We’ve encountered extraordinary resources for designers and developers throughout the year 2023.

The seventh compilation in the series, titled “What’s New for Designers & Developers from 2023,” will highlight some of the most exceptional themes for WordPress, whether newly released or updated. These include business-based themes, Gutenberg-compatible themes, blogging themes, multipurpose themes, a theme crafted by Automattic, and themes with eCommerce support.

While eagerly anticipating the innovations the web will unveil in 2024, take a moment to revisit the standout WordPress themes of 2023. Enjoy the retrospective!

January

Fork – Theme

Fork is a modern, minimalistic theme that is fully compatible with full-site-editing. This powerful theme offers a range of patterns that make it perfect for simple design is suitable for a wide range of purposes, including blogs, small businesses, startups, agencies, firms, e-commerce shops, personal portfolio sites, and more. It also comes with several style variations to suit your unique aesthetic.

Price: Free

Printco – Theme

Build beautiful, intelligent websites with over 3 Homepage, Concepts ready to go or combine, build a layout has never been easier. There’s a huge range of 60+ styled pages waiting for your customisation, anything you can think of can be built with our template. If you are searching for innovative, modern and clean, you must choose Printco.

Printco comes with necessary features and pages. And it comes with necessary features for Print websites such as about pages, Testimonials, Clients, questions & answers, work, services, team & single team profiles, awesome blog pages and more. This theme can easily satisfy all of your needs.

Price: $69.00

February

Carnival Lite – Theme

Carnival Lite is a free art gallery WordPress theme designed for museum and art gallery. It is a fully responsive and retina-ready theme with a clean design and modern look. The homepage of this theme is highly attractive and customisable.

Everything on the homepage is customisable, starting from colours and fonts to layouts and backgrounds. You will get a great variety of options to choose from.

Price: Free

VisionArt – Theme

VisionArt is a free photography WordPress block theme for full site editing. The theme comes with a light color scheme with an amazing design. With Full Site Editing features, you can customize your site the way want. All the block patterns are simple and easy to use so drag and drop the blocks and build the content perfectly.

Price: Free

Kapa – Theme

Kapa is a modern responsive WordPress Theme built for Car Repair & Auto Services websites. It includes multiple demo variations, including a blog and inner pages. The theme is developed using Elementor, ACF Pro, Redux, Bootstrap, and Sass.

Also, WooCommerce shopping features are included. Also, this theme has Contact Form 7 plugin submission, Newsletter plugin submission, well commented, and easily customisable source code with detailed documentation. These features will help to make the theme use and customisation based on the ultimate needs.

Price: $15.00

Campo – Theme

Campo is a WordPress theme exclusively built for sport clubs, sport teams and local sport leagues having in mind fans’ needs and interests. It is fully responsive, retina ready and easy to customize.

This WordPress Theme features 9 original homepages. Campo’s design and ready-made contents make this theme an excellent choice for medical and healthcare businesses. This WP theme is built having in mind actual needs of medical practices and their clients and patients.

Among many great features there are also before & after images to showcase your work, timetable to show doctors’ working hours and allow visitors to book an appointment online and cost calculator to enable websites visitors to calculate total cost of services they need.

Price: $39.00

March

Kortez – Theme

Kortez is professional multipurpose theme perfect for your project. Kortez is blazing fast and lightweight but packed with easily customizable options that scales to any screen. Kortez works flawlessly with Gutenberg and the most popular page builder Elementor.

Price: Free

Gutenify News – Theme

Gutenify News is modern block-based theme where you can build your own unique looking website by using WordPress Blocks Editor.

This is a multipurpose block based free theme, the theme is built in accordance of Full Site Editing features introduced in WordPress 5.9, which means that all the aspects including colors, typography, and the layout of every single page on your site can be customized to suit your need.

Price: Free

Tampa – Theme

The true embodiment of simplicity with a touch of sophistication, revolutionising the way you build and design websites. Tampa is made for the sole purpose of serving as the ultimate portfolio WordPress theme that each creative can enjoy its fruitful features and advanced toolset.

The theme includes a fine selection of pre-made homepages that you can integrate with a single click, or design everything from scratch. Note that Tampa also supports and facilitates the creation of online stores and provides powerful and unique WooCommerce tools to build upon your products the most exquisite eCommerce stores.

Price: $32.00

April

Spectra One – Theme

Spectra One is a beautiful and modern WordPress theme built with the Full Site Editing (FSE) feature. It’s a versatile theme that can be used for blogs, portfolios, businesses, and more. Spectra One comes with a sleek and professional design that will make your website stand out from the crowd.

Price: Free

Adventurer – Theme

A theme for travelers, writers and photographers.

Price: Free

Playrex – Theme

Playrex is a real eSports & Gaming WordPress Theme! You get everything you need to showcase your gaming website, magazine, team, create your gaming tournament and much more.

The theme has three pre-made amazing home designs with over 20 creative sections. It also has an awesome About Page, Tournaments Page, Squad Page, Shop Page, Blog Page, Contact Us Page and more. If you love our Gaming WordPress Theme, don’t forget to rate us 5 stars and give us your feedback for better update.

