Top 25 Pinterest Inspired WordPress Themes 2012

Pinterest is the hottest social networking site which is home to the most beautiful photos on the web.  With its virtual pinboard style, users can easily create and manage photo collections of hobbies, events, interests and almost anything under the sun.

Because of its skyrocket popularity, many are riding the Pinterest waves! We scoured the internet for the latest and most creative Pinterest-inspired WordPress themes that you can use for your blogs.

Below are some of the Pinterest-inspired WordPress themes that would surely transform your basic blog into a virtual pinboard style website.
 

Endless

Endless – Infinite scrolling WordPress Theme comes with user friendly features. It looks elegant with most modern browser. It has an infinite scrolling feature that allows users to pre-fetch contents from a subsequent page and adding it directly to their current page.

Shaken Grid

This is a very upbeat theme.  It arranges elements vertically then horizontally according to a grid. It has two color schemes (dark and light).  You can easily customize the theme’s look by choosing from 8 built-in skins that would fit your style. Its gallery layout is gap-less which also supports blog posts.

Liquid Magazine

There is just one word to describe this theme - unique. Liquid Magazine is very suitable for blogs with creative needs, mainly because of its fluid grid lay-out. It also automatically resizes images on the fly.

Brick + Mason

Brick + Mason is ideal for photographers and/or design studios. It utilizes infinite scrolling so users don’t have to leave the homepage to see all your creative portfolio. This theme also uses the jQuery masonry plugin so the content will fit any browser sizes.

Imbalance 2

Imbalance 2 turns you WordPress-based blog to an attractive website, portfolio or online magazine. This free WordPress theme is designed in strict modern style with a minimalistic touch. Imbalance 2 can easily freshen up your web-magazine or blog. Due to the modern flexible features and layout, Imbalance 2 is suitable to any of your project needs.

iPhoto

iPhoto is an awesome free WordPress theme that looks like Pinterest. It comes with full width homepage layout section, a responsive sections like views, photos and comments included homepage thumbnails, WordPress 3.31 overviews ready for auto included and resizing thumb image options, sweet drop down navigation menu and more much.

FolioGrid Pro

Designed to be a fluid WordPress portfolio theme, FolioGrid Pro has shown an impressive flexibility to be used and much more. Video embedding, fluid layouts and multiple colour schemes make FolioGrid Pro great.

Gridnik

Gridnik is a WordPress Theme for those who want to dare to be unique! With its flexible layout, it can be resized to large sized monitors or even to small and narrow screens e.g. mobile phones. It also comes in 9 slick colors enhanced with 15 font’s options served by Google.

The Style

Featuring a crisp, modern design, TheStyle will give your blog that unique visual impact you have been looking for. This theme utilizes timthumb to automatically resize your thumbnail images. Because of this, only one thumbnail images is required per post, despite the various thumbnail sizes used in the theme. With its unique jQuery-enhanced fluid width design, your posts always get displayed in a way that is best suited for your visitor’s resolution.

Evolutive 2

Evolutive is a super-lightweight portfolio theme, features some cutting-edge jquery effects and will surely give your portfolio a touch of class. A grid based layout, elegantly focused on the content, without the heavy, hard to customize, useless graphics that many WP themes have.

FacePress

FacePress represents a community-builder theme with multiple skins and layouts suitable for different needs whether Community builder, Portfolios, Image gallery, Content-sharing with front-end uploading, Classic blog, Combination of all content types. You can use the liquid full-width version or the fixed size layout. Also, you can set different colors for your background and header.

Helious

Helious is the WordPress theme for Portfolio, Creative and Photography built with latest WordPress features. Custom Post Type, Skin & Colors, Extensive admin panel and more.

AutoFocus 2.0

AutoFocus 2.0 is a clean and simple WordPress theme developed for photographers looking to showcase their work. AutoFocus 2.0 provides stronger markup, better browser support, and Theme options that enable you to customize various elements of the theme without ever touching code. It’s also designed on an 800px, 8 column grid which truly allows your images to shine. This new version also boasts a sharper typographic approach with a 22px baseline grid, and a Hoefler Text/Helvetica (Times/Arial for you PC users) font stack that’s much easier to read.

Zoho

Zoho is an artist’s gallery packed full of options, inspired by a simple, subtle Golden Grid foundation. It’s a great way to present your work, or show off your blog or gallery. With isotope filtering, Zoho allows your work to be neatly organized and filtered. Along with the cool filter feature, Zoho has unlimited color schemes, 16 pattern options, 11 page templates, single page templates, and just for fun, it offers the premium iShare plugin for easy social networking…

Reflex

Reflex is a dynamic portfolio theme, developed from the ground up to be the easiest, most customizable grid portfolio theme possible. Reflex brings a host of new features including a powerful New Theme Manager (built on OptionTree), filterable dynamic grid layout, 9 Page templates, over 40 Font Replacement Options, Typekit, FontSquirrel, and Google Fonts support (just in case the 40 included fonts aren’t enough! The ability to change thumbnail and module sizes on the fly.

