With a cool WordPress video theme your streams will stand out! Since the arrival of Youtube it has been extremely popular to share all kinds of videos online. As always when there is a big success there are opportunities for others. Many video sites have been introduced and some have attracted serious popularity for being focused in a specific nice e.g. College Humor and Break in the humor niche. WordPress can be a great platform for setting up similar sites for the niche of your choice or for customers looking in this direction. Especially some WordPress themes support multimedia well with video and audio post formats. I have collected some of the best WordPress Video Themes in this article and hope you will find what you are looking for. Please share in a comment any missing themes you think we should add.
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Gridlocked – Portfolio WordPress Video theme
Gridlocked is a grid-based, post-format supporting, layout-shuffling, minimalistic theme for creatives. It is both a classic portfolio for showcasing your work and a modern tumblr-style blogging system. Support for post formats means you can jazz up your blog with your own self-hosted video, audio, images, galleries, asides, links, quotes and of course good old standard posts.
MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)
VideoPlus
Cool new video theme Theme Junkie with a clean and modern look and feel.
MORE INFO by theme junkie(premium theme)
Reach – Business Portfolio WordPress Theme
Reach is a business portfolio / showcase WordPress theme that offers clean styling with easy use and flexible layouts though shortcodes and template options.
MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)
Invictus – A Photographer Portfolio Theme
Invictus is a Fullsize Image and Video WordPress-theme for photographer or designers with a need for showcasing work online.
MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)
Premiere
MORE INFO / DEMO by Woothemes (premium theme)
Garnish
Garnish is a clean-cut, straight to the point, simple to use portfolio theme. The uncluttered, one-page, ajax-powered portfolio is perfect for placing your most important work directly in front of your potential clients. Support for post formats means you can jazz up your blog with your own self-hosted video, audio, images, galleries, asides, links, quotes and of course good old standard posts.
MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)
Videozoom
Videozoom is an elegant WordPress video theme with a neat featured slider, which is ready to play any videos you want to embed into your posts. Just like a WordPress photo theme this kind of theme is perfect for building an online portfolio.
MORE INFO / DEMO by WPZoom (premium theme)
Adventure – A Unique Photography and Video WordPress Theme
Adventure is a minimal photography and full screen video WordPress theme with a unique look and functionality that completely ditches the standard layout. It concentrates on content and your imagery with a great range of shortcodes, theme options framework and more…
MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)
Architectos
This is a very photographic theme with full width photo background. The video post format is pretty cool for a video focused site.
MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)
Groovy Video
Groovy WordPress video theme is a colourful, funky video blogging theme, which is sure to put you at the top of the pile. Video blogging (vlogging) is trendy right now (all the cool kids are doing it), so do get your groove on with this theme! Get it? Got it? Good!
MORE INFO / DEMO by Woothemes (premium theme)
Scope
Scope is the perfect theme for the creative agency, freelancer or general business. Strong lines, strong colours and a bunch of super-awesome features to keep you busy. Support for post formats means you can jazz up your blog with your own self-hosted video, audio, images, galleries, asides, links, quotes and of course good old standard posts.
MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)
Wave: A Video Centric Theme for WordPress
Wave is a beautiful and flexible theme catered to those that want to build a video focused site
MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)
Live Theme
Live WordPress Video Theme was architected so that the style easily adapts to well-designed backgrounds. The tabbed areas use neutral tones and the translucent borders maintain visual continuity by inheriting colors from background graphics.
MORE INFO by 8bit themes (premium theme)
Black Label – Fullscreen Video & Image Background
This is a must see WordPress video theme playing videos in full screen.
MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)
FIAT LUX – Fullscreen Image & Video Background
Cool full screen theme with 11 page templates video integration and shortcodes. Worth checking out
MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)
MyStream
MyStream is a flexible and extremely customizable personal blog theme with massive social media & lifestreaming influences. Change the background to your visual identity, move the many available widgets around and VOILA: you have YourStream.
MORE INFO / DEMO by Woothemes (premium theme)
Object
Object is a supremely flexible theme designed to publish your photos and videos perfectly. The design sports 1 – 5 column layout options, 15 amazing colour schemes and one of the sexiest jQuery image galleries you’ve seen in a WP theme.
MORE INFO / DEMO by Woothemes (premium theme)
Joorang
Joorang is WordPress theme that will match with your portfolio & blog site. Alot of unique features and also comes with massive admin features to manage your site. Are you really tired with portfolio theme that only can put one image or one video for each portfolio post? Want a feature that allow you to have unlimited items for each portfolio post? mix gallery (video and image) in single portfolio post?
MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)
Multimedia
Colorful magazine style wordpress theme with integrated content types for video and music. There are 7 theme styles, 7 custom widgets.
MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)
WP Color Video
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WooTube
WooTube is a video player. Need we say more? Based on the same style that has made Busy Bee & Fresh News so popular, WooTube offers you some amazing multimedia goodness. Why not get cracking straight away… All you need is a camera, a nice smile and obviously this theme!
MORE INFO / DEMO by Woothemes (premium theme)
Especial
Especial is a modern, powerful and professional WordPress theme made for your Portfolio, Business, Magazine or almost any other kind of website. Especial comes with awesome content sliders for your featured images, fully working contact forms, Vimeo and YouTube videos and video thimbnails support.
MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)
MultiMedia Reloaded
This is a feature rich multimedia theme actually build as a parent theme. You can create your own child theme or modify one of the ones provided. The theme comes with 14 widget areas. You can also find a free version of this theme over at Smashing Magazine
MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)
eVid Theme
eVid is a theme designed for video bloggers. I have set it up to easily integrate videos from video hosts such as Youtube, Vimeo, Veoh, MetaCafe, and so on. This theme does not have a native video player, but it does include a custom video interface with added “blogger-related” functions. This theme is only for sites that plan to showcase videos within their post pages. I have test the theme with all the most popular video hosts, but I expect that it will work with any website that offers a flash embed code.
MORE INFO by elegantthemes (premium theme)
Flex
Flex is a premium WordPress portfolio theme that’s designed specifically for photographers, designers, motion artists, and all creatives to display their work in a slick, grid-based interface. The VGrid plugin used flexes as the browser-size changes, and all projects can be launched via a lightbox (images, galleries, videos, etc.) or a full post-template! With 12 professionally designed styles, and the ability to create your own in mere minutes, the Flex theme is perfect for anyone seeking an image gallery based site.
MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)
wpShow
wpShow is a video theme for your blog enables you to feature videos as posts alongside with the regular blog posts.
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Good collection, some new wordpress themes from themeforest is greate.
Thanks for the post Lars — some really interesting themes here ! I’m on the lookout for a video theme with the capability of being developed into an e-commerce site (for a Jazz artist.) Any ideas ?
Glenn if the end goal is e-commerse I think you should consider a e-commerse theme or even a e-commerse platform (depends on the complexity of the shop you have in mind). Good place to start is here: http://tripwiremagazine.com/2011/03/30-best-wordpress-e-commerce-themes.html
nice these will eb awesome to demo our products on!
All are really awesome themes thanks for sharing this
Thx for this share…
A really good collection of themes. I especially like the Mystreame theme. Now to get it for one of my sites
I used Smashing Multimedia to build http://www.frightly.com. The theme’s a bit out of date but with a little customisation (enabling Featured Images and auto-embeds for example) it both looks great and performs well.
What Plug in can i use for Video Content Slider? like that one of Premiere theme and Woo tube. The one that can embed a video from vimeo. thanks in advance
Thanks! Those were all great themes. Loving the foliotastic theme the best.
the best themes ever! thanks for sharing!
When wordpress video theme of your website is Search.good themes.)
really nice themes
thanks!
Great collection thanks a lot.
Sam
the best themes ever! thanks for sharing!
Great collection thanks a lot.
hanks! Those were all great themes. Loving the foliotastic theme the best.
let’s start a theme-tube
WPColorVideo theme it’s been updated (v2.0), it’s been re-coded and re-deisgned.
great themes……all themes in soo beautiful..
Nice themes, we might consider one soon. Thanks for creating this.
Great collection. Thanks for the share!
this is v nice i like it
This is a really great post. I have just started to use WordPress and I love articles like this because they show me what can be created. I find that a lot more websites use video in there sites and this list will be great inspiration for when I am designing in the future. I particularly love the Architectos theme, I like the modern feel to the layout and the way they use a fading image in the background of the whole site. It makes the site engaging and helps make the video section stand out for me. The other theme I really like is the Especial theme. The whole design has that wow factor. I love the use of colour, it gives it that modern fresh feel along with the layout of theme. I also love the way they have integrated video into the site on the main slider. Overall some really great examples of video themes and an article I will keep coming back to.
great themes……
Thanks alot for sharing such a nice themes with us..
I used the Gridlocked Theme for http://www.sheebah-designs.com to great effect. It is a beautifully, minimilistic style that is very user friendly. It’s great seeing other creative themes in effect.
Thanks for the great list of video themes. I’m liking the full screen ones. I haven’t seen many like that!
Nice info, i’m searching for video streaming theme, thank’s
This theme is very good. I like this theme “Premiere”
Hey thank you for the list but can u please suggest me an youtube like or clone wordpress theme?
Hi Dustin Betonio,
Nice all wordpress theme is greats.
You forget the best free one: http://www.muham.co.uk/demo/soundsgood/
I particularly love the Architectos theme, I like the modern feel to the layout and the way they use a fading image in the background of the whole site. It makes the site engaging and helps make the video section stand out for me. The other theme I really like is the Especial theme.
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