Blurred backgrounds may look like a really bad and unfocused photograph. However, many web designers use blur effects on website backgrounds to simulate depth and give the content extra focus. When used right the effect is really strong and we often see it used on photography websites and online portfolios where creative people show off their skills and creations. Check out this collection of photo website templates for inspiration. The blurred background trend may not be at a peak just now and is a direct contrast to the very popular use of minimalistic and flat design in both website and mobile apps. Still it is worth considering is you want to stand out and be recognized as a creative individual or agency.

You may look for free blurred backgrounds as a start and trust me there are plenty of them available online. You may also want to check out this article on how to blur the background in a photograph yourself. The article gives you 4 recipes to get it done right.

In this article, I have collected more than 30 sets of useful blurred background photographs that I hope you will find good use for in your creative projects.

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12 Blurred Backgrounds – MORE INFO

Here are 12 more Blurred Backgrounds to use for your website or app. Since everyone like this so much the last time I figured I’d make some more for you guys. This includes a Photoshop PSD like always and each layer is a vector smart object and can be scaled to any size if needed (even larger than 1600×1200). It also includes a folder with all 12 Backgrounds in JPEG format just like the last time.

25 Free High Resolution Blurred Backgrounds – MORE INFO

This package of blurred backgrounds consists of 25 high-resolution images (4000px x 3000px). The images were created from real photos taken in nature, so beautiful and natural colors in our images were achieved . You can download these images for free and use them for any purpose, without restrictions. Package contains one PSD and 6 JPEGs.

Dribbble Backgrounds – MORE INFO

Includes: Aurora, Desert Kiss, Elixir, Glass Pane, Rocky and Meadow. Licensed under the ‘Gray Area’ license.

Blurrry – MORE INFO

Handy Collection of Free Vibrant Blurred Backgrounds.

Thanks for 100 – MORE INFO

4 free Blurred Background jpg files with 3000x2500px 150dpi sizes. Free to use.

Glonely – MORE INFO

Cool, blurry background in 5 Resolutions: Full HD, Widescreen, Fullscreen, iPhone, iPhone 4
and iPad.

10 Large Blurred Backgrounds – MORE INFO

10 pack large 1600×1200 blurred graphic backgrounds. Perfect for social profiles like Dribble and Twitter, or your next web project.

10 Free Blurred Backgrounds – MORE INFO

10 Vibrant colored blurred backgrounds.

10 Backgrounds “Biscarrosse” – MORE INFO

10 Scenery blurred retina ready backgrounds.

Free Ultimate Blurred Background Pack – MORE INFO

This free resource contains 20 soft blurred background textures. These images are great for web use, or as a product display. The patterns are beautiful and abstract. The download also includes a PSD file containing all of the images in separate layers so that you can edit the reflection layer, adjust blending modes, or invert the color tones.

9 free high resolution blurred backgrounds – MORE INFO

9 free blurred backgrounds. Includes PSD size 3000px x 2250px, 9 JPG files size 3000px x 2250px  and 9 JPG files size 400px x 300px for Dribbble players.

26 FREE HIGH RESOLUTION BLURRED BACKGROUNDS WITH PSD – MORE INFO

This package contains a free .psd of 26 blurred backgrounds, including the original image they were blurred from. Used a mixture of lens and gaussion blurs to achieve a natural and real feel to the images. Feel free to use them for personal or commercial use without any restrictions.

15 Soft Backgrounds – MORE INFO

15 Backgrounds in Soft Gradients with ready-to-use .jpg files.

Dribbble Backgrounds – MORE INFO

These set of Dribbble Backgrounds were made with brushes.

13 High-Resolution Blur Backgrounds – MORE INFO

Here’s a set of 13 high resolution blur backgrounds that you can use to display your designs, UI elements, apps, websites, headings, etc. You can even use them as your desktop, laptop or mobile phone wallpapers. These are JPEG images on a large canvas of 2560×1600 pixels.

Candy Blur Abstract HD – MORE INFO

Blur style wallpaper made with Photoshop CS5 Extended.

10 (Free) Blurred Backgrounds – MORE INFO

10 Free Blurred Backgrounds from all Natural Events like Northern Lights, Sandstorm, Clouds and more.

10 Blurred Backgrounds – MORE INFO

Here is a collection for blurred backgrounds. High Resolution 1920 x 1200 backgrounds to present your design, product, portfolio etc.

Sintonia – MORE INFO

Blurred Backgrounds in 6 resolutions: 1920×1080, 1920×1200, 2560×1440 and 2560×1600 for PC and  1024×1024 (iPad) and 640×960 (iPhone 4)sizes for your phone and tablet.

10 Free Backgrounds – MORE INFO

All backgrounds have a nice blurred look to them and each layer is a vector smart object so they can be scaled to any size if needed. This comes in PSD format so that you can save it to any size and format if needed, as well as all 10 backgrounds in JPEG format, so you can quickly implement it into your site or whatever you need it for. These backgrounds are also perfect for Dribbble! The size for this is 1600×1200 pixels.

Free Dark Blurred Background – MORE INFO

4 Free dark and burred jpg files in 3000x2500px 150dpi size.

20 Free Hi-Res Backgrounds – MORE INFO

20 Hi-Res Blurred Backgrounds in 4500 x 3000 sizes. You’ll never have to worry about dimensions with these backgrounds, just scale it down to what you need.

Blurrry 2 – MORE INFO

20 piece blurry background pack.

Take IT High – MORE INFO

Enter the VIP room of your imagination with Take IT High wallpaper. It’s HQ noise texture self made with 8 colors, 3 resolutions and includes .jpg format

Dribbble Background- MORE INFO

Use these to backgrounds dazzle up your shot.

Large textures: blurred – MORE INFO

Large Textures blurred featuring roses!

Awesome Blurred Backgrounds – MORE INFO

Includes a freebie PSD where you can drop an image in and it will change automatically.

23 free high resolution blurred backgrounds – MORE INFO

23 pack blurred backgrounds you’ll love. Includes PSD size 2660px x 1995px , 23 JPG files size 2660px x 1995px and 23 JPG files size 400px x 300px for Dribbble players.

Free Blurred Backgrounds – MORE INFO

Free download of some high res (2600×1838) blurred backgrounds.

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Lars started tripwire magazine back in January 2009. He is really passionate about web design, web development, SEO, social media and loves to look into new technologies, techniques, tools etc. and to write articles for tripwire magazine readers.

Though trends come and go, one trend that never seems to disappear is pop art and retro design. Especially when designing posters and flyers the retro style seems to be an evergreen.

Creating retro style design is not as hard as it may seem. However, in order to get it right there are some classic elements required such as using colors and illustrations from the 1940-50’ies. In addition, the typography in retro style is often bold and with thick shadows or characteristic old fashion script style. It is a good idea to look for some retro font before you get started.

Many of the design stages that goes into creating a great looking retro poster or flyer is the same as you would go through if you wanted to create a retro looking website, so you might benefit from looking through some retro inspired website designs as well for retro style inspiration.

When researching for a new design you should always have lots of inspirational material to browse through. To make sure you have all the inspiration you need I have found more than 55 different examples of amazing retro posters and flyers for this article? Hope you will appreciate the homework I have done. Enjoy!

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BEHIND SPACE – MORE INFO

Alternative History 2010 – MORE INFO

Axygene – MORE INFO

Retro Geometric Vectors In Space – MORE INFO

Poster Ad for Typography – MORE INFO

Blaqk Audio Poster – MORE INFO

Design of Dissent: Poster – MORE INFO

Dr Who Poster – MORE INFO

Nothing Endures – MORE INFO

One Mo Time Movember Poster – MORE INFO

Little Boy – MORE INFO

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Biblioteq Poster Design – MORE INFO

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Harry Potter HBP Poster – MORE INFO

Toph’s Wanted Poster – MORE INFO

IBM 5100 – Retro Poster – MORE INFO

Cosmic Thrills – MORE INFO

Captain America Retro Poster – MORE INFO

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Retro Halloween Invasion – MORE INFO

FCTP 10th Anniversary – Posters – MORE INFO

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DESIGN MUSIC rough posters – MORE INFO

Only Who Is Left – MORE INFO

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Psycho Poster – MORE INFO

The Seventh Seal Poster – MORE INFO

Blade Runner Poster – MORE INFO

Big Fish Poster – MORE INFO

Friday the 13th Poster – MORE INFO

The Shining Poster – MORE INFO

Harry Potter POA Poster – MORE INFO

zombie poster – MORE INFO

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Stel Christian Cambas Poster – MORE INFO

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MUSIC POSTERS – MORE INFO

Forms are necessary features that web designers include in any website that collect information from visitors. We use HTML forms to gather data such as contact information, messages, emails, payment information and other sensitive data. Form are not difficult to implement in HTML, but if you are not a web developer and at the same time need a flexible solution to both create form and manage submissions, then you may need some help. Good news is, talented developers have created robust and easy to use solutions, form builders for popular platforms like WordPress.

nForms is one of the better WordPress form builder plugins, but as you can see in this collection there are plenty of options for WordPress users. nForms is responsive and this means mobile users will be able to use the forms. It makes use of a drag and drop builder to help you lay out your form elements without any need for HTML code at all. You also have the option to use a multi column form layout, aside from the traditional form layout where all elements are listed in one column. The forms built are Ajax based so submission and validation of data submitted to the server does not need a reload of the page. Forms are easy to insert and can be added to WordPress pages and posts using a shortcode, added as a widget or called through a simple PHP function. There is also support for objects, Google maps and video embeds.

I have tried the live demo of nForms WordPress Form Builder and it is a cool plugin to work with giving you optimal focus on the form design and function. There are dozens of options you can use in your forms and the forms you create are organized accordingly. To start building your form, you need to fill up first a popup box, and select whether you need a new form created or duplicate and existing form.

nForms WordPress Form Builder includes 16 field types and each field type has its own customizable settings. Just click on the item on the left side and you will see it appearing on the right side. Form elements and porperties such as layout / using columns and validation is set up to the left in a modern and user friendly editor.

It is also simple to set up configuration for the entire form function such as email settings, form validation text and form submission from the form options button on the top menu.

The same is true for the overall styling of the form where you can control width, fonts and much more.

nForms style options.

When you’re done you can save your work and view the completed form from the dashboard list. The dashboard includes a lot of data for all the forms. Statistics of form submission, read/ unread forms and views are all listed. You can also export the data to an excel file for anyone wanting to keep an offline copy.

Here are some completed sample forms for inspiration:

Hotel Booking Form.

Job Application Form.

nForms WordPress Form Builder is a great form builder  and it will make it a lot faster to set up and manage forms on WordPress websites. For most websites I am pretty sure it has all the needed features for a form builder plugin and you can easily get the job done without the hassle of coding. You can see all the features of this plugin here.

With Tumblr portfolio themes, you can set up a cool portfolio website really quick and be part of the huge success Tumblr experience in the creative blogging space.

