Throughout 2024, we’ve discovered an array of extraordinary resources for designers and developers.
The seventh entry in the series, “What’s New for Designers & Developers from 2024,” shines a spotlight on some of the most exceptional WordPress themes, whether newly released or updated. These include business-focused themes, Gutenberg-compatible themes, blogging themes, multipurpose designs, a few themes from Automattic, and themes with robust WooCommerce support.
As we look ahead to the innovations 2025 will bring, let’s take a moment to reflect on the standout WordPress themes of 2024. Enjoy the retrospective!
January
Blogpoet – Theme
BlogPoet is a cutting-edge WordPress theme seamlessly integrating with Full Site Editing, offering a block-based approach to website design. Tailored for bloggers, this theme combines the power of WordPress’s latest features with a sleek and minimalistic design, providing a seamless and enjoyable blogging experience.
Price: Free
Nilos – Theme
Nilos is a premium, modern WordPress Theme designed for a variety of purposes, including developers, designers, programmers, freelancers, writers, artists, web developers, photographers, and other digital professionals. It caters to modern technology companies and software development websites, offering outstanding features, full responsiveness, and mobile-friendliness.
Price: $19.00
Electio – Theme
Introducing Electio, a tech marvel tailored for electronics and gadget stores! This theme offers a range of customizable online store and computer shop templates with seamless compatibility with WooCommerce and Elementor Page Builder.
Professionally designed for WooCommerce, Electio features a responsive layout, mega menu, portfolio, animated sections, and easy one-click demo import. It’s user-friendly, powerful, and flexible—build your website effortlessly without coding knowledge.
Price: $19.00
February
Worklancer – Theme
Introducing Worklancer, a specialized child theme of FotaWP designed for freelancers. Seamlessly integrating FotaWP’s robust features, Worklancer offers block-based full site editing for easy customisation. With its minimal design, create diverse freelance agency or personal websites effortlessly.
Ideal for freelancers in design, development, consulting, content writing, and more, Worklancer provides a versatile platform to showcase skills and expertise professionally.
Price: Free
SocialPress – Theme
SocialPress: Your all-in-one solution for community websites. Seamlessly integrated with BuddyPress, BBPress, BuddyBoss, LearnPress, and more, it’s your GDPR-compliant alternative to Facebook groups. Create private or public communities, membership sites, or even an Intranet. With a beautiful, SEO-friendly design, fast loading times, and full mobile compatibility, it’s perfect for any device.
Monetize with Google Adsense, WooCommerce, Stripe, PayPal, or Easy Digital Downloads. Plus, its beginner-friendly setup and page builder integration make customization a breeze. Experience the power of SocialPress for your online community today.
Price: Free
Asli – Theme
Asli impresses visitors with its sophisticated design and seamless navigation. Featuring infinite lists and showcase sliders, it highlights portfolio projects effortlessly.
With smooth motion effects like parallax backgrounds and WebGL sliders, Asli offers a captivating user experience. Powered by Elementor, it enables unlimited page layouts and customisation, supported by 35 custom Elementor widgets for easy website creation.
Price: $59.00
March
Norrsken – Theme
Norrsken is a sleek block theme crafted for blogs, boasting a stylish design inspired by the mesmerizing Aurora Borealis.
Price: Free
Ezelian – Theme
Ezelian is a WordPress block theme boasting over 5 patterns and 10+ theme colors, making customization a breeze. Say goodbye to costly plugins—Ezelian stands out as one of the most remarkable WordPress themes available!
Price: Free
Optix – Theme
Optix is a modern SaaS WordPress theme tailored for tech companies and startups, offering exceptional digital experiences for clients. It caters to various purposes such as SaaS landing, software, web applications, app landing, crypto, IT services, startups, or blogging.
The theme features 100% responsive HTML files, W3C HTML validation, and well-commented code structures for easy customization. Optix ensures excellent display across desktops, laptops, tablets, and mobile devices, providing highly customizable options and professional support available 24/7.
Price: $19.00
April
Jaida – Theme
A WordPress block theme made for blogging.
