Back in the early days of the Internet, having your website significantly increased your cool factor. But, nowadays when almost everyone has an online presence, having a website alone is not enough. It’s not enough to have a website with a wall of text and some random images or gifs thrown in for good measure. To attract traffic, additional multimedia items such as video, audio, image galleries are often made a part of the site’s content. Many themes also incorporate parallax backgrounds to create interesting scrolling effects. In a nutshell, your website needs to stand out and be as unique as you are. More importantly, as web technologies advance and evolve, your website needs to evolve too, if you want to stay ahead of your competition. So how can you make sure your website stands out and keeps its cool factor?
It’s no secret that WordPress allows you to create any type of website and that there is plenty of themes on the market. But, how do you know which one is the right one for your unique needs? When choosing a WordPress theme, you have to know what you want in terms of features and functionality. What would make the theme cool for you? Is it a different layout than what most standard websites have? Is it animation you’re after? Are you looking for a theme that allows you to have a complete control over your website without the need to learn the code? Those are some of the questions you need to keep in mind before determining the cool factor of a particular theme. It boils down to the overall result you’d like to end up with after tweaking your theme, so scan through the list below to find the perfect cool WordPress theme for you.
Upnews
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There is nothing ordinary about Upnews – it’s a clean, responsive WordPress theme with a unique layout. The homepage displays your posts in an interesting grid style with an eye-catching zoom-in effect when you hover over featured images. Upnews is responsive and cross-browser compatible meaning it behaves perfectly no matter which device or browser your visitors are using. You can use Upnews for any type of website; be it a blog, a magazine or a review website. Upnews comes with 9 custom post formats as well as a unique Review system and multiple photo galleries.
Features on the backend include a drag and drop builder which makes it easy to customize the layout of any page with widgets. Powered by the Gantry framework, Upnews allows for 38 possible layout combinations for main body and sidebars. Furthermore, any aspect of the theme can be customized to your liking, from colors to typography and the width of your sidebars. Other notable features include the ability to display ads from various ad networks on your website for monetization purposes, integration with SoundCloud, FlexSlider, and 2 custom social widgets. Upnews is truly a flexible theme, full of awesome, useful, innovative and unique features.
Simple
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Striking a balance between developing a theme chock-full of features and overwhelming your users is no easy task. Simple is one theme that managed to find and maintain that balance. It’s a one-page business WordPress theme that comes with just the right amount of features to allow you to customize it to your own liking without feeling overwhelmed. Simple has a beautiful design with eye-catching parallax effect and is fully responsive and cross-browser compatible. The sticky navigation at the top allows visitors to easily scroll down to the next section on the page. This theme provides plenty of space to showcase the most important services your business provides, call-to-actions, your mission statement, and even your portfolio which makes it a great choice for agencies and freelancers. You can also include testimonials and feature your team members.
When it comes to customizing Simple, you can change the color scheme, control the typography with Google Fonts, add FontAwesome icons, and take advantage of various shortcodes to create an impressive website. The theme options panel also allows you to select different layouts and add or remove sidebars according to your needs. Finally, Simple comes with powerful SEO settings which you can modify to gain better visibility in search engines.
Yoland
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Yoland Design theme has a modern and functional design created with landscaping studios in mind. It offers plenty of features which make it versatile enough to be used for courtyard and urban design landscapers or any agency providing design and landscape construction services. The theme is fully compatible with the latest version of WooCommerce which makes it easy to create an online store for garden design accessories. Because of its unique portfolio feature, the theme is also suited for freelance designers and other creative types.
Yoland Design is fully responsive and retina ready theme, so it looks amazing on any platform. The theme is compatible with a number of premium plugins, including WooCommerce, Revolution Slider, Essential Grid, Visual Composer and PO Composer, all of which allow you to customize and build your website with ease. With an intuitive visual interface, you can make as many layouts as you can imagine.
Venture
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Another theme by Nimbus Themes, Venture is a one-page WordPress theme suitable for creative agencies, small businesses, freelancers, or any established company. Venture has gorgeous parallax sections and smooth navigation which provide plenty of space to showcase your company, your team, your portfolio, and include testimonials to build trust. There is also a blog section to share your knowledge with your target audience and further show them you are the expert in your niche. Venture also features two sections for a call to action to allow your visitors to sign up for your newsletter or go straight to hiring you.
