If you have always wondered about the Elegant Themes products, you have come to the right place. In today’s post, I am going to conduct an in-depth review of Elegant Themes.

By the end of this article, you will have a clear idea of the popular themes and plugins, the features, support, update, and pricing plan of Elegant Themes.

All ET themes feature professionally developed page templates. The contact form template allows you to create a contact page without using any third-party plugin. If you want to create a full-width page, the full-width template will come in handy. It is also possible to create a sitemap, search page, image gallery, multimedia portfolio, member login pages by using their respective templates.

As you can guess, all the ET products are fully responsive. Since they are developed by using CSS media queries, all the themes and plugins work correctly on all screen sizes and resolutions.

When it comes to code quality, Elegant Themes maintain a very high standard. All of their themes and plugins follow the coding best practices to increase your website’s security and overall performance. As they perform regular security audits, you can rest assured about their superiority over others.

ET also makes sure that their products work perfectly with all modern web browsers. What’s more, all the themes are fully localized and come with thepo and mo files. That means you can easily translate the themes into other supported languages.

There are separate sections for each theme and plugin. For each of these sections, you can view the number of threads, replies, last reply time, and the username of the person who responded last. The advanced search feature allows you to search in within your desired theme or plugin, define which type of content to search, choose the sorting style, etc.

In case you don’t find the topic you are looking for, it is very easy to create a new support ticket. There are separate fields for providing additional information like the URL of the problematic page, WordPress version, upload a screenshot, etc.

What’s more, all the themes and plugins are provided with extensive documentation about how to use the various features. You will find the documentations on the ‘Members Area’ section.

ET always updates its products to make sure that these work perfectly with the latest WordPress versions. You can subscribe to receive alerts about the updates automatically. When it comes to updating the themes/plugins, you have two options – do it manually or authenticate your website with ET to receive automatic updates.

It is clear that the ET team puts more effort on developing high-quality WordPress themes than plugins. As a result, you will find a lot more WordPress themes (87 to be exact) than plugins. Let’s take a moment to explore the most popular themes developed by ET.

Divi Theme: Divi is definitely the flagship product of Elegant Themes. This multi-purpose WordPress theme is powered by Divi builder, a smart, intuitive WYSIWYG page builder. The drag and drop builder allows you to use the 46 content elements and create custom layouts from scratch. It is also possible to get started with any of the existing layouts and apply your own styles. The available customization options allow you to define custom width, height, color, font family, font size, margin, padding, etc. You can save your customized layouts to the library and use these later.

Divi is widely known for its virtually unlimited list of customization options. You will find all these options at the theme customizer section. That means you can check out the actual preview while making the changes. Along with being translated into 32 languages, Divi also comes with full support for all RTL languages. Last but not the least, the highly popular theme is certified by Sucuri to make sure that it is following the web security best practices.

Extra Theme: Extra is a beautifully designed magazine WordPress theme. This theme is also powered by the Divi Builder with a significant twist – the builder could be used with categories too. Features like advanced builder modules and the column-based structures allow you to create any type of layout for your posts or pages. The intuitive theme customizer section includes all the styling options you need.

The theme comes with full WooCommerce support, which means you can integrate a fully functional online shop on your website. As it also supports projects, you can use Extra to display your impressive portfolios in front of the whole world. It also supports lots of post formats to help you publish different types of contents. The fully responsive theme allows you to publish beautiful review posts with custom rating points. The theme package also comes with several custom widgets.

Others: As I said earlier, ET offers a large number of WordPress themes. While Divi and Extra are two of their latest themes, you can check out the other ones too. There are different themes available for creating various types of websites like blog, magazine, business, personal, corporate, portfolio, e-commerce, app, etc. We especially like the Nexus, Nimble, Fable, Origin, eStore, and eList themes.

Bloom: Bloom is a feature-rich email opt-in plugin from Elegant Themes. The plugin allows you to create different types of opt-in forms including popups, fly-ins, inline opt-ins, below content opt-ins, widget area opt-ins, content locker, etc. You can choose to trigger the opt-ins by using various choices like timed delay, reaching the bottom of the post, after scrolling to X%, after a specific amount of inactivity time, after commenting, etc.

The plugin works perfectly with all the popular email marketing platforms. There are more than 100 professionally designed opt-in templates for you to choose from. It is also possible to customize the styles of the templates. Features like A/B testing and the detailed statistics will help you track the performance of your opt-in forms.

Monarch: Monarch is a feature-rich social sharing plugin from ET. You can use this plugin to enable sharing for 35+ social media networks. Monarch supports various locations for the social sharing buttons – floating sidebar, before and/or after content, on the images and videos, automatic popup, fly-in, etc.

It is also possible to choose a custom trigger for the sharing buttons. The available options include a timed delay, reaching the bottom of the post, after commenting or purchasing, after inactivity, after reaching a particular position of the page, etc. You can style the sharing buttons by choosing a custom shape, color, hover effect, icon orientation, and other options. You will find detailed statistics about the social shares in the dashboard.

Divi Builder: This is a very powerful drag anddrop page builder plugin. You can use this plugin to use the intuitive page building feature with any WordPress theme. You can create unique layouts by using the available content modules or choose any of the available designs.

Each module and layouts are fully customizable. You can apply custom CSS for using your own styles. It is possible to copy, paste, delete, lock, hide, duplicate items and undo, redo your actions. The Divi Builder library provides unlimited access to the pre-made layouts and allows you to save an unlimited number of custom builder elements and layouts.

Others: Besides Monarch, Bloom, and Divi Builder, ET has also developed 3 other plugins. Among these, the Handheld Mobile plugin will be useful in creating a mobile-friendly layout for your WordPress site. On the other hand, the Maintenance Mode plugin allows you to set up and display a coming soon page, update the visitors, and collect their email address. Lastly, the Elegant Shortcodes plugin allows you to use the ET shortcodes and use the custom elements on any WordPress website.

Pros and Cons of Elegant Themes

As I said earlier, ET offers an incredible value for the money. Even for the yearly plan, you are getting access to 87 themes for $69 a year, which is a very attractive deal. If you are frequently developing new websites, ET themes could be an excellent choice for you. As an additional bonus, you are getting access to some great plugins as well.

However, final choice is always yours.​

So, what do you think about Elegant Themes? Do the themes and plugins look interesting enough to try yourself? Let me know in the comments below.