Price: Free
Timelines – Theme
Timelines, a versatile blog and magazine theme packed with abundant customisation options. Designed to shine on all devices, this theme boasts a distinctive responsive double sidebar layout, complete with dark and light mode options. With its extensive styling features, you have the freedom to craft your own unique design. From unlimited background and accent colours to customisable element border radius, the possibilities are endless.
Price: Free
FxVibe – Theme
The FixVibe WordPress theme is tailored for proprietary trading firms and investment firms specializing in forex markets. It’s perfect for businesses in finance, banking, consulting, and forex trading.
With FixVibe, you can easily set up and customize your website with professionalism in mind. It offers essential features like company profiles, market information, trading details, blogs, testimonials, and contact forms.
Powered by the Elementor page builder, FixVibe enables intuitive drag-and-drop customization for front-end design. This user-friendly tool allows for real-time editing, making website creation fast and hassle-free.
Utilizing Elementor’s add-ons further enhances customization efficiency, making FixVibe ideal for forex prop firms. Drag-and-drop functionality simplifies front-end editing, ensuring a seamless experience for users without coding knowledge.
Price: $199.00
May
Feelin’Good – Theme
A blog theme with a bold vaporwave aesthetic. Its nostalgic atmosphere pays homage to the 80s and early 90s.
Price: Free
Inventive – Theme
Introducing Inventive, a cutting-edge WordPress theme designed for various industries like business consulting, marketing, finance, and more. It’s ideal for startups, SaaS providers, app developers, and tech businesses.
The theme developers integrated the popular Elementor page builder plugin for easy content and layout control. With the built-in Elementor Add-ons enhance convenience, making Inventive perfect for waste management, eco technologies, and environmental protection company themes.
With drag-and-drop functionality, customizing pages on the frontend is effortless. Elementor simplifies customization, making it easy for anyone, even without coding experience.
Price: $13.00
Stargaze – Theme
Stargaze is a fresh, trendy & powerful WordPress Theme best suited for observatory, astronomy, scientific laboratory, scientific institute or research company, or anything related to splace, like space agency, aerospace company, space tourism, or science blog, etc.
The theme includes Slider Revolution and Swiper Slider plugins for slideshows and supports Retina Images. It offers intuitive navigation with user and main menu support and an Interactive Ajax Search feature. Layout options ensure responsiveness, with support for both boxed and fullwidth layouts. Elementor compatibility enables easy content modification. Advanced blog settings enhance engagement. The theme’s powerful framework includes inheritance systems and compatibility with popular plugins like Elementor and WooCommerce.
Price: $13.00
June
Danva – Theme
With its modern and professional design, this theme is ideal for showcasing your agency’s services, team, and portfolio of work. Engage your audience with stunning visuals, interactive elements, and seamless navigation.
Price: Free
Dark Academia – Theme
Dark Academia is a blog theme inspired by Dark Academia aesthetics. Its unique 50:50 split layout evokes the feeling of flipping through the pages of a book.
Price: Free
Woopy – Theme
Woopy is a stylish, clean, and minimal Multi-Skin WordPress theme perfect for creatives wanting to showcase and sell their craftwork. Featuring 6 demos, various blog layouts, a portfolio, and Elementor support, Woopy is highly versatile. It is compatible with popular plugins like Elegro Crypto Payment, MailChimp for WP, Contact Form 7, and Smash Balloon Instagram Feed, making it a comprehensive solution for your online presence.
Price: $19.00
July
RecipeBook – Theme
RecipeBook is a versatile theme designed for various content creators. It utilizes the Query Loop element in a unique way, featuring zero spacings and block strokes for a distinctive look.
Price: Free
Avi – Theme
Avi is the ultimate WordPress theme for digital designers looking to showcase their portfolios in style! With its sleek and modern design, Avi is perfect for graphic designers, web developers, photographers, and other creative professionals. Featuring a fully customizable layout, Avi allows you to effortlessly create a stunning portfolio that truly reflects your unique style and brand. Choose from a variety of pre-designed templates or create your own from scratch.
Price: Free
Ecoheat – Theme
Ecoheat is a WordPress theme designed for fireplace design, heating companies, and fire stove shops. It includes WooCommerce integration for selling fireplaces, stoves, firewood, and accessories.
