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Elegant Themes Review - Beautiful Premium Wordpress Themes
Choice of the professionals. Fantastic pricing, themes that are a class apart and plugins that can only add more stars to your website bundled with timely support – what else is needed? Make up your mind by reading the review.
Why Elegant themes is popular ?
The answer lies in their pricing structure. For just $89 per year you will get complete access to 87 themes and 4 plugins. So the price of each theme or plugin comes out to be $0.978. And their themes mostly blog themes offer a lot of different functionality.
With more than 244,000 customers and growing as we speak, Elegant Themes is scoring newer records every day.
Let us go through the functionality and what they would offer.
[section label=”Gallery”]Elegant Themes Gallery
The elegant themes gallery now comprises of 87 themes, along with the awesome DIVI theme. The list offers endless possibilities but only when all of them are summed together. Elegant themes have a particular issue in terms of what they have on theme options. Most theme offer a dedicated, seemingly directional environment to work on.
What I mean is, the blog posts, the appearance and theme design are almost predefined in the theme design. Obviously since all of the themes are available to you and all of them are based on the same framework, you can change to any other theme (that is, one of Elegant themes only) at any point of time. And then it would represent an entirely different look.
Some of the 87 themes are exceptionally good. I personally used Elegant themes on my website for a whole year. A few of them are also listed below. These particular themes are well designed and have been thoroughly edited and revised to make it perform optimally.
[section label=”Framework”]The Elegant Themes framework
The Elegant themes framework is also very simple and elegant. Elegant themes have their own built in options panel. But unlike other theme options panel, which are cramped up and difficult to learn and manage, elegant themes panel offer simplicity and functionality without increasing the complexity.
The tabs are well defined and options are very well divided. Moreover, theme panel offer a number of improved functionality that most other options panel fail to provide. An example is the ability to inject code into the body of your theme. This is very good an option to add
What can you control from the framework ?
SEO, frontpage, logo, favicons, color picker reference, sliders (if any), etc. The Elegant Themes framework is not as exhaustive as other popular frameworks. It does not provides so many options. But being simple means that managing your themes becomes very easy, and manageable so that you can focus on the bigger part of your website – the content.
Mainly because of this feature, I used to use Elegant Themes in my first websites. And the best part of it is with the range of 87 themes at your disposal, changing between themes is water as all of them has the same framework.
[section label=”Quality”]Quality
The themes quality is highly varying. They can be very appropriate for your theme, or they can be disposed off as total useless. Some themes offer very little in terms of visuals, which is a very important requirement for visitor satisfaction. Whereas there are certain themes that will provide unparalleled visual aesthetics to your site.
One theme comes with its own in-built website builder, whereas other themes do not provide that luxury. Few themes have silders, some do not. Some themes have greater thumbnails for posts, and category pages, while others do not have any slider at all. Some themes provide blog functionality whereas others are single page.
So besides the trade off, you can see that by paying for 1 theme’s price, you will get 87 themes offering wide range of options for you to choose from. And it might become difficult to choose between them. However, I have included a simple my favorite Elegant Themes, that you can choose from.
Obviously the more newer the theme, the more are its options. The best choices offer clean codes, very visually appealing looks, easy color coding that do have good color contrast and different looking sliders, team members section, and testimonials display all in an elegant way.
[section label=”Negatives”]The negatives
Ok, now for this section, I am going to point out my own personal experiences with you. For the purpose of review, I had Yoast SEO installed on my wordpress installation. And I was using their Elegant Builder plugin. The problem with their plugin is that Yoast SEO failed to recognize the content of the page and even failed to calculate the number of times my keywords have appeared. That imples that the builder was a complete failure.
I was using them on my websites for quite sometime. I was publishing regular contents as well. Yet my website failed to perform on search engines. Besides whenever I tried to make changes from the builder to normal visual editor of the WordPress system, the content was lost.
So as for the page builder and other visual builder of the Divi theme, the conents cannot be backed up and transfer between the builder and usual editor is not possible.
So, consider if you were using the plugins and decide in the future that you want to change to a more powerful theme, then all your content will obviously be lost, not considering how they might appear if you manually copy and paste them into the visual editor.
