CSS galleries and collections of inspirational designs are nothing new to designers, but sometimes you may be looking specifically for examples of great WordPress themes. Whether you’re working on a theme to distribute to others or if you’re building a custom theme for your own site, it can sometimes help to look at examples of what others have been able to do with WordPress.
If you like getting design inspiration by looking at excellent blog designs, you’ll love our new gallery site Blog Design Heroes.
We Love WP
The best, most up-to-date gallery for WordPress sites and blogs. We Love WP has been around for over a year and they have a ton of designs for your inspiration (in June they passed 1,000). And of course, you can also subscribe to their feed.
WPCandy Gallery
WPCandy is a popular blog about WordPress that includes a gallery of excellent WordPress-powered sites.
Unmatched Style WordPress Tag
Unmatched Style is one of my favorite galleries, and fortunately they include a tag for WordPress sites so you can easily separate them from the rest of the gallery.
CSS Bloom WordPress Category
CSS Bloom is another gallery that distinguishes WordPress sites/blogs. With well over 100 designs in the WordPress category, CSS Bloom is worth a look.
CSS Glance WordPress Category
With over 300 designs in the WordPress category, CSS Glance is certainly an excellent place for inspiration. Also, CSS Glance is up-to-date and regularly adding new designs.
I Heart Blogs
I Heart Blogs is a pretty cool site with a lot of potential. Too bad it hasn’t been updated in several months. It’s a gallery especially for blogs (variety of platforms). Even though it hasn’t been updated recently, the archives can still provide some inspiration.
WPcube
WPcube is another WordPress-specific gallery. It hasn’t been updated in few weeks, but hopefully more will be coming, because the site already has a nice archive.
LoopPress
LoopPress is a showcase of beautiful WordPress websites, blogs and themes. Decent archives, but not updated very frequently.
Best CSS Gallery, WordPress Tag
Best CSS Gallery is a fairly small gallery in comparison to some of the most popular ones, but they do have a tag for WordPress sites.
45 Excellent Blog Designs from Smashing Magazine
I’m sure you’re familiar with Smashing Magazine’s inspiration posts. They have several that showcase excellent blogs, and one of them separates the blogs on display according to their platform. This list Includes almost 30 that are powered by WordPress.
August 4th, 2008
Great resources. Thanks for the list. There are a couple of sites that i didn’t see before.
August 4th, 2008
Great. Thanks
August 4th, 2008
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August 4th, 2008
It’s galleries like these that raise the bar for anyone designing Wordpress sites. You’ve put together a great collection.
August 4th, 2008
Thanks for the plug even though I Heart Blogs hadn’t been updated in a while. You’ve given me the kick I needed, and will be updating more often now.
August 4th, 2008
NIce wordpress theme here http://www.my-webmagazine.com
August 4th, 2008
Nice collection of wordpress theme inspirations. Thanks for sharing this.
August 4th, 2008
well i think you are missing out one of the greatest blog designer, Nick-La.
I’ve used his blog theme at my site too. You can check it out at http://sangesh.com.np/blog
August 4th, 2008
It’s galleries like these that raise the bar for anyone designing Wordpress sites. You’ve put together a great collection.
August 4th, 2008
I like blogging don’t get me wrong, but I use the Internet too much.
August 4th, 2008
This website is using wordpress http://yaymonday.com
The only reason I bring it up us because the guy who made it did something really creative with categories and tags. Check it out.
August 4th, 2008
I love CSSglance - it’s one of my favorite sites to visit.
August 4th, 2008
Very nice list of resources! I didn’t know all of them…
August 4th, 2008
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CSS galleries and collections of inspirational designs are nothing new to designers, but sometimes you may be looking specifically for examples of great WordPress themes. Whether you’re working on a theme to distribute to others or if you’re buildi…
August 5th, 2008
Now that’s something to think about. Why would one want to subscribe to all those sites’ RSS when we have you bringing the best of all those
Thanks for this good collection.
August 5th, 2008
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August 6th, 2008
NICE RESOURCE. THANKS
August 6th, 2008
Thanks for the inspiration!
August 9th, 2008
Wow, what a great resource. I have bookmarked your page and from that I have hundreds of links to surf off.
Well done,
August 12th, 2008
This is absolutely a great resource for wordpress theme..thanks for sharing!
August 18th, 2008
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August 18th, 2008
Great galleries!
I will have to post our blog there. I hope we will get listed
August 22nd, 2008
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August 24th, 2008
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August 24th, 2008
Thanks for your work, I have translated it to Chinese ( maybe you can view it to my blog: 10个优秀的WordPress设计陈列网站—— http://www.lo5e.com/archives/10-excellent-sources-for-wordpress-design-inspiration/)
非常感谢。
August 25th, 2008
If you don’t get inspired by browsing through the listed sites then you need to go see a doctor
August 28th, 2008
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September 24th, 2008
cooolll… i love these themes..
especially the wp_cube.
thanks for sharing boss..
October 2nd, 2008
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December 9th, 2008
Even more reasons to love the wordpress. Thanks for the info!
December 21st, 2008
Thanks!!!
December 24th, 2008
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March 20th, 2009
Thanks for the information. I am always looking for new ideas especial for my website.
March 21st, 2009
Thanks for the information. There seems to be a never ending about of information on the net. I love learning new stuff, especial if it will help my website.
May 25th, 2009
Really great stuff. Thanks for sharing.
June 10th, 2009
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June 28th, 2009
Great list. Thanks for the information. It’s always great to see new beautiful site being built.