All the themes I use have stood up to my toughest scrutiny. And I’m not just a design snob; I’m a stickler for well-written code and darn near neurotic when it comes to ease-of-use. That translates to you getting the creme de la creme: Gorgeous, fast and functional, and a joy to use.
When in doubt, look at the demo. For each theme, you’ll see a screenshot of one of the many color schemes available—in most cases, it’s between five and ten, on average—and a description of its features; if there are terms in there that you aren’t familiar with, just click the “See Demo” button, and you’ll most likely see exactly what I’m referring to.
All the themes featured here have automatic image resizing, are coded with valid HTML and CSS, are cross-browser and cross-platform compatible, and are up to the latest WordPress standards. And if you don’t know what that all means, it means this: Rest assured. No matter which theme you choose, you’re in good hands.
I’ve organized the themes by their use, although nothing is set in stone. If you see something you like, chances are you can make it work for you, no matter what business you’re in. Just click a category name, and you’ll jump to its section. Or, just scroll away…
Business/CMS
These themes put the focus on your products and services more than anything else. You can blog, or not; keep it simple, or get as creative as you want with these. Solopreneurs would be wise to start here.
Magazine/News
Excellent for displaying a lot of content right away, Magazine-style themes are perfect for people who publish often, cover a wide variety of subjects, and would find a traditional blog format too limiting. CrossFit affiliates should pay attention to these themes, for sure.
Portfolio/Multimedia
If you’re an artist, or convey your craft visually, these themes are right up your alley. If you’re a photoblogger, video champion, or just need a portfolio online to showcase your stuff, start with these.
Personal/Traditional
For some of you, the real focus of your sites is, well, you. If you need a site that can keep up with all the things you do and places you go, utilizing multiple services from social media to photostreams, take a look at these. This is also where you might find themes that are simpler, and more traditional in their approach.
Business/CMS
Feature Pitch
Feature Pitch is a business theme that puts your #1 product (or service) right up front. With an attention-grabbing design that keeps your readers focused, Feature Pitch also sports an integrated video player for the content area and/or sidebar, breadcrumb navigation, a drop-down tabbed nav bar, and custom widgets for services like Flickr, Twitter, and Feedburner. Nine different color schemes allow for easy matching of your brand, too.
Suit & Tie
Looking for a theme that puts the focus 100% on your business? Suit & Tie is an über-clean, stylish design meant to do exactly that. 13 different color schemes, a unique featured content slider/fader on the homepage, and other features like an integrated video player, breadcrumb navigation, and three widgetized sidebars make Suit & Tie a natural for your business.
Productum
Productum is a business theme designed to showcase your products or services with style. A unique image switcher displays your products with flair, while a scrolling carousel allows you to feature a category of information easily. It also has six widgetized areas for you to display all kinds of information with, as well as eleven choices of color palettes.
Cushy
Cushy is a theme perfectly suited to business. It gives your readers a quick heads-up about your business, and then gives them just the right amount of choices to jump in and find exactly what they’re looking for. Cushy’s features include a plethora of widgets, breadcrumb navigation, and a tabber on the homepage to deliver a lot of content in a just a little real estate. (Do I sound biased towards Cushy? I should – it’s the theme I’m using here on Bright Coconut!)
Abstract
One of the more visually-striking themes here, Abstract comes with five color schemes to choose from, and a fully widgetized sidebar and footer area.
Here’s a sample of two of Abstract’s other color choices:
Over Easy
If you’re looking for a theme that will put your company’s message front and center, allow you to display important messages right away, and still give you the flexibility to have a dedicated blog to stay in touch with your readers, then Over Easy was made for you. It features a beautiful slider, fresh design details, and multiple page templates, widget-ready areas, and color palettes to choose from (and if I wasn’t using Cushy right now, I’d probably be using Over Easy, if that tells you anything…).
