Last Updated: October 23, 2020
We all know that WordPress is very popular all over the world. It has that simplicity which attracts users to use it and create some of the most popular websites in the world.
Each WordPress site has a theme installed and quite a few have become the most popular WordPress themes in the world. It shows how your site looks and feels to the visitors. With so much to look for on the internet, people do not spend much time when they come to a new site unless it has what they are looking for.
No matter how good your site may look but if it does not have the information that they are interested in, the visitors will scram to another site to find what they need.
It is important to have a focus to find a good theme for your site, but spending more time on that and not on what your visitors are looking for is a sure fire way to not succeed with your website venture.
WordPress is the go to CMS (Content Management System) for many people who are not technology savvy and who just want to get their website made which can be updated regularly.
In addition to that WordPress is very organized and since it is hugely popular, there are all sorts of features and extras that you can keep adding to your site in order to make it better.
There are thousands and thousands of themes and you may get pretty confused if you keep researching for a bit. There are a few themes whose names pop up regularly no matter where you go. There are several review sites and review videos on various popular themes and you can easily find some really popular themes.
Here is a list of 10 mostly used WordPress Themes in the world. This list is from those websites which come in the top Million websites in the world.
- Divi
- Astra
- Twenty Seventeen
- Avada
- Twenty Twenty
- OceanWP
- Enfold
- BeTheme
- Flatsome
- Generatepress
The theme I am using on this website is Generatepress and it is a very cool theme. It is a freemium theme where you can download a free version which has limited features and you can upgrade to the premium version if you like it.
The cost of the theme is very less when compared to other paid themes on the list. If you do not know which theme to buy then give it a try.
The other themes on the list are also pretty good. Each theme has its own features and functionalities which makes them unique.
If you are creating a new site using wordpress for the first time, then remember that there is a learning curve which will be different for different people. No matter how much someone says that you can get started in the easiest possible way, you will need to learn various aspects of the build process.
The various parts of the site which you will be working on are the navigation menu, the front page of your site, the posts page of your site, decide whether the front page of your site is a static page or a blog page, deciding the sidebar layout, working out with the widgets and making them work properly, working with footer and footer widgets, creating various pages on your site, adding blog posts to the site, adding images to each page, installing various plugins, getting the settings right for the plugins, customizing the theme according to your taste, deciding the colors, the typography, creating a logo for your site, optimizing your site for speed and many more things.
There you have it. Work needs to be done. So get started and let me know in the comments which of the 10 most popular wordpress themes do you use on your site.