Tumblr started out as a hosted micro blogging platform allowing anyone to publish short updates online. The service have drawn a lot of attention and today Tumblr users created more than 100 million blogs. Many of these blogs focus on creative and visual posts making Tumblr a true treasure for finding inspiration in areas such as photography, art, design etc.

Tumblr was designed to be a microblogging platform and this makes it great for quickly posting short text posts, videos, images, quotes and even audio sequences. Like Blogger.com, I believe one of the important features you get with Tumlr is that users can follow other users. This makes Tumlr a kind of social blogging experience and works well for driving traffic on young blogs that post relevant and high quality content. Another extremely popular platform for setting up online portfolios is WordPress. The availablity of WordPress portfolio themes is amazing and you will be able to find more types of themes compared to Tumblr. Check my collection of some of the best themes for setting up a WordPress portfolio website.

In this post, you will find a collection of Tumblr themes for portfolios and I am sure you will be able to find one that suits your needs.

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Bloq – A Blocky Portfolio Theme for Tumblr – MORE INFO / DEMO

BLOQ is an stylish, blocky portfolio theme for designers and creatives. It features two different layout modes, a filterable portfolio grid, a touch optimized image slider, dark and light preset skins to get you started, and much more!

Supple – A Portfolio Theme for Tumblr – MORE INFO / DEMO

SUPPLE is a versatile portfolio theme for Tumblr by Pixel Moxie. SUPPLE is aimed at creatives—designers, illustrators, photographers, video artists—and allows users to display their work in a grid-like fashion, flexibly enough to define the aspect ratio of thumbnails: from landscape to portrait, including square and anything in between.

Gridly – Reponsive Portfolio Template – MORE INFO / DEMO

Gridly is a light & simple template that comes with lots of options and functions to show content in style. It is fully responsive and features a beautiful and easy to use post filter system. Gridly supports all tumblr post types and has built in Disqus commenting support along with social sharing.

Focus – A Minimalistic Tumblr Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Focus is a minimalistic and adaptive Tumblr theme aimed at presenting your content, to any device, without clutter. Easy to change colours and background images as well as support for Disqus, Flickr, Twitter, Dribbble and Google Analytics. This theme gives a tailored view to each device (Android, iPhone, iPad, Desktop, etc) that visits it and only serves the content that is required, helping to speed up delivery of your site.

MetroFolio – Clean Portfolio Style Tumblr Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

MetroFolio is a clean portfolio style Tumblr theme made for creatives out there, whether you be a graphic designer or product designer. It’s been made to have a portfolio look for a professional presentation of your work. However, take note that this theme only supports photo posts, photoset posts and video posts.

Time Goes Back: A Tumblr Portfolio Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

TGB is a clean and functional Tumblr portfolio. It is grid based, has perfect vertical rhythm, clean, minimal and has 3 custom pages: Portfolio, Contact & About page.

Vision Tumblr Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Vision Tumblr Theme is perfect for a freelancer, agency or business portfolio. Vision features a snippet of the posts content on the home page so more can be seen at one time. It’s so easy to install it only takes a minute with the help of my instructions file and video walk through. Features include Image Slider with Image Preview, Endless Scrolling and Twitter Integration.

FLAT – Responsive Business Tumblr Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

FLAT is a minimal and clean multipurpose business theme for blogging system – Tumblr. You can easily change the overall view of the theme – you can show or hide theme elements: image slider, featured icon boxes, module with text with button, product box (long text + image), team, testimonials, clients logos, twitter feed widget. You can also change colors for most of theme elements.FLAT supports following post types: text, photo, photoset, audio, video, quote, AMA, chat and link. It is also a fully responsive web design for all devices and screen resolutions.

Mason – A Masonry Inspired Tumblr Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Mason is an adaptive Tumblr theme aimed at presenting your content, to any device, in a masonry based view. Users can quickly view your posts, view them in the detail, and go back to where they were.Highly customisable, with support for Disqus, Twitter and Google Analytics. This theme gives a tailored view to each device (Android, iPhone, iPad, Desktop, etc) that visits it and only serves the content that is required, helping to speed up delivery of your site.

Pop Gallery Tumblr Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Pop Gallery is a Tumblr theme for visual portfolios, galleries, handcrafts shops, with the unique possibility to present distinct thumbnails for new, sold and reserved items. It has a beautiful and clean design with circular thumbnails.

Ellisium – A Business Minded Tumblr Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Ellisium is a business minded Tumblr theme. Having a clean and open layout suitable for a corporate blog, ELLISIUM is the perfect companion for your company’s main website. It packs a very customizable homepage slider, that gracefully adapts to smaller screens—the perfect way to present your products or introduce your services. You can display up to four services blocks on the homepage, with a choice of bitmap or webfont icons. It also comes with “call to action” and “page hero” sections to round-up your homepage, a smart sticky sidebar and much, much more.

Gallera – MORE INFO / DEMO

“Gallera” is a clean and elegant gallery theme with subtle grunge background texture and custom typography. It’s best suited for photographers, artists and designers who want to showcase their work in the best possible way, but can be used as a web gallery or any other site where images take central part.

Litefolio – portfolio theme for Tumblr – MORE INFO / DEMO

Clean and minimalistic portfolio theme with jQuery slider for designers, photographers and illustrators. The theme comes with 30+ theme options for easy customization. Besides the usual Tumblr options for switching theme colors and fonts, there are lots of additional possibilities – you can upload your own logo or background image, write your own intro text, upload images for the slider, and many more. However, the theme supports only Photo and Text types of posts. Video, Links, Quotes, Chat and Audio are not supported.

Optic Responsive Tumblr Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Optic is a responsive Tumblr theme perfect for any blog type featuring the Masonry jQuery plugin. Showcase your artwork with complete focus on the post.Optic comes packed full of jQuery awesomeness and shows your posts in all their glory. Pick colors for any part of the theme so you can fully customise it the way you want.  Pick your favorite font from the Google fonts library and add it in using the themes options panel. The themes only image is the logo and the images you post it’s completely CSS.

Agency – Responsive Tumblr Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Agency is a beautifully minimalistic multi­purpose theme, free from gimmick and trend, making your talent the focal point of your portfolio. Present your work in a professional manner with a timeless design.

Athens Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Athens theme is perfect for normal blogging, portfolio, entertainments and everything you want to use it for. This theme is useful because is customizable and responsive. With the responsive layout which the template has, it is really easy to interact. It is easy to work with it when one uses Smart Phone, Tablet or desktop computer. It comes for three resolutions, which means it will come in 4, 3, 2 or 1 column depends on the screen resolution one is using.

The Catalog Tumblr Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

The Catalog is a simple yet very complete Tumblr Theme focused on getting all your photos, text, videos, audio in a catalog-like format. All posts are showed as thumbnails and you can see more by clicking them. It’s a responsive theme that works well in different screen sizes. It has a slider that fetches posted photos based on a special tag.

Cleanfolio – A Clean Tumblr Portfolio Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Cleanfolio is a premium tumblr portfolio theme designed to be as clean as possible in order to let your work take the stage. It is suitable for all kind of creative portfolios as well as for small businesses. Areas of the theme that you an change are the Slider , the Punchline , the Custom section and the Twitterfeed.

Capital – Tumblr Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Capital theme is a Tumblr theme that supports all post types with infinite scroll, upload Header Image and custom photo over options. It is also Disqus Comments and Google Analytics Ready.

PULIRE – Responsive Multipurpose Tumblr Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Pulire is a clean multipurpose, minimal theme for blogging system – Tumblr. You can easily change the overall view of the theme. The variety of custom options makes it a flexible theme – use it as your personal blog, corporate website or as a portfolio. You can customize it for your needs: change logo image, place your own photos in main slider, change background (image or color). PULIRE supports following post types: text, photo, photoset, audio, video, quote, AMA, chat and link. It is a fully responsive web design for all devices.

Mars Tumblr Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Clean and responsive magazine-style Tumblr theme. Comes with pre-defined dark and light themes. It’s responsive and mobile-friendly with its Photoset slider , responsive video and widgets such Twitter feed, Flickr feed, Disqus Comments  and Google Analytics.

Photographica Tumblr Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Photographica is a portfolio Tumblr theme aimed for photographers and other creative professionals. It’s versatile and easy to customize. It has Customizable navigation (based on tags), Google Analytics ready as well as for Social sharing: Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Pinterest.

Luomo – A Responsive & Expressive Tumblr Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Luomo is an expressive, responsive Tumblr theme. It is also designed to display your media at large sizes in big style, giving you great control over each post color palette. With Luomo, you can tailor each post to complement the way your content looks and feels. It adapts to the screen size of the device you’re using to view—your content will look awesome on any device.

Museo – A Bold Tumblr Portfolio Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Museo is a Bold & Beautiful Responsive Tumblr Portfolio Theme. This theme is intended for creative people with an image based portfolio, like photographers or webdesigners. As such it only supports the photo, photoset and video post types. Please do not purchase this theme if you need any other post types.

Pierre – A Super Clean Tumblr Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Pierre is a super clean Tumblr theme aimed at making your content the center of attention. Included is scalable typography and support for most social media types.Easy to customise with support for Disqus, Flickr, Twitter, Dribbble, Instagram, Google Adsense and Google Analytics. This theme gives a tailored view to each device (Android, iPhone, iPad, Desktop, etc) that visits itdelivery of your site and only serves the content that is required, helping to speed up .

Cor – A Fresh Tumblr Theme – MORE INFO /

Cor is a super-responsive, adaptive and fresh Tumblr theme. It is highly customizable and it is easy to navigate trough the posts. Almost everything can be changed, and of course it is written in the newest standards of HTML5 and CSS3

Free Tumblr Portfolio themes

Chapel Road – MORE INFO / DEMO

Chapel Road is a minimal, three-column theme, powered by Masonry and Infinite Scroll. Appearance options include Background image and color, Header image, Title size and color, Text color and Black and white images.

Justinfied – MORE INFO / DEMO

Justinfied is a theme that places content in the center of the browser window and adjusts to any screen size. Posts are sized and positioned based on their heights and are continuously paginated with infinite scroll. The fixed footer keeps relevant and important links on screen no matter where you are on the blog.

hasaportfolio  MORE INFO / DEMO

hasaportfolio is a free theme that turns your tumblr into a portfolio.

Star-Aurora  MORE INFO / DEMO

Star-Aurora is a simple grid theme with a header and menu – built on Masonry and Infinite Scroll.

Tumblofolio MORE INFO / DEMO

Tumblofolio is a Tumblr portfolio theme exclusively hand crafted for those whole wanted to show their work or photo gallery in the most authentic and in the best possible way. Some of the features of the theme : Support Photo, photoset and video post, Responsive Layout  and Photo slider.

Escape – MORE INFO / DEMO

Escape is a Tumblr portolio. The theme is able to fit the posts on to the screen regardless of size. If you resize the screen the posts will move around to fit perfectly on the web page.

