a given time. 

Features WordPress Themes for Selling Digital Products Need 

Before you attempt to create your own WooCommerce digital marketplace -- and before you begin the hunt for WordPress themes in full -- you should have a clear understanding of the features to be on the lookout for. 

The best WooCommerce themes for digital product selling more often than not include the following: 

• WooCommerce compatibility. An obvious one but a must! 
• Product page templates. Any product templates included in the theme should include ample options for displaying product features in an attractive way. So, gallery options, spots for showcasing screenshots and video clips, stylized product descriptions, and more can give greater weight to how you display your products. 
• Integrated social media. A big component to selling digital products is social selling, so having social media integration is even more important. 

Best WordPress Themes for Digital Products

Now’s the part you’ve been waiting for: the top WordPress themes for selling digital products. Each of the following is compatible with WooCommerce and any would serve your online store well.

Let’s dive in!

1. Showcase - Digital Product WordPress Theme

First up is Showcase, a digital product WordPress theme that makes it easy to display your digital products in a grid layout. It can be used for any number of online store types -- even those for selling physical products -- but it includes specific support for digital and affiliate products, making it a standout choice here. It comes with one-click demo install for 10 different homepage layouts. 

Other features include a sticky header, nine custom widgets, live search with thumbnails support, gallery image support, multiple header options (that can be edited via drag-and-drop, as well as compatibility with Contact Form 7. 

2. Onepage - Digital Marketing WordPress Theme

Or you might want to consider Onepage. It’s described as a digital marketing WordPress theme because of its support for affiliate products. However, it could easily be used to sell custom digital products through WooCommerce as well. It comes with eight different home page options as well as customizations for menus, footers, headers, sidebars, and a variety of other sections as well. 

3. Flaton - WooCommerce Responsive Digital Theme

The Flaton WordPress theme supports WooCommerce and is another fantastic choice for displaying digital products. The design is described as modern and fresh, offering the perfect backdrop for selling digital items. This theme is responsive and is powered by the Redux Framework, which adds unlimited color and font options to the table. 

You may also be pleased to hear that Flaton also includes support for WPML, mega menus, four homepage layouts, color presets, header and footer layouts, social media support, custom page templates, and more. 

4. ArrowIT - Technology Digital WordPress Theme

ArrowIT is another solid option for selling digital products through a WooCommerce store. Its design has a technology focus, making it a great choice for those selling software, apps, or other tech-related downloadables. It’s both responsive and retina-ready and supports front-end editing, making customization super simple. 

It also comes with the Super Kirki Toolkit, which allows for greater control over the WordPress Customizer. It works with Elementor Page Builder, so you can create custom product pages or homepage designs by just dragging and dropping. And with full WooCommerce compatibility, unlimited color options, and one-click demo installation, website design and customization has never been easier. 

5. MBStore - Digital WooCommerce WordPress Theme

Perhaps MBStore is more your style? This digital product WooCommerce theme comes with Visual Composer and Slider Revolution to make customizing your site simpler than ever. It’s also responsive and mobile-optimized, creating a seamless experience for your customers on-the-go. This theme also supports unlimited colors and includes a one-click demo installer for easier setup. 

Other features include support for integrated WooCommerce features like an Ajax shopping cart, product comparisons, wishlists, and product quick view. It also comes with three different homepage options, cloud zoom, lazy loading for images, product tabs, and several page templates. It also supports Google Fonts and has been optimized for SEO, which means more eyeballs on what you’re selling. 

6. AppLand - WordPress Theme for Apps and SaaS Products

As its name would suggest, AppLand is a great WordPress theme option for those selling apps or SaaS products. It’s an ideal choice for software developers who want something that looks both modern and like what you expect from a purveyor of digital tech goods. The theme comes with 14 different demos and a one-click installer so set up can be greatly simplified. 

It also comes with over 90 custom shortcodes, which makes design and development a much faster experience. You can also drag-and-drop pay elements around for faster page building. You can opt between a single page or multi-page version of this theme and rest assured it supports all major browsers and is responsive so odds are good it’ll look great on any device. 

7. Fame - Digital Technology and Service WordPress Theme

Or you could select Fame, another WooCommerce theme with a digital tech focus. This theme is ideal for selling digital products in the software, app, SaaS, tech, and startup spaces. It comes with multiple layouts, page templates, and options for creating a truly custom site. 

