Astra Vs OceanWP: Which one is the best page builder theme?

While choosing a perfect theme for your website, you may face confusion regarding which is best for your need.

The theme is the primary thing about how your website will look like. In addition, you need to look for a theme that has customizable options and incredible features. Otherwise, you will not able to make the website what you want.

Nowadays, building a website with page builders is easy. Hence, you need to choose a theme that is totally compatible with all types of page builders like Gutenberg, Elementor, Site Origin, etc.

Things you need to consider while choosing a perfect theme

• Must be compatible with popular page builders like Gutenberg, Elementor, Site Origin, Divi etc.
• Support must be dedicated, even if you are using the free version
• Choose multipurpose theme so that you can learn one theme and make varieties of websites
• Speed really matters – choose the fastest WordPress themes
• Plugin and compatibility – It must be compatible with all popular and major plugins
• It must be easy to use and setup
• Obviously, features enrich

Besides this, the theme you are going to select must be responsive, cross-browser compatible, translation ready, lightweight and minimal, quality coded, etc.

Among the various page builder-ready free WordPress themes and premium versions, today we are going to show you two amazing WordPress themes with both pros and cons. Because this theme has all the things listed above.

OceanWP and Astra are the popular themes on WordPress.Org and they have been leading the popular page for a long time. Hence, there is no alternative theme besides OceanWP and Astra. Among these two, which is best among the best. Let’s elaborate on them in detail.

Why page builder compatible theme is necessary?

By default, WordPress version 5.0 and above version has an inbuilt page builder named Gutenberg. However, Gutenberg editor(block editor) is not a complete page builder. It is an editor more than a page builder. The page builder is the tool with helps to make your web page what you want. You don’t need to do codes, just drag and drop.

Editor lacks some flexibility, hence, page builder is fulfilling their need with ample features and stunning flexibility. Page builder brings unlimited design possibilities on themes and helps to customize your website content easily. Now, you don’t need to be a good programmer to make an outstanding website. Just page builder is your ultimate solution. Just you need to know how to use it.

There are various page builders, you can choose one of them and start developing your website. Gutenberg and Elementor, you can learn at first. They have endless possibilities with handy features.

OceanWP – An Introduction

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Astra – An Introduction

Both OceanWP and Astra are perfect for niche-based and multipurpose. They are totally WooCommerce compatible, page builder ready, fastest, and everything. Because of that, you may get confused. Well, we are trying to reduce it by comparing those features.

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Pre-Built Websites – Ready Demos

OceanWP has more than 70 pre-built demo websites for both free and premium versions. Premium version demos are bundled inside the core extension bundles and can easily import any demo with a single click using free import extension. After importing the demo content, you can just replace the dummy content with your own content. It’s an easy and very effective method to customize your website.

With the help of the Astra Starter Sites plugin, you can easily import the demo content on the Astra WordPress theme. It has more than 70 pre-built demos including Gutenberg and Elementor page builders. After activating the plugin, check Appearance > Astra Sites to import the demo data.

Importing demo data on both themes is easy. It is even easy with Astra. You can just install the plugin of starter sites and import it with a single click. Here is our order about this feature,

1. Astra – Gold
2. OceanWP – Silver

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Page Builder Compatibility

We already discussed above the importance of page builders on the WordPress website. Firstly, OceanWP is developed in such a way that it is compatible with all types of page builders. In particular, the developer team works mainly for Gutenberg, Elementor, Visual Composer, Divi, and Beaver Builder. Moreover, the premium version has added elements for the Gutenberg and Elementor as well. No doubt, the premium version has so many features that you need for your website.

Astra is a full and seamless integration divi, site origin, elementor, and Gutenberg. In addition, it is compatible with Thrive Architect, beaver builder, and Visual Composer as well. Lastly, Astra is compatible with Custom Types ready page builder. However, OceanWP is not tested on it yet.

Here, OceanWP directly supports 8 different types of page builders whereas, Astra supports only 6. Hence, we recommend OceanWP in case of page builders compatibility.

