Responsive design has been buzzing on the internet since Ethan Marcotte’s post on A List Apart last May. It takes into account the fact that there is a growing number of devices that people are using to interact with the web. Everything from smartphones, tablets, large monitors, small monitors, e-readers, mobile phones, games consoles, netbooks and even my little Nintendo DS. Responsive websites respond to the device upon which they are viewed. That means that when new devices arrive on the market a responsive site should look great on it. I’m looking forward to seeing a responsive website projected onto the back of my retina. I love the future :D
There aren’t that many responsive WordPress themes around so I thought I’d do a round-up of the trailblazers in the WordPress community. Download them, install them, and enjoy resizing your screen to watch them flow.
Yoko
Demo | Download
Responsive TwentyTen
Demo | Download
Thematic 320 and Up
Download | Demo
Scherzo
Demo | Download
Flexible
Demo | Download
Ari
Demo | Download
Twenty Eleven
Demo | Download (as part of WordPress 3.2)
Whiteboard Framework
Demo | Download
Blaskan
Demo | Download
Meerkat
Demo | Download
Bonus: Constellation
(thanks to Ed from Themes Forge!)
Demo | Download
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I love clean and simple WordPress themes. Some of these I have seen and some I have not. Very nice.
Some other quality responsive themes I see are from Themify: http://themify.me/themes
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Nice list Siobhan,
you should also check out the Constellation theme which I discovered a few weeks ago which is beautifully crafted
http://constellationtheme.com/
Ed
Thanks Ed! I’ve added Constellation to the list :) I didn’t manage to pick it up when I was searching. I really couldn’t find very many.
You are welcome Siobhan. Responsive themes are definitely thin on the ground at the moment. I think that will hopefully change quite quickly in the next 6 months.
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Nice selection of responsive themes indeed. Cheers! Really looking forward to trying out some of these. Might even give Thematic another go – as I’ve never thought it very easy to customise!
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See also, Skeleton from simplethemes.
http://demos.simplethemes.com/skeleton
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Hi you should try codium extend on the codex it’s a responsive theme too!
wordpress.org/extend/themes/codium-extend
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Hey thanks for the great list – and more responsive themes in the future please!
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Thanks for this compilation of responsive themes! Reminds me a bit of the old discussion about fluid layouts. ;-)
Will there also be WPMU fluid themes in the near future? I would love to see some more as I find many mobile versions of websites difficult to use because they are missing parts of menus or navigation and I also don’t like when a mobile version has a very different design. This feels especially bad when there are a lot of returning visitors that are used to the “normal” design and then find a different version on their smartphone or tablet…
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Nice post of yours Siobhan, all 10 are really very good.I will agree that this simple wp themes is cool but Yoko like the friend up say its just great!
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It is great to see a Thematic theme in this list. I am a big fan of thematic and I had no idea someone had come up with a responsive version.
How did you pull this together?
Great list.