To get specific, Fame is fully responsive and retina-ready, offers a stunning shopping UX for customers, and comes with several blog design options. From full-width to boxed, you can create the type of blog to support your store that works for you. It also has advanced theme options, so customizing fonts, headers, footers, padding between elements, colors, and more is a snap. It also supports unlimited colors and includes tons of shortcodes. And if you need even more customization options, it works with the Elementor Page Builder. 

8. Meminz - Download Software Landing Page Theme

Then there’s the Meminz WordPress theme. This one is designed for creating software landing pages but could easily be adapted for use as an online storefront for selling digital products. It’s responsive, mobile-friendly, and built on Bootstrap, so you know it functions just as it should. 

Some key features to note include theme options through the Redux Framework, unlimited colors, over 600 Google Fonts, WPML compatibility, and multiple options for page and blog layouts. It also comes bundled with the Visual Composer plugin and works with Contact Form 7. Support for accordions and tabs makes creating compelling product pages even easier as well. 

9. Pivot - Responsive Multipurpose WordPress Theme

Pivot is another lovely choice for selling digital products. It’s a multipurpose theme that could be used for pretty much any type of website from personal blog, to agency site, to creative portfolio. However, thanks to WooCommerce integration, it can easily be customized for selling digital products as well. It’s built on Bootstrap, is responsive and mobile-friendly,a nd supports unlimited colors. 

Other features include eight different header types, the Ebor Mega Menu, custom image cropping, the Ebor Template Builder, over 30 page builder elements, and more. Plus, it offers fantastic compatibility with popular plugins including the likes of Revolution Slider, WPML, Contact Form 7, and WP Job Manager.

10. Lorem Ipsum - Bookstore and Media Store Theme

Still another option is Lorem Ipsum. This WordPress theme is designed around the bookstore motif but could be customized for selling any sort of digital product. It’s ideal for offering ebooks, digital courses, or other similar items. It works with WooCommerce, of course, but also LearnDash and WPBakery. 

It offers custom admin control as well as compatibility with Revolution Slider, Swiper Slider, and many other popular plugins. 

11. Fribbo - WordPress Theme for Selling Digital Products

Fribbo might be more your style. It’s a great option for selling magazine subscriptions or online publication downloads. It offers a wide range of features that target the “freemium” market well. So, if you envision offering a combination of free content as well as content tucked behind a paywall, Fribbo is a solid option for you. 

12. Onum - SEO and Marketing WordPress Theme

And then there’s Onum, a WooCommerce theme that is designed for those in the SEO and marketing spaces. It comes with Elementor for super simple drag-and-drop page building and it’s built on Bootstrap so you know it’s responsive and will look great on pretty much any device.  

Some top notable features include eight different homepage layouts, three headers, three footers, compatibility with Revolution Slider and tons of customization options. It supports one-click demo importing, has unlimited colors, and includes over 1,000 Font Awesome icons. With support for unlimited Google Fonts and compatibility with COntact Form 7, Onum packs a lot into its featureset that appeals directly to digital sellers. 

13. Kolaso - Modern Multipurpose WordPress Theme

Still another choice is Kolaso. This multipurpose theme includes support for WooCommerce but could be used for blogs, portfolios, and pretty much any other type of website as well. It comes with Visual Composer and is super easy to edit via a drag-and-drop interface. 

It comes with over five different homepage designs, custom styled pages, and support for pricing tables, member profiles, testimonials, clients, FAQs, galleries, and Q&A pages. It also supports unlimited colors and comes with 60 blocks for easy customization and layout design. Additionally, Kolaso includes nine page headers, six footers, and more options than you’ll know what to do with. 

14. QIK - SaaS Startup WordPress Theme

Last on our list is the QIK WordPress theme. It’s the perfect choice for startup, agency, and SaaS websites that sell apps or software. It comes with 12 different homepages, several inner page designs, and the whole thing can be edited through a drag-and-drop interface thanks to the Elementor page builder. 

One really nice perk is that all assets pictured in the demos are included with this WooCommerce theme, so there’s no second-guessing what you can and can’t use. It also comes with a header and footer builder, a one-click demo installer, and six different blog layouts. 

Get Started Selling WooCommerce Digital Downloads 

Hopefully you now have a good idea of some of the best WooCommerce themes currently available for selling digital products. And beyond that, we hope you have a clearer understanding of how you can use these things to set up a digital product-focused online store yourself. 

Best of luck as you launch your digital product store!