It’s time for our monthly roundup of new premium WordPress themes. Below are all the best new premium themes released in May 2013. There are themes for all the usual website styles from business, blogging, magazine, ecommerce, portfolio and photography as well as a new theme framework and some interesting niche WordPress themes for crowd funding websites, app sites, and churches.
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General Press WordPress Theme
General Press is a multipurpose magazine WordPress theme with a mobile responsive design. The commercial theme from Magazine3 has a fairly neutral / white colour scheme making suitable for news websites or any type of online magazine or blog website. General Press has an attractive magazine styled homepage with a featured slider and other sections for featured stories / categories up the top followed by post excerpts in a more traditional blog layout.
Price: from $49
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Boast WordPress Theme
Boast is a photo blog WordPress theme with a mobile first responsive design. The premium theme from DevPress is built to showcase photos with short captions and descriptions. It has a sleek dark design and a grid style magazine homepage. Features include logo uploader, built in breadcrumbs, custom post stylesheet/template capabilities, custom menu and background, a toggle to display widgets at the bottom, and auto notifications / updates.
Price: $40
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Appify WordPress Theme
Appify is a modern and professional landing page template for your iPhone or Android app. The versatile premium WordPress theme is great for landing pages, showcasing your latest product / software, or anything else you would like to create a mini website / landing page for. The theme has a mobile ready responsive design.
Price: $40
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Doppio WordPress Theme
Doppio is a retina ready, responsive WordPress gallery theme that allows you to showcase your photos, videos, work or services is a professional, minimalist design. The premium theme from ThemeJug lets you to showcase your gallery media in various different ways using either images, slideshows or videos. It also has blog functionality with post formats support so you can create standard blog posts as well as quotes, links, videos and slideshows.
Price: $49
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UltraSeven WordPress Theme
UltraSeven is a mobile ready responsive WordPress ecommerce theme with a clean, minimal and ultra professional design. The premium theme from cssigniter integrates with the free WooCommerce plugin to transform WordPress into a beautiful, high end ecommerce store of any size, selling any type of product you like. The demo site shown below is set up for a high fashion designer clothing shop, but the theme could be used to sell any type of product be it clothing, electronics, art and crafts, books, toys, digital goods or anything else. The theme is so versatile it can also be used for a standalone online magazine website.
Price: $39
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Seed WordPress Theme Framework
The Seed Theme is a powerful, customisable and versatile responsive WordPress theme that makes an ideal framework for any WordPress website project. The carefully developed theme from Organic Themes has well organized and documented code, and contains all the functionality you need for creating a beautiful WordPress theme. It doesn’t however have any of the unnecessary features often found in premium themes now that can bloat, slow down and really just make it a pain to actually develop a website with. Seed can be used as a solid base foundation for any new WordPress theme project, or used as is out of the box for a clean and professional website.
Price: $69
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The Parallax WordPress Theme
Parallax is a premium theme that lets you build an attractive, mobile ready parallax scrolling website to showcase your work and services on a single page. The theme can also be used for a regular multi-page website if you wish. The Parallax theme has awesome parallax scrolling sections and fly-in animation. It has a custom post type for creating a portfolio section to showcase your work and supports multimedia content such as videos, images and gallery sliders items. Other features include custom header background and navigation, list and grid layouts, infinite scroll or traditional paged navigation, 9 different theme skins, responsive design, options panel and more.
Price: $39
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Coverage WordPress Theme
Coverage is a professional looking, mobile ready newspaper / magazine WordPress theme. The premium theme from ColorLabs has a clean and minimalist white design that focuses attention on the news content and pictures.
Price: from $49
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Little WordPress Theme
Little is a premium theme from Theme Junkie with a simple one column design and clean typography that will suit writers and personal bloggers that want to display their content without distraction. The theme supports WordPress custom posts types so you can easily post videos, audio, images, galleries, links, quotes, asides as well as normal blog posts. It has custom widgets for Twitter and Flickr, custom shortcodes, some custom page templates, and an easy to use admin options panel.
Price: $49
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Metro Vibes WordPress Theme
Metro Vibes is a modern and professional business portfolio WordPress theme for creative agencies or portfolio showcase websites. The responsive premium theme from ThemeFuse has a design inspired by the Windows Metro interface with an elegant, minimalist and eye catching look. Features include: 4 different homepage design options, portfolio page templates (3 or 4 column layouts), numerous custom page templates including a pricing page, services and testimonials templates, lots of shortcodes, powerful admin options panel, a mobile responsive layout and more.
Price: $59
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Tourmaline WordPress Theme
Tourmaline is a simple responsive WordPress theme ideal for personal photo-blogging or just good old traditional blogging. The premium theme from DevPress has a clean and professional grid layout with a cool greyscale colour palette. The photos are displayed in monochrome, turning to colour when you hover over each image. The theme is mobile ready, has lightweight and efficient code and is powered by the Hybrid Core. It uses all the standard WordPress functionality and there are no lock-in features.
