The best designed WordPress powered sites

  • I’m kind of new to the community, although I’ve found a distinct lack of original design with WordPress. Many many sites relying on default template installs or simply reworking one or two layout nuances and putting the thing live.
    I’d like to compile a list of simply stunning WordPress designs. I’ve got a few on my table, but I’d like to hear from the community on this. Tell me your favorite WP site (design wise) and tell me why, or don’t. I expect there is a number of great designs, but I simply haven’t been exposed to them. Impress me ??

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  • Good news, the design for my WordPress blog egographies is currently listed on the CSS Vault front page and has quickly climbed to the very first places of the WordPress Top Sites!
    As a result, I get more comments on my design and some mistakes have been pointed out, which I will correct in the next version. Already working on it.

    Thread Starter Brak

    (@brak)

    Congrats Thierry! I understand how proud it makes you to go to your stats and see nothin’ but referrers from CSSVault (mine was listed about a week before yours)
    Nice to see some more WP sites pop up in the Vault!

    My site https://www.aaronegaas.com has been on unmatched <style> as well. lots of cool wordpress hacks on it too, most of them custom.

    I like this site: https://www.klaidos.com . Sorry, it is in Lithuanian

    https://www.kineda.com

    Powered by WordPress! ??

    Well not really fantastic, and some might say not very original, I designed my WordPress BLOG to look like the rest of my (already existing) site. Not being a designer or a web programmer at all, I was pretty pleased with how it turned out: https://www.br-eng.info/words/

    Of course I would say mine… but of course I’m massively biased. And it also helps that I’m the only one with my theme.

    There are some other themes I’ve seen, though, that I really, REALLY like.

    WarAxe: Not bad. I’m usually not a big fan of white-on-black websites, but yours pulls it off quite nicely. Bravo. As for me (*BLATANT PLUG!*), I’ll stick to my theme: not quite kubrick enough to look like 75% of all blogs out there (only 45%, but with a random image header), but not original enough to offend anyone I don’t want to offend.

    I really like what has been done with Michael Yon’s site (powered by WordPress):
    https://www.michaelyon-online.com/

    Whether a design is good depends on the purpose it’s intended for. What is the purpose of your site? If your site is a personal blog, WP has a bazillion designs that work quite well for that, as proven through their use on thousands and thousands of sites. If you want to use WP as a CMS, there are a lot fewer good designs, but there are still some. Semiologic themes are great, though you have to use the Semiologic plugins for them to work.

    I recently designed photoblog that’s powered by WP:
    https://photography.kineda.com

    The best design I’ve seen for just about any WordPress-powered blog (I’m pretty sure it’s a WP-powered blog) is Binary Moon. I don’t know whether or not that is a downloadable theme, however. (I haven’t seen it anywhere else, so I don’t think it is. That’s the same guy that did the Regulus theme.) From having looked at it I can tell that a LOT of work went into it: code is clean, content is near the top, great SEO layout, and good UI look/feel. Were that I could code like that…

    (As it is, I couldn’t code my way out of a paper bag. Unless it was one of those small kwik-e-mart alcohol bottle bags, but definitelly not one of those big grocery store bags.)

    very few WordPress powered sites that actually use wordpress as a CMS but have the look and feel of a real website not a blog but the one at https://www.michaelyon-online.com/ really impressed me. Another one I remarked today accidentally is the one at https://xxlmag.com/ which looks cool. If you know others like these ones then post them here i am very curious about such designs.

    So let me vote for my design ??

    https://miejsca.org/

    It is still a blog.

    I′ve used Patricia Muller′s design (see .css source comment on my website) 16 months ago, but pimped the hell out of it. (TonyMoore.nl)

    Most of the WP themes I run into are pretty basic, so no favourites for me (exept my own weblog ofcourse ;))

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