A picture is worth a thousand words. Whether you are designing or customizing a premium wordpress theme, or looking for inspiration, your first impression is created positively or negatively by your WordPress theme. It is the first step in grabbing your readers attention, and ultimately gaining recognition from the millions of other websites and blogs on the net.
In this post, I will showcase some of the best premium WordPress themes on ThemeForest, which is one of the best marketplaces to find quality wordpress themes. These wordpress themes were manually picked and demonstrate their unique qualities that define their quality, ranging from customization, features, optimization, and professionalism. These themes are highly popular and are suitable for all sites alike because of their support the developers give, for the price of a nice dinner. You will present your site professionally to your clients when you choose one of these premium wordpress themes. Without further ado, I present 10 of the quality wordpress themes avaiable at Themeforest.
Twicet WordPress Theme
Key features of the template:
- Valid XHTM Strict1.0 and CSS 2 .1, tableless Design
- jQuery Support:
- Fading Portfolio/Item slider
- Dropdwon Menu, improved with jQuery
- jQuery 100% unobtrusive wich degrades gracefully if javascript is turned off
- Gallery Page with lightbox
- Working ajax/php contact form
- Newsticker
- All PSD files I used are included
- MANY Backend options to customize the Theme:
- 5 Option Pages: general options, mainpage, portfolio, contact, blog
- Highly flexible: for example the 3 content columns on the mainpage could be a mix of pages, posts and widgets, all administrated through the backend
Same goes for portfolio footer
- extensive Documentation File included
Corporate WordPress Theme
Features:
Featured Projects Slider
Nice Slide Gallery Page
Last Twitter entries
Dynamic testimonials
Custom search results
Working Contact Form
Full Theme Options
The new WP 2 .9 thumbnail feature
Extensive Documentation
- Threaded Comments
- CSS3 Dropshadows
- Admin Options Page
- Clickable Logo
- 3 Pages
- jQuery Dropdown Menu
- Separate Logo PSD
- Cufon Font Replacement
- Featured Content Fader
- Toggle Widgets
BossPress WordPress Theme
BossPress is a great theme for web developers, designers, photographers and small corporates, because of the great full-width slider showcase to highlight your portfolio of clients, or designs.
Features
- Full Width Showcase (Fading Homepage Slider)
Show your works with full width at your homepage with any background color you want. - Absolute positioned Logo & Navigation
Logo and navigation positioned as an absolute element on showcase, so you don’t lose any space from your showcase! - Cool Portfolio Page
Show your works with cool hover effect, to focus on content. - Full Widget Ready
There is 4 sidebar which you can easily modify from wp-admin panel. - Black & White, 2 Theme Color Option
Easily choose your theme color from theme settings. - Lightbox
Show any content in lightbox, image, video, youtube, vimeo etc… - Modern look, clean layout
- Cool comments part
- Valid CSS /XHTML Files (1.0 Strict)
- Most popular browser compatible
- Commented and clean CSS /XHTML, and theme files
- Full layered and named PSD file contain all element and pages
- Easy setup with detailed help document
- And more!
Koncept – Business & Portfolio WordPress
Main Features
- 2 Columns CSS Layout
- Sidebar Widget ready Layout
- Highly customized About Page, Blog Page, Portfolio Page and Services Page, you are able to edit each block as I have well commented the coding.
- Multilevel Dropdown Menu by Superfish.
- Portfolio page with full ease of customizing options.
- Portfolio page with fancy box grouped order.
- 2 Styled Portfolio boxes Switchable via Admin Options
- 3 Columns Footer With 1 Widget Column
- Switch Colors From Admin Theme Option Page
- Custom Admin Panels With Full Features
- Thread Comment System
- PSD file with perfectly layered and named, if you want to edit an existing Theme or create your own image, PSD File included with names for ease of slicing.
- Compatibility (IE 6, IE 7 , IE 8, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome)
Harmonia - WordPress Theme
New: Easier to edit showcase now available. New: Option to disable jquery either in the Lightbox or on the entire theme. Custom Admin Page for easy theme settings
Automatic RSS Feed on the sidebar
Can choose between pages and links topmenu
Ad blocks on the sidebar
Widget Accessible sidebar
Fully functional footer – easy to edit
CSS and HTML validated
Works in all major browsers
Complete .psd file
The 3D image slider is editable without the use of flash. you can add and remove slides, change the order, change transitions with the help of a backend .The Theme also comes with a more subtle fading image slider. You can use this slider as your main slider, otherwise it will be used as a fallback if the users browser doesnt support flash. Take a look at the second image slider here:
Key features of the template:
- Valid XHTM Strict1.0 and CSS 2 .1, tableless Design
- Multiple Page templates:
- Index Page with 3D Slider
- Index Page with jQuery Slider
- Static Page
- Blog Overview Page
- Blog/Portfolio Single Page
- Portfolio Overview
- Contact Page
- Full Width Page
- Error pages, archives etc etc
- jQuery Support:
- 2 different Portfolio/Item slider, supporting unlimited items
- Dropdown Menu, improved with jQuery
- jQuery 100% unobtrusive wich degrades gracefully if javascript is turned off
- Gallery Page with lightbox
- Working ajax/php contact form
- Huge admin area to customize the theme from your WordPress backend. (take a look at the screenshots to see some of the options)
- Menu Manager
- Slideshow Manager
- Additional Preview Picture section on write post/page panel
- Different Widget Area for every Page
- and many more… (8 option Pages for easy customization included)
- All PSD files I used are included for easier modification
- Extensive Documentation Included
WPA Storefront -Commerce Theme
This is the ultimate WordPress ecommerce theme built specifically for the WP-E-Commerce plugin!
