If you’ve ever worked with a premium WordPress theme, you likely know that they offer some unique benefits over their free counterparts. For one, there are the back-end panels, the full support and other additional features, as well as themes for more purposes. With free themes, it is often hard to find a theme that you can really utilize without hacking it to get the look and feel you want. That doesn’t hold true for premium themes, as they can be customized or be multi-purpose out-of-the-box.
In this showcase, we have selected some of the best premium WordPress themes ever released. Leave your thoughts on them. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do!
Headlines
Create a magazine theme with a look that stuns! This theme packs all the most requested features into one package. Show your latest tweets, add author boxes, place advertisements in your sidebars, and re-arrange your content. All this and more can be done with just a few clicks and without customizing your code.
Headlines Details | Download Headlines
Flexx Theme Series
Flexx is one of the most powerful themes ever created for WordPress. As you can see below, the theme packs a lot of areas for content, although you can use it for any type of website or blog your heart desires. While there are many features, the theme is still easy to get setup and running.
Flexx Details | Download Flexx
Executive
Want to get your business website online without having to hire someone to design an entire website? Custom designs can be expensive, but with the Executive Theme, you simply have to upload and activate the theme, as well as a logo. A custom theme options panel makes the work of customizing and managing the theme even easier.
Executive Details | Download Executive
Gadget
A professional magazine theme that makes it easy to manage your theme’s settings, including analytics/stat codes, threaded comments, and FeedBurner support. Everything is done automatically, so you don’t have to worry about adding your own thumbnails.
Gadget Details | Download Gadget
Inspired Bits
With seven color schemes, and plenty of other features, this theme makes it perfect for creating a gallery/magazine website. Coding is commented and valid, a custom control panel makes the process of customizing the look and orientation of the theme easy, and thumbnails automatically resize. There really are no other themes that come close in the category.
Inspired Bits Details | Download Inspired Bits
Twicet
Designed for business and portfolio sites, Twicet includes five sleek styles, jQuery support, all the PSD files used to create the theme, as well as other features. Don’t worry about trying to figure out how to get the theme setup and running, as an extensive documentation file has been included.
Twicet Details | Download Twicet
Thesis
Improve your site immediately with Thesis, the premier theme that makes coding and designing easy, even though you may never have touched code or opened a Photoshop document. The framework behind the theme, combined with an intuitive options panel makes the theme extremely easy to use and customize.
Thesis Details | Download Thesis
Lumin
Three unique color schemes, an optional blog-style layout, advertising management, and other features begin the journey you’ll have with the Lumin Theme. Affordably priced, this is the perfect theme to get your site up and running quickly. Also worth noting is that all thumbnails are automatically resized, so there is no work on your end to add new posts.
Lumin Details | Download Lumin
Headway
Honestly, themes shouldn’t be hard to customize, especially those built on a powerful framework. Headway contains features ranging from special content layouts, created on-demand, to search engine optimized code to give you the appearance in search engines you deserve. Finely tune how your theme looks to give your site a unique look.
Headway Details | Download Headway
Vivalicious
Seven unique color variations, an introduction area built-in, plus much more. All of these features have been built upon a powerful admin framework, making it easy to customize and edit the theme to your liking.
Vivalicious Details | Download Vivalicious
We’ve included a bonus theme that is also worthy of being on this list.
Hash One
One of the best themes for personal bloggers and those who want to showcase their content in a professional manner. The theme, like the others created by Obox Design, has been built upon a powerful theme framework for easy blogging and theme customization.
Hash One Details | Download Hash One
April 7th, 2010 at 6:03 am
The great thing about WordPress is that each of their themes is simple yet efficient. None of the themes go overboard, but all will leave a lasting impression on those who see it. Of course, it is how you run the blog and what content you place on it that matters most. But at the same time, you want a visual that is appealing and not distracting.
August 9th, 2010 at 9:03 pm
Yea, these are all great suggestions! I am so with you on this one… Let me see if it suits in my blog.
August 18th, 2010 at 2:17 pm
Great themes! I’m going to test most of them on my wordpress blog.