Best clean and functional wordpress themes
As I was looking for a new wordpress theme for the creation of a new website, I did a thorough investigation of the best wordpress themes for business websites. I focussed mainly on cms style websites for small businesses, magazine style website for resources sites and portfolio websites. As I like a clean style and flexibility, most of these themes feature a clutter free interface and lots of functionality and ability to customize. This is my shortlist below; it will be hard to choose between them.
Cushy
Nice minimalist theme that integrates the blog into the site.
Typoghaghicus
This is a theme from Themeforest by wordpress premium. I like the simplicity and clean lines here and the emphasis on the main article. Widget ready and comes in 4 color combinations.
Vigilance
This is a very elegant theme that is search engine optimised and it’s free to download.
Overeasy
A very nice minimalist layout with lots of features like the slide panel on the front page. Ideal for business websites who like to integrate a blog into the website but don’t want it to be the main focus. Comes in various colors.
Wp Remix
This is a good option if you want to use Wordpress as a content management system. It has lots of different page templates and a lot of flexibility and SEO. Lots of room for customisation too!
Agregado
This is a free great looking blog theme.
Equilibrium
A free blog theme (CC license) which is very well laid out and designed.
Basic
Elegant Themes have a number of nice themes and this one is as the name suggest a nice basic theme.
Cold Stone
Another elegant theme. This ones will need some tweaking but overall great layout and features here.
Productum
A very nice new theme from Woo themes. Very suitable for businesses that also want to incorporate a blog into their site.
Thesis
A very customisable theme that pays a lot of attention to SEO, typigraphy and accesibility.
Geometric
A theme with a widgetized frontpage that allows you to either put your blog on the frontpage or your portfiolio. You can also have your side navigation on the left.
Perfection
I like the simple layout of this theme and bold white lines. I would not keep the dark featured area though but that could be easily customised. I also like the page and category navigation, although it would need to include drop downs to be really useful.
Your folio
I like the simple clean layout of this theme and that the blog is integrated as a page. The frontpage is different from the other pages so you can highlight your latest work there but still have the space on the other pages.
Market
A good solution for an online wordpress store.
Fresh News
A good magazine theme with all the necessary features like widgetized sidebars, drop down menus, featured posts panel and automatic image resizing.
Architect
This is a good theme for a small business. It has a very clean stylish layout and incorporates a blog.
Cassiopeia
Another well laid out portfolio theme that has different page templates.
Interphase
I really like the look of this theme, although I would have wished some more page templates. It’s widget ready and comes with theme options.
Karma
Rounding off the list is Karma, a basic theme for a personal blog. Easy to navigate and uncluttered.