Vibrant CMS
Vibrant CMS is a business-ready theme, designed to put convey a lot of information cleanly and simply. It features a homepage scroller, a separate company blog, and choice of 20 unique color palettes.
eBusiness
eBusiness is a theme that’s packed with goodies, from design accents to content features that will make your site usable and a joy to behold. Meant as a CMS-based theme, eBusiness can be either blog-centric or page-centric, depending on your needs. Go play with the demo, and tell me you aren’t impressed.
eBusiness comes in nine colors:
Magazine/News
The Journal
The Journal is a minimalist-inspired magazine-style theme; with a focus on typography vs. built-in graphics, The Journal is meant to be clean, easy to customize, and content-driven. Features include a carousel/slider, a “Highlights” section that’s based on the tags you give to your content, multiple widget-ready sidebar and footer areas, and 10 gorgeous color palettes to choose from.
BloggingStream
Not just for bloggers, BloggingStream has it all: two different layout options for both the featured area as well as the header, seven ad spaces, a video player in the sidebar, lifestream integration, two widgetized areas (homepage middle column, site-wide sidebar), eight custom widgets, and eleven color scheme choices. Whew!
The Station
The Station is a rockin’ business theme, designed to put your offers first and foremost. Choices abound with this theme, from the featured content area (with your choice of a tabber or a slider) to the layout (magazine-style or page-style), from the video integration options (put one in the sidebar, and/or on a page) to the seven color schemes, three specialized page templates, and eight custom widgets… The Station so has you covered.
Newsport
Newsport is a professional, neatly-designed magazine-style theme. It sports (no pun intended) a content-rich home page with both image-based post excerpts and a category-based sidebar. Check out the demo to see all this theme has to offer.
Foreword Thinking
Foreword Thinking is a magazine-style theme with options galore… it has a moveable sidebar, a customizable featured posts section, 10 theme styles and the ability to set alternating colours for specific areas of the design, as well as show post excerpts on the home page, or save them for the full-page version.
Busy Bee
Busy Bee is a modern, attractive, stylish design that will support large amounts of content, multimedia or otherwise. You can definitely use it for a magazine/news site as well as for a business, and have plenty of room to show off your stuff. Busy Bee integrates a twitter feed in the header beautifully, as well (screenshot below), and comes with 13 color schemes to choose from. 13!
Gotham News
Gotham News forgoes fancy-schmancy-ness to focus on doing the work at hand with elegance and nice, clean lines. As a magazine-style theme, Gotham News puts the focus on your content completely.
THiCK
THiCK is a magazine-style theme that’s heavy on social media integration, including a twitter feed and lifestream capabilities. If you’re planning on taking advantage of various social media opportunities to market your business, THiCK is definitely worth a closer look.
Between its clean, grunge, light (on left) and dark (see below) styles, THiCK comes in 20 different style combinations, and has two different header layout possibilites as well.
Open Air
Built around excellent typography, elegant lines, and subtle design touches, Open Air is a breath of fresh, well, you know. It also sports a changeable homepage layout (see screenshot below) and your choice of five distinct color palettes.
Papercut
Papercut is a beautifully textured, refined design that just smacks of excellent taste and beauty. And, as a fully functional news/magazine-style theme, Papercut delivers the goods. Your goods, that is!
PureType
If you’re the kind of person that believes “simplicity is beauty”, then have I got the theme for you. PureType uses the simplest of graphic accents to put the focus completely on your content. It also has three widget-ready areas, two layout options and more, all of which are easily managed via the Theme Options page.
PureType comes in three colors:
ColdStone
If you’re looking for something that says both, “professional” and “grungy”, look no further. It has three unique post layouts (business, blog-style, and magazine-style), three widget-enabled sidebar areas, and is just drop-dead gorgeous.
ColdStone comes in four colors:
Cion
Cion gives a classic, personal approach to your site through its use of rollover excerpts, an “about” section on the home page, and a traditional blog-style presentation.
Cion comes in three colors:
GrungeMag
GrungeMag’s unique post slider, excerpts, and smooth drop-down navigation puts your content right at your readers’ fingertips in style.
