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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
Keyword: Best Business WordPress Themes, Best Magazine WordPress Themes, Best Premium WordPress Themes, Best WordPress Blog Themes, Premium WordPress Themes, Premium WordPress Themes Gallery
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)
Keyword: Best WordPress Magazine Themes, Magazine Theme, Magazine WordPress Themes, News Theme, Premium WordPress Theme
Best Business Premium WordPress Themes
[Updated: 10 October, 2011]
This is a gallery of the best premium WordPress business and CMS themes. It is part of the Best Premium WordPress Themes Collection. WordPress isn’t just for blogging, it’s a powerful content management system ideal for building professional business and CMS websites. While not listed in any particular order, the themes below are the best CMS and business premium WordPress themes currently available for purchase. This is a dynamic gallery which will be continually updated, and new themes added when other top quality themes are released.
The Professional
A sleek and classy premium WordPress business theme from Elegant Themes. The theme is designed to be simple and easy to understand and navigate and features 4 colour scheme options, full width page template, drop down menus, comprehensive options panel and more.
Features
- 4 Colour Scheme Options
- Full Width Page Template
- Complete Localisation
- Optional Blog Style Structure
- ePanel Theme Options Page
- Drop Down Menus
- Advertising Management
- PSD files
- Valid XHTML + CSS
- Smooth tabless design
- Firefox, Opera, Netscape, Safari IE8 + IE7 + IE6 compatible
Price: ElegantThemes Membership: $39
Keyword: Business Theme, Business WordPress Themes, CMS WordPress Theme, Premium WordPress Theme
Best Blog Premium WordPress Themes
[Updated: 10 October, 2011]
This gallery features the best premium WordPress blog themes. This gallery is part of the Best Premium WordPress Themes Collection. WordPress is the absolute best blogging platform, and these professional blog style themes will make your site really stand out from the crowd.
While not listed in any particular order, the themes below represent the best blog style premium WordPress themes currently available for purchase. This is a dynamic gallery which is continually updated, and new themes added when new top quality themes are released.
Thesis Theme
Thesis is a powerful, high quality WordPress master framework that makes it easy for anyone to run a professional, customized blog or website. In addition to excelling at critical tasks like SEO, site speed, and layout flexibility, Thesis comes with one of the most comprehensive Option Panels that allows you to easily control and customize almost every aspect of the framework with ease. You can select the font style and sizes, colours for most elements, the number of columns (1, 2 or 3 columns), the order of those columns and the exact width of each individual column – all without having to dig into the pages of code. Thesis also boats the strongest SEO of any WordPress theme. Some well know internet personalities and SEO “gurus” use Thesis.
If you think the base Thesis layout pictured above looks a bit minimalist and basic, you’re right, but check out some of the awesome Thesis customizations here.
Thesis Options
Thesis Design Options
Key Features
- Thesis Options Panel – one of the most comprehensive theme options panel in a premium WordPress theme. Allows you to easily control and customise almost any aspect of the framework with ease. You can customise everything including, font styles, colours what you want to appear in the navigation menu, page titles, your RSS feed, what meta data shows on your post / page, how your archive page shows up etc.
- Layout Options – Thesis gives you a multitude of column and width options to choose from. You can select the number of columns (1, 2 or 3 columns), the order of those columns and the exact width of each individual column – all without having to dig into the pages of code.
- Features and Teasers – Thesis gives you an option called ‘features and teasers’ that allows you to have a front page that is more of a magazine style showing featured posts and short excerpts of other posts with thumbnails.
- Colour Control – Thesis allows you change the colour of virtually every element of theme. Easy change text, border, link, background colours etc.
- Automatic Thumbnail Generation – Thesis will automatically resize pictures and generate thumbnails for your posts.
- No coding experience required – The Thesis option panels allow you to command your site with ease without requiring detailed knowledge of HTML, PHP or CSS.
- Future Proof Customization System – Allows modifications with a custom style sheet meaning you can modify your theme and protect it against any future upgrades.
- Less Plug-ins Required – some of the capabilities that you would normally use plug-ins for are built into the theme. For example SEO options, Google analytics or other header and footer code, navigation menu options etc can all be managed in the theme options panel.
- Pixel Perfect Typography – Thesis has polished typography with finely-tuned geometrics for maximum legibility. You can select what type, and size, of font you want in all the different sections of the theme.
- Hooks – Thesis has a custom hook architecture that allows you to add to, subtract from or modify the functionality of your Thesis installation. It allows you to isolate all of your custom changes to just two key files. This makes your Thesis installation easy to customize, and easy to upgrade.
- Rich Style Classes – Thesis features built in classes to help you make important content stand out, and add some pizzazz to your site. You can add a drop-cap, alert box, a note box, or even wrap text around adsense ads etc.
- Customisable Multimedia Box – Thesis includes an optional fully customizable multimedia box which can be used for rotating random images, video, advertising or your own custom code.
- Search Engine Optimization – Thesis boasts the strongest SEO of any theme on the market today thanks to its expertly-coded HTML + CSS + PHP framework.
