One of the great benefits of using WordPress is the wide variety of themes that are available for all kinds of purposes. As WordPress has become more popular as a CMS rather than just a blogging platform, specialty themes have also become increasingly popular.
About 10 months ago I published a collection of 20 specialty WordPress themes that I had come across at that time. Today I’d like to feature another 17 specialty themes, all of which are free. Over at DesignM.ag I published a list of the top ten premium specialty themes.
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A life streaming WordPress theme.
Free theme especially for e-commerce.
One of the new Revolution Two themes.
A theme for videos.
Revolution’s theme created with churches in mind.
A photoblogging or gallery theme.
One of many themes intended specifically for portfolio sites.
A gallery theme.
A free theme from WooThemes for galleries or portfolios.
Another popular portfolio theme.
Another photoblogging or gallery theme.
A theme specifically designed for CSS galleries.
A theme for use before your site is completed.
For turning WordPress into a contact manager.
A theme created for gossip blogs.
A simple portfolio theme.
Another free portfolio theme.
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December 7th, 2008
Great article
December 8th, 2008
Thanks for the list
December 8th, 2008
This is a neat collection. Although most I have already seen, there are 4 or 5 I have not, especially the contact one and that later portfolio themes.
Even so, I love having these ready made ‘topical’ collections at my disposal, and you just keep coming up with some of the best ones.
One theme above I am going to be now using, so thanks.
Graham
ImJustCreative
December 8th, 2008
thx for a lot of themes
December 8th, 2008
Graham,
Glad to hear you found something that you’ll be using.
December 8th, 2008
great wp templates. however, not all free.
December 8th, 2008
Hello!
Thanks a lot for this collection. Some of themes look attractive. I’m going to use one in my work and my brother too. I just dont like the Sharpfolio, it looks agressive IMO.
It’s very interesting and useful site. I love it.
Thank you. Lily.
December 8th, 2008
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December 8th, 2008
Few of these are even new for me, I’ll bookmark these and for me the last portfolio page is the most eye caching.
December 8th, 2008
Revolution themes have been my favorites for a really long time now and I’m looking forward to trying out the new open source Revolution themes. Also, I’ve been looking for something like LaunchPad, so thank you!
December 9th, 2008
Just wanted to drop by and say a big thanks for including Revolution in this list! It amazes me how many quality posts continue to be written on this site, well done!
December 9th, 2008
Hey nice finds, I really like everything over there at:
http://www.revolutiontwo.com
December 10th, 2008
Thank you for the post, also thanks to Wordpress
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December 11th, 2008
Amazing to see this many kinds of wordpress themes such that its very helpful to the people who want to develop their own..
December 11th, 2008
Great article and informativ. I have this bookmarked. Thanks
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December 16th, 2008
Thanks for sharing the information. All the Revolution themes are rocking and they are great magazine style themes with not so complicated settings. There were some other themes that were also great.
December 20th, 2008
Wow people are really getting creative on changing wordpress around from a blogging platform. Im guessing someday int he future we will use wordpress for everything online! Just activate the plugin you want are your done.
December 23rd, 2008
This is a great list. There were a few I haven’t seen before.
January 10th, 2009
open source themes on Revolution? Looks like they all start at $59.95 ?
January 11th, 2009
Dabbler,
They were free last month. Looks like they were just changed to premium earlier this month based on a post on their blog.
January 13th, 2009
Second theme very nice!
January 21st, 2009
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January 23rd, 2009
all the themes are beautiful but I 2nd like most.
March 30th, 2009
This is really a good post. You can find enormous number of Premium Wordpress themes which are very easy install and supports all kind of WordPress versions at DailyWPTheme
April 10th, 2009
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April 28th, 2009
thanks good themes
May 12th, 2009
Great Set!
Thanks much!
Anthony Proulx
May 19th, 2009
Hi..Photo Clip Theme very nice!
June 16th, 2009
Good themes thank you.
June 16th, 2009
thank you for themes
June 24th, 2009
thanks good themes