14 Premium Wordpress Themes

In this post my purpose is to showcase 14 best premium Wordpress themes on the market.

In this post you can find:

9 Premium Portfolio Wordpress Themes + 5 Premium Magazine Style Wordpress Themes

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14 Premium Wordpress Themes You Shouldn’t Miss

Cheap VS Expensive

I am pretty sure you know this great website Nettuts+, naturally they use WordPress platform as web site engine.

Nettuts+ is a site aimed at web developers and designers offering tutorials and articles on technologies, skills and techniques to improve how you design and build websites.

It uses unique template as theme. In my opinion their portal and theme style could be described as  ’Magazine Style Website‘. I absolutely love their wordpress unique template, but you must know that their theme was build from scratch. That means if you want to start ‘Magazine Style’ website and your goal is to have a unique WP theme you need to pay, pay a lot. To see what I am talking about view Nettuts+ website. Preview image is below, click on it to see the website.

Here is a little sample of their theme look: Nettuts+

For me it’s an amazing theme for magazine style portals. I will try to explain what you need to have in the template to create a good magazine style website based on WordPress.

So what do we need in template to make it work properly ?

1. Header

• Good Header Logo
• Simple horizontal menu

You can add two menus. First menu will include links to static pages like : ‘Home’ , ‘Contact’, ‘About’. Second one will show names of categories on your portal. It should only show  main categories so that people can see what  your major topics are.

• RSS Subcribe

It should be of significant size and inform people that they should subcribe your RSS.

2. Sidebar

• Ads

In Magazine Style themes there should be an ads field  on the sidebar, the best way is to show 125×125 ads.

• About information

A field with short  information is a good idea. You can also show readers your best stories there.

3. Main Area

Look at Nettuts, it’s an ideal example of what I’m talking about with good ideas such as: short preview posts with images, undelining the  number of comments showing the popularity of your posts.

4. Single Post View

This is a very important part of your template, it should be really nice for the ‘Magazine theme’.

Look at Nettuts example here: Introducing Flashtuts+.

What we need to have in single post view is:

• Author information
• Related Posts
• Social bookmarking
• Great comments

5. Footer

Well this part is your choice, you can create something unique and original or follow certain standards.

Now I have Good News for every WordPress user ! & Magazine Style Website fan !

The aim of this post was to show you how to build ‘Magazine Style’ theme using free or cheap methods with WordPress. I managed to find a great theme that you can build great portals with and it costs only 25$. Furthermore, you can pay more money and talk to the author or any other designer to customize your theme.

Look at this theme, it is based on the same techniques as Nettuts+ premium theme.

Convergence – Community WordPress Theme

What can we get almost for free ?

1. Header logo

2. Top Menus

3. 125×125 ads in sidebar

4. ideal main area view with image fields

5. single posts

5a. author field

5b. related posts & popular posts

5c. social bookmarking

5d. comments field

Conclusions:

I believe that you can take about 70% or even 80 % of an ideal magazine style website\theme from this template. So work a bit on that extra 20%, customize logos, add whatever you want and you will end up with a low cost Magazine Style theme ready for your portal.

Magic … ? …. answer is WordPress !!!

Convergence – Community WordPress Theme

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cherrytruffle wordpress theme

Cherry Truffle Wordpress Theme Details:

I wanted to create a theme that displayed it’s content in a traditional way (similar to Basic), but with a bit more pizzazz! I tried to keep the structure clear and organized, while still maintaining a unique style. CherryTruffle is great for personal blogs and business blogs alike, and for anyone looking to give their blog a fresh and unique appearance.

features overview:

three unique color schemes
CherryTruffle comes with three different color schemes. If Default isn’t your style, try out the Blue, or Purple variations.

optional blog-style post layout
If you would rather not use the abbreviated post structure you can opt for the optional blog-style layout. When enabled, your posts will be displayed in full like a traditional blog.

automated thumbnail resizing
This theme utilizes timthumb to automatically resize your thumbnail images. Because of this, only one thumbnail images is required per post, despite the various thumbnail sizes used in the theme.

in-depth theme options
CherryTruffle comes with an options page that features a long list of settings that makes managing the theme as user-friendly as possible.

advertising management
With CherryTruffle you can place 125×125 banner images in your sidebar and 468×60 ads to your post pages with ease. Advertisements are handled from within wp-admin, and can be turned on and off at any time.

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CHROLORIS WP – WordPress Apple Blog Theme

CHROLORIS WP

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iTheme – WordPress Apple Blog Theme

iTheme

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Leopress – WordPress Apple Blog Theme

Leopress

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Tigerpress – WordPress Apple Blog Theme

Tigerpress

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Leopard Mac – WordPress Apple Blog Theme

Leopard Mac

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Librio – WordPress Apple Blog Theme

Librio

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MangoOrange – WordPress Apple Blog Theme

MangoOrange

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NT-JINMACBLUE – WordPress Apple Blog Theme

NT-JINMACBLUE

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Think Different – WordPress Apple Blog Theme

Think Different

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BONUS: Retro MacOS Theme – WordPress Apple Blog Theme

Retro MacOS Theme

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Conclusions

In the end i can show you one of my websites that i’ve build using Tigerpress theme with some small modifications. It is Apple releated portal. I put there best iTunes Skins, so what i need was Mac OS X inspired blog theme. I found ideal free beautiful theme for me. Check out my implementation of Tigerpress theme on my website: iTunes Skins.

Compositio

Compositio

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Slurpie

Slurpie

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Imprezz

Imprezz

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One Room

One Room

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Rock Solid

Rock Solid

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Angley Theme

Angley Theme

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Stitches Theme

Stitches Theme

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Magazeen

Magazeen

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BlogTheme

BlogTheme

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Vintage

Vintage

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Blues

Blues

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Conclusions

Not all of those themes was released in March but most of them are new.

Hope you will like them as much as i do.