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 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

Photocrati Photography WordPress Themes

Photocrati have released a series of photography WordPress themes which have been designed by photographers for photographers. The themes feature a flash style homepage, rich featured gallery management (batch uploading, resizing, thumbnails, watermarking, etc), integrated blog and more.
Photocrati Emulsion

Photocrati Focus

Photocrati Lightbox

Photocrati Polarized

Photocrati Viewfinder

Features

• Beautiful Design – clean, simple, and elegant to maximize visual impact
• Flash-like beauty without the drawbacks
• Flexibility and customisation
• Powerful Gallery Management – batch uploading, batch watermarking, rearranging images, resizing thumbnails, creating and organizing galleries however you want.
• Unlimited Photos and Pages
• Integrated Blog – combined gallery management and blogging in one powerful package
• Awesome Search Engine Optimization
• Lifetime updates and access to support forum

Price: $89 (all 60 Photocrati themes)
Demos & Release Page | Purchase

Keyword: Photo Gallery WordPress Theme, Photo WordPress Theme, Photocrati, Photography WordPress Theme, Premium WordPress Theme

Narcilicious Photo Album WordPress Theme

Narcilicious is a WordPress photo album theme from Colorlabs. The theme allows you to create an online photo album to share your photos with family, friends or the entire web. Features include a magazine style homepage layout, gallery and portfolio templates, fancy AJAX visual effects, automatic image resizing, theme options panel and more.

Features

• Gallery and Portfolio Page Templates – gallery and portfolio page templates are included in addition to the magazine-looking home page
• Fancy Visual Effects – comes with a slideshow page, a carousel bar, an AJAX photo randomizer, an AJAX gallery page and more
• Social Sharing and Community Building – integration of popular services (eg. Facebook, StumbleUpon and Delicious) and photo comments feature, Narcilicious also includes a ‘Love it’ rating system
• SEO Options – the theme options panel lets you tweak and modify an array of SEO parameters, from page titles to meta information
• Automatic Thumbnail Resizer
• Theme Options Panel
• WordPress Threaded Comments
• Cross Browser Compatible

Price
Standard Pack: $49
Developer Pack: $99

Keyword: ColorLabs, Photo Gallery WordPress Theme, Portfolio WordPress Theme, Premium Theme, Premium WordPress Theme, WordPress

Statua Photography WordPress Theme

Statua is a premium WordPress photography theme from WooThemes. The theme allows photo enthusiast to showcase their photos and galleries easily and stylishly using WordPress. The theme includes JavaScript photo sliders, 3 alternative layouts for the homepage or custom pages, 8 colour schemes, custom post types for photos, an advanced backend options panel and more.

Features

• 8 Alternative Colour Styles
• Custom Post Type for Photos
• 3 Alternative Layouts – which you can set as your homepage or use as a page template, with each layout having its own set of options in the options panel
• JavaScript Photo Sliders
• Custom Typography – customize the typography in the theme to suit, with full support for Google Fonts
• Custom Widgets – Ad Space, Blog Author, WooTabs, Subscribe, Feedback, Search, Embed/Video, Flickr and Twitter etc
• 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: Photo Gallery WordPress Theme, Photography WordPress Theme, Premium WordPress Theme, WooThemes

Photobox Premium WordPress Theme

Photobox is a premium WordPress theme from Themify designed for photographers, designers and artists to showcase their work. The theme has a configurable slider on the homepage, and there are 7 different gallery layout options to choose from. Other features include 7 alternative colour schemes, drag and drop photo gallery management, custom menus and widgets, theme setting options panel and more.

Features

• Configurable gallery slider on homepage
• 7 layout options to choose from in the query page template
• Two custom menus: header & footer
• Multiple-level dropdown menus
• Header widget to add social media buttons
• Styled page navigation
• Choose up to 4 home widget columns and up to 4 footer widget columns
• 7 skins (colour schemes)
• Custom footer text
• Child theme support
• Theme Framework Setting Options Panel – favicon, logo image, header code, footer code, search & feed setting, etc
• CSS Styling – Using the bundled Themify Framework you can easily edit any CSS property from font styles to background images
• Shortcode – for buttons, columns, lines etc
• Custom Widgets
• Threaded comments
• Import & Export Settings
• XML Configurable
• Layered PSD file included
• Cross Browser and SEO Friendly

Price
Photobox Theme: $65
Theme Club: $150 (all themes)

Keyword: Photo Gallery WordPress Theme, Photography WordPress Theme, Portfolio WordPress Theme, Premium WordPress Theme, Themify

Adana Photography WordPress Theme

Adana is a photography business WordPress theme from Voosh Themes designed for freelance wedding photographers and others to display their work online. The theme includes and easy to configure homepage, photo portfolio template, animated previews of photos, theme options panel and more.

