Why Jupiter X is Our Preferred WordPress Theme

There are many free WP themes to start experimenting with. After that - Jupiter X is our way to go!

Since WordPress has become more popular and widely recognized as a more user and budget-friendly option for website development, an almost overwhelming number of cool and functional themes has been made.

Although you can create a nice looking website using one of the free themes, decidedly there are many perks to getting a paid one. In this article, we’ll get into the advantages a paid theme has to offer, and we’ll also get into details about one multifunctional theme, which we usually recommend to our clients.

Paid vs. Free theme

Generally speaking, aside from the price, the main differences between paid and free themes is in the level of customization, overall functionality, and product support. From our experience, for a more secure website with a cool and functional design, a paid theme is preferable.

We’ll lay out some of the pros and cons of both paid and free themes:

Paid

Detailed documentation and reliable support
Full customization of typography and colors
A wide variety of pre-made templates and demos
Third-party integrations
Wide plugin compatibility (sometimes with integrated premium plugins coming for free with the theme)
You can typically rely on far more regular updates to keep your theme secure and compatible with plugins and WordPress versions
They can be pretty expensive, but at least you buy it once
With most you can only activate the theme on 1 website to use its full functionality and automatic updates

Free

It’s a great start if you’re just starting to work with WordPress
You can experiment with different things without having to pay anything
Typically produced by independent developers, with limited or no support (with few exceptions)
Offer limited typography & color customization
Limited number of pre-made templates or demos
Limited integrations with third-party services (like Mailchimp, Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel) & limited plugin compatibility generally
Updates can be few and far between

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Jupiter X

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Now that you’ve read more about what differentiates the two types, it should come as no surprise why we, as professional WordPress website creators, recommend paid themes to our clients. It’s simply better to have full control over the design and functionality of the website.

During our work, we’ve come across many paid themes. Most of them offer quality content and features, so it really depends on our clients’ needs. That being said, we do have one favorite that we always circle back to.

Jupiter X is the new and updated version of the old Jupiter theme. It might seem pricey at first, but for those $59 you get 6 months of full online support, license for one website, regular theme updates and very detailed documentation with tutorials and comprehensive articles.

Some of its other features*:

Compatibility with: Gutenberg, BuddyPress, Elementor, Gravity Forms, WooCommerce, WPBakery Page Builder, WMPL
Tested for up to WordPress 5.3 version
Comes with 300+ pre-build multipurpose templates
Includes 100+ page block templates
Fully customizable
Supports additional CSS & JS
Has a child theme which allows you to keep customization even if the main theme has been updated
Wide widget & plugin compatibility
Includes $285 worth of premium plugins made available for free

* For up to date information, please click here.

Included Plugins

One of the reasons we stick with this theme is that we can rely on its developers to keep it updated, well documented and regularly upgraded with more cool plugins and features!

We’ll go into detail about our most used paid plugins in a separate article, but we have to mention Jet Engine, Jet Elements and Jet Smart Filters among others from the same plugin group, which come for free now with Jupiter X. In our opinion, they are some of the best multipurpose plugins that we’ve started using recently.

Jet Elements works with Elementor and offers a variety of widgets that help you easily create and design different types of content.

Jet Engine allows you to build custom post types and taxonomies with as many custom fields as you need, and then create beautiful listings using dynamic elements with ease. Once you set up your custom post type you can create multiple listings with different designs and all of it needs to be set up only once – after that all content gets generated automatically on the page with your listings.

Jet Smart Filters helps you create custom filters for all kinds of content – WooCommerce products, Jet Engine listings or regular posts and helps visitors navigate through your website’s content as fast as possible.

The only thing we must admit is not the greatest lately is the support. When we started using it, it was great, but we think they kinda grew in terms of customers and team and lately are a bit slower to respond. Don’t get us wrong – it’s still very good, just not as it used to be 🙂

Overall, Jupiter X is a wonderful tool for creating fully responsive, customized, and functional websites. It’s many features and constant upgrades make it easier to keep up with web design trends. Furthermore, it gives us the freedom to realize our clients’ vision and design with little to no coding but also allows us to easily add code for more complicated projects.

Here are some projects that we’ve done using Jupiter X that you can check out:

After using this theme for multiple projects we can say for sure that the whole package is definitely worth the price.

If you wish to try out Jupiter X yourself and test all the wonderful plugins and widgets that come with it, click here.

We hope this article has been useful to you if you’re searching for a good paid theme. The process of working with WordPress and WordPress themes surely has a learning curve. We absolutely encourage you to check out the Jupiter X theme, but this doesn’t mean you should buy one straight away. There are many free WP themes to start experimenting with. After that – Jupiter X is our way to go!