GrungeMag comes in three colors:
Influx
Influx packs a punch, that’s for sure. Its layout is designed to introduce your content to your audience right off the bat, giving them a taste of what’s inside.
Influx comes in four colors:
StudioBlue
StudioBlue is a smooth, beautiful theme with elegance, that packs a lot of content into its magazine-style home page. If you’re looking to showcase a wide range of topics, take a closer look at StudioBlue.
StudioBlue comes in five colors:
Who’s Who
Who’s Who is a modern, stylin’ theme that has both subtlety and impact. It has all the features you’d expect, such as drop-down navigation, beautiful post excerpts, and a brilliant featured article display.
Who’s Who comes in four colors:
InterPhase
InterPhase has a beautiful, clean design that could be at home on the walls of MOMA. It has many unique features, including a visually stunning design and integrated social bookmarking power. To really appreciate this theme, click through to see the demo.
Wooden
Wooden is a clean and simple theme with a classic, almost retro look. As always, Wooden includes custom thumbnail images, featured articles, and a custom index loop that will transform your blog into a multifaceted website.
Wooden comes in four colors:
TidalForce
TidalForce is a vibrant, yet not overpowering theme that puts the focus beautifully on your content – and lots of it. Tabbed feature areas, along with smooth-action drop-down menus, make TidalForce sure to, ahem, bowl you over.
EarthlyTouch
EarthlyTouch is a smooth and calming design with great features, such as smooth drop-down navigation, a home page that features your most recent comments, featured posts, and random articles, and integrated image thumbnails for your archive pages.
EarthlyTouch comes in five colors:
Quadro
Quadro is an clean, minimalist theme designed to present a wide range of content to your audience quickly without overwhelming them. Quadro is also packed with features such as a featured article display, post excerpts, and a widget-enabled, ad-ready sidebar.
Quadro comes in five colors:
Simplism
Simplism’s features include a two-tier dropdown menu for parent/child pages, a home page design with a featured article display, and a tabbed menu box for easy access to your content. And much, much more…
Simplism comes in four colors:
BlueMist
BlueMist is for blue lovers everywhere. Its subtle color palette sits on top of features such as a featured content area, magazine-style post excerpts, and integrated social bookmarking functions. Click through to the demo to see it in action.
BlueSky
BlueSky is a smooth and sophisticated theme with excerpt or full-post layout options, and an options page that features a long list of settings that makes managing the theme as user-friendly as possible.
BlueSky comes in four colors:
Portfolio/Multimedia
Aperture
Aperture is ideal as a portfolio theme for artists, or anyone who wants to use photos/pictures as a main feature of their site. It features a “latest posts” slider, displays categories with an associated image, and has a blog module and lots of stylish widgetized spaces.
Groovy Video
Do you do a lot of video? If so, Groovy Video is made for you. It automatically resizes your videos for you, has ratings integrated, has custom widgets for everything you need, and comes with 17 choices of color schemes (seriously… 17). If you’re a video hound, look no further than Groovy.
WooTube
WooTube was designed to show videos, and yet it can be used for multiple purposes like a photo gallery, portfolio, or even a personal blog. The integrated Theme Options allow you to disable the latest post to get that gallery look, and if it’s the gallery look you’re going for, it makes embedding videos a snap. WooTube also has post-ratings integration, is fully widgetized, and has seven color palettes to choose from.
Geometric
Geometric is a hybrid of a blog and a portfolio, enabling you to have both as an integrated site. It’s amazingly flexible, with a widgetized home page with a customizable layout, social networking integration, and ten different color schemes. It can look like the screenshot on the left, or have a layout like the screenshot below. Pretty wild.
Check out where Geometric can go…
Snapshot
Artist? Photographer? Take a look at Snapshot. It has two different theme layouts that allow you to switch between a photoblog/portfolio to showcase your work, or use Snapshot as a design gallery. It also has three unique color schemes, and the ability to rate posts, which is excellent for audience interaction.
