In this post, I am going to discuss Top WordPress themes used by famous blogger worldwide. WordPress theme is the second most important thing after setting up your WordPress blog.
Let’s First understand why you need a good or premium WordPress theme?
Why should you know it?
You may be wondering why you need to know what WordPress theme is used by top bloggers. WordPress theme is very important for the success of your blog.
Let’s see the reason behind creating this post?
Tried and tested – These bloggers already tried several themes and finally implemented one. When you know what themes they used, it is easier to select one for you.
Theme review – Most of these bloggers also reviewed these themes on their blog. It will be very useful when you are looking for a premium theme for your blog.
Save Money – Premium theme cost money. Buying a wrong or unsuitable theme may result in loss of your money. Top blogger theme will help you to buy a better one.
Comparison – Once you are aware of themes used by top blogger, you can compare their features and it will help you to choose the best theme for your blog
More options – These top bloggers theme will give you more options; you will never run out of the idea. Isn’t it better to have more options before you finalize your premium theme?
Let’s see now Top 20 bloggers in India and their WordPress theme, they use for their blog:
- Shoutmeloud.com (Harsh Agarwal) – Harsh used Genesis Framework theme for his blog. The actual theme is customized built on top of Genesis. It is very clear and sleek design. He also used floating menu and sidebar widget.
Some of the advantage of Genesis Framework theme:
- Fully customized one to three column option
- Custom template for your blog
- Mobile responsive
- Customized theme option with color selection for theme, menu etc
- Updated with every WordPress update
- Cost – $59
2. Labnol.org (Amit Agarwal)- One of the most popular blog in India. Amit used the theme and it is very simple with white background. I love its simplicity and it loads quickly.
Some of the advantage of Elemin theme:
- Good white space balance, minimal graphics
- Google font,CSS, HTML5 support
- Responsive
- Easily embed picture, video, and other media, more like Tumblr
- Grid views layout
- Cost – $49
3. Bloggerideas.com (Jitendra Vaswani) – This blog is very popular for Blogging and money making tips niche. It is a customized theme created by Blogoturn.
Some of the features of this theme are:
- Customized homepage with email optin
- Two layer design
- Customized footer
- Fast and responsive
4. Fonearena.com (Varun Krishnan) – A blog about mobile phones news and updates. This blog used Arthemia-premium theme.
Some of the features of this theme are:
- Theme admin panel
- Custom menu
- Threaded comment option
- Works with all browsers and device
- Custom sidebar option
- Custom menu and much more…
- Price – $49
5. Trak.in (Arun Prabhudesai) – This blog is a top blog for startup, entrepreneurship, and business related news niche. It used a magazine-style theme, Herald.
Some of the features of this theme are:
- Customize option to enhance performance
- Customize post layout option
- Flexible image size option
- Modular header option
- Can place ad anywhere in the blog
- Customizable single post layout option
- Built for Woocommerce support
- Cost – $59
6. Alltechbuzz.net (Imran Uddin) – This blog is related to Web development, Blogging, and SEO. Imran used Eleven pro theme from Studiopress. It is a great looking theme with a lot of customizing options.
Some of the features of this theme are:
- 4 color and 6 layout options
- HTML5 and mobile responsive
- Threaded comment and footer widget option
- Option to edit everything in theme like setting, menu, color schemes and color
- Customize header option
- Cost – $99
7. BloggerTipsTricks (Ankit Singla) – One of the top ranked blog for blogging tips, money making and WordPress related stuff. Ankit used Thrive themes. One of the best rated WordPress theme.
Some of the highlights of this theme are:
- Landing pages templates
- Optimized blog performance
- Create focus area like color text box for attention
- Optimized for every device
- Page generator to create landing pages like opt-in page, sample page etc
- Over 600 font supports and many colors to choose from
- Updated very frequently and new feature is added regularly
- Price – $19/month
8.BloggingCage (Kulwant Nagi) – Bloggingcage is a Blogging and SEO tips for bloggers. Kulwant Negi used customized theme built on top of Genesis framework.
Some of the features of this blog:
- Email opt-in on Homepage
- Two layer design
- Mobile responsive
- And all built in feature with Genesis
9. MyWPTips (Avnish Gautam) – Mywptips is a great blog for learning WordPress tutorials and SEO. Avnish used Gomedia theme for his blog. Some of the advantages of this theme:
- Responsive design
- Featured post slider
- Built-in pagination
- Customized post and widget control
- Support many international languages
- Cost – $39
10. Update Land (Jyoti Chauhan) – This is also one of the top ranked blogs for blogging and SEO tips. Jyoti used customized built on top of Genesis framework.
Some of the features I found with this blog:
- Loads quickly
- Mobile responsive
- Customized header and menu
- Font has been modified and it looks bigger
- Floating menu
- Cost -Unknown – Genesis framework – $59
Conclusion – There are few things we need to learn from this post:
- Choose a premium theme if you are a serious blogger – Do not play around with free theme for long. If you are a serious blogger, go for a paid or premium theme according to your niche. They are well designed, faster and customizable.
- Hit and trial – Most of the premium theme comes with 30-60 days money back guarantee. This is enough for evaluation. Choose which suits your blog most and continue using it.
- Make your blog responsive –All paid themes are mobile responsive. But there are few resources you need to handle yourself. Make sure you work with your themes and it should work on all devices
- Make sure your blog loads faster – The biggest benefits of a premium theme is they are optimized and load quickly for your user. This will have the positive effect on readership and SEO.
- Regularly work on your themes – Once you have the premium theme, you need to start building content and design on top it. Use some utility plugin to get maximum out of it.
- Get feedback from your readers – It is always a good idea to ask your readers what they think about your WordPress theme? What else they want to see? Use email list to get feedback from them regularly.
- Invest in your work to get proper returns – Everyone want to earn from their blog. But before that you need to invest in your blog to make it attractive, clean and fast. Choosing a premium theme is the first step.
- Attractive design brings more visitors – This is very obvious. Once your blog is attractive and easy to use, you will get more visitors traffic and referral. WordPress theme is the first step for it.
Remember sooner or later you have to switch to the premium theme if you want to go to the next level of your blogging.
You need to make your blog is attractive for your visitors and for SEO. A premium theme helps you to achieve two more important things; Attractive design and fast loading.
Hope this post helps you to get some idea about Top bloggers, themes they use and what are the advantages of paid themes.
Please do write to me about your experience with paid theme and what are the difficulties you are facing while switching from free to paid themes. I would love to hear from you.
