I don’t know about you, but we saw quite a few beautiful WP themes this year! And after a bunch of thematic roundups (minimal, portfolio, magazine, unconventional, lifestream, shopping or corporate themes) we’re finally compiling a Best of 2009 List. Enjoy!
Atlantica | $32 | Details | Download | Demo
Now version 1.4 with several major improvements and features! Updates include: Enhanced Slider Options, Homepage “Static Page” Improvements, Tons of updates, CSS fixes, and speed enhancements, Full FAQ Section for the top customization requests!
Pandora | $30 | Details | Demo
Pandora is a WordPress Template, designed to promote anything from a corporate business to a portfolio site. More than 10 professionally-designed and easy customisable themes comes as standard: Aqua, Crimson, Eco, Egypt, Modern, Mystery, Nebula, Ocean, Olive, Parquet, Podium and Startup
Boardwalk | $59 | Details | Demo
A cool new theme with Random Header Graphics (rainbows, kites, planes), Random Footer Graphics (beach huts, crabs), Customizable Weather Feed, Two Column Layout, Widget Ready, Adsense Ready and more
Minimal WordPress Portfolio | $25 | Details | Demo
This template is packed with great features: custom Fading Taglines, easy to edit, large home promo items, custom admin page: edit colors, options, tagline, footer and much more
Sofa Rooster | $35 | Details | Demo
Sofa Rooster is flat Blog theme but extremely robust one. It uses Plugger system for easy sidebar content management and is fully settable through theme options page integrated into Admin panel
The Blogging Thing | $25 | Details | Demo
The Blogging Thing is a WordPress Theme designed for both aspiring and rock-star bloggers
Viso | $25 | Details | Demo
Clean Photoblog theme with some very useful features: all in one photoblog, gallery and blog, 3 display modes: single image, multiple images & blog, make images private (private images are displayed logged in users only), already integrated lightbox (slimbox & imagezoom), plus many more
Foreword Thinking | $70 | Details | Demo
Foreword Thinking is a neat 3 column design with a “table of content” magazine-styled home page. This theme comes bundled with a moveable sidebar, a customizable featured posts section, 10 theme styles and the ability to set alternating colors for specific areas of the design
Evolutionary Theme | $25 | Details | Demo
Evolutionary is a clean, jQuery animated WordPress theme with four color schemes: Blue (default), Green, Red, and Black
Gallerific | $35 | Details | Demo
A Pro photography WordPress theme and is loaded with tons of great functionality
Soft Light | $25 | Details | Demo
SoftLight is a wordpress blog theme with 5 differentes colors , blue, red, green, pink and yellow . compatible with IE 6 ,7,8 Firefox , Safari, Chrome , Opera. with Jquery Slider content , six 125px x 125px banners in the sidebar and three 180px x 100px in single post
Digital Farm |$70 | Details | Demo
This previous, vibrant blog design of Mark Forrester’s personal site was well received and showcased in many CSS galleries so boasts a solid track record. Bundled with a fully customizable header space, optional sidebar slider and a dedicated portfolio page, together with some minimal corporate alternate styles this theme caters for a wide market
Freshfolio | $32 | Details | Demo
Freshfolio is a WordPress theme with a clean interface and awesome jQuery custom slideshow perfect for use with portfolio and business websites
Trough The Lens | $50 | Details | Demo
Through the Lens is the first multimedia theme to come out of Obox Design. This is also the most comprehensive premium WordPress theme that we have launched so far with multiple page templates and a widgetized home page which has huge depth in layout customization
London Creative | $30 | Details | Demo
London Creative comes with fully working contact form, awesome slider for your featured images, nasty spinning slider buttons (never saw them anywhere else, so you can call it unique), 2 message buttons under the slider and PrettyPhoto plugin
ShopperPress | $49 | Details | Demo
Start selling online with your very own online store. It’s fun and easy to use and includes lots of great features to help you get started
Post it Teal | $22 | Details | Demo
Post It is a WordPress Theme designed for all creative bloggers. It’s extremely flexible and customizable and it even includes four different Twitter backgrounds
Liquid Magazine | $25 | Details | Demo
Liquid Mag is one of a kind theme, there are no analogs around. It will suits best for the blog with creative posts. Different thumbnails height is giving a special “style” to the template, your visitors will love it!