The parallax effect has become a hot trend in web design and it is widely used in slider and even entire web pages. It is also possible to find WordPress themes with parallax scrolling effects directly implemented and this makes it easy and convenient ot set up a unique and interactive website.

With competing websites often counted in millions it is critical to stand out and give visitors an outstanding experience. This of course without making content hard to navigate and consume. One of the recent trends to achieve this goal is the use of the parallax scrolling effect. The parallax technique creates a simple but effective animated illusion of depth and makes web pages and sliders very dynamic and interactive for the users. The basic idea behind this is that difference in distance influence how we observe objects during movement. The closer an object is the faster it moves. Just imagine travelling by train at night while looking out the window.  The moon and the mountains in horizon barely moves while it is difficult to focus on trees near by passing your view in seconds.

The parallax effect is often implemented in content sliders and one page websites where scrolling down is part of the main navigation. Typical effects used are elements that fly in or move across the page as users scroll or background images that move with lower speed than the content in front of it. If you want to experience parallax effects in web design, this is a great source of inspiration if you check the demo links. In addition, I created a collection of some of the best parallax scrolling websites that I recommend you check out.

Below I have collected some of the best parallax scrolling WordPress themes to help you get started building parallax scrolling websites. Please share the article in social media and take a minute to leave a comment.

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SCRN – Responsive single page portfolio - MORE INFO / DEMO

SCRN is a single responsive portfolio and parallax scrolling wordpress theme. Perfect to promote your work or your business. Compatible with all modern mobile devices. Other than the minimalistic single page design, it also has a blog.

Harmony Band Parallax WordPress Theme - MORE INFO / DEMO

Harmony is a versatile WordPress theme for bands and musicians. This theme has all of the features that a band would need, including the ability to play songs, handle events, upload photo galleries and sell merchandise. Harmony’s style is bold and features big and beautiful background images that can be easily customized to give your page a unique look.

MAGNET – Creative Business WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

MAGNET is an interactive parallax scrolling WordPress theme for creative business or personal use. Choose the homepage that suits you or your business perfectly.

Eleven – WordPress Responsive One Page Parallax – MORE INFO / DEMO

Eleven is a One Page Template with Parallax Effect. With its Modern and clean style, it’s very easy to customize. This template is great for creative, digital agency, photography, business, corporate.

Salient – Responsive Portfolio & Blog Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Salient is an ultra responsive, beautiful parallax WordPress theme that is perfect for freelancers, photographers, designers and creative agencies alike. Its stunning design and layout capabilities will give your portfolio pieces the attention they deserve.

Apley – A mobile application landing page - MORE INFO / DEMO

Apley is a great way to show off your amazing application for any mobile device. It is possible to use a cool parallax effects on images – check the demo.

Dynamo – Multi-Purpose Business WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Dynamo is a clean, super flexible and fully responsive multipurpose WordPress theme! It has endless layout possibilities and is very intuitive to use and ready to operate out of the box. Dynamo has a tonne of great features including, 10 different page templates, feature slider, portfolio section, contact page, visual customizer, eCommerce ready, boxed and full-width layouts, array of homepage layouts, sidebar layouts, social links, google fonts, custom post styles and so much more.

Metabolic Responsive MultiPurpose Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Metabolic is an Ultra Responsive and easy-to-use WordPress theme. The design looks amazing on your Smartphone, Tablet, and Desktop. It includes parallax effect, fullscreen slider, gorgeous iconography, subtle CSS3 effects and lots of options that will allow you to create a unique and pro website in a minute.

Tokyo – Business WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Tokyo is a premium WordPress theme by Satori Studio. It is a fresh take on the concept of modern corporate website – uncompromisingly functional, clean, and vivid. Tokyo is a responsive theme, which means it adapts to the screen resolution of the viewing device: your website will be equally usable and good-looking on large monitors, laptops, tablet devices, and smartphones.

Impress – Responsive parallax single page theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Impress is a single responsive portfolio wordpress theme using parallax effects. Perfect to promote your work or your business. Is compatible with all modern mobile devices. Other than the minimalistic single page design, it also has a blog page.

Pulsar – Fully Responsive Parallax WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Check out Pulsar – Fully Responsive Parallax WordPress Theme. Pulsar is a fully configurable and easy to use WordPress parallax theme with a lot of great features. It has been specifically designed to be easily customized and it’s created for creatives who want to make portfolio in minutes.

Status – Parallax and modular Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Status is new parallax WordPress theme with modular and fully responsive layout. Theme is suited for business or portfolio websites. Theme includes lots of advanced features and functions and is based on solid backend framework.

QuickStep – Responsive One Page Portfolio Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

QuickStep is a clean and minimal one page portfolio theme. It uses CSS3 to responsively adapt to different screen widths so it looks good on any device. You can pick and choose all the colors on your site using the built-in color picker. Easily add some character to your site using the pre-packaged vector icons that can be set to any size or color. Content can be separated as well into different pages, loaded onto one page, or even loaded dynamically into the same page when a link is clicked. Choose from tons of options in how pages transition and at what speed.

Mercurial – One Page Parallax WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Mercurial is the simplest way to build your new website fast and easy! With its pre-made custom shortcodes, you will be able to create beautiful typographic effects, insert portfolios, skill bars, clients logos, social sharing icons, awesome sliders, pricing tables, build up incredible team pages, or even add your twitter feed in just seconds. This theme is perfect for freelancers, companies, product presentation, events, photographers, or why not even a non-conformistic blogger. Build up your new site however you like by inserting backgrounds or using just simple page colors, set the page dimensions to fullscreen or leave it to content height size, play with colors or font combinations etc.

Panels: One-Page Responsive WP Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Panels is a one-page responsive WordPress theme with a little twist. Each panel is organized using the WordPress menu system and utilizes AJAX to pull in pages using the built-in “Next Page” feature of WordPress. Panels utilizes the WordPress “theme customizer” that lets you make color/style changes with a LIVE preview of your edits.

Pilot Fish – MORE INFO / DEMO

Pilot Fish is an elegant portfolio theme with minimal design: featuring a custom post type to highlight projects and work, and parallax scrolling on the front page to display a featured image. Responsive layout makes it adaptive to mobile devices. Also Pilot Fish supports custom menus, post formats and is available in Japanese, Spanish and Russian.

Dreamer – Responsive One Page Parallax Template – MORE INFO / DEMO

Dreamer – Responsive One Page Parallax Template is a fully configurable and easy to use one page parallax template with a lot of great features. It has been specifically designed to be easily customized and it’s created for creatives who want to make portfolio in few minutes.

Diablo – Eye-candy Minimal Responsive WP Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Diablo is an eye-candy minimal and responsive WordPress theme build to power personal blogs / magazines, concerts or night clubs, complex photography or images related sites.  The theme comes with several eye-candy loading effects and lets you choose several parallax-scrolling effects for your posts.
Also, you can choose between the vertical and horizontal layouts and opt for infinite scrolling or pagination.

360 – Panoramic WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

360° is really a one-of-kind theme that integrates a panoramic layout full of options and features that will rock your inner most theme buying desires. 360° is fully responsive, fully kick-ass theme that gives the user total control to create, to exhibit, to showcase photography and imagery ranging from the artist or photographer to the local business wanting to showcase their store, from the jeweler who wants to create bold impressions or just the small mom & pop restaurant who wants to offer a tour of their business. The options are nearly unlimited.

907 – Responsive WP One Page Parallax – MORE INFO / DEMO

907 One Page Parallax WordPress Theme is a great one page WP theme with tons of options and features. Not only will the PARALLAX feature be on the main one page, but you can also select a DEFAULT PARALLAX section and even a “page section” to be displayed across all other pages. You can also change parallax, page sections per blog post/pages by choosing a different one or setting to none.

Parallaxr – Single Page Parallax WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Parallaxr is a first of it’s kind horizontal parallax based single page wordpress theme. With this theme you can design a website like Parallaxr in minutes. Parallaxr is perfect for designers, photographers, design agencies to showcase their portfolio. You can add up to 8 parallax elements (layers) and even adjust the speed of each element from the admin panel. All calculations are done automatically, which means, you don’t need any programming knowledge to set-up the theme.The parallax effect works perfectly on all screen resolutions and window resize.

Ego Onepage Parallax Responsive WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Ego is a sleek, fully responsive, onepage WordPress theme that screams with attitude. It boasts a fullscreen slider with custom captions, an AJAX portfolio and contact form, a blog and tons of styling options. Its the perfect WordPress theme for the freelancer or small design studio that wants to showcase their work in style.

AMAZE – WordPress Interactive Parallax Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Amaze is a stunningly unique and interactive creative parallax builder theme with unlimited foreground parallax layers on a fully responsive layout built using Bootstrap framework version 2.3.  The responsive layout is 100% stable and tested on all mobile devices including iOS mobile devices, Windows Phone and Android. Also includes original HTML5 version.

MINIMUM – Professional WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

MINIMUM is a high quality professional WordPress theme for modern business or interactive creative use. Choose between 3 fluid AJAX animations, create unlimited Parallax pages, add unlimited sliders & slides to each page using four types of built-in sliders, take advantage of awesome Revolution Slider. Build you web site using our highly intuitive and friendly to use framework.

CuckooTap – Responsive Single Page WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

CuckooTap is the best solution when you need an easy and effective way to introduce your company and share your works or products online. Can be used as a single page site as well as multiple page site. Theme is WooCommerce ready, thus you can use it for an online Shop as well. The theme is fully responsive and compatible with all modern mobile devices. CuckooTap Homepage Builder allows you to highlight main details and display your content in a modern way.
In addition, CuckooTap theme contains an integrated Portfolio Gallery and Blog and 3 Custom Post Types: Work, Team Member and Testimonials.

Montreal Interactive Creative WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Montreal is a unique modern interactive creative WordPress Theme, perfect for creative single portfolios or creative agencies. It offers fullscreen slideshow, parallax homepage scrolling 6 different portfolio versions 3 different portfolio single items, awesome blog layout, a fully working project planner a contact form and much more.

INCREATIVE Creative and Unique WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

An elegant WordPress theme for everyone. The theme has a fullscreen parallax backgrounds, custom gallery, twitter ticker, paginated portfolio layout and blog, awesome hover effects, and an ajax contact form and yet many more. The template offers a quick and easy setup.

Viewpoint – Responsive single page portfolio – MORE INFO / DEMO

Viewpoint is a single responsive portfolio wordpress theme with parallax effects. Perfect to promote your work or your business. Is compatible with all modern mobile devices. Other htan the minimalistic single page design, it also has a blog.

Slide One – One Page Parallax, Ajax WP Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Slide One is the most awesome one page theme. It makes your online presence more stunning with Super Cool Parallax background and Ajax post loading. You can set Logo, Background, Menu colors, Social Icon color individually for each pages.

