Best WordPress Themes Of The Year – 2011

For the past year I have been busy bookmarking, collecting and posting some of the best premium WordPress themes that I have come across each month. In this post I have put together a collection of the best WordPress themes of 2011, this collection is intended to grow each day as I find more themes or as more themes are submitted.

(UPDATE: If you would like to add a WordPress theme to this collection, send me a link on Twitter @designwoop – deadline for entries is: December 31 2011.)

Yin & Yang

Yin & Yang is a light, minimalistic, simple to use portfolio theme. Quick to setup and easy to customize, thanks to the powerful admin panel, and the detailed documentation, Yin & Yang is the perfect theme for showcasing your most important work directly in front of your potential clients.

Swagger

Swagger is built on top of the all-new version 2 of the Theme Blvd framework. Use the layout builder to accomplish just about anything you could ever think of. Use the slider manager to create as many sliders as you want. Use the widget area manager to create as many widget areas and sidebars as you want. With just the right amount of theme options and flexibility, the power is all in your hands. And with a sleek, responsive HTML5 design, you’ll be sure no one will miss out on your new website built with Swagger.

Scope

Scope is the perfect theme for the creative agency, freelancer or general business. Strong lines, strong colors and a bunch of super-awesome features to keep you busy.

Beveled

Beveled is a clean yet sophisticated portfolio theme, which can be used to show off you work, or even display your photos. It is compatible with the WooTumblog plugin, which when enabled gives you access to post formats and iPhone publishing!

Notebook

Notebook is a fun multimedia theme that takes advantage of WordPress post formats and advanced CSS3 animations. The result is a unique and highly engaging design that is sure that impress your visitors. Notebook makes it easy to share a variety of content, including audio, video, photographs and standard blog posts.

Evolution

Evolution is our first fully responsive design. What makes the theme so special is its ability to adapt to various screen sizes. Just try reducing your browser’s window size when preview the theme to see the magic in action!

Infinity

Infinity is a responsive WordPress portfolio theme that uses project filtering and infinite scrolling. The theme is clean with minimal styling will look amazing across multiple devices and screen resolutions.

Clean

Clean is a responsive and minimal WordPress theme that works and looks great across multiple devices and screen resolutions. This WordPress theme can be used as a blog or a portfolio to show off your work.

TheStyle

TheStyle is a WordPress theme that uses a unique jQuery-enhanced fluid width design so your posts always get displayed in a way that is best suited for your visitor’s resolution

Reveal

Reveal is a responsive WordPress portfolio theme that’s designed to look great on different devices or screen sizes on which it’s viewed. It comes with clean styling and an Ajax powered portfolio.

Simfo

Simfo is a minimal and responsive WordPress theme which has great balance of white space and beautiful typography. The WordPress theme is responsive, working on all screen resolutions and most browsers including the mobile devices such as iPad, iPhone, Android, and Blackberry.

Grido

Grido is a new Tumblr-like theme that is colorful, trendy, and stylish. Grido features a unique blog post layout that will re-size to fit the dimensions of the screen resolution you are using.

Tisa

Tisa is adaptive to the browser’s viewport with the design being completely fluid. No matter what device and resolution that your visitor is using, the theme automatically re-sizes and flow with the viewport.

Suco

Suco offers a stunning design with a customizable slider, this responsive WordPress theme can be used as a business site, Tumblr-like blog, or just a static general site with its clever use of WordPress post formats.

Wubmlr

Wumblr is a fully responsive WordPress theme that is built like a Tumblr website, but is actually built on WordPress. It will make your WordPress installation look and feel like a Tumblr blog.

Currents

Currents is fully responsive WordPress theme, the theme is a content focused, news driven theme for WordPress designed by Andy Rutledge.

Emporium

Emporium is a modern, clean, responsive WordPress theme it is simple, slick styling allows it’s usage to be diverse, use it to sell anything. Beautifully.

Argentum

Argentum is a WordPress theme with responsive design perfectly optimized for mobile devices.

SupportPress

SupportPress Customers can submit support requests but are encouraged to check an intuitive knowledge base to learn if their issues have already been resolved.

Responz

Responz is a minimal and elegant responsive WordPress theme with great typography, a perfect theme for news and editorial sites.

Super Skeleton

SuperSkeleton is a responsive WordPress theme with a a comprehensive HTML5 framework that includes a full templating system as well.

Rising

Rising is a WordPress theme built from the ground up to be compatible with mobile devices. The theme is fully responsive, which means that the layout will adapt depending on the device’s viewport or screen size.