On top of that, Venture has a powerful theme options panel which allows you to tweak colors to match your branding, change typography throughout your website with Google Fonts, choose different layouts, customize sidebars and more. Shortcodes allow you to easily add different icons, buttons, and columns, while sliders, galleries, and featured images will highlight your content. If you want to add eCommerce functionality, you can do so thanks to the integration with WooCommerce. Last, but not least, Venture comes with SEO settings which can help you boost your rankings and the social media features will allow you to easily share your content and grow your audience.
Cool
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Cool theme is a responsive theme suitable for magazine, fashion, photography, personal, blogging, and food websites. It has a clean and elegant design with more than 10 unique homepage layouts which are sure to grab the attention of your visitors. Cool is fully responsive and is optimized to load fast, with search engine friendly code. This theme features 6 different featured sections which allow you to highlight your most important content. Individual posts have 5 different layout possibilities and the theme also includes several custom page templates for your landing pages as well as your 404 pages. Cool also comes with 7 unique custom widgets which include an email signup widget that integrates nicely with Aweber, MailChimp, GetResponse, and iContact.
User-friendly administration panel will allow you to customize the Cool theme completely, including changing the colors, fonts, upload your logo, and more. Thanks to a custom author box, you can highlight all the authors writing for your website. An interesting option of the Cool theme is its integration with BuddyPress and bbPress which allows you to create your own community around your website.
Random - Colorful WordPress Theme
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Random mixes flat colors and post sizes in a grid which are paired with some pretty slick hover effects thus giving your website a truly unique and fresh look. Random lives up to its name to the fullest: once you’ve created your style presets, as in defined your colors and element positions, those styles will change randomly so your visitors can always expect something different out of your website. The grids aren’t limited to just one post type, in fact, you can create a grid containing a regular post, a portfolio project, and an image gallery.
Random theme is fully animated and fully responsive and comes with its own set of customization features and includes 2 blog page layouts, 2 contact page layouts, custom services widget, scrollable sidebar, timeline blog post layout, and more. Thanks to its randomness factor, Random will make a lasting impression on your website’s visitors.
Divi
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Divi is one of the most popular themes for WordPress today and with good reason. It’s versatile, has plenty of options, it’s easy to use, and it looks good on any device. With Divi, you’re limited only by your imagination. Even though Divi comes with its own set of layouts for almost every page any modern website would need, you can create your own layouts from scratch. The theme uses a visual drag and drop page builder which allows you to create a custom layout from scratch by mixing and matching any of the 46 content modules. Your pages can include sliders, testimonials, call to actions, contact forms, email signup forms, buttons, countdown timers, and much more. Each module and each row can be individually styled for complete control over the design.
The theme options panel allows you to easily upload your logo, favicon, and integrate Divi with your email list providers, add Google Analytics code as well as control your SEO settings. The Divi Customizer allows you to change any design aspect you can think of; from the header and footer layout down to the colors, fonts, and margins. Divi truly makes creating a cool website easy.
Folio
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Folio is a clean and responsive grid theme. It’s an ideal choice for creative professionals who need a visually stunning way to present their work. Photographers and designers alike will appreciate the homepage portfolio layout of the theme which can be filtered and sorted through based on different categories. Each post can contain a single image or video, or a gallery of images. The Folio theme features include easily customizable colors, fully responsive framework, infinite scroll capability, and a beautiful Lightbox overlay display.
Theme options page allows you to configure specific options such as the logo, featured content, and more. With this theme, you can easily add your videos and embed code from online video platforms like Youtube and Vimeo. Folio is a single page theme but still allows you to present your work in a captivating manner.
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QuickStep
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Lara Theme
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Port
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Patti
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Drone
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Salient
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KULA
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Coastline
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Parallax
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Bodega
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Eight Degree
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Tequila
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Parallax
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Clean WordPress Theme
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Unik
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Grid Premium
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Brutal
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