Best Premium WordPress Portal Themes

[Updated: 6 Jan, 2012]

This collection of Premium Portal WordPress themes represents the best premium portal themes for WordPress.If you’re looking for a theme to launch a professional portal website with WordPress, you’re in the right place.These portal themes will transform your standard WordPress blog into a superior publishing platform. This collection page will be updated regularly.

ProBlog is a professional WordPress theme from Magazine3 that can be used for Blogging, Tech Journals or General Magazines. Every element of this theme is well crafted and makes your site look like Web 3.0 Blogs. ProBlog theme takes your website to whole new level and you get maximum exposure to the blog posts.

ProBlog WordPress Theme

Features

Compatible With WP 3.3+
Localized for translations
Background Changing Feature
Floating Social ShareBox
3 Widgetized Areas
Most Viewed Posts Widget
Most Commented Widget
Drag & Drop Contact form
Advance Page Templates
Color, Font sizes & Font Family options to change link colors and H1-H6.
jQuery Tabs widget in sidebar
Shortcodes for alert buttons
Awesome Threaded Comments
Integrated Custom login box
Image slider gallery in posts
Adsense Ready!
Related Posts With Thumbnails
11 Awesome Widgets
Works On All Modern Browsers

Price: $49

Demo & Release Page | Download

There is a special 15% discount on ProBlog theme valid till 31st January 2012. Coupon code: PROBLOG15OFF

NewsWorld is a premium magazine-style WordPress theme from Deluxe Themes that perfect for advanced magazine / news portal. The theme comes with a powerful theme options panel, multiple page templates, 4 built-in dynamic sidebar widgets and more.

NewsWorld WordPress Theme

Features

A professional and easy-to-use control panel to manage theme options
Simple Installation (instructions, how-to guide included)
A unique blog layout featuring a super presentation of blog posts
One of a kind News Filter Module to browse all blog posts.
Ajax-powered Archive Template with various display options
Unique content tagging for news, photo, or video content
Ajax Pagination in Archives
Custom comment pagination system included
Automatic Thumbnail Creation & Caching on the fly which greatly increases page load time
A fully-featured Ad Manager module built-in, ad rotation, ad monitoring, and more
Custom photo gallery template
QuickVideo Publisher to post videos from 60+ video sites easily
Fully-widgetized Sidebar (no hardcoded widgets)
Custom widgets to show weather, galleries, advertisements, etc.
Automated, built-in display of related content below every post (depending on current post type)
Comment voting ability with threshold setting to hide negatively ranked comments
Custom Menus Support
Unlimited support for categories/pages dropdown navigation
Automatically highlight active category or page
Allow users to rate / print /email content
4 built-in dynamic sidebar widgets
Support for threaded comments and full gravatar support

Price: $49

Demo & Release Page | Download

Initiator is a premium WordPress theme from Colorlabs Project that perfect suitable for online newspaper websites that prefer to have light look and white-clean spaces that give your website an uncluttered feel. Initiator is designed to have responsive layout, meaning your website will look great no matter what device or screen size on which it’s being viewed.

Initiator WordPress Theme

Features

Headline News Slider – Choose which articles you want to highlight in the slider simply by assigning ‘Headline’ as their category. The slider will also show the details of the post, giving the homepage a newspaper feel.
Category Preview Area – Choose 4 category and the Category Preview Area will show the latest post from each categories that you chose.
Menu’s Description – Add small detail to your navigation menu at the header and that will be your menu’s description.
Layout Setting – You can choose which layout that you want between left or right sidebar directly from the theme panel giving you complete control on your website’s look.
Touch-and-Swipe Support – A special feature for devices with touch screen. You can slide the headline slider on the homepage just by swiping your finger on the screen.

Standard Features

Automatic Thumbnail Resizer – All themes are powered with a script that automatically generates thumbnails from your post images. This will save you time and make your web site easy to re-design.
Theme Administration Panel – Manage important theme elements from a dedicated panel and be free from the hassle of editing codes. Here you can integrate your web site with AdSense, Analytics and Feedburner in a few clicks.
WordPress Threaded Comments – Optimize user discussion on your web site with WordPress threaded comments. Say ‘goodbye’ to hard-to-follow comment posts and ‘hello’ to neatly organized comment threads.
Cross-Browser Compatibility – This ensures complete accessibility and compatibility in modern internet browsers, such as Firefox, Safari, Chrome and many others.

