A industry standard when it comes to design framework, the Genesis theme ranks number one in popularity.  According to search engine results, the Genesis WordPress theme was detected 5.77% of the time.  One such query for asknow psychics review, found this site that uses the Genesis theme.

The Genesis theme author is StudioPress.  StudioPress has been called “the “best of the best” among WordPress premium frameworks” by Mashable.  It’s easy to see why StudioPress themes have been used by ...

The Thematic WordPress theme is a great place to start for a designer that wants to be creative with modifications. Think of this theme as a blank canvas to start your work of art, only limited by your imagination.  To see what this theme can be turned into,  take a look at this site that offers local seo services.

The theme is fully seo optimized and widget-ready, with 13 total widgetized areas to create the look and feel you want.  ...

The most exciting feature of the Influence theme is the over-sized home page slider, which is perfect if you are building a portfolio or business site, like this one that showcases string shelves.

The Influence theme was an easy choice for http://www.interiorhjem.com/ due to the fact that it is clean and simple to use on the front end and back end, with a four tab admin dashboard you can make customizations with out getting bogged down with needless options.

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According to InkThemes.com, the Infoway theme is the fastest lead capture WordPress theme.  The top notification bar or otherwise know as the info bar is the highlight feature for the homepage, see the info bar in action on this site for home cleaning.

The notification bar can be used to alert your visitors of important announcements, then direct them to a page or post by providing a link.  http://www.maidservicehouston.com/  uses the info bar to let visitors know that ...

Chosen by https://synergymaids.com/, the Salient WordPress theme is an ultra  sleek fully responsive theme that is ideal for businesses looking for a futurist modern design.  A couple of the visual features that jump out at the site’s user, is the ability for the header and the logo to shirk  as you scroll down the page.  Check out an example of this feature here at this NYC cleaning service site.

Another feature of the Salient theme, is the ability to play ...

Cleanco WordPress theme, designed to be beautiful and ultra flexible for maintenance service, general service, maid service or a cleaning company.  Created to make it hassle free to launch your company website, the theme comes with visual layout builder, custom post, portfolio and theme options.

Cleaner WordPress theme, claims to have a sparkling, starched feel just like after a cleaning company leaves your home.  The theme displays a pure white background and images of mirror like surfaces, the ...

The SmartMag WordPress theme used by http://www.kjokkenutstyr.net, is the perfect premium theme if you are creating a newspaper, blog, review site or magazine.  The clean and modern design creates a sharp look that is flexible with most applications.

SmartMag  comes with a drag and drop page builder that makes it simple to design unique pages, like this one that displays wine glasses.  The page builder allows you to use more than 11 special page builder widgets and seven block ...

The Supernova WordPress theme was designed to be clean and crisp, an example of it can be viewed at  http://designstoler.net/.  Designed with blogging in mind, this theme is available in blue, black and orange.  The custom header and full slider accentuates the three page template.  Although the Supernova was built for bloggers, the clean design and customizable options can create a sharp looking site, for example this page that displays the Charles Eames collection.

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Built on the Genesis framework, this magazine-style layout highlights your online publishing with a spacious 1152 pixel-wide frame.  This Genesis Metro Pro WordPress theme is enhanced by sleek social features that will help build your audience fast.

With a wide range of widgets available, the homepage can be easily customized to display the content that your site needs, for example http://www.mommyedition.com/ uses the popular posts widget to create a visually appealing sidebar.  Some of these popular posts, are on ...

Created for news and magazine sites, Deadline is a premium responsive WordPress theme.  Clean and professional, this design helps your images, writing and video jump off the page.  An example of this theme in action is this page that show cases the best juicer on the market.  That page shows the clean crisp look of the Deadline theme as it describes the best juicers available.

http://www.thehealthy.com/ uses the Deadline theme to give advice on diet & fitness, food ...

This visually stunning design is a custom production used by http://onsitegas.com/.  They are manufactures of on site, oxygen and nitrogen generators.  After 27 years of business many of these original generators are still going strong.  Made in the USA, these precision-engineered systems are used around the world in some of the harshest environments.

