Are you inspired by Facebook and now looking to create an online community website?
Well, then we know that the look-and-feel is necessarily the most important thing for your users and you. Here we list down 10 of the best free online community themes.
1. BuddyX
BuddyX theme is a fast, lightweight, responsive, and super flexible theme. It supports all the major plugins. And can be used to build an online community similar to that of Facebook because of its support of social plugins BuddyBoss Platform, BuddyPress, bbPress. Popular page builder plugins like Elementor, Beaver Builder, Visual Composer are all supported by BuddyX. Using WooCommerce, LearnDash, LifterLMS, and GamiPress you can create an online store, an online social learning website, or a Facebook-ish community website in no time. BuddyX has a single click demo import and comes with 6 pre-designed demo options which will get your website ready in merely a few clicks. BuddyX Pro an advanced version of theme is also available with dedicated support.
Features:
- Multiple header options
- Elegant member and group layout
- Compatible with BuddyBoss Platform, WooCommerce, WC Vendors, BuddyPress, bbPress, GamiPress, LearnDash, LifterLMS, and so on.
- RTL and Translation ready
- Cross-browser compatible
- Mobile-friendly
- Dark & Light Mode (one-click toggle)
- 6 Demo options
2. Rishi
Rishi is a core vital optimized WordPress theme for professional WordPress sites, including community websites. You get numerous starter templates with this theme, one of which is best suited for wedding and dating purposes. With a one-click demo install, you can make necessary changes and launch your brand new site.
The Rishi is fully responsive and lightweight, ensuring the best performance on the internet. This theme comes with clean SEO coding and a Schema-friendly design.
In addition, this WordPress theme is compatible with all the popular multilingual plugins like Polylang and WPML.
Features:
- 6+ Demo Starter Websites
- One-click Demo Import
- Lightweight and Fully Responsive
- 100% Speed Optimized
- Unlimited Color Choices
- Advanced Typography Control
- Elementor and Gutenberg Ready
- WooCommerce Ready
- Reliable and Fast Customer Support
3. Zubin
Zubin is a free, responsive, multipurpose theme that can be used for businesses to build an online community. The theme is fully flexible and provides a neat interface to represent your business. It also is responsive across all devices making your site look aesthetically consistent across devices. Zubin is highly customizable and allows you to control the elements which will be displayed on your website.
Using there Featured-slider, Featured Content, Hero Content, Logo Slider, and more options you can set the tone and feel of your website in accordance to your business.
Features:
- Multipurpose and Responsive
- Consistent across devices
- Highly Customizable
4. BrightPress
You can use his theme to create a WordPress website of your choice. It is a multipurpose WordPress theme and is very flexible in design. You can customize the theme as per your requirements. It is the perfect theme for business community websites. It is very lightweight and loads in a single click.
This theme also supports the Elementor page builder plugin which can be used to create, edit, and update the page design as per your requirements. It also supports WooCommerce, Contact Form7, Google Analytics, etc.
Features:
- Responsive & Mobile-friendly
- SEO friendly
- Clean Code
- Supports Yoast, Elementor, WooCommerce, etc.
5. SEOS Social
SEOS Social is fast and SEO friendly, multipurpose, HTML5 WordPress theme. The theme is compatible with the latest version of WordPress. The theme also supports Gutenberg and WooCommerce plugins. It gives you all the popular social icons, is fully responsive, gives you content options, header options, a back to top button and so much more.
The theme can be used to create an online community, bloggers, magazines, portfolios, eCommerce, and many other types of websites.
Features:
- Gives social and back to top button
- WooCommerce compatible
- Extremely fast and responsive
6. StrangerWp
StrangerWP is compatible with the Elementor page builder plugin. Making it possible for you to customize the layout of our website without any coding know-how. It offers plenty of customization options in the form of Google Fonts, Logo Upload, Advanced Typography, header image, etc.
The theme is consistent across all screen sizes with support for Yoast SEO, WooCommerce, Jetpack plugins to name a few.
Features:
- Many customization options.
- Consistent across devices
- Translation Ready (WPML, Polylang)
7. Pushan
Pushan can be used to build a professional women-centric community. It is a multipurpose theme that offers customizable page styling options. You can start a blog, show portfolios, start a webshop, and even sell your products using this theme.
It’s easy to use admin panel will let you use the customizer functions, enabling you to build your dream website without any coding knowledge. The theme is responsive and looks identically good across devices. It also gives you multiple header styles, navigation styles, and layouts to choose from.
Features:
- Identical across devices
- Customizable without any coding know-how.
- Offers customizable options
8. Vlogger Video Blog
This theme offers you all the industry-oriented premium features and comes with a very stunning slider, copyright sections, promo sections, and social options. It’s sophisticated, user-friendly, and responsive design will attract more members to your website. The theme is social media-oriented and SEO friendly at the same time.
Given its clean code, it has a faster page load time and hence it ranks better on SERPs. Being bootstrap oriented it gives personalization and customization option to its users.
Features:
- Clean Code & Faster page load time
- SEO friendly
- Offers personalization and customization options.
9. Skyline WP
A gorgeous, customizable multipurpose WordPress theme. It offers drag and drop functionality to allow easy implementation of user-preferred design layout. It also has a predesigned home page, 5 header designs, and over 35 content blocks which add to the customizability proposition of the theme.
Designed with responsiveness in mind, Skyline WP works well on mobile devices right out of the box.
Features:
- Drag and drop page design
- Predesigned home page
- Highly Customizable
10. Social Mag
You can create an online community website using SocialMag. It supports WooCommerce, BuddyPress, and BBpress. It is coded to give you a fast-loading, lightweight theme with SEO optimized code. It looks great on every device and is responsive across browsers.
It comes with custom templates for portfolios, multiple sidebars, social sharing, and is translation ready. Its customizer controls are exquisite and rich letting you change everything from color and layout to typography and font styles using Google Fonts, Font Awesome, and Bootstrap.
Features:
- Online Community support with BuddyPress, and BBPress
- Fast, responsive, and cross-browser compatible
- Multipurpose and SEO optimized theme.
11. Estera
Estera is a lightning-fast multipurpose theme. It can be used to create WooCommerce stores, portfolio websites, and community. Offering plenty of fully customizable theme options. A little bit of coding will help utilize the theme to the best of its ability.
The theme is intuitive to users and has exhaustive documentation to provide you self-help. The main focus of the theme is providing page load speed and a better user experience
Features:
- Dark Mode
- Incredibly fast
- SEO friendly and Multipurpose.
Final Words
If you are looking to create an online community. Then, the first step towards it should be is selecting the right plugin which supports it. We hope that we were able to give you a list of themes that can work best for you. In case you still have any query, drop a comment and we will get back to you.
Varun Dubey is a full-stack WordPress & BuddyPress developer. He is the founder and CEO of WordPress Development Agency WBcom Designs. Connect with him on LinkedIn and Github.
