Best WordPress Blog Themes – Blog Templates

Ladies and gentlemen, we are delighted to welcome you to the Oscars of the online world: The 2014 edition of the Best Online Awards! Take a seat because we’re about to start.

The special moment has come to reward the Best WordPress Blog Themes of 2014 for their contribution to web development and we have the following awards waiting to know their owners: The Best Online Award, The Best Value for Money Award, the Best Innovative Product Award and The Editor’s Pick Award. So, let the show begin!

Best Online Award

WordPress blogger themes have raced each other all year to offer blog readers memorable and magical experiences, so they all deserve our congratulations. But this year, the Best Online Award has been cast under the spell of:

The Fable Theme

This premium WordPress template creates a whole new world for all types of information using the power of visuals. It uses a spacious, full-width template to build a complete and invigorating experience for blog readers and give them access to information in a way that combines technology with the traditional magic of reading.

Best Value for Money Award

Exhibiting its art and secret tools for only $49, this year’s Best Value for Money Award goes to:

The Muse Theme

They say inspiration is hard to come by. Not with this theme, it isn’t. The Muse encourages bloggers to write in a way not many WordPress blog themes manage to do by setting up a lively background for their ideas and holding their audience’s attention thanks to its responsive design.

Best Innovative Product Award

Ideas strike us in various forms. Whether simple or complex, whether childish or serious, what matters is how we use them. The Best Innovative Product Award for The Best WordPress Blog Themes 2014 goes to:

On the Go

Playful and engaging, this premium theme stands out for its sketch like design which hints at the way ideas are born, however simple or great they may be. Designed to serve either as a blog or as a page-based CMS, the On The Go theme plays on the dynamism of ideas in a way that addresses all senses.

Editor’s Pick Award

Some blogging themes have a special something that conquers the hearts of their viewers, a special something that simply makes them function as a whole. This is what the Editor’s Pick Award looks for and this year it has found it in:

WP-Venus

Beautiful and delicate, this theme for blog proves once again that women are from Venus, if any proof was still needed. Its warm colors and well-structured layout recommend it as an ideal choice for any website that targets a female audience, may it be a blog for mums, a fashion website or an online magazine.

Other Nominees

The awards may have been handed, but we must congratulate all the blogging themes that entered the race for this year’s Best Online Awards for they have made quite an impression, creating memorable experiences and surpassing each other in design, functionality or optimization. So here are the runners-up that deserve just as much appreciation for their performances as the winners do:

Genesis

This WordPress blog template uses custom menus, headers and backgrounds to set up an ideal birthplace for innovative ideas launched into the world through its search engine optimization power and responsive design.

WP-Professional

Professionals in all fields can now share their experience with internet users everywhere using the WP-Professional theme. Featuring a variety of widgets and layouts, this theme supports the information provided by the blog owner with portfolio, video and author page templates to build trust and a more complete knowledge base.

Sixteen Nine

Sixteen Nine is a theme that encourages bloggers to express themselves regarding the world and its issues. It facilitates exposure through its responsiveness, clarity through its simple design and power of persuasion through its two layout options and selection of backgrounds, headers and menus.

The Writer

Obox offers bloggers, whether columnists, novice writers or dedicated authors, a theme that makes writing easy-peasy. A minimalist design, a large number of customization options and a highly functional visual support complement each other to create blogs that almost write themselves and whose posts can reach out to the whole world thanks to a responsive design.

Beautiful

Beauty has always been a relative notion, but StudioPress has found a common denominator for blogs with this WordPress theme. Custom header and custom menus serve its aesthetic side whereas its mobile responsive design helps spread the message worldwide.

Hipster

Some struggle to be cool over their entire lifetime, but blogs don’t have to anymore. The Hipster theme sets up a new trend for them with its icon menu, numerous widgets, page templates and SEO system. In fact, this WordPress blog theme eliminates the boundaries of mainstream blogging with its original features and fully responsive design.

Wintersong

Among the best WordPress blog themes, Wintersong is designed to make ideas and opinions resound all around the world, just like a carol in the holiday season. The HTML5 mark-up allows bloggers to handcraft their text, the minimalist design brings it to the foreground, whereas the mobile responsive design helps it reach your readers wherever they are.