These cost-efficient nitrogen generators use the latest technology, creating low operating costs that give the consumer a return on investment under 18 months. Oxygen generators ...

The Magento premium theme Ultimo, available at envatomarket, is a designer’s dream come true.  With over 11,000 sales, the Ultimo theme comes in as the number one selling Magento theme.  According to the theme’s website, Ultimo is suitable for every type of store and a starting point for custom projects.

Unlimited colors, brand logo, and custom sub-themes make this theme a must have for designers.  The “Multistore ready” application lets users install stores for all types of products.

The visual appearance ...

Steam is a premium, responsive magazine theme, used by 4k.com.  The features of this theme include, trending carousel with AJAX filter controls, carousel rotates previously selected posts, featured sidecar carousel along with many other robust features.  The Steam theme has an average 4.57 star rating based on 173 user reviews.  For the price of $58, this theme can be purchased in the evantomarket here.

4k.com uses this premium theme to wow their visitors as they display the latest TVs, ...

The Ya’aburnee WordPress theme is a magazine style theme with a minimalist design.  Responsive layout, unlimited colors, category templates, menu item colors, page builder, shop page, bbPress-ready and buddypress-ready are a few of the features of this theme, according to the Ya’aburnee themeforest site.

http://income.com uses the Ya’aburnee theme for it’s site that teaches entrepreneurs, business owners and others how to start a blog.  This theme creates a beautiful layout for income.com, as it show cases information on ...

Sleek, modern and responsive describe this custom Twenty Fourteen WordPress theme.  This magazine style theme allows your home page content to be organized in a grid or even a slider.

“I have been using this theme since it came out on two of my websites. It’s actually very fast and not so cluttered like some other themes. I love the way it handles featured images as well.”  was one of the most recent five star reviews.    Other reviews claim ...

Rocket Theme is a source for themes designed for WordPress, Joomla, and  Magento.  According to RocketTheme.com, they have an extensive collection or premium themes, each are built with usability and customization as a priority.

Although they are built with modern and responsive designs the themes can be easily modified to fit any blog design.  The framework is built on the robust Gantry platform which makes it easy to install and customize.

The Rocket Theme used by http://www.silverolas.com/ maintains a clean ...

The custom WordPress theme used by http://www.campingtentsforsale.co.za/ is a clean blog look that does a great job combining their posts about camping tips with their tents for sale.  Some of the articles posted are “Buying a tent”, “Camping equipment every person should own”, “Keeping the bugs at bay”, “Camping tips” and “Camping safety”. The theme set up, clearly divides the blog from the camping equipment for sale.

The theme has three plugins installed, Aliplugin, Social Media Feather and ...

A WordPress theme that helps the creator put together Amazon affiliate sites with SEO integration.  It allows the owner to post Amazon products straight from Amazon to the users site.  According to the WordPress author of WP Amazillionaire, the theme allows you to quickly convert your site into a review site.  The theme layout and color scheme can be controlled through the WordPress theme.

WP Amazillionaire is the WordPress theme used by http://www.jumpingshoes.net/ to show case their low impact, ...

Creating a custom WordPress theme may seem like a daunting task, according to lifehacker.com there are a few things you should know before you get started.  They recommend that you have a basic knowledge of HTML and CSS to get start with.  Photoshop is where you can create a design for your WordPress site before you begin with the programming.  Since your WordPress site is probably empty, it makes things easier to import some sample content.  You can learn more ...

Looking great on any device the fully responsive WordPress theme 2012 makes this reviews site standout.  The outstanding features of this theme include an optional display font, optional no-sidebar look, styling for post formats and a widget rich front page template.  Easily create custom menus, background and header images to suit your style or design.

Some of the top reviews of this theme claim that it is by far one of the best themes ever used due to how easy ...

Is there really a difference?

Although the terms sound suspiciously alike, WordPress themes and templates are two different animals. To add to the confusion, the application throws page templates and theme frameworks into the mix. Each of these are built on WordPress, this does not include custom templates built outside of WordPress like this custom minecraft hosting site.

WordPress Themes

What other website creation tools normally call templates go by the name of themes in WordPress. These are what control the overall ...