In this post, I’ve compiled over 40 most popular premium Wordpress themes to choose from. These wordpress themes is labeled as premium because they provides more functionalities and features than simple theme does. Themes are in price range from $30 to $200.
All of these premium themes has been divided into 5 categories:
- Newspaper / News / Magazine
- Photo / Video Gallery
- Real Estate
- Blog
- Company / Corporate
Newspaper / News / Magazine
Wp Advanced Newspaper Theme
Last Update: March 30th, 2009
Wp Advanced Newspaper Theme is suitable for those who want to start their own e-newspaper site. Theme featured with a lot of modern features, such as AJAX, photo/video gallery, banner management and search engine optimized.
Theme Features:
- Integrated image auto-resizer, useful for main page image thumbnailing.
- Theme option page allow you to customize the theme easily.
- Ajax based featured entry and tabs
- Search engine optimized
- Integrated Photo/Video gallery
- Ads block ready
- Widget ready main-page, sidebar and footer (total 29 widgetized sections)
- Valid XHTML & CSS
Wp Advanced Newspaper Theme License: $59.00 (single), $99.00 (multi-site), $159.00 (developer)
Revolution Chrome
Last Update: January 29th, 2009
Revolution Chrome is a 2-column Widget-ready professional premium wordpress theme created for technology related showcase.
Theme Features:
- Widget ready sidebar
- Animated featured area (Powered by SmoothGallery)
- Subcategories drop-down navigation
- Video block ready
- Valid XHTML & CSS & compatible with all major browsers
Revolution Chrome License: $59.95 (single), $199.95 (Pro - Including all Revolution theme)
Gabfire Newspaper
Last Update: January 18th, 2009
Newspaper is a modern premium theme that is intended to showcase your content in newspaper style and take your website into the next level.
Theme Features:
- Integrated image resizer
- Ajax based navigation tabs
- Search engine optimization ready!
- Photo gallery included
- Ads block ready
- Subcategories drop-down navigation
- Valid XHTML & CSS
Gabfire Newspaper License: $59.00 (single), $99.00 (multi-site), $159.00 (developer)
Onyx Portal
Last Update: January 18th, 2009
Onyx enables you start your own news publishing portal that is specialized for generating online revenue.
Theme Features:
- Complete control of the theme via theme control panel
- Multiple built-in advertising spots
- Adsense ready
- Integrated social bookmarking
- Switchable theme alignment control
- Four widgetised areas
- Integrated ‘Related Posts’ plugin code
- Major browser compatible
- Full source PSD & font files supplied
Onyx Portal Theme License: $37.00
eGamer
Last Update: January 18th, 2009
eGamer was designed especially for video game blogs. This professional theme has several cool features, including video embedding, thumbnail resizing, author review system, and more.
Theme Features:
- Author rating system
- Video embedding
- Optional blog-style layout
- Widget ready sidebars
- Theme Option Pages
- Custom thumbnail images
- Valid XHTML + CSS
The Gazette Edition
Last Update: January 18th, 2009
Gazette Edition is perhaps the most classy-looking theme to date. Integrated with scrollable featured area and professional content area, make it very unique. This theme is suitable for users that’d like to run a product showcase or community newspaper website.
Theme Features:
- MooTools powered slider.
- Bautiful top navigation enhanced with Lavalamp jQuery
- Several homepage design to choose (blog layout or magazine layout).
The Gazette Edition License: $70.00 (single), $150.00 (developer)
TimeCafe News
Last Update: January 18th, 2009
TimeCafe News is a professional style Wordpress theme with a nice design especially for webmasters who has a large website content. TimeCafe News is available in 3 different colors.
Theme Features:
- Easy to use theme administrator menu
- 300×250, 468×60 and 125×125 ad ready
- SEO optimized
- Built in image slider
- Custom page templates
- Built in FeedBurner NewsLetter and RSS options
- Dropdown menu
- Embed video code ready
- Front end login
- Custom typography
- Valid XHTML and CSS
- Custom page templates
TimeCafe News Theme License: $79.95
WPSN
Last Update: January 18th, 2009
Establish your own sports news portal just like ESPN with this professional theme.
Theme Features:
- Complete theme control panel
- Flexible drop-down navigational menus
- Integrated RSS newsticker
- Multiple built-in promotional spots
- Built-in banner management (Adsense optimised)
- Multiple plugin integration
- PDF Users Guide
- Major browser compatible
- Full source PSD & font files supplied
WPSN Theme License: $38.00
Playmaker
Last Update: January 18th, 2009
This awesome professional premium theme is designed for those who want to start their own sports news and media publishing portal.
