BeTheme Review

BeTheme is a responsive Premium WordPress theme compatible with WPbakery, BuddyPress, and other WordPress products.

It’s one of the best-selling paid, multipurpose WordPress theme on the ThemeForest marketplace.

BeTheme also offers you beautiful designs, easy customization, and a wide variety of features.

This review will focus on the most prominent aspects of BeTheme to help you decide if it’s the right theme for your website.

About BeTheme

BeTheme is among the most successful WordPress Multipurpose theme available in today’s market.

Developed by Muffin Group (a Famous ThemeForest author), the theme has sold over 21,000 times.

Coupled with over 500 + pre-made websites, finding the perfect template to meet the needs of your project won’t be hard.  

This multipurpose theme re-defines WordPress design with more freedom.

Ease to Use

Anyone can easily use BeTheme whether or not they have technical skills.

BeTheme is feature-rich but a little overwhelming too, especially for new first-time WordPress users.  

To see how easy-to-use BeTheme, let’s look at its installation and importation of demo content.

Installation

First, you need to buy BeTheme from ThemeForest market place. 

You’ll receive a zip. Archive which you’ll have to download. To install this theme, you must log in to your WordPress dashboard and head to appearance then Upload new.

Upon successful installation of the theme, you’ll need to register the Theme by inputting your ThemeForest License code.

Once the registration is completed, BeTheme will prompt you to install the necessary plugins.

When that is done, you can embark on working on your website, whether it’s from scratch or by importing pre-built websites.

Importing Demo Content

Using demo content is the best way to quickly build your website.  BeTheme features and an impressive collection of pre-built websites over 500.

Even though this is impressive, they can be overwhelming. But you can filter them by category as well as search for a specific website demo.

That being said, once you’ve selected a particular demo website, you’ll need to download and install the required plugins for the specific demo to function perfectly.

Apart from the plugins, you’ll have the option to select the content you want to import.

Once that’s done, the importation process will begin, and you’ll be notified once it’s complete.

BeTheme: Features

Being one of the most successful WordPress themes, it offers you a ton of features that you can only find in a premium WordPress theme and more.

Let’s look at some prominent features that set apart this theme from the other WordPress themes.

Muffin Builder

A beginner with no coding experience can create a stunning website with BeTheme.

To help users build a website easily, the theme comes with Muffin Builder- an innate drag-and-drop page builder developed by MuffinGroup.

This builder makes it easy to create page layouts for any website. With its help, you can design original layouts for your websites’ landing pages.

Just choose your preferred layout and start customizing its sections. Muffin Builder is extremely powerful and easy to use.

WPBakery Plugin

BeTheme also uses WPBakery -a top-selling WordPress drag-and-drop page builder plugin.

The plugin gives you control over various elements of your web pages including sliders, contact forms, buttons, accordions, progress bars, and others.

Using this page builder’s interface, you can customize any element without having to write a single line of code.

You can save the customized elements in your library and reuse them on other pages of your website.

Also, you can preview how your website appears on different device sizes.

Get this, you can select which elements you want to display based on the screen size of a device.

Header styles

BeTheme comprises 20+ fully customizable header style, that you can use with any layout.

You can use fonts, adjust sizes, upload logo, change colors, add social links, and more. You can place a header with a logo and menu on the top, in the right sidebar, or the left sidebar.

 It also has a sticky header that you can turn on and off from the admin panel and allows you to create independent menus for different devices.

500+ Pre Built Websites

The 500+ pre-built websites that come with the BeTheme can be used for a broad range of industries.

Not only will you find a business website but also a musician, blogger, one-page, spa, portfolio, entertainment, shop, and others.

Its demos have a professional and classic look, and you can install them in just one click.

Parallax and Video Backgrounds Anywhere

Stunning parallax and video backgrounds improve user experience on websites and make the website attractive.

BeTheme WordPress theme understands this, that why it allows you to add parallax backgrounds anywhere on your website.

