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Lap of Luxury

Lap of Luxury is a stylish two-column WordPress blogging theme with a bit of bling courtesy of its gold logo.

I’m not a fan of the spotty background, which makes reading a little harder than it should be, but it would be extremely simple to change the background to a flat colour, which would make the text very legible.

The right-hand sidebar allows for an ad at the top, with two columns of navigation below that.

The headlines are big and eye-catching, and the theme works very well with large photos used to accompany each post.

Lap of Luxury WordPress Theme

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DePo Square

DePo Square is a beautiful, simple WordPress theme that provides Tumblr-like capacity to post photos and videos in the stream of your posts.

Designed by well-known web identity Derek Powazek, DePo Square is a minimalist-looking theme with elegant typography and effective functionality.

To use the theme ala Tumblr, you simply map your categories so as to allow you to use five pre-defined post types — Post (default), Status, Quote, Link, or Photo — and your content will be displayed in a format special to those types.

Just select your category mappings by visiting the “Current Theme Options” under “Appearance.” No CSS or other formatting is necessary.

The theme also has a neat widget space in the top header, allowing site owners to mix navigation with updates from Twitter and Flickr.

DePo Square WordPress Theme

Demo and download

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Edge

Edge by WPBandit is a stunning blog theme with gorgeous design touches and an effective Polaroid-style featured story panel.

The two-column theme is user-friendly, with simple horizontal navigation and a clear, easy-to-find search field. It also comes with a choice of six colour schemes.

It presents featured stories in a row across the top of the homepage, and also at the top of the right sidebar on story pages.

Edge has excellent typography and is a polished product in all respects, providing a modern, sleek blog design that will stand out from the crowd.

Edge WordPress Theme

Cost

The Edge premium WordPress theme from WPBandit costs $US79.

Demo and download

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Photocrati SuperTheme

Photocrati’s SuperTheme is a professional WordPress theme designed to cater for every need of photographers looking to showcase their work online, and includes 15 photo gallery and photo blog layouts within a single package.

All of the built-in layouts offer a rotating slideshow option for the homepage, as well as stunning gallery and blog page designs.

SuperTheme also includes a theme options panel that provides complete control over your theme, including simple adjustments for the layout, sidebar width, backgrounds, logos, colours, fonts and headings, social media, and more.

It includes powerful blogging and gallery management tools.

Photocrati also boasts about “fanatical” customer support and offers a 100 per cent money back guarantee for the theme.

Here are just a few samples of the many built-in site layout choices:

Photocrati WordPress Theme Polarized

Photocrati WordPress Theme F-Stop

Photocrati WordPress Theme Emulsion

Photocrati WordPress Theme Filter

Photocrati WordPress Theme Galleries

Photocrati WordPress Theme Blog

Cost

The SuperTheme premium photography WordPress theme from Photocrati costs $US79.

Demo and download

View full theme demos and purchase the theme via Photocrati.

(Note: The download link above is an affiliate link. If you purchase a theme using this link, you’re helping to support bestwpthemes.com.)

Signal 37

Signal 37 is a clean, minimalist blog theme heavily inspired by the design of the well-known 37signals company blog.

Although the theme is based on “Signal vs Noise”, it’s got enough differences that it’s not an exact copy – and anyone using the theme could adapt it further to give it some more individualistic touches.

Signal 37 boasts clean typography and a Web 2.0 colour palette, with a simple two-column design.

It includes a number of widgets to help populate your sidebar, including a Twitter widget that will stream your Tweets directly from a Twitter account of your choice.

Signal 37 WordPress Theme

More information and download

View more information and download the Signal 37 theme.

Charlene

Charlene is a minimalist two-column WordPress theme that uses white space beautifully to provide a crisp, attractive appearance that makes your content sing.

The theme offers large, clear headlines, a beautifully set out sidebar and stunning typography.

Charlene WordPress Theme

Demo and download

View the demo and download the free Charlene theme via Paper Tree Design.

