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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Publisher Premium WordPress Theme

Publisher is a niche premium WordPress theme from Templatic designed for publishers, book authors, musicians and artists to showcase and sell digital products online. The theme has integrated payment options for PayPal and e-Junkie, customisable product management features, design settings, 5 colour schemes, auto install and more.

Features

• Custom Homepage Design
• Sell Digital Products – allows you to showcase and sell digital products online – be it PDF eBooks, audio CDs, DVDs, etc
• Customisable Product Management – from the backend you can add new products, specify details using custom fields like Artist/Author’s name, profile link, price, publishing date, language, etc
• Inbuilt Payment Gateway – the PayPal payment gateway is integrated into the theme. To configure PayPal, all you need to do is to enter your PayPal Email address
• E-junkie Support – seamlessly integrated E-Junkie digital download system
• Secure Downloads – users will be able to download them only after the payment is complete
• Custom Fields – the inbuilt interface helps you easily add new custom fields for the booking form. Easily add, edit or remove the custom fields like select box, check box, radio button, date picker, etc.
• Out of the Box Auto Install
• News / Services Blog – integrated news blog section for any news or announcements
• Design Settings – you can change almost all of the design elements like font colours, link colours, body background, and much more, without even touching the code
• Shortcodes – 30 handy short-codes to change the way a particular block of text appears on the site
• 5 Alternative Colour Schemes
• Drop Down Navigation Menu
• 7 Page Templates
• Built in SEO Options
• Widget Ready with Custom Widgets

Price
Standard Pack: $65
Developer Pack: $99
Templatic Theme Club (all themes): $299

Keyword: Niche WordPress Theme, Premium Theme, Premium WordPress Theme, Theme, WordPress, WordPress Book Theme, WordPress Publisher Theme

FaultPress – Bug Tracking / Support Ticketing System Built on WordPress

FaultPress is a fully featured bug tracking / support ticketing application theme for WordPress from WooThemes. FaultPress will transform WordPress into an advanced ticketing system that allows you to request bug reports, submit tickets and assign them to team members, assign bug fixes to milestones or version releases and discuss any issues via the built-in messages system.

Features

• Advanced Ticket System – Create tickets, assign them to individual team members, discuss issues on those tickets and change the status according to the actions taken
• MileStones – Attach various tickets to specific development milestones to help in your planning
• Messages – easily discuss the issues with team members and have the option of making these threads viewable by the public
• Comprehensive Overview Page – displays all the latest activity including new tickets, milestones and messages as well as any updates to tickets including a change of status, priority, the addition of tags or attachments
• Mobile Support – FaultPress has been optimized for mobile devices. Utilizing css3′s media queries there are dedicated stylesheets for widescreen desktop displays, iPads in portrait / landscape orientation, notebooks and smart-phones in portrait / landscape orientation
• Seamless WordPress Integration – designed to work seamlessly on top of WordPress
• WordPress Multi Site Support
• Custom Email Notification – receive activity notifications delivered directly into your inbox in real-time
• Cutting Edge HTML5 and CSS3 – the FaultPress front end has been written using the very latest HTML5 and CSS3 code

Price
FaultPress: $200
WooThemes Club Membership (all themes): $15 – $20 per month

Keyword: Application WordPress Theme, Niche WordPress Theme, Premium WordPress Theme, Support Ticket Application, Support Ticket WordPress Theme, WooThemes, WordPress

Article Directory WordPress Theme

Article Directory is an advanced premium WordPress theme from Templatic that allows you to build an article directory website with WordPress. The theme comes in 5 colour schemes and allows users to submit articles and perform advanced searched to find articles. The theme features custom article pages, built in payment options, custom homepage layout, extensive theme admin and design options and more.

Features

• 5 Alternative Colour Schemes
• Custom Homepage Layout – with category listings, search, article submission and author spotlight sections
• Article Submission – users/visitors can easily add an article by filling out a simple form
• Advanced Search
• Article List or Grid View
• Custom Article Page – with related articles, print and like buttons
• User Registration and Admin Options
• Price Management – unlimited options if you wish to charge users. Manage Prices from this page and choose whether to keep it free or paid, make different packages, select featured or normal, etc.
• Built-in Payment Options – options to charge for article submission with integrated payment options like Paypal, Google Checkout, Authorize.net, Worldpay, 2CO (2Checkout), Pre Bank Transfer etc
• Coupon Codes – create, manage and give them promotional coupons
• Design Settings – control everything from admin options like theme skins, logo, navigation settings, RSS URL, Google Analytics code, page layout options, etc
• Visual Design Customisation – change link colour, hover colour, title colour, button colour, button hover colour, body background image, etc.
• Integrated SEO Options
• One Click Auto Install
• Breadcrumb Navigation
• Gravatar Support and Threaded Comments
• Built In Ad Monetisation
• Search Engine Optimised
• Widget Ready with Custom Widgets
• Valid Cross Browser Compatible
• PSD File Included

