Last Updated: 19 August, 2008
There are lots of premium WordPress themes around these days and we try to showcase most of them here at Premium WordPress. However premium (paid) WordPress themes come in varying levels of quality. To make it easier to find the best premium WordPress themes we have compiled galleries of the highest quality premium WordPress themes available for each major style of theme.
The themes in the galleries below are not listed in any particular order, however represent the best premium WordPress themes currently available for purchase. They are dynamic galleries which will be continually updated, and new themes added when other top quality themes are released.
Best Premium WordPress Theme Galleries
Best News and Magazine Premium WordPress Themes Gallery
Best Business Premium WordPress Themes Gallery
Best Video Premium WordPress Themes Gallery
Best Blog Premium WordPress Themes Gallery
News and Magazine Style Premium WordPress Themes
Viva 7
A revolutionary, smart premium theme that turns WordPress into a truly customisable magazine style content management system (CMS), and allows non-coders complete control without ever having to edit a single line of code. Viva 7 is fully customisable from a Theme Options page, which offers hundreds of different layouts through combinations of 7 colour schemes, 2 widths, and 2 header heights. You can switch the columns around, change the way Event items are listed, try new colours, backgrounds and more.
Example Layout and Colour Options
Single Site Licence: $79.95 Multi Site License: $199.95
There is currently an early bird discount until the end of August giving you a saving of $20 off the single site license and $50 off the multi site license.
Demo & Release Page | Purchase
Revolution Music
A premium WordPress theme aimed at music agencies and people wanting to publish online music magazines or music news websites. However it looks so good it could be used for a wide range of other types of websites as well. The Revolution Music theme is widget ready, easily customizable and built for daily posting, displaying video and is easily monetised with ads.
Single User Licence: $79.95, Developer License: $199.95
Demo & Release Page | Purchase
WP-Vybe
The newest and most advanced WordPress Theme created by Solostream. The theme integrates all the latest functionality available in WordPress 2.6 and features an extensive theme control panel allowing you to easily change a wide range of options and colors.
Single Use: $99, Multi Use: $199, Developer: $299
Release Page & Demo | Purchase
News Plus
A beautiful premium magazine theme for WordPress from Zidalgo. One of the most complete, and polished themes available, News Plus sets a new standard for premium WordPress themes. The News Plus theme is stunning straight out of the box, and custom category, search, and author pages really help give this theme a complete and finished feel.
Personal: $75, Developer: $249
Demo | Release Page | Purchase
One Theme
An awesome new premium WordPress theme which is one of the most advanced WordPress themes available. One Theme is designed with the user in mind allowing you to easily manage and change the appearance of the theme without requiring any web design experience. The theme comes with a choice of 5 colours, 2 different layouts, and a whole range of other features which can be easily managed from custom made backend control panel. Have a look at the theme demo video here. This is a top quality WordPress theme and is highly recommended.
Single Use: $99, 3 Sites: $199, Developer (5 Sites): $299
Demo | Release Page | Purchase
Revolution Pro Media
An ideal theme for online media magazines and other media focused sites, its boasts a diverse homepage - including a place for featured tabs, video, photos, thumbnail images and more.
Single-Use: $79.95, Multiple-Use: $199.95
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Fresh News
The theme features two homepage layout options: the default magazine style layout and a traditional blog layout, and also comes with 6 built in colour schemes.
Single-Use: $99.95, Developer’s: $249.95
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WP Remix 2.0
A WordPress powered master theme. The theme is completely customizable, quality coded & comes bundled with many layout options that helps everyone create custom websites.
Personal Package: $55, Developer Package: $155
Demo/Source | Purchase
Premium News Theme
A user-friendly, feature and function-packed theme, which will turn your WordPress site into a great looking magazine / news style site.
Single-Use: $99.95, Developer: $249.95
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WP-Magazine Theme
A fixed-width, professional WordPress theme with multiple layout options and multiple features.
Single-Use: $79, Multiple Use: $179, Developer: $279
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Revolution News
A customizable theme ideal for online newspapers and other website portals.
Single-Use: $79.95, Multiple-Use: $199.95
Demo/Source | Purchase
Revolution Sports
A customizable theme ideal for online sports newspapers, online sports magazines and other sports website portals.
Single-Use: $79.95, Multiple-Use: $199.95
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Revolution Magazine
A customizable theme ideal for online magazines and has a new enhanced featured video location on the theme.
Single-Use: $79.95, Multiple-Use: $199.95
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Revolution Tech
A customizable theme ideal for tech/gadget online magazines and has a new enhanced featured video location on the theme.
Single-Use: $79.95, Multiple-Use: $199.95
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Revolution
A user friendly, widget-ready, customizable theme that is an ideal solution for online magazines, online newspapers, and other websites that wish to use WordPress as a content management system.
