Hestia WordPress Theme Review

Meet Hestia Pro – the modern material design theme you’ve always heard about. Created, developed, and supported by ThemeIsle, Hestia Pro (the premium version of Hestia) is a multipurpose theme known for its high-performance and great user experience. Currently powering over 100,000 websites, we can tell how well-loved the theme is by the wonderful reviews and 5-star ratings it has received from happy users.

So, is Hestia Pro the WordPress theme you’ve been looking for? Here are a few good reasons why your site and Hestia Pro could be a match made in heaven.

Hestia Pro Starter Sites

Don’t know where to begin building your website? Then start by exploring Hestia Pro’s growing library of pre-built sites. Select one that’s suited to your industry and easily install with a single click of the mouse.

Compared to other themes on the market, Hestia Pro’s demo collection is small. Still, importing one of their pre-built sites is a good start as you can then customize it any way you want to.

You can check out their collection of demos here.

Customization Options

Hestia Pro comes with the standard features common to most WordPress themes – Responsive Design, Translation & RTL Ready, SEO Friendly, and Optimized for Speed and Performance.

But here’s where Hestia Pro makes itself stand out – the Customizer. Within the Customizer, you’ll have access to all the exciting features you’ll need to build the website you’ve always wanted. Yes, you can create and customize your site from just one place. Talk about ease and comfort. You’ll also be able to see the changes you’ve made in real time. Here are some of the customization options you can expect:

Frontpage Sections Reordering

Take control of your frontpage sections and choose which ones to highlight for your site visitors to see. With Hestia Pro, you can easily reorder the frontpage sections to your liking and even select which ones to show up or not. Simply drag and drop sections to arrange or remove them.

Multiple Header Options

Have fun with your headers. Hestia Pro provides you with several header layouts to choose from and allows you to have a different header for every page or post on your site.

Bored with static images? Bring your header areas to life with sliders and videos. You can put up a video background in the frontpage header area by directly uploading a video from your computer or using one from YouTube. This neat feature is sure to capture the attention of your site audiences.

Mega Menus

Building a site with several sub-pages? No matter how big you go, you’re fully covered by Hestia Pro. Organize your entire website with the powerful, responsive, and user-friendly mega menu.

Advanced Typography Options

Fonts can make or break your site. The right fonts will draw your site visitors in. Hestia Pro allows you to customize the fonts used on your frontpage and inner pages. You can also change the font size options for every device – desktop, tablet, and mobile.

Color Options

Add some zest to your site with colors. Hestia Pro gives you full color control. You can change the main and secondary colors of the theme as well as the colors for the background, header overlay, navigation bar, headings, header text and main text.

Animations

Make your elements come alive. Hestia Pro has fully-integrated animations for frontpage elements. With an interactive website, your visitors will surely choose to stay.

Hestia Pro and Page Builders

A page builder of its own would have been a great addition to the theme’s already fun features. Sadly, Hestia Pro lacks a native page builder. Not to worry, though, as Hestia Pro allows you to create and customize your site with the page builder of your choice. The theme is designed to be fully compatible with the latest page builders around – Elementor, Briz, Beaver Builder, Visual Composer, SiteOrigin, Cornerstone and Divi Builder.

Plugins and Other Extensions

To add functionality and to allow you to make the most of the theme’s features, Hestia Pro is designed to work well with plugins like Visualizer, Feedzy RSS Feeds, Optimole, Otter Blocks, Revive Old Posts, OrbitFox, and WP Forms.

Show some statistics on your site. With the Visualizer plugin, you can embed responsive and interactive tables and graphs to any page on your website to efficiently present facts and figures.

Optimize with Optimole. Improve the speed of your website with the Optimole plugin – the all-in-one solution to your image optimization needs.

Want visitors of your site to fill-up forms? Then use the WP Forms plugin to quickly create beautiful contact forms, subscription forms, payment forms, and every kind of form you can think of.

Aftermarket Support Services

Creators of Hestia Pro guarantee a fast and reliable support policy. Once you’ve purchased the theme and you have an active subscription account, you’re entitled to full support for the following: ThemeIsle Account, Product Installation, Troubleshooting, Using Product Features, Refund Requests, and Custom Invoice.

To receive support, all you need to do is open technical support tickets. The team’s response time would depend on the type of subscription you’ve purchased for the theme. There are three types of subscriptions offered – Agency tickets, Business/Developer tickets, and Personal tickets, and the response time for each is less than 8 business hours, less than 12 business hours, and less than 24 business hours, respectively. Priority support means faster answer.

Other Customization Features

Gutenberg Friendly

Keep up with the latest trend on WordPress. Hestia Pro works well with Gutenberg, the new content editor on WordPress, so you won’t have to worry about any integration issues.

Pricing and Portfolio Frontpage Sections

With a Portfolio section and a Pricing section, you can readily showcase upfront your products and pricing plans or a portfolio of your works.

Conclusion

There’s no denying that Hestia Pro is a WordPress theme that’s both fun and functional. If you’re keen on building a modern and stylish website which you can easily customize, then Hestia Pro is a good choice.

However, Hestia Pro’s features are limited, compared with what rising WordPress themes on the market have to offer. If you want a website building platform that’s truly packed with powerful features, then you’ll have to take a look at this.

Looking for a theme that features all of this and even more? Give Pro a try!