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45+ Must See WordPress themes

This is the second article in the four-part series, “Powerful guide to master Your WordPress”. We are taking a look at some quality outstanding Free and premium WordPress themes, which have been released over the last few months. We’ve selected minimalistic solutions, Elegant Themes, Artistic Themes, Photo Blog Themes, 2 and 3Column themes, Unique Theme Ideas, Mobile Theme and much more – all of them make use quality, elegance and a user-friendly interface.

You can also take a look at the first artcile in this series “Mastering Your WordPress Theme Hacks and Techniques”, featuring WordPress Theme hacks, ideas, tips and useful tutorials you need to have ready in hand when developing WordPress websites.  Also our third article Powerfull List of WordPress Lifesavers Plugins, taking a look at 77+ quality and usefull WordPress Plug-ins, which have been very handy and saves us lots of time and effort to run our blog the way we wanted.

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Minimalist WordPress Design Themes

Upstart Blogger Minim- Designed by Robert Ellis to be Minimalist, Fast: Lightweight, for speed, Ad-friendly: The columns are sized specifically to accept standard ad formats.

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WPCandy v1 WordPress Theme- WPcandy created simple and clean WordPress theme with Scrollovers navigation, Widget-ready sidebar.

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Grunge WordPress Theme

Grunge Web 2.0- Includes 4 pre-built color schemes to choose from. Designed specifically for artists, photographers and designers. Has 4 color styles to choose from, Change header images easily through WP Dashboard, Integrated blog component and Widget ready sidebars.

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GrungePress- Eye catching grunge style theme, with a clean 2-column layout, Widget ready sidebar, 3-column seperate footer and Layered Photoshop file (header or full).

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Music WordPress Theme- Music is a red, 2 column, widget ready WordPress theme with an optional featured band template. Tested in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, and Opera.

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News and Magazine WordPress Themes

Mimbo Pro Magazine Theme- Developed by Darren Hoyt and Ben Gillbanks

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Live Wire Series-  Live Wire is a feature-rich 3 column magazine/newspaper layout, has automatic Image Resizer, Custom Page Templates for Archives, Sitemap & Image Gallery, Featured news section, Navigation Dropdown Menu’s…

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WP Remix- Is customizable, quality coded & comes bundled with many layout options that helps create custom websites , has multiple page templates, 20+ Custom Layouts, Pre-styled HTML elements, Widget Ready…

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BranfordMagazine- The main tabbed area in the home page features a lead story with a photo. It has featured articles with image, title and excerpt.

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Revolution WordPress Theme- This theme was built mainly to be used as a static website or CMS. It’s a great solution to use WordPress for small businesses, portfolio sites and more.

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Wordpress Magazine Theme- A fresh and clean magazine theme, worth checking.

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Mobile WordPress Theme

PocketT for WordPress- Is a nice theme for personal blog that uses custom styles to separate different parts of the post and has different Header Images.

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The Massive News “Mobile Edition” WordPress Theme- iPhone and iPod Touch are on the rise, and this theme is built entirely for optimized viewing on both devices.

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Unique Theme Ideas

LaunchPad Domain Parking Theme- An easy way to park your site while it’s still underdeveloped. The main feature is to allow visitors subscribe through RSS and e-mail.

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Prologue- Released by the WordPress team, to act like a Twitter-like system for teams of bloggers who need to be able to communicate brief messages while working in various locations..

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CSS Gallery Theme- For webmasters who want to build CSS showcase or web gallery. Packed with built in Tagging, Google ads and a sidebar block with 125 x 125 banner ads.

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WP Contact Manager- Turns WordPress into a contact manager. You can add contacts through the regular admin interface, tag contacts, search them and more.

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Time Manager- Time Manager is a free, tableless, W3C-compliant web design layout by Template World.

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Facebook WordPress Theme- With different colours (Blue, Green, Red, Black, Grey, Brown, Pink, Yellow, Light Blue and Purple) available. As simple as the Facebook design itself, this theme brings it all together. It looks good and works great. Incorporating all of the best design elements on the Facebook layout.

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Personal WordPress Theme

Personal WordPress Theme- Personal is a blue, 3-column WordPress theme with two widget-ready sidebars, custom templates, a banner switcher, custom text styles, integrated plugins, and a unique way to display entry dates and comment-number links.

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Rihanna- Rihanna is extremely lightweight, versatile and widget-ready theme.

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Minyx- This theme has a small panel configuration to choose whether to display various elements of the theme, as well as being compatible with a lot of plug-ins, supports AdSense.

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3Column WordPress Themes

BlogBus WordPress Theme- Theme requires WordPress 2.3 or above, tested in Firefox / IE6 / IE7 / Safari and it is widgets-friendly.

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Brilliance- This is a 3-column, widget ready theme with soothing colors and design. The theme also has provision for an adsense block in the third column where you can put your adsense code

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Xplosive- It is a fully XHTML complaint, Web 2.0 theme meant for modern bloggers. Xplosive has two sidebars (both on the right side) and has a very pro look to it. It comes with a Blue-Orange color schema.