Price:
Standard Pack: $49
Developer Pack: $99

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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.

Panacea Premium WordPress Theme

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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Events is a premium WordPress theme from Templatic perfect suited for events portal website which showcases events the simple and perfect way. This theme comes with 4 alternative color schemes, custom taxonomy, payment options, coupons management, fully customizable homepage and more.

Events Premium WordPress Theme

Event Details

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Features

Customizable Homepage – The homepage of the theme is customizable via dynamic widgets which are built specially for this theme. Designed strategically, the structure of the page is done in such a way that gives maximum exposure to essential elements.
Add Events – You can allow your site visitors to add Events on your site for free or can charge them a reasonable fees.
Featured Events – Add free or featured events/listings. Featured listing or events gets special attention and its highlighted and shown at the top of the listing.
Custom Taxonomy – This theme use custom taxonomy. Now your Blog post and Events will remain different, all the time. No more confusion.
Event Listing Page – Show Event from a particular category and the viewer can know the Event start date, end date, time and location, without even visiting the detail page.
Event Detail Page – This page will display all the details about the event like event map, organizer details, image gallery, Register now button, etc. Users can directly contact the Organizer from this page.
Bulk Upload – If you want to add several events then you can even use the bulk upload feature to import several events altogether. Now uploading hundreds of events won’t take much time and no more manual work.
Payment Options – Various types of Payment Options are integrated like Paypal, Google Checkout, Authorize.net, Worldpay, 2CO (2Checkout), Pre Bank Transfer and Pay Cash On Delivery .
Manage Price – You can create unlimited options on your site in the way you wish to charge the users for listing events. Manage Prices from this page and choose whether to keep it free or paid.
Sign In or Signup – Users can register on your site and can manage the Events they have listed on your site. Not only that, they can also renew the listing further once their listing has expired.
Blogging – You can have a news page on your site where you can list all the news/blog posts and users can comment in there as well.
Design Settings – Control everything from WordPress admin options, change color scheme, logo, navigation bar settings, google map latitude, longitude and scaling factor, Category page Settings, Place Detail page Settings, Add Listing page Setting, etc.
Manage Coupons – Not only you can charge your site visitors for adding places on your site. You can create, manage and give them promotional coupons once in a while to increase popularity of your site.
Out of the box – Auto Install
Four detailed color schemes
Fully customizable front page
Excellent Support
Theme Guide & Tutorials
PSD File included with multiple use license
Drop Down menu
Gravatar Support & Threaded Comments
Built-in Ad Monetization
Built-in payment gateways
Widget Ready with custom widgets
Valid, Cross browser compatible

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

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GeoPlaces V2 prmeium WordPress theme have been released from Templatic which helps you create a city directory website and it became an instant hit. Templatic worked on upgrading the theme by improving those tiny details which provieded by customers and also adding some new critical features that is a must have for a city directory theme. Following screenshot tour quickly explains what has been updated.

GeoPlaces V2 Homepage

GeoPlaces V2 Premium WordPress Theme Released Homepage from Templatic
The homepage now features improved map with post indicators and includes thumb image in the bubble. Featured listings are added in this new version and they will be shown at higher priority throughout the site. Also the theme now includes basic events in this new version.

Submit a business / event

GeoPlaces V2 submit-place-event from templatic

New Features

The business place / events submission form is now better organized and works just fine for adding either the business listing or an event. It will automatically show/hide relevant fields in the form.

You can now move the cursor on the map for exact place specification and also chose which map view to show by default.

If you are adding an event, add Registration details or if you are adding business listing, add special deals or offer separately and they will be highlighted on the details page.

As admin, you can disable/enable coupons and run occasional promotion and users will get discount while submitting a listing on your site on regular price.

This new version also features optional captcha for spam prevention (can be disabled from the admin panel)

Check for more details here then click “blog“ in Templatic.

