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Summary:
Elegant Themes is one of those best WordPress themes club, where you can find extremely original & inexpensive WordPress themes for your website.
These days it is becoming harder to find original, high-quality and inexpensive themes. There are many themes clubs, theme frameworks that charge hundreds of dollars for a theme. In this Elegant themes review, I am going to talk about why elegant themes is one of the best premium theme shop and why you should use ET for your blog or website.
Elegant Themes is a WordPress theme club owned by Nick Roach. For $39.95, you get unlimited access to 76 81 premium WordPress themes, and every theme he brings out for the next year.
If I had to choose between Elegant Themes or any other theme shop, than it would definitely going to be ElegantThemes.
Just for $39.95, you’re getting access to 80+ extremely original WordPress themes and each theme comes with different styling and functioning.
Few Amazing Stats of Elegant Themes:
- 80 WordPress Themes for different niche
- 4 WordPress Plugins
- 170,000+ Happy customers
- 8+ Technical Supporters for providing Great support
Elegant Themes WordPress Premium Theme Club
Each theme comes with tools for customization, SEO optimization and fantastic WordPress functionality.
1. Elegant Theme Features Overview !!
- General Settings: Choose between different pre-made color schemes, change the layout of your blog, control your featured articles slider and more. The General Settings tab gives you control over the basic functions of the theme.
- Layout Settings: This tab gives you the ability to modify what info appears in the post-info section, the option to enable/disable thumbnails on posts, pages and index pages; the ability to change the dimensions of your thumbnails and the option to enable/disable comments on posts and pages and more.
- Element Colorization: Using the quick and easy jQuery color selector, you can easily customize the colors of various elements of your theme a the click of a button, without any previous web design experience.
- Integration Tab: I created the integration section to make it easier for people to implement third party scripts into the theme. For example, if you want to include your google analytics tracking code you no longer need to add it to footer.php. Instead, you can just add it to the body integration field in ePanel.
- Navigation Management: Enjoy having complete control over your navigation menus. Choose which links to display, adjust their display order, disable top tier links for purely organizational dropdown menus and more.
- Advertisement Management: Here you can input the destination URL and the banner URL for each ad, as well as toggle them on and off at any time. Most themes now come with a 468×60 and 728×90 slot, however this may vary depending on the structure of the theme.
- Search Engine Optimization: With ePanel you are given full control over your meta elements. You can add custom meta titles, descriptions and keywords for every section of the theme individually. You can also enable canonical URL’s to avoid duplicate content filters.
- Advanced Search: The advanced search feature expands on the basic WordPress search function, allowing users to search particular categories, time frames, as well as post types (pages vs posts).
- Contact Form: Contact Form function allows you to easily add a contact form without installing a new plugin like Contact form 7 or Gravity Forms.
- Image Gallery: Creating a beautiful and functional image gallery has never been easier. Now you can apply our image gallery template to your page and choose to populate the page with image posts from any category. This template is enhanced with compelling animations and lightbox effects.
- Member Login: Instead of sending your visitors to the standard, unbranded /wp-login form, now you can embed your own login form into any of your pages. This creates a much more cohesive solution for logging your readers or authors into the WordPress dashboard.
- Blog Feed: Now you can create a standard blog feed, populated with categories of your choosing, no matter what theme you are using. This will display a list of recent posts in a Blog-Style format, independent of the standard post and category format of the theme.
2. Support and Updates
Having a well designed and coded theme doesn’t mean anything if you don’t have a way insure its longevity. As long as you are a member of ElegantThemes, you can be sure that your theme will always be compatible with the latest version of WordPress and the most recent web browsers.
3. New Stylish Themes every month
Every month Nick adds a theme or 2. Visit Elegant Themes Blog to see the updates about themes. This is one of the most awesome thing i like about Nick’s Theme, he don’t just release same themes with different designs again and again. If you take a look at their themes collection, you will find they have every type of theme with stylish look.
4. The Price
Won’t you love to get 60+ themes for just $39.5 ! This is most awesome benefit of using Elegant Themes, if you don’t like a theme then user another….. So many themes to choose from.
If you see other theme clubs or marketplace you will get a theme or 2 for $39.5 ! This is another reason to go with Elegant Themes.
If you want to save a lot of money then better become a member now, because Elegant Themes may increase the price to something $69 in near future.