Price: $29.00

May

Bitácora – Theme

Bitácora is a simple old-school blog theme by Automattic

Price: Free

LuxeDrive – Theme

Turn your journey to success into a joyride with LuxeDrive, a modern theme designed for limousine and car rental websites! The theme features templates ideal for airport transfer, limo service, taxi, rent a car and rental service businesses. It has full Elementor and WooCommerce plugin compatibility, and lots more!

Price: $79.00

June

MrWriter – Theme

Introducing Mr. Writer, a minimalist theme designed for bloggers and writers. Showcase your writings and works with ease using this simple yet elegant theme. It includes essential features such as blog archive and contact page patterns that can be customized to suit your needs on any page.

The primary focus of this theme is to create a clean and straightforward website, with a special emphasis on dark mode style. Experience an engaging Blog archive pattern that allows you to highlight your featured blog post as a sticky item in the first section.

Price: Free

Rødest – Theme

Unleash your creativity with Rødest, the ultimate multipurpose creative Elementor theme designed for agencies, company portfolios, and eCommerce businesses.

This fully responsive theme is compatible with the Elementor Page Builder, offering endless customization possibilities. Explore a wide range of modern portfolio, magazine, and online store templates, along with a plethora of layouts and features perfectly suited for contemporary creative individuals and companies. Experience the extraordinary with Rødest.

Price: $44.00

Starbiz – Theme

Starbiz is the all-in-one Agency and portfolio showcase builder with high performance, exclusive features, and an award-winning design collection. Choose from 8+ pre-built demos, access 30+ Custom Elementor Widgets, and create a clean and responsive website without coding. Perfect for startups, agencies, and creative professionals in various industries.

Price: $19.00

July

FotaWP – Theme

FotaWP is a versatile WordPress theme that offers a sleek website experience. It suits various niches like blogs, businesses, startups, e-commerce, portfolios, and more. With full-site editing support, it provides an innovative platform for customization. Choose from 50+ templates, personalize colors and fonts, and enjoy fast loading and responsiveness.

Price: Free

GOxtore – Theme

GOxtore is doubtlessly an impeccable WooCommerce WordPress theme. This theme is an adaptable and beautiful Electronics Store Elementor WooCommerce Theme. The theme is appropriate for a variety of products, including electronics, computers, phones, cameras, headphones, and more.

It is a completely responsive theme that looks fantastic and functions properly on any device and in all web browsers. If you utilise this theme, you can differentiate your store from others with its magnificent look and cutting-edge features.

Price: $19.00

NoStop – Theme

NoStop – Gym and Fitness WordPress is a minimal, clean, and modern theme designed for gym, yoga, sports, and fitness-related businesses. It’s perfect for fitness experts, personal trainers, and yoga trainers who want an attractive and effective way to showcase their work to clients.

The theme is built on Elementor, a user-friendly drag-n-drop PageBuilder for WordPress, ensuring a smooth website creation experience. It is also responsive and looks great on various devices, including mobile and tablets.

Price: $59.00

August

Next Business – Theme

Meet Next Business WordPress theme – the ultimate solution for a professional online presence. Its sleek design and user-friendly interface make showcasing products and services a breeze.

Highlight your mission, team, and achievements with customisable sections. Engage clients with a dedicated services page and an informative blog. SEO optimised and mobile-responsive for seamless performance across devices, empowering your business to thrive online.

Price: Free

Bucher – Theme

Looking for a clean, modern, and original WordPress theme for meat store, butcher, meat farm or any other food and food delivery website? For such a business, the website is the very important component of attracting customers. With Bucher theme you will create a stunning, eye-catching, steak house inspired website that reflects your vision and attitude to customer.

Price: $59.00

Mer’s – Theme

Mers is a versatile Personal Portfolio WordPress theme with a creative, minimal, and clean design. It’s perfect for startups, companies, agencies, and freelancers looking to showcase their projects and services with a 100% super responsive experience. Built on Elementor, it offers a smooth website creation process and looks great on all devices.

Price: $59.00

September

BSoJ – Theme

BSoJ (Blue Screen of Joy) takes its inspiration from the well-known Blue Screen of Death, serving as a unique blog theme.

Price: Free

Sadhu – Theme

Sadhu is a dynamic child theme of Martanda WPKoi, accessible at wpkoi.com for theme demos. With a lively grid design, it’s perfect for portfolios, businesses, and agencies. Its multipurpose nature allows you to showcase art, launch a blog, start an online store, and more.

The demos utilize Elementor, WooCommerce, and Contact Form 7 plugins, with a premium demo including Sadhu premium plugin. Its intuitive admin, customizable features, and block-based templates make coding skills unnecessary. With responsiveness across devices, build your site with Sadhu Theme and share it globally!

Price: Free

Knote – Theme

Knote is a Google core web vitals optimized WordPress theme, prioritizing speed and customization. Ideal for diverse websites like blogs, businesses, portfolios, and eCommerce shops. Works seamlessly with popular plugins like Elementor, Yoast, RankMath, and WooCommerce.

