34 Pinterest-Like WordPress Themes
Everybody knows how fast Pinterest has grown and how it has become the hottest tech startup of 2012 and in just few months of it’s existence it has managed to hit the 11 million registered users milestone. This is the fastest growing website in all times, so I guess it is only obvious to want to recreate a website following a similar path. That’s why we created the “Ways to Build a Pinterest-Like Website” article, but we still need to add some WordPress flavor, right? I know that many of you can’t break up with WordPress and nobody can’t blame you for that.
WordPress is a simple, light-weight platform and at the same time is the one providing top mods and customizations, so I think is the right thing to go with it in this project. For those I gathered best collection of WordPress themes to help you create a site just like Pinterest. The list is quite solid, so I am sure you will be able to find something to fit your requirements.
Beauty, professionalism and style would be best 3 words describing these themes. There are both free and premium themes, but I’m sure a small investment is nothing when it comes to creating an innovative, fun website, right?
Apptha
Premium – $59
This is most definitely the most Pinterest-Like theme in this list. Apptha really manages to combine the elements you can find on Pinterest and it also gives you some of the features available in the image bookmarking site.
Graphic
Free Theme
One of the most innovative free theme that comes from Dessign team. It is special because of the way posts are aligned in the page along with a featured section available in the middle.
Gridnik
Premium – $30
Nice theme, pretty close to the Pinterest design, it comes with a great rollover fading effect and it also comes in multiple colors.
The Narrow Way
Premium – $49
Is a combo theme containing 2 of the main themes created by SuperThemes.org – TNW Evo and TNW Lite both of them based on an advanced visual customizing tool.
Gridline
Premium – $35
Either you choose to showcase your portfolio or to blog using a lots of photos, this theme brings a very pleasant aspect to your blog or website. What makes it special is the fading image effect and highlights. You can see all main posts and those that come are in the shadow.
Pinsomo
Premium – $27
Is a cutting edge Pinterest-like theme created by the affiliate expert Daniel Tan. The theme also comes with social integration (Facebook open graph) a 100% mobile responsive layout and Optimized Search Results through Google Authorship giving you an unfair advantage in front of your competitors.
FolioGrid
Premium – $48
Minimalist theme with a nice mouse rollover effect and a cool loading content element.
iPhoto
Free Theme
Brilliant free theme created by TutsPress Team. It has an animated way to show next content along with cool fading effects on each photo.
AutoFocus
Premium – $25
One of the most popular Grid themes available in this list.
Exhibit
Premium – $35
A clean design which comes in 2 different skins – one light and one dark.
Zoho
Premium – $35
It has over 16 different background patterns to fit with your style, 5 blog layouts and social media features integrated in an advanced control panel.
PinPress
Premium – $69
One of the most similar looks to Pinterest. PinPress is simple, neat and comes with a professional set of features to help you create a one of a kind image bookmarking website in no time.
Daily Notes
Premium Pack – Only $39 for 84 Themes
Simple, elegant and it comes in 3 different skins. The nice rollover effect makes us believe we are browsing an actual book.
Imbalance 2
Free Theme
If you are the kind that likes very minimalist solutions, then Imbalance is perfect for you. This theme is extremely lightweight, but at the same time comes with a powerful structure and is very ergonomic
Hypergrid
Premium – $35
You like to see just thumbnails like on Pinterest, but you want them to be same size and look good within a modern design? Well, then Hypergrid is the theme for you.
ecoStrips
Premium – $25
ecoStrips creates a dynamic wall that arranges itself beautifully based on the user’s screen size. The theme has become quite popular lately.
TheStyle
Premium Pack – Only $39 for 84 Themes
Is a theme created by the guys at ElegantThemes and I guess there’s no need for me to tell you how great their themes are. TheStyle recreates Pinterest’s design + a nice highlight effect followed by a very modern layout.
Reflex
Premium – $35
Is a dynamic grid/portfolio WordPress with a powerful theme management tool and 9 color schemes.
Photum
Free Theme
Probably the best free replica of the popular image bookmarking website.
Bookcase
Premium – $30
Very user friendly portfolio theme which fits perfect for a web designer, photographer or video maker.
Grid Portfolio
Premium – $30
Like all the themes from Dessign team, this is a very clean and minimalist grid theme.
Gridler
Premium – $30
It supports multiple post formats and it brings the cool Tumblr style posts into a very modern WordPress theme.
Aperio
Free Theme
This theme looks almost the same as the first version of AutoFocus theme. What is great is that you can get the “first” version of Autofocus for free.
