10 Greatest WordPress Themes Ever

I love WordPress. That’s why I put together my list of the 10 greatest WordPress themes ever. I tried to avoid having too many “frameworks” and obviously excluded my own themes, Gallery, DesignFolio+, and Absynthe, which could possibly have made the list (in my dreams). Please enjoy and as always, add your own suggestions and omissions in the comments.

Agregado – A beautiful and feature-robust theme from Darren Hoyt and Matt Dawson released with Smashing Magazine which includes a lifestreaming component.

Grid Focus – One of the most well-known and most-used themes out there, you’ll find quite a few design pros using this theme, like David Airey and Ryan Carson of Carsonified.

Thematic – awesome foundation for developers to build child themes off of. I built the Gallery theme as a child theme of Thematic.

Cutline – One of the first themes claiming to be more than just a theme but instead “a platform on which developers and designers can easily build on, and which users can easily modify and manipulate to their needs.”

Typebased – Very well-designed and flexible theme from Woothemes designed by Magnus Jepson.

F8 – awesome for showcasing beautiful photography and portfolio elements.

The Unstandard – An atypical WordPress theme where content defines the design.

Grid-a-Licious – A unique approach to a WordPress theme, it uses jQuery to add or subtract columns as the window width is modified.

Hybrid – One of the most popular “frameworks,” Hybrid is another great foundation to develop child themes on top of, which prevents you from making changes that keep you from upgrading your parent theme in the future.

Modern Clix – Another grid-based theme, this one has a clean appearance and beautiful layout.