Do you want to know what the best free WordPress theme is?
Well, you're going to find out for your self this Blog.
My name is Ferdy and in this Blog I will compare the Astra theme with OceanWP theme and besides that I will also talk about thepremium versions of both themes.
So let's get started.
Let me say up front that I believe that theAstra theme and the OceanWP theme are the best free themes for your WordPress website. So if you are searching for a free theme,those two are the way to go. They both have amazing capabilities but thereare also differences and in this video I will talk about both of them.
So first I will talk about the free versionof Astra and OceanWP and then I will talk about two premium packages and I will showyou the benefits of both premium packages. I am making tutorials about everything thatI mentioned in this video, so you can learn from A to Z.
How to create websites with the Astra andOceanWP theme. You can find those tutorials on my YouTube channel. So let's dive right into it. What I've done, I created exactly the samewebsite and with one I use the Astra theme and with the other one I used OceanWP theme. When I show you the Astra theme, the top ofthe video will look like this and when I use the OceanWP theme the top looks like this. In this website I have the home page withfive recent blog post and a sidebar.
Let me show them simultaneously, here yousee an individual blog post of the Astra theme and of the OceanWP theme and I make use ofa WooCommerce shop in both websites. So what you see the content is the same butthe way this displayed is little bit different and first we're going to take a look at thecustomize options of both themes. With both teams you can upload your logo innormal format and retina formats. You can resize it live.
With the Astra theme you have an extra optionto place a text below or after your logo. When it comes to the display of the headerthe Astra theme has a few options. You can stack the logo in the menu on topof each other or you can put the logo at the right and menu at left. With the OceanWP theme you have more styles,minimal, transparent, top menu, full screen, center, medium, vertical and a custom header. Resizing the header is easy with both themes. You can change the header to full width sothe logo will be totally at the left and the menu totally at right, even if you have areally big screen.
With both themes you can have a bottom border,but with the Astra theme you can change the size of the border. With the Astra theme you can have only onebackground color and that is white. With OceanWP theme you can choose your backgroundcolor or even add an image or a video in the background of the header. Within the OceanWP theme you can have socialicons in your main menu and change the order of the WooCommerce cart search icon and socialicons.
You also can change the padding of the menuin this theme. With the Astra theme there are more optionswhen it comes to the sub menu. You can change the border color and the borderthickness and with the OceanWP theme there are a few less options. Within the Astra theme the size of the logoon the smartphone adjusts automatically, I really like that. Within the OceanWP theme this is not the case,within the free version of the Astra theme there is no top bar. Within the OceanWP theme there is a top bar.
In a free version of both themes you haveno sticky header so when you scroll down the header stays on top. When it comes to the container you can adjustthe width of it with both themes. You can have a full width layout and havea beautiful layout for a blog website. What I like about the OceanWP theme is thatthere is a small space between all the blog posts. In a free version of Astra that is not possible.
I also think that the padding in the marginwithin the OceanWP theme looks a bit better, but maybe that's my personal preference. Within the Astra theme there are more optionsfor the container, you can say that all the static pages have a different layouts thanthe blog pages and the blog posts. With both themes you can adjust the sidebaron different kinds of pages.
What I love about the OceanWP theme is thatit comes with a Facebook like box, an Instagram widget and a Twitter widget. Using Astra you need to get those pluginsyourself. I rather have those plugins within the themebecause then I know they work perfectly with the theme. When it comes to the blog page you can adjustwhat you want to show in both teams like the featured image, title, Meta data etc.
You also can change the order in both themes. What I love about OceanWP is that you canchange the view to a grid, change the amount of grid columns. You can even change the grid style to masonry. Within the Astra theme you only can do thiswith a premium version of the theme. Individual blog posts, also here OceanWP hasmuch more options. You can even create a page header with a featuredimage as a background and a title with a breadcrumb and you can adjust it further.
Within both themes you can adjust the sizeof the titles and the headers. Within the OceanWP theme you can also changethe color of individual headers for instance h2 or h3, with the Astra you can do that toobut then you need to use custom CSS. In the footer of the Astra theme you can onlyhave zero or four widgets. In those widgets you can put all kinds ofinformation as shown over here. When it comes to the OceanWP theme you canchoose how many widget areas you want to have?
Using WooCommerce you can adjust the imagesize within the Astra theme, I love that option. It can give a cool masonry effect to yourweb shop. If I go to my website where I don't use Astra,it looks like this and if I would use Astra with this option this item would be rightbelow this item you see over here. Using the OceanWP theme you can style theWeb shop page even further than you can with Astra theme. When it comes to the product page with anAstra team you can only deactivate the breadcrumb on a product page.
Within the OceanWP theme you can adjust thesize of the Add to Cart button and you even have a floating bar when you scroll down thatenables you to buy the product. When it comes to Elementor both themes workperfectly with Elementor. Astra Pro is actually Astra free on steroids. There are no more restrictions. With Astra Pro you can adjust all the colorsof the header, the footer, the blog on your website, WooCommerce. The same goes for typography, you can changeall the text within your website.
You can change the padding and the marginwithin your website. There are a ton of options within the blogpages. You can change the view of the blog post,add a date in the featured image and configure it even further. You can adjust a mobile header, you can evenadd a second header your header so above or below your current header. You can make the header transparent, you canmake it sticky.
You can add a mega menu or even show an elementyou have made with an elementor and show it in your menu like this. You can create custom headers and footersusing Elementor. You can create a 404 page and you can createhooks that means that you can add a section wherever you want in a website that only willbe shown when people are members or it will only be shown on certain pages you get a lotof flexibility over that.