PixelPower

PixelPower is a clean, modern and powerful responsive WordPress tumblog-style theme. The responsive web design adapts from large to mobile screens, just resize the browser window to test it out, no additional setup required!

Good Minimal

Good Minimal is a responsive HTML5 and CSS3 WordPress theme, best suited for portfolio, blogs and businesses. This theme is flexible and is used media queries to adapt screen sizes, for iPhone, iPad and wide screens.

Knead

Knead is a Portfolio WordPress theme designed to adapt to mobile devices with some cool responsive effects.

Easy

Easy is a great responsive Magazine WordPress Theme that offers a clean design and well written HTML5 and CSS3 code.

Sky

The Sky WordPress theme is unique in how it’s homepage operates, loading all of your content seamlessly using ajax. This means that no matter how many pages you have in the “slider,” your initial page load speed will be lightning fast as each page is only loaded when it is displayed.

Simfo

Simfo is a minimal and responsive WordPress theme with slight subtle use of grungy texture. The WordPress theme has great balance of white space and beautiful typography. The theme is also responsive, working on all screen resolutions and most browsers including the mobile devices such as iPad, iPhone, Android, and Blackberry.

Clean

Clean is a responsive, minimal, and extremely stylish WordPress theme that looks amazing across multiple devices and screen resolutions. This versatile WordPress theme can be used as a blog or a portfolio to show off your work.

Buro

The Buro theme is a beautiful business WordPress theme that was designed by Juanma Teixido. The theme has a responsive layout to display your website content optimally at all resolutions and browser widths, and on all media devices.

Announcement

Use any of the Announcement preset homepage templates to announce the launch of your new business. The WordPress theme has a flexible component system to bend Announcement to your desire.

Briefed

The ‘Briefed’ WordPress theme was designed by Cameron Moll, the theme has been created for all types of designers & creatives thanks to it’s modular layout and clean, minimal design. The home page is easily customizable with a portfolio powered by custom post types, optional Dribbble feed, and jsMasonry for an adaptive layout.

Studeo

The Studeo theme is a featured-packed and yet a very simple-to-use WordPress theme for the creative agency, freelancer or virtually any other business looking for an attractive, professional web presence. Inside Studeo, you’ll find a filterable portfolio, a configurable homepage, custom widgets, custom page templates and a simple set of theme options.

Sideshow

Sideshow is a portfolio theme for the artsy fartsy with a built-in Tumblr style blogging system. The WordPress theme is simple, to the point, and does little to distract viewers away from your work but everything to showcase it. Sideshow has clean lines, a minimal design and two colour schemes which are eye-candy for lovers of “simple” yet a great blank canvas for the modifying type.

DK Photoography Theme

DK is the premium photography, portfolio, personal WordPress theme built with latest WordPress features.

LeanBiz

LeanBiz is a clean, pixel perfect business theme. The theme layout is minimal with a clean and professional design allowing you to showcase your products on the homepage with a slick content focused slider. The homepage slider creates a clear call to action and allows you to add countless slide variations. This theme is perfect for giving your existing WordPress eCommerce theme a new look.

Boutique

Boutiques is a powerful WordPress eCommerce theme, it will give you the power to open your own online storefront quickly and with a highly customizable theme. This eCommerce theme has been built to integrate with some of the most popular WordPress eCommerce plugins available to you, allowing people to use their favorite system without any conflicts.

Nova

Nova is a sharp, simplistic design that makes for an intuitive user experience. Nova’s biggest strength is its homepage, which allows you to organize your content into two areas. The Featured Slider is perhaps the most versatile slider we have built, and comes with multiple slider variations that breath new life into the design.

eStore

eStore provides an elegant WordPress eCommerce theme for those looking to sell theirproducts online. The WordPress theme is very easy to configure, offering easy integration with some of the most popular WordPress eCommerce plugins, for example: eShop and Simple PayPal Shopping cart.

MyApp

Mobile applications are increasing month by month, more and more developers are looking for an easy way to create an online shop for their software. MyApp was designed to make it easy to promote your app using the WordPress CMS as an eCommerce platform, the theme has also been tailored specifically for the mobile market.

MyProduct

MyProduct is a flexible WordPress theme for businesses looking to promote their products and services online. The design features a clean and corporate feel, and the theme’s page-based design makes for a powerful and versatile template. The MyProduct WordPress theme will allow you to create your online shop easily by adding freely available WordPress eCommerce plugins to the theme.

Bizco

Bizco is a professional WordPress eCommerce theme targeted at businesses and online product based websites. This theme allows you to easily showcase features and updates of your service or product to your readers.

