The Drupal Premium Theme market is not yet as developed as it’s WordPress counterpart. But there are a handful of providers who have managed to create fantastic Premium Drupal Themes at very affordable prices. There are a ton of junky themes out there as well. Which is why I spent some time (9 hours to be exact) and used a little thing called Parkinsons Law to scour the web and find the best Premium Themes for Drupal I could.
1. Inspire from WooThemes – download
Inspire is a highly functional theme that has a custom homepage with a featured area powered by jQuery, and lovely mini-featured area. This along with the included portfolio page template makes it perfect to use for your business to show off your work or products.
2. Spectrum from WooThemes – download
Spectrum is a visually rich magazine theme for content rich sites showcasing their content with beautiful imagery. It’s packed with 7 widgetized regions and lots of custom woo widgets, like a video player, Flickr and Twitter streams, to customize huge amounts of the theme on the fly.
3. Delegate from WooThemes – download
Delegate is a shiny and feature-packed business theme that should appeal to the funky companies out there. Packed with all the goodness of a proper WordPress business theme, Delegate will most definitely make the impact you need from it!
4. Optimize from WooThemes – download
Optimize builds on the popularity of Coffee Break theme, with stunning looks and super functionality built in to the brand spanking new WooFramework. The customizable front page will showcase your work or product in a sexy fashion. Impress visitors of your site with this optimized theme now!
5. Headlines from WooThemes – download
Headlines continues where our old magazine themes left off. It has tons of requested features like featured area, social bookmarks, author highlighting, flexible layout to name a few. It’s the perfect platform to launch your magazine or blog and reach out to the world!
6. Daily Edition from WooThemes – download
Daily Edition is a clean, spacious newspaper/magazine theme designed by Liam McKay. With loads of home page modules to enable/disable and a unique javascript-based featured scroller and video player the theme oozes sophistication.
7. Coffee Break from WooThemes – download
Coffee Break is a professional theme built specifically to showcase your business, services or products. Heavily influenced by our recent WooThemes re-design, and packed with loads of options, you have complete control over what pages display on the home page.
8. Fresh News from WooThemes – download
Fresh News is our most balanced theme to date and the ability to use a standard blogging layout has made it our most popular theme to date. It is ideal for everyday bloggers that would like to upgrade from a free WP theme and finally add some income potential to their blogs.
9. The Gazette Edition from WooThemes – download
Gazette Edition is arguably our most sophisticated-looking theme to date, whilst the trendy featured scroller makes it very unique. The clean, white layout with professionally designed content areas are perfect for users that’d like to run a community newspaper website or a product showcase.
10. Clean Design from ThemeForest – download
Whether you’re a Drupal pro or just a beginner, this theme has you covered. With the advanced theme settings and block settings you have complete control over the look and style of your theme. Add as many images you like to your homepage slider, Add as many images you like to add to the left-right jcarousel, add as many widgets in your sidebar as you like, adjust sidebar positions like all in left, all in right and split sidebar’s (one in left and one in right side of the main content area), change width/color/style of you sidebar block as you want, add custom text and images with the help of pre configured latest ck editor, change the layout style from fixed width to fluid and much more, all without having to touch a single line of code!
11. City Magazine from ThemeForest – download
City Magazine is an easy one-click quick start theme. All modules are pre configured and installed (called installation profile) and just install your theme and start posting your content, stories, news etc. City Magazine comes with 11 skins (background) and link color options that you can change from the theme settings page. Make any color as your default color out of available color options from theme settings page. Below are the skin (background)/color variations available in the City Magazine theme.
12. Endless News from Worthapost – download
Endless News is designed to let the Drupal users power their highly rich content Drupal site. It has well organized block regions with different dimensions to suit various type of content such as poll, gallery and views block etc.
13. Job Now from ThemeSnap – download
The Job Now theme is the first premium solution for running your own Drupal job board website. Built on Drupal’s open source code, the Job Now theme utilizes tons of great features like payment for job postings, auto-posting jobs to Twitter, and an intuitive layout for job posters to submit their jobs. This job board theme gives you advanced control of job postings and allows you to set up job duration (or expiration) dates, notify the job poster of their upcoming job post expiration, and also set up any amount you’d like for job postings, whether that be $10 for 30 days, or $25 for 90 days. The options are endless.
14. Questions & Answers from ThemeSnap – download
The Questions & Answers theme is a unique solution for those wanting to run their own Yahoo Answers clone. This is really more than just a theme. It’s a way you can monetize and add real value for any online industry — whether that’s technology, pet, travel, real estate, finance, etc.
15. Modern Business from ThemeSnap – download
The Modern Business theme is great for any online business. It has 3 front page slider options, 2 or 3 columns to choose from for portfolio and blog pages, and 5 vibrant colors make this theme extremely versatile for professional business or personal websites.
If you want to showcase your portfolio, pictures, or other work, the Modern Business theme will allow you to do so with minimal effort. Images are auto-sized using Imagecache presets and you can change the layout on inner pages to show 2 or 3 columns. It’s really up to how you want your Drupal site to look. This theme uses the profile installation so that all of the demo content is set up just like on our demo within just a few short minutes.
16. Go Newspaper from ThemeSnap – download
Go Newspaper is a cutting edge Drupal newspaper or magazine theme. But can also be used for a blog or article-driven website. 3 custom skins, custom icons, front page pre-sized images using Imagecache, Twitter and Flickr integration are just a few of the things this theme includes. Each category will come with it’s own featured article slider using the DDblock module and the theme’s clean layout will help your users find exactly what they are looking for. If you’re publishing content and want to use Drupal as the CMS, then the Go Newspaper theme is a perfect solution for your website.
17. WebSource from ThemeSnap – download
The WebSource Drupal theme is clean, well-organized, and optimized for optimal SEO. Bloggers, news publishers, and other content publishing websites will enjoy the simplicity and speed offered from the WebSource Drupal theme. The theme includes front page slider, featured front page content, tabbed right column block for comments, recent news, etc., social networking icons, and much more. Easily display featured content on the homepage and include picture thumbnails with the included Imagecache module. The Websource theme is simple, elegant, and makes use of white space and clean borders.
Criteria For Being the Best Premium Theme
No I didn’t just randomly choose these themes and classify them as being “the best.” There was believe it or not some criteria behind my research to help me decide which Drupal Premium themes are the best. These criteria are as follows:
- # of Positive user reviews
- Complexity of layout and design
- UI & UX standards met
- How much functionality the theme added to Drupal
- # of times the theme has been purchased
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