GridLocked
Premium – $40
Grid based WordPress theme which supports layout shuffling and post format making Tumblr fans very happy about it.
Evolutive2
Premium – $49
A slick and cool WordPress theme designed by SuperThemes.org . The theme comes with an advanced Ajax-powered loader which makes browsing fun and easy.
NoteBook
Premium Pack – Only $39 for 84 Themes
A nice multimedia theme which looks like Pinterest. The theme embeds lots of new technologies including HTML5 and CSS3 animations.
Pronto
Free Theme
Translation of Pronto is quick and this is how this theme treats content making it accessible in a very lightweight form.
SideWinder
Premium – $35
One of my favorite designs in this list. It manages to create a fusion between modern and elegant while keeping attention to ergonomics and bringing important information in main-screen. It is based on dynamic vGrid Plugin.
Minimal Dessign
Free Theme
Like the name says, this is a simple grid-based WordPress theme which looks like Pinterest, but with a different structure.
FlexFolio
Premium – $30
A dark version of Pinterest with lots of hexagonal elements making it more modern and futuristic.
Sliding
Premium – $70
I have to mention that this theme only works 100% fine if you have the WooCommerce Plugin installed. This is a plugin created by WooThemes for eCommerce websites powered by WordPress. Don’t worry because the plugin is free and you can get it here.
gRID!
Free Theme
Is a typical minimalist, yet very elegant Pinterest-like WordPress theme which has a pleasant layout + a section for featured posts which can be seen on the left side.
Helios
Premium – $35
Elegant theme which can fit perfectly fine in websites dedicated to photography or portfolios.
Shaken and Stirred
Free and Premium Versions
The theme is just like Pinterest just is available on blue. You can get Shaken and Stirred Lite which is available for free or get the premium version which comes with some few special features.
Modern
Free Theme
Yet another beautiful free WordPress theme that looks like Pinterest and comes from Dessign.
Cluster One
Premium – $49
Yet another amazing grid style theme from SuperThemes.org team!
Like you said, this is a very solid list of themes. My favorite is Shaken and Stirred because it is simple, but at the same time it has the Pinterest layout and it has a free version too. That’s great for starters! Thank you!
There is also http://themify.me/themes/grido
Great job, exactly what I was searching for!
Is it possible to include user-login, -upload, -like, -comment, -gallery, -repin function with plugins and some (favorably) minor customizing or do you need a script like the Joomla one from apptha?
Thanks in advance.
WordPress already provides a registration/login system which is 100% customizable. You can also add upload function if you have some knowledge in programming. If not, I guess you should start experiencing in BuddyPress, a free plugin for WordPress which helps you transform your WP blog into a real social friendly website. The BuddyPress community is quite active so you will be able to find lots of mods and themes here: http://buddypress.org/extend/plugins/. Besides that, Apptha already has few of the features on Pinterest such as most themes here, but if you know a bit of programming you will do well. Also, take a look on How to Create a Pinterest Site
Pinboard from themify would be closer to pinterest.com: http://themify.me/themes/pinboard
This is a great list. I very much appreciate the time and effort put into this list. I’ll give all of these themes (the free ones) a try. thanks!
I kind of like the Gridlock and Helios. I love Pinterest so these themes looks pretty much enticing to me as well those who are trying out WordPress yet for the very first time. Cool collection you got there.
I have tried the apptha Pinterest Joomla extension and it was terrible and buggy – although they have released a new version, I have also tried the pinterestclones (dot) com version – and guess what!? It doesn’t work either – but an update is coming on Saturday apparently.
For now I am working on another clone through these guys 3fusion (.) in/scripts.php it’s a 2leep clone – which is pretty cool… but I wanted a blog on a sub domain to index all my posts from the feed to catalog all the entries… I really like the post by the way and it saved me a lot of scouting around – I am edging towards iPhoto cos it’s free and I might give shakengrid pro a whirl – that looks alright. Thanks again for the post.
Glad you enjoy the post, too bad you don’t like Apptha, I can’t talk about their Joomla extension because I haven’t tested it, but about the subdomain blog and featuring posts on the main domain, you could try WP Subdomains WordPress plugin, and with a bit of customization you can create a pretty nice network.
Nice collection. I think this themes could be powerful using WP MU.
Yes, like I said to Trollmeme, these plugins are great and you can get lots of the Pinterest features using WP Mu along with BuddyPress Plugin. Both are free to use and the community is available for you at any time providing lots of great customizations and support.
That’s really a great compilation. I am thinking to start a pinterest like site myself but haven’t decided the domain name yet.