E-Shopper

The E-Shopper theme turns your WordPress eCommerce site into a fully functional online store. It does not matter if you’re a WordPress Pro or just getting started with WordPress, anyone can use this eCommerce theme and you don’t have to touch a single line of code.

FlexiShop

This WordPress eCommerce theme uses the powerful WP eCommerce plugin which enables a versatile and feature packed WordPress powered shop, the theme has 3 different layout options and unlimited color possibilities.

The Clothes Shop

The Clothes Shop is a plugin free, flexible and fully localized WordPress eCommerce theme. The theme allows you to have a customer login/registration, customer wish list, blog and highly flexible product and video display.

Sofa Shoppr

Sofa Shoppr is WordPress based eCommerce theme. Sofa Shoppr includes three major payment gateways to process the user shopping basket during checkout; PayPal, 2CheckOut and Authorize.net.

Viroshop

The Viroshop eCommerce theme turns your default WordPress installation into a fully functional stylish online store. Viroshop can be easily run entirely in your WordPress admin.

Sofa SuppaStore

The Sofo SuppaStore is probably the only WordPress eCommerce theme that includes a stock inventory and order tracking system. This eCommerce theme is one of the best in terms of complete features, some notable features are: coupon codes, individual item shipping costs, multiple homepage layouts.

WooStore

The WooStore eCommerce theme is a landmark for WooThemes being their first ever eCommerce theme for WordPress. The theme was designed in-house by Magnus Jepson and made into a fully functional online store with WooCommerce, the WooStore theme provides you with a powerful and flexible eCommerce solution.

Coquette

Coquette is a modern and stylish WordPress eCommerce theme designed to work in tandem with WooCommerce. The WordPress theme features organic aesthetics which is achieved using close attention to detail and two contrasting colour schemes.

Wootique

Wootique is a flexible and customisable WordPress eCommerce theme for WordPress. The theme has been designed from to take advantage of all of WooCommerce core features whilst delivering fast and easy customisability.

Statua Commerce

Statua is a great place to sell it thanks to WooCommerce. The Statua eCommerce theme is a child WordPress theme which prepares and optimises Statua for use with WooCommerce.

Simplicity Commerce

Simplicity eCommerce theme is a child theme which ensures flawless WooCommerce compatibility, empowering you to transform your site into a feature-rich online store.

Canvas Commerce

Simply add a boutique shop or transform your Canvas powered web site into an eCommerce powerhouse. Canvas WooCommerce is a child theme which prepares and optimises Canvas for use with WooCommerce.

Chameleon

Chameleon was created to be a simple and professional theme with loads of customization options that do not require web development experience to utilize.

Modest

Modest is a truly elegant and simple design that doesn’t sacrifice character or style.

Magnificent

Now you can display loads of content in a beautifully simple and elegant fashion using Magnificent. Featuring a four-column homepage with 5 widget ready areas, you have many opportunities to customize your content display. The theme also features seven different colorschemes, which means there is surely a style that will suite your needs.

Simple Press

SimplePress is a slick new page-based theme great for anyone looking to give their website a clean and professional look. The theme features a un-bloated bloated homepage with a beautiful javascript slider and clear hierarchy, as well as fully functional Blog and Gallery sections.

Daily Notes

The theme is very minimal in its design, and has been trimmed down to the bare essentials. For anyone looking to create a fun and inviting personal blog, DailyNotes will serve you well!

Minimal

Minimal is a great theme for those who want to give their blog a truly simple and elegant feel without sacrificing any of the advanced features.

inFocus

inFocus is more than just a WordPress theme, innovative separation of design from content, everything you could every wish to customize into one easy to navigate option panel.

Classica

Classica is a beautifully minimalistic portfolio theme, free from gimmick and trend, making your talent the focal point of your portfolio – the way it should be. Present your work in a professional manner with a timeless design.

Dandelion

Dandelion is a Powerful Premium WordPress Theme. This theme provides all the main functionality you will need to present your products, work and yourself in an elegant and professional style. The Dandelion theme is highly flexible, so changing the color scheme is super simple and for the most parts you won’t need an image editor.

Clarity

A minimal portfolio theme designed to let you easily show off your work, highlight your services, and share your thoughts – all in a super sleek presentation.

Solo

A clean, single page portfolio theme with a sleek style and smooth jQuery effects. Automatic scrolling and expanding project display are just some of the features that will help make your work look even more amazing.

Craft

A clean portfolio theme that’s perfect for designers wanting to show off their work and share their thoughts in a sleek presentation. Craft is loaded with tons of style and plenty of tasteful jQuery effects.

