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21 of the best WordPress theme companies
When you’re building a client’s site, not only do you want a flawless theme, but you want a theme company that’ll have your back. Someone who will be there for you when you have questions or need some quick tech support. As a designer, you know it isn’t just about the HTML and CSS – it’s about the entire experience, from the live demo to the launch.
Reliable companies can sometimes be hard to find, so we’ve created a list to help you stop searching in Google and get back to designing sites. Here are 20 of the best WordPress theme companies.
1. Layers
2. Organic Themes
3. Fruit Themes
4. Elegant Themes
5. WP Theming
6. SoloStream
7. Themify
8. Graph Paper Press
9. StudioPress
10. Themes Kingdom
11. Themeum
12. WPCocktail
13. Theme of the Crop
14. Elma Studio
15. Kopa Theme
16. Catch Themes
17. CSS Igniter
18. ThemeFuse
19. UPThemes
20. Klasik Themes
21. Press75
Want to help us grow our list of the best WordPress theme companies? We’d love to hear what other companies you turn to for your theme needs! Tell us in the comments below who else deserves an honorable mention.
Comments ( 18 )
Mix
February 27, 2019
Hi,Morgan
Thanks for this list.I think Penci can be added to it,because the're awesome.
Mallu
January 23, 2018
I've checked your first two / three links. But i don't like those websites. Maybe you need to reorder the items based on quality.
Imran Topu Sardar
October 15, 2017
Hey Morgan,
Thanks a lot for introducing some fantastic theme companies. I have checked most of them, and they are really awesome in most of the cases.
Admittedly, it will help us to choose the best theme for WordPress. Writing this type of researched article reduce the time to find them. :)
Thanks again and appreciate
Mahbub Osmane
October 4, 2017
Hi Morgan,
Thanks a lot for sharing this amazing piece of information. This listing is of a high standard with awesome WordPress theme Companies. Now the choice is so wide for the customers.
If it measures up to your high standard, consider adding Theme Innovation. ( https://themeinnovation.com/ ) to this list.
Ran David
July 18, 2017
Hi,
Had a great experience with http://www.segurotechnologies.com for my business theme development and plugin customization. Recommended
Christian
November 18, 2016
You're missing the best one: Array Themes (arraythemes.com). Mike is the best Wordpress theme designer I ever seen on the net :P
Rakib Hossin
September 4, 2016
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Troy
April 6, 2016
Thank you for sharing this amazing list. I would like to suggest one more theme which is Biznetic. It's an amazing theme for all business related websites. It is one page them and you can build whatever you want.
It has lots of unique features like:
-- Responsive Design
-- Browser Compatible
-- Translation Ready
-- Contact Form 7 plugin support
-- Includes $12 Avartan Slider Pro
-- 5 In-built Custom Widget And more...
I hope you like it.
Dinesh
February 29, 2016
Nice list Morgan! but, now a days I love Thrive-themes because it has great suite of WordPress themes & page builder plugin. These themes are idle for anyone who wants to create a blog for personal branding. But I also have used Elegant theme in past, elegant themes are the best option when we need to set up multiple blogs with different design .
Morgan Smith
February 29, 2016
Great additions, Dinesh! Thrive Themes and Elegant Themes are definitely great companies to use.
emily johns
January 13, 2016
Hi Morgan,
Thanks a lot for sharing this amazing piece of information. This listing is of a high standard with awesome wordpress theme Companies. Now the choice is so wide for the customers.
If it measures up to your high standard, consider adding Wordsuccor Ltd. (http://www.wordsuccor.com/) to this list.
Andre
August 9, 2015
I'm be curious how you arrived at the decision of the listed theme shops here?
Rex
May 21, 2015
Has anybody had any experience with the X Theme from ThemeForest?
pakar seo
May 15, 2015
good la
Marcus Tibesar
May 12, 2015
I chose Themehybrid's Stargazer for our archives which require a stable no nonsense foundation. Over the years, I have gotten to know Justin Tadlock's approach to WordPress, themes, plugins, etc. He's a very down to earth Alabama farm kid who has solid roots. In other words I trust him for the long haul.
Themehybrid.com themes are not sexy by any stretch of the imagination. But if WP Tavern uses Stargazer and, they have a whole lot more visitors than my little archive; then I believe we made a sound choice.
luke reyes
May 8, 2015
Mythemeshop was not included in the list, I bought a theme from them and it is very fast, the customer service is excellent.