1. OceanWP – Gold
2. Astra – Silver

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Speed – How fast my website will be?

No doubt, both OceanWP, and Astra are developed in such a way that the performance of both themes are marvelous in terms of speed too. Both of them have used less Javascript and managed to code.

OceanWP gets the highest grade and numbers in most of the top speed testing tools like GTmetrix, Pingdom, and Page Insights.

Astra is also the fastest WordPress theme. It is so fastest because no JQuery is written. Instead of it, Astra uses Vanilla JavaScript. All speed testing tools, shows a better result.

Both the theme has a better speed and load time is almost 1 Second and it is very good. As per the result of Pingdom, our rank for both the theme is,

1. OceanWP – Gold
2. Astra – Silver

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Features – Are they Perfect?

OceanWP and Astra are popular themes because of their flexibility and features. They have tons of features including header, footer, blog, etc. Moreover, they have custom widgets and custom blocks for page builders as well. Both of them come with an incredible collection of features that are necessary for your WordPress website.

They come with SEO in mind, devices-friendly design, cross-browser compatible, translation-ready, and WPML plugin compatible as well.

Built-in Elements: Both offer a wide range of pre-built-in elements to make and customize your website. Astra has a header, footer, widgets, and lots of other built-in elements. OceanWP also provides lots of pre-built-in elements for WordPress websites. It has 7 header styles, 15 widgets, and 5 starting layouts. You can get more on the premium version.

Some Available Features are:

Features	OceanWP	Astra
Responsive	Yes	Yes
Cross-browser compatible	Yes	Yes
RTL Ready	Yes	Yes
WPML Compatible	Yes	Yes
Translation Ready	Yes	Yes
Colors	Yes	Yes
Fonts and Typography	Yes	Yes
Custom Widgets	15+	Yes
Page Builder Compatible	8+	6+
Active Users	700,000+	1 Million+

Among these two themes, OceanWP has more pre-built elements if we take the premium version into account. After including the premium version as well, we rank as follows,

• OceanWP – Gold
• Astra – Silver

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Pricing – Which is affordable?

OceanWP and Astra are both free. You can download them for free and use them. Hundreds of thousands of users are actively using both theme’s free versions. However, the free version may lack the features. Hence, you can purchase the required extensions or the premium package.

OceanWP offers both the bundle package of extensions or the single extensions as well, whereas, Astra sells the complete bundle of the premium version. You can get Astra Theme & Pro Addon – Annual License with three different pricing plans.

For OceanWP you can get the Core Extension Bundle, which includes all 13 Premium Extensions + 20 Pro Demos (1-click-import) for only $34.99. But if you are not looking for all the extensions, you can simply purchase the required extensions only. Its prices may vary for every extension. What we recommend is to purchase the premium bundle extensions, you may need other extensions later.

Note: The above-mentioned price may vary from time to time. This was mentioned according to the price given at that time.

Pricing Plans for OceanWP

On the premium package of OceanWP, there is an annual license and lifetime license. For the annual license, you need to renew the license yearly, whereas a lifetime license doesn’t require to renew. You can use it with regular updates and support lifetime. The prices vary for both the license plans.

Annual License:

In the annual license plan, you have three different choices. You can go with Personal, Business or Unlimited plans. Each plan has different features and access. See the below table to know more about it.

If you are not planning to purchase the premium version yet, you can easily download the Free OceanWP theme and start a WordPress website today.

Lifetime License:

For this licensing plan, you can use it lifetime without renewing. You will get support and updates regularly with this plan. The price of this plan is slightly high. You can check first before purchasing it.

Individual Extensions Pricing

OceanWP has 13 premium extensions and you can buy one by one as well. For instance, if you are only looking for Instagram to fetch and customize your feed to display in a beautiful way on your website, you can just purchase that extensions only. This means you are flexible to buy any of the available extensions. Available extensions are,

• Stick Anything – Premium
• Full Screen – Premium
• Cookie Notice – Premium
• Popup Login – Premium
• Instagram – Premium
• White Label – Premium
• Portfolio – Premium
• Woo Popup – Premium
• Sticky Footer – Premium
• Modal Window – Free
• Posts Slider – Free

You can check all the available free and premium extensions here.