Filtered

A stylish portfolio theme that will give your work the type of presentation it deserves. On top of balanced white space and typography, this theme includes several tasteful jQuery effects to help impress your visitors.

Pure

A super clean and minimal blog theme. Pure will give your blog an elegant and sophisticated feel without getting in the way of your content. Great typography and a good amount of white space make this theme stand out.

Elemin

Elemin has great sense of typography, good white space balance, and minimal graphics. It is a piece of art crafted with modern technology — Google font, CSS3, Javascript and HTML5.

Adaptive

Adaptive is designed to be scale itself down for smaller screens. Adaptive also uses 3 Google Web Fonts to choose from for the headings.

Parallax

Parallax is a visually stunning blogging theme designed to grab your visitors attention. Parallax features 2 color variations, a slick Parallax scrolling effect, is Widget Ready and more.

Portfolio

A clean portfolio theme that allows your work to stand out. This theme features a large editable slideshow on the front page, choice of light or dark version, Twitter and Facebook integration.

Showcase

A clean WordPress theme to showoff your work. This theme features an editable slideshow on the front page, choice of white, gray or black versions, Twitter and Facebook integration.

Stack

Stack is a clean and edgy blogging theme designed to make your content “pop”. Stack features 6 background variations, 6 color variations, is Widget Ready and more.

Suco

Suco offers a stunning homepage design with a customizable slider, highlighted services/products, call-to-action text, and optional widgets.

Folo

Folo is a business + portfolio theme where you can showcase work samples, products and services. Homepage features a circular slider to highlight products and services.

Boutique

Boutiques give you the power to open your own online storefront. The theme has been built to integrate with some of the most popular eCommerce plugins available, allowing people to use their favorite system without any conflicts.

Feather

Feather has a light and airy quality that gives your website a fun and care-free vibe. The theme is simple, but its subtle details and textures have been designed with care. If you are looking for a subdued design that is still stylistic and impressive, then Feather just might be the theme for you.

Garnish

Garnish is a clean-cut, straight to the point, simple to use portfolio theme. The uncluttered, one-page, ajax-powered portfolio is perfect for placing your most important work directly in front of your potential clients.

Gridlocked

Gridlocked is a grid-based, post-format supporting, layout-shuffling, minimalistic theme for creatives. It is both a classic portfolio for showcasing your work and a modern tumblr-style blogging system.

Amoveo

Amoveo is a Premium WordPress Theme built on a highly intelligent Gantry framework. The theme is best suited for any business, portfolio, photography and personal sites.

Itis

A premium Flickr WordPress theme.

Pixeloph

Stand out from the crowd with the Pixeloph unique layout. This template can be used by companies or agencies or by any other type of business.

Creole

The Creole WordPress Theme is easy to set up and use, so you don’t have to waste time stressing like when you dive into one of those overly complicated themes. Everything you need is right here in one easy to use, beautifully designed, minimal style, professional package.

Bunch

Clean, elegant and unique WordPress theme for Business, Portfolio or Corporate websites.

Fundamental

Fundamental is a professional WordPress portfolio theme, easily customized, full of goodies, and simply a beautiful way to display your work or show your blog.

Aggregate

Aggregates comes packed with tons of content and widget-ready areas, and manages to display everything in a clear and readable manner. We have also added some handy new widgets, as well as many new advertisement areas. If you have been searching for a feature-rich Magazine-style theme for your blog, then look no further!

Pure

A super clean and minimal blog theme. Pure will give your blog an elegant and sophisticated feel without getting in the way of your content. Great typography and a good amount of white space make this theme stand out.

InReview

InReview is an advanced Review Theme that allows you to transform your WordPress blog into a fully-functional ratings website. The theme makes rating products easy with our custom options and integrated user-review system. The theme also includes affiliate integrated and custom widgets to help you increase conversions.

MyCuisine

MyCuisine is delicious, offering up some eye-catching visuals wrapped in a Tuscan shell. It is a small-business theme built with Restaurants in mind, however, the theme can easily be adapted for any business that desires a cool, vintage aesthetic for the website.

Envisioned

Envisioned is a beautiful and powerful portfolio theme that enables you to easily create professional, multi-media galleries. Envisioned has the most powerful gallery features of any of our themes, allowing you to produce versatile layouts of various sizes and aspect ratios.

OnTheGo

OnTheGo is a completely hand-drawn theme that was scanned in and compiled to create a fresh and interesting design. It is fun and playful while maintaining an air of professionalism, and its unique appearance is sure to make your website stand out amongst the crowd. OnTheGo can act as a page-based CMS, or as a traditional blog.

