The ten most popular WordPress Themes as of November 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.
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.
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Two columns, four widget areas and loads of jQuery functions (dropdown navigation, font resizing and more). The theme options include a movable sidebar, custom colours, excerpts on index pages, category or page navigation, different font and colour schemes.
Arclite by digitalnature
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Simple but elegant theme with lots of theme options.
Swift by gandham
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Fast loading, SEO optimized, Adsense ready, server friendly wordpress theme. It features 2 Magzine layouts,two different header styles, tabbed interface, a featured post slider, and the ability to disable all javascript features with a single click. Bundled with lot of options to build your own unique, professional and browser-safe WordPress Theme, SWIFT is the perfect choice for those who need a powerful and customizable theme. SWIFT has a active user community to help you with support queries.Note: Don't go by the preview link here, just few minutes on the option page will give you premium quality stunning look. SWIFT has a dedicated support forum.
Arras by zyml
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Magazine-styled theme with tons of features. Ready for alternate styles. Includes featured posts slideshow, different post layouts, multi-tabbed sidebar, custom single meta fields for reviews and many other customisable features.
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.
Suffusion by sayontan
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Suffusion is a lightweight theme with a power-packed set of options. Its focus is on elegance and simple looks. It has 5 widget areas that support one-column, two-column and three-column fixed-width formats, 16 pre-defined color schemes (green, red, orange, purple, 2 shades of blue and 2 shades of gray, each on light and dark backgrounds), a customizable multi-level drop-down menu for both pages and categories, inbuilt support for featured posts, a customizable tabbed sidebar, inbuilt Twitter support, threaded comments, translation support (French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Catalan, Danish and Swedish translations available) and customizable excerpts. The theme has been tested on Firefox (2.0+), Safari (3.0+), Chrome (2.0), IE (6.0+) and Opera (8.0+). A dedicated support forum is available