Theme Features:
- Complete theme control panel
- Flexible drop-down navigational menus
- Integrated RSS newsticker
- Integrated shoutbox
- Multiple built-in promotional blocks
- Built-in banner management (Adsense optimised)
- Multiple plugin integration
- Built-in users guide
- Video integration
- Widgetised sidebar
- Major browser compatible
- Full source PSD & font files supplied
Playmaker Theme License: $37.00
Gabfire Suvi
Last Update: January 18th, 2009
This AJAX enabled premium Wordpress theme contains fully widgetized sidebars. Suitable for all kind of blog or news portal.
Theme Features:
- 6 different color to choose from
- Auto Image resize for front page thumbnails
- Ajax enabled tabs
- 125×125 ads placement ready
- Built in Flickr Support
- Valid XHTML / CSS
Gabfire Suvi License: $59.00 (single), $99.00 (multi-site), $159.00 (developer)
Pro-Pemuda
Last Update: January 18th, 2009
Pro-Pemuda is a magazine style premium wordpress theme for technology website, news and other related blog. Theme available in 2 color (Red and Blue).
Theme Features:
- Widget Support
- Fixed Width
- Right Sidebar
- 125×125, 468×60, 160×600 Ads Ready
- Gravatar Support
- Breadcrumb Navigation
- Sub Page Menu
- Author Profile
- Gradient Effect
- Customizable via Theme Panel
- Contact Page with CAPTCHA Support
- Page Comment Templates
- Custom Frontpage Design
- Feedburner Integration
- Full Compatible with WordPress 2.7 including Threaded Comments
Pro-Pemuda Theme License: $54.95 (single), $99.95 (five), $199.95 (Develover)
Vanilla Sky
Last Update: January 18th, 2009
Vanilla Sky is a magazine styled premium WordPress theme that will transform your blog into a website. The theme features a beautiful slideshow component that will allow you to showcase your most important posts.
Theme Features:
- Dropdown menu for Pages & Sub-pages
- Easy Slideshow Component to display specific category posts
- Featured Content Excerpts with thumbnails
- Easy FeedBurner RSS integration
- Flickr Photo Component
- Three Widget-ready sidebars
- Valid CSS/XHTML code
- Integrated Theme Options
- Beautifully styled comments
- Custom 404 Error page
- Full post-sales support
Vanilla Sky Theme License: $79.99
Omnitheme
Last Update: January 18th, 2009
Omni Theme is a WordPress theme that is great for MySpace or Facebook users that are looking for their own website or blog with a more professional and custom look.
Theme Features:
- Available in four colors (Brown, Black, Pink, Tan)
- Two columns sidebar
- Completely customizable via theme control panel
- Flickr Photo Component
- Video integration
- Valid CSS/XHTML code
Omnitheme Theme License: $79.99
OneNews
Last Update: January 18th, 2009
A unique all-in-one-page news aggregator premium Wordpress Theme.
Theme Features:
- Easily create a single-page news aggregator like Popurls or multiple-pages news aggregator like Alltop.
- Theme admin options
- Inline Video Player for Youtube and Metacafe
- Browsing tools: resize text, toogle background color and social media sharing
- 4 unique widgets available (textRSS, photoRSS, videoRSS, HTML)
- Robust SimplePie RSS
- PDF setup guide
- Valid CSS/XHTML code
OneNews Theme License: $49.00(single), $199.00(multiple)
Arthemia Premium
Last Update: January 18th, 2009
Arthemia Premium is magazine style theme for Wordpress. Arthemia is unleashing the power of Wordpress to become a simple-yet-powerful CMS (content management system) with the automatic thumbnail generation feature and theme administration panel. A fresh and awesome blend of a blog and a magazine, for you.
Theme Features:
- Auto-thumbnail old posts
- Theme administrator panel
- Colorful categories
- Banner and Adsense management
- Easy integration with Google Analytics and Feedburner
- Valid CSS/XHTML code
Arthemia Premium Theme License: $70.00(single), $140.00(5 sites), $240 (Developer Pack)
Revolution Church
Last Update: January 18th, 2009
Revolution Church is a premium Wordpress theme specialized for community based blog.
Theme Features:
- Magazine style template
- Customizable video block.
- Animated featured content block.