Price
Single: $65
Multi Use: $99
Premium Themes Club: $299 (all themes)

Keyword: Directory WordPress Theme, Niche WordPress Theme, Premium WordPress Theme, Templatic

Wiki Base Premium WordPress Theme

WikiBase is a premium WordPress theme from Templatic that will turn WordPress into a self hosted wiki or knowledgebase website. The theme features a customisable homepage with dynamic widgets, advanced and live search, article rating (like) and sharing functionality, 5 alternative colour schemes, design setting options and more.

Features

• Live Search & Advanced Search
• Customisable Homepage – via dynamic widgets
• Featured Articles
• Rate Articles with a Like Button
• Print, Share and Send Article to Friend
• Expanding Sidebar Menus
• Super clean layout with nice typography
• 5 Alternative Colour Schemes
• Custom Page Templates
• Integrated Blog Functionality
• Design Settings – control everything from theme options page, change color scheme, logo, Favicon icon and various other settings etc.
• One Click Auto Install
• Built in Ad Placements
• Gravatar Support & Threaded Comments
• Valid, Cross browser compatible

Price
Standard: $65
Developer: $99
Premium Themes Club: $299 (all themes)

Keyword: Knowledge Base WordPress Theme, Niche WordPress Theme, Premium WordPress Theme, Templatic, Wiki WordPress Theme

Events Portal WordPress Theme

Events is a professional events portal premium WordPress theme from Templatic designed for featuring events in your city. The theme features a fully customizable homepage with dynamic widgets, custom event listings and detail pages, advanced calendar widget that lists events, integrated payment features (optional), extensive inbuilt design settings, 4 colour schemes and more.
Homepage

Event Details Page

Features

• 4 Alterative Colour Schemes
• Completely Widgetized Drag and Drop Homepage – with advanced event search, featured events, upcoming and past events, and event categories listings
• Easily Add Events – allow your site visitors to add events for free or optionally charge them a fee
• Advanced Calendar Widget – that shows events listed on that date
• Featured Events Section
• Custom Taxonomy – blog post and events remain separate
• Event Listing Page – shows events from a particular category and the viewer can see the start date, end date, time and location, without even visiting the detail page
• Event Details Page – display all the details about the event like event map, organizer details, image gallery, register button, etc
• Bulk Upload – to import several events altogether
• Integrated Payment Options – Paypal, Google Checkout, Authorize.net, Worldpay, 2CO (2Checkout), Pre Bank Transfer and Pay Cash On Delivery
• Options to Charge for Event Listings
• Integrated User Registration and Management
• Integrated Blog
• Design Settings – control everything from WordPress admin options, change colour scheme, logo, navigation bar settings, Google map latitude, longitude and scaling factor, category page settings, place detail page settings, add listing page setting, etc.
• Coupons – create, manage and give away promotional coupons
• Drop Down Menus
• Gravatar Support and Threaded Comments
• Built in Ad Monetisation
• Widget Ready with Custom Widgets
• Valid Cross Browser Compatibility
• Auto Install

Price
Single: $65
Multi Use: $99
Premium Themes Club: $299 (all themes)

Keyword: Event WordPress Theme, Events WordPress Theme, Niche WordPress Theme, Portal WordPress Theme, Premium WordPress Theme, Templatic

Automobile Car Premium WordPress Theme

Automobile is a premium WordPress theme from Templatic designed for car websites. The theme could also be adapted to showcase other products besides vehicles. The car theme features a fully widgetized homepage allowing you to drag-and-drop sections to build the homepage to your requirements. It also includes custom car listing and details pages, extensive backend and custom field management options, CSV bulk upload facility, 4 colour schemes and more.

