The ten most popular WordPress Themes as of December 2009.
Mystique by digitalnature
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Feature-packed theme with a solid design, built-in widgets and a intuitive theme settings interface.
Pixel by Sam007
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Dark WP theme with 2-3 column layout, dropdown categories menu, multiple widget-ready placement and feedburner email form integrated, easy to customize.
Atahualpa by bytesforall
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1-5 columns, fluid or fixed width, rotating header images and 2 dozen option pages. Support and tutorials available.
Piano Black by Mono-Lab
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This theme supports widget, threaded-comments, theme-options,and translation is ready. Also including page-navigation and multi level dropdown menu.
Arclite by digitalnature
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Simple but elegant theme with lots of theme options.
Constructor by Antonshevchuk
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Many-in-one theme (six layouts, configured colors, fonts and slideshow, widget ready). Build your own theme on settings page.
Inanis Glass by inanis
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Glass-like theme for WP 2.6+. 2 col. fixed w/right sidebar, widget & multi-language ready, 7 reader selectable themes saved by cookie, and default sub-theme is admin selectable. Admin selectable picture.
Monochrome by Mono-Lab
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This theme supports widget, threaded-comments, theme-options,and translation is ready. Also including page-navigation and multi level dropdown menu.
Lightword by Andreiluca
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Simply clever theme with two columns, right-sidebar, fixed-width, widget-ready and threaded comments. Compatible with Wordpress 2.8, valid XHTML & CSS.
Thematic by iandstewart
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SEO-ready theme, Thematic is a highly extensible, WordPress Theme Framework featuring 13 widget-ready areas, drop-down menus, grid-based layout samples, plugin integration, shortcodes for your footer, & a whole lot more. Perfect for any blog and the starting point for theme development.