10 Greatest WordPress Themes Ever ∞
Posted at 12:05 AM on June 29th, 2009
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
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.
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I designed this for a big announcement on the UpThemes blog.
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Working on revisions to a logo we were commissioned to design.
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Client requested some color changes.
Steal this design. See if I care.
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I love your designs and your blog posts and this is no exception! This is a great list for all of us out there who are trying to get into building our own themes or modifying pre-built themes. I’m excited to dig into “Thematic” and see what I can do with it. Thanks for sharing your expertise and time to the world to make the web a better place.
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Really awesome post, been looking for a new WordPress theme for my upcoming blog and this is my first resource.
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Interesting to see that your top 10 theme picks have fairly simple designs. I think I have seen cutline used the most.
Cutline is a pretty big one for sure.
Great Stuff. Simple is king
Hello, I am pretty novice in this WP design thing, adn would love to try the Gallery deigne of yours,but once I upload it, WP tells me the theme is broken because “template is missing”. I do not have an idea of what this means or how can I solve this.
I am a photographer and I certainly do not want to get involved in web or blog design, I would love some simple instructions.
Thanks
Jorge