Best Premium WordPress Themes

[Updated: 10 October, 2011]

This gallery of WordPress themes is a collection of the absolute best premium WordPress Themes available. There are lots of great looking WordPress themes around, however to make it easier to find the best premium WordPress themes we have hand selected the very best WordPress themes out of the thousands in the marketplace and compiled galleries of the best WordPress themes currently available for each specific style of website. They are dynamic galleries which are continually updated with the best new high quality and professional WordPress themes.
Premium WordPress Theme Galleries
Best Magazine / News Premium WordPress Themes
Best Business & CMS Premium WordPress Themes
Best Video & Multimedia Premium WordPress Themes
Best Portfolio / Photo Gallery WordPress Themes
Best Blog Premium WordPress Themes
Best Premium WordPress Template Systems
Best Minimalist WordPress Themes
Niche WordPress Theme
Ecommerce WordPress Themes
Church WordPress Themes
WordPress Real Estate Themes
WordPress Music Themes

Best Premium WordPress Themes – Overview

Magazine WordPress Themes
Platform Pro WordPress Theme Framework
Platform Pro is a drag and drop WordPress theme framework from PageLines. The professional theme framework helps you built a custom WordPress site quickly and easily with drag and drop layout and content. Platform Pro features include BuddyPress and bbPress integration, child theme support, magazine & blog layout modes, full-width and fixed-width designs, advanced fonts, and ajax image uploading. The Section API gives drag and drop website control with layout builder options, drag & drop post types (feature slides, boxes, banners etc) and tons of comprehensive page by page options.

Drag and Drop Layout Editor

Fixed Width Magazine Layout Example

Features

• Drag & Drop Design Control – Create and customize your site by dragging and dropping ‘sections’ of content around your theme
• Design Modes – Choose from tons of design modes such as: magazine or blog layout; full-width or fixed-width site design
• Layout Builder – drag & drop layout dimensions and configure each of 5 different sidebar layout options on a page / post basis

• Sections – allow you to drag and drop pre-designed modules of HTML, Javascript and other code on your site (similar to widgets)
  • Plug-andPlay Sections – pre-designed pieces of web design (e.g. a feature slider, navigation, carousel, etc..) managed by the section API; so all you ever see is a simple drag and drop interface and options
  • Controls – Sections can be toggled on or off on a page-by-page basis and add their own post-types and options. This means total control of every page on your site
  • Performance – Sections load their code (eg, Javascript), only on pages where they are used and according to best-practices, greatly improving performance
  • Development – Can be created and modified by designers in the Base child theme, meaning designers can add or alter the drag & drop sections in seconds
  • Simple – Sections add standard html markup and custom hooks (for extending functionality). Cutting down on a lot of code while giving more functionality at the same time
• Meta Options – Customize everything on a page-by-page basis through meta options. For example, the number of boxes, items in a carousel, custom images, and more…
• bbPress and BuddyPress Integrated – supports integrations with BuddyPress and has a matching bbPress forum theme (developer edition)
• Child Theme Support – to help you customize Platform easily and with best-practices for building a website using “hooks” and custom CSS
• Advanded Fonts – Platform allows you to integrate the Google fonts API or Cufon based fonts in seconds
• Forms and Ajax Uploading
• SEO Tuned – Tuned code for optimal search engine performance and accessibility. Works with all major SEO meta plugins
• WordPress 3.0+ supports the coolest new WP features like custom post types, menus, and custom ‘taxonomies’ (i.e. custom categorizing)
• Try the theme demo and watch the tour video for more details

Price Platform Pro: $95, Platform Pro Developer: $175

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Best Magazine Premium WordPress Themes

[Updated: 10 October, 2011]

This gallery features the best news and magazine premium WordPress themes. There are lots of premium WordPress magazine themes available, however they come in varying levels of quality. To make it easier to find the best magazine WordPress themes we have compiled this collection. While not listed in any particular order, the themes listed below are the best magazine and news premium WordPress themes currently available. This is a large, dynamic gallery, continually updated and new themes added when top quality themes are released. It is part of the Best Premium WordPress Themes Collection.

WP-Clear
An advanced magazine style premium WordPress theme from Solostream. The themes key features include a comprehensive control panel to manage and tweak the theme, 2 or 3 column layouts, and optional featured article glider on the homepage.

Price: Solostream Membership: from $59 (access to all themes)

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