Where To Find Good Wordpress Themes
Day 44 of The 100 Days To Building A Great Website Guide
One problem I have continually had with my site is poor design. Although I’m good at writing content, getting links, and driving traffic, site design is a huge weakness for me. However good site design is essential. With poor site design people will look at your site and leave immediately. Your bounce rates will be huge.
Where can you get good themes?
While having a good theme is essential for your site, actually designing a theme can be very challenging. There is a lot to learn before you can design a good theme. You have to learn PHP, HTML, CSS etc. And many people started blogging to get away from having to run those aspects of your website. So if you don’t want to make your own theme, where can you get one?
1) Wordpress Theme Viewer - This is the default wordpress theme database. There are thousands of themes in here and many of them have been well designed and validated. This is a good first resource. Check it out and you could very well find something that is almost exactly what you are looking for.
2) Wordpress Theme Generator - Want to create your own theme? You can use this tool to configure different themes. Quickly and easily vary the colors to see what looks good. Change the spacings, where the sidebar is located to suit your needs.
3) Free Wordpress Themes - One of the myriad of sites you can get if you Google “Wordpress Themes”, this has a nice repository of different themes that you can check out.
But they don’t exactly fit my needs
Chances are, any theme you download isn’t going to be perfect. There is going to be something in it that you want to change. You may not like the colors, you may not like the spacing, or you may just want to put in a couple of different pictures. However starting from a free base theme and modifying it to suit your needs will be an order of magnitude easier than trying to create one yourself. The easiest thing to do is pick one that suits your needs format wise, and not worry about color. Changing the color of your site is much less difficult than changing the format. Get the format right first, then worry about the color.
I want my Page to Look Like That Site
Stealing someone else’s theme is as bad as stealing their content. But if you are just looking at a single aspect, like how did they get their picture to go to the right of the menu bar, you can dig into their code to see what they did.
The easiest way to dig into their code is to just download their page and examine it in a text editor or webpage creation tool. Internet explorer and Firefox allow you to easily download a webpage to your desktop. Presumably the other major browser do as well, but I don’t use them so I don’t know.
To download a page to your computer using IE 7 (IE 6 is very similar) Go to page, save as, and saves as a “Webpage Complete” This will allow you to view the CSS and HTML separately, as they will be in your site.
To save a page in Firefox go to File - Save Page As
on July 8th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
Thanks for the links! These will come in handy.
on July 9th, 2007 at 5:17 am
I agree that stealing a sites theme is as bad as stealing their content. But sometimes you do run across a site that has your same “free” design! Kinda like when you go to a party and someone has onthe same outfit!
Have you checked out John Cow dot Com? He ’stole’ his site from John Chow dot com, but only he could do something like that! And he has a $100 contest going on now too open to everyone. Real coool.
on July 9th, 2007 at 10:58 pm
John Cow is funny. It is a nice way for that blogger to make some quick bucks and play off of Chow’s popularity.
Doing that is less stealing than making a tribute site
on October 20th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
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I am, James
Nice site, verry informative
this is my site:
http://lStdBRTd.spaces.live.com/
on December 16th, 2008 at 2:50 am
Thanks for the links. Good WP themes are not very hard to come by, but these links should surely help.
on March 15th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
thanks for sharing the list..i will check some of the templates and who knows i will find one beutifull templates for my wordpress blog..(”,)
on March 17th, 2009 at 9:45 am
Thanks. I found a theme called Flexibility that looks very nice and is very customizable. Just search for it in google.
on July 23rd, 2009 at 9:31 pm
i tried for this, but i was not able to make it out.
on September 23rd, 2009 at 12:21 am
thanks for the lists, i am using to search wordpress themes at the wordpress.net. there are many wordpress themes that are beautiful there.
on September 26th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Great list of websites containing wordpress themes, I know i search some of those from time to time to get some new ideas for my personal blog =D
Till then,
Jean
on November 4th, 2009 at 6:58 am
i am always finding free wordpress using google, i always google it. :d
on November 27th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Check that the web server has permission to write to the files and folders which contain your theme files, i.e. wp-content/themes and sub-folders.
on November 27th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Most of the premium themes out there cost more than $50. I only have a small budget. If anyone can show me where to get cheap premium Wordpress theme, it would be appreciated.
on December 2nd, 2009 at 10:10 pm
Most of the premium themes out there cost more than $50. I only have a small budget. If anyone can show me where to get cheap premium Wordpress theme, it would be appreciated.
on December 10th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
The wordpress generator sounds great, I can never find the exact one I want.
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on December 21st, 2009 at 10:22 pm
Just do a Google or Yahoo search on “Wordpress themes.” You will receive more sites with themes than you can ever look at in one sitting. Some of them have literally dozens of themes.
on December 24th, 2009 at 4:39 am
I want to make a website using Wordpress. What is the best site for Wordpress themes?
on January 4th, 2010 at 9:29 am
I Want to know same that Where can I find some good Wordpress themes?
on January 23rd, 2010 at 9:29 pm
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on January 23rd, 2010 at 9:29 pm
By the way thanks for sharing…
on January 24th, 2010 at 8:15 pm
actually wordpress is the best and i’m so satisfied with my theme right now.. thanks
on January 24th, 2010 at 8:16 pm
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on January 25th, 2010 at 3:16 am
This is good site very informative.
on January 25th, 2010 at 3:18 am
Yes recommend wordpress is the best and have a lot of themes awesome.
on January 28th, 2010 at 4:56 am
I like wordpress theme very much as i like wordpress. This is great way to find some nice and elegant wordpress themes.
on January 29th, 2010 at 2:54 am
Just do a Google or Yahoo search on “Wordpress themes.” You will receive more sites with themes than you can ever look at in one sitting. Some of them have literally dozens of themes.
on February 4th, 2010 at 2:21 am
I’m searching for a theme and few sites have ones that I like. I like more modern, and sleek themes. Can someone five me a link to where I can find some good themes?
on February 4th, 2010 at 5:17 am
By graphics do you mean the theme’s graphics or your content graphics? Did you upload all the files that came with the theme?