Price: $40
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Campaignify WordPress Theme
Campaignify is a multi-purpose crowd funding website theme for WordPress. The premium theme is designed for single campaign fundraising, making it the perfect solution for people wanting to create a dedicated website to raise funds for one project. It could be used for non-profit crowdfunding, technology projects, app or software development projects, new inventions or anything else you need to raise money for. Campaignify gives you a website with all the best features of a Kickstater campaign, but without any of the fees, limitations and hassles because it’s your own website that you have total control of.
Price: $55
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MH Corporate WordPress Theme
MH Corporate is a clean and modern WordPress theme with a mobile responsive design. The premium theme from MH Themes has a classic business structure ideal for any business or corporate website. It also includes an additional fully widgetized magazine homepage template that allows you to use the theme to create a modern and stylish online magazine or blog.
Price: $39
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United WordPress Theme
United is a powerful and highly customisable church WordPress theme with a mobile ready responsive design. The premium theme from Organized Themes is ideal for a modern church website, but could also be used by non profit organizations, community organisations, community groups, sports organizations, social groups and others. Features include a “mega menu” option for the header, a staff section to list your staff / volunteers, event calendar support, newsletter widget, photo gallery, donate button and more.
Price: $49
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Rich Business WordPress Theme
Rich Business is a minimalist business WordPress theme with a classic business website layout that will suit any business large or small. The premium theme from RichWP is mobile ready with a responsive (adaptive) design that ensures your website will look great on large monitors right down to small tablets and mobile phones. The theme is built for speed and flexibility, with just the right amount of inbuilt options so you have greater flexibility to choice which plugins you like for the functionality you might want.
Price: $69.95
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Runway WordPress Theme
Runway is a clean, minimal and fashionable WordPress theme that runs on the Genesis Framework. The attractive premium theme is inspired by Pinterest and fashion bloggers but it has a versatile design making it suitable for a wide variety of different websites. Features include a mobile ready responsive design, 8 different colour options, a sticky navigation menu that stays at the top of the screen as you scroll down the page, a matching pin-it on hover button, 2 layout options, featured images, theme options and more.
Price: $79.95
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Mommy & Me WordPress Theme
Mommy & Me is a modern, mobile ready blog WordPress theme designed specifically for women. The commercial theme from Magazine3 has a professional and attractive design with an appealing colour scheme making it ideal for a ‘mommy blog’ or websites about parenting, fashion and lifestyle, beauty and cosmetics, art and craft, home and travel, health and fitness, or in fact any other female oriented website.
Price: from $49
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The Chronicle WordPress Theme
The Chronicle is a responsive magazine WordPress theme from WPZOOM. The premium theme has a clean and simple design with great readability so you content really is the focus. It also has a responsive layout making it mobile ready and accessible on any device from desktops to mobile phones. The theme has a modern blog / magazine styled homepage layout which is uncluttered and easy to read. Other features include: the advanced ZOOM framework and options panel, custom shortcodes, styled sticky posts, custom background, menu and logo options, a selction of custom template layouts for posts and pages, and more.
Price: $69
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IgnitionConf WordPress Theme
IgnitionConf is a mobile responsive WordPress theme for conference or event websites. The premium theme from cssigniter is a perfect solution for quickly and easily building a modern and professional looking website for any type of conference, event workshop or training course. Features include a custom homepage design, slider with full width image background, section for explaining what your event is about, speakers section with photos, schedule, sponsors section and location / travel information. It also has a registration option so you can let users register through a contact form such as Gravity Forms or supply an Eventbrite button for buying tickets directly on the eventbrite.com website.
Price: $39
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Geraldine WordPress Theme
Geraldine is a beautiful feminine styled WordPress theme from BlueChic. The premium theme has a versatile design for women business owners and could be used as a business website, blog or ecommerce shop. The theme would be perfect for wedding websites, event planning websites, women’s business websites, personal blogs or anything else you can imagine. Features include a mobile ready responsive layout, colour picker to customize the colours, featured slider, one click auto updates, custom logo uploader, shortcodes (for columns, buttons, info boxes etc), and a theme options panel to easily set-up and manage the website.
Price: $79
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WP-Brilliance WordPress Theme
WP-Brilliance is a multi-purpose, mobile ready WordPress theme with a clean and professional, yet minimalist design. The premium theme from Solostream is loaded with great features and extremely versatile with numerous layout options for use as a business website, online magazine or professional blog. It has multiple homepage layout options including a widgetized business homepage template, a magazine style homepage layout, as well as more traditional blog style layouts. It has multiple post / page layout options, 2 featured post slider options (wide and narrow), authors page template, easy logo integration, shortcodes for columns, buttons and other design elements, multiple built-in banner ad locations, video support and page template, comprehensive theme settings page and more.
Business Homepage Option
Magazine Layout Option
Price: $59
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Coverage WordPress Theme
Coverage is a mobile ready news and magazine WordPress theme for the Builder Framework from iThemes. The premium child theme has a clean and modern design which was built specifically for content rich websites. The key feature in this theme is the built in ‘News and Magazine Custom Widget’ which allows you to build your own homepage and post layouts. Being a child theme it also inherits all the other great features and functionality of the Builder Framework making it a very flexible and powerful template to build with.
Price: $80
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MORE THEMES
See all the roundups from other months or the ‘best of’ WordPress theme galleries for more themes.