B:LIV – Responsive Minimal WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

B:LIV (pronounced Believe) is a minimalist fully responsive WordPress theme inspired by Swiss design principles. Bold, clean typography along with fine touches of design elements will make your content stand out and keep your visitors happy.

WP-Theme: Balloons – MORE INFO / DEMO

Balloons is a one-column layout with parallax-scrolling effect. It comes with a color switcher and a three-column widgetized footer. It is responsive to your visitor’s screen size (computer / tablet / mobile phone) and a stylesheet for the WP-Pagenavi plugin is included; available in English and German.

Parallax- A Visually Stunning WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Parallax is a visually stunning, responsive WordPress theme designed to grab your visitors attention. Parallax features 2 color variations, a slick Parallax scrolling effect, is Widget Ready and more. Now in Version 2.1.2 and compatible with WordPress 3.0+

Crea WP – MORE INFO / DEMO

Crea WP is a flash-like WordPress premium theme. It utilizes the power of HTML5 to bring you stunning animated transitions between pages, awesome parallax backgrounds and 2 unique sliders (fade- and carousel-mode). HTML Template is also available.

Pen and Paper – Responsive WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Pen & Paper is a fully responsive, scrolling single page WordPress theme, made in a stylish, black and white design. Great for personal sites and portfolios.

Core – Responsive One Page WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Core – Responsive One Page WordPress Theme is a best selling responsive single page / multi-page theme for businesses, creatives, and individuals to quickly publish their portfolio, business info and image galleries! Six Themes in One Pack – Beauty Salon, Restaurant, Fitness, Photography, Portfolio & Multi-Purpose.

Reason – WordPress Responsive Parallax Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Reason is a very easy-to-use parallax portfolio theme with a stylish design. This theme is 100% responsive, layout is compatible across all mobile devices including iOS devices.

WordPress business themes are powerful website templates that help thousands of business owners to keep in touch with clients and customers online. A WordPress business website is an excellent showroom to present the company and its products in a professional and flexible way.

It’s a compelling marketing strategy to establishing an online presence, whether your company is a small local business or a giant corporation. A company website is an essential way of connecting with new and existing costumers. It can help you provide useful information about products and advertise the quality of service offered to customers. Through your company website you are also able to provide better customer care by attending to clients’ questions through WordPress chat solutions and ticket systems at any given time. Having this capability often require a specialized website theme with good features and excellent support. WordPress business themes are an excellent solution for this need.

Because its takes a lot of time to search out a perfect theme to suit your business needs, we decided to showcase the best WordPress business themes that you can adopt to your company website. Please let us know your thoughts about this collection and feel free to share this resource with your friends.

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The themes have been chosen because they are the best in terms of their cutting-edge design, smooth user interface, mobile ready and attractive layout, among other key features. Enjoy!

Premium WordPress Business Themes

Kickstart – Retina Responsive Multi-Purpose Theme – DEMO

Kickstart is a powerful and fun to work with premium WordPress theme. Carefully handcrafted and designed with ease of use, functionality and flexibility in mind. Take a moment to explore its features on this live preview demo website.

Enfold – Responsive Multi-Purpose Theme – DEMO

Enfold is a responsive WordPress Theme (try resizing your browser), suited for business websites, shop websites, and users who want to showcase their work on a neat portfolio site. The Theme is built on top of the fabulous Avia Framework and offers support for the WPML MULTI LANGUAGE plugin, just in case you need it.

SIMPLEPRESS WordPress Theme – DEMO

SimplePress is a simple and clean page-based corporate WordPress theme. It is great for anyone looking to give their website professional look and feel. The theme features a business style homepage with a beautiful well integrated JavaScript slider and clear hierarchy, as well as fully functional Blog and Gallery sections. Elegant themes has a affordable theme pack offering 80+ premium WordPress themes for only $39.

CoWorker | Responsive Retina Multi-Purpose Theme – DEMO

CoWorker is a Responsive Multipurpose Theme built for flexibility. Be it a Business, Portfolio, Corporate, Agency or any other kind of website, CoWorker will work just fine for you. Tons of Customizations are possible with this theme that’ll help you redefine your website’s brand value.

ProGreen – Retina Responsive Multi-Purpose Theme – DEMO

ProGreen is a responsive WordPress Theme suited for business websites and users who want to showcase their work on a neat portfolio site. The Theme is built with KODDE Framework V2 with a lot of new options and Page Builder V2 with drag and drop and resizable blocks. It features high quality photos on all types of devices. All icons are Retina. Easy Options – Skins, Layouts, Typography and other options easily changeable.

Pindol Premium WordPress Theme – DEMO

Pindol is a powerful and complete theme. You can choose if you want boxed or full width layout. Also you can choose patterns for content and background or set up own image. All patterns are included so everything is ready to use. Also if you do not want to create your own design you can just use  the .xml file  and get exactly the same page design as the demo site.

CHAMELEON – Business WordPress Theme – DEMO

We know chameleons  for their ability to change the color of their skin. The patterns and color combinations you find in chameleons are almost endless, and this theme is no different! Chameleon was created to be a uncomplicated and professional theme with loads of customization options that do not require web development experience to utilize. Elegantthemes has an affordable theme pack offering 80+ premium WordPress themes for only $39.

KALLYAS – Responsive Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme – DEMO

Kallyas is an ultra-premium, highly-responsive WordPress theme built for modern websites. It’s extreme popular, super flexible, with clean design (and code), without no modesty – one of the most complete theme you can get your hands on. It has the latest technologies and trends – Amazing customizable Page Builder, Smart Loader, SEO Ready, WPML Ready, Huge variety of sliders (also premium licensed ones) and more.

Fusion WordPress Theme – DEMO

Fusion is a sleek and flashy theme that melds fun and professionalism into one awesome package. It is perfect for for startups, tech companies or design firms. This theme will impress your visitors with its cutting edge style. It also comes packaged with tons of great features, such as responsive design, custom background images and more! Flexible is perhaps the most feature-rich gallery theme from Elegant themes yet. Elegant themes has a affordable theme pack offering 80+ premium WordPress themes for only $39.

Nevia – Responsive Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme – DEMO

Nevia is a premium Responsive Multi-Purpose WordPress theme created for corporate and portfolio websites with support for WooCommerce. It features a very clean, responsive design that is perfect for creating professional image of your company.

King Power – Retina Ready Multi-Purpose Theme – DEMO

King Power is a super premium multi-purpose WordPress theme. It’s clean, responsive with retina ready design. This theme also supports theme customizer which allow you to change theme element’s color in the front end. More over, admin panel and page builder in this theme is awesome. You can also switch the content layout to Boxed/Full style easily via admin panel.

Flexform – Retina Responsive Multi-Purpose Theme – DEMO

Flexform is the ultimate multi-purpose WordPress theme. It’s super responsive, retina ready, and built upon the 1170px Twitter Bootstrap framework. Featuring a clean, modern, and superbly slick design, packed with the most powerful Swift Framework which offers limitless possibilities. The incredible Swift Page Builder is at the core of our framework, giving you the control to create sites that do your content justice. With so many features, tools, variations and options to offer, it’s the last corporate theme we think you’ll ever need.

Lucid WordPress Theme – DEMO

Lucid is a sleek and modern magazine theme that does a great job displaying tons of content while at the same time avoiding the feeling of clutter. Clean design elements and a strict grid give the theme an organized layout that is a pleasure to read. Lucid is also fully responsive, meaning that the design will adapt to mobile phones and tablets for a more intuitive browsing experience. Flexible is perhaps the most feature-rich gallery theme from Elegant themes yet. Elegant themes has a affordable theme pack offering 80+ premium WordPress themes for only $39.

Business Essentials Premium WordPress Theme – DEMO

Business Essentials was written from the ground up with the modern business in-mind. From the elegant, clean and easy to read text, to the various fully featured page templates including staff, careers, home, and case studies your site looks gorgeous on a big screen all the way down to mobile with it’s responsive design.

Ultra Responsive Multipurpose WordPress Theme – DEMO

Ultra is a clean and responsive multipurpose WordPress theme perfect for your nextbusiness website. The theme has seemingly tons of options thanks to the beautiful boxed and full width layouts, multiple header styles, unlimited background options, shortcode page layouts, stunning custom post types (for portfolios, staff, services, FAQs, and testimonials), Google font options, clean code that has been SEO optimized, support for Yoast breadcrumbs, some great custom widgets and much more.

GoodChoice – Responsive Multi-Purpose Theme – DEMO

Powerful WP Theme designed in a clean and minimalistic style. This theme is very flexible, easy for customizing and well documented, approaches for personal and professional use.

One Touch – Multifunctional Metro Stylish Theme – DEMO

This is a MetroUI style WordPress theme with 3 different layout options. It is a cool template that will work well on almost any WordPress based business site. Styles are included for WooCommerce so you will be able to create a shop catalog with on your site. The theme comes with lots of features. Lots of Shortcodes, Page Templates and Theme Options will give good customization options and full control.

Blue Diamond – Responsive Corporate WP Theme – DEMO

Blue Diamond is a premium WordPress Theme for your business. It’s clean, minimal, with modern style. This theme also come with ‘Layer Slider’ which allow you to manage each slider element by drag drop module. With Blue Diamond, you can manage each page easily with the ‘Page Builder’. Moreover, with the admin panel, you can control any elements easily and you can change almost every elements color easily!

BUILDER – Responsive Multi-Purpose Theme – DEMO

This is a powerful WordPress Theme designed in a clean and minimalistic style. This theme is very flexible, easy for customizing and well documented. If you want to use images and portfolio to promote your business this theme might be a good choise. It has been coded in HTML5 & CSS3 and jQuery. It has a solid flexible responsive layout that scales from 320px to 1260px width.

Nevada – Responsive Multi-Purpose Theme – DEMO

Nevada is a responsive multi Purpose WordPress theme with a lot of useful features. It features an amazing Page Builder, revolution slider, 9 Powerful Predefined Templates, 7 Predefined Colors, Simple Custom Contact Form Builder, Shortcodes, 500+ Google fonts, 8 custom widgets, Nevada is fully translation ready and much more.

Nimble — Multipurpose WordPress Theme – DEMO

Nimble is a powerful, multi-purpose theme that will help you to build practically any business site, from large corporate sites with a catalog of products to studio sites with portfolio, photo albums and video gallery. It is responsive and retina-ready meaning, you do not need to choose between responsive and beautiful! Nimble also has 6 slider and a revolutionary layout builder.

U-Design WordPress Theme – DEMO

This theme is a real best seller at Themeforet. U-Design will easily help you to set any color to elements such as backgrounds, links, text, menu links, etc. The marvellous thing is that it empowers you to  change the look and feel quite easy. It’s a powerful theme which suits both, users with no programming background, as well as, advanced developers. There is a lot of powerful features, and you can choose from over 200 fonts, including Google Font Directory and Cufón fonts. A key factor is SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and SEO actually has been made a priority when designing this theme.

