Creating your first website can lead you down a rabbit hole of endless decisions. But with this careful selection of beginner WordPress themes, you can narrow down the list and find themes that are friendly to new WordPress users.
If you aren’t at the point of choosing a theme yet, that’s okay. Follow our guide to create your first WordPress site and read about how to choose a WordPress theme that will accomplish your goals.
Beginner WordPress Themes for 2017
We brought out some of the best beginner WordPress themes available on MOJO Marketplace so you can get started with WordPress faster and easier.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, then starting on the first one.
Mark Twain
Let’s start here by choosing a quality theme that you can manage as you learn to use WordPress.
We’ve broken down the themes by type. Click through to each section or browse all 15.
5 Premium WordPress Themes Built for New Bloggers
If you want to start a blog, you’re in luck. WordPress was built around blogging, and there are plenty of amazing themes that make it easy for newbies. Browse these five carefully selected themes from 2017, and read our post on writing your first blog post to engage your creativity!
The Life Guide theme by PRThemes gives you the tools to inspire your readers with simple, yet effective features. Choose from 4 responsive blog layouts and 3 headers. You can install the demo with one-click and make minimal changes to the layout, header, colors in a few minutes. Here’s a short video explaining how to start with Life Guide.
Competitive Advantage: This theme creates an excellent, minimal platform for inspirational and motivational content and provides the tools you need to grow an audience. Easy to configure in moments and includes great support.
Features
- Responsive
- Multiple post formats
- Multiple layouts and headers
- 5 custom widgets
- Unlimited color options
- 74 Google fonts
- Social icons in header
- Translation ready
Reader is a great theme for creating a strong content presence online. RFC Design has built a clean, readable layout that is fully responsive and given extra SEO (search engine optimization) attention to make your voice heard on the web. Reader is especially friendly for translation and comes with excellent support. If your focus is publishing searchable content, this theme will set you in the right direction.
Competitive Advantage: Reader is optimized for a clean reading experience and offers all the basic features needed for a blog, with some additional SEO value built in.
Features
- Translation ready
- SEO optimized
- Unlimited colors and layouts
- Responsive
- 650+ Google fonts
- Font awesome icons
- Support
Pink provides an elegant platform for fashion, food, lifestyle blogging, and more. This premium theme offers four excellent layouts designed to cater to your style. Choose between large photos or smaller grids, with beautiful sidebar widgets. Put your content categories up front and center with the featured content slider. EasyBlog provides documentation aimed at new bloggers to help you get the most from this blog theme.
Competitive Advantage: Pink will provide the basic structure needed to start blogging today with refined style. Bonus for bloggers with something to sell: Pink and WooCommerce work perfectly together.
Features
- SEO Friendly
- Responsive
- High Speed
- Customizable Colors
- Great Support & Documentation
- Easy to Customize
- 1 Click Demo Import
The Blackboard WordPress theme from MajorThemes is designed with a focus on readability and user experience. This design makes great use of white space to let your content do the work. This theme is great for any blog that focuses on writing, or for an online magazine. Customization is simple, and all settings can be changed in the native WordPress customizer.
Competitive Advantage: Blackboard is consciously designed for a great reading experience, so this theme requires very little customization.
Features
- Minimal Design
- SEO Ready
- Responsive
- Multiple Layouts
- Minutes to Read Plugin Included
- Style Guide
- Translation Ready
- Google Fonts
- Free Video Tutorials and Support
The Ink WordPress blog theme from Visualmodo is designed for writers and bloggers looking to make their mark. The theme is packaged with $150 worth of extra plugins and templates that improve your design and make it easier to build your site. Start your blog on a platform you can build on as your following grows.
Competitive Advantage: Beautiful design with flexibility to customize and expand your features.
Features
- Responsive
- SEO Optimized
- Tons of Options
- Visual Composer Page Builder ($28 value)
- Many Extra Elements and Shortcodes
- Custom Widgets
- Google Fonts
- Google Maps
- WooCommerce Ready
- WPML – Multilingual
5 Premium WordPress Themes Designed for Your Career
Creating a portfolio or professional website is an important step in your career. Whether you’re an artist, photographer, writer, or a tattoo artist, you need a place to showcase your best work. As you grow in your career, you’re portfolio will carry you through to new opportunities. These five themes make it easy to build a high-quality website that will impress recruiters or potential customers.
Of course, you don’t have to work in a visual medium to create a great career portfolio website. Organic Themes‘ Profile WordPress theme. Profile helps you create a professional, responsive hub for your career. This theme is perfect as a hub for your resume, work examples, and links to other resources such as social media links.
Competitive Advantage: Profile strips down your website to the most important parts for a career portfolio so you can set it up in minutes.
Features
- Responsive
- 4 Layout Templates
- Shortcode Library
- Easy Customization
Photographers will love Gutenberg 2, by CR3ATIV. This theme features a full screen home page with a background photo. This is an amazing way to set the tone for your photo work online. The portfolio design gives your photos life with a professional presentation. Even if you’re not a photographer, this unique design can make for a great blog or band website, as well.
Competitive Advantage: Unique, attention grabbing design and simple configuration.
