The best choice you can make for a website theme in 2026 is the Divi theme by Elegant Themes. I have been using Elegant themes for more than 16 years, and before the Divi theme was even created. At first, I started using the Divi theme because I liked the look and flexibility of it. But soon after it was released a “Divi Builder” portion was developed inside the theme. I had been using WordPress for many years, and this was the first time I used a ‘builder’ within a theme and not the normal WordPress editor.
I must say that over the years, this builder has solved core issues with WordPress themes and layout:
- Easy to quickly add editable columns and rows
- Use Divi on unlimited websites with just one license
- Save any portion of a layout to your personal ‘library’
- Thousands of free examples and templates exist
- Drag and drop anything within a layout
- Countless included features keep you from downloading unnecessary plugins
I don’t know which side of the “AI” argument you are on (for or against), but Divi has AI available if you want to use it for building layouts, images, text, and code. Support is great, and in all the years that I’ve used Divi everything has always been backwards compatible. Meaning that when I upgrade to the current version of the theme, it has never – not once, broken any of my websites.