Metro

The Metro theme stands out through its tile custom post types which arranges images, text, sliders, buttons and maps in a way that fills readers with joy and energy. Moreover, its design may be minimalist, but its informational potential is maximized by responsiveness, infinite scroll and numerous short codes.

Modern Blog

Everything that happens in the modern world must be presented in a modern way. This is the idea behind the Modern Blog theme, which targets blogs, online magazines and news sites. And since they all need a voice, it offers a variety of logo integration and lead color options, all integrated in a minimalist design.

WP-Radiance

Ideas are meant to make an impact however they may be expressed. This WordPress blog theme helps achieve that goal by displaying them over a radiant background built on various page templates, sliders, widgets and customization options. Brightly-colored and well-structured, WP-Radiance is a very good choice for blogs, business websites or online magazines.

Personal

The personal touch is what makes blogs special, so this premium WordPress theme for blog created by Obox focuses precisely on that. Its cleanness and minimalist design join the customizable content in an attempt to create an experience that your readers will hold close to their heart for a long time.

Prologue

This WordPress blog template created by ZOOM features touch-enabled design, dynamic featured slideshow and preferential carousel feature. Prologue offers a sample of the elegance and sophistication of successful modern blogging themes and shares them with the world through a responsive design.

WP-Scribely

The WP-Scribely theme draws attention using the power of colors and one-column designs. This premium theme supports writers of all kinds by offering them a responsive experience and various features like individual design elements and self-standing page templates.

Dolce

This WordPress blog theme is designed in such a way that it adds freshness to every idea. Its range of homepages and widgets is simply invigorating, so are its post formats which allow bloggers to support their ideas visually or through text. In brief, Dolce helps you bring the best out every idea.

WP-Clear

A clear message can change the world. This is the guiding principle behind this theme, which plays on minimalism and flexibility to reach the highest levels of transparency. Multiple templates and layouts give it the professional look it needs while its responsive design shows it on whatever device.

MasterBlog

Blogging is an art that needs to be mastered, from the writing itself to the way that writing is shared. MasterBlog supports this art through a large typography design and a number of built-in options which help both experienced and inexperienced bloggers express their personality.

Pretty

This WordPress theme will have any blog walking on the catwalk of blogs for it proposes an original and fresh design which breathes elegance. Very flexible and easy to use, it is a perfect fit for any blog on fashion, lifestyle or gossip, but also an interesting choice for food and travel blogs.

Principles

This theme not only creates an ideal platform for bloggers to express the principles they live by and believe in, but it is also designed to highlight a set of principles successful blogging is based on. Minimalistic and unobtrusive.

BlogBeast

The BlogBeast theme is designed to stimulate bloggers and blog readers alike and encourage them to let their imagination run wild. Everything about this blogging theme is impressive, from its width to its colors and page templates, from its responsiveness to its navigation, from its boldness to its style.

Stretch

This WordPress theme stretches both the boundaries of responsiveness with its versatile design and those of visual appeal with its custom menus and featured images. With its simple structure and high functionality, the Stretch theme created by StudioPress redefines the notion of smart web design and paints it in six different colors.

Postline

Facebook seems to have become an integral part of everyone’s lives these days, spreading its influence to a variety of domains, including blog design. Modern and lively, the Postline theme reveals its strengths in a Facebook timeline like manner, scrolling down from its full responsiveness to its various layout options and widgets.

Writer

The internet offers a wide range of modern tools so that people can write about their convictions freely. However, not all writers find inspiring platforms to support their creative work. The Writer theme comes to their help with four stylish backgrounds and an attractive selection of tools that offer inspiration through style and functionality.

Grido

Blogs and social media are getting closer and closer, with the Grido theme sharing quite a number of features with the Tumblr network. Fully responsive and well-structured, this theme poaches the young and free spirit of Tumblr through nine gradient colors for its posts, an auto stacked layout and a lightbox gallery, among others.

Elemin

This WordPress theme lives up to the technological expectations and demands of modern platforms through its CSS3, HTML5 and Javascript coding, but compensates for this sophisticated side with a simple and balanced design. Responsive and fluid, the Elemin theme is designed to align blogs with today’s online trends.

Beverly

This theme uses a structure that focuses on the content, a responsive layout and a variety of color and layout options.

Bold

This premium WordPress blog theme repays the efforts of bloggers and their courage to write with a bold design which is bound to stick with their readers and give voice to their thoughts.