Pricing Plans for Astra

Similar to the OceanWP, Astra has also the Annual license and Lifetime license.

Annual License:

It is the same as OceanWP. You need to renew this license everywhere. You can use it on your site without using it as well, but you will not get support and updates after a year. But don’t worry, your site will be fine. It’s not mandatory to renew it after a year. But if you need support and updates, you need to renew them. The pricing plans for Astra are high than the OceanWP.

Lifetime License:

Purchase one time and use extensions lilifetimeYou will get both supports and regular updates lifetime if you purchase from this pricing plan. A lifetime license is more expensive than an annual license.

Like the annual plans, it has also three different types of pricing based on the available services and features.

For Agency bundle buyers, they provide some more premium plugins as well. The available premium plugins are,

• WP Portfolio Plugin
• Ultimate Addons for Beaver Builder
• Ultimate Addons for Elementor
• Convert Pro Plugin
• Schema Pro Plugin

And along with this, you will get all the future plugins made by them. But this applied for Agency bundle customers only.

Let’s summarize the pricing,

OceanWP Pricing	Astra Pricing
Annual: Personal – $39 Business – $79 Unlimited – $129	Annual: Astra Pro – $59 Mini Agency Bundle – $169 Agency Bundle – $249
Lifetime: Personal – $159 Business – $319 Unlimited – $519	Annual: Astra Pro – $249 Mini Agency Bundle – $499 Agency Bundle – $699

From the above table, we can easily know the differences in pricing. OceanWP has more flexible for purchasing the extensions. You can purchase the extension and install it from the plugin section to unlock the premium features.

Astra has a high range of pricing for similar extensions. So, as per the above table, OceanWP is quite affordable. But before purchasing any of the products make sure the required extension is available in the bundle or not.

For pricing,

• OceanWP – Gold
• Astra – Silver

Documentation and Support

No matter how many experts you are, documentation will guide you in an easy way. Because every theme has its own way of doing and using features.

OceanWP and Astra both have a dedicated team for support. They have detailed documentation including videos and graphics as well as a regularly updated blog post to share more ideas about the theme and its usage.

Astra provides priority-based support with additional fees, whereas, there are no options available on OceanWP. However, the OceanWP support team provides support within 24 hours or less than that. They have a Facebook group where you can ask your queries and other members will guide you. Because of support, OceanWP is getting more than 1800 five stars reviews. Isn’t that great?

Astra also provides genuine and dedicated support on time. They have detailed documentation about the possible problems and knowledge base as well. For the new issues, you can contact the authors for support.

When it comes to supporting, we’d rank OceanWP vs Astra,

• Astra – Gold
• OceanWP – Silver

Astra has a better knowledge base written, hence we gave it Gold for this section.

At last – Which is the best theme?

Well, OceanWP and Astra have both pros and cons. Both are leading popular themes among them OceanWP has more active installs. They are trying for better clients and user services. As a result, they are doing better business in return.

Overall, OceanWP supports more page builder, have good page speed, affordable pricing. However, Astra has better documentation, and easy setup demo import, and a good support team.

If you are looking for quality and more flexible products at less prices you can go with OceanWP. Moreover, it has better user experiences and amazing reviews.

In the case of Astra, you need to pay quite more for similar things. Hence the decision is up to you. Decide by looking at demos, support forums, documentation, and users feedback as well.

Conclusion

Picking the best theme is a really tedious job. It needs huge research and time to evaluate which one is perfect. You can go with either OceanWP or Astra. Because both of them are an amazing themes.

Which theme are you using? Do you have any special feedback regarding these themes? Write your awesome feedback and suggestions below. Your comment will be of so much value to the readers who want to use one of these themes.

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