Best WordPress Themes

Best WP Themes is now even better

Since Best WP Themes launched in 2007, it’s sported a slightly modified free WordPress theme. The presentation was lean, clean and, well, a little mean.

From today, the site features a purpose-built design, created by the incomparable Sam Brown from Massive Blue.

The goal of the new design was to maintain a minimalist aesthetic, while creating a more professional look and feel, and making it easier and more pleasurable to explore the featured themes.

Apart from the more professional look and feel across the site, improvements added alongside the new design include:

  • Clear promotion of new featured items at the top of the front page. This is a place to showcase the “best of” collections Best WP Themes has put together. We’re looking to add more of these from now on.
  • Clearer navigation, allowing easier access to the best WordPress themes on the planet.
  • New premium theme categories make it much easier to find particular types of paid themes, such as photo galleries, blog themes and magazine themes.
  • Improved tag pages, providing a much more useful way to browse the Best WP Themes archives.
  • New Top 10 lists for free and premium themes. This may be a controversial addition, but I’m going out on a limb and choosing what I think are the top 10 WordPress themes in circulation for both free and paid themes. The selections are based on my personal taste, and to some degree on what themes prove popular with Best WP Themes visitors.

You may have noticed that new additions to our collection of themes have been few and far between recently. Now the new design is up and running, this should change dramatically.

Your feedback is welcome. Feel free to let us know about any glitches in the new design. Sam and I will be trying to stamp these out in the next few days.

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3 Responses to “Best WP Themes is now even better”

  1. John (Human3rror)

    looks fab!

    6. August 2009 at 02:45

  2. Calítoe.:.

    I’ve always liked this site and I think the new design is nice and very well structured, but in my opinion the light blue used for the links is too light for such a light background: I had to read the menu twice to totally comprehend it. Oh, and it seems there’s a tiny issue with the featured article: the “Read the full article…” link on the front page doesn’t really take you to the article but to a #fullarticle that doesn’t lead anywhere.

    Thanks a lot for the great effort anyway, keep up the awesome job! :D

    6. August 2009 at 20:36

  3. matt

    Thanks for the feedback Calitoe.

    I’ve fixed that link on the homepage now, and will take a closer look at the link colours.

    Matt
    bestwpthemes

    6. August 2009 at 21:21