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.
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.
32 comments from readers
1 Mehmet Aug 4, 2008 at 3:07 am
Great resources. Thanks for the list. There are a couple of sites that i didn’t see before.
2 Fatih Aug 4, 2008 at 3:22 am
Great. Thanks
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4 Tracey Grady Aug 4, 2008 at 6:22 am
It’s galleries like these that raise the bar for anyone designing Wordpress sites. You’ve put together a great collection.
5 Mubs Aug 4, 2008 at 11:53 am
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.
6 stew Aug 4, 2008 at 12:01 pm
NIce wordpress theme here http://www.my-webmagazine.com
7 United Voices Aug 4, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Nice collection of wordpress theme inspirations. Thanks for sharing this.
8 Sangesh Aug 4, 2008 at 12:27 pm
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
9 工控 Aug 4, 2008 at 12:28 pm
It’s galleries like these that raise the bar for anyone designing Wordpress sites. You’ve put together a great collection.
10 supernetuser Aug 4, 2008 at 2:10 pm
I like blogging don’t get me wrong, but I use the Internet too much.
11 Andy Cheng Aug 4, 2008 at 3:02 pm
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.
12 Susan Aug 4, 2008 at 3:46 pm
I love CSSglance - it’s one of my favorite sites to visit.
13 CSS.watBUZZ | aSKer Aug 4, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Very nice list of resources! I didn’t know all of them…
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15 Shivanand Sharma Aug 5, 2008 at 10:02 am
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.
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17 Quality Web Development Services Aug 6, 2008 at 1:43 am
NICE RESOURCE. THANKS
18 Southampton Letting Agent Aug 6, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Thanks for the inspiration!
19 Ian Blackford Aug 9, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Wow, what a great resource. I have bookmarked your page and from that I have hundreds of links to surf off.
Well done,
20 call center representative Aug 12, 2008 at 2:40 am
This is absolutely a great resource for wordpress theme..thanks for sharing!
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22 Web Design Beach Aug 18, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Great galleries!
I will have to post our blog there. I hope we will get listed
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25 riant Aug 24, 2008 at 6:46 pm
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。
26 Knoxville Website Design Aug 25, 2008 at 10:31 pm
If you don’t get inspired by browsing through the listed sites then you need to go see a doctor
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31 ohwillieJokes Sep 24, 2008 at 12:29 am
cooolll… i love these themes..
especially the wp_cube.
thanks for sharing boss..
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