Themes
The theme is a collection of templates and stylesheets that define the appearance and layout of a WordPress website. It controls how your WordPress site looks and feels – from the colours and fonts to the page structure and design.
Theme Types
You will see a lot of hype regarding Premium and Custom Themes when you start planning you site. These are paid templates that can be used as the basic layout for your website. The idea being that you find something close to what you want and then tweak it to suit your specific needs. So you can change all the content and maybe make some styling changes (fonts, colours, etc.) and your site is up and running in no time. This concept was fine for Classic Editors with Classic Themes where only a certain amount of customization was possible without coding skills. Such limitations to layout and structural changes are the main reason that Page Builders and Block Editors are now dominating WordPress website creation. In our opinion there is absolutely no reason to pay for Themes in the age of Block Builders. There are plenty of free Block Themes that can be used and absolutely everything can be tweaked as desired without the need for any coding skills. WordPress release a new Block Theme every year (Twenty Twenty-Three, Twenty Twenty-Four, Twenty Twenty-Five, etc.) which are the default themes on a fresh inastallion. The names are not very imaginative but these themes are popular as they have clean designs optimized for speed, accessibility, and deeper FSE integration.