Key features include light and dark homepages, animations, creative headers, 20+ unique shortcodes, galleries, blogs, testimonials, product catalog, shopping cart, and more. Compatible with Elementor Page Builder, Ecoheat allows you to create layouts without coding. The theme is also translation-ready and compatible with WPML and TranslatePress plugins.
Price: $59.00
August
AvatarNews – Theme
AvatarNews is the ultimate WordPress theme designed for blog, news, and magazine websites. Offering full site editing capabilities, this theme allows you to customize every aspect of your site with ease.
Choose from multiple fully customizable headers and footers, and leverage the intuitive drag-and-drop builder to create a clean and minimal design. With 5 pre-built starter site demos ready for one-click import, AvatarNews provides a seamless setup experience.
Price: Free
Homeflix – Theme
Homeflix is a ultimate, multipurpose WooCommerce theme for professionals in the home decor, furniture, and interior design industries. It’s everything you need to create a top-notch online store website!
Homeflix comes with all necessary features for creating any type of modern online store website with Mega Menu, Elementor Page Builder, Awesome Slider Revolution, RTL, Product Quick View, Wishlist, Compare Products, Ajax Search, Ajax Cart, Single Ajax Add To Cart, Filter Products, Easy One Click Demo Import… and so much more.
Price: $29.00
September
Voyago – Theme
Designed specifically for travel agencies, tour operators, and travel enthusiasts, this theme seamlessly blends functionality and style, enabling you to create stunning websites that inspire exploration and adventure. Whether you’re promoting exotic destinations, curating custom itineraries, or managing bookings, this theme empowers you to do it all effortlessly.
Fully compatible with the latest WordPress Full Site Editing (FSE) features, the theme offers complete control over your site’s design. With a wide selection of pre-designed block patterns, customizable templates, and intuitive drag-and-drop options, you can build a professional and engaging website in no time—no coding required.
Price: Free
Matrioska – Theme
Matrioska is a blog design that creatively displays posts with an overlapping effect on featured images, inspired by the Matryoshka (nesting doll) style. This unique design adds a layered visual element to your blog, making each post stand out with a striking, nested appearance.
Price: Free
Kimono – Theme
Kimono is a powerhouse photography WordPress theme designed for professional modern photographers and creatives. It offers stunning styles and elements that help you create a professional website in no time.
Kimono integrates with the Elementor page builder on WordPress, featuring the latest web technologies, an enjoyable UX, and the most beautiful design trends. The theme provides a platform where you can simply drag and drop elements, choose styles, and experiment with the look and feel of your site with an instant preview before your changes go live.
Price: $19.00
October
Fictionary – Theme
Fictionary is a typography-focused, opinionated blogging theme designed to enhance readability and provide a clean, minimalistic experience for content creators. Its bold design choices emphasize text and typography, making it ideal for writers who want their words to take center stage.
Price: Free
Colorloops – Theme
Colorloops is a minimalistic theme that brings vibrant color to your blog, featuring a neutral frame to let your content shine. Its design adds a touch of color without overpowering the content, offering a clean and engaging reading experience.
Price: Free
Huss – Theme
Huss is a lightweight and minimal WordPress block theme (FSE theme) designed specifically for blog websites. This carefully crafted theme is fully responsive and offers four distinct styles, ensuring a visually appealing layout. With easily readable fonts, an ideal color combination, and a dark mode option, Huss provides a user-friendly experience that enhances your content.
Price: Free
Credio – Theme
Credio is a modern and trendy WordPress theme tailored for credit repair and finance businesses. It features 14 high-quality pre-built home pages (seven multi-page and seven one-page) and over 45 built-in inner pages, including service, project, and team pages, as well as various blog layouts.
Designed for a range of financial services—such as credit repair, finance, credit card services, banking, insurance, loans, tax assistance, and investment firms—Credio provides a professional and customizable platform to effectively showcase your services, connect with clients, and establish a robust online presence.
Price: $19.00
November
Eliot – Theme
Eliot is a user-friendly WordPress theme crafted for freelancers, entrepreneurs, and bloggers to showcase their projects and talents. Designed with you in mind, Eliot features a minimalist and clean design that puts your work in the spotlight.