Features

• Stylish Home Page Design
• Easily Create Your Own Photo Portfolio
• Animated Previews of Photos
• Drop Down Menus
• Fully Functional Contact Form
• Google Analytics Integration
• Upload Your Own Logo
• Compatible with Latest WordPress Version
• Admin Panel Theme Options
• Compatible with All Major Web Browsers
• Threaded Comments
• Widget and Gravatar Ready

Price
Adana Theme: $35
All Themes Package: $97

Keyword: Business WordPress Theme, Freelance WordPress Theme, Photo Gallery WordPress Theme, Photography WordPress Theme, Voosh Themes

Picture Box Photography WordPress Theme

Picture Box is a gallery / photography WordPress theme from Theme Warrior. The photo gallery has a fluid width resizing to your browser width. The theme also features 3 colour scheme options, custom widgets, WP 3.0+ drop down custom menus, theme options page and more.

Features

• WarriorPanel (theme options page)
• jQuery Masonry – the number of images in one row will adjust according to your browser width and screen resolution
• WordPress’ default gallery feature
• Photo attachment page with a box displaying the image EXIF data
• Drop down menu
• 3 colour schemes (Dark Gray, Brown, White)
• Archives page template
• 3 custom widgets
• Banner ad management
• Maintenance mode
• Widgetized sidebar and footer areas
• Personal social media icons
• Threaded comment support
• Support WordPress 3.0 navigation menu, or custom made menu management system
• Support WordPress Featured Image
• Internet Explorer 6 Warning Message

Price
Standard: $29
Developer: $49

Keyword: Photo Gallery WordPress Theme, Photography WordPress Theme, Theme Warrior

Photo Squares Premium WordPress Theme

PhotoSquares is a flexible photo gallery / portfolio WordPress theme from Function Themes designed for photographers, designers and others wanting to showcase their work online. The theme allows you to set your thumbnails sizes, set how many thumbnails per page are displayed and resize page layout. Other features include optional header and footer menus, theme admin settings panel, and inbuilt options to customise colours of theme elements.

Features

• Automatic thumbnail/featured image for every post
• Customisable Thumbnail Image Sizes
• Flexible Layout Width
• Theme Admin Settings Panel
• Customise Colours – from theme settings panel – change colours of thumbnail boxes, content area. menu, text etc
• Upload Your Own Logo
• Contact Form, Blog, Archive Templates
• Widget Ready
• Customisable Background
• Enable/disable header and footer menus

Price: $79

Keyword: Function Themes, Photo Gallery WordPress Theme, Photo Portfolio WordPress Theme, Photography WordPress Theme, Portfolio WordPress Theme, Premium WordPress Theme

Garden Gallery Premium WordPress Theme

Garden is a gallery / showcase premium WordPress theme from Theme Junkie. The theme includes 3 thumbnail creation options, custom separated search for tags, date etc, easy logo switcher, built in form to accept user submissions, advanced theme options and more.

Features

• Advanced & Easy-to-use Theme Options
• Featured Content Slider (With dozens of custom options)
• Built-in Blog Page Template
• Built-in Submission Page Template
• 3 Thumbnail Output Functions (Featured Image, Auto Thumbnail and Custom Field)
• 11 Widgetized Sidebars & Footer Areas
• Custom Separated Search / Tags / Date Archive Pages (All can be configured via Theme Options)
• Custom Flickr/Twitter/Categories/Advertisement Widgets
• Custom Pagination (No plugins needed!)
• Text/Image Logo Switcher
• Advertisement Management
• Localization Ready
• Dropdown Menu Navigation
• Cross-Browsers Compatibility
• Threaded Comments and Gravatar Ready

Price
Standard Package: $29.95
All Themes Package: $99.95

Keyword: Gallery WordPress Theme, Photo Gallery WordPress Theme, Photo WordPress Theme, Premium WordPress Theme, Showcase WordPress Theme, Theme Junkie