Theme Forest is the largest marketplace of commercial WordPress themes with more than 3,000 WordPress themes available (3,089 themes as of June 2013) from hundreds of different authors. They have theme designs for almost every type of website you can image, from the usual blog, magazine, portfolio and business themes to the more niche application type themes such as church, restaurant, hotel and ecommerce themes.
In this post we list the 10 most popular themes on ThemeForest according to the number of theme sales. It’s interesting to note that all of these top selling themes are either business / corporate / CMS, or photography themes. There isn’t a single magazine or blogging style theme in the top ten, traditionally two very popular styles in the premium WordPress theme marketplace. While this probably reflects the large number of business and creative type themes compared to other theme styles in the ThemeForest marketplace, it’s also a testament to the versatility of the WordPress platform and the wide and varied uses beyond its blogging origin.
As you will see the ten themes below have been purchased by a lot of people! This should mean they are pretty good themes that have been tried, tested and updated to function well. However it probably also indicates some have been around a while, are a bit dated, and might not be the freshest or the best themes available anymore. I will let you decide.
1. U-Design WordPress Theme – 19,263 Sales
U-Design is a powerful WordPress theme pack full of features and customization options. The theme has unlimited color variations, allowing you to set any color to elements such as backgrounds, links, text, menu links, etc completely change the look and feel of your site. It has a widgetized homepage, 6 homepage sliders, over 500 fonts, custom sidebars, unlimited portfolios, page templates, and more.
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2. Striking WordPress Theme – 12,371 Sales
Striking is a feature packed corporate and portfolio WordPress theme. It features sliders anywhere you want them, 16 custom widgets, unlimited colors, custom portfolio options, custom background, header, footer etc, heaps of shortcodes, 700+ fonts (Google, Cufon, FontFace) and much more.
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3. Karama WordPress Theme – 12,029 Sales
Karma is a clean and modern business style WordPress theme. It includes CU3BER 3D slider, exclusive 3D effects, 3D portfolio, intelligent options panel, 20 page layouts, 20 color variations, 100+ shortcodes, pricing tables, unlimited sidebars and more.
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4. inFocus WordPress Theme – 10,316 Sales
inFocus is a business WordPress theme that has a responsive design. Features include jQuery and Nivo slider, 30+ skins and a built in skinning system, contact form builder, 100+ custom shortcodes, unlimited portfolios in 7 layouts, multiple blog layouts, massive backend options panel and more.
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5. King Size WordPress Theme – 8,113 Sales
King Size is a full screen background WordPress theme focused towards photographers. The highly customisable theme has a variety of options so can can be suited to fit any particular use. It features a full screen slider background for photos or video, 5 different gallery styles, elegant typography, custom admin panel, shortcodes, widgets and more.
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6. Dandelion WordPress Theme – 7,286 Sales
Dandelion is a powerful business WordPress theme designed to present your products, work and yourself in an elegant and professional style. It features unlimited skins with options to build your own skins from the admin panel with a color picker, 4 featured sliders, 3 flexible portfolio galleries, 32 backgrounds, custom page layouts, powerful admin options panel and more.
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7. Modernize WordPress Theme – 6,660 Sales
Modernize is a flexible WordPress theme a responsive design (responsiveness is optional). It has a Drag and Drop Page Builder that allows you to create pages easily with a drag and drop module. It has lots of options to change the colors of almost all theme elements, 350+ fonts, unlimited sidebars, easy slider manager with 3 sliders, built in shortcodes, 6 footer layouts, feature rich admin options panel and more.
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8. Core WordPress Theme – 6,480 Sales
Core is a minimalist WordPress theme for photography, portfolio and personal websites. Features include a responsive design, 6 portfolio styles, 3 homepage galleries, full screen slideshow for photo galleries, extensive galleries admin, media shortcodes (video, slideshow, image gallery etc.), built in fonts manager and more.
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9. DynamiX WordPress Theme – 6,048 Sales
DynamiX is a versatile WordPress theme with a feature list as long as your arm. It has Buddy Press, BBPress, WooCommerce and WP e-Commerce integration. Other features include a custom skin editor, 5 types of galleries, multiple galleries on a page, image gallery system, various image effects, custom sidebars, custom page layout options, post gallery options, shortcodes and more.
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10. Openhouse WordPress Theme – 5,757 Sales
Openhouse is an advanced, fully featured real estate and car dealership WordPress theme. This is a bundle of two themes. The real estate version includes a very powerful and flexible multi level search, where you can search by location, number of baths, beds, max price, min price, and property type. Some of the other features include like search results “Google Map”, “Compare”, “Google Street View”, a fully featured loan calculator, theme options, unlimited colour scheme choice, dual agent support, 3 homepage layouts and more. The Automotive theme version includes all the same great features but tailored for a car dealership website.
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While the themes listed above are a bit dated now and not that great, ThemeForest has thousands of excellent WordPress themes worth checking out