- Support – Access to documentation and a great support forum managed by talented and helpful staff
- Continuous Improvement – Thesis is continually being upgraded and improved and new featured added. When you purchase thesis you get access to lifetime updates.
- Much More – read about all Thesis features here
Price: Personal: $87, Developer: $164
Keyword: Best WordPress Blog Themes, Blog Theme, Blog WordPress Themes, Premium WordPress Theme
Best Portfolio / Photo Gallery WordPress Themes
[Updated: 10 October, 2011]
This is a gallery of the best portfolio & photo gallery premium WordPress themes. It is part of the Best Premium WordPress Themes Collection. While not listed in any particular order, the themes below are the best gallery / portfolio / photo gallery style premium WordPress themes currently available for purchase. This is a dynamic gallery which will be continually updated, and new themes added when new high quality themes are released.
Craft
A professional, minimalist portfolio WordPress theme from Theme Trust. The custom homepage includes a carousel for featured content, and a recent project slider. Other features include custom post types for portfolio management, smooth jQuery effects for thumbnails and menus etc, custom options panel with colour controls to set your own colour schemes and more.
Features
- Smooth Intro Animation for Portfolio Thumbnails
- Slideshow on Home Page and Project Pages
- Home Page Carousel for Featured Content
- 3 Built-in Background Textures
- Custom Options Panel
- Custom Post Type for Easy Portfolio Management
- Widget Ready Sidebars & Footers
- Custom Portfolio Taxonomy Template
- Archive Page Template
- Author Page Template
- WordPress 3.0 Custom Menus
- WordPress 3.0 Custom Background Support
- Set Your Own Colour Scheme
- Post Thumbnails
- Built-in Lightbox
- Smooth Animated jQuery Drop-down Menus
- Upload a Custom Logo
- Threaded Comments
- Twitter Integration
- Flickr Integration
- Button Shortcodes
Price: Craft Theme Package: $49
Keyword: Gallery Themes, Photo Gallery WordPress Theme, Portfolio WordPress Theme, Premium WordPress Themes
Solostream 3-Column 1.0 WordPress Theme
Solostream 3-Column 1.0 is a 3-column, fixed-width WordPress theme built to work with WordPress versions 2.2 and above
Features:
- Widget-Ready
- Drop-down navigation for sub-pages.
- Tag support for WordPress 2.3.
- Built-in archives page.
- Drop-down boxes for categories and monthly archives.
- Tabbed top content box.
- Featured article functionality.
Price:
Solostream Membership: From $59 (access to all themes)
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Solostream 4.0 Premium WordPress Theme
Solostream 4.0 is a 2-column, fixed-width WordPress theme.
Features:
- Widget-Ready
- Drop-down navigation for sub-pages.
- Tag support for WordPress 2.3.
- Built-in archives page.
- Drop-down boxes for categories and monthly archives.
Price:
Solostream Membership: From $59 (access to all themes)
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Keyword: Blog Theme
Killian 1.0 WordPress Premium Theme
Killian 1.0 is a 2-column, fixed-width WordPress theme built to work with WordPress versions 2.2 and above.
Features:
- Widget-Ready
- Drop-down navigation for sub-pages
- Tag support for WordPress 2.3
- Built-in archives page
- Drop-down boxes for categories, monthly archives and site tags
- Gravatar integration on comments
- Gravatar integration for author photos
- Multi-author blog functionality
Price:
Solostream Membership: From $59 (access to all themes)
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Keyword: Blog Theme
Best Video and Multimedia WordPress Themes
[Updated: 19 September, 2011]
This is a collection of the best video & multimedia premium WordPress themes. While not listed in any particular order, the themes below represent the highest quality multimedia and video premium WordPress themes currently available. This dynamic gallery is continually updated and new themes added when top quality themes are released. It is part of the Best Premium WordPress Themes Collection.
Video Zoom
A slick premium WordPress video theme from WPZoom. The theme features simple video integration allowing you to easily embed video, and play any video from all the popular video websites. VideoZoom includes a featured video slider on the homepage, multiple post layout options, theme options panel, WordPress 3.0 menus, backgrounds and more.
Features
- Multiple Post Layouts
- Drop Down menus
- Custom Post / Page Templates
- Video Integration – embed a video to a post or in featured slider by simply specifying the URL or code of video
- Ready To Play Anything – designed to play any videos from all popular video sites, like YouTube, Vimeo, and many others
- Theme Options Panel
- SEO Options
- Threaded Comments
- Compatible with WordPress 3.0
- Custom Background
- Custom Menus
- Widgetized Sidebar & Footer
- Post Thumbnails Support
- Compatible with all modern browsers
- Video Slider
- Support for Google Analytics & Feedburner
- Banner Management System
Price Single: $69, Developer: $149
Keyword: Best WordPress Video Themes, Premium WordPress Themes, Video Blog Theme, Video Theme, WordPress Theme, WordPress Video Theme
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