The 10 Best Premium WordPress Themes of October 2011

2 Sky – $39/year

Business/Corporate theme

Features

• 5 unique color schemes
• Automated thumbnail resizing
• Gallery section
• Advertising management
• ePanel theme options
• Shortcodes collection
• Page templates
• Complete localization (translation)
• Support and updates

3 Acoustic – $35

Creative/Portfolio blog theme

Features

• Powered by Pexeto Panel
• Unlimited skins
• 4 unlimited sliders
• Advanced slider management
• Flexible and unlimited portfolio pages
• Advanced styling buttons
• Font management
• Automatic black & white image effect
• and much more

4 Flashlight – $35

Full-screen photography portfolio theme

Features

• 6 different Galleries (Fullscreen, Masonry Grid, Inline Slideshow, Inline Attached, Classic 3 Column, WordPress Default)
• Any Number of Galleries possible, Galleries can be attached to each post, page or portfolio entry
• Exif data display
• Performant javascript fullscreen slider on very large resolutions. Supports pattern overlay of images, autosliding, tooltips, thumbnails and more
• Optional image overlays for background slider, so visitors cant just right click and save your images
• Supports Inline Video Content with the help of WordPress Embed function
• No plugins needed whatsoever, everything is included within the theme
• Translation Ready
• Visual Shortcode editor with preview function
• and much more

5 DK – $35

Full-screen photography portfolio theme

Features

• 4 Homepage Styles
• Full Screen slideshow for Photo Gallery
• 10 Page Templates
• 6 Gallery Page Templates
• Password Protected Gallery Support
• Extensive galleries admin. Support multiple images upload
• Portfolio content support videos, images or external link
• 7 Custom Widgets
• Styled typography and flexible page columns
• Built-in Many Shortcodes
• Column shortcodes ex. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 columns
• Custom Post Type support for Portfolios
• WordPress custom menu support
• Facebook and Twitter integration
• and much more..

6 Bookcase – $30

WordPress Portfolio theme

Features

• Uniquely Interactive Portfolio
• 70+ Google Fonts
• XML and SQL files included to load default content.
• 5 Featured Section Textures
• Light and Dark Versions
• 5 custom WordPress widgets
• Powerful Unbranded Theme Options Panel
• Fluid width layout
• WordPress 3.2 Ready (Menus & Featured Images)
• Custom Post Types, Custom Image Upload Fields
• Unique features slider – say goodbye to icon feature lists!
• Child Theme Support for Advanced Users
• and much more..

7 Studio8 – $35

Minimalist full-screen portfolio/photography theme

Features

• 2 Skins – Light & Dark
• WordPress 3 Features: Menus, Featured Images & Custom Post Types.
• Support for Mobile Devices
• Unbranded Theme Options
• Awesome Background Slider
• Unlimited Portfolios
• 3 Custom Post Types
• Shortcode Generator Built Into Visual Editor
• 2 Blog Templates – Paginated & Unpaginated
• Automatic thumbnails without Timthumb
• 2 Portfolio Templates – Paginated & Unpaginated
• Easy Gallery Management – Upload 100’s of photos in 4 Clicks!
• and much more…

8 New Horizon – $35

Blog & Portfolio WordPress theme

Features

• Unlimited layouts
• Full screen slideshow
• Masonry & Fluid layouts for portfolio and blog archive pages
• Video support
• Social ready
• jQuery enhanced
• Custom elements
• and much more…

9 Shotzz – $35

Business/portfolio theme

Features

• Valid HTML5
• Advanced and compact jQuery code running behind the scenes.
• Changeable stage with 5 options
• Sidebar manager
• Custom post manager with ability to create single post file on the fly
• Slider manager with 40+ effects and 6 slider types
• Call to Action manager
• Form builder with CAPTCHA verification and Ajaxified submissions
• Dynamic footer, boxed or full width option
• 8 Gallery types for gallery manager
• Video support for portfolio items with smart sense
• Video thumbnail support
• Filter categories for posts and portfolios
• SEO optimized
• Detailed admin panel without branding
• Unlimited galleries and portfolios
• and much more…

10 Score – $40

WordPress & Buddypress Review theme

Features

• 2 Theme Skins – Comes in a blue and black skin
• Powerful Review System – Utilizes GD Star Rating WordPress plugin
• Filter Reviews – Order reviews by score, date and title
• BuddyPress Support – This theme work with the latest version of BuddyPress
• Frontend User Options – Custom register, login and profile pages on frontend of site
• Follow Posts – Follow posts (games) and have them show up in your front-end profile
• Lots Of Amazing Shortcodes
• Commercial JW video player – An excellent video player that comes with a commercial license worth $80, supports self hosted audio/videos (FLV, MP4 , MP3 , HTML5) and YouTube
• Full Localisation Support – Contains .po/.mo files for language translation
• Individual Page/Post Customisation – Change various layout options on each individual page (or globally if you want)
• Custom Widgets – Comes with GP Posts widget to enhance your post display in the sidebar
• Improved PrettyPhoto Lightbox – Supports images, videos and page content (also uniquely supports FLV , MP4, MP3 files)
• Contact Form – Built-in ajax/php contact form, with javascript turned off fallback
• Dropdown Menus – Unlimited levels, with javascript turned off fallback
• Drag & Drop Menu Manager – WordPress 3.0+ powered
• Background Manager – WordPress 3.0+ powered
• Unlimited Sidebars – Create as many sidebars as you want and assign them to individual posts/pages
• jQuery Disabled Support – jQuery 100% unobtrusive and degrades gracefully if javascript is turned off
• Theme Options – Tons of easy to use options to customise your theme
• Full Theme PSD Included
• Documentation – Detailed step by step help guide
• Compatible In All Major Browsers