It seems designers don’t believe in going on a summer holiday as there has been another enormous burst of quality Premium WordPress Themes in August. Making a small list of just ten of those is pretty hard, but choices have to be made.

This month I specifically looked at the different theme styles to pick the best among them. These styles of course include Portfolio themes, but also Business/Corporate, Full Screen portfolios, Tablet and Smartphone compatible themes and more. Actually I kind of skipped the regular “blogging” layout as we’ve seen enough of those :)

Before listing this month’s best paid Premium themes, I’d like to point out WooThemes’ celebratory 100th theme release, which is totally FREE! Awesome stuff. Have a look at Swatch right now and give it a try!

1 Crea WP – $30

Flash-like Full Screen Portfolio theme by Dream-Theme 

Features

  • Full Screen, Flash-like design
  • Fade and Carousel Sliders
  • Powerful background builder
  • Header font, logo and favicon customization
  • Highslide JS

2. MultiToool – $35

WordPress Theme Framework by bloooming

Features

  • Great for professional web designers and beginners alike
  • Modify built-in themes or create your own
  • Unlimited number of templates per skin
  • Currently supports 520 fonts (supported by fontsquirrel.com)
  • Resource Management Tool for all your layout images
  • StyleSheet editor
  • Template editor
  • Droplets: edit everything from sliders to drop-down menus to sidebars
  • Areas: create unlimited areas so you can simply drag and drop your droplets
  • Easy updates without losing your customizations
  • Multisite-ready
  • A must for professionals: [sws_highlight hlcolor=”fbfac7″] the administrator Panel is re-brandable [/sws_highlight]

3. Artboard – $35

Full Screen Portfolio/Blog Theme by epicera

Features

  • Powerful fullscreen jQuery slider
  • Browser-tested on all major browsers
  • Font replacement+ (everything from Google Fonts to Cufon to Typekit is supported out of the box).
  • iPad/iPhone/Mobile-friendly
  • Responsive front page design
  • 8 Page templates included
  • Widgetized sidebar and footer areas
  • OptionTree admin panel (customized and skinned for the theme) complete with hundreds of options to let you customize the theme to your own preferences
  • Full blog feature-set and everything else you would expect in a premium WP theme
  • Extensive documentation
  • prettyPhoto 3
  • Chosen dropdown menus
  • Tipsy animated tooltips
  • Powerful shortcode system
  • Contact form 7 ready
  • Optional “minimal” style
  • Superfish + HoverIntent dropdown menus
  • Graceful CSS3 and HTML5 elements built in (that work on all browsers)

4. LeanBiz – $39/year

Business Theme by ElegantThemes

Features

  • Four Color Schemes
  • Threaded Comments
  • Optional Blog-style Structure
  • Gravatar-ready
  • IE8 + IE7 + IE6 compatible
  • Advertisement-ready
  • Widget ready sidebars
  • Theme Options Page
  • Custom thumbnail images
  • PSD files
  • Valid XHTML + CSS

5 Minimalia Theme – $39

Elegant Thesis child theme by Smashing WP Themes

Features

  • 4 types of Thumbnails
  • Proper ad placement
  • Beautiful typography
  • Widgetized footer
  • Custom CSS for plugins (Contact Form 7 and WordPress Popular Posts)
  • Built-in Social Share buttons
  • Built-in author box
  • Custom Comment area

6. Yield – $35

Creative WordPress theme by Siiimple

Features

  • 3 Awesome Sliders
  • 240 Pattern Combinations
  • 3 Blog Layouts
  • 9 Page Templates
  • 9 Color varieties
  • 8 Single Page Layouts
  • Sticklr Side Panel
  • Social share buttons
  • 5 Gallery Layouts With Custom Isotope Filter – including pagination
  • 2 to 6 colums
  • No TimThumb!

7. Alight – $35

Portfolio WordPress theme by MushinDesign

 

Features

  • 2 homepage sliders
  • Filterable Portfolio
  • 10 Widgetized areas
  • 5 Widgets
  • Sliders on portfolio pages
  • Different Header fonts to choose from using Cufon
  • Lots of beautiful background patterns to choose from
  • Auto image cropping
  • Choose between dark and light nav and footer variations
  • WordPress post format support
  • Custom post types to manage the slider and portfolio
  • AJAX contact form
  • Theme options
  • Plenty of shortcodes
  • Page templates
  • Unbranded admin area
  • WP3 custom menus
  • Plus more…

8. Coalition – $35

One-Page Portfolio Theme by Kriesi

 

Features

  • Multi-Purpose Slider for images and videos
  • Any Number of Slideshows possible
  • Supports Videos
  • Template Builder for unique page layouts
  • No plugins needed whatsoever
  • Built on Avia Framework, one of the most advanced Frameworks on Themeforest
  • Visual Shortcode editor with preview function
  • Custom Widgets like: Combo Widget, Recent News, Recent Portfolio entries, Advertising Big, Advertising Small
  • Color picker options for any number of gorgeous color settings.
  • Unqiue Sidebars for each page/category possible
  • Extensive User Manual, short videos and professional theme support by me and my theme to fix any kind of problems
  • Portfolios & Portfolio Custom Post types
  • jQuery 100% unobtrusive wich degrades gracefully if javascript is turned off
  • Code built with SEO best practice in mind
  • PSDs included

9. Broadside – $35

Professional Portfolio theme by ProgressionStudios

 

Features

  • Flexible Theme
  • Video Documentation
  • Unlimited Menu & Logo Background Colors
  • Full Screen Background Image
  • Video Support
  • Easily Modify the height of the theme from the options panel
  • Shortcodes built into the WordPress Text Editor for ease of use
  • Support for WordPress custom navigation menus
  • Includes layered PSDs
  • XML Demo Content included for quick setup

10. WordPressNext – $35

Corporate/Business theme by madza

 

Features

  • Video Tutorials for installation
  • 3 Different Sliders
  • Extensive Admin Panel
  • Pricing Table Manager
  • Unlimited Colors (using built-in color picker)
  • 16 Background Patterns
  • 3 Different Portfolio page styles
  • Hompage Widgets
  • Flexible pricing table (2, 3 or 4 columns pricing table)
  • Page styles ex. full with, with left or right sidebar
  • Styled typography and flexible page columns
  • Built-in Many Shortcodes
  • Style shortcodes ex. image frame, dropcap etc.
  • Column shortcodes ex. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 columns
  • Built-in Shortcode Generator plugin
  • Custom Post Type support for Portfolios and Slides
  • WordPress 3.0 menu support
  • Blog page single post and comments
  • Contact us page with validation
  • PSD included
  • jQuery powered effects