5. Responsive Design
Most of the Elegant Themes are fully responsive design that adapts to your user’s variable screen size. If you choose to install one of the Elegant’s responsive WordPress theme, than be ready to see a nice looking design of your website on your smartphone.
Now your website will display beautifully and intuitively no matter what type of device is being used to browse it.
ElegantThemes.com uses CSS media queries to trigger various layout sets at various screen sizes. This provides a seamless way for the design to degrade at smaller sizes, as the design can change on the fly without any page loading and without any tricky javascript.
Here are the latest premium WordPress themes from ElegantThemes club:
StyleShop – eCommerce theme
Styleshop is a stylish eCommerce theme that provide all the tools you need to launch a successful business or a product website. Perfect for small business owners, who are looking to start their own eCommerce website.
This robust and beautiful eCommerce theme is built on the most powerful eCommerce software – WooCommerce.
- Built on WooCommerce
- Useful tools to quickly create a landing page
- Responsive design
Get the StyleShop Theme or Get all the 80+ Themes for $39
Fusion Theme
A sleek and beautiful WordPress theme with a neat and clean design. The theme is perfect for startups, tech companies or design firms. Fusion really has an impressive design, one of the finest themes by Nick Roach.
- Responsive design
- Custom backgrounds
Get the Fusion Theme or Get all the 80+ Themes for $39
Harmony Theme for Bands & Musicians
There are a ton of premium themes available for musicians and bands, but this one stands out from all of them. Harmony theme is built keeping fantastic musicians in mind, plus it has a nice WooCommerce Integration.
- Ability to play songs
- Handle Events
- Upload Photo Gallers
- WooCommerce Integeration
Get the Harmony Theme or Get all the 80+ Themes for $39
Flexible Theme
Flexible is a sleek and minimal portfolio theme packed full of some awesome features. The theme puts your work first, keeping the design elements to a minimum while still maintaining a definitive modern style.
- Unlimited colors
- Dozen of fonts
- Fully responsive design
- Automated thumbnail resizing
- Advertisement management
Get the Flexible Theme or Get all the 80+ Themes for $39
Chameleon Theme
Chameleons are known for their ability to change the color of their skin. The patterns and color combinations you find in chameleons are almost endless, and our new theme is no different.
- Unlimited color schemes
- Fully Responsive design
- Loads of fonts to choose from
- Alternative slider layouts
- Optional blog style structure
- Advertisement Management
- Thumbnail resizing
Get the Chameleon Theme or Get all the 80+ Themes for $39
Aggregate Theme
Aggregates comes packed with tons of content and widget-ready areas, and manages to display everything in a clear and readable manner. 
- Excellent color designs
- Unlimited fonts
- Custom page templates
- Optional blog structure layout
- Fully Responsive design
- Automated Thumbnail resizing
- Custom widgets
Get the Aggregate Theme or Get all the 80+ Themes for $39
DeepFocus Photography Theme
Now you can turn your WordPress blog into a fully functional online photo gallery while still maintaining all of the features of a normal blog.
- Five unique color schemes
- Automated Thumbnail Resizing
- Advertisement Management
- Optional Blog structure layout
- Custom page templates
Get the Deep Focus Theme or Get all the 80+ Themes for $39
eStore Theme eCommerce WordPress Theme
eStore provides an elegant solution for those looking to sell products online. The theme is easy to configure, and offers integration options with some of the most popular (and free) ecommerce plugins, including eShop and Simple PayPal Shopping cart.
- Five Unique color schemes
- eCommerce Integration
- Advertisement Management
- Automated Thumbnail Resizing
Get the eCommerce Theme or Get all the 80+ themes for $39
Over To You….
No other WordPress Theme Club have so many high quality premium WordPress Themes for such a low price. I would love to hear your thoughts on Elegant Themes?
Hi Devesh,
It’s always good to know about the options out there. Elegant themes certainly look stylish.
Are they SEO-friendly? Some themes seem to be much better in this than others… Also, I wonder how customizable they are…
Thanks for sharing this mate,
Jym
Hi Jym,
Elegant Themes are top notch in quality. All of their themes are SEO Friendly, and very customizable. May be you should check out Heather’s blog, she is using eNews theme but her blog looks very unique.
Thanks for commenting here, Jym. Have a great weekend.
