With so many WordPress theme shops and a profusion of relatively cheap themes available on ThemeForest (currently more than 4,500 themes!), along with the increasing dominance of ThemeForest in the Google search results, I wonder if some independent theme shops are starting to feel the pain of decreasing sales numbers in this highly competitive and increasingly saturated theme market? Will more and more theme developers succumb to the dominance of ThemeForest and just give up to sell their product there? That would be a real shame. What do you think?
Below is a list of new premium WordPress themes released in October. We’ll be adding themes to the list throughout the months as they’re released.
Naomi WordPress Theme
Naomi is a sweet WordPress theme ideal for cupcake shops, pastry boutiques, cake shops, food bog, or any type of shop or business. The premium theme from BluChic has a feminine pastel colour scheme and be used as either a business website or a blog – food and cooking blog, mommy blog, art and craft blog, fashion blog or anything else. It has a responsive layout so its mobile friendly and will work on any screen size from large monitors down to tablets and mobile phones (iPhone, Android etc).
Some of the other notable features of the theme include: large featured slider, custom header logo, homepage featured widget, various page / post layout options, photo gallery, custom backgrounds or patterns, social media icons, translation ready, colour setting options, one click auto update, theme options to easily add tracking code, favicon etc and more.
A Marketing Suite is also available to suit the theme design, which includes matching business card template, newsletter template, Twitter cover and Facebook cover.
Price: $79
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Micro Jobs WordPress Theme
Micro Jobs is a marketplace WordPress theme allows you to start your own micro jobs website just like Fiverr & PeoplePerHour. The powerful and featured packed premium theme from Premium Press lets you easily and cheaply build a micro jobs marketplace that connects service providers with customers.
Some of the key features of the Micro Jobs theme include: a built in submission form with customizable listing packages (free or paid job listings, and additional revenue options such as featured listings, Google Maps, image uploads and limit space, HTML descriptions, multiple category and paid category selections), Workflow and fund release tools (allowing buyer and sell to communicate quickly and easily via your website and manage fund releases upon completion), a user feedback and profile rating system, members area and order history + invoices, 30+ extra theme designs (child themes), multiple payment gateways, built-in advertising areas, easy customization options and add-on features, and a mobile responsive design that will work on large monitors, tablets, mobile phones and all other mobile devices.
Price: from $79
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True News WordPress Theme
True News is a responsive magazine or news WordPress theme from Theme Junkie. The premium theme has a white, minimalist design with quite a traditional structure. The homepage has a featured content slider and sections for other categories. The homepage is fully widgetized allowing you to easily structure the content on the homepage with drag and drop widgets.
Some of the other notable features of the theme include: a mega menu, various page layouts, 11 custom widgets, teams page, shortcodes, JetPack compatibility, support for Schema.org markup, banner ad placements, localization ready, advanced control panel and more.
Price: $49
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Fernando WordPress Theme
Fernando is a mobile friendly WordPress theme created specifically for authors and speakers who need a professional yet affordable website. The premium theme from Web Savvy Marketing is the perfect marketing solution for authors, eBook writers, coaches, consultants and speakers. It includes lots of great features and options to highlight speaking engagements, promote books, create an online training program, create a membership section and sell memberships, sell physical and digital good, and build an email list. The theme also includes lots of options for call to actions giving you flexibility to highlight your coaching, speaking, books and services. Being a child theme for the Genesis Framework so you also get all the other great features and benefits of building on this rock solid framework.
Price: $59.95
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Socially Viral WordPress Theme
Socially Viral is a blog / magazine style WordPress theme from MyThemeShop suitable for any niche. The premium theme has a simple, clean and beautiful design that is built to be engaging, fast and boost viral traffic. It puts a strong focus on pictures and the social sharing aspects in order to attract people’s attention and then get them to share your content. The homepage is designed to be as attractive as possible with large featured thumbnails with post titles to entice people to click through to read articles.
Some of the key features and functionality of the theme include: mega menu system, large featured posts, review system, prominent social share buttons, subscription box, fully responsive design, fast loading, unlimited sidebars, unlimited colors and background options, advanced typography options, Schema support, author box, integrated AdSense spaces, parallax scrolling, breadcrumbs, and more.
Price: $49
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Candela Pro WordPress Theme
Candela Pro is an attractive creative portfolio WordPress theme for freelancers, artists, agencies, bloggers and others. The premium theme from Design Orbital has a content focused masonry grid like design that allows your content to standout distraction free. It has a modern, clean layout with great typography and could be used to showcase portfolio items or blog posts if used for a content website.
Some of the key features of the theme include: retina ready and fully responsive layout, modern hamburger navigation, hidden sidebar and footer sections, post formats and featured images, post list and project list widgets, easy logo uploader, wide or boxed layouts, custom header and background options, Font Awesome icons, unlimited colors, Google fonts, easy options panel, translation ready, and more.