Single-Use: $79.95, Multiple-Use: $199.95
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Live Wire Style
Live Wire Style is a feature rich 3 column magazine / newspaper premium WordPress theme.
Single-Use: $99.95, Developer’s: $249.95
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Live Wire Edition
Live Wire Edition is a feature rich 3 column magazine / newspaper style premium WordPress theme. Live Wire Edition has a classic look and feel, often associated with newspaper layouts. It makes use of serif typefaces, minimal colour and lots of open space.
Single-Use: $99.95, Developer’s: $249.95
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Live Wire 2.0
Live Wire 2.0 is a feature rich 3 column magazine / newspaper style premium WordPress theme in a web 2.0 design.
Single-Use: $99.95, Developer’s: $249.95
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Mimbo Pro Magazine
A powerful and feature-rich WordPress theme designed for magazine / news style sites. It features a colorful design and a customizable layout.
Single-Use: $89.99, Multi Site: $199.99
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News Press
A user-friendly, feature and function-packed theme, which will turn your WordPress site into a great looking magazine / news style site.
Single-Use: $99.95, Developer’s: $249.95
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Cornerstone 2.0
Cornerstone 2.0 is a fixed width, magazine style premium WordPress theme.
Personal: $79, Extended: $149, Developer: $249
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Gabfire NewsPro
The NewsPro has a four column homepage layout with featured article positions, dropdown navigation menus, ajax tabs and gravatar support.
Single-Use: $59, Multi Use: $159, Developer: $259
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Neko Pro
Neko Pro features a custom home page and 5 different colour options (black, blue, green, red and pink).
Single-Use: $49, Multiple Use: $90
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NewsTheme Pro
NewsTheme Pro offers a featured article section, integrated video, and optimized Adsense placements.
Single-Use: $125, Multi Use: $250
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Shade Pro
Shade Pro is a clean and stylish 3 column blog magazine style premium wordpress theme with custom home page layout with featured article section and category excerpts.
Single-Use: $49, Multiple-Use: $90
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Chimera Pro
Chimera Pro is a blog magazine styled premium wordpress theme which offers a flash featured post section and is available is 3 colours: red, blue and green.
Single-Use: $59, Multiple-Use: $109
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Tauren Pro
Tauren Pro is a professional looking magazine / portal style premium wordpress theme which offers a flash featured post section and custom home pay layout.
Single-Use: $69, Multiple-Use: $128
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Content Press
Content Press is a multi-column theme, which has a unique, but user-friendly interface. This theme features customized author pages, user avatars, featured articles, customized category and search results. It also includes a bbpress forum theme.
Single-Use: $75, Multi-Site: $249
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Monochrome Pro
A magazine-style theme for Wordpress packaged with an AJAX post slideshow, a custom theme admin page to easily manage and customize Monochrome, author archives, two page templates, multi-tier drop down menus, utilizes custom fields options and a CSS framework to aid in customization.
One-Site: $75, Developer: $199
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The Gazette Edition
A magazine / newspaper style WordPress theme, inspired by the CNN website.
Single-Use: $99.95, Developer’s: $249.95
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Flash News
An attractive and very functional magazine / newspaper style WordPress theme.
Single-Use: $99.95, Developer’s: $249.95
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Quommunication News
A clean and legible magazine-style theme.
1 Site: $75, 5 Sites: $145, Developer: $245
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Berlin Theme
A unique, minimal and modular theme that maximizes the homepage real estate by using AJAX.
Personal Use $39.99, Developers $199.00
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Gridline News
A clean and modular news magazine theme that is packed with AJAX to add flexibility to the important home page real estate.
Personal Use: $39.99, Developers: $199.00
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Gridline Magazine
A clean and modular magazine theme for Wordpress that makes extensive use of custom queries and custom fields to create an unique blogging format.
Personal Use: $24.99, Developers: $99
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Magazine News
A three-column, widget ready, adsense ready theme that is sure to give your blog that unique look that will garner some extra attention.
Price: $49 - $129
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Business Premium WordPress Themes
Revolution Pro Business
A widget-ready, customizable theme for small business who wish to use WordPress as their content management platform.
Single-Use: $79.95, Multiple-Use: $199.95
Revolution City
A premium WordPress theme for city portal websites. The theme is built for daily posting, displaying video and is monetized with ads. It has two color options: blue and grey.
Single Use: $79.95, Multi Use: $199.95
Demo / Release Page / Purchase
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Revolution
User friendly, widget-ready, customizable theme that is an ideal solution for online magazines, online newspapers, and other websites that wish to use WordPress as a content management system.
Single-Use: $79.95, Multiple-Use: $199.95
Demo/Source | Purchase
WP Remix
A WordPress powered master theme. The theme is completely customizable, quality coded & comes bundled with many layout options that helps everyone create custom websites.