Levitation | $35 | Details | Demo
Levitation is a WordPress Template, best suited for Business and Portfolio sites. It comes with 5 sleek skins and 2 different front page designs
Platform | $50 | Details | Demo
Platform is a theme for people who pack a huge amount of content on their site. The main inspiration for the design of Platform came from sites such as CNN, Porfolio and New Yorker
Convention | $25 | Details | Demo
Convention is a theme for WordPress. Featuring many different pages, designs, styles and layouts this theme can be fully configured through the admin backend
Concise | $35 | Details | Demo
Concise is a very easy to customize theme which best suits business or portfolio sites. This theme has a feature loaded theme options page with over 50 options you can play with to make this theme Yours
Blogus | $45 + a FREE theme | Details | Demo
Blogus theme is perfect for a world travelers. You can share travel experiences using Google Map feature. Post, add photos and communicate with friends and family around the world
Emulsion | $59 | Details | Demo
A photography theme designed for photo enthusiasts and pro photographers
Simplified 2 | $30 | Details | Demo
Clean and appealing portfolio / corporate Worpress theme. Features: easy to setup, theme options page, ads support with enable / disable option, JQuery homepage slider
Antisocial | $70 | Details | Demo
Antisocial is one of the Woo Themes most anticipated releases. Designed by Tim Van Damme Antisocial is the perfect online business card and personal blog theme to aggregate all your online profiles in a beautiful slick and unique design
Flashlike | $25 | Details | Demo
Flashlike Photographer is CMS Theme for photographers. It allows you to publish your photos and present them in the best way possible
Filthy | $30 | Details | Demo
Filthy is a personal blog theme that’s been through the ringer. This thing is just down right dirty! And best of all, it comes it 2 shades of filth – brown and black
Honcerate | $20 | Details | Demo
Honcerate is a nice Community WordPress Theme, that may be used not only for creating your own community theme, but for your own blog / magazine etc
WP Addiction | $25 | Details | Demo
WP-addiction is an Fresh, Stylish and Clean , with a lot of simplicity and perfection. It has been professionally designed to be easily addapted and modified to suit almost any kind of blog
Publication | $25 | Details |Demo
Publication is a simple but well designed WordPress theme that is very easy to setup and use. It requires zero plugins and has some neet features built right in
Platform | $50 | Details | Demo
Platform is a theme for people who pack a huge amount of content on their site. The main inspiration for the design of Platform came from sites such as cnn.com, portfolio.com and newyorker.com
Product Affiliator | $25 | Details | Demo
Product Affiliator is a WordPress theme oriented to people who would like to set up an affiliate website promoting all sorts of products (e-books, templates, icons, graphics, learning courses etc.) It is extremely easy to use and set up.
Daily Edition | $70 | Details | Demo
Daily Edition is a clean, spacious newspaper/magazine theme designed by Liam McKay. With loads of home page modules to enable/disable and a unique javascript-based featured scroller and video player the theme oozes sophistication
Varnish | $35 | Details | Demo
Varnish is quite possibly the most customizable WordPress theme on the planet. Choose one of the 23 bundled colour schemes, or create your own – all from WP-Admin! This theme is geared towards the blogger who likes to share their life and themselves with the world.
Eclectic | $25 | Details | Demo
Eclectic Premium is a quality WordPress template perfect for showcasing a portfolio and hosting a blog
SocialPress | #30 | Details | Demo
SocialPress is a wordpress theme geared towards, well, being social. It has tons of admin options, integrated features, a clean design with 3 different colors, and much much more!
