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The Rankings: 90 Most Popular Premium WordPress Theme Designers

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Below is a list of ninety of the most popular premium WordPress theme shops. The rankings are based on their Alexa rankings (the lower the better). This may not be the best way to compile such a list; however, short of having access to each shop’s books and statistics, it seems to be one of the more objective ways.

With so many WordPress theme designers these days, I’m sure some that should have been included here were missed. And so if you don’t see a site that should be on the list, let us know in the comments.

* Note: Designers that sell through ThemeForest and the like were not included here. They are already conveniently organized at ThemeForest or other such sites.

1. Elegant Themes – 969

 

2. WooThemes – 1,212

 

3. Studio Press – 1,564

 

4. Rocket Theme – 1,786

 

5. Yoo Theme – 2,307


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6. DIY Themes – 2,659

 

7. Templatic – 2,733

 

8. WPMU Dev – 3,752

 

9. App Themes – 4,725

 

10. WPZoom – 4,836

 

11.  Mojo Themes – 5,039

 

12. PageLines – 5,225

 

13. Premium Press – 5,863

 

14. iThemes – 6,442


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15. Theme Junkie – 6,496

 

16. ThemeFuse – 7,221

 

17.  Headway Themes – 7,444

 

18. Gabfire Themes – 7,764

 

19. Solostream – 9,195

 

20. WPShower – 10,208

 

21. Graph Paper Press – 11,242

 

22. Press75 – 11,558

 

23. Themify – 11,899

 

24. Organic Themes – 12,231

 

25. Ink Themes – 12,680


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26. Bavotasan – 13,247

 

27. Theme Hybrid – 14,645

 

28. Catalyst Themes – 14,995

 

29. Gorilla Themes – 15,414

 

30. Obox Design – 16,175

 

31. DailyWP – 17,560

 

32. Gantry Framework – 20,720

 

33. Tokokoo – 20,827

 

34.  Theme Trust – 21,464

 

35. Magazine3 – 22,422

 

36. Theme Foundry – 22,821

 

37. PriMO Themes – 23,452

 

38.  ThemeShift – 27,476


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39.  UpThemes – 32,084

 

40. Photocrati – 33,373

 

41.  CyberChimps – 34,566

 

42. Themes Kingdom – 38,653

 

43. ViVA Themes – 41,873

 

44. FlexiThemes – 42,408

 

45. NattyWP – 45,804

 

46. Dev4Press – 46,363

 

47. Panda Themes – 46,455

 

48. Pro Theme Design – 46,476

 

49.  Crowd Favorite – 49,767

 

50. Storefront Themes – 51,126

 

51. DevPress – 55,322

 

52. RichWP – 56,935

 

53.  WPNow – 56,957

 

54. WP Remix – 60,999

 

55. BuddyBoss – 65,069


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56. Der Prinz – 69,433

 

57. KreativeThemes – 74,335

 

58. ThemeWarrior – 78,093

 

59.  PressWork – 78,826

 

60. Standard Theme – 78,958

 

61. Press Junkie – 85,277

 

62. Chimera Themes – 89,209

 

63.  Aloha Themes – 90,969

 

64.  Organized Themes – 91,337

 

65. WPArcade – 92,213


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66. BuddyDress – 92,317

 

67.  Mint Themes – 98,312

 

68.  WP Ninja – 102,504

 

69.  Press Coders – 108,354

 

70.  WP Bundle – 110,915

 

71.   Xtreme Theme – 114,711

 

72.  Okay Themes – 118,116

 

73.  ComicPress – 122,691

 

74.  Acosmin – 123,301

 

75.  WPCharity – 136,427

 

76.  Antisocial Medialilc – 139,561

 

77.  Zidalgo – 242,433

 

78. Ashford – Turtle Interactive – 244,626

 

79.  Band Themer – 272,424

 

80.  Rockable Themes – 299,831


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81.  ThemeJam – 305,911

 

82.  Theme Weaver – 338,355

 

83.  Wobzy – 345,909

 

84.  Theme Wars – 389,687

 

85. RoloPress – 413,814

 

86.  Win with WP – 437,929

 

87.  WP Yuzu – 482,327

 

88.  ThemeBaker – 498,001

 

89.  Legend Themes – 532,630

 

90.  Neue Themes – 694,995

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Comments (50)

  2. Nice list but you missed a few, including mine!

    We are not the biggest but with Global Rank of 150,728 and US of 136,822, I make that 75-80 ish? I’m sure there are others who make it a round 100.

    http://themeloom.com/

    We have also been featured a couple of times here on WPMU, so feeling all dejected not to have made your list :-( !!

