Whether you are an affiliate marketer or just a passionate hobby-ist/topical blogger a well designed theme can really improve the effectiveness and user experience of your review site.
Many magazine themes are a perfect fit for a blog or website dedicated to reviews but with this roundup I tried to focus almost exclusively on WordPress themes equipped with their own rating system ( we covered review plugins before here). In some cases that means five stars, a ten point scale, an adjustable slider, or some other quickly recognizable way to rank the product or content you’re reviewing. I felt that these design considerations not only help users make quick use of your expertise but it also means that you don’t have to spend time as a reviewer coming up with a rating system yourself – you can focus on content. Which is always a bonus. So, that’s what you’re getting into here and I’d love to read your thoughts and comments below on my collection of 25 WordPress themes for Review Sites.
InReview
InReview is an advanced Review Theme that allows you to transform your WordPress blog into a fully-functional ratings website. The theme makes rating products easy with our custom options and integrated user-review system. The theme also includes affiliate integrated and custom widgets to help you increase conversions.
- Full Details | Price: $39 (gets you access to all 70+ Elegant Themes)
ProReview
ProReview is packed with a TON of great and powerful features like, custom slider, extensive option panel, high customization options, useful WP features, custom widgets, shortcodes and custom post types, this will make your job easier while building review sites, give it a try and you’ll see this is the only theme you’ll ever need to build review websites. ProReview theme uses all the power and flexibility of WordPress to build effective and outstanding review sites with full content capability.
- Full Details | Price: $37 (Single Site License. Multisite and Developer Licenses also available)
Strings
Strings is a powerful wordpress magazine style, provided with many options. You can put a unique background in each page, blog post, portfolio item, albums, gallery you create. With more than 70 customization options you can improve your look and be unique on the web!
- Full Details | Price: $35
The Reviewer
Reviewer is a WordPress theme built for one purpose: writing reviews. Whether it’s reviews for movies or TV shows, Reviewer can handle it.
- Full Details | Price: $35
ReviewIt
ReviewIt is a WordPress and BuddyPress theme that provides you with powerful review and community features.
- Full Details | Price: $45
Marisa
Marisa is a simple, clean and beautiful WordPress magazine theme with great features, such as the built in review system that lets you review whatever you want and gives you up to 5 rating criteria. Furthermore you can add a “Buy now button” which you can use for example an affiliate link. The theme comes with 2 skins, a light & dark. You can easily customize the main and secondary colors of the theme inside the custom Theme Options.
- Full Details | Price: $35
Ermark Adora
Ermark Adora is a clean WordPress theme best suited for restaurants, cafes and product showcase sites. It comes with an advanced product manager and reservations system powered by a full featured admin panel. The visitors are able to rate, comment or share products on facebook (facebook integration).
- Full Details | Price: $35
CookingPress
CookingPress is a WordPress theme for foodies. This recipe theme will let you share all your recipes and cooking tips with wide audience. It’s one of the first WordPress recipe themes with support for Google Recipe View. What does it mean? it means that your blog will be understand not only by people, but also by search engines.
- Full Details | Price: $40
Darwin
Darwin is a simple to use responsive wordpress theme, it can be used for almost any purpose: blog, bussiness, portfolio, magazine.
- Full Details | Price: $35
Feature!
Feature! is a magazine theme that works perfectly with BuddyPress and BBPress. Now you can build a community around your website with social networking functions and forums.
- Full Details | Price: $45
Score
Score is a WordPress and BuddyPress theme that is ideal for reviewing any kind of content.
- Full Details | Price: $45
Bodega
Bodega is a modern WordPress magazine style theme. Perfect for blogs/magazines writing about urban culture, action sports, movies, video games, music, fashion and many more.
- Full Details | Price: $35
Continuum
Continuum is great for Magazine & News blogs, Gaming sites, Movie & Music review blogs, product review sites like Cnet.com, portfolio sites, personal blogs, and book review blogs.