- Widget ready sidebars
- Custom page templates
- Adsense ready
- Valid CSS/XHTML code
Revolution Church Theme License: $59.95
Content Press
Last Update: January 18th, 2009
Content Press is a news / magazine-styled WordPress theme created for sites with a lot of content, and looking to maximize their sites monetary revenue.
Theme Features:
- 100% Valid XHTML/CSS
- Plugin Ready (popular posts, related posts, post-thumbnails, and more)
- Widget Ready
- Monetization Optimized
- Free Install Support
- Free Updates Forever
Content Press License: $75.00 (single), $249.00 (multi-site)
Gabfire NewsPro
Last Update: January 18th, 2009
Gabfire NewsPro is a multipurpose newspaper / magazine style WordPress theme, suited for anyone running a news and/or magazine style website.
Theme Features:
- Newspaper style design
- 8 different color schemes
- Built in Flickr Support
- Ajax tabs
- Ad optimized
- Valid XHTML / CSS
Gabfire NewsPro License: $59.00 (single), $99.00 (multi-site), $159.00 (developer)
Gotham News
Last Update: January 18th, 2009
Gotham News is a clean and elegant news theme with a focus on creating a blank canvas with a strong structure to display your own personalized news; and broadcast it to the world.
Theme Features:
- Built-in option to center or left-align
- Integrated Theme administrator page
- Automatic Image Resizer
- Custom Page Templates for Archives, Sitemap & Image Gallery
- Built-in Gravatar Support
- Integrated Banner Management
- Widgetized Sidebars
Gotham News License: $70.00 (single), $150.00 (developer)
THiCK
Last Update: January 18th, 2009
With both clean & grunge, dark & light styles, as well as 5 colour schemes for each, you’re sure to find one you like. The theme also includes a bunch of custom widgets to make it a truly unique experience!
Theme Features:
- 20 different styles & colour schemes available
- 3 different widgetized spaces
- Two alternative header layouts
THiCK License: $70.00 (single), $150.00 (developer)
Fresh News
Last Update: January 18th, 2009
Fresh News is our most balanced theme to date and the ability to use a standard blogging layout has made it our most popular theme to date. It is ideal for everyday bloggers that would like to upgrade from a free WP theme and finally add some income potential to their blogs.
Theme Features:
- Three homepage layouts to choose from
- The ability to use Fresh News as a traditional blog layout
- Extended Author Profiles
- 8 gorgeous colour schemes
Fresh News License: $70.00 (single), $150.00 (developer)
Flash News
Last Update: January 18th, 2009
Flash News is a firm favourite amongst our users and it is easy to see why… Using a beautiful, clean rounded corner layout this theme incorporates all the best blogging features. And its unique colour scheme picker allows you to mix & match the colours until you are perfectly happy!
Theme Features:
- Featured Posts Carousel Panel using jQuery to scroll between next and previous posts
- Suckerfish Category Menu’s (Dropdown Menu’s)
- An optional aside / sideblog
- Dual colour scheme mashups, where you can choose your own combination of background & content styles right from within our Theme Options backend.
Flash News License: $70.00 (single), $150.00 (developer)
NewsPress
Last Update: January 18th, 2009
NewsPress can be classified as some kind of mashup between a personal blog and a more content-heavy professional magazine-style layout. The sophistication of the layout can thus offer immeasurable value to ambitious bloggers that would like to display their content in a professional way.
Theme Features:
- Emphasised Featured sections to highlight your most important content
- Animated horizontal drop-down menu’s for category navigation
NewsPress License: $70.00 (single), $150.00 (developer)
GrungeMag
Last Update: January 18th, 2009
GrungeMag combines the professional and precise magazine-style-layout with a progressive grungy style.
Theme Features:
- Social bookmarking ready
- Custom thumbnail images
- Automatic Thumbnail Resizing
- Widget ready sidebars
- Theme Option Pages
- Custom thumbnail images
- Valid XHTML + CSS
StudioBlue
Last Update: January 18th, 2009
StudioBlue is a smooth design for those looking for smooth experience for their users.
Theme Features:
- Social bookmarking ready
- Custom thumbnail images
- Widget ready sidebars
- Theme Option Pages
- Custom thumbnail images
- Valid XHTML + CSS
Photo / Video Gallery
Groovy Video
Last Update: March 30th, 2009
Make your video website looks professional, colourful, and funky.
Theme Features:
- Create video post easily.
- Automatic video resize functionality. It also able to provide the embed code for your readers.
- WP-PostRatings integration so your user can rate each video.
- Widget ready sidebar with custom widget included.
