Thrive Themes Reviews: 4.2/5 — Solid Choice

Thrive Themes makes it easy to build a great looking website quickly. It's probably the easiest way to make a Wordpress site. There is a nice selection of templates for all kinds of uses (landing pages, sections of a webpage, forms, etc). And it integrates directly with most popular email service providers. They also offer responsive customer support and plenty of online video tutorials.

As a Wordpress user it's not so much a downside, as it is the norm, but their "suite" is a compilation of Thrive product plugins, so you just have to keep them all updated.

As far as Wordpress themes go, it's the most feature-packed, user-friendly theme I could find, at a very reasonable annual price.

I love that with Thrive Themes everything I need improve my website is in the tool!! They have so many features and are alwasy adding new things in. I love how they make it intuitive to use so I can throw begining designers in and still get quaility results.

That lifetime meberships are no longer availible to purchase and that they arent honnoring their word on the ones they sold in the past.

Building a pretty and fuctioning website

I've never invested in a company that has as much dedication to an awesome user experience as Thrive Themes. What I pay to them as an annual subscription is way too low. I'm grandfathered in as I was one of their earlier adopters. They not only have a whole conversion-focused package of Wordpress plugins that make me 6 figures a year, but their support is fully trained and extremely tech-savvy, going out of their way to fix my issues. They also are constantly sending me blog posts and videos that boost my business and show me how to use their ever-evolving suite of features.

It can be a bit buggy, but it's really nothing compared to the Goliath that is Thrive Themes. All bugs are easily fixed by support in the end, and they update me on the fixes.

It builds out my whole business online. I cannot make do without it. My front-end website, funnels, pop-ups and courses are all on Thrive Themes' Thrive Suite.

The customer service is great and quick to answer any questions that you have.

There is a learning curve that can be a little difficult to figure out.

I am a graphic designer that is able to do web design without knowing code.

This team is very light in terms of size and the way it works is amazing few months ago I started using thrive and its work like charm and many features are better than any things in the market.

Element option seems missing in the theme otherwise it's great choice for beginners who want to start their website.

It is one of the best theme and try Builders in WordPress world call recommend anyone to start their blogging for Website Designing journey from this theme.

Ease of use and a plethora of fantastic features are available.

It can be a little pricey for beginner affiliate marketers.

1. Create a beautiful landing page, and an effective sales funnel. 2. Create a membership site for my online courses (in the future). Thrive Themes satisfies all my requirements and business needs.

I love that with Thrive Themes, and I don't need to spend time searching for a new tool every time I have something to add and improve on my website. They have so many features in all their solutions that it seems impossible to outgrow what they can do for you. I love how they make it intuitive to use but also how they have an exhaustive knowledge base, Thrive Themes University, forum and other exclusive trainings to help us make the best use of their solutions. The focus on their customer's success.

There is nothing to dislike in my perspective. With one subscription, you can build up to 25 websites. There is also an agency subscription with which you can build 50 websites. For someone who wants to manage more websites, it would be limiting but you can always buy 2 subscriptions.

With the complete Thrive Themes toolbox, I can build stunning, efficient, and secure websites. I save time, money, and headaches from maximizing my resources for better use. It increases my results and productivity.

It's hard to pick just one - I love how easy it is to customize the appearance of my website, but equally, I love how helpful your help desk is. I've learned over the years that a lot of help desks aren't helpful, but yours is brilliant. When I send your help team a question, they answer quickly and in full (often they fix the problem I'm having and send me a video showing me how to do it myself next time).

I can't think of anything I dislike about Thrive Themes - keep up the good work!

Thrive Themes has helped me solve the problem of building my list from my website with the quiz builder. It has also helped me make my website reflect my brand - the colours, of course, but also the overall tone and feel of my brand.

Thrive Themes is a WYSIWYG way to build websites. I am not an educated developer and I was able to build a decent looking and functional website for my business.

Thrive Themes does have some overhead that causes the site to have speed issues. I changed my host to WPX and have seen better stability and speed.

I can quickly create pages and make changes rather than relying on a developer.

We can create and design anything we want.

Pricing is quite more and there should be a live chat option.

We can create stunning landing pages and learn new things in thrive university.

I was using different tools and plugins to customize my and my clients' websites, and in the end, it was a super complex task keeping everything up to date without breaking something. Every time a major WordPress update came, or some big change in the visual editor I was using, things just got broken. Thrive is an all-in-one solution that works, and they send releases every three weeks, which feel like Christmas, because of all the new features they provide.

They should provide a way for the users to upvote the ideas and requests for features the users provide.

All my WordPress design, optimization and funnel building implementation.

Thrive Themes is the premier website and marketing software on the market. I recommend this software daily. I constantly talk with business owners who spend thousands on small changes on their site when they don't have to. Using Thrive you can create amazing sites, totally custom, and have all the tools necessary to have a modern marketing focused website. And for a minimal investment. Thrive support is top notch too. They are always there to help. I just think this is one of the best companies out there.

