WordPress is among the best of blogging platforms. There are literally thousands of WordPress themes and choosing among them can be confusing. Here are 10 of the best WordPress themes of 2012.
These will hopefully organize and narrow your search to the best of what’s coming or at least get it off to a great start.
Best Free WordPress Themes…
1. Balita e-Commerce
Balita was designed specifically for use with shops that sell merchandise for infants and small children. It was created using HTML5 and CSS3.
On the home page is a jQuery slider that can display basic information concerning your products or shop. It is a fully operational solution that includes features like custom shopping cart, zoom and related products list. The design also includes several widget areas and Facebook integration.
Balita lets you display several images per product and allow for consumer ratings. It also includes a decent blog template and allows for the integration of social media voting buttons.
2. Pronto
This is a minimal, clean jQuery Masonry theme that is ideal for displaying posts in grid style that automatically adjusts to the visitor’s browser. Everything is ready to go from the start. Just install, add posts and that’s all there is to it.
Pronto includes several features such as an area for uploading a customized logo, custom flickr widget and threaded comments.
3. Gameliso Magazine
This is an ideal theme choice for those who wish to inform viewers about the latest events worldwide. Gameliso’s homepage slider shows off posts in a matter that is both engaging and playful. Free Gameliso Magazine theme proves that you don’t need an expensive premium wordpress theme to get good quality.
Gameliso features include; built in content slider, threaded comments, widget and twitter ready, compatible with IE7-8, Safari, Firefox, Opera and Chrome.
Best ThemeForest WordPress Themes
1. Construct
A professional and smart responsive theme created to showcase your work or anything you like. Use it as a private portfolio or as an ideal place to link to whatever you see fit. Construct uses a column design and animation features to entertain your users.
In addition, Construct utilizes AJAX, which lets users load more posts without delaying SEO or reloading the page. In the event that JavaScript is disabled, Construct degrades nicely.
Some included features are center or left aligned design option, numbered pagination, unlimited color schemes, threaded comments, customized widgets and many more.
2. Mu Types
Powerful theme great for advance and novice developers. With Mu Types, you can quickly and easily create a desirable site. This theme allows you to set the color for text, menu links and other elements. Mu Types has three single and default home page designs to pick from.
Some features include customized background, unlimited colors, simple theme choices, custom widgets and much more.
3. Impulse
Perfect theme for sophisticated or professional blogs and sites. Impulse sports a clean, streamlined style that is appealing to visitors. This theme includes all the necessary features for a professional site.
Some of the features include: 3 custom sliders, user friendly custom options panel, customized logo upload, custom background, automatic image resizer, category organizer, and many more.
4. Alphine Portfolio and Blog
This premium theme comes with exceptional one of a kind features. For those who desire or need an intuitive and fresh template, Alphine really comes through.
Alphine has many great features including; mo/po files translation ready, 33 fonts, unlimited sidebars, shortcode generator, unlimited colors, integration with Dribble, Twitter and Flickr, cross browser compatibility and more.
Best Travel WordPress Themes
1. World Traveler
Perfect theme if your desire is to create a impressive travel blogging site. It is easy to get started and has several options for total customization. World Traveler is clean and has many available features.
Some of these features include; completely widgetized sidebar that has 3 customizable widgets, easily changed color scheme, dynamic image resizing, administration panel that allows for custom themes, custom post panel, scalable page format, includes 3 stock photos and is gravatar ready.
2. Hotel Booking
Business theme specially created for hotel and accommodation sites. With this theme it is possible to build a great site that includes reservation and booking management functions. Also included are 7 integrated payment options, all of which may be customized and managed via a backend administration panel.
Additional features include; 5 color schemes, drop down navigation menu, 30 integrated shortcodes, 8 page templates, widget ready and a lot more.
3. City Guide
If you wish to create a site that highlights local city attractions such as dining or tourist spots, this is great. City Guide transforms WordPress into a directory.
Its best feature is integration with Google Maps. City Guide allows for category maps like hotel map, restaurant map and so on. It also has an integrated “Get Directions” option.
Other features include; SEO optimization, twitter, flickr and many other widgets, and easy customization.
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WordPress and the continual development of themes for the platform has offered bloggers and website developers endless customization opportunities to draw attention to their site.
In the midst of the options, these have stood out as some of the best of what’s coming soon. Whatever design elements you have in mind, there is a right WordPress theme for you.
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