Archives for September 2008

If you are serious about blogging you likely know that having a well put together, organized and attractive theme for your site is important.

Believe it or not, there are many people out there that judge a site initially on how it looks and if they see a blogging theme that’s a general default theme or one that’s been used on 1000’s of other sites without any kind of customization they’ll often move on to read another blog. The content on the site could be the best they could find, but they’ll leave the site simply because they don’t like the look of it. Silly really, but it’s true.

It’s a good idea to find a theme that compliments your blog and to customize it with a header that further defines your sites topic. You can pay to have a designer create a custom made theme for your site, but it’s easy enough to go into the CSS stylesheet or CSS files of a theme and change link or background colors to give the theme a more personalized look and feel.

I have a number of WordPress blogs and after spending several months looking at themes I finally changed the themes on a few of my blogs in May. I’m still keeping my eye out for themes that suit my other blogs as a few of them need a new look and or better functionality. This site could certainly use a new look.

If you are like me and you’ve been thinking of changing your sites theme it might help to know which themes are considered some of the best. I went searching for people that had already written reviews on what they consider to be the top WordPress Themes.

Top WordPress Themes:

Options WordPress Theme

Options WordPress Theme by Justin Tadlock I’m not even sure where to begin when I type “features” because it would be a daunting task to type them all out. Here’s some things you can play around with, but there’s so much more you can do …

I love this theme. I’m trying it out on one of the sites I’m developing and it’s fantastic. Options is a great name for it because there are a ton of different ways you can set this blog theme up to customize it’s look.

Top 8 WordPress Theme Download Sites (according to me)

These are my top sites I pick for finding quality WordPress themes. I love to look at themes for Worpress. Not just any themes for me though, I am hung-up on 3 column themes and I guess I always have… [[ This is a content summary only …

Comment on 10 Unusual & Original WordPress Themes by Best of 2008 …

10 Unusual & Original WordPress Themes by Mashable Sean P. Aune showcases ten WordPress themes that go beyond standard 2- and 3-column formats with design elements like large banners, Flickr integration, 4-column layouts, Ajax, …

The Top 10 Premium Specialty Themes for WordPress

WordPress has been a popular blogging platform for several years, but the market for premium themes has really just developed within the past year or two. Premium themes ideally will separate themselves from free themes by achieving a …

WordPress Theme Design Contest Series 3 – Vote on Round 6!

Here are the top 5 themes for this week’s voting polls:. Sign of the Nature by Roger. Bloggy Grass by Damien Allen. Blue Moon by Alexandr. Fresh Editorial by Maruf Rahman. Photo Frame by Brian. Round 6 Series 3 Best WordPress Theme is. …

WordPress Themes Converted To Blogger Templates

Yardloo – If you ever fancy Magazine Style WordPress Themes, then you should visit Yardloo. This site reviewed the Top 10 Best WordPress Themes converted to Blogger Templates. Some of the WordPress themes ready for download include …

I’ll write a post about the best blogger themes and where to find them in the near future.