These themes will surely be useful when I start my new project
Pinterest is new, but the number of clones for this site has grown incredibly fast, so the competition is huge. Personally I would recommend creating a site on a similar concept, but based on a niche. For domain ideas you can try Domain Tools.
This site does have a lot of excellent Pinterest like themes! Wondering which theme loads the best.
If you talk about the loading speed, then you will have to check each of them because even if some of them seem to be heavy and slow to load, they might surprise you how fast they are. The best thing to do this is to check each of them using “Google Page Speed Test“
Great article! It is very very helpful.
Do you know which theme might be best for hosting thousands of photos from hundreds of users, rather than just a personal photo blog?
Thanks kindly,
Chris
But does that work with theme previews/demos? What about on ThemeForest and the like?
Thanks! And thanks for the great list!
Awesome list! I’m going to use Sliding for my ecommerce site. Thanks for sharing this.
I have been looking for this! Thanks for making this awesome list. I do have a question – Since I won’t have a chance until tomorrow to really look through all of these options, does anybody know offhand if any of them have the “Pin it” bookmarklet type function or if it would be terribly complicated to have one built? I’ll look through them tomorrow but thought I’d ask first in case anyone knows.
Thanks!
Wow a great wordress design athorium.
Bethany: There is a pintit plugin for wordpress, just google pinit for wordpress theres a bunch of them.
you can enter it on a post or a page or on a sidebar.
cheers
Sup great post for all of us wordpress designers!
Thanks.
This is a great up-to-date post. I have hundreds of WordPress Themes that I wanted to build a site around to sell them. However, I could never find the time or motivation to really go through them all.
After reading the post here today, I’m now inspired to go pick out the relative nuggets and perhaps be a provider for Pinterest like WP themes…
Thanks for the inspiration!
ultimate collection. thanks for sharing.
Creative Collection! I was also looking for a WordPress Pinterest Theme and the best solution in my opinion is not listed. Watch the Video and you will see a great Theme: http://www.ideecon.com/beste-wordpress-pinterest-theme-2012/2226
Great post, straight into my favorites list!
You missed a great one, which I’m just posting here, and the name is Squaregrid.
http://themeforest.net/item/squaregrid-fully-responsive-theme-for-portfolio/2189202
i dont now which theme is but its similar: http://www.tabbysdeals.com
This one is the best pinterest theme: http://www.brillthemes.com/wordpress-themes/pinterest-plus/
nice themes.. I like all of them.. thank you..
My favorite free theme by far is ‘Modern’. Great listings here.
Pinboard by Themify made the best WordPress theme if you want to create a website like Pinterest
Just an fyi – if the Apptha word press ‘pinterest’ theme is as poorly coded as their Magento pinterest theme.. beware. An absolute nightmare that we had to give up on and lousy support.
you left off “Stomacci” by themekingdom
Great list, I think you could make a highly visited website using this and WP Mu. Thanks for posting this.
iPhoto is no longer being maintained and seems to crash my site, I had to ftp in and delete the theme manually. What a shame as it seems pretty cool looking. I really wanted to use it.
34 similar themes? Amazing. So, we expect hundreds of Pinterest like sites on the market I guess then.
That surprise you? Same as all the Facebook knock offs, groupon, etc…
I’ m looking for something between hatch and imbalance 2.
for now I’ m using the hatch theme, but I like the imbalance 2 design much more, since this does not crop the pictures at all.
http://antoniskioupliotis.com/
any idea for the *perfect* solution?
just send a message via contact please!
A solid list indeed. Thanks for putting the work in to make this list. I’ll be revisiting and making use of some of these themes. Some are visually striking, which is what I’m looking for. Thanks again
We recently released a free responsive Pinterest style WordPress theme that uses the wookmark jquery plugin called PinStrap. Check it out.
*PINPRESS is scam. They took my money but didn’t give me @ what you said. Please people don’t believe what they say on their web. Bullshit. After you pay through their website you will get not thing. No respond. No download theme. They don’t even give you back your money either. I still have their receipt in my email i can show to you if you want.
nice themes
Thanks…
Apptha Is My Best Pinterest Style WordPress Themes thanks
Great collection, by far best list so far. Anyone know of a plug-in that would replicate Pinterest as a gallery in individual posts?
thanks a lot awesome collection
also here are a good collection of free and premium pinterest themes for wordpress
http://metuts.com/blog/top-free-and-premium-wordpress-pinterest-themes.html
Great collection of grid style themes here! Thanks for taking the time to put this together – a great resource!
Here is a free wordpress theme for the same http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/pinpress