- 6 custom widget included in theme packages (Search, Flickr, Campaign Monitor, Twitter, Recent Posts and Feedburner).
- Theme available in 6 colors.
Groovy Video License: $70.00 (single), $150.00 (developer)
WooTube
Last Update: March 30th, 2009
WooTube theme is specialized for webmaster who want to have their own video rating website.
Theme Features:
- Create video post easily.
- Auto resize function included and embed code functionality for your readers.
- WP-PostRatings plugin ready
- Widget ready sidebars
- Theme available in 7 colours.
WooTube License: $70.00 (single), $150.00 (developer)
eGallery
Last Update: January 18th, 2009
eGallery is a theme made to transform your blog into a fully functional online gallery.
Theme Features:
- Custom thumbnail images
- Widget ready sidebars
- Theme Option Pages
- Custom thumbnail images
- Valid XHTML + CSS
eVid
Last Update: January 18th, 2009
eVid is a theme designed for video bloggers. I have set it up to easily integrate videos from video hosts such as Youtube, Vimeo, Veoh, MetaCafe, and so on.
Theme Features:
- Social bookmarking ready
- Threaded Comments
- Widget ready sidebars
- Theme Option Pages
- Custom thumbnail images
- Valid XHTML + CSS
Snapshot
Last Update: January 18th, 2009
Snapshot is flexible and can be used for either a photo showcase, portfolio or design gallery.
Theme Features:
- Two different theme layouts
- Three uniquely, different colour schemes
- An integrated theme options page
Snapshot License: Free!!
Gabfire WpShowcase
Last Update: January 18th, 2009
WpShowcase Gabfire theme is the perfect choice for an entire range of gallery style designs. Many people struggle to find a useful, adaptable and automatic styling theme and these are precisely the key points the WPShowcase theme has been designed for.
Theme Features:
- Widget ready
- Ad Optimized
- Auto image resize
- Jquery effect to display bigger images
- Gravatar support
- Valid XHTML / CSS
Gabfire WpShowcase License: $59.00 (single), $99.00 (multi-site), $159.00 (developer)
Revolution Album
Last Update: January 18th, 2009
Revolution Album is a premium Wordpress theme specialized for photo gallery.
Theme Features:
- Available in 7 colors (blue, brown, gray, purple, red, rust, sephia)
- Widget ready sidebars
- 125×125 ads placement ready.
- Valid CSS/XHTML code
Revolution Album Theme License: $59.95
Real Estate Style
Revolution Agent
Last Update: January 18th, 2009
Revolution Agent is a Wordpress theme specialized for real estate agents or brokers with multiple agents.
Theme Features:
- Easy real estate management.
- Custom property details page.
- Animated featured content block.
- Widget ready sidebars
- Custom page templates
- Valid CSS/XHTML code
Revolution Agent Theme License: $59.95
Blog
Irresistible
Last Update: March 30th, 2009
Irresistible is a visually-rich personal blog, with a little bit of a multimedia focus. Incorporating some nifty video-options and widgets, Irresistible should meet all of your personal blogging needs. Just add your content to the mix.
Theme Features:
- Use as a standard blog or use the customized homepage layout, that you can activate via our options panel
- Irresistible is built on our very popular backend, which includes some non-standard, non-average customisation options
- Integrated banner ad management
- Seamlessly integrated video player
- Widgetized sidebar, with some Irrestible-specific custom widgets to allow you full control of what happens in your sidebar
- 9 different colour schemes to choose from
Irresistible License: FREE
Citrus Theme
Last Update: January 18th, 2009
Citrus Theme is a Clean and lightweight professional premium theme which comes in 6 colors and is incredibly easy to modify to suit your needs.
Theme Features:
- Available in 6 colors (Pink Grapefruit, Mandarin Orange, Lemon Lime, Rotten Tomato, Blueberry, Tangerine)
- User friendly advertising management
- Two unique layout (landing-style, blog-style)
- Customizable via theme setting page
- Search engine optimized
Citrus Theme License: $79.00 (single), $99.00 (multi-use), $149 (developer package)
Papercut
Last Update: January 18th, 2009
Papercut is a grungy news theme with beautiful alternating stylesheets, built-in widgets, and layout control via a hand crafted theme options page.
Theme Features:
- Five eye-catching theme styles
- An unique homepage layout
- Beautiful comment styling
- Unobtrusive advertising banner placements.
