Business themes, even free ones, can look incredibly professional and work hard on your behalf to set your business apart. Of course, not all themes are created equal, which is why we’ve compiled the best free business themes here for you to browse and so you can make a smart selection about which one is right for your company.Here are the best free wordpress themes for Startup Companies in June 2017:
The Future Is HereA stunning, responsive Free One Page WordPress theme excellent for Creative Individuals!
back to menu ↑Clarina – Travel booking landing page
Madalyn Milea is the publisher of two free WordPress themes, one for a magazine blog and one for startups. The Clarina theme is for startups and businesses in general. A theme of this quality is a rare find, but nonetheless a welcome one. Clarina utilizes the concept of a single-page design, so everything about your startup/business is listed on one homepage. As a result, you can experiment with aligning your content in a way that feels natural and easy to view. Of course, any theme comes with its own challenges.
Thankfully, Clarina is integrated with a Page Builder from SiteOrigins. As a result, you are not required to know any coding whatsoever and can edit a homepage design using only drag and drop tools. Would you like a theme that allows you to sell online, or perhaps you’d like to create a community as well? You totally can with Clarina, plugins like WooCommerce, bbPress, and Jetpack is the recommended tools to use with this stunning template. Just take a peek at the demo, we guarantee that you won’t regret it, and who knows, you might fall in love!
back to menu ↑Bizwhoop WordPress theme
The original version of Bizwhoop is actually a material design based HTML template, which was later converted into a WordPress theme. This business theme uses Bootstrap in combination with Material Design. And despite its heavy artillery of technology, is still fairly easy to maintain and customize. The design has been kept clean, with a modern twist. The kind of twist that makes your website stand out. Great user experience has always been at the core of good design, and that’s what Bizwhoop can offer to you, a user experience which flows with ease.
back to menu ↑Naturelle WordPress theme
The beauty of a niche like Startups is that startups generally aren’t locked out to one single category. For example, a startup is most commonly associated with technology projects, but any business which operates with a digital user base can be considered a startup. Naturelle is a beautiful template for startups who work with nature and products related to nature. Of course, you could use Naturelle for a SaaS startup if you like. It’s not something that you must obey per say. When theme designers make a theme and build it for a specific niche, what happens is that the color scheme and visuals are kept to that specific category.
But, as far as usability goes, a theme like Naturelle is as good for a tech startup as it is for a nature-related project. Looking at the features and tools that Naturelle provides, you get a one-page design which focuses on actionable segments on the homepage. Furthermore, a clean codebase with a validated markup is ideal for cross-browser support. And Localization enables for you to rewrite the theme in any preferred language. You can open the pre-built text file and simply replace WordPress language structure using your own native language.
back to menu ↑Hestia – Slick Material Design
ThemeIsle isn’t a stranger to the WordPress ecosystem. The work of ThemeIsle has seen millions of users, and their free themes are always a big hit amongst the community. Hestia theme is a great example of how ThemeIsle uses creative thinking to build unique themes. It’s not the easiest thing in the world to find a good and reliable Material Design template for WordPress. But, Hestia manages to incorporate the MD principle effortlessly, which translates into a one of a kind WordPress design.
Besides a brilliant design which is ready for a business/startup site, the Hestia theme includes a custom design for an eCommerce storefront. Using WooCommerce and Material Design, Hestia shows just how beautiful a store design can be. And customizing? It’s easier than you think. Everything in the Hestia theme is interconnected, so making changes is quick and accessible. Most of all, Hestia is plugged into SiteOrigin Page Builder. Have you ever designed something just by dragging things up and down? Well, now is your chance. And SiteOrigin’s builder is very user-friendly. The optimized source code and thoughtful code markup provide industry-standard performance and seamless SEO optimization without a third-party plugin.
back to menu ↑Promote – One page wordpress theme
Promote is a mobile-responsive theme with a superb and clean design. We have to give credit where it’s due and congratulate ThemezWP on publishing this theme for free. Of course, a PRO versions is available for purchase. Within the pro edition, Promote comes with additional pages, a portfolio design, and multiple blog post layouts. Nevertheless, the free version of Promote should be more than enough for a startup to establish a solid website.
ThemezWP have added dynamic features like shadow hovering and other JS-based animations. It adds a bit of a modern flavor to your site and helps to strengthen the image of your brand. Unless you don’t find animations so interesting. Either way, Promote covers the crucial aspects of startup websites and throws in a magnificent Blog section. For a startup, it’s mandatory to run a consistent blog with regular content updates. As a result, your organic traffic numbers are growing and solidifying over time. Most of all, Promote theme can effortlessly be converted into a unique design for a client or a side-project.
back to menu ↑BB Mobile Application WordPress theme
If you look at the most popular startups in the world today, you will notice a trend. Perhaps, you know what this trend is already. If you don’t, it’s mobile applications. Look at startups like Tinder, Airbnb, etc, They’re all platforms which people use mostly on their mobile devices. As a result, a website design which complements a mobile app is required. Such is the purpose of BB, to provide startups with a theme which handles mobile applications. Unlike platform-based themes, BB uses a unique approach to explaining product features and details. For example, features elements use a centered image (preferably a demo of your app) and on the sides, you can explain what features your product is packing.
