25 Outstanding WordPress Designs

June 25th, 2008 by Jacob Gube | 56 Comments | Stumble It! del.icio.us

WordPress is a popular, versatile, highly-customizable publishing platform. It’s used primarily for blogs, but with a little bit of innovation - it’s utility is limitless.

If you’re contemplating on creating a theme for your newly-established WordPress installation or looking for design inspiration for an existing one, check out these 25 hand-picked, beautiful WordPress designs that showcase the creativity of its designer and the malleability of WordPress.

1. 3.7 Designs

2. Blogsolid

3. Candes Projects

4. coda.coza

5. ISO50

6. Larissa Meek

7. Vikiworks™ Studio

8. keasone.de

9. RobGoodlatte.com

10. Graphik’n'Sound

11. La Vie Est Une Fête !

12. Moderno Prometeo, escrito por Rolando Hernandez

13. Mark Forrester

14. Stylized Web

15. Portfolio of Adit Shukla

16. Antiphrasis

17. JESUS RODRIGUEZ VELASCO

18. Basmati Tree

19. La Privata Repubblica

20. {e} house studio

21. Arnii

22. Pelangi Petang Production

23. Kevin John Gomez

24. aiAlex

25. mr. diggles

I hope these designs have inspired you to consider WordPress (if you aren’t already using it). If you’re working on a WordPress theme, why don’t you share it to everyone in the comments?

56 Comments

Rajaie AlKorani

June 25th, 2008

I designed the theme for my blog rajaietalks.com, but it’s not even close to the quality of the ones you posted.

liam

June 25th, 2008

Great collection, first time I’m ever seen a collection of designs where more than 50% of them are new to me, thanks for opening my eyes to these.

Fubiz

June 25th, 2008

Congrats Arnaud. Soon Smashing ? ;)

Antoine

June 25th, 2008

Bravo Arnaud, beaucoup de joie&fierté pour toi.

Arnaud

June 25th, 2008

@Fubiz : I hope so ;-)

Bgalmar

June 25th, 2008

Thanks for the recognition!
It is nice to see {e} house studio with such great company.

Dejan

June 25th, 2008

heh i accidentally ran into this article, and i’m really glad i’m on it :D
Thanks a lot buddy!

Fath

June 25th, 2008

Hey, I would have never expected to be in the list. Thanks!

Jeff Finley

June 26th, 2008

Nice! I’m too late, my new redesign will hopefully make your list next time! I should be launching it next week.

Yasser

June 26th, 2008

Amazing designs. I had never seen any of these before.

yichi

June 26th, 2008

Hey, I’m glad to be one of them posted above, thanks for featuring my blog =)

Ross Johnson

June 26th, 2008

Wow, I am honored to be mentioned. Thanks for featuring my blog/site. The others are stunning, great list/article!

adelle

June 26th, 2008

Great list Jacob! My favorites on this list are 3.7 Designs, Blogsolid & e house studio. Great finds, keep them coming, such great inspiration. Thanks!

harlot

June 26th, 2008

OMG!!1 It’s always a huge success when a politics blog/magazine gets featured on design galleries and websites.

Geovani

June 26th, 2008

Hi.

I would like to say that your site have an outstanding design too… i really like your website design.

bye

istioselida

June 28th, 2008

again an incredible list!!!

Veera

June 28th, 2008

I do have my own design for my wordpress blog veerasundar.com/blog. Though it may not eye-catchy as the blog designs listed here, I feel good to have my own design. :D

Al-Kanz

June 30th, 2008

And the winner is… AK Premium : http://al-kanz.org ;)

DRR

June 30th, 2008

A Wordpress re-theme (my first one, btw): http://www.rickgoetzconsulting.com

GPirie

June 30th, 2008

Some really good designs there, will be keeping this post in the inspiration folder!

I’m still working on my own custom wordpress design, although it’s not quite there yet. Some of the graphics are rough round the edges due to a shortage of photoshop/cash/graphics friends!

Alexander Hahn

June 30th, 2008

Oh, thank u so much!

regards from germany!!

Jacob Gube

July 2nd, 2008

I’m glad a lot of people love this collection, it took quite a while to find these great designs, it’s a collection I’ve been building for over 3 months and I’ve whittled it down to just 25 (for now).

@DDR: Wonderful work, especially for your first time, keep it up!

@GPirie: Trust me, we’ve all been there. As a Photoshop alternative, try out GIMP (you’ve probably heard of it before) - it’s a pretty capable as a replacement for Photoshop. I’ve been experimenting with GIMP (for fun mostly) on and off for about 5 months and I have to say that it’s awesome.

mr. diggles

July 3rd, 2008

i made the mo’ effin’ list!!!1
thanks guys! WP has really made something special and i continue to promote it as much as possible. i try to speak of it as a CMS rather than a blog platform.

thank you again.
mr.diggles