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Free “WP Premium”- Is an elegantly designed, 2/3 column, feature packed, widget ready theme that comes with three color-scheme options

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2Column Themes

Cutline 2.0- One of the most-used themes around. It provides a clean, simple layout that is easily customizable.

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Unsleepable- It is a stand-alone theme for WordPress and is mostly K2 with some fairly significant design tweaks here and there.

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iTheme- Designed for the Mac lovers with a truly customizable sidebar. You can customize your sidebar’s contents without modifying the source code using WordPress widgets.

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Blue Zinfandel- 2 or 3-column Widget-ready theme, made especially for online newspapers or magazines.

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Forte- This is actually a 3-in-1 theme where you will be able to select you layout of choice from your theme admin panel, the choices are a (normal) blog layout, a Magazine styled layout and a List styled layout, you’ll get what i mean once you’ve uploaded and activated the theme.

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Photo Blog Themes

Photopress- Created by Brian Gardner, perfect for Photo blogs.

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Photoblog Theme- Simple theme for a photo blog WordPress theme. This theme uses jQuery.

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Polaroid

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Nishita- A simple, sleek and minimal (quick and simple install/setup) Photo Blog theme for Wordpress.

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Artistic Themes

PolaroidPress- PolaroidPress is a light, cloudy and artistic theme for WordPress with image randomizer.

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Dilectio WordPress Theme- A fresh, clean, user-friendly and playful WordPress theme- presented by Smashing Magazine’s and designed by Designdisease.

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Gossip WordPress Theme- Gossip is a three column WordPress theme, created for gossip and celebrity related blogs.

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Worth Checking Elegant Themes

The Unstandard WordPress theme- Farewell to the blase reverse chronological text heavy front pages, and hello to visuals & imagery to lure visitors deeper into your website / blog.

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Theseus Theme- Theseus prominently features the latest post in a “feature” category of your choice (conveniently set on the theme options page) and moving all non-essential stuff (you know, widgets) to the page footer. Also it is optimized for Search Engines

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Plain Box V2- Very impressing and professional design. Has Custom image Header, Live Search, Sidebar Manager, Advanced Navigation, Asides and Post thumbnail. Download link will be available this March.

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SpringLoaded theme- Chris Garrett, has released a nice looking WordPress theme that support Widgets, Gravatars and a handful of other nifty plugins

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Options WordPress Theme- This theme comes packaged with two different stylesheets, Dark and Light, includes customizable, widget-ready sidebars. There are five sections, or blocks, on the home page layout. From the theme options page, you can choose from 14 different options for each of the sections.

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Organic Premium WordPress Theme- Has Trackbacks/Comments Separated, Highlighted Author comments, Widget Ready, SEO Friendly…

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EliteByDesign Theme- Is the ultimate theme when it comes to functionality and reader-friendliness. The clean, structured coding makes managing this theme all the easier.

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Recycled Canvas- This theme was an experiment. Not just in design, but in experimental methodology, sharing, and process.

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Blog Oh Blog V2.0- Double sidebar, multi column and widget ready. Simple, clean and easy you to modify. Sitemap and Sifr ready.

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Hello D- The style sheet is based on Blueprint CSS Framework, W3C-compliant.

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SilveRay- 3-Column Layout, Validated XHTML and CSS, Ads friendly, Widget-ready on both sides, SweetTitle tooltip installed, LiveClick installed, Serach bar at the top.

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StudioPress- Very clean theme, and it comes with the possibility to integrate several AdSense units, Widget-ready, Comments alternate with a different background.

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  1. paran 24 March 2008

    Great! As a wordpress fans, some of the outstanding themes is I have not seen before.

  2. Polo 24 March 2008

    Very cool list, thanks !

  3. Futurosity 24 March 2008

    Great list! Thanks very much for including my Minim theme. FYI, I’m now designing WordPress themes at Futurosity.

  4. Ryan 24 March 2008

    Outstanding list. Thank you.

  5. Malin 24 March 2008

    Thanks for this super awesome list of themes :D

  6. Mehmet 24 March 2008

    what about this one as magazine theme :)

  7. Foxinni 24 March 2008

    Thanks for the feature. Great post!!

  8. Noupe 24 March 2008

    You’re welcome Foxinni and Futurosity. I’m glad we added your themes to got some good results with this post.

  9. Noupe 24 March 2008

    Polo, Paran, Ryan, Malin
    I’m glad you found some useful stuff here, we have tried to only add the best and new themes out there.

  10. Noupe 24 March 2008

    Thanks Mehmet,
    Your Magazine theme is realy clean and fresh. We added it to this awesome list.

  11. Roger 24 March 2008

    Dugg for the magazine themes, Some of these themes I have not seen before.

