Best Community Premium WordPress Themes

[Updated: 6 Jan, 2012]

This collection of Best Community Premium WordPress Themes represents the best community premium themes for WordPress.If you’re looking for a WordPress theme to manage an entire online community and allow guest posting and share their articles such as news, technology, lifestyles, travel, health, arts, sports and so on, you’re in the right place.These community themes will transform your standard WordPress blog into a superior publishing platform. This collection page will be updated regularly.

Nebulae is a premium community WordPress theme from RocketTheme combines visual sophistication with functionality and power. The theme offers a range of unique and stunning style variations, with distinct colour schemes complimenting their detailed and beautiful background counterparts. It supports integrated styling for numerous RocketTheme Plugins, adapting to whichever style variation or widget variation you seek to use, in addition to a brand new, fresh and refined typography set.

Features

• Gantry Framework – Gantry is, as a basic definition, A framework used for assembling, building and maintaining a RocketTheme theme. It is an advanced platform for dramatically extending the capabilities of the entire theming system of WordPress.
• 8 Preset Styles
• RocketTheme Plugins Styling
• New RokStories Layout
• New Content Typography
• Scrolling Widget Positions
• Fusion with MegaMenu & Splitmenu
• 68 Widget Positions
• 22 Widget Variations
• Javascript Form Styling
• FF 4, Safari 4, Opera 10.x, IE7+ Compatible
• W3C XHTML 1.0 / CSS Valid

Price
RocketTheme WordPress Theme Club Subscription $50 – $250

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Salutation is a WordPress and BuddyPress theme from ThemeForest with a clean design focused on high-level content organization. It’s easy to navigate and promotes a feeling of user satisfaction. The well organized menus and page structures encourage a positive user experience allowing your visitors to find what they’re looking for quickly. The theme includes administration features giving you complete control of your website’s layout and design. If you’re not familiar with BuddyPress, it’s a social network plugin for WordPress allowing your website to become a fully functional community portal. BuddyPress lets your users interract through groups, forums, friends, status updates, private messaging and a lot more.

Features

• Unlimited color choices
• Unlimited layouts and page templates
• Drag and drop layout manager
• Contact form generator
• Full localization (.po/.mo files)
• Powerful and easy to use theme options. Unbranded!
• WordPress 3.0+ ready!
• BuddyPress ready!
• Popup login form
• Layered PSD files for customization

Price: $35

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Panacea is a premium WordPress theme from RocketTheme that perfect for magazine, ncommunity,news portal website. The theme based on Gantry Framework and also supports a Background Rotator for the sub-header area, as well as popular features such as iPhone Specific Theme and Smart Loading for all content images.

Features

• Gantry Framework – Gantry offering a mature and feature rich foundation for many advanced, flexible and versatile functions to make the theme extremely usable, modern and engaging.
• Fusion Menu – Fusion offers a series of new abilities ranging from Menu Icons, Subtext support and much greater controls over the Multiple Column ability for dropdowns.
• Color Chooser with 12 Preset Styles
• RTL Support
• Native iPhone Versions
• Inbuilt Background Rotator
• RT Plugins Styling
• Custom Typography
• Javascript Form Styling
• Fusion Menu
• SplitMenu
• 13 Widget Variations
• 68 Widget Positions
• FF3.5, Opera, Safari 4, IE7,8 Compatible
• Limited IE6 Support
• W3C XHTML 1.0 Transitional. W3C CSS 3 Valid

Price
RocketTheme WordPress Theme Club Subscription $50 – $250

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Iridium is a premium WordPress theme from RocketTheme that perfect suitable for portfolios, CMS, professional blogs even magazine. This theme features 6 unique style variations, the sophisticated styling of various popular RocketTheme widgets, and the standard, high performance and adaptable framework.