Fresh Folio
Made with designers, developers, artists, and photographers in mind, Fresh Folio was created to display your work—or the events at your business—brilliantly. With its refined design, unique page templates, and seven styles to choose from, Fresh Folio is a great choice to put your business in the limelight.
ProudFolio
ProudFolio is most definitely aimed at folks who’d like a theme which incorporates both a great-looking portfolio and a feature-rich blog, excellent for showing off your products and services with flair and style. Not just a pretty face, though, ProudFolio’s home page design gives way to unique page templates for the portfolio, blog, blog archives, tags & search results.
ePhoto
ePhoto is a portfolio theme that will have your readers “ooh”-ing and “ahh”-ing over your site. A screenshot won’t do this theme justice… click through to the demo to see the amazing motion effects that this theme uses to show off your work.
ePhoto comes in two colors:
eGamer
eGamer, designed with the video game aficionado in mind, is a theme that allows you to rate posts, integrate videos, and highlight a vast range of content.
eGamer comes in four colors:
eVid
eVid is a video blogger’s dream. If you’re a video nut, or using video to show off your business, then this theme is what you’ve been waiting for. You’ve gotta see the demo to fully appreciate what eVid has in store for you.
eGallery
If you’re planning on using the power of images to impress your audience, you couldn’t ask for more than eGallery. Its unique design allows your pictures to take the spotlight, and even has post-ratings built right in.
eGallery comes in three colors:
ArtSee
ArtSee is an ideal theme for portfolio websites, or businesses seeking a design that will accentuate visual imagery rather than overpower it. This theme comes with a custom options page that makes it editable from within WordPress, with no CSS knowledge required. It also has a smooth-scrolling collapsing sidebar that is both refined and user-friendly.
Personal
myweblog
Designed as a theme for a one-person show, myweblog features color-coded categories, a “sticky post” capability with featured post highlighting, an integrated lifestream, a widgetized sidebar with multiple myweblog-specific widgets, and your choice of five great color schemes to suit your tastes.
Meta-Morphosis
Meta-Morphosis is a visually-rich personal blog, with a two-column homepage designed to highlight featured posts and recent posts, a widgetized slider in the footer, and incorporated font replacement to give it a unique flair.
Irresistible
Irresistible is a visually-rich blog-style theme, designed to feature an individual’s range of activities. A multimedia, multi-stream focus allows your readers to follow your interests, wherever you go.
BlogTheme
Sometimes, the name says it all… simple and straightforward, this is a theme for a blog. No getting lost here! A twitter update in the header is pretty sweet, and so are the accordion-style sidebar and the five color schemes to choose from.
Typebased
Typebased is cleaner than clean, but not without style. Its ultra-pure design doesn’t distract readers from your content, yet its thoughtful attention to details makes it clear that Typebased is no slouch. Five color schemes to choose from make it adaptable to your tastes as well.
Ambience
Twitter fan? Ambience puts your latest tweet right up front, along with lifestreaming capabilities. Like a striking visual design? Ambience packs a punch, believe me; you’ve got to see the demo to appreciate the options in this elegant, grid-based design. It’s a bee-yooty.
Cherry Truffle
Cherry Truffle is a striking, social-media-aware theme with a very unique design. If you’re looking for a design that’s both traditional and unique while remaining clear and organized, check out Cherry Truffle. It’s yummy.
Cherry Truffle comes in three colors:
Basic
Basic is about as basic as they get – but without sacrificing clean, elegant lines, or the kind of functionality you’d expect. Drop-down navigation, image-enhanced post excerpts, and a modern, crisp design make basic anything but plain.
Basic comes in four colors:
LightSource
LightSource is a stylish, powerful theme that’s ideal for featuring you. It has a lifestream option built in, is geared to capture the interest of your readers through featured posts and recent comments, and is all done on a design that’ll make you drool.
LightSource comes in four colors:
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