Responsive web design is the New Age Technique for designing websites. This technique uses CSS3 media queries to render Web pages, which ensures that your website adapts (resizes) itself automatically to fit the resolution of any device on which it’s being accessed.
With a Responsive WordPress Theme/Template, you can be sure that your site looks and works great not only on PC/MAC Web Browser, but also on Mobile Web Browsers like Opera Mobile, Opera Mini, default Web Browser for Android, Safari Web Browser for iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch etc. Let’s take a look at some Free and Paid Responsive Themes/Templates for your WordPress powered Blog/Website!
Best Free & Paid Responsive Themes/Templates for your WordPress Blog/Website
1. Basic (FREE)
Let’s start this list with a Free Responsive WordPress Theme for your Blog. If you are new to Responsive Web Design, Basic Theme from Themify can be used as a starter theme, as it comes with minimalistic layout and styling. You can directly start configuring the theme from options panel, where you can easily customize almost every element present in the theme, without touching the PHP/CSS code!
Basic theme comes with following features:
- Grid layout options
- Customizable Footer widgets, Menu and Text
- Shortcodes
- 5 additional theme skins
- Lightbox Gallery (No additional Plugins required)
- Full Support for Child Themes, HTML5 & CSS3
- Social Media Icons
- Scroll to Top Button
- Optional RSS Feed Icon and Search Field
The layout is completely responsive, which means the theme looks great on any resolution, no matter whether you/your visitors are using Desktop Web Browsers OR Mobile Browsers for iPad, iPhone, Android, Blackberry etc.
2. Shopo (Paid)
Do you have a Responsive Shopping Cart WordPress Theme in mind? If yes, then Shopo is one of the best responsive e-Commerce theme that runs on WooCommerce, which is a free plugin from WooThemes!
This theme comes with many different promotional areas like Dual Navigations in the header, Welcome Message, Featured Slider and Product slider. Shopo has in-built AJAX Shopping Cart, using which your customers can add/remove items from the cart without being redirected to any other page! With Shopo, your Shopping Website will resize itself automatically depending on the screen resolution of your potential customers!
Some salient features of Shopo Themes are as follows:
- WooCommerce integrated Responsive Shopping Cart/e-commerce Theme, which includes Custom layout for WooCommerce shop!
- Header widget for displaying banner Advertisement of your choice
- Various list and grid view layout options for blog
- Animated back to top button
- Full Support for Child Themes, HTML5 & CSS3
- Optional RSS Feed Icon and Search Field
- Social Media Icons
- Multiple Theme Skins to suit your taste!
3. Responz (Paid)
As the name suggests, Responz is a Responsive Magazine Theme for WordPress with a 3-column layout, which can be GREAT for NEWS and Editorial sites/blogs!
But, if you’re not comfortable with 3-Column Layout, then you can choose from 2 sidebars, 1 sidebar or full-width from the theme options panel, along with various list view and grid view options for Post Pages. The position of the sidebars can also be selected between right side or left side.
Some great features of Responz are as follows:
- Header and Footer Slider
- Multiple sidebars, with an ability to set 2 sidebars, 1 sidebar OR Full Width
- Dual Navigation Menu, which can be easily customized
- WordPress Responsive Theme with in-built Lightbox Gallery!
- Banners Ads
- Full Support for Child Themes, HTML5 & CSS3
- Upto 4 footer widget columns
- Optional RSS Feed Icon and Search Field
- Social Media Icons
- Multiple Theme Skins to suit your blog/editorial/news website!
4. Pinboard (Paid)
If you are a big fan of Pinterest and are looking for a Responsive WordPress Theme which resembles Pinterest design and functionalities, than look no further, Pinboard is the best Pinterest design based WordPress Theme. The theme has got an auto stacking layout with infinite scrolling (new posts are automatically loaded as soon as you hit the bottom of the page) functionality, as seen on the official website of Pinterest!
Another good thing about this theme is that the stacking layout works perfectly and responsively on any resolution whether you are using a Desktop or Mobile device like an iPad, iPhone, Blackberry, Android etc.!
Some great features of Pinboard are as follows:
- Auto stacking layout just like Official Website of Pinterest.
- You can either choose infinite scroll or numbered page navigation from theme’s option panel
- Lightbox integration on homepage as well as on all other posts/pages
- 3 post layout options viz. small, medium and large grid
- Homepage featuring Recent comment list with commenter avatar
- Complete compatibility with HTML5 & CSS3, along with Child Theme Support
- Upto 4 footer widget columns
- Optional RSS Feed Icon and Search Field
- Social Media Icons
5. Bizco (Paid)
Bizco is a Responsive WordPress Template, which is mainly targeted at businesses and product based websites. The theme is great for showcasing your featured products and pages. Using the theme’s custom panel you can change the display/appearance of your pages and posts very easily.
Some salient features of Bizco are as follows:
- Threaded comments and custom menus
- Feature slider handled by WordPress custom post type.
- Homepage hightlights using WordPress custom post type
- Control the visibility of sidebar in various posts and pages
- Full support for WordPress Shortcodes and Columns
- 6 Theme skins to suit your business and product related needs
- Full compatibility with Child Themes
6. Viewport (Paid)
Designed by Orman Clark, Viewport is a clean, crisp, responsive and well structured theme suitable for online publishers, who wants to post different media formats like images, galleries, audios and videos on their WordPress powered Blogs.
7. Volumes (Paid)
Volumes is a very different looking theme suitable for creative freelancers or agencies. This theme comes with filterable portfolio, custom widgets, custom page templates and much more. If you’re a freelancer or an agency, then you can use this theme for showcasing your talent using the inbuilt portfolio feature. Your site visitors can also filter your work by discipline (category).
The theme has got full support for Custom Widgets and Page Templates, and also allows you to upload custom theme background.
8. Responsive (Free)
Responsive is a Free WordPress Theme which comes packed with following:
- 9 Page Templates
- 10 Widget Areas
- 6 Template Layouts
- 4 Menu Positions
The theme is fully compatible with WooCommerce and supports Multiple Languages (as of now the theme is available in 24 different translated languages).
If you are starting with Responsive Templates, than you should highly consider Responsive as your first theme design!
9. Mixfolio (Paid)
Mixfolio is a minimal and HTML5 compatible WordPress Portfolio Theme, which allows anyone to easily separate content by post formats and category. The theme comes with inbuilt Javascript, using which you can shuffle through various posts on homepage by category.
The theme is fully responsive and adapts itself to the screen size/resolution of any Mobile Device like iPad, iPhone, Android etc. If you are looking for a minimalistic responsive WordPress theme for creating a portfolio website, Mixfolio can be an ideal choice for you!
This is a guest post by Saqib Khan who writes on BeginWP. If you are also interested in writing articles for MrinTech, feel Free to check out our Guest Posting Guidelines!
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