Showcase is a premium (paid) WordPress theme created to power a CSS or web design gallery, which is also ideal for managing online portfolios and photo blogs. If you want to use WordPress as a web design gallery, Showcase is the solution you’ve been looking for. Beyond its core features, it comes with 5 different color schemes and 8 layout variations. It contains the following main features.

Features

• Custom Layout / Design to Display Gallery Images
• Hover Menu On Mouse Over
• 5 Different Color Schemes
• 8 Easy to Rotate Layout Variations
• Widget Ready Sidebars
• Search Engine Optimized Sidebar Titles

Pricing: Single ($70), Multiple ($280), Developer ($700), Credit Removal ($30)
Requirements: -
Source: http://www.wpdesigner.com/2007/09/10/showcase/

Cornerstone is a fixed width, magazine style layout. The upper portion of the sidebar is wide enough to house videos or a variety of ad banner sizes to fit your needs. The lower portion is split into two columns, providing plenty of options for displaying category links, popular posts, flickr photos, etc.

The color scheme was intentionally kept simple so more could be left to the imagination of the end user. Changes can easily be made to colors, fonts and layout in the well commented CSS file.

The theme is widget ready with four enabled areas. For those who prefer more precise control, the sidebar is coded with conditional tags to give you more options over which content shows up where.

Additional features:

• the “latest entry” is featured automatically on the home page without the need to assign a separate category or install a plugin
• Asides (or any category you want to use for a side blog) appear in the sidebar
• full control over “recently featured” excerpts, which categories to pull from, and how many you want displayed
• built-in support for tagging (WP v2.3+)
• optional template for static a home page
• tabbed content module for displaying a “best of” section in the footer

Pricing: $99.95 (Personal Edition), ($249.95) Developer Edition
Requirements: -
Source: http://cornerstonetheme.com/

Slayer and BetNG4U invested lots of work to make Styleicious Web 2.0 Wordpress Template what it is and for more than 20 hours they debugged it and improved it to work perfectly. BetNG4U even modified the rating system, because it had some javascript errors and didnt work in IE6. Each time they revised it problems appeared, but finally they fixed everything and everything looks cool. Styleicious Web 2.0 Wordpress template has the following main features:

• WidgetBucks and Adsense ready
• widgetized sidebars
• AJAX rating system
• Thread tags
• Tag Cloud
• Cool hover effects at comment fields
• XHTML & CSS Valid
• You will not have any sponsored links in the footer, only a link-back to my blog which i kidnly ask you to keep.
• AJAX search
• AJAX comment posting
• AJAX page navigation (AJAX powered Page navigation will only work if you don’t use mod rewrite, since there are unlimited options to rewrite the URL’s in the admin panel we couldn’t make the AJAX page navigation work with all of them, so only those who have default URL’s will be able to use it(don’t worry, you won’t miss much if you use mod rewrite, in the matter of fact the pages will load a bit faster)

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://thaslayer.com/2007/11/05/styleicious…

The Morning After is a magazine-style theme for WordPress created by Arun Kale. The theme was created based on a brief survey on the WordPress forums about what people would want to see in a unique magazine-style theme. The theme design is grid-based and has the following requested features:

• A three-column home page
• “Featured” post highlighting
• Associating images/thumbnails with recent posts
• Customisable logo/header image
• Easy CSS classes for adding captions and wrapping text around images in posts
• Asides
• Option for readers to email posts to friends
• Option to switch to a print-friendly view to print posts

Pricing: Free
Requirements: Wordpress 2.0+
Source: http://themasterplan.in/themes/the-morning-after/

Revolution is a widget-ready, customizable theme that is an ideal solution for online magazines, online newspapers, and other websites that wish to use WordPress as a content management system.

Below you will find a list of many areas in which the Revolution theme can be a great solution:

• Online Newspapers
• Online Magazines
• Church Websites
• Real Estate Agents
• Corporate Blogs
• Personal Blogs
• Photo Blogs
• Celebrity Blogs
• Affiliate Marketing
• WordPress MU Users

Pricing: Personal Package ($59.95), Advanced Package ($199.95), Developer Package ($249.95)
Requirements: No Plugins Required
Source: http://www.revolutiontheme.com

Skittlish is a fun, candy colored theme with seven color options. In addition, it has options for fluid or fixed widths. It is hatom supported and I put in some styling for an OpenID login form. The author used Christian Montoya’s great comment.php template for the comment section. It also supports the following plugins (included in the download):

• Ultimate Tag Warrior
• Similar Posts
• Live Comment Preview
• Gravatars
• Get Recent Comments
• OpenID plugin (included for the fun of it)

The above plugins do not have to be installed but their functions are supported. Install Skittlish like any other Wordpress theme. It should work right out of the box. I didn’t do a thorough testing of it but did put Skittlish through some paces on the latest versions of Firefox, Safari, Flock, Camino, OmniWeb, and Opera. Seems to work fine in all these browsers.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: Wordpress 2.0+
Source: http://journal.barleyhut.com/the-skittlish-theme-for-wordpress/

Wolfgang Bartelme’s dark theme has been tested on WordPress 2.1.3 with Firefox and Safari, may play well with IE6/7 too. It validates as XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS 2.0, and supports the following plugins:

• flickrRSS
• Gravatar
• Ultimate Tag Warrior
• WP-PageNavi

Pricing: Free
Requirements: Wordpress 2.1.3+
Source: http://www.ilemoned.com/archives/wptheme-dark

Digital Pop is a bright and colourful 3 column theme for Wordpress based on Fen’s NewFeel theme. It comes complete with editable header graphics and is Google Adsense ready.

It supports the following plugins:

• Brian’s Latest Comments
• Extended Live Archives

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://www.writerspace.net/index.php/2007/04/01/digital-pop…

This is the a digg-theme for Wordpress. Give your blog or site a really cool digg-look today, at a very small price. This theme comes with pre-installed digg-buttons so that your readers easily could vote you right to the front-page of digg.com. The theme is of course widget-ready, and best of all: it’s built in place for those modern and popular 125×125 banner ads.

Pricing: $10
Requirements: -
Source: http://www.peterandrej.com/shop/digg/

Your Revolution is another magazine-style Wordpress theme created for those bloggers that is looking for something special and with the ambition to evolve. The clean style of this theme, along with the *understandable* coding will enable bloggers to easily modify the look to suit their needs.

Features:

• Magazine-style homepage layout, with various sub-page layouts for the single post, archives and static pages
• 300 x 250 Advertisement Spot below the sidebar (edit ad300×250.php)

Pricing: $79
Requirements: -
Source: http://www.adii.co.za/2007/10/08/your-revolution-is-here-too/