300+ Resources to Help You Become a WordPress Expert

WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platforms available today. And for good reason. It’s powerful enough to be a complete CMS, has every feature or function a blogger could dream of (either built in or available via plugins or custom functions), and it’s free and open source. While WordPress is incredibly powerful and easy to use on its most basic levels, it can also get pretty complicated, pretty quickly.

Everything from premium and free themes to plugins to WP hacks and everything in between is included. If it’s possible with WordPress, it’s likely you’ll find it below.

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Theme Roundups, Theme Templates, and Theme Frameworks

WP can have an almost infinite variety of designs applied to it. Themes can be as simple or complicated as you want. Below are a wide variety of theme roundups, theme frameworks for building your own themes, and premium theme sites with customizable or out-of-the-box themes. Be sure to check out the tutorial section next for resources for building your own themes.

• WordPress PSD Framework – A free PSD template that includes all the common elements in a WP design for you to build on.
• WordPress Theme Generator – An online theme generator that doesn’t require any coding knowledge.
• Easier Theme Development with Sample WordPress Content – A downloadable bundle of sample WP content that includes posts, tags, categories, and pages to make theme development easier.
• Blank WordPress Themes Ready for 2.7 Up for Grabs – Offers up a couple of free, empty themes you can download.
• Blank WordPress Themes – A collection of two- and three-column blank themes from Refueled.
• Thematic – One of the most advanced theme frameworks available.
• Carrington – A free WP CMS theme framework that includes two browser versions and a mobile version.
• Free HTML 5 WordPress Theme – A free theme template that takes advantage of HTML 5 features and functions.
• The Buffet Framework – A theme framework aimed to be easy-to-use for both developers and end users.
• Thesis Theme for WordPress – Another basic theme framework.
• OnePress Community – A WP and bb Press theme framework.
• Whiteboard – A basic framework for WP theme development.
• WP Framework – A blank theme framework with minimal formatting.
• WordPress Theme Frameworks—A Comprehensive Overview – A great rundown of what theme frameworks are and why they’re useful.
• WordPress Theme Development Frameworks – An in-depth review of some of the most popular WP theme frameworks.
• WP Contact Manager – A theme that basically transforms your WP installation into a full-featured contact manager.
• 41 Great Looking Free WordPress Themes – A roundup of beautiful free themes.
• 16 Free Premium WordPress Themes That Don’t Suck – An awesome roundup of free premium-style themes.
• 11 Tips for Speeding Up WordPress Theme Development – A great list of ways to speed up your theme development process.
• 13 Helpful Cheat Sheets for Building WordPress Themes – A great roundup of cheat sheets helpful to WP theme designers.
• 140+ Brilliant Free WordPress Themes Around – A roundup of some excellent free WP themes.
• 10 of the Best WordPress 2.7 Compatible Themes – An overview of ten excellent WP themes compiled by Mashable.
• 10+ Best WordPress Themes for March 2009 – An awesome collection of newish themes from WP DesignBlog.
• 17 Free and Best WordPress Themes – A small roundup of excellent WP themes.
• 3-Column WordPress Theme Gallery – Includes a large number of excellent 3-column themes.
• 45+ Free Premium WordPress Themes with Magazine or Grid Layouts – An excellent roundup of free magazine-style and grid themes.
• 15 Fresh WordPress Themes to Get the Coolest Portfolio for You or Your Studio – A collection of portfolio-styled WP themes.
• Best WordPress Themes Collection – A roundup of excellent paid WP themes.
• 10 Best Free WordPress Themes You Haven’t Seen – A great collection of seldom-seen WP themes.
• 30 Free Magazine/Grid Style WordPress Themes – A compilation of 30 excellent magazine and grid style WP themes.
• 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes – An excellent roundup of high-quality themes from Smashing Magazine.
• 40 Stylish, Minimal and Clean Free WordPress Themes – A roundup of minimalist themes from Speckyboy Design Magazine.
• WordPress.org – The official theme repository from WordPress, with nearly 1,000 free themes available.
