What are the best one page WordPress themes in 2018?
In this article, we have evaluated the 20 best one page WordPress themes based on speed, ease of use, design, mobile experience, and functionality to help simplify the process of choosing the WordPress theme that’s right for your next project. You can check out our article on how to choose a WordPress theme for more information on the exact process.
There are a few subtleties to crafting an effective single page website, such as handling navigation, maximizing the user experience with less ‘real-estate’, and cleverly incorporating the elements required to help drive conversion rates. That being said, these are often overshadowed by the primary upside of a one page WordPress website, how quickly you can get up and running!
Projects suited to a one page WordPress theme:
- An online resume
- Portfolio
- Mobile App, or
- Landing page
Below are our 20 best one page WordPress themes for 2018, plus a bonus discounted hosting offer for members of the OHKLYN community. If you’re not a part of the team yet, subscribe to our newsletter today – it’s free!
At A Glance
- Intuitive, quick and well designed
- Impressive image galleries
- Great mobile experience
Infinite is an incredibly well designed theme which provides a seamless user experience across all devices. It is one of the quicker themes we tested, with an impressive Google page speed score and similar results through Pingdom. This theme integrates well with e-Commerce solutions, and is easily customisable through its unique admin panel and drag and drop page builder.
Summary statistics:
- Speed: 8/10
- Ease of use: 9/10
- Design: 9/10
- Mobile experience: 8/10
- Functionality: 9/10
At A Glance
- Beautifully designed
- Extensive demo content and layouts
- One-click demo content
Ultra is an amazing WordPress theme. This is largely a result of it’s custom built drag and drop page builder known as the Themify Builder. With a huge range of pre-designed layouts and one-click demo content, getting started with this theme is incredibly easy. It includes versatile header options, extensive functionality, and is 100% responsive.
Summary statistics:
- Speed: 7/10
- Ease of use: 7/10
- Design: 8/10
- Mobile experience: 8/10
- Functionality: 9/10
At A Glance
- Great page load speed
- Well built theme
- Extensive functionality
The OnePage theme is incredibly lean and was built from scratch with speed in mind. Despite this, they have managed to pack it full of features appropriate for an effective one page website, particularly the portfolio section which is quite unique. This theme is intuitive and easy to customise via the theme options panel and drag and drop editor. Despite the lack of design prowess in the demo (this is obviously subjective), this theme could be customized to look great!
Summary statistics:
- Speed: 10/10
- Ease of use: 7/10
- Design: 6/10
- Mobile experience: 7/10
- Functionality: 9/10
More one page WordPress themes
Featured below are the rest of the one page WordPress themes that made our top 20.
A great one page WordPress theme to use as an App landing page, launch or pre-launch information page. Ideal for showcasing product or screen mockups for your App of product. Fast page load speed with a reasonably low number of script requests.
Summary statistics:
- Speed: 9/10
- Ease of use: 7/10
- Design: 7/10
- Mobile experience: 6/10
- Functionality: 6/10
Divi is a versatile and well built theme. The Divi builder, Divi library, and the extended community of Divi users makes this theme a favourite for many different types of projects. Customizable menu styles and easy to use visual edit make this a good option. See our WordPress tutorial that uses Divi.
Summary statistics:
- Speed: 7/10
- Ease of use: 7/10
- Design: 7/10
- Mobile experience: 7/10
- Functionality: 8/10
907 is a well designed WordPress theme that leverages visual composer to easily drag and drop elements for your new website. It’s inclusion of mouseover videos is quite unique and a pretty rad feature. It also includes a one-click dummy content importer to get you up and running quickly.
Summary statistics:
- Speed: 7/10
- Ease of use: 7/10
- Design: 8/10
- Mobile experience: 6/10
- Functionality: 7/10
Startuply lives up to its name and is ideal for a startup ventures, a crowd funding info page, or an App landing page. It has a clean, modern design that leverages visual composer and integrates with a number of email marketing platforms.
Summary statistics:
- Speed: 6/10
- Ease of use: 7/10
- Design: 8/10
- Mobile experience: 6/10
- Functionality: 8/10
Zerif Pro was built with mobile users in mind and as such provides a great mobile experience. It’s an all round well performing theme that incorporates the SiteOrigin page builder and includes e-Commerce functionality.