Through The Lens

Through The Lens is a powerful premium WordPress theme providing a mix of site options, allowing for the creation of a stunning photo gallery or blog site.

The theme offers multiple page templates and a widgetised homepage, providing for a huge depth in layout customisation. This means it could be used as a normal blog, a photo gallery, or a portfolio showcase.

Through The Lens includes a special voting system for each post and sliders that showcase content from various categories on the homepage.

The theme provides a clean 960-pixel-wide design, with clear navigation, no matter how the site owner decides to put it to use.

Through The Lens WordPress Theme

Cost

Through The Lens from Obox Themes costs $US50 for a single licence or $US100 for a developer’s licence.

Demo and download

View demo and download via Obox Themes.

(Note: The download link above is an affiliate link. If you purchase a theme using this link, you’re helping to support bestwpthemes.com.)

Star Magazine

Star Magazine is a powerful magazine-style WordPress theme offering a beautiful homepage designed for content-heavy websites.

The theme allows the site owner to decide which categories they want displayed on the homepage and how many posts to display for each.

Star Magazine includes a comprehensive back-end options panel for customising and tweaking the theme, including the ability to integrate analytics programs, change colour schemes and manage ads.

Other features include:

  • Comes with custom sidebar widgets to incorporate “popular posts” and “featured content”;
  • Integrated social networking options;
  • Auto-resizing thumbnails;
  • Seven colour schemes;
  • Optional author bio section on posts, making it ideal for multi-author blogs;
  • Custom page templates for archives and full-width pages;
  • Integrated options for banner ad management.

Star Magazine WordPress Theme

Cost

The Star Magazine theme from PremiumWP costs $US67.

Demo and download

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Coffee Break

Coffee Break is a sexy, streamlined and supremely functional WordPress theme designed to showcase businesses and products, and comes in a massive 17 colour schemes.

The theme is heavily influenced by the homepage of its creators at Woo Themes, providing design elements common to many prominent web businesses, including large introductory text and prominent call to action buttons.

But Coffee Break is also packed with options to allow for flexibility and customisation of how your site works. Some of the features of the theme are:

  • A prominent slider front and centre on the home page that showcases content from specific pages chosen via the back-end theme options panel;
  • The ability to offer a list of services or benefits that your company or product offers, up front on the homepage, again using the built-in theme options;
  • A completely widgetised sidebar with seven custom widgets included in the theme;
  • Automatically resized thumbnails;
  • Built on the “Woo framework”, allowing for easy upgrades; and
  • Integrated custom page templates.

Woo Themes also offers free support and detailed documentation for its themes.

Coffee Break WordPress Theme

Cost

The Coffee Break theme costs $US70 for a standard licence and $US150 for a developer’s licence.

It’s also available via the Woo Themes club option, starting from $US125.

Demo and download

View a demo and download the Coffee Break theme via Woo Themes.

(Note: The download link above is an affiliate link. If you purchase a theme using this link, you’re helping to support bestwpthemes.com.)

Professional Portfolio

The Professional Portfolio WordPress theme from WPZoom provides a modern, flexible homepage design that allows for the creation of an attractive portfolio, a business website or a blog.

The theme is based on the “golden ratio” principle, offers a two-column design and emphasises the content on offer.

Professional Portfolio includes a comprehensive theme options page, allowing for simple customisation, including switching between five colour schemes.

It also offers drop-down menus, a built-in social networking widget, automatic thumbnail image creation, and an integrated banner ad management system.

WPZoom offers free and unlimited support with its themes, including free updates to future versions, theme guides and documentation and full Photoshop layered files for developer licence buyers.

WPZoom Professional WordPress Theme

Cost

WPZoom’s Professional Portfolio costs $US49 for a single licence or $US99 for a developer’s licence.

Demo and download

View a demo and download the Professional Portfolio theme via WPZoom.

(Note: The download link above is an affiliate link. If you purchase a theme using this link, you’re helping to support bestwpthemes.com.)