About Elegant Themes

Founded in 2009 by Nick Roach from his college apartment, Elegant Themes is a company specialized in the development of WordPress themes and plugins. It is a fully distributed company with 100+ team members in over 20 different countries.

To date, Elegant Themes has already released about 87 WordPress themes, as well as a number of plugins. These products are used by around 650,000 empowered web design professionals and business owners.

However, It has recently refocused its efforts on just its two latest themes (Divi and Extra), as well as its plugins (Divi Builder, Bloom and Monarch).

WordPress Themes & Plugins

Divi (All in one theme)

Divi is the flagship and the most popular theme of Elegant Themes. It is a multipurpose theme, offering the ability to create any type of website you want: Business, E-commerce, Technology, Events, Fashion & Beauty, Services, Health & Fitness, Food & Drink, Education, Art & Design, and many more.

Over 45 content modules and 800 pre-made website layouts come packaged right inside of Divi for free, as well as royalty-free photos, icons, and illustrations. Divi also comes with Divi Builder Plugin (the visual drag & drop Divi page builder).

Divi is the most widely used premium WordPress theme in the world according to stats from BuiltWith.

Extra (Magazine theme)

Extra is the perfect theme for bloggers and online-publications. Powered by Divi Builder, Extra gives you the flexibility to create diverse categories, home pages and story-driven posts.

Extra comes with over 40 unique content modules, over 800 pre-made website layouts packaged right inside of the Divi Builder for free, as well as royalty-free photos, icons, and illustrations. View live demo

Divi Builder Plugin

Divi Builder is a stand-alone Drag & Drop page builder plugin that works with any WordPress theme. Divi and Extra themes Come with Divi Builder.

Bloom Plugin

Bloom is an eMail Opt-In And Lead Generation Plugin For WordPress. With Bloom, you can easily add opt-in forms to your website and collect email addresses from your visitors.

Bloom gives you the power to display Opt-in forms using integrations of the most popular email marketing systems available such as Mailchimp, ConvertKit, MailerLite, ActiveCampaign,Constant Contact, SendinBlue, AWeber, GetResponse, and many more.

Display settings are used to control where on your website your Opt-in will appear, as well as when it will appear. You can choose to display your Opt-in on your entire site, or you can choose to display you Opt-in on individual posts or post types.

Over 100 pre-made templates are built, each of which can be completely customized using Bloom’s extensive design settings.

Monarch Plugin

Monarch is an excellent social media sharing plugin for WordPress.

1- Social Sharing

Choose from more than 20 social sharing networks to display on your website to create a custom collection of sharing options for your visitors.

You can display social sharing buttons in 5 different locations. There are 6 automatic Pop-Up & Fly-In Triggers available which can be triggered by unique user interactions.

2- Social Following

With just a few easy settings, you can let your users see your social networks profiles. Monarch lets you choose from over 30 social profiles and networks. Just supply your profile URL’s and Monarch will display the network icons and even dynamically pull your existing follow counts if desired.

You can place follow buttons in any widget area or display within your content with shortcode.

Some ElegantThemes Features

• Fully Responsive Design: All Elegant Themes products are fully responsive by default. You have complete control over every design setting on each mobile device. This allows you to perfectly tailor the appearance of each element on computers, tablets and smart phones.
• Complete Design Control Over Everything: Hover State Styling, Responsive Editing, Fonts & Text Styling, Shape Dividers, Border Options, Transform Controls & Effects, Advanced Code Editing, Filters & Effects, Drop Shadows, Text Shadows, Animations, etc.
• WooBuilder: Divi is compatible with WooCoomerce and offers specific WooCommerce integrations that make the two a perfect pair. WooCommerce is free, which means anyone using Divi can start selling products online at no additional cost.
• User Roles: You can set custom user roles and permissions for your team or clients
• The Divi Developer API allows developers to create custom Divi modules and more.

Pros:

• Extendability: You can access hundreds of Divi extensions or build your own. Divi is a community of hundreds of thousands of designers and developers filled with third party extensions, child themes and layouts to help take Divi even further.
• With Divi, you can build any type of website using a single platform, instead of managing dozens of different themes.
• Unlimited Use: You can operate a single subscription for unlimited use of their themes and plugins. Install them on as many websites as you like using a single license. Use them on unlimited client websites too.

Cons:

• Elegant Themes has around 87 WordPress themes, but only Divi & Extra themes users get regular updates

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