Features

• Fusion Menu — Fusion is effectively a dropdown menu which offers a javascript enhanced dropdown modes. The menu itself is built on the rewritten core of the latest revision of RokNavMenu, the core application behind all RocketTheme menus. Fusion offers a series of new abilities ranging from Menu Icons, Subtext support and much greater controls over the Multiple Column ability for dropdowns.
• 6 Style Variations
• 18 Background Combinations
• SEF Optimised Layout
• Custom Fonts
• New Theme Settings Page
• RokSwitcher Widget
• RokTabs Widget
• RokStories Widget
• RokBox
• Widget Hilites
• 23 Widget Positions
• Fully translatable
• New! Typography
• IE6 Warning Message
• FF3.5, Opera 10, Safari 4, IE6,7,8 Compatible
• W3C XHTML 1.0 Transitional. W3C CSS 3 Valid

Price
RocketTheme WordPress Theme Club Subscription $50 – $250

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Levels is a modern and professional premium community WordPress theme from Flexi Themes designed for anyone who wants to build a community, magazine, news site. The theme includes all the popular and common features which used by the current trend community websites.

Features

• WordPress 3.0 Ready
• Custom menus and background support
• 11 multi-instance Custom Widgets
• Translation ready
• Featured posts slider
• Multilevel drop-down menus.
• Theme Options Page
• Widget Ready
• Advertisement Ready
• Post Thumbnails Ready
• Threaded Comments
• Integrated social networking sharing icons. No plugins required.
• Compatible with all major browsers
• Tableless css design.
• Gravatar ready
• Wp-pagenavi plugin pages styled

FlexiThemes Subscriptions Plans (access to all themes) start from $19.95

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AskIt is a sleek and professional community WordPress theme from Elegant Themes will provide some unique functionality, effectively transforming your website into a Question and Answer site. The theme will be community driven, and will allow for user generated questions and answers complete with a voting system for choosing the best solution to each problem.

Features

• Seven Color Schemes — AskIt comes with seven different color variations.
• User Signup/Submission — With an external member signup and question submission forms, your visitors will never have to deal with the WordPress dashboard to manage their posts.
• Comments Voting System — Visitors can help choose the correct answer by voting answers up/down. Post authors can also deem a single answer as “correct” for each question.
• Member Ratings — You can instill a sense of community through the use of member ratings. Each of your members receives a star rating based off their number of correct answers.
• ePanel Theme Options — Magnificent comes integrated with ePanel Theme Options, giving you increased control over your website.
• Shortcodes Collection — Easy to customize your post’s content. Once you start using many shortcodes, you will wonder how you ever lived without them.
• Automated Thumbnail Resizing
• Advertising Management
• Complete Localisation
• Threaded Comments
• Gravatar Ready
• PSD files
• Valid XHTML + CSS
• Smooth Tabless Design
• Firefox, Opera, Netscape, Safari IE8 + IE7 + IE6 compatible

Price:
Developer’s License: $89
Full access to all themes and support services-only $39 per year.

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iCommunity is modern and advanced community WordPress theme from Flexi Themes perfect for building a community or news portal site. The theme comes with 11 multi-instance custom widgets, custom menus and background support, multilevel drop-down menus and more.

Features

• WordPress 3.0 Ready
• Custom menus and background support
• 11 multi-instance Custom Widgets
• Translation ready
• Featured posts slider
• Advertisement Ready
• Post Thumbnails Ready
• Threaded Comments
• Multilevel drop-down menus.
• Theme Options Page
• Widget Ready
• Integrated social networking sharing icons. No plugins required.
• Compatible with all major browsers
• Tableless css design.
• Gravatar ready
• Wp-pagenavi plugin pages styled

FlexiThemes Subscriptions Plans (access to all themes) start from $19.95

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Answers is an amazing premium WordPress theme from Templatic designed to create a community site where people can find, ask and share information.Your visitors can ask and answer and vote questions on your site. They get their own profiles and what more, you can even charge for the questions if you want to.

Features

• Seven Elegant Color Schemes
• Out of the box – Auto Install
• Customisable Home Page – features all the latest questions asked in a strategic, easy to use way with different tabs to quickly check “popular” or “unanswered” questions
• Custom Question Details Page – displaying question and all answers which can be voted on, and select best answer
• Custom Ask a Question Page – form to ask question with option enable fee
• User Listings with profiles
• User Details Page
• User Dashboard
• Registration Form
• Site Blog
• Single Post Page
• WordPress Admin side – General Settings Options – manage payment related information on your site
• WordPress Admin – Design Settings – manage text information, select blog / question category and do other basic settings as well such as selecting a colorscheme or changing the site logo
• WordPress Admin – Manage Notifications – manage all the messages and email message
• Built in Advertising Management
• Widget Ready with Custom Widgets
• Gravatar Support & Threaded Comments
• Valid, Cross Browser Compatible

Price: Single: $65   Multi Use: $99   Premium Themes Club: $299 (all themes)

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iSocialize is a commercial premium WordPress theme from Giant Themes that perfectly suited for social blog, community webiste. This theme comes with 4 alternative color schemes, many page templates, advertisements management, theme option panel and more.

