Best Pinterest Style WordPress Themes

Which social media do you think consumers are most attached to? While most of us may correctly name Facebook as the number one brand, we may underestimate just how high Pinterest ranked. The numerous studies and surveys conducted in the US by the likes of Pew Research Center and UTA Brand Studio, have found that Pinterest ranked top 5 in terms of most popular social media brand. In fact, Pinterest is now even more popular than Twitter!

What is Pinterest?

So, what exactly is Pinterest? Pinterest is a social bookmarking site with a twist. Instead of text and images, Pinterest is all about visuals. It’s an online pinboard where users bookmark the visuals that they fancy and share these with other Pinterest users. These other users can, in turn, “repin” (re-share) these visuals in their Pinterest account. Imagine the exponential effect a visual can get.

Pinterest is certainly gaining popularity fast. What makes Pinterest so popular? What makes it drives traffic to your sites? Well, here are some factors:

• Infinite scroll

  All images are in a single page and that makes browsing effortless. With little to distract them, viewers are encouraged to continue scrolling.

• Great user interface

  Pinterest has a clean and intuitive interface. This means that it is user-friendly and thus, is extremely popular.

• Revenue model

  Pinterest allows users to add a price to their images if they plan to sell their products via the site.

Pinterest-inspired WordPress Themes

So it is safe to say that Pinterest is successful because of its design. That’s great but what has it got to do with us, you asked?

Well, I am sure many website owners are interested to find a theme that mimics Pinterest’s layout. The good news is that there are lots of Pinterest style WordPress themes around. Below are 10 such themes that we recommend. Do have a look.

1. PinThis

   

   This fully responsive WordPress theme is designed to allow you to share your contents like how Pinterest does. The theme can be resized to fit various browsers, including mobile devices. You will also get unlimited height, unlimited color option and the theme automatically adjusts how many columns it should show depending on the browser’s width.

   Other cool features include social media integration. This means that you are not only limited to posting text posts but also easily include YouTube videos, Instagram photos as well as tweets.

   For those who are concerned with improving their website’s search engine rankings, you will be glad to learn that this theme comes with Theme SEO options panel. These features are similar to what you will get with an SEO plugin.

   Summary features of the PinThis Pinterest style theme:

   • Easy to Setup

     You can quickly setup the site by using the included sample data, set the menus and the widgets. After that you can just edit the text, images, and columns as per your needs.

   • Fully Responsive Layout

     The theme is guaranteed to display properly on all types of displays such as computers, tablets and smartphones. Try resizing your browser screen and see it yourself.

   • Optimized for Speed

     The code is optimized for best performance on all environments. The theme developer guarantees high results in Pingdom, GTmetrix and Google PageSpeed.

   • RTL Support

     Are you building a website in another language? Don’t worry, this theme has built-in RTL which will automatically order the layout to support right-to-left languages like Arabic or Hebrew.

   • Optimized for SEO

     PinThis is coded with industry standards and adheres to best SEO practices. The SEO-friendliness of this theme helps you get more traffic and then make the most of that traffic when it arrives.

   • Translation Ready

     The theme includes .mo and .po files that can be translated using an appropriate software like PO Edit.

   • 5 Beautiful Colors Skins

     This Pinterest inspired theme has 5 color skins for varying preferences – Default, Fresh, Blackie, Tangerine and Nova.

   • Custom Post Formats

     PinThis supports 7 post formats – Standard, Aside, Image, Quote, Status, Audio and Video. For video and audio post formats, it is really easy to embed video and audio files to posts.

   • Proper Support for Embeddable Media

     You can embed media directly into the posts. Play videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Self-Hosted and many more. Supported formats are: MP4, M4V, WEBM, OGV, WMV and FLV.

   • Smart Admin Panel

     This theme has an Admin Panel which provides a convenient and intuitive interface for you to manage many aspects of the theme.

   At $45 per theme, it is reasonably priced especially for those who are looking for a well-designed Pinterest theme that is packed with advanced features.

2. Pinboard

   

   Pinboard is a popular Pinterest style WordPress theme on Themify. Like ExtraGrid, Pinboard is also a responsive theme and features infinite scroll. Your posts will be automatically loaded once your viewers reach the bottom of the page. The auto stacking layout option will ensure that your contents are stacked beautifully according to the devices being used. Alternatively, you can choose to have your posts displayed in the traditional page number navigation format.

   The theme allows you to publish various media forms. Thus, you can easily display blog posts, images, videos, galleries as well as lightbox content like image zoom and video popups.

   It also let you create a multisite where your users can publish their posts on your site, just like Pinterest. Pinboard designers have included an author avatar display for every post so that readers are able to identify the authors.

   The theme costs $49 but if you would like to have the Photoshop files too, you can opt to get the Developer package that costs $69.

3. Pluto Blog Theme

   

   This frequently-updated theme is one of the best theme in the personal blog category.

   This theme is based on the responsive Grid-A-Licious jQuery plugin which helps create floating grid layouts. Couple this with infinite scroll and you get a nice little Pinterest-like theme. But that’s not all.

   Pluto comes with lots of theme options where you are in control of almost the entire theme from grid size and color to font size, color and family to navigation options as well as custom widgets. For those who are into shortcodes or those who are not familiar with coding, you will be happy to know that this theme offers lots of user-friendly shortcodes. All you need to do is click a few buttons and your website will be changed immediately.

   

   The regular license costs $69. But you do not have to pay first to use this theme. You can try the theme for FREE! Get access to the full theme version and try all the features before you make a decision!