Avada – Responsive Multi-Purpose Theme – DEMO

The Avada theme is clean, flexible and has a fully responsive design. It is packed with options and has powerful customization options plus lots of impressive features,  layer slider,  flex slider plugin, unlimited colors, unlimited sidebars, custom post types, 500+google fonts, 11 custom widgets, tons of short codes, 4 post types, multiple portfolio and blog layout options, ratings system, SEO optimized, and is translation ready.It also comes with free support.

MetroStyle – Responsive All Purpose WordPress Theme – DEMO

This theme can be applied to any business needs and give your website a fresh, new look. The theme has lots of customization features. Easy color and image selection with many design settings can help you transform MetroStyle into a remarkable business selling tool. The MetroStyle theme is SEO optimized and uses only CSS for fast loading.

Inspired Responsive Business WordPress Theme – DEMO

Inspired is a responsive wordpress theme that comes packed with twenty flexible skins suited for your business website! It has a user friendly admin panel which comes with 500+ options. The developers have put their energy into the blog, portfolio, and post types, giving you TONS of options, so you are in complete control of your posts.

Modernize – Flexibility of WordPress – DEMO

Modernize includes a useful ‘Page Builder’ that allow you to create your own page designs easily using the drag-drop module. Modernize comes with a lot of other options and the admin panel is very feature rich. You can create unlimited sidebars, choosing over 350 fonts or if you want to use your own, there is a cufon uploader. The theme has 15 predefined background pattern, but if you want to use your own background, again, the theme has a custom background uploader. You can also translate each elements to your language from the admin panel.

Bigbang – Responsive WordPress Template – DEMO

BigBang WordPress theme is a clean responsive theme with lots of layout, post and page formats. The theme has a truck load of features like photostream widgets, social icons, google typography, flex slider, short codes and much more.

Businessplus – DEMO

BusinessPlus is a feature-rich business theme that perfect for the creative agency, freelancer or general business. Professionally Designed and Developed – High efficiency & clean PHP/HTML/CSS, SEO Semantic Code. Custom Posts Types (Featured Slides, Mini Features, Testimonials, etc.), Beautiful Portfolio Page, Custom-Built Shortcodes, Useful Page Templates (Archives, Authors, Blog, Contact Form, Full Width, Sitemap, Redirect, etc.)

RT-Theme 17 Responsive WordPress Theme – DEMO

RT-Theme 17 is a premium WordPress theme with powerful CMS tools. You can use it for business, corporate, product catalog, services or portfolio web sites. The product and portfolio tools also give you wide opportunities to use in various services as tour itineraries, rent a car, real estate, hotel presentations and much more. RT-Framework offers a rock solid theme back-end with tons of useful tools and options.

Striking Premium WP Theme – DEMO

Striking is one of the most in-demand WordPress business theme existing now. It has tons of extraordinary features which are not found in ordinary WordPress themes. “It is the theme you buy when you want to create a website in every way you imagined possible.” One of the features is its Cross Browser Compatible including IE 9 and latest, Firefox. It also boasts of 4 Different Sliders! Nivo slider! Anything Slider! 3d flash Image Rotator! Accordion slider! Each has a complete control set. With Striking sliders you can display images, video, text, captions, iframes, and more. These are just few of the great features that this theme has.

Sterling - Responsive WordPress Theme – DEMO

Sterling is a fully Responsive WordPress Theme built on a highly intelligent framework. It’s the perfect theme for everyone in need of a professional online presence. Whether your a wordpress pro or just a beginner, you’ll have absolutely no problems at all working with this theme.

Free WordPress Business Themes

Hero WordPress Business Theme – MORE INFO

A very neat and clean black and red business theme. The theme supports widgets. And features theme-options, threaded-comments and multi-level dropdown menu. A simple and neat typography

Gridiculous free Responsive WP Theme – DEMO

Gridiculous is a responsive Business theme created from the grid boilerplate layout. It will work perfectly in tablets, desktops and mobile devices. You can make a unique website design by selecting your own background image, colors, header image, page layout, link color, site width and other features included in the theme customizer. Gridiculous supports 8 post formats for distinguishing your posts. It has a Lightbox style jQuery image switcher that will allow you to display all of your galleries easily. The theme also has two Google fonts. The theme has free dedicated support.

Responsive free WP Theme – DEMO

Responsive Theme is very flexible and the fluid grid system will adapt your website to look great on any device. This is important for your business with more and more people surfing the Internet from mobile devices. It is a feature rich theme with 9 page templates, 11 widget areas, 6 template layouts, 4 menu positions and more. You will get powerful but simple theme options for full CMS control with easy logo upload,social networking and webmaster tools etc. Responsive is WooCommerce compatible, multilingual ready (WPML), Retina-Ready and currently translated into 28 languages. Cross-Browser compatible and FREE Support.

Catch Box free Theme – DEMO

Lightweight, adaptable, box shaped and simple – the Catch Box free WordPress theme is for both professionals and bloggers. The theme is based on CSS3 and HTML5 while a responsive web design allows viewing from different devices. Catch box is among the free WordPress themes that has the WPML or Multilingual Ready feature, and is presently translated into Danish, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. Among the various reasons for using Catch Box are responsive web design, theme options, custom menus, featured sliders, social links, webmaster tools, custom backgrounds, adspace widget, popular plugin support and custom header.

BizPress Free WordPress Theme – DEMO

BizPress is an amazing free WordPress theme that can be used with any type of content. Easy to use administrative panel, custom widgets, an eye catching related posts and lots of other powerful features provide a great base to build on.

Pitch free WordPress theme – DEMO

This free theme is a minimal, simple portfolio and business theme. Add your contents easily through its custom post types and place your work at the center and front using the large bold slider.

Target free WP Theme – DEMO

A black and white theme for business that is clean and neat, Target supports widgets and has a simple typography. The features include threaded comments, dropdown multilevel menu and theme options.

zeeSynergie free Business Theme – DEMO

This theme has a couple of columns that are incorporated into the sleek and elegant design – ideal for a small business or blog sites. There is a fine theme option panel that will allow you to upload your own logo. A choice of 9 color schemes is available but you can opt for your own by using the Colorpicker. zeeSynergie also comes with a feature post slider that has three options, which are dropdown, fade and horizontal. Other features include social media buttons, dropdown navigation, custom footer and banner ads widgets.

Impulse Free WordPress Theme – MORE INFO

How To Choose The Right WordPress Business Theme

How To Choose The Right WordPress Business Theme Choosing a perfect match WordPress theme for your business will begin with asking your self the following questions. You need to know what is important for you and determine what features your website will need.

1. What is the purpose of building a business website?

If you have decided to invest money and time in building a business website, it will have to serve a purpose. You should be aware of the key reasons why you do this. Maybe you want attract more customers or be able to communicate your with more people? Knowing exactly what your website purpose is will make it clear to you what features and functions you need. Do you want to capture leads? Then you most likely will need a strong landing page and a sign-up form. If your company is a local artwork business, then maybe you need a powerful presentation with Google map integration and an engaging image slider. So what is the most critical features you will need to look for in a WordPress theme?

2. Who is your typical visitor?

You need to have a clear picture of your customers. What will make them feel comfortable and help them trust your company? The layout, color scheme, typography and navigation features needed will depend on the personality and background of your typical visitor. What does your typical visitor want and how will this affect your choice?

3. What actions do you want visitors to do on your website?

The actions you want your visitors to do and the way you are going to make them will depend on your purpose and the typical visitor. If you have certain actions that your visitors should be doing on your website this could put demands on the theme you are looking for. Maybe you want visitors to rate your products and be able to buy them online? This will require a rating system and e-commerce features. So what are the most important steps that your visitors should go through on your website?

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Moving business online is one of the big opportunities of our time. With OpenCart – a popular open source PHP-based online e-commerce solution and some OpenCart themes or Opencart templates this is not as hard as it used to be. OpenCart is known to be easy to install it supports templates very well, have many add on packages and simply offers the features and capabilities needed by most Internet merchants. Opencart have order management and multiple payment gateways already built in and the developer provides lifetime free support and free software updates. Almost too good to be true right. What makes it even more attractive is the large availability of professional templates for Opencart. You see besides having the right products and doing intensive Internet marketing your shops look and feel, structure and ability to convert is essential to your success.

In this article, I provide you with a list of really great templates for OpenCart making it easier for you to pick the right one and get started ASAP. With OpenCart (download here) and one of these Opencart themes, you can have a great looking and professional shop up and running on no time. You can watch one of these screencasts if you want to know more about OpenCart. Another great and recently quite popular way to build an online shop is using WordPress e-commerce themes and especially WooCommerce themes have done well lately. I just updated this article with fresh responsive Opencart templates and checked all links.

Disclosure: Please note that some of the links below are affiliate links and I will earn a commission if you purchase through those links (at no extra cost to you). I recommend that you do your own independent research before purchasing any product or service. This article is not a guideline, a recommendation or endorsement of specific products.

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• Mobile ready and responsive OpenCart Templates
• OpenCart templates without responsive layout

Mobile ready and responsive OpenCart Templates

Cupid – R.Gen OpenCart Store Template - MORE INFO / DEMO

Cupid – R.Gen OpenCart Store Template is a premium OpenCart theme with advanced admin module. It’s highly customizable, easy to use and fully responsive. Suitable for all kind of store. It is a best suit for your custom projects.

Bigshop – Multi-Purpose Responsive OpenCart Theme - MORE INFO / DEMO

Bigshop is a clean and Fully Responsive to use the theme for every kind of eCommerce online shop. Great Looks on Desktops, Tablets and Mobiles. I have add Auto Complete Field In search bar part & add Accordion in Categories module. option to change the color theme, choose your Google Web fonts. Well Documented with and installation guide.

Journal – Premium & Responsive OpenCart Theme - MORE INFO / DEMO

Journal is a modern, retina ready and responsive OpenCart theme built with the latest web technologies. It introduces many innovative features and offers hundreds of customizable options, giving you total control over your store. Journal can be as simple and clean or as complex and colorful as you want it to be.

LagonShop – Premium OpenCart Theme - MORE INFO / DEMO

LAGON is 100% Responsive Opencart theme e-commerce theme created to suit all customers needs and all types of products.

SHOPPICA – Premium Opencart Theme - MORE INFO / DEMO

Shoppica is a stylish premium OpenCart theme. The clean and modern design allows you to use the theme for every kind of online shop. In combination with the powerfull option to change all the element’s color, Shoppica theme give you the possibility to make a unique e-commerce website that stands out of the crowd!

MetroShop – Responsive OpenCart theme - MORE INFO | DEMO

This template is 100% responsive. It is good to look at in whatever monitor or screen you are using. It also offers multiple screen layouts and has advanced sliders plus effects. This template will only cost you $40 for a regular license. It offers 24/7 customer service support so it’s good for people who have keen attention to details and standards.