Price: Free

Azino – Theme

Azino is a modern and creative WordPress Theme tailored for non-profit, charity, and fundraising websites. Utilizing the popular Elementor page builder, Azino caters to campaigns, donations, events, and more. With vital pages like Causes, Blog, Events, Gallery, Volunteers, and responsive design.

The theme provides a comprehensive solution. It supports multiple languages with RTL compatibility, offers a donation feature with integrated payments, and boasts one-click demo import for quick setup.

Price: $29.00

October

Kenta Digital Shop – Theme

A Multi-purpose and Customisable Free eCommerce WordPress Theme. It provides endless possibilities to create your site visually in minutes, without coding skills. We also have tons of options for you to customise every part of your site. You can almost build any kind of websites, like blog, business, portfolio, WooCommerce storefronts etc..

Price: Free

Danza – Theme

Danza – a contemporary WordPress theme tailored for Dance Schools and Ballet Studios. This theme is specifically designed to cater to dance schools, studios, and dance clubs. Danza’s flexibility extends to its well-commented code and easy customisation options, ensuring that the theme can be tailored to meet your precise requirements.

This theme is built entirely with Elementor, making everything a simple Drag & Drop process, eliminating the need for coding skills. It offers comprehensive support for WooCommerce, MailChimp, Contact Form 7, CMB2, Redux Framework, One Click Demo Import, GDPR compliance, WPML, Yoast SEO, and Cookie Notice, providing you with a robust and versatile platform for your website needs.

Price: $29.00

Gotox – Theme

Gotox is a modern WordPress theme designed for agencies and portfolios. With its clean design, Gotox is perfect for creative professionals, freelancers, and marketing agencies.

It offers extensive customisation options, including multiple pre-designed homepage layouts catering to various industries. Its intuitive interface seamlessly integrates with the popular Elementor page builder, making customisation a breeze for users of all skill levels.

The theme boasts versatile portfolio and gallery options, enabling the display of projects in grids, sliders, and carousels with high-resolution images and engaging animations.

Gotox enhances functionality with features like mobile responsiveness and clean, efficient code for fast loading times.

Price: $29.00

November

Sonoran – Theme

Meet Sonoran, an adaptable and cost-free WordPress theme crafted to meet the unique requirements of bloggers, writers, and content creators spanning different niches. This responsive and stylish minimalist theme boasts a contemporary and uncluttered design, rendering it an ideal choice for a wide array of websites.

Price: Free

Foodie Blog – Theme

The Foodie Blog template for WordPress is an enchanting and feature-packed Full Site Editing (FSE) design, meticulously crafted with food bloggers, culinary enthusiasts, and creators of food-related content in mind. It provides a delightful platform for showcasing culinary creations, sharing recipes, and connecting with a food-loving audience. This theme stands out for its visually pleasing and highly practical design.

It harmoniously blends elegant typography, tasteful colour schemes, and well-organised layouts to establish an aesthetically pleasing and user-friendly digital space.

Price: Free

Elesa – Theme

This is a sleek, contemporary, and unique WordPress theme tailored for electricians, electrical companies, electricity repair services, lighting shops, or any other electric-related websites? For businesses in this industry, a website plays a crucial role in customer attraction. With the Elesa theme, you can craft a remarkable and visually appealing website that draws inspiration from electricity, perfectly mirroring your vision and customer-oriented approach.

Price: $19.00

December

Prime FSE – Theme

Tailored for the Full Site Editing (FSE) era, Prime stands as the ultimate free WordPress block theme for both businesses and individuals. Featuring 14+ pattern designs, multiple global styles, creative blocks by Getwid, demo content, and an integrated mega menu, Prime FSE empowers you to create a modern, fast, and entirely customisable website.

Price: Free

DigiNova – Theme

DigiNova is Creative Portfolio & Digital Agency WordPress theme, meticulously designed to cater to the demands of the contemporary digital landscape. Ideal for projects involving creative digital agencies, design studios, advertising agencies, and portfolio showcases, this theme provides numerous customisation options to achieve the desired look for your website. It ensures easy navigation and compatibility with various screen sizes.

The one-click demo content importer tool facilitates the quick setup of a fully-featured website. Subsequently, you can personalise your WordPress website effortlessly using the theme options and the Elementor page builder, replacing demo content with your own.

Price: $19.00

AOi – Theme

AOi revolutionises the presentation of your software and technology ventures online. Tailored to be the ultimate WordPress theme for tech portfolios, AOi offers a diverse range of dynamic features and an advanced toolset curated for every tech professional. Embracing a modern and adaptable approach, AOi empowers you to effortlessly shape your online presence, showcase cutting-edge projects, and captivate potential clients with esteemed collaborations and unparalleled expertise in the tech industry.

AOi stands out as a comprehensive solution, unlocking the true potential of a user-friendly drag & drop page builder seamlessly integrated with an intuitive interface. This ensures a seamless website building and design experience for every tech enthusiast. AOi fully supports the establishment of online marketplaces, providing robust WooCommerce tools to elevate software products and tech services into an immersive eCommerce experience.

Price: $69.00