Features

• 4 alternative color schemes
• multiple page templates
• Logo changer: add your logo url & the size of the logo
• Stylesheet Changer: the four styles are built into a drop down for you
• Google analytics: add your code into the box and it’s automatically added into your site
• Timthumb options: Activate timthumb’s image resizer and also choose the width/height
• Top bar profile options: Add the url to any of the social profiles you see in the top right bar
• RSS Feed options: add your feed url and feedreader name to get the rss box to show up and allow email sign ups
• Twitter options: Add your twitter name, choose how many tweets to show & choose the twitter section title
• Advertisements: 300×250 in the sidebar, 300×250 on the single post pages, 468×60 in the header and 468×60 under the first post on every page

Price:
Single Theme: $50

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Cracks is a premium WordPress theme from ThemeForest for those who need a community or personal blog to publish elegant and structured content without sacrificing readibility and functionality. It has smooth gradients and borders combined with big fonts.

Features

• Ready to go PHP Contact page
• Customizable main menu
• Widget Ready
• Feedburner subscribers counter
• Twitter followers counter
• flickr gallery widget
• Elegant cloud tags
• Advertise 125×125 zone
• Compatible with most actual browsers (including IE7 and IE8 )

Price: $30

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eQuator is a professional community premium WordPress theme from ThemeForest designed by system32. It also can be used for blogging, magazine or personal blog. This theme has all the popular and common features which used by the current trend community websites and comes with 7 social linking, custom post image option, powerful theme options panel, 2 color options and more.

Features

• 2 Columns CSS Layout
• 2 Color Options added
• Sidebar Widget Ready
• Timthumb Image Resizing
• Custom Post Image Option
• Multi-Level Threaded Comments
• Custom Advertisement Sections
• Author Information in Post Single Page
• Custom Feedburner Integration
• Custom Twitter Integration
• 7 Social Linking
• Related Posts
• Popular Posts
• Recent Comments
• Custom Advertise Section
• User Community Link Feed
• Compatibility Major Browsers(IE 6, IE 7 , IE 8, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome)
• And Much More

Price: $32

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TutsPlaza is a sleek and professional community premium WordPress theme from ThemeForest created by Hein. This theme comes 3 color schemes, short-codes, custom advertisement widgets, popular post widgets, integrated twitter and feedburner counter, widgets ready footer & sidebar, drop down navigation, author box, nested comments and more.It also features an awesome themes admin panel that makes you easy to add the footer info, header and post ads, Google analytics, social media settings, change the logo, activate or deactivate your subscribe box, and switch theme style.

Features

• WordPress 3.0 Ready
• Custom Subscribe Box
• Widget ready footer & sidebar
• Cufon Font
• Custom advertisements widgets
• Custom Popular posts widgets
• Short-codes
• About the Author section
• Nested comments
• Smooth Drop Down Navigation
• Theme Options Panel
• Easy Logo Replacement
• 3 Color Options

Price: $32

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Open is a robust and capable premium community WordPress theme from ThemeForest designed for use as a news, magazine, industry news, or community theme. This theme comes with many custom widgets, unique page templates, color schemes, and theme options.