Price
Single: $89.95
Multi Use: $199.95
Premium Themes Club: $299 (all themes)

Demo & Release Page | Download

Standard Theme is a meticulously crafted and coded personal and professional blogging premium WordPress theme built with industry standards in mind. This theme comes with consistent syntax structure and strict semantic development techniques, it’s an XHTML/CSS valid, load speed optimized, SEO supercharged, and content-focused blogging theme.

Standard Theme

Features

SEO Optimized — Proper use of title tags and meta data were obvious so we took it a step further: Built-in pagination, breadcrumbs, validated code and more provides maximum exposure to search engines.
Admin Panel Options — Built an intuitive and sleek Admin Panel to enable you to customize nearly everything on the front end.
Community Forums — Provide a growing and active community to help you customize and tweak your theme.
Load Speed Optimized
Advanced Analytics Integration
Advertising Spots
Localization Support
No Plugins Required
Multiple Page Templates
Semantic Development Techniques
Social Networking & Viral Sharing
Advanced Commenting Features
Widgetized Sidebars
Cross-Browser Compatibility
XHTML / CSS Validated
Post Thumbnails

Price:
Standard: $49
Developer: $99

Demo & Release Page | Download

The Organic Magazine is a very versatile premium WordPress theme from Organic Themes has been updated to version 2.1. This theme designed with sleek and modern style and comes with many custom page templates and column layout, featured content gallery and more.

Organic Magazine 2.1 WordPress Theme

Features

Theme Options Page
Clean and Professional Design
Custom Page Templates
Category and Page Navigation
2 and 3 Column Layout
Featured Content Gallery
Widget Ready
Auto Resizing Thumbnails
Photoshop File Included

Price
Single Theme: $69
All Organic Themes: $249

Demo & Release Page | Download

Magnificent is a beautifully simple and elegant fashion magazine-style premium WordPress theme from Elegant Themes that also can be used for technical news or web development website. This theme comes with a four-column homepage with 5 widget ready areas, 7 alternative colors chemes, ePanel theme options and more.

Magnificent Magazine WordPress Theme from elegant themes

Features

Seven Colorschemes — Magnificent comes in seven different colorschemes. These include a few variations of the default light style (Green, Red and Blue), as well as a few more unique variations titled Wooden, Lights and Radiate.
Three Column Homepage — The homepage features a 3-column, centered layout not found in any of other themes. It also includes 5 widget-ready areas, giving you many opportunities to customize the content display.
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.
Full Width Page Template — Magnificent comes with a full width page template that will remove the sidebar from specified pages and extend your content the full width of the theme.
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.

Demo & Release Page | Download

Polar Media is a premium WordPress theme from Bizz Themes perfect for magazine / news / portals and personal blogs. This theme comes with innovative featured posts panel, ajax paging, advanced slider, custom typography, automatic framework updater and more.

Polar Media Portal WordPress Theme

Features

Innovative Featured posts panel – As online news media gets ever more engaging, we restructured the whole content display concept and pushed forward photos that will appeal fast-reading visitors.
Ajax paging – To make browsing experience even better, all content widgets have support for ajax paging. Users won’t need to reload the whole site just to see what other page is hiding.
Advanced slider – If you want to load some pages, posts, images or even videos, we bundled together a neat slider widget that has more options you can use. We integrated slides script, that makes sliding experience fun again.
Custom typography – Edit all fonts just the way you want it and use the power of integrated Google Fonts with just a few clicks.
Advanced Design control – All our themes use simple and powerful design controller, but this one has taken a step further, so you now have support for all custom fonts, backgrounds, borders and colors, wherever you like.
Extremely Fast – Theme is very fast as there is no unused code and queries from database are cached. Your site will never load html elements you don’t have control of and will execute most of the JavaScript inside footer.
Custom widgets – Even though all existing WordPress widgets are compatible with Layout engine, we integrated more than 20 advanced widgets that are reusable and more than enough to build anything you need on a website.
Automatic framework updater
Unlimited number of layouts
Direct access to layout control of every page
Load defaults and start in 30 seconds

Prices
Free for Testing
Standard: $69
Developers: $99
Club (All Themes): $99 – $199/year

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Delicate News is a content-heavy magazine premium WordPress theme from Elegant Themes that also can be adopted by various types of blogs.This theme comes with a 3-column grid and many homepage content outlets,four unique color schemes and more.