So for instance you can show top bar on theshop page where you can give a coupon code or social sharing elements below every blogpost you can do so much things with it. The same goes for the food area, you can changethe amount of widgets you can add a scroll to top icon and adjust it. You get so much more freedom to adjust allthe WooCommerce pages. You can also use wide labeling. It also has amazing integrations with easydigital downloads LearnDash and LifterLMS.
Besides that you get premium support you cansubmit a ticket and can get access to a very clear documentation. With the Astra Mini Agency bundle you getall the extra pro features plus 50 plus already made websites that you can import with a fewclicks and adjust to your wishes. It will save you a ton of time. You can also get the best portfolio plug-inthere is at this moment and you get the ultimate add-ons for beaver builder and Elementor,21 premium elements that will help you to create an amazing website. If you want to get the best package, it isabout Astra. You can get the Astra agency bundle. You get to convert pro plugin a powerful conversionoptimization and email is billing to to convert website visitors to subscribers and customersand the Schema pro plugin. A plug-in that enables you to optimize yourwebsite for google quickly and easily.
With the OceanWP core extension bundle youget a group premium plugins that enable you to create a cookie notice, a call-to-actionbutton above the footer. The ability to create a full-screen websitelike this. We can create hooks that enable us to showdifferent parts of the content to different groups of people also on different placeswithin the website. You can create a login pop-up, you can makea beautiful portfolio. A site and with widgets, a sticky header wealso use white labelling here. You can create a WooCommerce pop-up when peopleclick on the Add to Cart button.
You can add complete websites within a fewclicks. You can add custom sidebars for every pageor category. You can get an Instagram widget. You can open content in a pop-up. You can make a sticky sidebar or other 09:29(Unclear) elements sticky in your website. You can make a post slider and a product shareelement in your webshop. Besides that you can ask all your questionswithin the OceanWP Facebook group.
So let's talk about an important subject pricing. The free versions of Astra are totally free,but if you want to get the pro version of Astra you get all the extra Pro features 20plus free starter websites, one-on-one support a really great documentation and the greatthing over here is you can use it on unlimited websites.
So if you pay $59 for one year, you can useit on 50 different websites for 50 different clients and only pay $59 per year. If you decide not to continue after one yearyou still can use the website and all the features you only do not get support and updatesanymore. With OceanWP you get 12 months of updatesand support, 8 free extensions 13 premium extensions, 13 demos and 21 Pro demos but,it is only for one site.
So if you buy this you can use it on one websiteand to clear things up those three packages are all the same package, only this one isfor one site, this is for three sites and this is for unlimited sites. So if you take a look over here this is forunlimited sites. This also then this is $129 and this is only$59. But with OceanWP you also get a lot of Elementorwidgets and those are amazing and with Astra pro you don't get those.
So if we go to the next one, over here yousee choice of one page builder Addon. So here you can choose for 21 extra elementorelements or beaver builder elements, but then it cost $169. So then it's more expensive than this versionbut here you get 50 plus ready-made websites, you get one-on-one support, extensive trainingand you get the portfolio plug-in which is the best plugin for our portfolio I've seenso far and you can use it on unlimited websites and then if you take it a step further, youget over here Convert pro and schema pro.
If you want to get those do you need to upgradeif you don't want those then stick with this one $169 per year and this one is $129 peryear. So this is the cheapest one. If you take a look at unlimited websites afterthat comes this one and then we have this one, but what we also can do? This is what you pay per year, you can alsogo for a lifetime. Also here then if you choose to have it forone website you will have the rest of your life updates and support. If you do this long over than four years thenyou will get your money back and then all those years after that you can still use it.
If you would get this package you can useit on unlimited websites for a lifetime, so if you are a web designer you make websitesfor clients then you can use it on unlimited websites for the rest of your life. If there is a new update you will get a freeupdate, so then you're good to go. It costs $519.
If you go with a mini agency bundle for alifetime it's a little bit cheaper, you also get all those great options. I think this is slightly better than thisone, but the question is if you want to have this for a lifetime. If you really want to take it to the nextlevel maybe or a lot of clients that want to have convert Pro because it will help youto turn visitors into subscribers and clients then there's this option for $700 you willhave a lifetime of updates of the best of the best of everything that Astra has to offerand you can use it on unlimited websites.
So I hope I make it clear for you, the cheapestoption is for one year $39 for one website. This cheapest option is $59, here you getgreat elementor widgets, here you don't get them if you go one step to the right thenyou pay 169 for one year and then you get those and the portfolio plug-in but over hereall those packages you can use unlimited websites and here you can use it on one site or threesites or unlimited sites, so it's only up to you.
Let me tell you that I have tutorials aboutall the subject you see over here. I have tutorials about the sticky header,about the elementor widgets, about the Popup Login, about the starter sites, about allthe Astra pro features, about convert pro, about everything just take a look at my YouTubechannel Ferdy Korpershoek and there you'll find it.
So if you want to learn anything see if it'ssomething for you please take a look. I hope you make a great decision. Thank you for watching this video and if youhave a question leave a comment. If you like this video like it and feel freeto subscribe for more upcoming videos.
Have a great day and you will see me the nexttime bye. I want to thank you for watching this video. I hope you learn a ton of stuff, feel freeto like this Blog and to subscribe for more upcoming blog and I hope you have a greatday. You'll see me next time bye
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