My 10 Favorite WordPress Premium Theme Sites
TweetWordPress premium themes have come a long way in the last few years. They started out by offering just a few special options or a new type of design not commonly used in free themes. But over the years, they’ve blossomed into offering strikingly beautiful, creative, and ingenious designs. Below are my favorite sites to browse when I’m kicking back on a rainy day, looking for inspiration or ideas for my “next big idea”. The people behind the designs deserve awards. Many of them are incredible.
Themeforest
Themeforest offers a dizzying array of themes to choose from, and I’m not sure I’ve ever seen one I didn’t like. This one might just be my favorite of them all.
iThemes
iThemes has some very nice themes, with two that are different, in that they have the ability to be extremely flexible (Flexx and Builder).
Woo Themes
Woo Themes are a favorite amongst many WordPress aficionados because it offers monthly membership to get new themes each month. You can still opt to just buy a theme without membership, however, and they are always giving free themes with each purchase, so good deals abound here.
Kadom
Kadom Themes hit my radar because I was trying out one of their plugins. They don’t have a lot of themes, but the ones they have are crisp and clean.
Templatic
Templatic changed its name recently but that didn’t distract from the quality of the themes. I like the wide array of “types” of themes that will work for many niches and business models.
Elegant Themes
Elegant Themes are not only outstanding, but the yearly price for complete access to all themes is ridiculously awesome.
Solostream
SoloStream has a more “classic” array of theme choices than most, but sometimes classic is just what someone is searching for.
WPRemix
WPRemix is really just one premium theme, but it comes bundled with over 50 layouts to choose from, so it’s an interesting and useful package.
Headway
Headway is less of a theme and more of a framework. This is for the do-it-yourself’er or designer who wants to create their own designs, but with an awesome place to start, and options designed to make the process easy.
Thesis
Thesis, like Headway, is a framework, that lets you create whatever design you want, while still starting from a powerful base. It also is designed to make the creation process easy, with options built in.
Those are my favorites. If you’re looking for a special theme, or like me, just like to browse for inspiration on rainy days, these are great places to find extreme themes and incredible inspiration.
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Hey Donna. Thanks so much for mentioning Solostream. “Classic” is not a word I’ve heard used to describe our themes before, and I’d love to hear more about what you mean when you use that word.
Hi Michael. Classic isn’t meant to imply anything negative. When I say classic, I’m mostly referring to the way the themes are laid out, structurally. Perhaps a better sense of what I mean would be “business” or “professional”. I’m not quite sure how to describe what I mean, other than perhaps, not avant garde.
Awesome, Donna – thanks! I love looking through new themes!
You and I are a lot alike. It’s one of my favorite pastimes.
Thesis seems to be really popular by many marketers.I often change my theme once every year to keep the “fresh look”.I chose the premium news theme by Studiopress.
Stumbled – I hadn’t known about many of these theme sites before. I must say, I’m utterly addicted to Brian Gardner’s designs, and am absolutely in love with the Blue Zinfandel theme for my site.
But I guess I’ve become a total blog nerd. I’m now looking at themes for the prettiest ones
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I could look at themes all day, every day, ashok. It’s addictive!
Donna:
I trust your experience on judgement on many many issues. Thanks for your reccomendations. I’m going to go through the ones with which I’m not familiar.
From a functional perspective for small local businesses (yeah…you know I like that topic) here is one built by an active local SEO expert, Don Campbell: http://www.expand2web.com/blog/smallbiz-theme/
From a small biz perspective it has a lot of built in functionality that helps with optimizing the site for key local business phrases.
(btw: I have no monetary interest in this..but I do like its functionality)
Looks like a nice theme, Dave. Thanks for pointing it out. If I ever need a local biz theme, I’ll consider it.