Themes
Choosing a great theme for your website can be difficult. While there are many great themes out there, few can really satisfy all of your needs at once while still allowing you to focus on your blog. Therefore, we’ve created this list of the best blog themes available. They have all been tested to be compatible with the latest version of WordPress 2.8 (at the time of this writing) and ready for use on your website.
Please note that these themes contain items that we feel will help you become a better, more efficient blogger – you shouldn’t have to worry about how your site looks and works 90% of the time.
Suggest any additional themes – we will be expanding this page in the future.
Sharpfolio
An advanced theme that makes it easy to showcase your work. Perhaps not the best for blogging, but ideal for people who want to create a simpler, static site.
Original Premium News Theme
Originally released nearly two years ago, this theme is still a good choice, as there are many features built into the theme for featuring videos and photos on your theme, plus it’s now free.
miniBlog
A widget-ready, clean theme with tabbed sidebar area, ideal for featuring a decent amount of content.
Matatag
A premium-quality theme with a few awesome WordPress features, including a featured post gallery, option page for easy customization, FeedBurner email subscription integration, and more.
Magazeen
A free advanced WordPress theme with a magazine look. The theme is bold, with two columns and a main focus on typography, grid-based design, and other unique features.
Grid Focus
Recently updated, this theme is one of the most popular themes for WordPress and includes new widget-ready sidebars, a clean template, and optimized code.
Elegant Grunge
An elegant theme that includes some basic features that everyone is looking for – a photoblog, configurable options, Twitter feed, featured footer element, and more.
Futurosity Aperio Prototype
A great theme for photobloggers and anyone that wants to take advantage of a clean, simple theme designed for media of multiple formats. It’s backwards compatible to WordPress 2.3.2, so it’s easy to use the theme on most versions of WordPress.
Agregado
Ideal for personal bloggers and people who want to feature their micro-blogging accounts onto their personal website, this theme also includes a great-looking background design and still makes it easy to focus on your content.
Thematic
Thematic is a free, open-source theme framework that goes beyond many other themes by allowing you to customize and build upon nearly every element of the theme. Out of the box, the theme is extremely compatible with many plugins and allows you to focus on blogging and creating content. For bloggers, the theme is fully search engine optimized.
