5 Best Small Business WordPress Themes

Let’s face it – as an entrepreneur, your time is precious. You need a professional looking website for your business, and you understand the value of creating a site with WordPress.

But who has the time to search through hundreds of themes in order to choose the perfect one to represent your brand image?

While there are loads of great WordPress themes out there that we could recommend, we don’t want to overwhelm you with too many choices.

That’s why we’ve chosen our top five picks of the best small business multi-purpose WordPress themes.

We’ve based these choices on versatility, ease of use, functionality and overall look and feel.

Let us save you the time and trouble of spending countless hours of online research. And keep in mind that we can customize any of these themes to make them original to your brand imaging.

1. Avada

Avada Theme Demo

The self-proclaimed “#1 selling theme of all time”, Avada comes packed with an unlimited amount of demos, allowing you to customize for all types of businesses and organizations. Choose from such pre-made design layouts as agency, architecture, church, café, travel, law, hotel, fashion and more.

Avada uses Fusion Builder to allow for drag and drop design capability. There are 4 custom sliders to choose from and powerful theme customizing options such as unlimited color schemes, as well as an online store function.

Price: $59 (includes future updates and 6 months support)



2. BeTheme

Be Small Business WordPress Theme Demo

This multi-site, responsive theme contains 150+ pre-made layouts which can easily be installed with one click. BeTheme uses Muffin Builder, allowing you to drag and drop containers on your page to which you can add your custom content.

Choose from clean looking layouts such as business, cosmetics, dentist, copywriter, lawyer, surfing, gardening, décor, café, theater, recipes and more. This theme is fully optimized for speed and is WooCommerce-ready, allowing you to create an online store for your business without having to install more plugins.

Some additional features of BeTheme include Revolution slider, 600 Google fonts, dummy content and child theme integration.

Price – $59 (includes future updates and 6 months support)



3. Divi

Divi WordPress Theme

This super robust theme By Elegant Themes is smart, slick and powerful. It includes 18 pre-made layouts which can be customized, along with the Divi Builder, which allows you to create visual layouts by dragging and dropping content modules where you want. Speaking of content modules, there are 40 of them – including an online shopping module – that you can easily implement on your site.

Divi also includes live preview functionality, allowing you to experience in real-time the changes you make, as you are making them. Every layout is responsive and creates an intuitive browsing experience for the user.

Price: $69 (includes access to all 87 themes created by Elegant Themes, plus a year of technical support). If you are a developer or looking to create multiple sites, this is a pretty awesome deal.



4. Monstroid

Monstroid Multi-purpose WordPress Theme

This “multi-purpose WordPress theme on steroids” comes with 10 different layouts, 7 home page designs and the ability to implement child themes, which makes customizing your site much simpler for the non-technical user. Monstroid is a responsive theme and has multiple page layouts to choose from. You can easily implement stunning background videos or even multiple sliders.

This theme is SEO-friendly and even comes with Google Analytics included. You won’t need to add many plugins to a site that uses this theme as it comes chock-full of functionality right out of the box.

Price: $79



5. X – The Theme

X Multi-purpose WordPress Theme

X is another feature-rich theme which uses Cornerstone, a front-end page builder tool, along with a live previewer so you can take a look at your changes before publishing them. There are several layout and navigation options to choose from, all creating a unique and responsive user experience.

Nearly two dozen extensions are included with this theme, including MailChimp integration, which makes managing your email marketing campaigns a snap. This is another theme which will not require many (if any) additional plugins, since the functionality is already built in.

Price: $64 (includes future updates and 6 months support)



If you are ready to get your site created with WordPress but don’t know where to start, please contact us today. We are here to help with any stage of your WordPress site development, from installing a theme, to customizing it, and even teaching you how to manage it.

Visit our Website Tools & Resources page for other great WordPress Theme resources.


Laura Swords | SwordsNet Designs
Written by: Laura Swords
Laura Swords is the founder of SwordsNet Designs, which provides web and graphic design solutions for small to mid-sized businesses. With over 20 years of corporate experience in both the IT and marketing arenas, she possesses the unique combination of technical and creative skills.


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