Bloom | $29 | Details | Demo
A list of unique features that are included with Bloom: Two Column Layout, Widget Ready, Adsense Ready, WP 2.7+ Ready, No Sidebars Template, Links & Bookmark Template, Sitemap Template
Collection | $27 | Details | Demo
Collection is a 5in1 Premium WordPress theme that lets you collect and aggregate just about anything. Directories of free stuff are a great way to build traffic and earn cash, and with this theme it’s easier than ever to get started
Marketplace Community Blog | $27 | Details | Demo
Marketplace is a both clean and stylish WordPress theme with the intent and focus on creating a community site for industry news, tutorials, etc. This theme includes many popular built in features seen in today’s industry leading community sites
BigFeature | $27 | Details | Demo
Clean and flexible WordPress theme, with big article images and nice typography. Very many settings. Many page templates. 5 custom widgets. Easy to add article and preview images
VintMint | $29 | Details | Demo
A list of unique features that are included with VintMint: Widget Ready, Multi Dropdown Menus, No Sidebars Template, Links & Bookmark Template, Sitemap Template, Featured Video, Subscribe, Include / Exclude Links
Coffee Junkie | $25 | Details | Demo
Coffee Junkie is a clean, modern and minimalistic layout, designed to promote anything from your personal portfolio website through to a design studios website
Noctis | $27 | Details | Demo
Noctis theme is a dark magazine-blog style. This theme is suitable for blogger who like magazine layout and want to show big post thumbnails in their homepage.
Min | $27 | Details | Demo
Min is our favorite minimal WP theme with many options to make your blogging life easier
PixelCraft WP | $30 | Details | Demo
This theme is a complete WordPress Theme, designed from the ground up to function first and foremost as a portfolio, then as a comprehensive WordPress theme that can be used for just about any site that needs a beautiful layout
Aperturious | $25 | Details | Demo
Aperturious is a flexible, highly-configurable, gorgeous WordPress theme with the ability to choose between 3 unique designs and 3 different layouts! Also – three awesomely designed color schemes
Contrast | $35 | Details | Demo
Contrast is a WordPress theme which is suitable for photographers, graphic & web designers, corporates with a kickass features. If you are searching something different please check the Live Preview
Illuminate 5 in 1 | $22 | Details | Demo
Illuminate is a premium WordPress theme. It was created with beauty, elegance, and usability in mind. Illuminate incorporates the latest technology in its sleek interface as well as it’s back-end
eQuator | $32 | Details | Demo
This theme is specially designed and developed for anyone who wants to start blogging, community site or personal blog. This theme has all the popular and common features which used by the current trend community websites. A completely 4 level deep threaded comments which works in all the major Browsers
Press | $100 | Details | Demo
Press is a minimalist blog theme which can serve many different purposes. The nature of its design means the scope for modifications are endless and the boundaries for content are only determined by you
Yup, these are our favorites. What are yours?
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agel December 17, 2010
Thank for great theme. Please advise how get it.
rgbgood December 24, 2010
These are very innovative work, hope to see more good works.
Suzie December 25, 2010
Nice list!!
Robert Ian December 29, 2010
You have compiled a great list of themes.
Meratvforum January 11, 2011
This is the second place on your site i found good collection of themes as was hunting few good theme which would go with my new site.
Thanks for sharing.
HD Tread January 20, 2011
Looking for a new theme for my site. This looks like a good place to start.
wisdalia January 25, 2011
I’d love your article, because it’s help me to find theme which properly for my new website. tank you
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Great themes. I will try them for some of my blogs. Thanks for writing this post:)
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Ed May 15, 2011
It’s a shame. You forgot to mention some of the wonderful wp themes where they have banners made in Flash!
Ajay May 19, 2011
Nice collection, I like Gallerific.
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With the right graphics….. grapholio could look really good I think
Eastvantage Outsourcing June 10, 2011
Great set, thanks for sharing!
PNR Status June 24, 2011
Loved the shopperpress theme! Thanks for sharing this list.
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Thanks very much for listing Viewport, it’s a pleasure to see so many people having fun using it :)
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Great set, thanks for sharing!
iPhone Blog December 10, 2011
Some of the links are throwing 404 error but it is quite understandable since the post is from 2009..BTW nice collection of themes you’ve here. This shows how powerful wordpress was back in 2009 ;)