Why responsive wordpress themes matter?
The age when computers were the only device that can access the Internet is over. According to a recent research by Google,
- Every nine in 10 smartphone searches ends up with an action (like purchasing or coming to the real store…)
- 88% smartphone users often take action within 24 hours since they are in urgent needs.
- 79% of smartphone consumers use their phones to help with shopping, from comparing prices and finding more product info to locating a retailer
So it’s crucial for a business to leverage this type of consumers. Abey from the convenience for consumbers, this brings a huge problem for website owners and designers. They must ensure that their websites can work with any devices to ensure users’ experiences. This is is very complicated tasks since we have two many designs, and every device has a different screen resolution.
In the past, you will need to make several different codes for different resolution. Now, we have responsive wordpress themes. These themes will change depending on the size of your screen. No matter which device you are using, the website will fit perfectly. Learn more about responsive wordpress theme.
How to check if your theme is responsive or not?
Studiopress, the Genesis Framework creator, has created a tool to check whether your theme is responsive or not. If you are not sure, you can check here. Otherwise, you can try resize your browser size and see the differences. Responsive themes will change their layouts depending on the screen resolution
Sound great, right?
That’s why it has become a trend and can potentially dominate the WordPress community this year. There will be more responsive designs in the future. At the meantime, we have already have some noteworthy designs that are responsive. Let’s take a look of them
Elegant Themes
With Elegant Themes, you can grab 74+ premium WordPress themes at only $39. The best thing is Elegant Themes is slightly moving to be responsive. They are having more than 8 responsive wordpress themes in their collection. Besides, other themes are also worth paying attention too. From my own experiences, Elegant Themes does have some small mistakes with their typography, but the themes are great and you can customize without touching any codes.
You can save more money with Elegant Themes by reading my full and detailed Elegant Themes review here.
ColorLabs Collection
Unlike other competitors in their niche, ColorLabs has moved one step forward by making most of their themes responsible. Currently, they are having 35 premium themes in their collection. The price for each theme is $49, but you can save a lot of money by purchasing their bundle at only $59 for 25 responsive premium WordPress themes.
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Colorlabs Responsive WordPress Themes
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Light Blog
Light Blog is a brand new child theme for Thesis. Beside the elegant and responsive design, Light Blog has its own library with 22 different colors and 32 different background patterns to choose from. You also have the button and opt-in box for your blog. The price for this? Only $19.95. However, it’s going to raise soon, so you should save your chance to grab this sophisticated and elegant theme now. (Note, this is a Thesis child theme, so you should have the Thesis framework to make it work)
Evolution
Evolution has 4 different layouts and these layouts will change depending on your screensize. It’s very clean and easy to navigate. Evolution is a part of Elegant Themes, where you can buy 74+ premium wordpress themes with only $39. Read our detailed Elegant Themes review here.
Gleam
Gleam ultilizes the flashy and ajax effects to create a unique, friendly and impressive experiences for any visitor. It focuses on a big background and showcase content. Moreover, Gleam has all the standard features of Elegant Themes.
Daily Journal
Personal blog theme with unique design and the ability to be responsive. It has 4 other colors to choose from.
Trim
Trim is simple, professional, versatile and fast. We have had a lot of requests for a less stylistic, lightweight design, and that is exactly what we created with this latest theme. Trim might be simple, but with that simplicity comes a sense of balance and crispness that I find quite refreshing. Coupled with a bunch of great features, I am confident that Trim will prove useful for a variety of our users.
Elemin
Elemin is both an Tumblr-style and Responsive wordpress theme
WP Responsive
The name said it all 
It works best for business with slick design and 8 color options for you to choose.
Reportage
Reportage gives everything you need for a news site. It helps you set up your own preferences. Moreover, the killer typography and responsive features have put Reportage into a different level. How about the site? Clean and very easy to read. Most of the designs are white spaces, it makes a comfortable feeling for the readers.
Momentum
Momentum is clean, simple and SEO friendly. It can play as a blog theme or journal. Momentum helps create an fun and creative place for your content, so your readers can keep track and never lose their ways. It has 4 color-schemes and unique thumbnails that will bring a fresh appearance to your website.
Indulgence
Indulgence is a suitable responsive WordPress theme for restaurants, cafes or small food businesses. It can create a professional feelings for your website, which is a crucial factor in this industry. All of the food are focused providing a high-quality atmostphere. All the color, neutral background and limited number of different font used enable the center focus for food.
Vidio
You are a video blogger and want to showcase your best videos on a responsive design? Vidio is definitely a great choice for you. It provides slick and large slider for videos, so that you can show your best works there. This theme is suitable for video bloggers, videographers and video creators.
(Note: Vidio is a child theme of Backbone Framework)
Initiator
Initiator enables you to share content with your readers in an uncluttered feel. It has light look with white and clean spaces. Moreover, it can convey a large number of posts in a very convinient way, so you readers won’t be confused and lose their way while browsing.
Modernizm
Reading content in Modernizm is very easy and comfortable. This theme suited for online magazine and news portal.
Allegro
Allegro has bright colors which touch directly to your heart. It creates a sense of blogging experience for both personal and professional purpose. With strong layout structure and different layouts, Allegro can make your blog stand out from the crowd.
Resizable
Key Features:
- Fully Responsive Layout
- Professionally Designed and Developed – High efficiency & clean PHP/HTML/CSS, SEO Semantic Code
- Unlimited Ad Spaces & Positions
- 4 Color Schemas (Green, Blue, Orange and Red)
- Custom-Built Shortcodes
- Useful Page Templates (Archives, Contact Form, Full Width, Sitemap, Redirect, etc.)