- Full Details | Price: $40
Avenue
Avenue is a feature-rich WordPress magazine theme and is suitable for almost any niche. The theme comes with an inbuilt review system and 3 post formats (videos, audio & galleries). The homepage layout is very flexible, you can built your own layout using the 3 homepage widgets. You can also easily change the skin so it fits your needs!
- Full Details | Price: $35
GamePress 3
gp3 is the ultimate in gaming themes. GamePress has been re-built from the ground up to take advantage of the exciting new features available in WordPress 3.0 and is sporting a great new clean, modern design with a hint of classic design elements.
- Full Details | Price: $30
SwagMag
This is the HTML version of the very popular SwagMag – WordPress Review/Magazine Theme. With SwagMag, you can load up your site with tons of content and then present it to your users in an organized way using one of the many page templates and layouts. SwagMag’s front page has a content-rich design to give your users the best user experience possible, and it’s guaranteed to increase both the average length of time that your users spend on your site and the average number of pages that they view.
- Full Details | Price: $16
Media Store
Media Store is a reviews and downloads theme that is ideal for people who want to review items and also allow users to download files from each of these reviews, similar to how iTunes work.
- Full Details | Price: $35
Boulevard
Boulevard is a straightforward and feature-rich WordPress magazine theme. With the built-in review system (with up to 5 rating criteria) and the 3 post formats (videos, music & galleries) Boulevard can be used for almost any niche. Furthermore you can customize the look of the site easily via the custom theme options panel.
- Full Details | Price: $35
LeetPress
LeetPress is a WordPress gaming theme with all the features you need to create a great gaming site, such as reviews, videos and screenshots. You can take a look at the video below to see how easy it is to create reviews. LeetPress also comes with 7 other help videos that will guide you through the theme.
- Full Details | Price: $35
Black Aperture
Black Aperture is an all-in-one news and reviews theme specifically catered to video games.
- Full Details | Price: $30
Backstreet
Backstreet is a modern wordPress magazine, portfolio and blog theme. With the 3 post formats (videos, audio & galleries) Backstreet can be used for almost any niche. Backstreet also built-in review system (with up to 5 rating criteria). Furthermore you can customize the look of the site easily via the custom theme options panel.
- Full Details | Price: $35
Broadway
Broadway is ThemeSector’s third WordPress magazine theme. As the last two themes, Broadway features a built-in review system with up to 5 rating criteria. However this time we also added a user rating option so the user can give their opinion on a review. Broadway also comes with 3 post formats (video, music & gallery). So with the built-in review system and post formats you have the tools to create a site for almost any niche. Furthermore you can customize the look of the site easily via the custom theme options panel.
- Full Details | Price: $35
The Times
The Times is a flexible WordPress blog/magazine theme built with latest WordPress features. This theme comes with a review system (up to 7 custom criterias) , powerful options panel, clean and modern design and etc. The homepage layout is very flexible, you can built your own layout using the homepage widgets or use a classic view style for fast blogging. You can also easily change the overall style of your site so it fits your needs (you can pick up custom color for a lot of the site elements).
- Full Details | Price: $35
Imperial
Imperial is a theme with no specific focus. It’s not sure if it wants to be a personal blog, or house an online magazine. It’s not even sure if it’s black or white, for that matter!
- Full Details | Price: $35
MovieX
Moviex – is a clear video blog, if you want to create your video blog or a gaming portal, this theme perfectly suitable for you. It is easily customizable and has many options and great support!
- Full Details | Price: $37
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Hi Jack!
Great collection of WP themes. I really like these themes they all look interactive and eye-catching with full functionalities. Thank you so much for sharing these resources with us.
These are all paid themes don’t have much money but thank you for sharing though
I tried a couple of the options above and downloaded the Pro Review theme a few weeks back. Thanks for the great recommendation. Your site has helpful reviews!
Really good collection of review site themes.
What are your thought on Swagmag and Made?
Among all of those reviewed by you, which one is the best?
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