• WordPressThemesBase.com – A categorized theme directory that you can browse by category, design properties (columns, sidebars, etc.) or tag.
• Top WP Themes – A directory of free themes, many with a corporate or professional look.
• Themes2WP.com – A categorized directory with more than a thousand themes.
• WPthemespot.com – A theme aggregator with beautiful themes featured from all over the web.
• WooThemes – Offers paid themes in a club format, though you can also purchase individual themes.
• Obox Theme Shop – A premium theme site with some really awesome themes available with single-site licenses or developer licenses.
• StudioPress – Premium WP theme site that lets you download themes individually or as a package.
• NattyWP – Another club-based premium themes site.
• Blurbia – A premium themes site that also offers one free theme.
• Elegant Themes – Another great premium themes site that allows unlimited access for less than $20.
• WP Remix – A premium WP CMS theme with more than 50 page templates available.
• 10 Premium WordPress Themes Released in April 2009 – A roundup of recently released premium themes.
• Gorilla Themes – A premium themes site with ten themes available.
• Press75 – Another premium themes site that lets you buy themes individually or as a bundle.
• Theme Layouts WordPress Themes – The WP category from ThemeLayouts has hundreds of themes available, free for members to download.
• 100 Amazing Free WordPress Themes for 2009 – An awesome roundup of beautiful themes compiled by Smashing Magazine.
• Cream of the Crop: Six Cutting-Edge, Minimalist WordPress Themes – An article from Skelliewag of beautiful, minimal themes.
• Graph Paper Press – A club-based WP themes gallery that also offers some free theme downloads.
• 10 Minimalist WordPress Themes You’ll Love – A collection of ten minimalist themes, some of which aren’t commonly seen.
• 25 Simple and Minimal WordPress Themes – A great roundup of minimalist themes from ReviewPk.
• 60 Great WordPress Themes – An excellent, recent roundup of gorgeous WP themes.
• 25 Best Free WordPress Themes – An absolutely amazing roundup compiled by EliteFreelancing.com of gorgeous WP themes.
• 14 Most Visually Appealing Free WordPress Themes – A small collection of beautiful and elegant themes.
• 15 Magazine WordPress Themes You Can Use for Free – Another roundup of excellent magazine themes.
• 83 Beautiful WordPress Themes You (Probably) Haven’t Seen Yet – While this post is a couple of years old and you probably have seen many of the themes on it, it’s still a great roundup of gorgeous designs.
• 21 Mindblowing Premium-Like Free WordPress Themes – A collection of unique themes that often defy the conventions of what we normally think of as a “blog design.”
• 20 More Free First-Class WordPress Themes – An excellent roundup of beautiful themes, many of which aren’t widely seen yet.
• 85 Best Beautiful Free WordPress Themes – An excellent roundup from [Re]Encoded.com of stunning WP themes.
• 23 of the Best Grunge-Style WordPress Themes – A collection of excellent grunge-style themes, many of which aren’t commonly seen.
• 13 Best Grunge WordPress Themes Online – A great roundup from CSSAddict of beautiful grunge themes.
• 20 Free 3 Column WP Themes – A great roundup of gorgeous 3-column themes.
• 45+ Must See WordPress Themes – A categorized roundup of themes compiled by Noupe.
• 15 Free Stunning and Unique WordPress Themes – A roundup of mostly clean and professional-looking themes.
• WordPress Rainbow: 35 Colorful Free WordPress Themes – A great roundup of bright and colorful free themes.
• 22 Free and Unique WordPress Themes – A recent roundup of themes not seen very often.
• Great Green WordPress Themes – A wonderful collection of WP themes with a green color scheme.
• 25 Free WordPress Themes (2009 Edition) – A roundup of some really beautiful and different themes.
• 25 Artistic Themes for WordPress – A great roundup of artsy WP themes.
• 21 Premium-Like Free Photoblog Themes for WordPress – Photoblogs have specific needs not often addressed in standard WP themes. Here are 21 themes specifically built for photoblogs.
• 15 Portfolio Themes for WordPress – A great roundup of themes perfect for portfolio sites.
• 65+ Free Exceptional WordPress Themes Worth Investigating – A great roundup of gorgeous themes compiled by Tripwire Magazine.
• 8 Fresh WordPress Themes – An older post that offers up some great theme designs.
• 50 Beautiful Free WordPress Themes – A roundup of stunning WP themes.