ThingsforCuties Responsive OpenCart Baby Template - MORE INFO / DEMO

“Things for cuties” is a sweet and colorful OpenCart template, perfect suitable for baby / child / kids candy, toys, clothing or fashion e-commerce online shop / store websites.

SELLEGANCE – Responsive and Clean OpenCart Theme - MORE INFO / DEMO

Sellegance is a responsive and still very elegant OpenCart theme. When implementing responsive design web developers make sure the pages adjust automatically to the screen size. This allow your shop to be viewed and look great in browsers, tablets and smartphones. There is no need for building a dedicated mobile theme. Try the demo and resize the browser window to see the responsive design in action. Sellegance has been built using the 960 grid system and adapt.js for responsive features.

Metro – Multi-Purpose Responsive OpenCart Theme - MORE INFO / DEMO

MetroStyle is a Responsive OpenCart Theme. Clean and fully responsive to use the theme for every kind of eCommerce online shop. Easy color with design settings. It is well documented with installation guide.

Cleve Modern & Responsive OpenCart Theme - MORE INFO / DEMO

Cleve is a modern, responsive and very advanced OpenCart template. It includes 10 color versions, several background images, cloud zoom and other features.

Onestar Theme – Premium OpenCart Theme - MORE INFO / DEMO

Onestar theme is a premium OpenCart theme that has a lot of customization options. It supports unlimited colors, a responsive design, elegant slideshow, 9 PSD files, carousel products and an elegant slideshow.

EVERASHOP Responsive OpenCart Theme - MORE INFO / DEMO

EveraShop is a modern Premium OpenCart theme that fits to any type of bussines (Clothes, Watches, Shoes, Furniture,…). It’s main feature is a clean and attractive design which sells everywhere. EveraShop is a responsive theme that allows your store to sell even on mobile devices like iPad,iPhone, Android mobile, & others!

BigOne – responsive premium OpenCart theme - MORE INFO / DEMO

BigOne is an advanced OpenCart theme suitable for most types of e-commerce web sites. The theme is coming with totally reworked layout and huge amount of visual effects and custom features. It is not only visually appealing, but also built with the modern e-commerce tendencies and best SEO practices in mind. Whether you’re looking for a new skin for your existing Opencart based store or a template to modify for your client, BigOne is the right choice.

Shoppiza Responsive HTML5 OpenCart Theme - MORE INFO / DEMO

Shoppiza Responsive Html5 Opencart theme (e-commerce) is a unique opencart design with a lot of custom options added for more flexibility and best appearance. It is suitable for any type of products.

Start Online Store Responsive OpenCart Theme - MORE INFO / DEMO

Start Online Store is a Premium OpenCart Theme. The design is responsive and works on all devices with a minimum resolution of 320px. It’s very easy to edit and customize.

AquaCart – a Responsive OpenCart Template - MORE INFO | DEMO

It is a premium open cart responsive template with FREE banners included! It has a clean design and code that ensures more usability and looks. It is very well documented and is a breeze to set up and customize.

Perfectum Premium Responsive OpenCart Theme - MORE INFO / DEMO

Perfectum is a universal 100% responsive OpenCart Premium theme for any kind of shop with stylish modern design and powerful backend and it’s created with using the latest HTML5 and CSS3 features. Admin panel with easy navigation and 300+ configuration options allows you to change every thing in theme without learning HTML or CSS. You can manage colors of heme elements, select 500+ amazing fonts, apply 200+ pattern backgrounds and setup hundreds of theme settings and effects.

Shoppa – Multi-Purpose OpenCart Theme - MORE INFO / DEMO

Shoppa is a multi-purpose ecommerce theme and template with a responsive and mobile friendly layout. There are many great options for featuring products.

OpenCart templates without responsive layout

SPICYLICIOUS – Premium OpenCart theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Spicylicious is a very advanced OpenCart theme suitable for various kind or e-commerce web sites coming with totally reworked layout and huge amount of JS visual effects.

WHITESHOP – Opencart Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Cool minimal opencart theme.

BeautyShop – Premium OpenCart theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

This is a premium Responsive OpenCart theme with powerful admin panel, different layouts and unlimited colors! Responsive means that your mobile visitors will get an excellent experience on your web shop.

SPORTSTORE – Premium OpenCart Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

SportStore is a colorful theme designed to be specifically useful for building an online sports store. There”s a lot of theme options making it possible to adjust some look and feel without need for coding. The color of theme elements like navigation, text etc. is very flexible.

ELEGANSHOP- Premium OpenCart Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Eleganshop is a clean, beautiful and simple OpenCart theme for any type of store. Everything is controlled from the admin panel.

SHOPCART – Opencart Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

ShopCart is a very powerful Open Cart theme which suits both store owners who want nice looking, easy to customise theme and developers, who are looking for a powerful, easy to customize solution for their customers. This Opencart template have a really great looking store front page and a clean and simple layout.

FASHOPPER- Premium OpenCart Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Fashopper theme is a fashion, clothes and apparel OpenCart theme.

USTORE Premium OpenCart Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

uStore is a responsive, clean and beautiful Open Cart theme. using CSS3 effects for uStore Open Cart theme. Everything is controlled from the admin panel. SEO friendly – different meta descriptions and keywords for each product and category.

KINDER – 4 in 1 Premium OpenCart template – MORE INFO / DEMO

Kinder is a visually beautiful, technically advanced Open Cart theme. It comes with 4 colour schemes (blue and cool, black and elegant, green and vibrant, orange and warm) so you can choose the one that will suit your taste. The design is clean and attractive and it’s packed with some nice jQuery effects making it a better shopping experience for your customers.

YOURCART – Opencart Premium Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Yourcart theme is clean, decent and easy to install and gives wide range of OpenCart version compatibility. You don’t need any HTML /CSS knowledge to install this theme, just need to upload, and select that’s it. Many elements are editable from admin.

MODERN STORE – OpenCart Template – MORE INFO / DEMO

ModernStore is a very advanced premium theme for OpenCart. The modern and universal design is suitable for almost every e-commerce site: kids boutiques, fashion stores, accessories, cosmetics, electronics, furniture or pet shop.

SANCART – Opencart Template – MORE INFO / DEMO

Sancart a clean elegant professional shopping cart template made for opencart.

VASCO STORE – MORE INFO / DEMO

Vasco is a clean and modern template made for OpenCart. It uses beautiful Nivo Slider to present your featured products on the home page in order to decrease user’s clicks and increase your sales. The theme is kept throughout in warm and elegant colours and is a fantastic option for e-stores wanting to sell online. All the files + step-by-step installation guide are included and it will take you less than 10 minutes to install vasco.

MY STOCK IMAGE SHOP – Opencart Template – MORE INFO / DEMO

My Stock Image Shop Opencart Template helps you to sell stock stuff online using opencart Template best suits to sell stock images, e-books.

SIMPLE CART – Opencart Template – MORE INFO / DEMO

CART MANIA – MORE INFO / DEMO

CartMania is very advanced, Premium Opencart theme suitable for different types of e-shops.

SANSTORE – MORE INFO / DEMO

Sanstore Opencart template supports latest version. Available with two slight variations.

BLACK OPENCART TEMPLATE – MORE INFO / DEMO

Clean Black Opencart Template works with latest version. The layout is an 3 column.

GECCO SHOP – MORE INFO / DEMO

Elegant shop design with more than 20 styles page templates.

Creative Opencart Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Creative theme is very clean, decent and easy to install and gives wide range of OpenCart version compatibility. You don’t need any HTML /CSS knowledge to install this theme, just need to upload, and select that’s it. Two structures available for home page.

BASICO – Premium OpenCart Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

BASICO is a very clean and light OpenCart theme with good flexibility when it comes to adjusting the design.

GENTLE – MORE INFO / DEMO

Gentle is a powerful, aesthetically pleasing theme made especially for OpenCart 1.5. It comes with many custom options and powerful theme panel, which allows you to change virtually anything about its appearance. You can fully customise the theme, change its colours by using colour pickers and fonts by using drop – down menus. It has a built in support for Google Fonts, so it will do all the work (linking to the selected font and changing the stylesheet) dynamically for you. Additionally, it takes advantage of all the new features introduced in OpenCart 1.5, such as slideshows, banners, reward points, grid – list product listings, wish lists and many, many more.

Ribbon OpenCart Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Great looking OpenCart theme for most types of online shops and indeed for tech and gadget shops.

Using maps on web pages and in mobile Apps have become really popular recently. The explosion in number of sold mobile devices with Internet and GPS have made it common to integrate map functions into many types of online applications. Mobile users simply love to see locations of interest tagged on an up to date map. As a web designer, if you need to add maps to your creative designs, you have the possibility to kick-start your work by using map and navigation PSD designs.

Once you reach the implementation phase, there are also many cool jQuery scripts available for integrating Google map services which is why using dynamic maps it is not as difficult as it used to be. In addition, you can find WordPress themes with map functions integrated and this makes it very easy to build website with content mapped onto a map.

In this article, I have collected more than 50 useful map and navigation PSD files you can download freely. The article have been categorized into map PSDs and pins, markers, and navigation Icons PSDs to make it easy for you to find the design elements you need.

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Article Index

• Free Map PSD files
• Pins, Markers, and Navigation Icons PSDs

Free Map PSD Files

SF Immigrant Toolkit – MORE INFO

Map Pins & Tooltips (PSD) – MORE INFO

3D Map Pack – MORE INFO

Map Controls PSD – MORE INFO

Google Map UI Kit – Free PSD Files – MORE INFO

Colorful Map Tags – MORE INFO

Map, Pin & Tooltip (PSD) – MORE INFO

Map Overlay – MORE INFO

Graphic World Map Set with Pins PSD – MORE INFO

Map UI – MORE INFO

Google Maps UI Controls (PSD) – MORE INFO

Map Pop Up (PSD) – MORE INFO

Google Maps UI Kit Freebie – MORE INFO

Free PSD Map Pin – MORE INFO

User Bubble – MORE INFO

Google Maps Bubble Freebie (.PSD) – MORE INFO

Clean Crisp Map Tooltip Pins Set PSD – MORE INFO

Flip Over Map – MORE INFO

Road Map – MORE INFO

Classy Custom Gmaps Tooltip Overlay PSD – MORE INFO

World Map & Pin (PSD) – MORE INFO

Map Markers – MORE INFO

Map icon – MORE INFO

Map (FPEW) – MORE INFO

PSD world map icon – MORE INFO

Map PSD – MORE INFO

Complex Map Pop Up Window – Free PSD File Template – MORE INFO

PSD Pixel World Maps – MORE INFO

6 Free Pixel World Maps – MORE INFO

Dotted world map – MORE INFO

Pins, Markers, and Navigation Icons PSDs

Map Pins Free PSD – MORE INFO

Free Vector Map Location Pins – MORE INFO

Shiny little map pins – MORE INFO

Google Maps Controls – MORE INFO

Map Pins – MORE INFO

Map Location Pins (PSD) – MORE INFO

Bulb Map Markers Collection (Free PSD) – MORE INFO

Map Pointers – Free fully scalable psd – MORE INFO

Map Markers, Flags & Pins PSD – MORE INFO

Everyday use map pins psd freebie – MORE INFO

High resolution google map PSD – MORE INFO

Markers for maps – MORE INFO

Map Icons / Markers Collection (PSD) – MORE INFO

Maps Replacement Icon – MORE INFO

Psd Location Map Pins Pack – MORE INFO

Colored Pins PSD – MORE INFO

PSD pushpin icons – MORE INFO

Map Marker Icons (PSD) – MORE INFO

Maps Replacement Icon – MORE INFO

GPS navigation icons Part-1 – MORE INFO

GPS navigation icons Part-2 – MORE INFO

Transport Pointers – MORE INFO

Location Marker – MORE INFO

Map UI Controls Freebie – MORE INFO

Folded Map .PSD Free Download – MORE INFO

Author : Lars Vraa

Lars started tripwire magazine back in January 2009. He is really passionate about web design, web development, SEO, social media and loves to look into new technologies, techniques, tools etc. and to write articles for tripwire magazine readers.

