41 Killer WordPress Themes & Apps – Blancer.com Tutorials and projects

WordPress Rocks. Over the years WordPress has proved its mettle as a revolutionary blogging Platform and it hasn’t stopped just there. Both the core WordPress developers and third party developers have gone above and beyond their means to convert WordPress into a next generation Content Management System that can run anything.

From blogs to online stores, WordPress runs everything. After the break, let us take a look at some of the coolest themes and apps that can help you manage and enhance your WordPress experience.

Themes

Imbalance

Imbalance is a modern and minimalistic WordPress theme. This jQuery powered theme will look really well under any browser and OS. Perfect fit for your blog, online magazine or portfolio websites.

Type : Blog / Portfolio
Free or Paid : Free
PSD Available? : No

AutoFocus+

AutoFocus+ is a clean and simple WordPress theme developed for photographers looking to showcase their work. It’s designed on an 800px, 8 column grid which truly allows your images to shine and extensive theme options that enable you to customize various elements of the theme without ever touching code.

Type : Portfolio
Free or Paid : Both Free and Paid versions available
PSD Available? : Yes

Play

Play is a modern multimedia theme with a lot of features. It`s packed with 6 additional color schemes and lots of custom nattywp widges, like Flickr, Twitter, banner widget. Play theme includes an impressive jQuery powered slider in the homepage.

Type : Multimedia
Free or Paid : Paid
PSD Available? : Yes

BeBack

BeBack is a WordPress theme that can be used while your site is down, undergoing a redesign, or still under construction. Easy to use, easy to manage, as simple as a click.

Type : Landing Page
Free or Paid : Paid
PSD Available? : Yes

Fullscreen

Fullscreen is a free one-column photography and multimedia theme for WordPress that can be used for portfolios, photoblogs, videoblogs, and virtually anything else where you want your content to be front and center.

Type : Portfolio
Free or Paid : Paid
PSD Available? : Yes

Fotofolio

Fotofolio Landscape is a WordPress theme specially designed for Visual Artist, Photographer, or any media designer, to show off their works.

Type : Portfolio
Free or Paid : Paid
PSD Available? : Yes

Selecta

Selecta’s rounded edges and bold, modern color palettes make for a fresh theme that’s best suited to blogs where video will be the main focus. The wider-than-usual frames around thumbnails and videos bring to mind the retro-cool of Polaroid photographs and old home movies.

Type : Multimedia
Free or Paid : Free
PSD Available? : No

Bueno

Bueno is a clean, minimalistic design which just oozes sophistication in both it’s typography & structure. Stripped of all fancy design elements; the reader’s focus should be on the great content that you produce. Bueno is perfect for the regular and hobby bloggers like.

Type : Blog
Free or Paid : Free
PSD Available? : Yes

Koi

Koi

Koi is one of the top used themes on Wordspress.com. It is an artistic theme and suitable for most personal blogs.

Type : Blog
Free or Paid : Free
PSD Available? : No

Slanted

Slanted is a tumblog theme with an extremely unique design. Using some progressive CSS3 attributes and jQuery wizardry, this tumblog theme (built for WordPress) is perfect for those who want a twist. This one is my personal favorite!

Type : Blog
Free or Paid : Free
PSD Available? : No

FeedbackEngine

Themes like FeedbackEngine push WordPress to a different paradigm. With Feedback Engine can provide opinions and ideas about products, ask questions, report problems, participate in discussions, etc. They can also search for specific topics, find topic suggestions, and more.

Type : Business
Free or Paid : Paid
PSD Available? : Yes

Freemium SaaS

Freemium SaaS is just brilliant! It is a theme created for you to market your SaaS (Software as a Service) Web application. Fully editable and customizable complete with Product Tour Pages Template and billing integration.

Type : Business
Free or Paid : Paid
PSD Available? : Yes

PureCorp

PureCorp is professional WordPress theme created for promoting any kind of application, designed with blog, pricing subpages and more!

Type : Business
Free or Paid : Paid
PSD Available? : Yes

Bamboo

Bamboo is a clean and simple WordPress Theme for SPA , Health Center or something else websites. Bamboo includes portfolio and services pages.

Type : Business / Healthcare
Free or Paid : Paid
PSD Available? : Yes

Aparatus

Aparatus is packed with features and design delight that aims to tickle your innermost web magazine fancy. The overall refined design and social network badges are pretty awesome.

Type : Magazine
Free or Paid : Paid
PSD Available? : Yes

Kelontong

Kelontong is an eCommerce theme that helps you have a beautiful online store that really sells. It is a dark and sleek theme with some really good CSS elements.

Type : eCommerce
Free or Paid : Free
PSD Available? : No

Newscast

Newscast is a WordPress Theme, best suited for Magazines and Blogs. It comes with 3 fantastic Image and News slideshows has multiple Page templates and gives you the option to choose from 4 Fantastic skins.

Type : Magazine
Free or Paid : Paid
PSD Available? : Yes

Magnific

Magnific is an innovative and flexible theme with multiple page layouts: Magazine Style or Traditional Blog and enhanced with WPZOOM Options Panel.

Type : Blog / Magazine
Free or Paid : Paid
PSD Available? : Yes

Postcard

Postcard is a beautiful travel-blogging theme with neat Google Maps integration allowing you to geo-tag posts with locations and display your recent travels on widgetized maps. It’s packed full of all the functionality a traveller needs to publish news and photos for friends and family back home.

