10 Best New Premium WordPress Themes May 2011

This is the new periodic list in the Design category: The monthly 10 Best New Premium Themes! It’s a round-up of the finest Premium WordPress themes released in the previous month, listed for your browsing convenience.

These are the best Premium WordPress themes released in the month of May 2011:

1 ECOBIZ – Business Theme

$35

• single-site licence

Features:

• 6 Pre-defined Skins (Blue, Green, Red, Orange, Dark, Brown)
• Unlimited bakckground color option + 25 background patterns included
• Custom background Image
• Multi level Dropdown Menu
• Custom Post type for slideshow
• User friendly shortcodes
• Translation ready (available .po file)
• 10 Custom Widgets (Support for Multiple Instance Widget)
• Built in Ajax Contact Form with validation
• and much more

2 Village – Photography Portfolio Theme

$35

• single-site licence

Features:

• Easy installation
• Built-in SEO tool
• Font Management
• Written and Video theme guides
• Interactive jQuery walls
• 3 Fullscreen Slideshows
• 5 skins
• Drag-and-drop Gallery Manager
• and much more!

3 Aggregate – Magazine Style Theme

$39/year

• including the entire ElegantThemes.com Theme portfolio

Features:

• Unlimited color schemes
• dozens of fonts
• automated thumbnail resizing
• optional blog-style structure
• custom widgets
• built-in  advertising management

4 TheCotton – Minimalistic Theme

$35

• single-site licence

Features:

• Unlimited skins
• 40 pattern backgrounds included
• Powerful admin area (powered by Pexeto Panel)
• 3 jQuery Featured Content/Image Sliders
• Portfolio Gallery template
• and much more!

5 Gridlocked – Minimalist Theme

$35

• single-site licence

Features:

• Gimmick-free, Grid-Based Design & Valid HTML
• Dark & Light Colour Schemes
• Filterable Portfolio (can be used as homepage or site section)
• Tumblr-style Blog (can be used as homepage or site section)
• Built-in “like” system – no plugin necessary
• Full Localisation/Language Support (contains .po/.mo files)
• 2 Custom Widgets (Twitter, Flickr)
• Simple Theme Options (Unbranded!)
• WordPress 3.0 Ready (Menus & Featured Images)
• jQuery Magic (Re-shuffling grids – try resizing your browser!)
• and more!

6 Briefed – Portfolio Blog Style Theme

$70

• single-site licence

Features:

• jQuery Featured slider
• Custom Homepage
• Portfolio Page Template
• Custom Post Types
• Custom Typography
• Custom Widgets
• Alternative Styles

7 Core – Photography Portfolio Theme

$35

• single-site licence

Features:

• 3 Homepage styles
• Full Screen slideshow for Photo Gallery
• Built-in Font Manager. You can upload your own font
• Extensive galleries admin. Support multiple images upload
• 4 Portfolio styles
• 8 Custom Widgets
• Styled typography and flexible page columns
• Blog page single post and comments
• and more!

8 Eptonic – Minimalistic Blog Theme

$35

• single-site licence

Features:

• Awesome portfolio styles and options
• Drag & Drop system
• 29 Fonts for headings (with Google Font API )
• 6 Custom widgets (to use in the sidebar)
• 10+ Shortcodes
• Contact Form with jQuery (email) validation
• Show/hide Author box on the blog
• Custom logo replacement
• and much more!

9 Catalyst – Portfolio Theme

$35

• single-site licence

Features:

• Free Unlimited Upgrades
• Translation-Ready
• GUI Shortcodes generator
• 100 Icons shortcode
• Featured Content/Image Slider
• Advanced theme options
• Portfolio
• Videos and Images Lightbox
• and a whole lot more!

10 Peano Creative – Portfolio Blog Theme

$35

• single-site licence

Features:

• Unique portfolio
• Clean and minimalist design
• Unlimited colors
• 45 shortcodes
• 38 background options with an option to use your own background image/color
• jQuery enhanced
• 14 fonts (font-face)
• Rich styling options (buttons, images, sliders, tabs, toggle, columns, lists, etc)
• Social Icons
• and more!