Price: $79
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Pulse WordPress Theme
Pulse is a simple and versatile business WordPress theme from Viva Themes. The premium WordPress theme has a clean and minimal design suitable for any business or personal website. The homepage has a full width featured slider and below that sections to display widgets, a static page or latest posts. Some of the other key features of the theme include: a hidden mobile side loading menu, 100% responsive design, four different front page layouts, Font Awesome icons, five widget ready sections, social media font icons, logo uploader, blog pagination and more.
Price: $45
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Luxury WordPress Theme
The Luxury WordPress theme from Templatic is an elegant ecommerce (WooCommerce) theme that could be used for any type of online store. The premium theme is mobile friendly with a responsive layout and has a modern and professional design that is flexible and customizable. The homepage has a full width slider to showcase products or sales etc, and below that, sections to display new products, best selling products, featured products and other information. The homepage is fully widgetized allowing you to easily arrange various elements the way to want. The product page, category page, search results pages, shopping cart and other pages have all been styled for WooCommerce and optimized for conversion. It also has filtering options for price, size, colours etc. The theme supports the WordPress Customizer so you can the colours, fonts, headers, backgrounds, logo etc easily with a live preview.
Price: $39
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Store Pro WordPress Theme
Store Pro is a clean and versatile WooCommerce WordPress theme from Theme Junkie. The theme has a modern and flat design suitable for any type of online store. The homepage has a featured slider and is widgetized so you can arrange the layout with the elements you want via drag and drop. It has dual navigation menus – a horizontal and a vertical navigation menu. The vertical menu is expended on the homepage and hidden on other pages, which is not very user friendly and a bit clumsy to use. The shop category pages and individual products pages have full width layouts.
Price: $49
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Resto WordPress Theme
Resto is a premium WordPress theme for restaurant and bar websites from cssigniter. It has a contemporary and attractive design that will bring the diners in. The drag and drop homepage allows you to build the front page design exactly as you like. Some of the other features include: menu management (simple and clean design with multiple price options and specials section), events management (to manage events at your venue), reservation template (includes a reservation form or integrate your favourite reservations system), theme options panel, color variations, shortcodes (via a plugin), custom menus, localization options and more.
Price: $39
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Elegant WordPress Theme
Elegant is a clean and professional multi-purpose WordPress theme for blogs, portfolios, ecommerce shops, and online magazines. The premium theme from Themify has a minimal and typography focused design that places the focus on your content. It includes Themifys drag and drop page builder so you can create every page layout exactly the way you want by dragging and dropping modules on the page. The theme is ideal for artists, writers, designers, agencies, businesses, editorial sites and individual portfolios.
Some of the other notable features in the theme include: left or center aligned layouts, masonry and grid layouts for blog and portfolio posts, image filters (uuto-apply Grayscale, Blur, and Sephia filters to your images without editing the original image source), custom header styling (style the header background, font and color individually for each page/post), portfolio post type, team / staff post type, 6 colour skin options, WooCommerce support for an ecommerce store shop, theme customizer (allows you to customize everything from header to footer), Google font, auto theme updates, parallax backgrounds, background videos, custom widgets / shortcodes, social icons and more.
Price: $49
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Blossom WordPress Theme
Blossom is a beautiful ecommerce WordPress theme that runs on the Genesis Framework. The premium child theme from Restored 316 Designs has a clean and feminine style with nice pastel colour schemes. It has six different homepage design options, a nice category index to display all your categories in the one place, 3 different page layout options, 3 colour schemes and options to create your own, WooCommerce ready, custom logo and backgrounds, footer widgets, HTML5 markup and a mobile responsive design so it works on all screen sizes and mobile devices.
Price: $50
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Writer WordPress Theme
Writer is a unique and beautiful WordPress theme designed for writers, authors and bloggers. The premium theme from GavickPro gives you a creative way to showcase your writings, articles, blog posts and images. It has four different homepage layouts options to choose from – book style page with sidebar, image grid and portfolio grid for portfolio displays or traditional post lists.
Some of the other notable features include: a mobile responsive design, swipe out menu, fast loading content focused design, great typography options for newspaper column styled text blocks, quotes and lists, custom widgets, WordPress customizer support (to make changes to the layout, fonts, styling etc), and more.
Price: €39
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Downtown WordPress Theme
Downtown is a restaurant WordPress theme from Tesla Themes designed for restaurant, bar, food, coffee shop and food catering websites. The premium theme has a clean, modern and mobile friendly responsive design with lots of special features for restaurant websites. Some of the key features of the theme include: a filterable menu, reservation form, recipe pages, parallax effects and stylish animations, custom widgets and built-in shortcodes, Google maps, social media integration, custom logo and backgrounds, Google fonts, custom posts (services, testimonials, staff members, calendar etc), and a powerful admin back end to easily customize the look and functionality of your website.
Price: $39
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