7. Rating And Reviews
Although the last but one of the most helpful. One of your most reliable ways is to determine a themes' quality. If the theme comes up in the open marketplace, you will find many reviews. Also, if it is a free download from WordPress, reviews aren't far from the download button. So you have no excuse not to read reviews. The reviews will point to both users comments and ratings in the form of stars.
In conclusion, there are many WordPress themes out there, both free and paid. While the free themes do not support, their pad versions do. Although support is an essential factor, a thorough review and check for the simplicity, layout, responsiveness of both theme and developers support, SEO friendliness, types of inbuilt page builders, and support for translation will help you choose a theme for your website.
For starters, wordpress themes are easy to use, speedy and functional.
For those who are not coders, nor designers, more sophisticted themes might impose. Those are said to be the best for 2022:
https://www.isitwp.com/top-wordpress-themes/
Hope this helps