Lifestyle

Lifestyle stories have always a personality of their own. This WordPress blog template reflects that unique personality in a way that only fancy magazines can through dynamic widgets and Javascript enabled tabs, dynamic images and bright colors, through well-written and focused content and a balanced overall structure.

TechCompass

The TechCompass theme gives its viewers a peek at the simple side of technology and web design. Its dynamic slideshow, custom widgets and related posts feature are all integrated within the design to demonstrate that setting up an attractive blog is no hardship, however inexperienced the blogger.

The Style

Style is not always easy to achieve because of its relative notion, but this WordPress theme was specifically created to eliminate this problem. The theme options, page templates and short codes it uses complement each other perfectly, sparing bloggers the trouble of learning the art of web development to create a visually pleasant website.

Funki

Colorful and very dynamic, this theme is designed to make any blog vibrate with energy. Among the best WordPress themes for blog, Funki varies your users’ experience with 21 different layout options and 14 theme skins bringing them closer to you.

Glow

The Glow theme promotes the idea of visual impact as a door to the assimilation of information. This WordPress blog template uses a bold overall design built around multiple eye-catchy options and page templates.

Polaris

Sophisticated and elegant, the Polaris theme redefines photography as an integral part of web design. It banks on color variation and stillness but also on the power of customization in its attempt to introduce readers from all over the world to truthful opinions and relevant ideas.

Starlight

The simple and discreet design of the Starlight blogging theme acts as a sky for twinkling ideas. It creates a wide space for them to catch life, places them in plain sight by drawing the reader’s attention and arranges them in various visual clusters using multiple theme options and widgets.

Depth

Built on bright and powerful colors, this premium WordPress blog theme invites the readers to look deep into the meaning of their content. In the meanwhile, it guarantees an impact on several levels through its advert management system, menu management system, multiple page templates and featured post slider.

Polished

The Polished theme’s refined layout valorizes the content of the blog whereas its clear structure emphasizes its aesthetic value, creating a perfect balance between the two components and pointing towards the impact of detail.

Magnet

The success of a blog lies in the way it focuses the reader’s attention. With two featured sections and a featured slider, the Magnet theme guides the focus towards the content, thus confirming the experience-oriented purpose of a blog.

Fresh Life

This blog WordPress theme replaces the personal touch of blogs with a fresh approach based on color and dynamism. Compatible with WordPress 3.7 and all browsers, Fresh Life has an outstanding customization potential that ranges from page templates to widgets, easy managed through its advanced control panel.

Press

This WordPress theme features a neat classic format identical to the one used by newspapers. Press is informative, balanced and it easily integrates photo galleries and product listing pages.

Basic

Performance cannot be achieved unless the basics are mastered properly. This theme offers bloggers a shortcut and reveals just how much they can achieve by sticking to a traditional layout which displays the content in all its depth and complexity.

Video Plus

The strength of the Video Plus theme lies in its use of a combination of media to support the ideas presented by bloggers on their website. In fact, the central role of written content is taken over by video clips so as to redefine the power of animation.

Republica

One of the best WordPress blog themes, Republica relies on the already tested power of slideshows to immerse the readership of a blog into its universe.

Seduction

Designed with fan clubs and fashion blogs in mind, this theme uses vivid and sensual colors along with well-defined curves to enhance the already irresistible appeal of the celebrity world. Moreover, Seduction manages to transpose the glamour of showbiz into its range of widgets and customization options, creating a stunning visual impact.

Smart Blog

The Smart Blog theme is an efficient and good-looking WordPress theme which explores every opportunity to increase the exposure and expand the readership of blogs, from SEO to easy customization.

Little

They say little things make big things happen and indeed this also holds true for blogging themes. The purpose of the spacious and neat Little WordPress template for blogs is to clear all doubts and make a much bigger impact than blogs stuffed with distracting visuals, text blocks and countless buttons.

Chronicle

Designed to serve the purposes of magazine websites this WordPress blog theme proves that it is sometimes best to follow the well-trodden paths. Fully responsive and very simple, this premium template puts an emphasis on the timeless nature of information.

Notes

This blogging theme places itself at the junctures of technology being inspired from the very iPhone Notes app. Attractive and inspiring, this theme helps blogs take notes on the world in an organized and personalized way that is bound to stir a response from their readers.

Congratulations to all the winners and nominees of the Best Blogging Themes Category and thank you for your online performances!