  3. Great post!

    I can’t believe how fast this page loaded as lengthy as it was. =)

    I’ll have to check some of these out. I didn’t know about several of them.

    ~ Corey

  6. Also… while I get the difficulty in compiling good statistics, I’m guessing you didn’t filter for “just” wordpress related links… meaning shops like RocketTheme gain a lot of perceived market share on this list from all the Joomla/Drupal stuff they do as well…

    Also I’m shocked by Elegant themes top ranking… pretty themes (I personally hate that ePanel crap though), just never thought they were that popular on the same scale as StudioPress & Woo.

    • Yeah, I went ahead and included a few shops that obviously get a lot of their traffic from Joomla/Drupal. Most are purely WordPress, however. Also, while it’s interesting to see where each currently stands, I was hoping for the list to be a resource as much as a competition.

      I was also surprised to see Elegant come ahead of StudioPress & Woo. But I also remember the very first time I ever came across Elegant. I thought, “Wow! This is a deal!” … It looks as if I wasn’t the only one who thought that.

    • Marcus – Designers that sell through ThemeForest weren’t included here. The idea was to get independent shops/designers that sell through their own sites. Places like ThemeForest already conveniently bring many designers together, so we know where to find them. Though it’s set up as a competition of sorts, the real value behind the list is that hopefully it will bring together some of the better designers in one place.

  11. Hi Joe,
    I wanted to read more about Headway’s ranking so I clicked on the Show More link, but it just took me to the top of this post. Is there a way to read more about some of the listings?
    Thx,
    Kim

    • Hi Kim – The images don’t go anywhere else, I’m afraid. The main links go to the designers’ sites, of course. If you wanted to look at more info on Alexa, you could simple go to Alexa.com and then type in the site name.

  14. I would be VERY careful with this list. Let me make my point…

    Elegantthemes.com. Placed at number 1 due to Alexa ratings. I’m not sure exactly what Alexa ratings mean or how they are compiled but It surely doesn’t have ANYTHING to do with the quality of the site.

    Case in point:

    I recently registered and paid to join Elegant themes. They have some really pretty themes and all but…and a BIG but… The member forum is void ANY real help. When I say ‘void’ I mean ‘void’. I’ve had a couple of issues and there have been NO responses over the last 2 weeks. Oh, I’ve had 1 or 2 questions answered, but even the simplest questions such as, “Is it possible to have a blog type view in cat view and not have the blog on the frontpage”…this question has been looked at 4 times in 2 weeks and no answer.

    I clicked ‘unanswered posts’ and got over 175 posts in 7days.

    Be very cautious when looking at this list and take it for what it’s based on…Alexa…whatever that ‘really’ is. Popular means page visits. It doesn’t mean “popular because people like it and use it”.

    Unfortunately with Elegant Themes you can’t see the forum unless you join them. I think this is why I waited so long to join and I have to say I’m having buyers remorse.

    • Sorry if you have had a bad experience in the forums. We do our best to answer all non-customization related questions. We get hundreds of new threads per day, so those 175 unanswered tickets were probably from the past 12 hours or so and will be answered within the next day. We have a no-questions-asked refund policy, so feel free to send me an email if you don’t think that ET is right for you.

      • Email sent. I don’t want my money back. I like your themes. What I don’t like is the communication.

        Sorry, I don’t mean to hijack the post although this is the only place Nick seems to reply to. Sorry to say that Nick but this is the 3rd email and no reply.

  15. Funny that I cannot find Themekraft on the list. Alexa Ranking is 45.612 – with 170.000+ downloads, we have one of the most downloaded BuddyPress themes. Custom Community Pro has been in the top 10 in the WP repository for quite some time.

    So please forgive me, but I do not think that this list actually paints a realistic picture. I would like to know more what the inclusion criteria were for the big sample. Also I agree that Alexa ranking DOES NOT equal popular.

  21. This is a huge list! Tons of great resources no doubt.

    Why did you post links 70 thru 90? Almost every site was a clone with a dupe link to the same e-junkie account. I even noticed a site selling the “Easy Blogger” plug-in! I know for a fact the first 30 links are reputable though.

    Thanks for the community share!

  26. Hi, thanks for sharing this listings.
    I bet there’s really a lot of good themes, I am someone new to WordPress so this list will be helpful for me.

    Michelle

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