Top 12 Premium WordPress themes of 2008

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 60 Comments -

2008 has been a very profilic year for the premium WordPress theme market. In the following article, I have compiled a list of my 12 favorite premium themes released this year, to give your blog the profesionnal look it deserve!

Ambience

Perfection

Busy Bee

Wp Showcase

Industry

Open Air

Newspaper

Fresh News

BSocial

Revolution Office

Flexx

MyHomePro

And you, what is your favorite premium theme from 2008?

Comments (60) - Leave yours

  6. Edy said:

    I like WP, I think that WP is a really innovative platform, allowing most of bloggers, designers, artists to communicate to familiar audiences, it has a lot of interesting themes.
    I have been using WP for a couple of months. I find those themes very delight and more useful. happy new year and Glad to see you.

  15. Neil | Bartul said:

    That Ambience theme is just lovely. And I like how the Newspaper theme looks. Quite similar to what I’d expect a major newspaper site, with a good aesthetic sense, would look. Cool. :)

  16. Armen Shirvanian said:

    These themes sure do have some positive elements about them. The industry theme has some futuristic-looking sections to it, as the colors fade out into the distance. Ambience has quite a designer’s look to it. Open Air looks like a clean way to present content in a relaxed fashion.

  20. Todd said:

    For whatever reason I am digging the newspaper theme. Clean, simple, archetypal… It’s like everything a newspaper site should be!

  23. Sean (Get your free wordpress setup) said:

    I think that there is a big hole in the premium wordpress theme scene. These themes are good but not really usable in most cases. As a heavy wordpress user and developer I could not find premium themes to use for our clients and end up designing a theme from scratch.

  24. Mikael said:

    The best thing about Elegant Themes is that Nick (the designer) is really helpful in the forum that is attached to signing up. That’s a great benefit if you’re not a designer yourself.

  28. MobiDhoom said:

    Hey, I need a theme for my new entertainement portal site…Im gonna try with one of above but i think i need a better theme bcz i have to put a lot of stuff there..so help me to suggest for a better theme plz..

  29. Margaret said:

    While I agree with you that these are attractive looking themes, you haven’t provided a reason why they are GREAT themes.

    Do they all validate CSS, and Code? What features does each one have that makes it better than others that are similar in color scheme and layout? Are they all WP2.7 compatible?

    “Perfection” is the least perfect looking to my eye — too much wasted space, so I’m particularly interested in hearing how it made your list as it’s sticking out like a sore thumb amongst the others that use screen real estate fully and for the most part effectively.

    I do notice that they all have a blue/grey color scheme, so perhaps that’s why you think they are so wonderful. Not that I have anything personal against blue/grey — it’s an easy-on-the-eyes combination that is also neutral or soothing. Someone with a political blog may want to use oranges or reds as those colors are more incendiary which would go along with the controversial aspects of their subject matter. Other niches would want to use greens or even pinks. Do these themes allow for changing the color schemes?

    I’ve been following the themes at www.nice2all.com and think Lyndi has created some pretty great themes that all validate and she provides an awesome set of support methods for anyone who uses the themes. Her latest one “Tweaker” is especially cool.

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  31. Milo said:

    very nice, I especially like ambience and busy bee
    I saw this theme, and thought it was pretty slick (not, this is not my theme, and this is not an ad):
    http://www.mangoorange.com

    Nevertheless, very nice themes there

  36. Edouard said:

    As usual this is a very good article and great selection ! Nice one JBJ !

    Personally I begun using Flexx. It works great, has SEO and most importantly looks great and professional.

    Keep up the good work ! :)

  37. Joseph Hollak said:

    I agree the the Busy Bee theme from Woo deserves to be on the list. Great call.

    If you do pick the Busy Bee theme, and you want to change the logo in the header that comes with the theme, I’ve written a quick tutorial on how you do it. The tutorial explains how you can use an unlimited number of your own custom logos and get them to appear randomly so each new visitor to your WordPress blog gets a fresh new logo.

    Here’s the link:
    http://hollak.info/2009/01/customizing-your-woo-themes-header/

    Great list, can’t wait to see what 2009 brings and the trends that will dominate the WordPress theme “look.”

  40. Boyz II Men said:

    WP Showcase has an interesting appearance but it looks a little too crowded. I can’t decide how I feel about it. I have a feeling it’s terrible for SEO though with the heavy image driven layout.

  44. izwan00 said:

    Thanks for compiling the list. You maybe forget to add Arthemia, Citrus, and other great theme released last year right? I think those themes are popular too.

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