Generate
The main aim of Generate is to build your email list. With a big, catchy headline and opt-in form, Generate can capture and turn your visitors into regular email readers, so that they will be informed immediately when you publish new content.
Note: This is a Genesis Child Theme, so you must have Genesis Framework first.
Balance
The evenly weighted, minimalist design of the Balance theme gives you the best of form and function, with a responsive frame that’s built for any kind of communication.
Note: This is a Genesis Child Theme, so you must have Genesis Framework first.
Streamline
Streamline throws light on your work, letting you get back to what’s important. Focus on the things that really matter. It lets your content flow like a story and guide readers to make their steps until the very last articles
Eleven40
Eleven40 is designed to wow your audience at first glance, it gives you unprecedented spaciousness to show off your best content.
Jigsaw
With 14 starter skins and 144 color options, Jigsaw is very flexible and can change to adapt your needs.
Aware
Aware is an interactive, responsive portfolio theme perfect for freelancers, web designers, photographers and videographers alike. Its user interactive interface delightfully enhances your most loved portfolio pieces. Now, you can take your portfolio with you, in your pocket.
Radius
Radius has built-in swipe support for your portfolio images, videos and more! That means your entire portfolio is now fully sortable, scalable AND swipe-able. That’s pretty rad! Using a mixture of custom styles and shortcodes, it’s really up to you how you utilize this adaptive theme!
Webworks
Webworks has a very interesting layout that you can’t find in any other themes. This can showcase your works, biography and so on with a killer design. And of course, it’s responsive
Gratitude
Gratitude is probably the first responsive BuddyPress theme with clean design and aim to create a friendly users’ experience. The great big slider will make you remember this theme forever. It also supports everything you need to set up a community with BuddyPress and all the options are included in a very easy theme options panel.
Trine Responsive WordPress Theme
Trine is a Responsive portfolio theme for WordPress. It’s packed with useful elements, functions and shortcodes that respond with the layout. You will be fascinated with Trine’s design.
Rising
Rising also provides multi-column awesomeness: You have 7 Portfolio configurations at your disposal with 2 different portfolio layouts, each featuring multiple columns. You can have unlimited portfolios!
The theme features a solid foundation, well written & optimal JavaScript code. The WordPress framework is rock-solid and has been tested in thousands of websites, with various server configurations. You can be definitely sure you’re getting a professionally developed theme.
Darwin
Linguini
Linguini is a theme perfect fit for the restaurants, pubs, bars, wineries and other companies offering foods and drinks. Linguini theme offers an excellent system for administration menu cards (food menu, drink menu) and photogalleries. The theme is highly optimized for search engines and has excellent SEO options like adding your own keywords and meta descriptions for each page, post or menu item. Linguini is a fully responsive theme for WordPress, which adapting display to all devices (screen, widescreen, iPhone, iPad, Android … correct displaying in each device, really) – try to resize your browser window.
Sentence
Sentence is a responsive Blog and Portfolio Theme (try resizing your browser), suited for users who want to run a professional or personal blog and in addition to that want to showcase their work on a neat portfolio site.
The Theme is built on top of the fabulous Avia Framework and comes with a plethora of options so you can modify layout, styling, colors and fonts directly from within the backend. 15 predefined skins (which are easy to modify from your backend), font and color options will help you create the Website you need in no time.
Podium
Podium is a responsive WordPress theme for event organisers to generate interest in workshops, creative conferences, or any other type of group speaking event.
Creating the daily schedule is simple with a custom post-type, same goes for featuring your speakers, keynotes or highlighted talks and your media sponsors.
Agency
Agenci is a full-featured WordPress template built for creatives, agencies, freelancers, graphic designers and the like, who just want a professional, jazzy and ultimately kickass website.
Qualeb
Clean and Minimalistic Design are two great points of Qualeb. There are two different version of this theme, dark and light. Personall, I find light version is much better than the dark one.
Zigzag
XO
Construct
Construct is a smart, professional and responsive theme designed to show off your (or someone else’s) work. It can be used as a personal portfolio or as great place to link to anything you think deserves it. It utilises a column based layout and some funky animation effects to keep your users entertained. Construct also takes advantage of AJAX which allows the user to load more corresponding posts on the fly without reloading the page or hindering SEO . It also degrades gracefully if JavaScript is disabled.
Lucky Times
Noxon
Noxon is flexible, customizable and fully responsive magazine WordPress theme with clean and sleek design. Theme includes lots of advanced features and functions and is based on solid backend framework.
These themes will definitely help kick start your business and provide a clean, convenient experience for mobile users.
I loved most of the themes. My favourite is Allegro very positive and awakes some disire to stay on the page longer. I think the main idea of themes is to mix the visual effect with functionality.
Fantastic article!! There’s (at least) a little mistake with the link to the Gratitude Theme, it’s not well linked. Here’s is the correct link.
http://themeforest.net/item/gratitude-buddypress-responsive-wordpress/1538282?WT.ac=search_item&WT.seg_1=search_item&WT.z_author=ZenThemes
Great List. I looked at about 90% of the demo sites. You should remove Gleam from the list as the site is not responsive. Only the background image resizes.
Nice collection. Thank you very much.
I’m a web developer. I have been working with Wordpres and PHP for 5 year. WordPress is the best Blog platform. I would recommend to your my collection responsive wordpress themes best.
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Great list ! Thank for sharing.