Probably just the code is a bit heavy on the front end. Page speed matters and while it isn't horrible, Thrive does add it's own code. I've used the software for some time, so I'm pretty familiar with it, but I suspect the learning curve might be a little high for new users, not sure.

Thrive is the ultimate do it yourself website tool. It solves all problems of site development for me. Rapid development, check. Unlimited design, check hundreds of templates, check marketing tools, check AB testing, check leadgen, optin, check API integrations, check membership and learning modules, check sitewide scripting, check I could go on and on, but this software has yet to let me down. Rather than having to run multiple plugins on my site, Thrive does everything I need it to. I rarely need another plugin, SEO is the only other one I use.

It allows me to create the look I want rather than forcing me to adapt to a template and preselected options. It's focused on speed. Their blogs and tutorials.

Glitches inevitably happen. Their support is good, but sometimes the answer is "clear the cache" "use icognito" "try another browser" or "it works fine on my end" which aren't very helpful. It eventually gets resolved but can be frustrating. I wonder if it's partly because of the opensource aspect of WP and some of the plugins.

It's really a one stop solution. A suite of plugins for running an online business. Saves money.

Thrive Themes is a all-in-one WordPress marketing platform. Starting with the themes and several other tools that make WordPress really come alive. Thrive Themes paired with Thrive Architect is something I use almost daily as a marketer. Being able to easily design via drag and drop functionality is a huge time saver. I haven't tested all the WP drag and drop content builders but I've used several and TT is by far the best I've used. Thrive Architect (formerly Thrive Content Builder) is what I like best out of the suite of tools. Other tools included in Thrive Themes include: Quiz Builder, Ultimatum (evergreen countdown campaigns), Ovation (gather, display testimonials), Comments, Optimize (A/B testing for landing pages), Cliver Widgets, Apprentice (online course builder).

I don't really have anything negative to say about Thrive Themes. They have continued to add functionality and usability to the software that makes it one of my most valuable web design tools. The only thing that I would like to be able to do easier is control more of the header, navigation and footer functions. It's still sort of locked down.

I'm solving a huge timesuck! I used to build websites via HTML and Dreamweaver. Eventually, I moved to WordPress but Thrive Themes makes WordPress development a total breeze. I can build professional sites that perform really well much quicker than I ever could in the past.

After using many other themes and tools for WP this one rocks for ease and simple to learn

Nothing to dislike all the feature make this so user friendly you will not find anything to dislike

I have zero issue with using Thrive Themes

Point and click. Genuinely find thrive to be the easiest way to customise a WordPress site. Having used it for my own and my client's sites.

Slightly annoying that we have to pay quarterly - but so be it.

Making it easy to update a website, adding content and new features without the need for techy html or css knowledge.

Thrive themes makes development of websites second nature and provides me with the tools that larger companies use at an affordable price.

I dislike that i am unable to purchase there Lms plugin aside from joining their membership program.

I think thrive themes has clearly solved the problem of needing to spend countless web development dollars. I can literally create anything in mind on my own.

Ease of use and good tutorials. Always improving the product.

I didn't like Apprentice which was the course builder, but they've improved it to be as modifiable as their other products. Unfortunately at this time it's too much work to move my students back over.

It is i s my main website and it's so easy to drag and drop template blocks and design a conversion focused website for course sales, freebies and blog. My bounce rate has gone down.

I'm not a designer nor a coder. I like how easy Thrive Themes makes creating webpages. They have built in templates that include landing pages and thank you pages, so it's easy to get started. Everything is built around a drag and drop system. If I want to add a video I just find that block and drop it where I want it. Anyone can use Thrive Themes and be up and running in a few minutes.

It seems to be built around landing pages more than anything. I really wish there were templates for websites in different niches. I've used the templates before for landing pages, but I can't use it for my main pages.

Thrive themes helps with creating pages for lead magnets for me. I don't really do sales pages. Still, it has helped me capture many leads.

The depth and breadth of these conversion-focused plug-ins is unmatched—and at a great price. Thrive's content marketing is also helpful for running and building your business.

Certain plugins could use increased customizability - such as Thrive Apprentice and Thrive Quiz Builder. But, it's easy to look past this if you just want something that works for a low subscription rate.

Thrive Themes has allowed us to create an entire custom WordPress website quickly, beautiful landing pages, an online course, and it has given us the ability to A/B test the conversion rates of our landing pages.

Everything from the ability to build funnels down to the ease of creating automation.

There is quite a learning curve when trying to adapt to this software.

Helps with everything from funnel design to an LMS learning management system for courses. Thrive themes provides a handful of useful and time-saving plugins.