With WordPress retro themes you can quickly setup a retro style website that stands out from the competition. Retro web design is really popular right now and you may wonder why. I think many people are drawn to the idea of taking something old, outdated and worn out and bring it back into the modern world, and make it work again and look great. Just consider the reaction people have when a well-equipped car from the 60s pass by on the street with a lot of noise and smoke. In interior decorating, we have seen old posters put back on the walls and old toys have been taken down form the loft and used as decoration in living rooms etc.

The word “retro” derives from the Latin prefix retro. The meaning of Retro is backwards, or simply in past times. Retro as art or design style is probably best known from the pop art genre developed in the 1940s and 1950s and commonly used on retro posters from that time.

If you are into graphic or web design, you have probably noticed that many designers use retro elements in their designs or even create complete retro style websites. Some companies even use retro design in their branding and logos. It is about reintroducing outdated designs from the 50s and 60s and make them popular again by mixing old and new. We also start to see outdated 80s design styles show up and who know; neon colors and sharp corners may be the next retro wave.

The typical characteristics of retro design as it is used right now is really bold colors, big dominating uppercase typography often with big and bold shade and mixed with script fonts. Often designers use weathered and beaten up illustrations with a 50s and 60s style and they add noise and distressed textured to make the design elements look really old. Also we often see bold single colored shapes behind the typography in retro design; commonly as badges, ribbons and shield shapes.

OK, so what if you already fell in love with retro style and want to build a retro style website. One of the best options for getting started is checking out some retro style WordPress themes. WordPress is the most popular publishing platform right now and the availability of professional themes and functional extensions is amazing. In this article, I have collected the best and boldest WordPress retro themes and I am sure you will be able to find a good match for your website project. Keep in mind that some people also call this design trend for vintage and some themes in the genre may be called vintage WordPress themes. Please, if you like this post I would love if you could help me by sharing it on social media.

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Fox – WordPress Theme - MORE INFO / DEMO

The Fox WordPress Theme is a Retro style perfect for creatives looking to showcase their work. This theme focus on featuring the designers portfolio and connects to Dribbble to display your latest shots.

Halftone – Retro WordPress Theme - MORE INFO / DEMO

Responsive WordPress Theme perfect for Creative portfolio showcase and personal blog/portfolio style websites. Feature blog and work posts on the front page, set a Google map and contact form on the contact page.

Retro Portfolio – One Page Vintage WordPress Theme - MORE INFO / DEMO

“Retro Portfolio” is a WordPress Retro-style theme. It consists on a one-page portfolio with a blog and a contact section featuring a Ajax contact form.

IndieFest WordPress Retro Theme - MORE INFO

This big epic visual band theme was designed for indie rockers, folk artists, grassroots pop stars, and outdoor music festivals. It’s cheerful, ominous, moody, epic, laid back, summery — whatever you need it to be.

Vintage Immersed – Multipurpose WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Vintage WordPress theme – Unique in design, rich in features and easy to use as you see it. Multi Purpose and responsive as we said, it is designed to display creative portfolio, photo gallery, modern business blog etc.,

Acid – Unique Horizontal Blog and Portfolio Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Acid is a love child of Metro and One-Page Desings that you already adore!

Alveera – Responsive HTML5 Single Page WordPress – MORE INFO  / DEMO

Alveera is a single page wordpress template with a little retro look. With the combnination of nice color variation and pleasing design it can be user for both personal and professional sites.

Delimondo Responsive WordPress Theme | 5 Styles – MORE INFO / DEMO

Delimondo is a powerful WordPress Template built for restaurants and food lovers. The template automatically adapts to window resolution and looks fantastic on all devices! We also took into account that not all users are experienced web developers, so we have included a description.

Benissimo — Vintage Style WooCommerce Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

«Benissimo» is the WordPress template, which is made in a vintage style. Keeping pace with the times we offer a truly high-quality solution. Combined with a thoughtful and carefully elaborated design, «Benissimo» will leave no one to be indifferent. Using this theme you can not only increase conversions quality and number of positive reviews but also make a pretty good surprise to your customers.

Lucky Times. Responsive. – MORE INFO / DEMO

Lost World – Travel, Hotel Woo Commerce WordPress – MORE INFO / DEMO

Responsive Woo Commerce WordPress theme for Travel, Hotel Business andtravel blogging, tourism, adventure websites. The theme will be a gifted choice to Nature lovers, Adventure travelers, travel agents, consultants. You can peel the travel part of it and build your own eCommerce store, Retro blog, Hotel Website, in minutes.

Bonjour – Cafe & Restaurant WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Cafe Bonjour is a WordPress one page template, best fit for cafe and restaurant websites. The template has a classic style favor, it’s vintage looks making it suitable for classy, exquisite caffeterias, as well as luxury and exclusivist restaurants

Hipster: Retro Responsive WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Hipster WordPress is a cool responsive WordPress theme with an awesome retro style design. If fits well for most personal or business website. Hipster’s fully responsive design looks great no matter what device you’re viewing it on, desktop, tablet, mobile phone, etc. Customize your site with the extensive options panel using over 30 backgrounds patterns, full screen rotating background images, and 2 page layout styles (stretched or boxed). Check out the custom mobile menu that was created for small screens! Hipster is full of premium plugins to build your dream website, tons of page layouts, and oh ya.. did we mention the awesome retro style design?!

RetroPress – MORE INFO / DEMO

RetroPress is one of the best stylish and clean retro themes for WordPress blog. It has designs which are good-looking. It contains powerful functionality that allow you to create amazing retro blog.

Sky WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Sky floats above the pack in style and its sense of whimsy is sure to leave your visitors surprised and refreshed. Sky is unique in the way 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.

GOLDEN – Responsive Vintage WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

GOLDEN is a beautifully elegant, visually stunning, and multi-functional vintage inspired WordPress theme. Perfect to use, from freelancer to agency, and everything in between. The template is fully responsive, and looks amazing on your Smartphone, Tablet, and Desktop. Beautiful typography, minimal, but elegant vintage styling, subtle CSS3 effects, and those small details that really make you stand out from the crowd.

WordPress Theme #34484 – MORE INFO / DEMO

GIGAWATT WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Gigawatt is designed with content flexibility in mind. Use these great core features to your advantage.

Retro – Premium WordPress Template – MORE INFO / DEMO

Retro is a clean and modern template, best suitable for your portfolio or business site. Quick and easy to set up, this template is created with the latest CSS3 techniques.

Angelo – Art WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Angelo is a unique, classic and elegant premium WordPress theme initially inspired in the painting The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo. Good for a blog, portfolio, gallery, artist, painter, designer, architect, musician, poet, writer, show your artwork etc.

The Artist – Clean Responsive Portfolio Theme - MORE INFO / DEMO

The Artist is a super awesome portfolio theme. It’s very clean, sleek and modern design. With the admin panel and page builder in this theme, you can discover unlimited possibilities of what the theme can do. Moreover, responsive feature is applied as well. Now, you or your clients can explore your amazing works through phone or tablet easily.

WordPress Theme #35996 – MORE INFO / DEMO

Bold WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

With Bold I wanted to create something strong but also fun. This theme features a combination of bold typography, loose sketchy qualities and heavy textures. Bold features a robust set of theme options, as well as 5 unique color schemes. With its unique and playful style, Bold will surely help your blog stand out from the crowd.

HANNA – Responsive Retro HTML5/CSS3 Template – MORE INFO / DEMO

HANNA is a stunning, retro template. Perfect for the ‘Instagram’ generation. The template is fully responsive, built on HTML5 , with the latest CSS3 features. Beautiful typography, gorgeous image effects, and a ‘Retro Minimal’ look, combine to bring you a luxurious template that will truly make you stand out from the crowd.

Primento WordPress Portfolio – MORE INFO / DEMO

Primento is a One Page WordPress Portfolio which includes a HTML Resume. The theme has a unique retro and creative look and feel to it which is easy to edit and maintain. Sections can easily be added and taken away to personalize your portfolio. The Portfolio supports images, multimedia such as YouTube, vimeo, flash and a lot more. The Theme included all PSD to edit any design and details and the theme as you wish.

MJ:WP Edition - MORE INFO / DEMO

MJ is a HTML /CSS/Wordpress optimized Theme perfect for wedding invitation, personal and business websites. Theme also supports tablet versions ( both 800×600 and 600×800 ).

Endless – Infinite scrolling WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Endless is a clean and stylish infinite scrolling theme, perfect for bloggers and storytellers. We’ve delicately put together some awesome HTML5 mixed in some CSS3 and added a bit of jQuery on top to make this beautiful theme just for you.

Retro-fitted – MORE INFO / DEMO

Retro-fitted mixes subtle textures with clean lines and shadows to create a beautifully balanced composition perfect for all types of blogs.

WordPress Theme #35461 – MORE INFO / DEMO

Nostalgia – Portfolio WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Nostalgia is a minimal portfolio WordPress theme – personal or corporate, based on full-screen slider and sliding pages. The theme is maintained in a minimalist, contrasting style. Background images kept in retro tones contrast with modern minimalist content. It is possible to add unlimited number of pages in the form of scrolling menu.

RetyX – Vintage / Retro Blog WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

RetyX is a Blog and Portfolio WordPress Theme in retro and vintage design. It is suited for users who want to run a professional or personal blog and wants to showcase your products, services or news in a creative and unique manner.

WOODIE - MORE INFO / DEMO

Woodie is a tri-column, flexible WordPress theme that is built to be multipurpose. Inspired by Apple typography and a beautiful wood grain background, Woodie is built to help your website grow.

