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How A Modern Trendy WordPress Themes Should Be? Design Trends 2017

Is the theme you are using or the theme you are gonna select has these 2017 design trends?

Being a designer we all have so much of creative ideas to create a theme. But all the creative ideas cannot become a trend. As a website owner, we must be aware of the current design trends to give our visitors a fresh look.

Saying that these are the best 2017 trendy WordPress themes that follow 2017 Design Trends.

2017 Design Trends

Design trends are not set by a single person are an organization. Some of the designs are widely popular and practiced by all the designers. Behance is such a place where you can see all the top designers from around the world present and showcase their work.

On closely observing top designs which are envied and much appreciated we can find a pattern. Based on which design trends are released every year. This time Milo themes have provided the 2017 Design trends. Which made most of our designers nodded their head as yes.

Design Trend 2017 guide includes various aspects of designs. As we are talking about the website theme designs these are the topics we have to concentrate on.

WordPress Themes Design Trends 2017


Rise Of Geometry
Semi Flat Design
Bright Attention Grabbing Colorful Themes
Engage As You Scroll- Parallax Effect
Cool Gradients
Split Content
Videos Dominate
Typography Make Trendy WordPress Themes Complete

Rise Of Geometry

There is a sudden rise of designs using the geometric shapes in their design. Although these are not a major part of a design when you add these as elements it gives a unique look to the theme.

As of now, this particular design trend is famous in presenting the theme. Some of the designers incorporated this trend in their main theme designs itself. This trend won’t suit for all websites.

It best suits for: Creative agencies, Ad and design companies, designer portfolios, event organizing sites

These themes could help you if you are interested in shapes and geometry type of trendy WordPress themes.

Cassini – Portfolio and Shop WordPress Theme

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Evently – A Modern Multi-Concept Event and Conference Theme

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Semi Flat Design

Semi flat designs are the widely used designs in the modern designs especially it became very popular from the last year. This will continue to grow in the current year also but it will have little tweaks with the shadows and depths.

Flat design with shadow effects won’t create a big impact to the all the website design, but you can make use of this in your dashboard, user profiles, and settings. Again it is not a stand-alone design, this gimmick will make your WordPress website themes more elegant.

If you are a software selling or SAAS company then this type design trend could help you.

It best suits for: Web Application, user control rich web pages, App landing pages, SAAS websites, Application related services, data and stats related websites to make the charts in a more cleaner way.

Redel- Responsive App Landing WordPress Theme

redel


Bright Attention Grabbing Colorful Themes

The right combination of colors are very important in a website. Using color psychology in your theme design could help you get more conversions.

Coschedules article on color psychology for marketing help website users and owners to get better ideas. As a WordPress theme designer, we must use this along with creativity and the latest trend.

At present bright bold colors are used extensively. Tints and shade could help you to boost the effects, this particular design is a stand alone WordPress trends.

Best suits for: Almost all the website can use this, getting leads and conversion is an important part of any website.

These bold colored trendy WordPress themes will help you get a better idea.

Ivery – Creative Portfolio & CV WordPress Theme

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Walls WP – Construction WordPress Theme

This is the best example of using the bold colors in a professional website. You no need to choose multi color but you can use single bright color like this theme

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Tevent – Conference & Event WordPress Theme

tevent


Engage As You Scroll- Parallax Effect

Parallax effects are still in the game of the website designs. It gets improved a lot with the interactive effects and double parallax. The parallax effects help brands to tell an interactive story about themselves and about their product.

Best suits for: Agencies, brand websites, Resume/CV designs, Portfolio

Almost all the WordPress themes with multiple layer option will help you parallax options. Or else you can use the page builders

Elston Portfolio For Freelancers & Agencies

elston


Juster Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme

juster


Cool Gradients

Using color transformation in the design helps you tell your website’s purpose more precisely. Using gradients in the logo itself getting very famous now. For example, Instagram even on buttons uses gradients to make the app look more colorful and lively.

Best suits for: Event websites, Portfolios, Service providing websites, entertainment sites

If you want the website to be lively and colorful; then using the gradients in the WordPress themes helps to boost the feel of your website. These trendy WordPress themes with cool gradients will help you please your colorful design thoughts.

Designr – Ultimate Multi-Purpose Responsive Theme

designr


Jupiter – Multi-Purpose Responsive Theme

jupiter


Boo | Responsive Multi-Purpose Theme

boo


Split Content

Split content is a unique style layout which is becoming very popular now. If you are a normal blogger or a person who is just setting up with your carrier then this type of themes is not for you.

These type of themes best suits for personal branding. If you are a person with thousands of followers and your works are well known then you can go for this type of layout.

The reason is the navigation used in these type of layouts is hidden navigation user have to get to there to know more about you or your site. Hence getting leads or increasing the subscribers is a quite a tough job.

Best suits for: Food blogs, personal blogs, Portfolios, Resume/CV, Travel Blog

Signy- A Personal Blog WordPress Theme

signy


Richmond – Portfolio WordPress Theme for Creative Professionals

richmond


Wild Book – WordPress Personal Blog Theme

wild-book


Videos Dominate

Both in the content and website design field the impact of video is becoming higher. The videos are most preferred consumable content by the user than any other form. Adding a video to your website helps you to engage your visitors more and also you can increase the dwell time; that is the time spent by the users on your site.

Rodich A Restaurant WordPress Theme

rodich


Brixey Responsive Architecture WordPress Theme

brixey


Typography Make Trendy WordPress Themes Complete

Modern trendy WordPress themes are incomplete without the trendy fonts. As most of the premium WordPress themes gives you the option to customize your font, you yourself can make your WordPress website better.

Speaking of typography make it big, bold and legible so that users can read the content without any strain. The number of mobile users are increasing rapidly. Make sure the font you choose looks clean on any device.

For headings and on website content there is been a new trend of mixing two or more fonts to make the website look more unique and interesting.

Pro Tip : General user guide

Restrict your creativity limited number of fonts stick to two fonts style or to the most three fonts style, otherwise websites may look very clumsy

So as a WordPress theme developers we expect these are the website and theme design trends that will prevail this year. What’s your thought? What are the trends you think that will prevail this year? How do you expect a Trendy WordPress Theme should be in 2017? Share us your thought in the comment section.
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