Best Affiliate Blog WordPress Theme & Plugins

Hi there fellas, I am about to launch an affiliate blog on WordPress (duh, right?). And I would like a little help choosing the right theme and plugins for it.

I know in regards to themes most of you will say it isn´t important, just pick one and go with it. But, I would really like to put more thoughts into it. Especially, since I am using a shared hosting service. So, I would need a really fast loading theme.

Also, I would like to avoid any page builders because, as I understand, they slow sites down quite a bit. But, if I have to, I would be using Elementor since I am quite more familiar with it than with any other page builder.

Preferably, I would like to pick a theme that has a decent selection of pre-made sites I can choose from so it won´t require too much customization on my part.

So, I am all hears here...What is your favorite theme for this?

How About Plugins?

This is where I believe it will get interesting and see many debating.

What are your go-to plugins when launching an affiliate blog site?

I want to dive deep into blog post layout and not quite familiar what would be the best way to accomplish this. In regards to, is it better to add these elements through Elementor? Or, through Gutemberg?

I would like the designs to look clean and professional.

Let´s see what you got?

RonanTheAccuser said:

In terms of selecting plugins and themes, no one can give you your taste.

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Agree, perhaps I should´ve stated what I´m looking for by posting a couple of sites layouts.

RonanTheAccuser said:

To pick a theme, it must rhyme with exactly what you want to do or sell. For instance, a theme optimized or created for selling affiliate e-books might not give you the same features as that for selling physical products..

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I won´t be selling either. I don´t know if I will use Amazon Associates to partially monetize my site but imagine it´s an Amazon Affiliate Site.

RonanTheAccuser said:

I'd recommend you take your time to list out the kind of features you need in your website before searching for plugins to work with..

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I don´t ask for much, as you stated, I can pretty much add any functionality I want through Elementor + Elementor Pro + Any premium addon out there.

So, basically, I am looking for a very light-weight and customizable theme that just happen to be highly compatible with Elementor.

This is my top priority.

Why?

As mentioned above, I am on a shared hosting account over NameCheap and if I will be working on Elementor to customize the site, I need the theme to be very lightweight and fast loading to compensate these 2 variables that, in theory, doesn´t help when it comes improving my site loading speed time.

RonanTheAccuser said:

As for the design, any top selling multi purpose theme on themeforest is enough (The7, Avada, Be Theme, Uncode, Flatsome, Kallyas, Kalium, Impreza, Porto, Phlox Pro, X -The theme or Martfury. Nothing else is required here..

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I´ve tested a few of those, and once I upload any demo content in them it makes them very very slow.

I´ve heard many great things about ReHub for an affiliate site but never tested it myself.

Going back to them, love the fact several of them are fully compatible with Elementor. Even The Phlox Pro is compatible with both Gutemberg and Elementor and their demo sites look great! But even loading the demo sites it takes a lot to load!

I had a bad Experience with Avada but looking at it now it just incredible! And loaded a couple of their demo sites and they look amazing and they loaded fast.

In terms of designs, I want a design to be clean and simple. Not quite sure what I want but I really don´t like to magazine layout.

I really like this layout...

RonanTheAccuser said:

And finally, Elementor is the best fit for any website that wants to deliver a dynamic and professional content base..

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I agree

RonanTheAccuser said:

Elementor and Guttenberg would make your website look even better than you expect.

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100% Agree

RonanTheAccuser said:

Don't let anyone tell you a different story, you need to get it started yourself by researching, checking out demos, sketching out layouts and etc..

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Will do!

RonanTheAccuser said:

Cheers to your upcoming project!

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Thanks!