Features

• Valid XHTML Design
• 4 Homepage Layout Options
• Content Column Shortcodes
• 7 Layered Photoshop Files
• Documentation With Screenshots
• Localization Support Built In
• 2 Widget Areas (Sidebar & Footer)
• 4 Advertising Locations (Header, Content, Sidebar, & Footer)
• 10 Color Schemes (see the ‘screenshots’ link above)
• 7 Custom Widgets
• Multiple Page Templates
• Extensive Theme Options
• Color Style Options
• Upload Custom Logo
• Enable Plain Text Logo
• Twitter ID (For top links)
• Feedburner ID (For top links)
• Display Featured Posts (Turn on/off, auto-rotation, duration, etc)
• Image Gallery (How many images to display)
• Category Descriptions (Turn on/off descriptions in the main nav area)
• Author Information Box (Turn on/off)
• Related Posts (Turn on/off, how many to display)
• Footer Scripts
• Footer Copyright Text
• WordPress 3.1 Tested and Ready

Price: $35

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Perihelion is a premium WordPress theme from RocketTheme with an incredibly stylistic and unique design and perfect for community, business, portfolio websites. It comes with colorful textures and intricate design elements, 34 widget positions, 5 color schemes, advanced theme options panel.

Features

• 5 Style Variations
• New Theme Settings Page
• Fusion Menu — Fusion offers a series of new abilities ranging from Menu Icons, Subtext support and much greater controls over the Multiple Column ability for dropdowns.
• RokNewsRotator Widget
• RokSwitcher Widget
• RokTabs Widget
• RokStories Widget
• RokBox
• 34 Widget Positions
• Fully translatable
• IE6 Warning Message
• FF3.5, Opera 10, Safari 4, IE6,7,8 Compatible
• W3C XHTML 1.0 Transitional. W3C CSS 3 Valid

Price
RocketTheme WordPress Theme Club Subscription $50 – $250

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Convergence is an amazing premium WordPress theme from ThemeForest created by Maximus that intent and focus on creating a community site. This theme includes many popular features in popular community sites and comes with 5 robust custom widgets, 3 Custom menu locations and more.

Features

• 2 Column Tabless (CSS Layout)
• Sidebar Widget Ready
• WP 3.0 Tested & Ready
• Three Custom Menu Locations
• Five Robust Custom Widgets
• Flickr & Twitter & Feedburner Integration
• Related & Popular Posts
• Popular Social Linking(Digg, StumbleUpon, etc.)
• Vaild Tableless Markup
• Gravatar ready
• Valid CSS and XHTML
• Cross Browser Support
• Related & Popular Posts
• Author Highlight
• Recent Tweets
• And Much More.

Price: $27

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Collective is a powerful and professional community premium WordPress theme from ThemeForest created by Maximus that also could be used for news, magazine, industry news websites. It comes equipped with 7 robust custom widgets, 10 unique page templates, 10 vibrant color schemes, theme options panel, integrated shortcodes and more.

Features

• 7 Robust Custom Widgets — Tabbed Posts (Popular, Recent, Comments), Tabbed Archives (Categories, Pages, Archives), Sponsored Ads, Featured Videos Widget, Recent Tweets, Latest Flickr Photos, Email Updates Sing-up (Feedburner Integrated)
• 7 Unique Page Templates
• 10 Vibrant Color Schemes
• Multiple Wigeitized Areas
• Integrated Shortcodes
• Cross Browser Support
• Valid XHTML Design
• Content Column Shortcodes
• 7 Layered Photoshop Files
• Documentation With Screenshots
• Localization Support Built In
• 2 Widget Areas (Sidebar & Footer)
• 10 Color Schemes (see the ‘screenshots’ link above)
• Extensive Theme Options Panel
• WordPress 3.0 Tested and Ready
• 3 Menu Locations (with pre-3.0 logic)
• Post Thumbnail / Featured Image Support

Price: $37

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Collision is a refined premium WordPress Theme from Storelicious design for portals / community multi user wordpress personal blogs.The theme includes three different styles and support for translation (localization) theme.

Features:

• Feedburner form ready
• Supports quick notes
• Show recent comments
• Three different styles
• Setup the font size and family for headers and content
• Support for Widgets
• Integration with Adsense
• Pre-loaded Plugins
• Edit the about and footer text from administrator
• Recognition of the author in the comments
• Quick Nav inside the post
• Share post in the most popular services
• Configure your social services
• Show last Twitter messages
• Support for translation (localization) theme

Price:

Single for $ 70

StoreLicious Subscriptions Plans (access to all theme)
Basic $ 140
Standard $240
Plus $ 215
Pro $355

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