The theme also supports full-screen video background. You can combine these with your page builders to design a riveting web page that is engaging and visually appealing.

Child Theme

If you like to save all your coded designs even after an update, then use the BeTheme Child theme. 

All you need to do is to update the parent theme, then import all the settings on to the child theme.

The best part is, the child theme files come coupled with BeTheme package, meaning you don’t need to worry about building a separate child theme. Just install it like the parent theme.

Multilingual Ready

BeTheme is well translated into several popular languages and includes an inbuilt-translator with the ability to transform your WordPress into other languages without hindrance.

However, there is a catch; the documentation and support are only available in English.  So they might not work for if you don’t understand English.

600+ Google Fonts

BeTheme allows you to select over 600 google fonts and custom fonts to use for your website.

The built-in custom font uploader font will help you upload the font files you want and use it on any area of your website.

SEO Friendly

BeTheme is SEO friendly, meaning it makes your website rank higher in google search results.  It offers you SEO fields that you can turn on or off as per your wish.

Plus, you can install and SEO Plugin like Yoast SEO to turn off the field. This makes your WordPress website more search engine friendly.

Fully Responsive and Retina Ready

Being a responsive and retina ready theme means that BeTheme will make your website appear attractive on every device, whether mobile computers or tablets.

Shortcode Generator

Imagine access to dozens of shortcodes to add to anywhere on your website. That’s what BeTheme offers you.

What even better, the theme’ s shortcode generator includes a visual interface to help you choose the shortcode you want and copy-paste it.

Other Features

• RTL Support
• Mega Menu
• Unlimited Sidebars
• Maintenance Mode
• Google Maps styles
• Custom widgets
• WooCommerce Ready
• BuddyPress Ready
• Bonus Premium Plugins Revolution Slider and Layer Slider

BeTheme: Pricing

You can find BeTheme at ThemeForest for only $59.  For this price, you receive a regular license that you can use on only one website and 6 months’ support.  If you want to extend the support for an extra 6 months, you need to pay an additional $17.63.

If you want to use the theme on multiple websites, you need to buy more licenses. 

BeTheme: Pros& Cons

Just like many other multipurpose WordPress themes, BeTheme has a lot of benefits as well as downsides.  Here are some of BeTheme’s pros and cons.

Pros

• SEO optimized
• Fully customizable
• Ecommerce Supported
• Fast support
• Compatible with all browsers
• Great Page Speed
• A vast collection of pre-made website demos
• Amazing page builders–WPBakery and Muffin Builders
• 20+ header styles available

Cons

• One license for each website
• Only 6 months’ support.
• Uses only a backend builder
• Complicated to learn

BeTheme: Support and Documentation

With numerous features ranging from page builders to shortcodes, you might need assistance to implement some features.

That’s why BeTheme comes with outstanding support options for all users from beginners to expert web developers.

What’s even better, it has detailed online documentation that explains aspects of every single feature of the theme. It also elaborates on how to maximize their performance.

The various aspects of the documentation are easy-to-understand and well-elaborated using a simple step-by-step manner.

If the documentation isn’t enough, you can also check out BeTheme’s growing collection of video tutorials.

In case of questions, users can go to the BeTheme support forum where theme experts and authors answer all questions and address other concerns.  The forum also allows users to help each other.

Final Thoughts

The BeTheme is convenient enough to create any kind of website.  It’s perfect for both expert WordPress developers and beginners.

It’s coupled up with several essential premium WordPress plugins including WPBakery Page Builder plugin, Contact Form 7, Revolution Slider and Layer Slider.

The vast collection of 500+ pre-made websites is very impressive. So, BeTheme is a great option for web developers who need to build multiple websites for their clients.

Although it’s great for beginners, it has a steep learning curve and doesn’t have blog layout options.

The Muffin Builder is very powerful for the backend editor. But you have to open two tabs as you designing your website to see the changes.

Before you can purchase this theme, check out its pros and cons to help you decide if this is the right theme for your site.