TOP 9 WORDPRESS THEMES.
SALIENT
Pro: Focused on aesthetics, Salient has been an industry leader in the WordPress Theme community, contributing to visually stunning websites for many years. Constant fixes and rolling out major updates every year has kept their designs VERY modern.
Con: Salient being JavaScript heavy, takes a toll on load times. All the styling, animations and awe-inspiring nodes has led the theme to bear a mountain of weight. A ton of optimizations need to be done in order to get good (not best) results on page speed tests. However, it is not shocking that so much effects and animations would require a little sacrifice.
♦ A very important thing to note is that Salient has the best customer service compared to it’s competitors that RoadLink has encountered till date.
AVADA
Pro: Ruling top charts for many years, Avada has left a mark in the theme industry like none other. Probably the most months’ of Best Seller, Top Trending, Best Rated theme of ThemeForest. RoadLink’s work with Avada led us to believe that Avada’s success was majorly dictated by their clever presentation. They have lots of templates clearly marked with the intention of design.
Con: There aren’t many cons as there are various balances of templates with various bloat counts. The only issue we found was that Avada requires custom coding for quite a few designing options.
♦ All in all, Avada is a great theme for people less fussy about their requirements but still want a good quality website.
FLATSOME
Pro: Known for its minimalistic interface, Flatsome WordPress Theme has been around for quite sometime now. Flatsome was once a blessing in disguise for wordpress theme developers trying to make a lightweight e-commerce website.
Con: Pre built design limitations has rendered high end designs on this theme to be quite expensive as developers need to customize code.
♦ A launch ready, lightweight e-commerce theme is a hard find.
ENFOLD
Pro: A great theme to work with. Enfold ticks all the right boxes (almost). Enfold has built-in performance optimization, SEO optimization and is aimed to be a quality theme. The designs are quite standard as well.
Con: Once you start custom coding, the theme breaks down. Their database architecture does not favor custom coding. Tons of bloat.
♦ Despite all the cons, it is quite surprising how they manage to keep such high performance rankings. A job well done!
ARCHI
Pro: Archi is probably the best architecture wordpress theme in the market. Beautiful designs that are minimalist in nature but does not render the style blunt, a very hard feat to achieve.
Con: Mostly suited to architecture and interior design. Not very e-commerce friendly.
♦ If put extra effort and a few additional hours, Archi can be utilized as a portfolio website for other industries, if minimalism suffices.
RONNEBY
Pro: Ronneby is one of the most lucrative theme in the market. Full built templates with stunning animations assists clients and web developers create such a stunning UI that would otherwise take miles of code and thousands of dollars.
Con: Beauty of the templates are usually heavily reliant on pictures, so keeping the website upto par with standards requires a good web developer. Also animations usually require heavy use of javascript which makes the theme VERY HEAVY. Optimizing Ronneby for fast load times is also a very hard task.
♦ Ronneby certainly enables WordPress users to provide high end UI for way less work.
IMPREZA
Pro: Beautiful lightweight theme with crisp templates. Impreza has quite a few built in functions resulting in less effort in optimizing your site. Comparatively, Impreza also ranks quite well performance-wise.
Con: Has a limited number of templates and is not highly customizable without help of a web developer.
♦ Highly appealing UI makes choosing Impreza a breeze.
JUPITER
Pro: Jupiter is built for a plug-n-play experience, and trying to live up to that is quite difficult. Jupiter
Con: Might find it hard to wrap around different devices.
♦ The wide array of templates is sure to fulfill one requirement or another. A safe investment.
BROOKLYN
Pro: Brooklyn WordPress Theme is probably the best this marketplace has to offer. That is a big statement and we stand by it. Top class, well finished and varieties of templates ensure that you own a truly inspiring website.
Con: Not many templates for e-commerce.
♦ Brooklyn will probably shine through 2020 as well. Yes, it is that good!
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