Personal: $55, Developer: $155
Demo/Source | Purchase
iCompany Theme
A wide premium WordPress theme designed for businesses wishing to have an integrated blog component in their website, and the versatility of using WordPress as an online content management system.
Demo/Source | Purchase
Ecommerce Theme
A premium WordPress theme designed specifically for online stores.
Single Use: $49, Developers: $199
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Revolution Real Estate
A widget ready, customizable WordPress theme for Real Estate agents wishing to showcase their listings.
Single Use: $79.95, Multiple Use: $199.95
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Essence
A theme designed to look, feel and function like a traditional website for small business after a elegant, refined look.
Single-Use: $99.95, Multiple-Use Package $249.95
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Corporate Theme
Web 2.0 styled premium WordPress theme designed for businesses and professionals looking for a sharp and glossy corporate website.
Single Use: $29.95, Multi Use: $39.95
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Brochure Theme
A simple, clean and sharp template designed for small business websites for personal branding.
Price: $29.95
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Blue Corporate Web 2.0
Web 2.0 theme designed for corporate and small business websites.
Single Use: $59.95, Multi Use: $99.95
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Business Card
Simple, clean and sharp template designed for small business websites for personal branding.
Price: $29.95
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Market Theme
The Market theme which allows you to easily run your own WordPress powered online marketplace or online store.
Standard License: $40, Developer License: $120
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Deep Order
Web 2.0 styled theme designed for businesses who want a clean, cripst and glossy looking website.
Single Use: $79.95, Multiple Use: $149.95
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Blank Theme
This theme is ideal for those who want to highly customize the Essence layout, or simply want a clean, sharp look.
Single Use: $79.95, Multi-Use: $199.95
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Industrial Theme Series
Created for professional business websites, like technology, construction, consulting, accounting and medical firms.
Single Use: $45.95, Multiple Use: $99.95
Demo/Source | Purchase
Video Premium WordPress Themes
TV Elements
A video centric premium WordPress theme specifically designed for higher resolution services such as Vimeo, Blip.TV and can handle videos of any size up to 640px wide.
Single Site: $50, Multi Site: $125
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Quommunication Video
The Quommunication Video theme is a video blog theme for WordPress which allows you to share any type of video.
1 Site: $39, 5 Site: $99, Developers:: $199
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Video Elements
Video Elements is a video gallery style premium WordPress theme designed for the video blogger. The theme features two methods of displaying videos including a linear layout as well as an optional gallery layout.
Price: $25
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VideoFlick
VideoFlick is a video gallery style premium WordPress theme for video bloggers.
Price: $5.00 (Donation Ware)
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Best Blog Premium WordPress Themes
Bulbs
Bulbs is a simple but elegant two column fluid width blog style premium wordpress theme.
Single Use: $49, Developers Use: $99
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Omni
Omni is a fun website or blog style WordPress theme, created to be extremely easy to change colors, fonts, backgrounds, logos.
Single color: $79.99, Developers Pack: $299.99
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Elite Theme
Elite Theme is an extremely customizable, aesthetically appealing 2 column blog style premium WordPress theme.
Single Use: $74.95, Multi Use: $199.95
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Fresh News
The theme features two homepage layout options: the default magazine style layout and a traditional blog layout, and also comes with 6 built in colour schemes.
Single-Use: $99.95, Developer’s: $249.95
Demo/Source | Purchase
BlackMaster
A powerful premium wordpress theme which is Javascript/Ajax-based and has some interesting effects and features such as sliding sidebar boxes and navigation menu.
Single-Use: $58.80, Multiple-Use: $198.80, Developer: $398.80
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Popularity Theme
Popularity Theme is a clean and neat, 2 and 3 columns WordPress blog theme with customizable and striking typography.
Single Use: $29.99, Multi Use: $74.99
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Thesis
Thesis is a customizable 3 column WordPress theme with rotating images, killer typography, a dynamically resizable layout, intelligent code, airtight optimization, and tons of flexibility.
Price: $87 - $164
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Blogging Experiment
A theme for the series pro blogger it includes room for 125 x 125 ad buttons in the sidebar, is completely widgetized, and comes in two colour variations: Blue/Orange and Blue/Green.
Price: $75.00
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Suhweet
A 3-column, widget-ready WordPress theme.
Personal Option: $49, Developer Option: $159
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WP Glory
a 3-column, liquid-width WordPress theme featuring tabbed contents boxes and drop down menu navigation.
Personal Option: $49, Developer Option: $159
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Solostream 3-Column 1.0
A 3-column, fixed-width WordPress theme, featuring drop down navigation for subpages, categories and archives, and tabbed featured content box.
Personal Option: $49, Developer Option: $159
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Total Blogger
A clean and stylish blog theme for those of you trying to blog for cash.
Price: $19.99
Demo/Source | Purchase