So, the negatives being dealt with, I want to point out to you a few of the good things about Elegant themes and their best practices.
Elegant themes have a very busy forum for members and they are always providing support. Sometimes the support might come a little late, but there are always there. Just to mention, Elegant themes provide support only via their forum, there are no email, ticket or chat systems in place.
Another very awesome feature of Elegant themes is their blog. They usually update very quality and educative blog posts. You can sign up for their email newsletter and they will not spam you with purchase offers. They will only regularly sent you mails when new posts come up.
One very great feature of the Elegant themes is that they provide a custom post type specifically for Sitemaps.
[section label=”Plugins”]Plugins
I suggest Elegant themes for anyone who is into blogging, hardcore blogging, except just do not use their builder plugins, or any other plugin for that reason. Most of their plugins can create conflict with other wordpress themes and so often you might get to see them when you use them on your themes.
10 years ago, people use to access the web only on there desktops and the fun of using cell phones to surf the internet was only a dream. However, as of today, that fun is more a fact than a dream. People are constantly using their cells to access the internet. It is often suggested to use responsive themes for your website. This is because they work equally better on both the desktops and the smaller hand held devices.
So, the option for a hand held mobile plugin is automatically cancelled.
Well at first if you can use it properly and efficiently, your website will get attention from your viewers. They will comment about how good your website looks and also you will get a lot of spam. But that is the good part.
The bad part is you will always be stuck with the elegant builder plugin once you start to use it. This is because htere is fundamentally no option to migrate your content from the plugin to the WordPress visual editor. And so you will always remain stuck. This is more true if you have successfully added 100 pages using page builder and now try to stop using the plugin.
My suggestion – Do not use the Elegant Builder at all. Ease of use is more important to aesthetics.
Surely you can use these. Just make sure that the plugin does not conflict with your WordPress theme. This is a shortcode solution that is expected to work on your other themes. And they will also provide the aesthetics. I think you can use them.
Buggy to use in other themes. Use a free solution from the plugin directory of WordPress. My recommendation goes with the free Easy Pie Maintenance Mode.
So what can you infer from the review of Elegant Themes plugins? The answer is simple. Do not buy Elegant themes for the purpose of using their plugins. There are better and more efficient substitutes of them. But consider the pricing structure. The price you pay for those awesome themes are a reason why you might want to bite the offer.
[section label=”Refund Policy”]Elegant Themes Refund Policy
The company promises to refund money within 30 days after the purchase was made. This is a very good option for buyers. But do understand this. They do not promise you a refund if you have downloaded anything after you paid for the themes. Obviously this is a reasonable point.
Someone may become a member, download all the themes and plugins and then ask for a refund within 30 days. Rest assured, there are these type of people on the internet. So, for the company’s own benefits, they can only provide a refund if you have not downloaded anything or you have just downloaded one or two themes. However, nothing is promised here.
The another thing about Elegant Themes is that there are no Developer License and it is clearly mentioned that the purchase of the themes should solely be for the purpose of self use and should not be recreated and distributed for profit or making sale. This is obviously not what many of the customers expect. Especially the developer kind.
[section label=”Pricing”]Pricing
Let us just take a close look of the pricing options available. The exact pricing is reflected below using our own pricing table plugin.
What does all this mean? It means you need a recommendation from me. I recommend the Developer Package. I choose the Developer one because, I tried all the plugins and now I do not use them at all except the shortcodes plugin. It is a seriously good choice for those who might want to give their website a touch of uniqueness.
The options are obviously less compared to other full blown shortcodes plugins but the visual appeal they have is something you will not get anywhere else. The layered Photoshop files is something I never used on any theme. But you may – who knows !!!
But why I would recommend Elegant Themes at all ? The fact lies in their pricing. See how much it costs to purchase the themes at all. Only $69 per year or $ 89 per year. That is you will get a complete choice of 87 themes for $69 for a whole one year. $69 is the price of one premium theme in other marketplaces.
And looking at options like Nexus or Vertex, I do think they are really a good deal.
So, what are you waiting for? If you are planning to start up your business. get through the themes thoroughly and then become a full member of Elegant Themes. I once was and at the time of writing this post I still am a member of the Elegant Themes.
[section label=”Conclusion”]Conclusion