Price: Free
BondSpace – Theme
BondSpace is a modern Full Site Editing (FSE) WordPress theme built for versatility and style. It offers built-in style variations and seamless editing capabilities, making it perfect for effortlessly creating dynamic, customized websites.
Price: Free
Adinda Portfolio Resume – Theme
Adinda Portfolio Resume is a versatile WordPress theme designed for personal portfolios and resumes, featuring a stunning design to captivate your visitors.
Perfect for freelancers, designers, developers, photographers, artists, and other professionals, Adinda Portfolio helps you create an impressive and attractive website. With its easy-to-use interface and customizable options, you can build your site in minutes. The theme also boasts a retina-ready display and a responsive layout, ensuring a polished look across all devices.
Price: Free
Interar – Theme
Interar is a fully responsive and easily customizable WordPress theme designed for Interior & Architecture websites. It features a modern, trendy design with 3+ unique homepage variations and 18+ inner pages, allowing you to easily tailor each section to your preferences. Built on Elementor, a powerful drag-and-drop page builder, Interar offers a smooth and intuitive experience for creating stunning websites quickly.
The theme is carefully tested for 100% error-free performance and is compatible with all popular browsers and devices. It includes well-commented code, a clear file structure, and comprehensive documentation for easy customization. With its fast, one-click demo import feature, you can install and set up the theme with full demo content in seconds. Start building your dream website effortlessly with the Interar WordPress theme!
Price: $49.00
December
Advantura Trails – Theme
Advantura Trails is a dynamic Full Site Editing (FSE) theme designed to create stunning and user-friendly travel websites. With its drag-and-drop page builder, it offers unlimited design flexibility, making customization effortless and intuitive.
Seamlessly integrating with the free WP Travel Gutenberg Block plugin, Advantura Trails allows you to showcase trips, locations, and pricing options, enabling users to find the perfect experience. Fully compatible with the WP Travel plugin—widely regarded as the best booking solution for tours—it ensures a smooth and reliable booking process.
With a clean, modern design and a user-friendly interface, Advantura Trails delivers a flawless browsing experience across desktops, tablets, and smartphones.
Price: Free
Elton – Theme
Elton is a versatile and intuitive WordPress theme tailored for electricians, contractors, and small businesses in the electrical industry. Featuring three professionally designed homepage layouts, Elton is fully compatible with the Elementor page builder, allowing users to effortlessly drag and drop elements for a customized website—no coding required.
The theme’s easy-to-use options panel provides full control over layouts, colors, and fonts, enabling you to create a site that perfectly reflects your brand. Showcasing services, client testimonials, and past projects is simple with Elton’s flexible customization options.
Price: $29.00
Nexira – Theme
Nexira is a versatile WordPress theme designed for indie game studios, game startups, and digital agency-based companies. Perfect for a wide range of professional businesses, Nexira offers comprehensive, tailored designs to meet the unique needs of game studios and startups alike.
With 3 unique homepage designs and 9+ inner pages, Nexira provides plenty of creative options. It features fully customizable layouts, including dark, light, and gradient styles, allowing you to adapt the theme to your brand. Additionally, it includes 30 specialized Elementor modules, making it easy to create a site that aligns with your business goals.
Nexira is user-friendly, fully responsive, and ensures compatibility across all modern browsers and devices. With its seamless customization options and intuitive interface, it’s the ideal choice for building a professional and visually stunning online presence.
Price: $21.00
Artistic – Theme
Artistic is a stylish and versatile WordPress theme designed for creative digital agencies, freelancers, design studios, and professionals seeking a standout online presence. With its sleek design and intuitive layout, Artistic offers an exceptional platform to showcase services, portfolios, and projects in an engaging and professional way.
Perfect for launching a new brand or expanding your reach, Artistic includes all the pre-built pages needed to create a top-tier business website. Built with Elementor, the theme ensures effortless customization, while its fully responsive layout guarantees smooth performance across all devices.
Whether you’re highlighting your expertise, building client trust, or generating leads, Artistic provides the tools and visual appeal to make a lasting impression.
Price: $21.00
