WP Remix is an advanced WordPress theme suite offering a range of page designs and colour schemes; it’s very well designed and turns WordPress into more of a complete content management system than just a blog publishing tool.

The theme’s features are too extensive to list here but some of the highlights include:

• WYSIWYG page template editing;
• More than 50 pre-structured, strategically built page templates to choose from;
• Smart dropdown navigation bar
• Seven colour schemes;
• The flexibility to create different pages that have different sidebars, headers and footers
• Ad placeholders
• Grid-based layouts
• Clean typography
• SEO ready

All in all, this is an impressive theme that would serve small businesses in particular very well.

Cost

The WP Remix theme costs $US75 for a single licence or $US275 for a developer’s licence.

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HelloBlogger isn’t flashy; it’s a simple, clean, two-column WordPress theme with a splash of colour.

The theme is predominantly white and grey; it’s easy to read and has a very clean, traditional blog-style layout.

Plenty of white space and attractive typography make this one a winner.

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Una is a professional-looking, two-column, blog-style WordPress theme with a clean and organised layout and a brown colour scheme.

Its two columns are divided using the guide of the divine proportion. The front page shows the latest post with it’s accompanying large graphic image, followed by three other recent posts with each post accompanied by a thumbnail image. Each section title is supported by a subtitle.

Una has comments and trackbacks divided.

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Hamasaki is a beautiful magazine-style WordPress theme that perfectly showcases recent articles, provides ad space and simple navigation.

It includes full Widget support, built-in spots for 125 x 125 pixel ads and a top banner ad, a theme options page for easy customisation, and Gravatar support.

The typography is impressive and the double navigation bar (using Pages and Categories) is effective. Hamasaki could make a great base for a magazine-style or personal site.

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Offering a choice of 20 colour schemes, VibrantCMS is an elegant WordPress solution for small business owners wanting to build a modern, attractive website.

It features a prominent “featured items” scroller to broadcast your business’ most important information and a separate company blog that is tucked away from the homepage.

The VibrantCMS WordPress theme also includes: a built-in video panel, which you can use to publish any web-based Flash videos; an automatic Image Resizer, which is used to dynamically create the thumbnails and featured images; custom page templates for Archives, Sitemap and Image Gallery; built-in Gravatar support; an integrated banner management script to display random banner ads of your choice site-wide; and Widgetized sidebars.

Cost

The VibrantCMS theme costs $US70 for a single licence or $US150 for a developer’s licence. Alternatively, join the WooThemes club for $150 per quarter.

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ProudFolio gives designers, developers, artists and photographers a framework for a great-looking portfolio site and a feature-rich blog.

The homepage is a combination of those elements, highlighting the latest projects from your portfolio, as well as your most recent blog post.

Throw in clear navigation, a dark, worn look, and a simple options panel for tweaking the layout and colour scheme, and you’ve got one of the best portfolio themes around.

The ProudFolio WordPress theme also includes: a built-in video panel, which you can use to publish any web-based Flash videos; an automatic Image Resizer, which is used to dynamically create the thumbnails and featured images; custom page templates for Archives, Sitemap and Image Gallery; built-in Gravatar support; an integrated banner management script to display random banner ads of your choice site-wide; and Widgetized sidebars.

Cost

The ProudFolio theme costs $US70 for a single licence or $US150 for a developer’s licence. Alternatively, join the WooThemes club for $150 per quarter.

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Sharpfolio is a beautiful theme that makes the creation of a professional portfolio a snap.

The code is clean and the design is simple yet stylish, with all the focus on the work being presented rather than on flashy headers or sidebar widgets.

Adding your recent work is extremely simple, making the upkeep on a portfolio site easy.

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Sketch’d is a grungy weblog theme with a neat featured post highlight, excellent typography and great attention to detail.

The theme is easy to use, without the need to play around behind the scenes.

It includes integrated social media buttons and auto image resizing.

With a little Photoshop work, it could also be a great base for a unique, customised theme as you’d really just have to adjust the background images and the colours of a few CSS elements.

Price:

The Sketch’d theme costs $US49 for a single licence, or for $US500 you can join the Wordpress Developers club and get a developer’s licence for all their current themes, as well 1 per month for the next 12 months.

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The Brightness WordPress theme is nothing short of stunning; it’s half magazine, half blog and is reminiscent of some of the best professional, modern blog designs around.

For a free theme, Brightness comes with a great deal of features, including a well-designed featured post area, post thumbnails, built-in advertising and news sections.

The theme also offers a complete settings page, allowing the user to simply manage all of these premium-grade features without having to worry about editing code.

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Lightning is a simple but extremely stylish two-column WordPress theme which could easily be customised to create a unique and powerful blog site.

The theme’s unique, multi-coloured sidebar design gives it an impressive flourish which makes it stand out from the pack, alongside very clear and easy to read typography.

In addition, the sidebar is widget ready and the code is designed with SEO in mind.

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