Design Blog is a fun, creative, contemporary WordPress theme perfect for a personal blog or a magazine-style news site.

The theme features a nifty horizontal navigation, paperclip-laden sidebar and crisp typography.

Its look is reminiscent of numerous different design blogs, which is where it derives its name.

Cost

The Design Blog theme costs $US20.

Demo and download:

Visit ThemeForest for a theme demo and download.

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Basic is a gorgeous theme for WordPress with a traditional weblog layout on the homepage but featuring excellent attention to detail throughout the design.

The theme showcases images and text for recent posts on the homepage, and includes a narrow secondary column for anything that fits into a widget.

Other features include theme option pages, custom thumbnail images, PSD files, valid code, threaded comments and advertising-ready.

The theme comes with four colour schemes ready to use.

Cost:

Basic is from Elegant Themes. It costs $US19.95 for a one-year membership, which includes all of their (very impressive) premium themes.

Demo and download:

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Abstract is a beautifully illustrated and colourful theme that resulted from a collaboration between well-known web designer Veerle Pieters and Woo Themes.

The theme has a fun yet professional presentation that’s flexible enough for use as either a business theme or a personal theme.

Some of the theme’s features include:

• 5 colour schemes to choose from
• A custom home page to include specific page content and your latest “x” number of blog posts
• A completely widgetised sidebar and two widgets spots available in the footer
• Custom widgets included in the theme packaging, including “Featured posts (by tag)”, “Contact Details”, “Campaign Monitor subscription”, “Ads” and a dedicated “Popular Content” block. No third party widgets required
• Styling for the lifestream widget.



Cost:

The Abstract theme costs $US70 for a single licence or $150 for a developer licence.

Demo and download:

Visit Woo Themes to view the theme demo and to download the theme.

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Typebased is a gorgeous free personal blog design theme, with a very clean and elegant style.

For a free theme, this is a seriously professional design with a lot of neat goodies included.

The theme includes: integrated banner ad management; Widgetized sidebar, including some specific custom widgets.

The theme also comes in five different colour schemes: default blue; brown; green; grey; and yellow.

Yummy.

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Those looking for an eye-catching, photo blogging theme need look no further than the Album Wordpress theme.

The theme uses an attractive textured background that manages to create an attractive frame without drawing the focus away from the photos being displayed.

The Album theme is Widget ready and comes with seven different colour schemes to choose from: brown, gray, blue, purple, red, rust and sepia.

You can see two of the best colour schemes (brown and gray) below. Check out the demo to see the other options.

Cost:

The Album WordPress theme from StudioPress costs $US59.95 on its own or $149.95 as part of the StudioPress theme pack.

Demo and download:

Visit StudioPress to view the theme demo and to download the theme.

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Simplifi is a minimalist, clean two-column WordPress theme with a number of colour schemes and the sidebar on the left of the main content column.

If you want a simple theme you can customise or just a basic weblog template that allows your content to shine above and beyond the design, Simplifi could be for you.

Choose from a minimalist white, or three other colour schemes.

Full details and download:

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Download Simplifi (Dark Red)
Download Simplifi (Dark Grey)
Download Simplifi (Dark Brown)

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.

Demo and download:

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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.

Demo and download:

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Portfolio is a sleek and sexy but somewhat flawed WordPress theme making it easy for photographers or designers to create a site showcasing their latest work.

I say sleek and sexy because it looks modern, has wonderful typography and large images which would create an attractive-looking portfolio site.

However, I say it’s flawed because you can’t link to any of the individual entries and nor do the portfolio items link to the websites being showcased. Neither of these decisions makes much sense.

Nonetheless, the theme author says some of those problems will be updated in future releases, or if you’re able to tweak the design a little you might be able to do it yourself.

Demo and download:

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Professor isn’t designed specifically as a photo blog but this brown-tinged, two-column Wordpress theme displays images with such effect that that’s probably what it’s best used for.

The theme author says Professor was designed to focus on the written word, but large images inserted into posts in this theme would get more attention than the headlines, which are offset in the right-hand column, making it perhaps better suited to photo blogging than anything else.

Either way, it’s a stylish and modern theme with a number of nice touches, including featured posts, a widget-enabled footer and valid code.

More info and download:

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Demo (Blue)
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