If you’ve ever used the WP-E-Commerce plugin, you probably noticed the same thing I did…the plugin has a lot of potential and power, but no themes are available that really harness it’s power to show products. This theme solves that problem by using the existing WP-E-Commerce code combined with some new custom coding to display your products and product groups like never before! We’ve created new custom styles for the product page and shopping cart without touching the plugin files. Then, our custom homepage options gives you a myriad of options for displaying your products.
In short, this theme is all about making your ecommerce site more successful. By focusing on the homepage, we’ve put your products front and center and given you more control over how your customers shop on your site.
Additional Features
- Custom Logo Upload
- Choose whether or not to display an upgrade message to IE6 users
- Custom favicon upload
- Google tracking code integration
- Feedburner integration
- Custom CSS box
- Custom Footer text
- Timthumb script used throughout the theme to resize and crop images (even product images!)
WP-E-Commerce Functions Include
- Mulitple Payment Gateways (Paypal, Google, Chronpay, etc
- Create your own Product Groups & Categories
- Create your own product options (size, color, etc) and set different price points for each
- flat rate shipping, weight and table rate shipping, shipping per item and UPS /USPS integration
- Set your own coupon codes that are dollar amounts or percentage-based
- Sell digital downloads
- Social bookmarking, share this links and ability to display cross sales
More than 10 professionally-designed and easy customisable themes comes as standard: Aqua, Crimson, Eco, Egypt, Modern, Mystery, Nebula, Ocean, Olive, Parquet, Podium, Startup.
Key features of the template:
- Valid XHTML Strict 1.0 and CSS 2 .1, table-less layout, 960 Grid System
- jQuery Support:
- Portfolio/Mainpage Item fader
- News ticker
- Windows7-like navigation light effects
- Gracefully degrading code (for older browsers, or javascript disabled case)
- Portfolio Page with lightbox
- Working php/js contact form (with validation)
- Code optimized for getting the top results in the Search Engines
- WordPress related Features:
- 100% Workable right after Theme activation
- Many back-end options to customize the Theme
- 6 Option Pages: General Settings, Mainpage, Portfolio, Blog, Footer, Contact
- Fully customizable (include 7 dynamic widgetbars)
- native Pagination & Breadcrumbs navigation
- All PSD files are included
- Slide & Portfolio PSD Helpers are included
- Documentation Included
Imperial WordPress Theme
- 2 full colour schemes – dark and light.
- User specified “accent” colour can be chosen from a colour picker in WP-Admin for easy customization.
- Flexible photo area supports an image of any height. No need to resize, as the overflow is hidden automatically.
- Dynamic image resizing for post thumbnails used through-out the theme.
- Custom built theme settings panel within WP-Admin that allows you to customize the theme without editing any templates.
- Flexible logo space allows images up to 900px wide and any height. Image path and dimensions are entered in WP-Admin.
- Easily link to social networks you take part in, with support for 28 of the most popular sites.
- Both sidebars are widgetized.
- Custom widgets for the 3 main ad spots (4 125×125 buttons, 300×250 bigbox, 160×600 skyscraper). 728×90 leaderboard and 468×60 banner also supported.
- Super lean markup and CSS , makes advanced customization a pleasure.
- Tested on Windows and Mac – IE6 -8, Firefox 2 & 3, and Safari 3 & 4. Some details are toned down for older versions of IE, but nothing is broken.
- Support for Twitter Tools, FlickrRSS, WP-PageNavi, and Subscribe to Comments plugins out of the box.
- Original PSD included!
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SexyMarisa
2 years ago
Good post. I found your site from Google and bookmarked it. I also found a site called Mega Themes Club that you may be interested in. They provide Press75 themes just by being a member instead of paying a lot for only 1 theme. Membership is only $9. I can’t beleive this deal even exist.
Xaby Web Design
1 year ago
Nice layouts ! Thanks for sharing. Gonna try them out soon
Usi
1 year ago
nice but premium themes and costs money
Ashlee Ubaldo
1 year ago
Have been looking at doing site optimization and improving the design on my site for a long time, so this post has been very helpful. Clear read as well, so thanks!