WordPress Themes: A Selection Of Great Templates For Your Blog
The decision to migrate one of my websites to WordPress has led into a week of search for available templates for Wordpress, optimized for search engines with clean and nice looks.
Searching for good templates is hard once you come across the huge amount of layouts available, therefore the choice on selecting and sharing the best websites that offer templates for all demands: professional, amateur, free and paid ones.
Freshy 2 Theme
A free but high-leveled template, developed by Julien De Luca. The Customize plugin allows a degree of customization almost limit free with the control panel. Here are its main features:
- WP 2.6 compatible (in opposition to the previous version)
- 17 languages automatically configured through the visitor’s user agent
- Lots of sub themes
- Gravatar compatible
- Fixed and fluid width
- XHTML compatible
- Open source
and much more.
Recommended due to the high level of customization which allows it to be unique when compared to other blogs that have adopted it.
DiploD
Davide Del Monte is the author behind the old layout for Geekissimo and he develops templates for WordPress and Joomla for free under Creative Commons license.
Check it out:
- Nerino 2.0
A nice and professional template for WP. Widget ready, Adsense ready, gravatar compatible and highly customizable.
- Geekissimo
The foundation of this old template, very popular in Italy, available for download.
- Web TV
If you have an online TV website or a web TV, check this great ready to use template.
TemplatePanic
Layout files of all kinds. If you’re patient enough to dig through all the pages, you might find great templates, both minimalist and extravagant and joyful. iPhone Blog Theme is a recommended choice. Here are its main features:
- XHTML and CSS compatible
- Widget ready
- Automatic management of related articles
Great for blogs geek on gadgets.
Web 2.0 Themes
Six templates for WordPress, five of them free and one paid. A strict Web 2.0 style. Check the top 3:
- Magazine theme (US$100)
- Sodelicious 2 (free and great)
- Socute (free)
Check and download the others here.
Recommended for blogs Web 2.0 style.
Woo Themes
If you’re looking for a WordPress theme for a blog focused on content and articles, this is the right place.
That’s where the new Ikaro Brasil layout was chosen from. There are approximately 15 templates, all paid, the mono user license costs US$70. The quality of the templates is excellent, ideal for quality upgrade for blogs with relevant content.
Some cool stuff for templates customization:
- Banners management 125×125 integrated
- Video file and integration due to Tubepress
- Management of files in evidence
- Feedburner and feed subscription integration via automated e-mail
- Google Analytics integrated management
These are the two favorite WooThemes templates: The Gazzette Edition, Fresh News Theme.
Recommended for highlighting relevant content.
Top WP Themes
130 free templates for WordPress, among the usual ones you can find some in great
quality. Ideal for blogs with no clear graphic definition: lots of templates from the most basic minimalism to super colored 2.0 extreme.
Great navigation system: it allows template filter based on the features you want, such as number of columns, widget management, fixed or fluid width, etc… (the illustration template is Zinmag Redux).
Recommended for bloggers not defined between milimalist or psychoedelic.
Revolution WordPress Theme
Professional paid templates, ideal for magazines, online newspapers or simply good content blogs. Ten themes for 2.6 WordPress compatible. License for only one website is around US$80.
Have fun and remember: WordPress 2.6 X version may occasionate some image aligning problems in some templates developed for previous versions. Here’s how to work it out.
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by Dan Di Gregorio | 12 October 2009 | Featured, Problogging
I like the revolution series a lot, yet I haven’t used them on my blogs. I like them, but something just doesn’t feel right with them.
Thanks for the list, though. I just changed my theme and edited a little bit to make it a bit more comfy. I still am not sold on any premium themes for the shear fact that they cost money and I can’t decide which one deserves mine.
This list is good though and I’ll have to start looking through them.
Hi Chris,
i like very much the Woo Themes series, but i’m very impressed from Thesis too: http://diythemes.com/thesis/
I’ll dig more into it…
Thanks for commenting
Dan