Caelus – App Landing & Coming Soon WP Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO

Easy to setup – Looks great on iPhone & iPad – see for yourself scan the QR code

jQuery image slider plugins are great for featuring image content, and they are implemented on more and more websites. There are several interesting use cases for image sliders; however, I think it is most common to use them on the front page to showcase featured articles or products. Keep in mind that jQuery slider plugins are not as easy to install on a website as WordPress slider plugins and may not have as easy to use configuration pages. So if, you have a WordPress website it is recommended to use a slider packaged as a plugin.

I’m a great fan of jQuery because it is easy to use, proven and then there are literally hundreds if not thousands of free plugins available. There is also a good selection of Image slider plugins available, and I believe they improve all the time. In particular worth mentioning is that they are typically lightweight (fast download), feature rich, cross browser ready, and look professional. Lately, some of the jQuery image sliders have some really cool transition effects, as well.

In this article, you will find both jQuery image sliders plugins, and tutorials showing you how image sliders can be created from ground up. This post has just been updated with new sliders.

Disclosure: Please note that some of the links below are affiliate links and I will earn a commission if you purchase through those links (at no extra cost to you). I recommend that you do your own independent research before purchasing any product or service. This article is not a guideline, a recommendation or endorsement of specific products.

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Cool jQuery Image Slider Plugins

RoyalSlider – Touch-Enabled jQuery Image Gallery -  MORE INFO | DEMO 

RoyalSlider is easy to use jQuery image gallery with animated captions, responsive layout and touch support for mobile devices. Easily add an unlimited number of slides and captions. Use it as image slider, image gallery, banner rotator, banner ads, or even presentation.

Parallax Slider – Responsive jQuery Plugin - MORE INFO / DEMO

Parallax Effect – Full Collection of Sliders comes in 4 versions: Classic, Perpetuum Mobile, Mouse Interaction and Ultra. Each of these 4 versions has 2 skins (bullets & thumbs) and can be used as Fixed Dimensions or as Full Width.

Slides – MORE INFO / DEMO

Slides is a slideshow plugin for jQuery that is built with simplicity in mind. Packed with a useful set of features to help novice and advanced developers alike create elegant and user-friendly slideshows.

Slider Revolution Responsive jQuery Plugin – MORE INFO / DEMO

Turn simple HTML markup into a responsive(mobile friendly) or fullwidth slider with must-see-effects and meanwhile keep or build your SEO optimization (all content always readable for search engines). See the heaps of custom transitions/animations for each object on the page! Customize this slider with just a little HTML and CSS to your very needs. This plugin features tons of unique transition effects, an image preloader, video embedding, autoplay that stops on user interaction and lots of easy to set options to create your own effects. All customization can be handled via jQuery Options, HTML 5 data-attributes and CSS !

Blueberry - MORE INFO

Blueberry is an experimental Open-Source jQuery image slider plugin which has been written specifically to work with fluid/responsive web layouts.

jQuery Unislider - MORE INFO / DEMO

The jQuery UniSlider plugin adds an elegant and sleek slider feature to your pages, You can use it as an images slideshow, or put any html content to slide.

Lush – Content Slider - MORE INFO / DEMO

Lush is a flexible content slider. It uses CSS3 native transition and animations to get the best performance taking advantage of the modern browser features, without lose functionality in older browsers.  It uses a semantic syntax to describe the animation timeline avoiding complex attributes and keywords. The animation system is completely extensible allowing to add more animations and transitions easily just like adding new CSS classes.

jQuery Banner Rotator / Slideshow – MORE INFO / DEMO

This is a jQuery image slider plugin featuring multiple transitions. The thumbnails and buttons allow for easy navigation of your banners/ads. The banner rotator is also re-sizable and configurable through the plugin’s parameters.

Coin Slider – MORE INFO / DEMO

As with most well written jQuery image slider plugins you can get awesome features on your web pages with only a few lines of code. Coin Slider is an excellent script for showcasing images on a web site or blog, fx. an online portfolio.

Dynamic Slider - MORE INFO / DEMO

Dynamic Slider is a flexible slider that allows the customization of all of its components giving the possibility to create a large number of different layouts and configurations. It is lightweight and easy to work with and customize.

jQuery Simple Slider Plugin - MORE INFO / DEMO

The Simple Slider is a jQuery plugin you can use to display your image and Vimeo or Youtube videos. The CSS3 animation is driven by Animate.css. It’s mobile friendly, which support wipe left/right on your touch device.

jQuery Banner Rotator / Content Slider / Carousel – MORE INFO / DEMO

All In One is a responsive jQuery Slider which comes in 5 flavors: Banner Rotator, Thumbnails Banner, Banner with Playlist, Content Slider, Carousel. It allows you to easily create powerful sliders with animated text using HTML standard tags, making the slider very easy to setup and maintain. Please see the features for each product and check the live preview of this slider and convince yourself of its quality. Support 6 different slider formats.

Full Width Slider 2.0 - MORE INFO / DEMO

Full Width Slider 2 is an easy to use jQuery image slider optimized for full screen width. It has a responsive design with an adjustable transition speed. Compatible with all major browsers (IE8 and above , Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera).

Saloon – MORE INFO / DEMO

Saloon is a jQuery Banner Rotator which animates your image and text slides with transition effects of the wide library. Easy installation, great transitions and text animations define the freshline style. See the heaps of custom transitions/animations for each object on the page! Customize this slider with just a little HTML and CSS to your very needs. Give each slider a description and more elements to transport your message. The touch style drag and rool feature if pretty cool.

LayerSlider – MORE INFO / DEMO

This is a jQuery content slider using the famous parallax-effect! You can create as many layers and sublayers as you want. You can use images or any other HTML elements, including Flash movies as layers. The script is very user-friendly, you can add global settings or local (per slide) settings to each layer or sublayer. You can change delay times, easing types, durations and much more.

J.B.Slider – Standalone – MORE INFO / DEMO

J.B.Slider is easy to use jQuery image slider with description box and button link for further reading.

Factory Galleries – MORE INFO / DEMO

You can create all Galleries you want with elegance and style. The sliding wffect for both images and text is pretty cool.

SuperSized – MORE INFO / DEMO

Awesome full size/screen jQuery image slider plugin. It resizes the images to fill browser while maintaining image dimension ratio. Further it cycles Images/backgrounds via slideshow with transitions and preloading

Avia Slider – MORE INFO / DEMO

This plugin features 8 unique transition effects, image preloader, autoplay that stops on user interaction and lots of easy to set options to create your own effects.

Nivo Slider – MORE INFO

Great and flexible jQuery image slider plugin with awesome transition effects. This plugin have 9 unique transition effects. It is very popular and used a lot by WordPress theme developers building sliders into the themes. Another option of course is to use a WordPress slider plugin.

Advanced Slider – MORE INFO / DEMO

Advanced Slider is a jQuery plugin that allows you to easily create powerful sliders using either XML , thus making the slider much easier to setup and maintain, or using HTML markup. The plugin also provides an easy to use API which will allow to further enhance the functionality of the slider and make it possible to integrate it into your own application. Please take a look at the list of features below.

DragDealer – MORE INFO / DEMO

Dragdealer is much more than a simple image slider. It offers a wide variety of features related to dragging, but is also quite powerful for creating different types if image sliders. I recommend you go to the website and try out the demos.

Estro – jQuery Ken Burns & swipe effect slider – MORE INFO / DEMO

This jQuery image slider plugin uses unobstrusive javascript to transform a block of simple HTML markup into a georgous elegant slider, which can be completely customized using HTML5 data attributes. The markup is valid HTML5 and SEO optimzied, with all content always being available to search engines. When using this plugin, your page layout will be consistent even if javascript has been disabled. This slider includes a smooth and powerful Ken Burns effect which is completely configurable and compatible with all major browsers (including ie7 to ie9, Firefox Chrome, Opera, Safari) and mobile platforms like iphone / ipad. If the Ken Burns effect is not your thing, that’s OK because the “Estro” slider also includes a 2-way “Swipe” mode with configurable transitions.

Presentation Cycle – MORE INFO / DEMO

Cycle is a script that supports image presentations to easily display multiple images. This script supports a lot of effects and the cycling of html elements. Presentation Cycle is a variation on the functionality of Cycle. Instead of generating a list of numbers that are clickable Presentation Cycle generates a progress bar that shows when the new slide will appear.

SexySlider – MORE INFO / DEMO

SexySlider is a jQuery slider plugin that lets you easily create powerful javascript Sliders with very nice transition effects. Enhance your website by adding a unique and attractive slider!

AnythingSlider – MORE INFO / DEMO

AnythingSlider is an attempt at bringing together the functionality of all of those previous sliders and adding new features. In other words, to create a really “full featured” slider that could be widely useful.

EasySlider – MORE INFO / DEMO

Great jQuery image slider plugin for content and images. It is very easy to use – only a few lines of code is needed.

jQuery Slider Evolution – MORE INFO / DEMO

Slider Evolution is a JQuery plugin that lets you easily create powerful javascript sliders with very nice transition effects. Enhance your website by adding a unique and attractive slider! Create an unlimited number of sliders with customized settings for each one, and place them anywhere on your website with ease.

3D rotation viewer – MORE INFO / DEMO

This cool stuff easily creates a 3D rotation viewer in UIZE that lets users rotate the view of an object a full 360 degrees using a mouse, or finger on the Apple iPad.

Horinaja – MORE INFO / DEMO

Horinaja is a ready-to-use slide-show implementation, utilizing either scriptaculous/prototype or jQuery. A running example above. It allows you to use a mousewheel for navigation.

jqFancyTransitions – MORE INFO / DEMO

jqFancyTransitions is easy-to-use jQuery plugin for displaying your photos as slideshow with fancy transition effects. ‘wave’, ‘zipper’ and ‘curtain’ effect, plus options that can be used for custom effect.

Agile Carousel – MORE INFO / DEMO

Jquery plugin that allows you to easily create a custom carousel. Call Jquery UI to enable many different additional transition types and easing methods. Uses PHP to draw images from the folder you specify. Configure many different options including controls, slide timer length, easing type, transition type and more!

Ken Burns Slider – MORE INFO / DEMO

Kenburner is the premium way of using a slider in your website. A combination of Ken Burns Effect, state-of-the-art Slider and Text Animations defines this slider. Customize this slider with just a little HTML and CSS to your very needs. Give each slider some captions to transport your message. Use your Ken Burns Animated banner elements with the possibility of playing YouTube and Vimeo clips in a special detail view with describing text.

Galleria – MORE INFO / DEMO

Galleria is a JavaScript image gallery written in jQuery. Images are loaded one by one from an unordered list and displays thumbnails when each image is loaded. Galleria and a few themes are free to use under the MIT license. More advanced themes, better licensing options, support, integrations for wordpress etc. will soon be available as a premium membership.

Panning Slideshow – MORE INFO / DEMO

This slideshow has the ability to showcase imagery automatically. This is a twist from classic slideshows which uses a kind of transition to animate between slides.

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