Car Details Page

Features

• Fully Customisable Front Page – completely customizable via custom dynamic widgets specifically built for this theme
• Custom Control Panel – easy-to-use, intuitive control panel that allows you to configure all aspects of your website without touching the code
• Custom Taxonomy – blog posts and vehicles remain different all the time
• Car Listing Page
• Car Details Page – image gallery, summary, features and video etc
• Advance Multi Item Search Feature
• Integrated Blog Section
• Bulk Upload – use CSV to Bulk upload vehicle data
• Custom Fields Management – add, edit or delete new custom fields by easy to use interface
• 4 Alternative Colour Schemes
• One Click Auto Install
• Breadcrumb Navigation
• Gravatar Support and Threaded Comments
• Built In Ad Monetisation
• Search Engine Optimised
• Widget Ready with Custom Widgets
• Valid Cross Browser Compatible
• PSD File Included

Price
Single: $65
Multi Use: $99
Premium Themes Club: $299 (all themes)

Keyword: Car WordPress Theme, Niche WordPress Theme, Premium WordPress Theme, Templatic, Vehicle WordPress Theme

Chapters: Book Promotion WordPress Theme

Chapters is a niche premium WordPress theme from WooThemes with a unique book layout designed to be used to preview and promote a new book. The theme is coded to be flexible however, and could also be used to publish blog content in a non-traditional but usable manner. Features include 10 alternative colour styles, custom widgets and typography, shortcodes, theme options panel and more.

Features

• Unique Book Layout – the unique design makes reading a blog post feel like you are reading a chapter in a book
• Post Index – a nice dropdown provides an index over your blog posts/chapters
• Post Bookmark – top post/chapter list provides easy overview of the number of chapters and also a visual bookmark of the current post
• Post Navigation
• Custom Typography -customize the general typography, with full support for Google Fonts
• Custom Widgets – Ad Space, Blog Author, WooTabs, Search, Flickr and Twitter
• 10 Alternative Colour Styles
• Sidebar Manager – allows you to replace all widgetized sidebars and footers in the theme with unique custom sidebar
• Custom Shotcodes – easily add buttons, boxes, social buttons, columns and more to your posts, pages and widgets etc
• Custom Navigation – customize the themes navigation to include pages, categories and custom links
• Backend Theme Options Panel – make simple changes without editing code, like adding your own logo, changing to an alternate colour style, adding Google Analytics code
• Custom Page Templates – full width, archives etc.
• Built-in SEO Options
• Cross Browser Compatible
• Auto-Sizing Thumbnails
• Localized for Translations

Price
Standard: $70
Developer: $150
WooThemes Club Membership: $15 – $20 per month

Keyword: Blog WordPress Theme, Book WordPress Theme, Niche WordPress Theme, Premium WordPress Theme, WooThemes

AskIt Question & Answer WordPress Theme

AskIt is a premium WordPress theme from ElegantThemes that transforms your blog into a fully featured question and answer website. The theme allows visitors to post questions and have them answered by members. Answers can be voted on and “correct” answers be selected by the author. Features include 7 unique colour schemes, custom signup / submission forms, theme options panel and more.

Features

• 7 Unique Colour Schemes
• External Users Submission / SignUp Forms – rather than use WordPress Dashboard a custom form for more professional look.
• Answers Voting System – visitors can help choose the correct answer by voting answers up/down
• Correct Answer Selection – authors have additional powers and can deem answers that have been posed for their question as “correct.”
• Member Ratings – members receives a star rating based off their number of correct answers
• Automated Thumbnail Resizing
• Advertising Management
• ePanel Theme Options – manage general settings, layouts, advertising, navigation menus, optimize your blog for SEO, adjust the colours of individual theme elements and more
• Shortcodes Collection – large collection of shortcodes for buttons, content boxes, toggled content, tabbed content, slideshows, social media, column layouts, tooltips etc.
• Complete Localisation
• Drop Down Menus
• PSD files
• Valid XHTML + CSS
• Smooth tabless design
• Firefox, Opera, Netscape, Safari IE8 + IE7 + IE6 compatible

Price
ElegantThemes Membership: $39

Keyword: Elegant Themes, Niche WordPress Theme, Premium WordPress Theme

Launch Premium WordPress Theme

Launch is a pre-launch, splash page WordPress theme from Press75 ideal for new websites not ready to go live. It includes MailChimp integration, text or image logo options, integrated Twitter, and theme options panel for easy set up and management.

Features

• Press75.com “Simple Panel” 2.0 Options Page
• Logo Customization Options (Image or Text)
• MailChimp.com Integration Options
• Twitter.com Integration Options
• Custom Footer Text Options
• Google Analytics Integration Options
• Compatible with the Latest Version of WordPress
• 100% Valid XHTML & CSS

Price: $25

Keyword: Domain Park WordPress Theme, Niche WordPress Theme, Pre Launch WordPress Theme, Press75, Splash Page WordPress Theme