Bookcase

Bookcase is a uniquely interactive portfolio theme perfect for freelancers, web designers, photographers and videographers alike. Its user interactive interface delightfully enhances your most loved portfolio pieces. Has 70+ Google Fonts, XML and SQL files included to load default content, 5 Featured Section Textures, Light and Dark Versions, 5 custom WordPress widgets, Proprietary JQuery effects, Powerful Unbranded Theme Options Panel, Fluid width layout are among its main features.

Notebook

Notebook is a fun multimedia theme that takes advantage of WordPress post formats and advanced CSS3 animations. The result is a unique and highly engaging design that is sure that impress your visitors. Notebook makes it easy to share a variety of content, including audio, video, photographs and standard blog posts.

Simple Grid

Simple Grid Theme Responsive is a WordPress Theme with mobile and tablet responsive design. Grid like design Theme is perfect for any creative agency to showcase their portfolio. Inspired by the works of El-Studio creative graphic design studio.

SquareGrid

SquareGrid has really powerful portfolio template that will can show your items for 5 different layouts. Also it supports Image (images), Audio and Video(youtube, vimeo). Among its features include

Apptha

Pinterest WordPress theme is a premium theme that helps you to display blogs in pinterest layout. It is an elegant and perfect template that is visually emphasized and very much focused on the style. This can be quite fascinating to your site visitors for memorizing your posts.

ecostrips

A funky new theme to showcase your posts in a slick, dynamic wall that arranges itself beautifully based on the user’s screen size. Also bundled is the ‘Dynamic filter’ plugin that lets your users filter your posts dynamically with one click. Get on with the Pinterest craze with ecoStrips.

Gridlocked

A truly versatile theme, Gridlocked can be configured to focus on your work, your blogging, or both. 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.

FlexFolio

FlexFolio is a flexible ajaxified WordPress theme with a clean and minimalistic design. FlexFolio was created as a portfolio theme especially for designers, photographers and other creative people or agencies. The whole theme is based on the homepage which is used as portfolio. If you try to switch between the pages or posts you can see every time all the works are available at the bottom. That mean you can return to the portfolio works whenever you want. There is no page reload between the pages since everything functions through the AJAX – no need to wait until the whole page is loaded.

Lens

Lens is a versatile and customizable theme. Lens is a great hub to showcase your photography skills, using the latest CSS3 and JavaScript techniques we have managed to create a Flash-like theme without hindering load time or SEO. With Lens you’ll be able to be up and running within minutes due to its well thought out content structure.

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. You also get a bunch of options to customise your theme as well as a variety of shortcodes and post editor extras to enhance your content.

Do you know other Pinterest inspired WordPress themes that we missed? Post it below.

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Comments

  1. sabir malik 09.14.2012 Reply

    nice themes thanks

  2. sandeep 09.27.2012 Reply

    Super collection…!!

  3. Brad 10.08.2012 Reply

    What about PinStrap? Its a Pinterest style WordPress theme! Also free, which is a plus.

  4. kumar 10.12.2012 Reply

    great collection . .really worth to see

  5. Laren 11.10.2012 Reply

    Pinboard by Themify is very good as well: http://themify.me/themes/pinboard

  6. Andrew 11.14.2012 Reply

    Thanks for a great collection! Liquid magazine looks really interesting.

  7. logousaha 11.17.2012 Reply

    Waaa… STMW! Awesome article

  8. kelly 11.18.2012 Reply

    Good list!

  9. Robert 11.20.2012 Reply

    Luv the classy lines of these themes

  10. pinwordpress 11.26.2012 Reply

    These are some great themes, pin it on pinwordpress.com today

  11. sunil 12.14.2012 Reply

    Fantastic theme i ever had seen.I’m new blogger in blogging world.And you help me alot to find my right theme for my blog.Thank you so much

  12. Ashu 12.14.2012 Reply

    That’s what i am looking for Liquid Magazine WordPress Theme. Thanks for it.

  13. Marshall 12.15.2012 Reply

    My Choice is iPhoto :)

    I’m using this theme on my photo blog shadwographicals.com. Whats the thing missing is ability to add the description along with image count and comment count along with the thumbnail.

    nice theme…

  14. raj 12.16.2012 Reply

    Awesome wordpress theme collections but please advice to which is best for SEO?

  15. Øyvind 01.02.2013 Reply

    Nice collection! The Reflex and The Style is awesome.

  16. Content Central 01.24.2013 Reply

    I’m really keen to start a dedicated infographics site so the chance to explore some Pinterest style themes is very welcome.

  17. Dhiraj 01.31.2013 Reply

    These are some great themes, but the best place to promote these theme is omgwp.com the only dedicated pinboard for wordpress

  18. These are beautiful themes, but it would be good to know which themes work only with posts and which work with both posts and static pages.

    I have been trying to find a theme with this type of feel, but the ones I have come across only use posts to feature images.

  19. Clasificados 03.12.2013 Reply

    This list is fairly comprenhensive. It covers pretty much everyting that is out here. Great compilation guys

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