Features
- Responsive
- SEO Optimized
- Full Screen Home Page
- Translation Ready
- Gallery Slider
- Dedicated Support
The Paragraph premium theme is best described as the author’s WordPress theme. With an extremely simple yet eye-catching layout, your writing will take the stage. You can start writing right out of the box when you install this theme, or use the customization options to take it a step further.
Competitive Advantage: Simple set up and effective design for writers.
Features:
- Responsive
- Easy to Use
- Infinite Scroll Option
- 600+ Google Fonts
- Translation Ready
- Minutes to Read Plugin Included
- Free Video Tutorials and Support
The Artist Portfolio WordPress theme by Chicle Design has modern styling and simple configurations to display your art. Whether you’re showcasing photography, painting, illustrations, sculpture, or digital works, your pieces will look great with the cool grid portfolio designs. The home page allows you to express yourself simply and effectively with a large hero image and minimal navigation.
Competitive Advantage: Artist Portfolio looks like a fancy agency website without the bloated, unnecessary features that confuse people and bog down your speed. Perfect for visual artists and art galleries.
Features:
- Responsive
- Full Screen Image Viewer
- Gesture Navigation
- Vector Icons Set
- Smooth Scroll to Top
- Documentation
The Writer WordPress theme from RFC Design is another great solution for writers and artists to create a responsive, content-driven website. The home page header image and animated text draws you in, and the clean blog format makes it easy to navigate articles. The theme admin panel makes it easy to configure each section of your website to your liking, piece by piece. This is a great option for writers or artists who want a striking portfolio with some added customization options.
Competitive Advantage: Robust customization and clean, effective design.
Features:
- Responsive
- Retina Ready
- Unlimited Color Choices
- Add Custom CSS
- SEO Optimized
- Premium Support
- Flexible Admin Panel
5 Premium WordPress Themes for Business Owners
If you run a small business, you probably have an idea of the massive benefit to creating an online presence. You can bring in more new customers with SEO and digital advertising, sell your products online, and help your customers find and learn about your physical store. Not to mention there are some very practical applications for building a business WordPress site. Here are five beginner WordPress themes that will get your business rolling online.
Pure is a minimal design premium WordPress theme that’s perfect for an online store. Bricktheme designed this theme around a clean interface for displaying products. And with the Visual Composer page builder plugin included, this theme makes it easy to create a custom layout. With the WooCommerce integration, you can manage your online storefront all from your WordPress dashboard.
Competitive Advantage: Easy storefront configuration on top of a quality, elegant design.
Feature
- Visual Composer ($28 value)
- Revolution Slider ($18)
- Grid & List Layouts
- Easy Setup
- Unlimited Accent Colors
- Easy Logo & Favicon Upload
- Google Fonts
- Fast Loading
- SEO Optimized
- Responsive
When you’re busy developing your site, build up the hype with the Tick Tock coming soon WordPress theme by ProFrontend. This theme enables you to create an amazing countdown to launch your new product, business, or website, and provides a subscribe button so you can capture emails from interested customers. This is a great way to start with WordPress because you’ll become familiar with the functions, while not getting in too deep.
Competitive Advantage: Fast setup to collect emails for your new business or product.
Features
- Responsive
- Counter
- MailChimp Subscribe Form
- Font Awesome Icons
- Google Fonts
- Google Analytics Ready
- Easy to Customize
The Natural WordPress theme by Organic Themes is a beautiful way to advertise businesses that work closely with or support the environment. If you run river rafting trips, guided tours, or sell natural products, this design will work great for you. You’ll have many layout options and a responsive visual grid that can be used to tell your story and/or display your products.
Competitive Advantage: Natural style meets effective user experience and all the features a business needs to market and sell products or services.
Features
- Responsive
- Multiple Layout Options
- Retina Optimized
- WooCommerce Ready
- Gravity Forms Ready
- Easy to Customize
The Beyond multi-purpose WordPress theme from Visualmodo creates the perfect one-page website for your business or agency. This theme is great for startup tech companies, freelancers, and small businesses. Show what your product and service can do as soon as your customer lands on your website. Build confidence and provide the information they need to buy.
Competitive Advantage: Leverage the exceptional demo designs to show off your brand with ease. And still have flexibility to make changes as your business grows.
Features
- Responsive
- Diverse Layout and Navigation Options
- Extra Elements and Shortcodes
- Auto Updater
- Custom Widgets
- Custom Colors
- Google Fonts
- Google Maps
- Visual Composer Page Builder Plugin ($28 value)
- WooCommerce
- WPML – Multilingual
- Unlimited Site Styles
New!Shop is RFC Design’s eCommerce read beginner WordPress theme. Choose between boxed or full-width versions of your shop and list your products in an elegant layout. This theme comes with some great design additions, such as parallax and slider sections, and easy customization through the admin panel. Easily get your online shop published using WooCommerce and New!Shop.
Competitive Advantage: Design optimized for the shopping experience and plenty of features to make your site feel unique to your brand.
Features
- Responsive
- Intuitive Admin Panel
- WooCommerce Compatible
- Unlimited Colors
- Custom Background Option
- Translation Ready
- Add Custom CSS
- SEO Optimized
- Free Premium Support and Videos
There you have it! The top picks for beginner WordPress themes for 2017 on MOJO Marketplace. Click here to browse our full selection of beginner WordPress themes.