Thrive Themes has a good solution for my marketing needs. The Thrive Leads component enables me to manage and add popup messages along with rules so that I can engage better with my audience and potential clients. The visual editor (Thrive Architect) is powerful and the whole Thrive platform gets updated quite frequently with new capabilities. The support service is very useful as well. I have been using it when needed and always got good replies in a timely fashion. In the past year, Thrive Themse have been hard at work in adding global tools that make creation of designs easier to manage properly and conveniently.

Sometimes, using Thrive feels too different than Wordpress. In many ways, using it is quite a divergence from Vinyl/classic Wordpress, which is a bit sad.

Marketing needs in my services. I use it to promote my services through pop up messages on my site, create lead generation forms, enable downloading digital content and show well designed and unique landing pages.

All the plans come with unlimited lifetime updates. Theme prices starts at a reasonable place.

Only seems to help out those looking to market.

Consolidating our resources like email, etc has been a breeze.

Awesome optimize themes with speed optimization.

It’s at the price point where it’s not affordable for Indian users.

Thrive themes and plugins are very useful for me I will help to improved design of my Web site.

I know almost nothing about web sites designing, When i am using Thrive themes everything comes so much easier, i am able to design the site the I would want it too look. I am able to click and drag different options and I can get it too become customized. I have different websites and all of them use thrive themes, it really make the tasks a lot easier. I make templates for each of my site so i can have the same style on each of my pages

I am still a novice even though i have been using Thrive for over 3 years, and i sometimes cant figure out how to do a certain task, and since their are different versions on the Thrive sight I sometimes have trouble finding answers to my problem

The Benefit was i was able to make a web site thats looks half decent. I wanted to get a affiliated site up, and then another etc. Rather then paying a web site designer i was able to do it myself by using thrive.

If you stick within the Thrive community, everything flowed well. It was a decent system.

I found a fair amount of problems integrating several 3rd party plugin. That made it very difficult to move forward with production

I actually ended up not using Thrive due to issues with code and 3rd party plugins.

Nothing, it's a scam company. It all started out well in 2018 and now they should be avoided.

I've been with Thrive since 2018 and they just completely pulled a stunt and deactivated my Thrive Architect and Thrive Theme license that I paid for in 2018 & 2020 under Lifetime Access! Such disregard of early customers and loyalty is completely absent, and now I am forced to switch over to a different theme because I REFUSE to pay this company any more money (who knows a few years from now they might pull a different stunt). Complete scam completely, save yourself the trouble and get GeneratePress instead...

I was using it to build my websites

The promise of templates that you can click and customise easily. They do have great options to update branding colours across the template and font styling ect however beyond that they become incredibly problematic, making them essentially too painful to use. Their support has helped me many times however waiting a week to resolve a small issue for every page I build defeats the purpose of this 'self serve' plugin suite.

They aren't GDPR compliant - the GA tracking code fires with no regard for cookie consent. This means you either have to abandon having analytics for your pages or abandon being GDPR compliant. I've had issues with Thrive Leads forms appearing and Thrive Architect has constant issues with updating and tweaking templates. Thrive Leads doesn't integrate with Hubspot so it's impossible to use and once again impossible to make it GDPR compliant. I have been unable to use any plugins as they all have blocking issues. I have wasted so much time on this - it would have been faster to learn to code and create my own webpages from scratch.

We need the flexibility to build landing pages and capture leads. Also to build and edit the design of general web pages without the need of a developer. I haven't realised any of these benefits because the plugins are constantly presenting blocking issues. Absolutely terrible products.

This looks like a good way to market, with innovative plugins like a way to scrape testimonials and compare headlines, but it is so confusing to use that it's not worth the waste of time attempting to leverage the plugins. And their Thrive University is also confusing, too, especially if you are not using their themes.

I would like to start by saying that I have used MANY MANY MANY WordPress builders and plugins and this one is by far the worst and most complicated I have used. I realized this within the first 30 days of using Thrive Themes but beyond the 14 day trial period so I had to keep it and they got to keep my $300. And they were pretty nasty about the whole deal until I just said, "Whatever, maybe I will find use in it." I had originally purchased it because a marketer I was watching on YouTube was a huge enthusiast but then I realized it was because he got a huge affiliate commission for pushing it. The intention was to create a membership course using one of their plugins but you could not create sections for the course so my 100+ lesson course would have been utterly disorganized. Again, I figured this out after the 14 day trial but before 30 days and they still did not understand that their tools were useless to me. I also could not connect my Facebook page with Thrive Ovation so that made that plugin useless. I also tried out Thrive Headline Optimizer. I probably like this Thrive plugin the best, but even then, it was confusing to decide the criteria upon base my final headline decision (highest traffic vs highest engagement). Finally, I tried Thrive Leads but, again it was confusing, and I much prefer building a landing page in X Theme's than dealing with their complicated and constrictive builder.

None. Lost money. Was attempting to better market my content but this was a major fail.