45 Beautiful and Creative (WordPress) Designs
WordPress provides designers utmost control over a theme - resulting in unprecented flexibility in the layout and design direction he or she can take. WordPress - in the title - is inside parentheses because the designs you’ll see below are wonderful designs despite of the publishing platform they use (which just so happens to be WordPress).
In this collection, you’ll find some (45 of them to be exact) of the most attractive, creative designs by talented designers who push the limits of WordPress theming and raise the bar for the rest of us.
1. Matt Mullenweg
WordPress version: 2.7-hemorrhage
2. Macalicious
WordPress version: 2.6
3. Design Reviver
WordPress version: 2.6.1
4. N.Design Studio
WordPress version: 2.2
5. boedesign
WordPress version: 2.5.1
6. Tony Geer
WordPress version: 2.5.1
7. Rawkes
WordPress version: unspecified
8. Twiistup
WordPress version: 2.5.1
9. OLDesign
WordPress version: unspecified
10. The Horizontal Way
WordPress version: 2.5
11. Lettland
WordPress version: 2.5.1
12. been said
WordPress version: 2.5
13. Made in England
WordPress version: 2.5
14. Style 4 you
WordPress version: 2.5.1
15. Weblog.ChrizDee
WordPress version: 2.5.1
16. Design Disease
WordPress version: 2.5.1
17. I Love Typography
WordPress version: 2.6.1
18. nataliadevalle.com.ar
WordPress version: 2.5.1
19. Doug Dosberg
WordPress version: unspecified
20. Carsonified
WordPress version: 2.0.5
21. Pointless Ramblings
WordPress version: 2.6.1
22. yo vivo en Vigo
WordPress version: 2.6.1
23. novus.volce
WordPress version: 2.6
24. GoMediaZine
WordPress version: 2.6
25. AMRZ
WordPress version: 2.5
26. Sean Johnson
WordPress version: 2.6
27. Łukasz Adamczak
WordPress version: 2.5.1
28. Elliot Jay Stocks
WordPress version: 2.1.3
29. B-basket
WordPress version: 2.6.1
30. Icon Icon
WordPress version: 2.5
31. Webstock words
WordPress version: 2.5.1
32. Unfamiliar Records
WordPress version: 2.3.2
33. Evan Hanson
WordPress version: 2.6
34. Blog at MobLogic.tv
WordPress version: 2.3.3
35. Malene Hald
WordPress version: 2.6
36. NxE
WordPress version: 2.6
37. Mutado
WordPress version: 2.2.1
38. Function Web Design & Development
WordPress version: 2.5
39. Shut Theory
WordPress version: 2.0.5
40. The 9513
WordPress version: unspecified
41. Cheb 2.0
WordPress version: 2.6
42. Ironwulf.net
WordPress version: 2.6.1
43. Kineda
WordPress version: 2.5.1
44. Matt Brett
WordPress version: 2.6.1
45. Henry Jones
WordPress version: 2.1
Your thoughts?
What do you think about these designs? Do you have a website or resource you go to for WordPress design inspiration? Share it with all of us in the comments!
If you’re interested in seeing more WordPress designs, check out this previous post called 25 Outstanding WordPress Designs which features even more beautiful designs.
Another design collection of interest might be 35 Beautiful Bright, Colorful Web Designs.
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147 Comments
Dainis Graveris
September 1st, 2008
Wow, really good list. I think you should leave out http://www.webdesignerwall.com - i don`t think I`ve seen something more beautiful than this design.
Tenth Blog
September 1st, 2008
Those are some neat designs. Thanks for the list. I was looking for something like this for reference. Some of them should be made public :D
Thanks again.
Paul Gendek
September 1st, 2008
I’ve become extremely picky lately but I’m still a huge fan of GoMediaZine’s design!
Panther
September 1st, 2008
These are great, I really have to learn how to skin Wordpress now!
Jacob Gube
September 1st, 2008
@Panther: That’s great! One of my intentions when I write stuff like this is to inspire and pique people’s interest. WordPress is the easiest platform I’ve worked with, design-wise and there’s tons of documentation and tutorials online to help you learn and understand how to create your own custom WordPress theme.
CSS:Jockey
September 1st, 2008
Good Inspiration!! I think you might want to add this to the list: http://www.mohitaneja.com
Rob Hawkes
September 1st, 2008
Hey Jacob, I’m the guy behind Rawkes. Thanks for including my site in the shortlist, it’s really nice to see it up amongst all those other stunning designs.
Rob
martinwaiss
September 1st, 2008
Outstanding designs, good picks for inspiration.
