10 WordPress Themes That Dazzle With Unique Design
Ability to change the look and feel of your blog by simply installing new template is one of the greatest features of WordPress blog and today I want to share 10 WordPress themes that stand out from the rest due to Unique design.
Spring cleaning for the web quite often involves changing your presentation and re-thinking goals your blog is set to achieve. I simply want to help you take advantage of Free WordPress templates you can use to truly separate yourself from the rest!
japan-style
2 column theme, released before WordPress 2.7 so I don’t know if it supports latest features but if design is right for you – it can be easily modified.
Desk Mess
Another 2 column theme created before WordPress 2.7 and it is actually one of the reason I present it here – can be a great way to separate yourself from the rest by adding small fixes to this theme, since majority will try to avoid incompatible theme!
Kanata
2 column with left sidebar dedicated to widgets this theme can be quite nicely customized even if you are Not doing anything with Canada!
Coffee Desk
2 column theme tested up to 2.6.1 according to author and can be a nice addition to a tech blog with a few small modification!
LiteThoughts
Beautiful 2 column theme with a superb design and a few tweaks can really help you stand out.
Scruffy
Scruffy is a “grunge” style design with a very nice flow.
Scrapbook
Theme designed to help you highlight your images and has a custom templates for image display. 2 column that supports all the latest features and also backwards compatible with older versions of WordPress.
Blues
Beautiful theme that also comes with PSD file to enable you modify it to your needs.
Theme Page | Full Image Preview (no demo)
WordPress Fun
This one features unique design and quite a few features that I recommend you read on the theme’s page itself.
Notepad Chaos
Theme comes with the PSD file to allow you modifications and even further customizations. There is no live demo but you can preview the large image size on author’s page.
I know that most of the themes presented here are Not WordPress 2.7 ready but I have a slightly different take on it!
Modifying a theme that is no longer supported can be one of the simplest ways to make your blog unique even with a FREE theme!
A few changes and a bit of coding you can outsource for a few dollars can make your blog sparkle with Originality!
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Very cool themes and very useful for people. I should probably start doing this a little more on my sites because people are always on the lookout for themes that are solid and look great.
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Court, don’t you have your list of SEO optimized themes? I bet that it driving in a nice amount of traffic to your site.
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Does anyone know of any wordpress themes I can track down that involve marathon running? Thanks. Nate
Lists of themes always work great and I have to admit that I myself have spent hours looking for themes a few years back. There are so many beautiful themes out there so it is difficult to choose.
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Alex,
Maybe in a future post you could add your insights on paid WP themes, particularly Thesis.
Herb
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Herb,
I have previously reviewed premium themes here. I only share what I personally own and like – Thesis doesn’t fit into that category, sorry.
Alex
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Very cool themes thanks. I really like “Notepas Chaos” but I don’t think that I have a blog that it would suit. Maybe I need to start one, or perhaps that’s the wrong way to be thinking
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I’ve been a recent convert to paid premium themes – you never know what sneaky code has been included in your ‘free’ themes unless you’re a php expert.
My php programmer lady scared the pants off me when she showed me some of the ‘back door’ weaknesses a couple of my pretty free themes had – never again!
The exception would be to pass a now unsupported theme to her to check it out thoroughly, tweak it and then use it I guess.
Clive,
Yes, unfortunately what you state is true – especially with “sponsored” themes. I always stay away from those. But not everyone is capable of getting premium theme and this post is a way to help those people. As someone who supports hundreds of custoemrs I now first hand how hard some people find it to pay even for hosting, much less the themes
Hi Alex,
Nice selection of themes! I agree that a little customization can really help make a theme uniquely yours! Another reminder for folks using free themes is for them to check the rights that they’ll have to agree to if they do use them. Most just require you to leave the link in the footer which takes you back to the author’s site, but some have lots more restrictions. Just make sure to check those requirements before you begin the customization process.
Cheers – Mark
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Hi Alex
I’m really new to blogging and tried loads of the free themes. I noticed the Scrapbook one as looking nice when I was researching.
The trouble was I found them to be very hard to modify being a newbie understanding virtually nothing about the technical side of things. I think I then read your FlexSqueeze review and from there found their free version, Flexibility 2.0, (http://www.flexibilitytheme.com/download/). I just love the ease with which you can change everything from a huge options page.
After reading Clive’s comment above though I’m now very worried about sneaky code and backdoors. Do you have any tips for spotting such things or where to start looking?
Thanks, Chloe
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Very good list. Right, that theme design in unique design, but I like the elegent theme one.
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If we switch to other themes, we would have to re-configure a lot of things. The layout could be wrong because certain aspect of previous themes might not be present on the other theme.
Martin, yes- but this is where the fun hides
it gives you chance to re-evaluate if all you got now still should be present or should it be deleted!
So using other themes we will lose the advantages that EWP theme provide
Not necessary – there is nothing hard coded into EWP provided theme – all plugins will continue to work. You will however lose some functionality we built into the theme itself, unless you can code it yourself. I guess you have to look at it as trade off for new look, which will happen No Matter which theme you are currently using!
It all comes down to choices you have to make for yourself.
Thanks for answering my doubts
That “Blue” theme is sweeet!
Although I could be convinced to use the Coffee Desk on as well
There are so many nice themes around these days!
Thanks for the post Alex. I like the WordPress Fun theme. It seems like it will fit well with one of the projects I am about to start.
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These are all great designs. I’ve been tooling around with Thesis. Highly customizable, but you have to do some design work to make it look decent and not so steril.
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These are great themes. Love the photoshop work that was done on some of them. I’ll have to consider in the future.
I’m always looking for new WordPress Themes. I’m always using WordPress for everything so I like to save themes in case I ever need one. I happen to like the Wordpres Fun theme on this list. Not sure what I would use it for at the moment but might as well add it to my theme collection.
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Its hard to beat the wordpress themes, they are really beautiful, but someone is converting them to blogger, i have already seem the “Notepad chaos” and the “WordPress Fun” on blogspot.
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