Interesting since it seems to have functions that add to its attraction. May come in handy one day if I decide to start another blog.
Yeah, Elegant Themes have lot of functions and at the same time they are very affordable.
Just $39 and you’re getting 60+ quality themes.
Thanks for the comment, catarina.
Hey Devesh,
Comprehensive review of elegant theme! I see a lot of rave about themes but not as comprehensive as this.
I will also like to have an answer to Jym’s question about whether it is SEO friendly.
Thanks for sharing!
Tosin
Hi Tosin,
Glad you liked the Elegant Themes.
Yeah, all Elegant Themes are very seo friendly and comes with many great features.
Thanks for the comment, as usual.
I use Elegant Themes and really like the functionality, customization and, of course, the cost.
Another great point about Elegant Themes is that they have really awesome support forums on the site. Other users respond really quickly to unique customization issues. It makes it easy for altering the themes for those of us who aren’t as strong coders.
Great evaluation, Dev!
Hi Steve,
I haven’t seen theme club like Elegant Themes selling 60+ themes for $39.95. I’ve to say they are most affordable themes on the planet.
Thanks for the nice comment, steve. Have a great weekend.
Okay, don’t shoot me but I signed up with them a couple years ago and hated it!
I will admit though that I know the basics when it comes to getting myself around with certain themes but every time I would upload a theme, something was off or out of whack and I had no idea how to fix it. So a lot of it was probably me.
There were only a few that I really did like though but like I said, it was a couple years ago so maybe they offer even more user friendly themes now. So for someone who isn’t a seasoned smart coding person, not so user friendly. At least that was my personal experience.
Would be interested to hear how they’ve improved over the last few years. Thanks for sharing though Dev… Hope we’re still friends!
Adrienne
Adrienne,
I don’t about how they were 3-4 years ago. Actually i recently started using Elegant Themes (a year now) and since then they are getting better day by day and Nick is doing awesome work on releasing awesome designs & providing great support.
Thanks for the comment and yeah, we’re still friends
!
Have a great day.
I have done a lot of research and I believe that you are correct Adrienne. They are not a user friendly website. I think that good posts have been dummied as a means for promotion. Notice they don’t get specific about anything other than how great they are, over the top kudos, especially when someone says anything negative. Beware!
Hi Devesh,
I will have to keep that in mind when I make the move over to a paid theme. Thanks for the great review!
Stacy
You’re welcome and thanks for the comment.
Hey Dev, as you know I was tossing up between Elegant and Thesis.
You know for the price, I really would recommend the Elegant Themes to someone on a budget for sure. I have seen so many in action and they really do seem to offer the most terrific bang for the buck.
then of course Dev… as we all know… if there are any problems, a person could always hire someone who is incredibly smart and savvy…. YOU!!
Great Review Dev.
I hope you got my email the other day… re fixing my buttons and bouncing another job off you. Make sure you let me know what I owe you.
Jayne
Jayne,
I had a hard time choosing between Thesis & Elegant Themes but later i end up buying both the themes.
Exactly, Elegant Themes is great theme provider with awesome and affordable rates.
Thanks for the compliments.
I already replied to your message at Blokube, Please check your Blokube inbox.
Have a great day.
~Dev
Great post. We just signed up for Elegant Themes membership last week!
Still waiting to implement our first theme, but are excited with the possibilities & features they offer.
That’s great to hear Cory. I bet you’ll love them.
Thanks for the comment.
Been looking for this article for long time ago and finally found here. Please continue this awesome work and I look forward to more of your superb articles.
On the go is one of the best themes from ET, to my mind.
Of course, it needs to be customized, but still the main page layout with a slider and cool “recent posts’ field as well as nice hand-made design make this theme quite positive for an online magazine or any interesing project site.