Type : Blog
Free or Paid : Paid
PSD Available? : Yes

Structure

The Structure Theme is a modern, minimally designed theme with a magazine style layout. The theme is designed to adopt the style of the content added, making it the ideal theme for a variety of verticals including art and design, music, magazines and informational blogs.

Type : Blog
Free or Paid : Both and Paid versions are available.
PSD Available? : Yes

Block

The Block Theme offers a stylish and modern design with a layout that fits like a glove. It’s a fun design capable of displaying a lot, or a little amount of content.

Type : Blog / Magazine
Free or Paid : Both and Paid versions are available.
PSD Available? : Yes

Un.complicated

Un.complicated implements the Golden Grid with a clean, open, straightforward (uncomplicated) presentation. You can have a category specifically for images, a category designated solely for music, and also display the traditional post loop.

Type : Blog
Free or Paid : Paid
PSD Available? : NA

Modernist

Beautiful and transparent, Modernist is designed with a focus on optimal typography in order to better showcase your content – be it text, images and video.

Type : Blog
Free or Paid : Free
PSD Available? : No

WP-Notes

WP-Notes is a single column theme that is brutally minimal. It’s ideal for personal blogs.

Type : Blog
Free or Paid : Free
PSD Available? : No

Boldy

Boldy is a gorgeous theme with eye catching colors and web 2.0 interface. A sleek slider and box sized design elements are perfect for promoting your business.

Type : Business / CMS
Free or Paid : Free
PSD Available? : No

WP Blueprint

WP Blueprint is a very simple WP Theme for announcing the status of your upcoming projects.

Type : Landing Page
Free or Paid : Free
PSD Available? : No

Foodilicious

Create a professional website for your Restaurant business easily with this theme. Foodilicious theme showcases your menu items, displays Google Map and Directions, Restaurant hours, and Gallery/list view of your menu items.

Type : Landing Page
Free or Paid : Paid
PSD Available? : Yes

Wikibase

Wikibase transforms your WordPress installation into a Wiki or a Knowledgebase website in a matter of minutes. The theme includes live search, advanced article search, super clean typography, strategic easy layout design, article tools and much more.

Type : Landing Page
Free or Paid : Paid
PSD Available? : Yes

Kassyopea

You gotta see this one! Kassyopea is a premium WordPress theme, built for an e-commerce site. It will ensure that your WordPress powered eCommerce site look like it has been built on Magento or other full fledged eCommerce Platforms.

Type : eCommerce
Free or Paid : Paid
PSD Available? : Yes

Chamber

Chamber is a gorgeous business theme with a drag & drop homepage contents Manager. With the help of the content manager you can control and order which content to show on homepage from the Admin panel.

Type : Business / Portfolio
Free or Paid : Paid
PSD Available? : Yes

WordPress Apps

BloGTK Editor

BloGTK is a desktop weblog client that allows you to post to your weblog from GNOME without the need for a separate browser window. It supports multiple blogging Platforms in addition to WordPress.

Platform : Linux
Free or Paid : Free

Qumana

Qumana is a desktop blog client Qumana lets you insert keyword ads in one click. Publish your post, then repost it instantly to another blog. Everything is possible with this amazing app.

Platform : Windows & Mac
Free or Paid : Free

BlogDesk

BlogJet

BlogJet is one of the most powerful desktop blogging apps available. It supports every blogging platform known to mankind.

Platform : Windows
Free or Paid : Paid

ScribeFire

ScribeFire is a full featured blog editor that runs atop the Firefox web browser. Wildly popular among bloggers, ScribeFire lets you easily post to your blog by dragging and dropping formatted text from pages you are browsing, take notes, upload images, post to multiple blogs among multitude of other things.

Platform : Cross Platform
Free or Paid : Free

Windows Live Writer

One of the nicest apps developed by Microsoft. Windows Live Writer makes it easy for anyone to tell stories like a professional blogger. You can create beautiful blog posts, and see what they’ll look like online before you publish them to your blog.

Platform : Windows
Free or Paid : Free

MarsEdit

If you own a Mac and are a blogger, nothing is more powerful or more elegant than MarsEdit. Whether you love HTML or can’t bear the sight of it, MarsEdit’s editor will thrill you. It’s a bit costly though.

Platform : Mac
Free or Paid : Paid

WebStory

WebStory is a powerful yet intuitive blog editor that makes blogging a true breeze to bloggers. It comes with a WYSIWYG blog editor that makes it an extremely useful desktop blog management software.

Platform : Windows
Free or Paid : Free

BlogDesk

BlogDesk makes it easy to write, speeds up lavish processes and assists the author with smart features.

Platform : Windows
Free or Paid : Free

Raven

Zoundry Raven is a next generation WYSIWYG blog editor that makes posting to your blogs easier and faster. It’s as easy to use as a word processor and is packed with simple tools to add links, tags, photos, music, video files etc.

Platform : Windows
Free or Paid : Free

Blogo

With a simple, intuitive interface and support for WordPress, Blogger, Typepad, Typo, Drupal, Joomla, and Expression Engine, Blogo is the neat little app that can help you maintain your blog and spread the word on Twitter, Ping.fm and other social media services.

Platform : Mac
Free or Paid : Paid

ecto

ecto is designed to make blogging easier by giving the users as much power as possible to manage their weblogs. With ecto you can write and manage entries for your weblog(s). ecto also offers additional features such as spellcheck, creating links, attachments, and much more.

Platform : Mac
Free or Paid : Paid