High-quality WordPress themes always come in handy whether you use them as they are or you build customized designs upon them. This post pulls together 10 magnificent WordPress themes with an impressive layout. Enjoy!
Gridlocked: Minimalistic Portfolio Theme
Gridlocked is a grid-based, post-format supporting, layout-shuffling, minimalistic theme for creatives. It is both a classic portfolio for showcasing your work and a modern tumblr-style blogging system.
A truly versatile theme, Gridlocked can be configured to focus on your work, your blogging, or both. Support for post formats means you can jazz up your blog with your own self-hosted video, audio, images, galleries, asides, links, quotes and of course good old standard posts.
Notebook
Notebook is a fun multimedia theme that takes advantage of WordPress post formats and advanced CSS3 animations. The result is a unique and highly engaging design that is sure that impress your visitors. Notebook makes it easy to share a variety of content, including audio, video, photographs and standard blog posts.
OnTheGo
OnTheGo is a completely hand-drawn theme that was scanned in and compiled to create a fresh and interesting design. It is fun and playful while maintaining an air of professionalism, and its unique appearance is sure to make your website stand out amongst the crowd. OnTheGo can act as a page-based CMS, or as a traditional blog.
PersonalPress
While niche theme that push the boundaries of WordPress are great, WordPress’s core purpose has always been blogging. With PersonalPress the guys from ElegantThemes decided to return to their roots, and create a traditional blog-style theme with a personal touch. PersonalPress is a great design for those looking to give their blog a fun and light hearted feel.
Webly
Webly is a professional theme with just enough charm and whimsy to give your website that fun and unique edge. With powerful tools, such as the multimedia slider and content bar on the homepage, Webly provides you with creative ways to engage your visitors. If you are looking for creative theme that will make your business stand out from the crowd, then look no further!
InReview
InReview is an advanced Review Theme that allows you to transform your WordPress blog into a fully-functional ratings website. The theme makes rating products easy with our custom options and integrated user-review system. The theme also includes affiliate integrated and custom widgets to help you increase conversions.
Dandelion – Powerful Elegant WordPress Theme
Dandelion is a Powerful Premium WordPress Theme. This theme provides all the main functionality you will need to present your products, work and yourself in an elegant and professional style. The Dandelion theme is highly flexible, so changing the color scheme is super simple and for the most parts you won’t need an image editor. The theme is best suited for any business, portfolio, photography and personal sites.
Classica: Minimalistic Portfolio Theme
Classica is a beautifully minimalistic portfolio theme, free from gimmick and trend, making your talent the focal point of your portfolio – the way it should be. Present your work in a professional manner with a timeless design.
Classica is perfect for artists from any discipline, web, graphic, motion, print, art… anyone that needs a showcase. If you’re looking for a gorgeous looking portfolio theme then you’ve just found it. Not fond of minimalism? Then Classica is the perfect blank canvas just waiting to be customised.
Parallels
Parallels is a clean, modern magazine and portfolio WordPress theme with boat loads of powerful features utilising the latest WordPress 3.2 features with 3 custom post types, unlimited colors, and lot of shortcodes and options. More than 50 options of customization are provided too…Try it!
The Times – Clean Modern and Flexible Theme
The Times is a flexible WordPress blog/magazine theme built with latest WordPress features. This theme comes with a review system (up to 7 custom criterias) , powerful options panel, clean and modern design and etc. The homepage layout is very flexible, you can built your own layout using the homepage widgets or use a classic view style for fast blogging. You can also easily change the overall style of your site so it fits your needs (you can pick up custom color for a lot of the site elements).
Handmade – Personal Blogging Theme
Handmade is the last Obox Theme for 2011. Designed by Shyama Golden this theme has been in our stables for quite a while now. It just took some time to fit it into our schedules, however we feel that the time it has taken has been well spent as the execution is lovely.
Handmade is a niche blog theme with its design built around the idea of cooking, arts & crafts or clothing. I think that Shyama has done an amazing jop in terms of the details of the theme and we are especially happy with the very unique layout of the home page.
Horizzon – Unique WordPress Theme
Construct, a Responsive WordPress Blog/Folio Theme
Construct is a smart, professional and responsive theme designed to show off your (or someone else’s) work. It can be used as a personal portfolio or as great place to link to anything you think deserves it. It utilises a column based layout and some funky animation effects to keep your users entertained. Construct also takes advantage of AJAX which allows the user to load more corresponding posts on the fly without reloading the page or hindering SEO . It also degrades gracefully if JavaScript is disabled.