Summary statistics:
- Speed: 7/10
- Ease of use: 6/10
- Design: 7/10
- Mobile experience: 7/10
- Functionality: 7/10
OnePager has a fast page load speed and is generally a well built theme. It navigation feels slightly awkward (but this could just be me), however the site includes a nice choice of fonts and icons, as well as a one click dummy content importer.
Summary statistics:
- Speed: 9/10
- Ease of use: 6/10
- Design: 7/10
- Mobile experience: 6/10
- Functionality: 7/10
Shore is well designed and versatile theme. It includes visual composer with 20+ custom elements for further creative expression, as well as integration with font awesome and Google fonts. Good page load speed and great support.
Summary statistics:
- Speed: 7/10
- Ease of use: 6/10
- Design: 7/10
- Mobile experience: 6/10
- Functionality: 7/10
Anzio includes some really nice design features and includes an extensive range of icons through font awesome and linear icons. Good mobile experience, however this theme is quite heavy which impacts speed.
Summary statistics:
- Speed: 6/10
- Ease of use: 7/10
- Design: 7/10
- Mobile experience: 6/10
- Functionality: 7/10
OneUp is a well rounded theme with a unique design that includes some nice features, particularly galleries. The design isn’t overly intuitive, however, which may impact user experience. It features the pixelentity page builder for quick and effective layouts.
Summary statistics:
- Speed: 7/10
- Ease of use: 6/10
- Design: 7/10
- Mobile experience: 6/10
- Functionality: 7/10
Dignity is a well designed theme and somewhat of an all-rounder. It features a number of pre-designed layouts and provides a reasonably good user experience across all devices. It is quite heavy though and struggled with the Google page speed test.
Summary statistics:
- Speed: 6/10
- Ease of use: 7/10
- Design: 7/10
- Mobile experience: 6/10
- Functionality: 7/10
Jarvis is a one page parallax WordPress theme and comes with a number of pre-designed single page layouts to choose from. The speed may be an issue, and we did find a few issues with the mobile styling as well as the ‘awkward’ scroll (but this could just be me).
Summary statistics:
- Speed: 6/10
- Ease of use: 76/10
- Design: 7/10
- Mobile experience: 6/10
- Functionality: 7/10
Daylight is a theme with a nice design feel that translates to a good user experience. An all-rounder with some unique features. The mobile experience isn’t great when using an image slider, however other than that the theme performs well.
Summary statistics:
- Speed: 6/10
- Ease of use: 7/10
- Design: 7/10
- Mobile experience: 5/10
- Functionality: 7/10
Business is a very simple theme which includes a drag and drop page builder. It may not take out any design awards, but is a clean, modern and well built theme. Fairly intuitive and an easy theme to use.
Summary statistics:
- Speed: 6/10
- Ease of use: 7/10
- Design: 6/10
- Mobile experience: 6/10
- Functionality: 7/10
Cafe Pro is a modern and clean one page WordPress theme designed specifically for cafes, restaurants and/or bars. It’s simple design and minimal options make this easy to work with. Mobile score was impacted by the navigation appearing beneath the fold which may confuse users.
Summary statistics:
- Speed: 8/10
- Ease of use: 6/10
- Design: 6/10
- Mobile experience: 6/10
- Functionality: 6/10
Resume – Portfolio is a great theme for creating your online resume or portfolio. It is easy to customize and supports multiple languages. Stand out from other candidates with this easy to use online resume theme.
Summary statistics:
- Speed: 5/10
- Ease of use: 6/10
- Design: 7/10
- Mobile experience: 6/10
- Functionality: 7/10
Resume is a very specific one page WordPress theme designed for, you guessed it, an online resume. It has a very unique design and would be perfect for a creative resume / portfolio website. It is quite heavy which may affect load speed.
Summary statistics:
- Speed: 5/10
- Ease of use: 6/10
- Design: 7/10
- Mobile experience: 6/10
- Functionality: 7/10
Rounding out our top 20 One Page WordPress themes is High Class Portfolio. Like the other resume / portfolio themes, this theme is easy to use and can help you stand out at your next interview or client pitch.
Summary statistics:
- Speed: 5/10
- Ease of use: 6/10
- Design: 7/10
- Mobile experience: 6/10
- Functionality: 7/10
