31 Professional WordPress Themes

Mar 24, 2008 by Matt | Posted in Design, Featured 59 Comments

If you’re serious about blogging, and are trying to run a quality blog on a specific topic, you need a good design. Ideally, you want to have a unique design, built by a designer, though you can get away with a pre-made theme if you’re on a budget, or if you want to wait until the blog can pay for the design.

If you’re not ready to hire a designer, you can use a freely available WordPress theme, or a premium theme. Premium themes are pre-made templates for WordPress, which, though they are not free, cost much less than hiring a designer to make a unique theme.

Once you’ve picked-out a good theme, make it your own. Put your logo in the header, tweak the colors a little, and whatnot. Customize it so it matches your site’s personality.

Now that the introduction is out of the way, let’s get to the fun part. Following are a few WordPress themes that, in my opinion, are professional and well-done.

Free Themes

Gridlock

The Morning After

Grid Focus

Illacrimo

SEO Green

Amazing Grace

StudioPress

Not So Fresh

Nature’s Highlight

Nature's Highlight

The (Ex)Kineda Project

Gluttony

SpringLoaded

InSense

Digital Pop

Blogging Pro

Blogging Pro Theme

Performancing News

Balance

Alternate 0

ColdBlue

Dark Theme

GreenTech

Forte

Pixelate

Lemon Twist

Several3

Yoghourt

PocketT

Premium Themes

Flash News

PNT Gazette Edition

Premium News Theme Gazette Edition

Revolution Theme

The Original Revolution Theme

WP Remix – The WordPress Master Theme

WP Remix is more of a theme framework than an actual theme. The general idea is that you can easily customize the theme to look the way you want it. The site also has some examples of sites created with WP Remix.

WP Remix

http://wpthemesplugin.com Moses Francis

Thanks for recomending my themes.
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Thanks for mentioning my Nature’s Highlight theme!
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Great list of themes. Thanks.
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great list. i’m using now the cold blue. and found it here.
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Thanks,nice themes
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thanks..
http://got2begreen.com Susan

A pretty good list. I think I shared this on another site, but there is a good collection also on http://new-wordpress-themes.net if interested…..
http://www.webmaster-source.com Matt

There are some good themes there. I’ll have to bookmark that site. I think I’ve found the next WordPress Theme of the Month there.
http://www.colorfulmars.com Franca Richard

great list, I ve introduced some more good wordpress themes here, maybe you can consider adding some into your list, make that even better, thanks!
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law

Wonderful job…keep it going …makes my job of looking for good themes much easier……….thumbs up
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Nice compilation. I’ll include those web standards compliant themes here in my WordPress Themes Gallery. Keep up the good work!
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Great list! You have done a wonderful job.
http://www.colorfulmars.com Franca Richard

Nice list, I love most of theme though I have made my theme myself, how do you think of my theme? Maybe you can add it to your great list, Check my theme here.
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A great collection – I like the SEO Green
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http://www.themesthatdontsuck.com Chris

Great list! I’ll be adding some of those to my theme site too!Themes That Don’t Suck!http://www.themesthatdontsuck.comThanks!
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Nice themes gallery. You might add more professional theme such as WP newspaper (gabfire), arthemia or citrus theme as these theme is popular last year.
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very good, thank you brother
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Very nice designs,

Ive been looking for the designs for a static website with a seperate blog… any ideas?

Nick
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  Can you clarify? Are you looking for a theme for the blog, or for the static site?
http://www.seo-angels.co.uk SEO Preston

I wanted a theme for them both actually. Ive just about tweaked one to my liking now though. Just a few finishing touches to brush up on! Thanks for the interest.
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Super list, I'm allready using 2 of these themes for my websites!
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Excellent List Here, One of the best I've seen, I'm running a credit claims and debt blog on the wordpress platform for the first time and I'm amazed at how easy it is to manage. Your choices are great for any new starter and you're right, the fun part is customising them!!

Thanks

Nick
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One of them is basically an exact copy of CNN.com
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Thanks..
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nice post , i like very much
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Great themes!
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Great list of themes! Thanks for sharing!
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SEO

Thanks for the themes
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thanks for sharing i like it
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Great list of themes. Thanks.
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Thanks for this nice and great themes i was searching “Cold Blue” and your blog was appear and i use COLD BLUE on my blog Universities Admission
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Wonderful job…keep it going
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Great listings of free wordpress themes! The morning After Theme is just beautiful!
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Super list, I’m allready using 2 of these themes
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WordPress premium themes are pre-made templates that, while not free, are significantly less expensive than engaging a designer to create a custom theme. Visit wellington!

Free Themes

Premium Themes

WP Remix – The WordPress Master Theme

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