Memoir

Memoir is beautifully simple, but still comes packed with character and style.

eStore

eStore provides an elegant solution for those looking to sell products online. The theme is easy to configure, and offers integration options with some of the most popular (and free) ecommerce plugins, including eShop and Simple PayPal Shopping cart. Also, due to the open-ended nature of the design, adding support for additional shopping carts won’t cause a headache. If you are ready to bring your business online, then get started today with eStore!

Funki

Funki is a responsive design theme with some artsy flare. The theme is coded with HTML5 techniques and has a responsive layout which is a combination of CSS3 and Javascript magic.

Minblr

ThemeMin

ThemeMin is a minimal, light-weight and typography-focused theme. It promises to provide comfort reading and fast loading.

Webly

Webly is a professional theme with just enough charm and whimsy to give your website that fun and unique edge. With powerful tools, such as the multimedia slider and content bar on the homepage, Webly provides you with creative ways to engage your visitors. If you are looking for creative theme that will make your business stand out from the crowd, then look no further!

Modest

Modest is a truly elegant and simple design that doesn’t sacrifice character or style. With this theme I really wanted to strip down all extraneous detail and give people some lightweight and pure. It was hard to resist my natural instict to add additional design elements, but I think this exercise in restraint has yielded a theme that will serve many people well.

PersonalPress

While niche theme that push the boundaries of WordPress are great, WordPress’s core purpose has always been blogging. With PersonalPress I decided to return to my roots, and create a traditional blog-style theme with a personal touch. PersonalPress is a great design for those looking to give their blog a fun and light hearted feel.

InStyle

InStyle is bold and beautiful, turning your screen into a large, colorful, photo-filled canvas. With the theme’s ability to create custom, rotating background images for each section of your website, you can create designs that really grab your visitors attention.

Nova

Nova is a sharp, simplistic design that makes for an intuitive user experience. Nova’s biggest strength is its homepage, which allows you to organize your content into two areas. The Featured Slider is perhaps the most versatile slider we have built, and comes with multiple slider variations that breath new life into the design.

eNews

eNews is an exercise in crispness and subtlety. This elegant and professional news theme is great for anyone looking display a lot of content in a clean and userfriendly manner.

Ezine

EZINE is clean, elegant, modern and minimalist premium wordpress theme that can be switched as blogging, magazine, community and portfolio wordpress theme, there’s 4 skins color and background pattern variation available with EZINE theme, Please explore the demo to see more theme features.

Lumin

Lumin is a sleek and professional portfolio theme built in a CMS style. This allows you to have a page-based layout, while still maintaining separate post-driven Blog and Gallery sections. The Blog and Gallery sections have been customized with unique post styles that deliver content in a more functional manner.

Glow

With its bright colors, bold text and flashy design, Glow is a great theme for anyone looking to make an impact. This theme comes with four color variations, and is equipped with the latest ePanel Theme Options page which gives you complete control over your blog.

Duplex

Duplex is a Premium WordPress Magazine / Community / Blog theme full of custom options, custom widgets and a generous helping of good looks.

GridFolio

GridFolio is a clean, minimal, single page grid-based WordPress theme. Perfect for a porfolio site but can be used for any number of purposes.

London Live

London Live Is the perfect theme for any News, Magazine Or Blog site. It has multiple options to choose from and unlimited possibilities to create a great website.

Periodic

Periodic is a custom built, premium WordPress theme suited for online magazines, news portals and large blogs.

BluePrint

BluePrint is a simple magazine theme powered by WordPress. With numerous places to insert widget, you have the power to show the content you want, where you want.

Clean Blog

Clean blog is a very clean and stylish personal blog theme with a nice clean style. It’s shipped in 4 variations (so called 4 in 1). Blue and Pink color schemes + 2 backgrounds styles (Light and Dark). You may “play” with them right from the Options page it’s easy as 2 clicks.

Edmin

Edmin was built to have an elegant, out of the box, design with a strong core layout structure. This theme includes a number of different layout options which help you customize this theme to your needs.

Lucid

Lucid is a great website and blog combination for all business. It is highly customizable and you can change just about every color on the theme to match any brand or logo. Features

Bulldog

If you or your company provide any form of news service, a local newspaper, newsletter, or even a blog and you’re seeking a truly professional way to present your content, then Bulldog is the solution for you.

ZinNews

ZinNews theme is WordPress theme for your Magazine site or your Blog. Designed by IziThemes.com.

Classica

Classica is a beautifully minimalistic portfolio theme, free from gimmick and trend, making your talent the focal point of your portfolio – the way it should be. Present your work in a professional manner with a timeless design.