   The developer of this theme makes this theme sweeter by throwing in 4 plugins for free.

   

   

   

   

   Below is a summary list of this theme’s features:

   1. Responsive template
   2. Retina ready design
   3. Multiple Color Schemes
   4. Easy to setup
   5. Personal Blog Ready
   6. Fully customizable
   7. Image Lightbox
   8. Masonry Layout
   9. Infinite Scroll
   10. Custom Backgrounds
   11. Side menu
   12. Pinterest style
   13. Related Posts
   14. Top 10 rating
   15. jQuery, Bootstrap 3
   16. Works great on mobile devices
   17. Slide out navigation
   18. Ajax Contact Form
   19. 660 Google Web Fonts
   20. Adobe Typekit Fonts
   21. Translation Ready
   22. Unlimited Layouts and Colors
   23. Multiple Blog Layouts
   24. Contact form 7 support
   25. SEO Optimized
   26. Extensive Documentation
   27. Regular Updates
   28. Arabic and Hebrew languages support
   29. RTL right to left languages support
   30. Multilingual support and translatable
   31. eCommerce WooCommerce plugin support for easy online shop
   32. User profiles
   33. User registration, login and post publishing features

4. Notebook

   

   I have always liked Elegant Themes‘ designs and they have done a really good job with the Notebook theme. It is a unique multimedia theme. It doesn’t have the techie and sleek feeling that you get with most multimedia themes. Instead, it is fun and playful and well, made to look like a notebook!

   This responsive theme takes advantage of HTML5 and CSS3 animations and comes with lots of features. As a result, the theme is very engaging and fun. The animations are absolutely cool and themouseover effects are awesome.

   The theme allows multiple types of post formats and this means that you can effortlessly publish articles as well as upload audio, video and images.

   You will need to be an Elegant Themes member in order to buy this theme. It costs $69 per year but you get full access to all their themes.

5. Pinable

   

   For those who love Pinterest and want to create something similar to the site, you will absolutely love Pinable. This fully responsive theme works great with various devices and supports multiple post formats too (text, audio, video, gallery and so on).

   The theme can easily be adapted to fit all kinds of website e.g. personal blogs, portfolio sites, video sites, galleries, e-magazine and even creative sites.

6. Bayside

   

   Bayside is a responsive Pinterest-like theme that is also easy to use. This theme is great for beginners and those who are not familiar with programming languages and coding.

   Once you have purchased this theme, you will also receive a detailed help package which will guide you on how to make full use of the theme. Customization is thus easier and quicker too.

   It is also features-rich with unlimited color schemes, unlimited sidebars, navigation options, widgets, infinite scrolling and lots more. A regular license costs $40 only.

7. Fotografia

   

   This is a photo gallery template which helps users create and manage image galleries easily. Photographers will love this theme as it will make a great photography website for them to showcase their work regardless of whether they are professionals or amateurs.

   But Fotografia does not only appeal to photographers only as it also allows you to build video and image slideshows. The theme has also incorporated a cool 3D flip effect to make your site stylish and classy!

8. Spaces

   

   This is another clean and simple Pinterest-inspired WordPress theme. Like the other themes previously discussed, Spaces too is responsive and has a dynamic grid.

   It is a neat design and a great theme for those who want to showcase their work, be it blog posts or photos, audios or videos and even chats too. There are also three color themes i.e. ultra light, light and dark, to choose from.

9. Pinfinity

   

   This responsive theme has an infinite scroll and also supports various post formats. It is playful and fun and gives a very good first impression to your viewers. Like Pinterest, this theme also has a cool feature that allows your viewers to highlight their favorite posts. Another cool feature is the built-in audio player for easy sharing of audio tracks.

   This is a comparatively cheaper theme compared to the other theme providers. For this theme alone, you can get hold of it for only $39. But, if you like some of their other themes, you can just add $10 more (so you pay $49) and you get access to all CSSIgniter’s themes!

10. Pintores

    

    This is also by CSSIgniter and is similar to Pinfinity but with a very different layout. Pintores looks very much like Pinterest and comes with powerful grid supoort. It allows you to upload and manage various media formats, thus making this theme flexible enough to suit multiple types of posts like text, images, audio, videos, galleries and links.

My favorite Pinterest theme is…

I like all the 10 themes listed above because they are hand picked by myself! But if I were to choose only one, it would be Notebook by Elegant Theme.

Why? I like flexible themes. While the Notebook them is made for multimedia sites, I think this theme fits many other types of websites. Personal bloggers would love this theme. Photographers can make full use of the playful display of contents. Online stores owners will likely to want to customize this into an e-commerce theme for it will certainly give their customers a great first impression!

The fact that it is one of the most cost effective themes just makes it better. Pay only $69 and you will get not one but ALL of Elegant Theme’s themes (current and future). With the current 87 themes, that’s less than $0.80 per theme per year. Absolutely great deal.

Conclusion

Frankly, I find most Pinterest inspired WordPress themes very awesome. While most retains the essential Pinterest style, many of these themes also offer additional features, different designs as well as some layout enhancements. Not only are you able to adopt the fluid dynamics of Pinterest into your site, you are also able to integrate plugins like WooCommerce to adapt to suit any specific requests you may have.

The above 10 Pinterest style WordPress themes are some of the greatest I have tested so far. They offer infinite scroll, fluid grid structure and many more features. So if you have always liked Pinterest.com and are looking to create your own website with a Pinterest layout and features, do check the above WordPress themes out.