It’s so amazing to watch the Wordpress community flourish over and over again. I love it. This makes Wordpress the great platform it is…
Permana Jayanta
September 1st, 2008
Really inspire me. Those web list use a really good image. Where should I browse for some good image ?
Are those design available for download :D
Susan
September 1st, 2008
What a great list - I haven’t seen many of these designs before.
Alex Linebrink
September 2nd, 2008
That indie dude too :) ::: http://www.thatindiedude.com/
ThatOrangeGuy
September 2nd, 2008
I guess I have to play around with “3. Design Reviver” a little! Thanks for this great collection!
Jazzy
September 2nd, 2008
I’m totally into all of these, but the one I heart the most is #32.
anup
September 2nd, 2008
These are indeed good! Personally i prefer the sober ones..
Jason
September 2nd, 2008
This one too! http://www.toycyte.com
john difool
September 2nd, 2008
Very good inspiration ! Here’s another creative design : http://www.blup.fr/
Aleks
September 2nd, 2008
i think you forgot mine: http://www.designpicks.de/ ;)
Cheboi
September 2nd, 2008
I really liked http://cabbagination.net too. Bit different from the norm!!!
Howard
September 2nd, 2008
Another nice one floating around in the interwebs is Studio Racket: http://www.studioracket.org
Jacob Gube
September 2nd, 2008
@Permana Jayanta: These are custom WordPress designs, but if you’d like to get high-quality (”premium”) themes - check out Smashing Magazine’s: list of free high-quality themes.
@martinwaiss: Indeed, it’s great to see an open-source project get as popular as this. What WordPress has going for it is community support, easy to use, and easy to theme and customize. If you’ve worked with a lot of open-source platforms like I have, you’ll see that those 3 things are very important not only for the end-users, but also for the developer/designer.
Thanks to everyone who’ve dropped other beautiful WordPress designs. Keep them coming and share your own WordPress theming projects here as well.
Fubiz
September 2nd, 2008
Impressive selection !
Alex
September 2nd, 2008
Most of these designs appear to have been built from scratch. There’s loads of inspiration here, thanks! It’s particularly interesting since I’m consider both the option of modifying a pre-built template or to go whole hog and build a new design from scratch.
Tabris Chen '
September 2nd, 2008
Very nice selection. Im not really a fan of graphic heavy sites, even though I admit they do look amazing. Totally dig the grid design and minimalistic ones
Shirley
September 2nd, 2008
Great set of websites. Yes, WP does give ultimate flexibility to realize just about any design.
XIII
September 2nd, 2008
Great list, and an inspiration to do better.
Ingmar Greil
September 2nd, 2008
Actually, although WP makes it easy to [em]change[/em] a theme, creating one is much harder than it needed to be. I may be spolied, but there is no going back from ExpressionEngine, which makes designing a snap, too.
liam
September 2nd, 2008
Great list, and yeah I think this is a great example of how much flexibility Wordpress gives you. Really appreciate being included here among so many great and some that are new to me, but look amazing.
Karinne
September 2nd, 2008
That’s is a great list and most of them are in my delicious links ;) Over at The Web Squeeze (http://www.thewebsqueeze.com) we use WordPress. A few weeks ago, we’ve finally pulled the cover on V2.0 of the site.
cchana
September 2nd, 2008
Really nice selection of sites. Wordpress is most definitely a good starting point for small scale sites like the ones you featured.
Make Design, Not War
September 2nd, 2008
Awesome list - some of my favorite WP designs on there - It’s amazing how much the use of WP themes has grown recently, and it makes me really happy as a freelancer that so much attention is going to these more or less free solutions to backend content management systems. Thanks for the collection!
Jacob Gube
September 2nd, 2008
@Alex: If you’re going to be creating more than one WordPress theme, I would strongly suggest starting from scratch to get a feel for how things work. Alternatively, you can go with one of those “blank templates” like this one that starts you off with the necessary template files and basic styles but everything else is left to you.
@Ingmar Greil: I have no experience with ExpressionEngine, but prior to WordPress - I came from Oscommerce, Moodle, Joomla, Zen Cart, and Drupal; so that’s where my perception of how malleable and easy to work with WordPress - comes from. I’ve yet to try ExpressionEngine but I’ve heard so many positive things about it that I’ll have to try it very soon.
bangbouh
September 2nd, 2008
Great selection of wordpress themes.Thanks!
junglepepper
September 2nd, 2008
I’d like to submit http://www.Darnology.com to the list. The dude knows his way around Wordpress.
design
September 2nd, 2008
Beautiful and unique designs for WordPress.