I used this theme for one of my project for parents and kids based on books and articels about kids education and intelligence development, so you can have a look at how this theme works in real life here: http://www.mamatoma.com/
This post truly is a godsend. I was looking for new themes that are idiot proof for a new blog. I have been using another popular network for years (will not name names, but they were mentioned in your post). I decided I wanted something simple and user friendly. Simple themes came up. I thought the price was too good to be true, so I started looking for reviews. Most were sappy all saying the basic stuff that I could find from the company’s website. Your review was the first one that was a detailed analysis. Thanks for taking the time to write a comprehensive review. Needless to say, I will purchase the package and give it a try. Thx again for your efforts. I will let you know how it works out.
i was just recommended ElegantThemes from my mentor, after looking at them i’m so impressed. I just hope they are as good as they “appear”. I bought another premium theme package before which looked great but once you got in, it was a nightmare to configure and customize. I hope these are not like that.
cheers – Syd
Hi
All i can say is I was looking for a simple solution for a good wordpress theme. I had the free Eximus theme but found myself making so many adjustments to the CSS and other stuff that my coding on the website was for sure a shocker to Google. I am very new to the website building and once I signed up for Elegantthemes I was very impressed. They are easy to modify very well written CSS .I think its a no brainer forking out $39 .Just think of the time you will spend to troubleshoot and build your own. Time is money.
I managed to adapt my scratch cards affiliate site to the themes with ease. I also know that if I do decide to change themes that it will not be hard to amongst all the others on offer at Elegant themes. The short codes will still work and they are built on the same foundation. I plan on rolling out more Scratch card Affiliate sites hopefully in the future and the fact that it is an unlimited license makes it even more of a no brainer and so easy to roll out.
I think that Nick has the right attitude to giving us such great themes at such an amazing price. I am looking forward to being a long time paying customer.
Jenny- ScratchCardQueen
Great post!
Elegant themes is truly amazing! i use it for my own website and I love all the aspects!
And you explain it in such a awesome way! could not have done it better!
great post!
cheers-Peter
I wanted to join but im nor sure how trust worthy is the site and if it will be easy to use the theme i have my eye on wich is the Aggregate can I really trust this site ?
Hi Reina,
Believe me, Elegant Themes is one of the best theme provider for WordPress. Aggregate is a fantastic theme, I’m using it on a niche site and it works really well.
PS. Here on WP Kube I’d never suggest a site that is not trust worthy, just to earn few dollars. I didn’t started WordPress Kube just to make money, my main aim with this blog is to genuinely help as many people as I can.
Thanks for stopping by, reina. Please let me know if is there anything, I can help you with.
-Dev
oh, I never meant it to seem like it was for money, i was just nervous cause is a lot of money (atleast for me) and you know how easy it is to get scam (?) on the internet and i didnt know anyone who had join elegant themes, I just wanted to read from someone that is a good site,
thanz for the reply, think ill join this week I really like the themes in that site i just wanted to be sure XD
No worries, reina. I’m always happy to help people like you.
In case you haven’t purchased the theme yet, you can use my aff. link http://www.wpkube.com/recommends/elegant-themes/
Thanks for stopping by and have a great time, Reina.
-Dev
just another question, the theme that has my attention is Aggregate, how easy is it to use? i have no photshop skills and am kind of new on complicated themes most of the time i have use simple ones that I modificate through css but im not THAT good in that either, will I be able to take full advatage of this theme even if i know nothing about photoshop and just a little of css?
Aggregate theme doesn’t require any knowledge of photoshop or css skills. You would be easily able to modify most parts of the theme from the options page.
PS. Now days, most of the WordPress themes comes with a fantastic support + a money back guarantee. So in case you’re not satisfied with the product, you can ask for a refund.
-Dev
THANX!! Im sure now, thanx for all your help Im sure ill be happy with elegant themes now
That’s fantastic to hear, reina.
If you need any help with anything related to WordPress, than please don’t hesitate to contact me.
Sarah / I’m trying to use this theme for a clinet and it’s generating this error: Warning: call_user_func_array() [function.call-user-func-array]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback, mytheme_add_admin’ was given in /home1/webdcmar/public_html/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 395Can you please double-check this and email me if you’ve corrected for the problem? The old version of Handgloves isn’t even upload-able anymore. Just generates a string of errors. Thanks!
Hi
I use Elegant Themes, and they are the best, great support, great design. I’m new to wordpress and no coding experience before. It took me no time to get a grasp of how to use the themes and all the built in features, just brilliant!
Hey Deborah,
Thanks for coming over here and sharing your thoughts on the Elegant Themes.
Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you need any help with customizing the theme.
Have a great time.
Dear Devesh, Good review. Was planning to get elegant themes for all my blogs. Just out of the way question, which plugin are you using for the box where u give rating and summary?
with warm regards,
Sourabh
Hey Sourabh,
Glad you liked the review.