You can go even deeper with explaining your mobile product by adding colorful bars which show the best product features. The Gallery section is a grid built portfolio system where you can add endless amounts of pictures. Photos/visuals of a product are generally the first things a potential customer is going to observe. And with BB, adding images to your homepage is simple, and easy to do.
back to menu ↑EDigital – Sell digital products WordPress theme
eDigital is a unique style startup/business theme, which mainly functions as a marketplace platform. Affiliate marketers unite because eDigital lets you create a stunning online marketplace of startup products. But, it’s really the flexibility of eDigital that caught our attention. Even though eCommerce is the heart of this beautiful template, it is still flexible enough to be customized for a startup project. You can remove the majority of the eCommerce features altogether, and only keep the stuff that would help to sell your products alone. Because of the design, well, it’s professional, and that’s key to maintain reader’s attention. Speaking of attention and readers, eDigital’s blog design is based on readability principles. So, keep pushing out your best content and readers will have a reason to stay and read.
back to menu ↑Kickstart Business
Would you like a theme where everything makes sense? Of course, such themes don’t exist! Whether we like to admit it or not, our personality plays a big decision bias in how we see a given theme. But, during the decision process, it’s natural to find styles/design that appeal to our taste. As such, the Kickstart Business theme uses a modern design concept to deliver on the needs of a startup website. The excellence of any WordPress theme, or a plugin, is largely based on how quickly you can change something to reflect your ideals. In the case of Kickstart Business, you can spend as little or as much time as you like to iron out any quirks that require customization. After all, Kickstart flawlessly integrates its own features within Live Customizer. In addition to intuitive features, you can become a master at using this theme through the documentation.
back to menu ↑Corpbiz
Theme selection process isn’t always a joyful process. Even I’ve struggled with picking a theme, optimizing and designing it, and then realizing it isn’t what I was looking for. Then, you feel like you’ve wasted so much time only to disband your efforts. As a result, I’ve started to spend more time testing out every feature of a theme before I settle for my final decision. How do you select a theme, and do you always follow your gut feeling? Do tell us in the comments.
Anyhow, here is Corpbiz — a free theme for corporate businesses, but usable for a startup website too. The creative design, combined with responsive features and a solid user base, is remarkably fluid, and easy to work with. Corpbiz is using Bootstrap as the back-end framework for all styling of the site. Those of you with Bootstrap experience can jump right into the process of working with the stylesheet. And if you don’t know how to write CSS (you should learn!) you can edit Corpbiz using theme customizer. Either method is perfectly fine. Lite version included features banners and sliders, and a handful of elements for displaying business info.
back to menu ↑StartRight – Expert Business Advice WordPress theme
The name itself, “StartRight”, is a bit of a play on words for this particular niche; startups. Presenting your startup using a website is like putting a dress out in the store view window. The dress is going to leave an impression, and so is your website. As the understanding of design evolves and so do the capabilities, it’s much easier to differentiate an average website from a truly professional presence. And StartRight provides anything you would need to make your brand website feel authentic. It begins with a stylish design.
Create and Code has been working on website design for more than 10 years, over a decade, and infuse their themes with all of their passion and knowledge. Sometimes a great design requires a compromise, yet Create and Code sticks to their own methods of style, and still manage to make a theme feel light, fresh, and with a modern boost. Anything that the demo website shows is open to customization through Live Customizer. Just open up your WordPress dashboard and go wild with editing the default style.
The StartRight template uses Elementor, a custom drag and drop design editor. You can literally edit your design from the front of your homepage, and see the effects of your adjustments in real-time. For example, if you resize an element, it will show you how that is going to affect any elements nearby.
back to menu ↑One Edge – One-pag Wordpress theme
Here is one more theme from ThemeIsle. One Edge relies on a one-page design concept to maximize the exposure of your startup and the products you provide. As a professional theme, the One Edge encompasses crucial elements of design but also builds on top of what WordPress is already providing. So, for example, if you wanted to add an online store to your One Edge website, it would require nothing else but to install WooCommerce. Similarly, you can translate One Edge with full RTL support! The customization of One Edge is divided into two groups. The first group is for those who plan to use One Edge as a website theme only. Whilst the second group includes developers who would like to add extra functionality on top of what is included in the One Edge theme.