Erika
September 2nd, 2008
Love the list. For some reason, no matter how many round-ups I see, I Love Typography and GoMedia always reign supreme at the top of my list.
Shoot, GoMedia was what inspired me to go into WP! LOL
Henry Jones
September 2nd, 2008
Great collection Jacob, and I am honored to have two sites listed.
Brandi
September 2nd, 2008
I always love really good collections like this..thanks for the inspiration!
Ferdz
September 2nd, 2008
Hi Jacob! This is a really great list. And thank you very much for including mine in it. The others are very familiar to me and in fact are also my inspiration when I designed mine. Many thanks!
Susan
September 3rd, 2008
An outstanding list of great wordpress themes.
Marco Rosella
September 3rd, 2008
Rock & rooool! Kthxbye!
Łukasz Adamczak
September 3rd, 2008
Hello Jacob,
Thanks for including my site in the list! It’s a real treat being featured with all those amazing designers.
And I agree with all the positive opinions about WordPress. It’s my first WP site and it was surprisingly easy to organize and make it work the way I wanted. They’ve done a tremendous work making it very flexible, and with all the community support it’s one of the mose enjoyable platforms to work with.
eylos
September 3rd, 2008
Super collection. Thanks.
serhat
September 3rd, 2008
this is a great collection.thanks for showing us…
chris rhee
September 3rd, 2008
Thanks a lot for including my site in your list. No one else likes me.
intermission*
September 3rd, 2008
Yep good list. The crazy vector image background is getting old.
Check out our site if you like: http://www.secondintermission.com
WordPress driven by AJAX … single page sort of linear application approach.
Destro
September 3rd, 2008
I think one was overlooked.
http://www.webdesignerwall.com/
alectro
September 4th, 2008
Hey!, thanks for thinking that http://www.yovivoenvigo.com is part of this great selection.
Cheers!
Amy Mahon
September 4th, 2008
Hey — thanks for the feature! And I thought it was in desperate need of redesign…
Computer Guy
September 4th, 2008
these are all amazing. i wonder if they all validate
David
September 5th, 2008
Beautiful designs! Here’s a nice one for you, http://www.ucreative.com. 100% WP (highly modified of course) for a graphic design inspiration gallery. Took roughly two weeks to develop and lots of coffee :)
Alex
September 6th, 2008
Check out this theme http://wordpress.sapiensworks.com/ (It isn’t available for download though)
J Pash
September 6th, 2008
What the heck!??! How did #13 get in there? Stick to top 10 lists and you’re more likely to get Dugg and less likely to attract snarky comments from the likes of me :P
Nick | Resource Pile
September 6th, 2008
Thanks for featuring my site (http://pointlessramblings.com/), amazing to be held amongst some other wonderful sites!
Michela
September 9th, 2008
Hi Jacob,
Thanks for featuring mine (style4you.it)
Cheb 2.0
September 10th, 2008
Thanks for the nod you guys! Great work on Six Revisions.
Cheers, C.
Tom George
September 10th, 2008
Love these designs.
My favorites were: Design Reviver and Tony Geer
Added to my wp bookmarks:
http://www.codebounce.com/Wordpress
12tb.com
September 10th, 2008
real nice!!
Kudungga
September 11th, 2008
thanks a lot for sharing
Jonathan
September 12th, 2008
Cool list. I came across this one the other day. . .
http://www.lightecho.com
JONxBLAZE
September 12th, 2008
Great collection..these are good designs!
Time Tracker
September 15th, 2008
Wow! I knew of a few of these, but a number of them are new to me. Thanks for this, I’ll spend a bit more time with some of them later today. I think the overall trend right now is getting away from the web2.0 glossy reflectives, and going back to a ‘grunge’/deconstructed look.
Brandon Cox | eGrace Creative
September 16th, 2008
This has to be one of the best and most inspiring lists I’ve seen - makes my mouth water!
Jon McNulty
September 17th, 2008
Killer list. I love Matt Mullenwegs work vintage effect! Very cool! Another great design is LightEcho
Tobbi
September 17th, 2008
Good collection. thx
Marisa
September 17th, 2008
Gorgeous. :D
Ivan @ NavinoT
September 22nd, 2008
I like Kineda the most … dunno why..
The Floating Frog
September 27th, 2008
Sweet collection
Designer
October 11th, 2008
i really love to use wordpress
Lawrence
October 30th, 2008
Inspiring!
Izrada web stranica
October 31st, 2008
WP Rockz!
Bainzu
December 14th, 2008
Sweet WP work!
hmu111
December 17th, 2008
It’s a Beautiful designs for wordpress theme. All Beautiful theme!!!
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