That’s AuthorhReview plugin – http://www.wpkube.com/how-to-implement-google-rich-snippets-for-reviews-in-wordpress/
Thanks for stopping by.
I was just seeking a review about Elegant Themes for quite a while. After 6 several hours associated with steady Googleing, last but not least I managed to get the idea within your site. I wonder what’s your Google’s problem it doesn’t position this kind of useful websites nearer to the top. Generally the best websites are brimming with trash.
Finally, I’ve decided to go with Elegant themes. thanks for the review, sir.
Been with Studiopress for a year and just made the switch to Elegant Themes. I am very satisfied. Studiopress had a few features that I miss, but the support pages/online forum on Elegant Themes easily helped me fill the gaps by coding. If you want something relatively easy to work with out of the box, this is your deal. At a minimum, it’s worth the price to find out. The graphics are far superior to those I had to use with Studiopress, and my website now loads three times faster.
Elegant themes is one of the best theme shops, I’ve ever used. They have every type of theme from a magazine theme to an ecommerce theme.
ET has in depth functionality that I have become accustomed too and when I have clients that want to use other themes I complain because Elegant is just so well designed and constructed. The front page slider pulling from posts/categories/pages is really amazing, worth it alone, but there is much more.
People are right that the support isn’t their strongest point, but I think giving their support less than 5 stars is being kinda harsh.
Fantastic review !!
Nice review, I prefer elegant themes over Woo themes.
Elegant Themes are not very elegant. Functionality is clunky and often broken, support is nonexistent, and worst of all you can’t even create child themes with many of their theme packages. I’m thinking these reviews were paid off, and if you search on WordPress support forums you will see a number of similar complaints. The theme color options are a joke, as they only change the menu bar and link colors.
I have never had such a bad experience with a WordPress theme before as I have with Elegant Themes. Save yourself the $40 and get a a good open source framework, waste of time and money.
Hi Janel,
I appreciate your honest opinion. First this isn’t a paid review or something that I wrote just to make some quick bucks.
I’ve tested elegant themes and have used it for many of my clients website. I never had any issues but I guess many people would have, as editing or customizing those themes isn’t easy.
I’d certainly agree on what you said about the Support Forums, and to be quiet honest with you I’ve heard many complaints about their support.
Overall, ElegantThemes is much better than any other theme store out there. No other shop is as affordable as Elegant themes, they sell 76+ themes for just $39.
Thanks for stopping by, Janel. Have a great weekend.
Hi Devesh,
I will agree with you that they are cheaper, however there are a lot of great free themes out there too. With the 3 Elegant Themes that I have tried (MyCuisine, Event, and EarthlyTouch) there have been a significant number of bugs.
I chalked it up to a you-get-what-you-pay-for kind of thing, but maybe it’s just the luck of the draw. Personally, I would rather pay a little more and save myself the hassle; but I appreciate your input. At least I’m not the only one frustrated with the member support.
I’m not agree at all… they are cheap, but, at what cost? I used to have the membership and tried a couple of themes but the soport was horribles…. really, the worst support ever in any WordPress Related stuff. sometimes they didn’t answer at all my tickets or forums posts…
Don’t now how can you recomend that if you haven´t tried the suport by yourself…
@ Alejandro Carrillo:
Totally agree, the support is horrible.
Devesh,
I’ve watched several web videos about Elegant Themes. I was wondering about the SEO support. I see that you can put in meta-tags but I see nothing about support for seo friendly permalinks. that seems to be a big drawback with many of the themes where under the hood changes are needed. I don’t mind some coding but if need be but do you know off hand if there is any support in that epanel for changing permalinks? Or if you change the permalinks outside of the epanel do all the links end up broken
I was wowed by the design and the cost, but like a few have mentioned, I struggled with the support of lack their of. Though I did receive a response to my emails, it didn’t provide much help. At this point, I’m looking for someone who has experience with it so they can help me get it up and running, or will have to look for another design.
I signed up for Elegant Themes recently. So far my experience has proven frustrating. Elegant Themes ‘Support’ Forum is a JOKE. You don’t get to see this though until you are a member and can access their forum. I am actually scared to complain on their forum incase they decide to leave my support tickets even longer! I wonder how many others have had this thought.
Why does it take so long to get a response from them? I’ve noticed alot of people on the forum in a similar situation to me. Elegant Themes-Not Impressed!