4 of the best agency WordPress themes for 2017
Running a digital agency in 2017 is not all that easy - to attract new customers you need to stand out from the crowd.
Whether you’re offering photography services, printing, online marketing or design you need to have a website that looks great and allows you to not only detail your services but shows off your previous work and give it the best chance to look great.
Your website should look professional and demonstrate to potential customers you’re the best at what you do and give them no excuse to bounce back and look for one of your competitors.
What you should look for in WordPress agency themes
Using WordPress for your agencies website is great option, not only does it make managing portfolios and pages really simple there is also a gigantic range of themes and plugins that’ll make your site easy to manage and look good. But here's our list of what key features you should look for:
- Responsive Design - it's 2017… it goes without saying that your agency needs a website that's responsive. This will ensure your site looks good and works well on all devices but it also boosts your search rankings on mobile searches.
- Customization Options - It's important the agency website matches your brand so the theme needs to have enough options to change colors, background and images.
- Portfolio - having some sort of portfolio grid will make it easier for you to manage case studies but also visitors want to easily find your past work to see your experience.
Here is our curated list of WordPress themes for creative agencies.
- Grand portfolio is a beautifully minimal WordPress theme with a strong focus on the portfolio. It comes with ready-made styles for photographers, creative agencies, publishers and more.
- The theme is fully responsive and comes with a drag and drop editor to help build pages and portfolios. The designer has focused on gallery and portflio modules so you can show case studies or past works in a unique and beautiful way and also make it easy to manage your portfolio.
- Being WordPress based the themes obviously supports blog posts but also has advanced features like infinite scroll for large amount of portfolio content - when a visitor gets to the bottom of the page more content is automatically loaded.
- Grand portfolio is available through the ThemeForest marketplace.
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- Werkstatt - Creative Portfolio Theme
- Werkstatt is a creative WordPress theme designed with agencies in mind. Werkstatt ships with multiple pre-built demos so you can choose a base style that matches your brand and style. You can very quickly import demo options using the on-click demo importer which offers a slick and simple process to get you started. The demos give you a great headstart with your site design and once imported you can further customise the styles.
- Content wise Werkstatt helps your agency land more leads - with all the right templates for the homepage, projects, blog pages and obviously multiple portfolio pages. Having more than one portfolio page template allows you to create a unique feel for your portfolio.
- Werkstatt is a very flexible theme, allowing you to perform major customization work without any coding experience. The visual composer includes a drag-and-drop page builder to help you further customize your agency's website. You can also make global changes to your site using the WordPress theme control panel.
- Werkstatt is available through the ThemeForest marketplace.
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- Bridge - Creative Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme
- Bridge theme by Qode, is a retina ready WordPress theme featuring 200+ demo sites allowing you to get your creative website up and running within minutes. You can import pages, settings and styles using the one click import feature. The 200+ demos demonstrate just how flexible the Qode WordPress platform is and if you don’t like any of the demos on offer simple make your own using the thorough customization options available in this WordPress themes admin.
- Bridge also comes with 24 layout concepts to help you choose the perfect style for your website. Whether you’re looking for mainly a portfolio or something with a bit more content you’re sure to find it within this themes collection of creative concepts.
- Along with the layout concepts Bridge allows you to choose from 7 different portfolio page layouts. You can choose to show the portfolio in lists and grids and set the desired number of columns - to make your agencies site stand out you can even customize animation hover effects.
- Bridge is available through the ThemeForest marketplace.
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- Massive Dynamic - WordPress Website Builder
- Massive dynamic is a hugely customisable WordPress agency theme featuring the latest web technologies and up to date design trends. Similar to the above themes massive dynamic includes a powerful drag-and-drop page builder which allows you to build feature rich and unique layouts whether you’re a WordPress expert or a web novice.
- The developers of Massive Dynamic have focused on performance, meaing your WordPress website will be quick and fast loading which in turn will help your search rankings and more importantly improve your visitors experience and conversion.
- The theme also ships with more than 60 out of the box website templates meaning you can instantly create a beautiful theme for your agency in minutes. Along with the pre built layouts Massive dynamic also includes over 70 elements helping you create custom unique web-pages and tailor them exactly for your needs. To add to the customisation of your theme you can also arrange your header in anyway you want it.
- Massive Dynamic is available through the ThemeForest marketplace.
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