Lynn Nichols
May 7, 2015
Great list of reliable WP Theme companies. I've purchased and used themes from a number of these companies. I would like to add one more companies to your list, namely, Sketchthemes. They are a small theme shop that produces excellent WP themes -- some of their themes have received high recognition.
For example, Forbes Magazine online article selected their Convac Lite theme as one of the best free themes (http://www.forbes.com/sites/allbusiness/2014/11/14/the-10-best-free-wordpress-themes-of-2014/5/). Similarly, their Invert premium theme was named as one of the top 50 business WP themes by WPBranch.com (http://wpbranch.com/best-free-premium-wordpress-business-themes/).
Sketch Themes consistently produce high quality and feature rich themes. I really appreciate their theme support which always goes the extra mile to help with theme customization.
James Dudley
May 7, 2015
We almost exclusively use WooThemes for our clients, big & small (http://www.woothemes.com). Especially the "Canvas" theme, which can be customized to be almost whatever you need it to be. As theme developers, we find the Woo framework incredibly easy to use. And most importantly, all their themes integrate perfectly every time with WooCommerce, the #2 ecommerce package on the internet (after Magento).
Stick with WooThemes. Or Genesis (fastest WP framework ever!). You won't go wrong.
Dan Knauss
May 7, 2015
Canvas has had its ups and downs. I still use it, but I think the main benefit there may be if Woo consistently supports their theme shop since they're a pretty solid company, whatever else might be said about them. Longevity and support matters, I just wish the thing could be child themed without so much !important. Take a look at Layers and Make though.
Genesis is more of a traditional "real" framework for developers that is accessible and friendly for designers. It will be interesting to see how it holds up as these "Builder Themes" take off. I have a different set of love/hate feelings about Genesis. I wish they'd have made the framework a plugin and left child themes to you for your own customization of their parent themes.
Scott Bishop
May 5, 2015
If we're not building our own custom WordPress themes for clients we always go with ThemeForest. They have a wonderful selection of wordpress themes. They are also beginning to expand with other services such as a stock photo library, videos, graphic design and more. I highly suggest you check them out at www.themeforest.net
Dan Knauss
May 7, 2015
Envato has had all those services for quite some time. ThemeForest has a rather bad reputation in professional WordPress circles, however. Theme and plugin code there is often extremely poor with a tendency toward bloat, baked in "sliders" that become security issues, and custom content types also baked into the theme rather than separated as plugins so your content is not as locked into the theme. For further background on this take a look here: https://managewp.com/theme-framework
I am sorry to see Theme Foundry has not made the list; they're first rate and produced Twenty Twelve, one of the best default themes for WP in recent years and the first that treated WP as a CMS. Their "Make" theme is excellent, but Layers is going to give it stiff competition.
James Dudley
May 7, 2015
Wow, really Scott? You guys use ThemeForest themes for your clients?!
BEWARE of themes on ThemeForest. You have to be super careful selecting your themes there. Do a thorough code review for each one, they are usually riddled with bugs and unneeded bloat. If you find a reputable coder that produces themes and sells them on ThemeForest, there are some good ones out there. But we've learned our lesson the hard way too many times from clients who have chosen themes from themeforest (or similar "cheap" theme sites) and when we try to customize the theme to fit their needs, we always find bad bad code.
Just because a theme may LOOK nice does not mean it's a good theme!
Zoe
February 23, 2017
I'm looking for something quite specific in my new theme for my new website, but I can't find any information to help me find it. (Unbelievable, but true, I promise!) I was wondering whether someone on this site, perhaps James Dudley can help me out!
James mentioned that themes on Themeforest are often bloated with code and poorly written. I was wondering how you can tell this, from looking at the demo themes.
My old website uses Flothemes, but has become very bloated with plug ins and has 27 JavaScript files, mostly related to the theme name and 18 CSS files. I have a huge number of plugins too, which I felt necessary because the website did not have the functionality I wanted.
I'm now about to leave my old website behind and go for something light, fresh, lots of white space and little content except a few well chosen optimized images.
I was wondering if anyone knew a good, modern theme company that makes themes for specifically for photographers and others in a highly visual field, provides good quality long term support concerning any modifications I'd like to make, and actually cares about their customers instead of fobbing them off with a 1-line reply by email. I don't mind paying upwards of $500 or so for this.
I would like one of those 'well built' websites - fast, responsive, well designed, well coded - but everyone just seems to charge like $50 and provide a crap one.