The Geek Brewery

Finding a WordPress theme for your blog is like searching for a lost ant in a rice field. It’s true; with the vast collection of WordPress themes available online.

Here at Build that Geek, I can help narrow down the choices by posting top 5 WordPress themes according to genre. Not only that, I also give out at least a link of a live blog (not a demo site) using the theme.

Our spotlight for the moment goes to Neat WordPress Themes.

Blogging Pro by Design Disease
[theme (requires plugins)] [required plugins] [theme w/o plugins] [live preview on a real blog]

Blogging Pro is a neat three-column WordPress theme. It uses light colors; blue and orange. It’s typography is at par; very readable and has enough whitespace.

You can see Blogging Pro in action at J. Angelo Racoma’s The J Spot.

Swiss Cool by Desperate Curiosity
[download] [live preview on a real blog]

Swiss Cool is an authentic Swiss-inspired theme with its dark-but-appealing red color. The theme has two-columns, the main content and sidebar. It also has a footer bar for your other stuff. Really neat and red.

You can see Swiss Cool in action at Blogie Robillo’s IT talks!

Vertigo Blue by Brian Gardner
[download 2-column] [download 3-column] [live preview on a real blog]

Vertigo Blue is a part of the Vertigo series. It is available in two and three columns. The two-column version gives you a nifty uber-neat layout while the three-column one gives you more sidebar space without compromising neatness. It’s highly customizable. Has very readable and nice text.

Live preview at kuya James’ Pinoy Money Talk.

Dropshadow by Brian Gardner
[download] [live preview on a real blog]

Dropshadow is a really simple and neat Wordpress theme. The use of graphics in the theme is minimal; thus making it fast to load. The theme is not that highly-appreciable when viewed in demo sites; but looks great when customized.

Darwin of Juicelog customized modified this theme to fit his blog.

And finally the last but not the least…

Pure by Melfina
[download] [live preview from a real blog]

Pure. Pure is a clean and slick WordPress theme. It uses light pastel colors. Has a good built-in header graphic and is widget-ready.

Ate Gwing of Bloggwing uses one.

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Woah, that’s two Brian Gardners. He must be very good in making neat themes.

That’s all for now and watch out for other genres.