- widgetized sidebar
- Integrated Banner Management
Papercut License: $70.00 (single), $150.00 (developer)
Lightsource
Last Update: January 18th, 2009
Lightsource is a great theme for personal bloggers looking for a fun and brightly colored design. This theme comes with three different color schemes, 3 advertisement areas, an optional blog style layout, and more.
Theme Features:
- Optional blog-style layout
- Widget ready sidebars
- Theme Option Pages
- Custom thumbnail images
- Valid XHTML + CSS
ColdStone
Last Update: January 18th, 2009
Coldstone offers a unique blend of grungy and professional elements. The theme comes with three unique homepage formats, including Business Style, Blog Style, and Magazine Style, and a robust options menu that makes managing ColdStone fast and easy.
Theme Features:
- Threaded Comments
- Widget ready sidebars
- Theme Option Pages
- Custom thumbnail images
- Valid XHTML + CSS
Elegant
Last Update: January 18th, 2009
Elegant is a premium “content-based style” WordPress theme created for sites with a lot of content, and looking to maximize their sites monetary revenue.
Theme Features:
- 100% Valid XHTML/CSS
- Plugin Ready (popular posts, related posts, post-thumbnails, and more)
- Widget Ready
- Monetization Optimized
- Free Install Support
- Free Updates Forever
Elegant License: $47.00 (single), $197.00 (multi-site)
DeepBlue Premium
Last Update: January 18th, 2009
DeepBlue is a premium “content-based style” WordPress theme created for sites with a lot of content, and looking to maximize their sites monetary revenue. It is a multi-column theme, which has a unique, but user-friendly interface.
Theme Features:
- Widget ready sidebars
- Plugin ready (popular posts, related posts, post-thumbnails, and more)
- Adsense block ready
- Valid CSS/XHTML code
- Lifetime free update
DeepBlue Premium Theme License: $50.00(single), $199.00(multi-site)
Company / Corporate
The Station
Last Update: March 30th, 2009
Professionalized your corporate website with this business style theme.
Theme Features:
- Focus your company important news with featured tab section on the homepage
- Full control of your homepage content with page-based design
- Help your user navigate your corporate website with breadcrumbs and PageNavi for each sections.
- 3 custom page templates available (Sitemap, Archives and Full Width)
- 3 Additional custom page templates (Archives, Sitemap & Full Width)
- 6 custom widgets (Twitter, Feedburner, Flickr, Search, Campaign Monitor and Recent Posts)
- 7 professional colour to suit your corporate identity. (Minimal, Cream Line, Grey Yellow, Grey Maroon, Orange Brown, Blue Orange, Purple Grey).
The Station License: $70.00 (single), $150.00 (developer)
VibrantCMS
Last Update: January 18th, 2009
The design incorporates some recently popular usability trends (like the featured info scroller on the homepage), which should propell your business into the new online space, whilst creating a new market for your goods.
Theme Features:
- Easy-to-use featured scroller
- A separate company blog
- 20 amazing colour schemes
VibrantCMS License: $70.00 (single), $150.00 (developer)
Over Easy
Last Update: January 18th, 2009
Over Easy is a minimalistically-elegant theme aimed at companies who’d like a serious, all-in-one online web presence.
Theme Features:
- Easy-to-use featured scroller
- A separate company blog that is tucked away from the homepage
- Different page templates, 7 widgetized spaces and a 5 custom widgets to increase your value.
Over Easy License: $70.00 (single), $150.00 (developer)
SonarTech
Last Update: January 18th, 2009
Stand head & shoulders above your competitors with this professional business-style Content Management System for Wordpress.
Theme Features:
- Comprehensive theme control panel
- Dynamic drop-down navigational menu
- Multiple built-in promotional blocks
- Widgetized sidebar
- Valid XHTML & CSS
- Major browser compatible
- Full source PSD & font files supplied
SonarTech Theme License: $31.00
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15 Comments Received
January 20th, 2009 @ 12:52 PM
This is a pretty good list!
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February 2nd, 2009 @ 8:18 PM
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February 12th, 2009 @ 1:10 AM
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March 6th, 2009 @ 4:37 AM
These are great, they look so professional. Thanks for sharing them!
March 6th, 2009 @ 11:10 PM
These are great, i’m using these in my blog … Thanks for sharing!
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March 13th, 2009 @ 8:54 PM
Great theme collections. I am using Arthemia, free version. Works well. I plan to upgrade to paid version soon.
January 7th, 2010 @ 11:41 PM
Sweet collection of themes. A few have given me an idea or two for new sites!!
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