Eye-Catching WordPress Business Themes For Fussy Clients

Finding the ideal theme for a business website can be tricky.

There are countless themes available that market themselves as business themes, making it easy to just download the first one that looks about right so you can get on with setting it up. However, this is the quickest way to waste time and money.

Before setting out to find a theme, it’s important to work out what you need and even make a list of your requirements. If you’re setting up a website for a client who works in food and hospitality, you may need a website that offers online reservations. Hair salons may need a booking system, while online stores will need an eCommerce solution. For small business clients and consultants, their needs will be completely different.

The collection of themes below includes various themes designed especially for businesses, each offering different functionality such as booking forms, event managers, typography management, custom post types, and sliders.

• BeTheme

  

  Overwhelmingly customizeable is the only way I can describe this responsive theme. There are 41 demos on BeTheme’s ThemeForest page that demonstrate how to configure this theme for a huge range of different businesses.

  There is also a huge number of features, including 200 shortcodes for adding functionality like infographics, boxes, content elements and blocks, loops and typography to your site. Demo content is included so you can set up the theme to look just like the example sites.

  Other features include masonry portfolio, bbPress compatibility, the ability to add a left menu, grid layouts, header layouts, sliding widgetized top area, parallax effect and video background, one pager layout option, custom font uploader, maintenance mode and blank page, custom widgets, and 18 PSD files with UI kit included.

• Avada

  

  It would be remiss of me not to include Avada, the best selling theme of all time on ThemeForest.

  It’s a hugely customizable responsive theme that includes an extensive options panel where you can import demo content, turn on automatic theme updates, control your site’s width, built-in MegaMenu, enable one-page parallax, and configure background images, colors and patterns.

  There are also 20+ pre-built homepage layouts to get you started that include portfolio, blog, shop and magazine options.

• Shrimpy

  

  Shrimpy is a clean, flat and modern one pager theme designed for the food and restaurant trade.

  it comes with a stunning fullscreen image slider, responsive layout, shortcodes. Google and Font Awesome fonts, 100 food font icons, eight custom widgets, video support, custom unlimited sidebars, CSS3 animations, and extensive help documentation.

  Demo content is also available to import.

• Hercules

  

  Hercules is a clean and lightweight theme designed for gyms, sports and personal training.

  This theme is available as either a one-pager or multi-page layout, and is responsive and built on a grid system. It comes with infinite colors, 600+ fonts, Redux framework option panel, and custom widgets.

  There are also custom post types for classes, testimonials, trainers and timetables.

• Steakhouse

  

  Steakhouse is a clean and simple responsive theme that relies on great images and strong copy.

  It includes six page layouts (home, about, gallery, menu, blog and contact), and comes with demo data and extensive documentation.

• Opus

  

  Opus is clean, minimalist and modern – a good start for a business looking to impress with its online presence.

  This theme features parallax backgrounds, 100+ shortcodes, Font Awesome icons, smooth scrolling, 20+ different portfolio pages, 10+ different blog variations, image menu, 10 header variations, video breadcrumbs, Google web fonts and AJAX loading of projects and posts (which can be turned on and off).

  There’s also one-click demo install (a feature I always look for in themes), as well as unlimited home page templates, a team page, filterable portfolio, and five post templates (standard, video, link, gallery and audio).