  12. Michael 24 March 2008

    Nice post. Some good stuff out there, but nothing that convinces me to switch from Copyblogger.

    I wish there were more good minimal themes out there.

  13. pio 24 March 2008

    I’m using wordpress and i find it very useful and easy to use, but i’m used to my old template…thanks for showing all these even though it looks like an advertising campaing for worpress…they do a good job.

  14. loveblogearn 25 March 2008

    There are good themes,I”m test two themes.

  15. Ebony 25 March 2008

    I love Daniel from DailyBlogTips.com’s Studio Press Theme — I use it in Red and find it very clean and more professional looking than other themes I’ve used in the past.

    I converted nearly all my sites to the Studio Press Theme.

  16. Ian Stewart 25 March 2008

    Thanks for featuring Theseus and LaunchPad.

  17. Noupe 28 March 2008

    Michael, i agree that copyblogger’s theme is one of the best minimalist themes.
    Ian Stewart, you are welcome. Let us know when you have new themes :)

  18. Cory 28 March 2008

    Very cool list, thanks !

  19. Shabu Anower 30 March 2008

    Thanks for adding CSS Gallery theme, it helps a lot :)

  20. Rajat Bhadani 3 April 2008

    some great work done and you seem to have a good eye – I will sure get some inspiration for my work form some of these.
    Have a look at my designs as well particularly the free themes and let me know what you think – I need some feedback as I will be working on the next free theme very soon

  21. Ashish- WebTrafficExpert 4 April 2008

    This is a great list of free themes. Earlier I used to rely on Wordpress themes site, but that has almost become obsolete now. Thanks for compiling this attractive list.

  22. monawea 5 April 2008

    Thanks for compiling this list. I found this post very useful.

  23. ts 8 April 2008

    thanks for the list … added some to my mag-style themes gallery

    http://wpmagthemes.com/

  24. One Winged Angel 13 April 2008

    Great list! Good for me as a Wordpress designer :)

  25. Steve Bruner 17 April 2008

    For another version of a contact manager theme, check out:
    http://www.slipfire.com/wp-crm-58.htm

  26. Chris 22 April 2008

    Nice list! I’ll have to add some of those themes to my site, thanks!

    http://www.themesthatdontsuck.com

  27. Bebe 24 April 2008

    I’m quite partial to the Unstandard Remix by Gos.

  28. Al-Kanz 13 May 2008

    What do you think about my wordpress theme : http://al-kanz.org ?

  29. Holly 19 May 2008

    Wow, I love the PLainBox v. 2, I am amazed that it’s free! Than kyou for the great feature :)

  30. TheYoungGuy 19 May 2008

    This is one of the better lists I have seen yet. I actually use the Blog Oh Blog V2.0 on my site, http://www.theyoungguy.com. And the original version of this theme on my other blog. They are very easy to work around and tweak if you need to. But the other themes on this list are very innovative. I’ll give some of them a go.
    -TheYoungGuy-

  31. Will 23 May 2008

    Great post, thanks!

  32. Will 23 May 2008

    I will favorite this list

  33. Din 27 May 2008

    Great list!

  34. Lawrence the Photographer 28 May 2008

    Nice list of themes! I like Clip the Photos the most!

  35. Tekno Bakis 12 June 2008

    Great list, thanks

  36. Hip hop 14 June 2008

    Great list of themes. Thanks.

  37. Nischal Shetty 15 June 2008

    Nice set of themes… Scourging the net for a few good themes before I skin my blog… This list just made my job a bit easier :)

  38. Okizoo 20 June 2008

    Would like to see a place that offers more professional and paid for themes. The paid ones offer a much better look!

  39. ??C 5 July 2008

    it’t really different,thank you for sharing~~

  40. The Floating Frog 10 July 2008

    Great list. I thought a couple of the free themes were better designed than a few of the premium themes. Sometimes you can ge something good with out paying the price :)

  41. bangbouh 14 July 2008

    Great list!

  42. Sanibel Photographer 3 August 2008

    This really is a great list! I keep meaning to get a blog together for our wedding photography site, but I just don’t know how everyone finds the time!

  43. hell 5 August 2008

    thakns.

  44. Gelengeliyo 5 August 2008

    thanks very nice themes.

  45. arie 24 August 2008

    good information…thanx brother

  46. Jason 27 August 2008

    Amazing! Amazing list thanks so much!! !! :D Thanks again!

  47. Marka Tescil 10 September 2008

    Thanks very nice themes

  48. blogger 29 September 2008

    Interesting themes. I might consider using one of them.

    PHTM

  49. web developer 29 September 2008

    Cool themes! Feel free to return the comments at our blog too.

    http://www.jewelrypayless.com/blog

  50. hai nam 3 October 2008

    thank you

  51. blogsarticle 7 October 2008

    Great list! Good for me as a Wordpress designer

  52. HK 16 October 2008

    Good!

  53. Watch Heroes Online 27 October 2008

    Great themes !

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