WEBEXPEDITION18 Never Stop The Exploring

We often want our websites to be modern and trendy. As a result, we immerse ourselves into a high-speed game of ever changing fashion and ideas.

There is also a significant amount of people who does not like to be dependent on various external factors. They seek for more stable styles, such as minimalist or vintage and this is not some sort of sacrifice or worse choice, not at all.

Using some old school, retro design elements can also make your website stand out and impress readers. Vintage WordPress themes is a great way to express your unique sense of style and add some charm to your online personality.

Angelo

Angelo is a unique style theme for artists. It has a vintage look and feel, but it also comes with some modern features, such as filterable portfolio, unlimited color styling, etc. There are 60+ different options within the options panel. Google fonts are implemented to craft beautiful and safe headings. WordPress 3.2+ compatible, localization ready. It is easy to use, cutomize and build up.

Monmarthe

Monmarthe is a beautifully designed WordPress theme for your vintage cafe or restaurant. It is well organized and great looking theme for any kind of food related business. Multiple menu pages, cafe directions, blog and other types of content. It comes with a home page jQuery slider and sleek custom typography. Fonts are free to use, no license required. 4 different color schemes available.

VintageFolio

VintageFolio is a child theme of Xtreme One WordPress Framework, so it can only be functional if they are bought together. VintageFolio theme is perfect for showcasing your vintage photos. There’s no creativity limit over this theme, because it runs on a solid framework and the layout can be adjusted to individuals need in a matter of seconds. With Xtreme One you are able to employ your ideas very quickly.

Postcard

Postcard is one of the best vintage WordPress themes for a travel blog. Handy Google Maps integration allows you to geo-tag posts with locations. It is full of useful utilities a traveller needs to publish news and photos for his friends and family back home. Postcard theme design has some vintage elements that make it a beautiful retro theme. 9 alternate styles available, ranging from a ‘minimal’ blank canvas through to an ‘airmail envelope’ style.

Spectacular (Free)

Spectacular theme was conceptualized and designed for Smashing Magazine. Not many vintage WordPress themes come with HTML and HTML5 versions and this one does. You will be surprised that even IE users get the same layout as FF or Chrome users. The design itself is user-friendly and aimed to those who’re looking for a sleek, warm and easy to use blogging theme. There is also a readme file included in the package.

Auld

Auld’s simplicity is perfect for lazy bloggers who need a vibrant site for super quick publishing without too much effort in polishing their posts. Auld was created by James McDonald and it is being sold at WooThemes marketplace. Auld uses jQuery Masonry plugin to align the post blocks nicely below each other in a two column fashion. The theme has support for Google Fonts and there is a possibility to customize the typography to suit your taste.

John Thomas

John Thomas is an amazing vintage style WordPress theme for designers and creative individuals. It’s easier than ever to set up a stunning online portfolio and advertise your valuable services together with the samples of your work. Attention to details and well implemented structure is a perfect combination to make your site work for you.

CH3

CH3 is a vintage and a modern WordPress theme at the same time. It’s ideal for those who are searching for a professional WordPress business theme with a vintage look. It’s widgetized and full-featured theme with all the source files included for easy customization. Online support is available if you get into any troubles after purchasing this theme.

Nine

Nine is a unique vintage theme, “Art Deco” style. The theme is widgetized and WordPress 3.0 compatible with all the source files included for customization. Online support is also available. Visit the online help center to obtain detailed instructions on choosing, editing and managing your template.

Gigawatt

Gigawatt theme is a vintage looking WordPress video blog that allows for unlimited videos to be displayed in a categorized format. Give your HD videos the space and attention they deserve with a massive 940px wide view port. If you want to use this as a normal blog with images instead of videos, it is 100% possible. The template offers three different column layouts to choose from. Gigawatt is packed with three great color schemes including two light versions and a dark one.

Paragams (free)

Paragrams is a true vintage WordPress theme that looks like an old magazine about science and interior design. This theme fits any journalistic-type website whether it is a news-blog or some kind of online-mag. Moreover, it’s free to download and use this theme for as many projects as you like.

Going Green

Maybe you want to have a vintage style WordPress theme as a tool to save the earth or save your neighborhood? Going Green is the clean and stable platform you can tell the world from. Going Green includes the Genesis WordPress Framework, unlimited updates and support. With genesis framework you get search optimized and secure code.

Sophis

Sophis is sophisticated and elegant, unique feel vintage theme, best suited for various kind of presentation – works, products, places etc. Sophis comes with many jQuery effects, five different color schemes, unlimited set of background colors and a lot more feature, that are all easy to manage from the options panel.

Retro

Retro theme comes with unique color schemes and bold vintage looks: the bold ribbon, the detailed textures, the big main image with the tall caption, the serif fonts, you name it. Retro theme also comes with an easy to use WarriorPanel. It supports post thumbnails using custom fields or WordPress built-in featured image. It will run smoothly on major browsers.

Bold

This theme features a combination of bold typography, loose sketchy qualities and heavy textures, as well as 5 unique color schemes. The Bold theme utilizes timthumb to automatically resize your thumbnail images. If you would rather not use the abbreviated post structure you can choose an option for the tradicional blog-style layout.

Retro Book (Free)

Unusual, ancient-style book would suit the best to describe Retro book WordPress theme. If you want to add some charm from the past to your personal blog, this theme is right for you. Make it yours with a custom menu, header image and content. Download it for free and enjoy.

Tired of common repetitive templates? Want something different, unusual and unique? This carefully selected list of “Creative WordPress Themes” is dedicated to you.

Authored by Paulius Rasytinis

Telecom engineer, passionate about technologies, web developing and cooking. I celebrate every new WordPress feature, give warm applause to every theme release. Founder of WPDressing.com