WordPress is more than just a blogging platform, WordPress is a vibrant community always growing.

Themes fuel much of its fire and many have reached legendary status. To choose the appropriate design and layout is one of the more time-consuming aspects of opening or updating your own website or blog.

Here we’ve compiled for you the WordPress Community’s top 10 newest, top 10 most popular and 10 top latest (updated) themes.

The Top 10 Latest Updated WordPress Themes

1. Snowblind

A clean and modern theme with a fully customizable layout. Theme options include site width, widgetized sidebars and footer bar, logo uploader, Google Analytics, Twitter feed, RSS feeds and tons more. Also includes dynamic SEO keywords and page descriptions. Tested on WP 2.7.x and up, using Firefox 3.5, IE7 and IE8. Fully optimized for search engine ranking. 100% valid xHTML. Designed by Themes by bavotasan.com.

• Updated 2009-11-2

2. iBlog2

The iBlog2 theme by Pagelines, inspired by Apple. Change options in appearance > iBlog options. This version is localization ready, so send us your translations.

• Updated 2009-11-2

3. Suffusion

Suffusion is a lightweight theme with a power-packed set of options. Its focus is on elegance and simple looks. It has 5 widget areas that support one-column, two-column and three-column fixed-width formats, 16 pre-defined color schemes (green, red, orange, purple, 2 shades of blue and 2 shades of gray, each on light and dark backgrounds), a customizable multi-level drop-down page menu, inbuilt support for featured posts, inbuilt Twitter support, threaded comments, translation support (French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Danish and Swedish translations available) and customizable excerpts. The theme has been tested on Firefox (2.0+), Safari (3.0+), Chrome (2.0), IE (6.0+) and Opera (8.0+). A dedicated support forum is available.

• Updated 2009-10-30

4. News Magazine Theme 640

Build a newspaper or magazine style blog with News Magazine Theme 640. Showcase 5 featured categories on your index page. Single posts and pages use 3 column display with one of two sidebars being movable. Add Google analytics from theme options. Add title graphic in place of text graphic. Hide leaderboard ad section if not needed. Hide 120 by 600 filler section if not needed.

• Updated 2009-10-30

5. One Day at a Time

Breast Cancer Awareness Theme

• Updated 2009-10-30

6. Simplish

Simplish is a WordPress variant of the Scribbish theme for blogs.

• Updated 2009-10-30

7. Lunated

A free wordpress theme with premium features such as animated gallery, post thumbnail, flickr photos, latest tweets, social bookmark, popular posts, adsense integration and more. You can choose to display excerpt or full post at blog index. Lot of options for the theme.

• Updated 2009-10-29

8. Sliding Door

A unique template featuring sliding images in the header based on phatfusion image menu. Look at theme homepage to see the menu in action – the preview does not work on wordpress.org!!!! Sliding images in header link to pages, or can be redirected using the Page Links To plugin. The theme has a comprehensive support forum to help you get started at http://mac-host.com/support

• Updated 2009-10-29

9. WhiteHouse

White House theme by PageLines. Professional theme with 2 column layout and right sidebar, widget-ready, built-in support for twitter feed, support for threaded/nested comments, easy to customize through the settings-page. Note: PHP5 is required for options.

• Updated 2009-10-29

10. Vigilance

A lean and clean Wordpress theme featuring standards and search friendly code. Theme Options Menu allows for serious customization. Designed and coded by Jestro.

• Updated 2009-10-29

The Top 10 Newest WordPress Themes

1. Simply Pink

Simply a simple theme brought to you with simplicity

• Updated 2009-11-2

2. Techified

Nice and Sleek design. Suitable for all blog niche.

• Updated 2009-10-28

3. Girly

For Ladies and lovers of colors.

• Updated 2009-10-27

4. Underwater

A clean blue underwater theme designed for bloggers. Designed by Tim Sainburg of Brambling Design.

• Updated 2009-10-27

5. Dewdrop

A simple, clean, green theme designed on the Carrington Framework. Designed by Tim Sainburg from Brambling Design.

• Updated 2009-10-28

6. Wild Flower

A simple layout including a fixed background with transparent header, content, sidebar, and footer areas. This theme is compatible with Wordpress 2.8 and offers valid XHTML & CSS.

• Updated 2009-10-27

7. Regal

Regal is a clean theme with an optional magazine layout with two columns, fixed width, widget ready. Theme has valid CSS and valid XHTML and compatible with wordpress 2.8.5. Regal Wordpress Theme Designed by Gauson Design

• Updated 2009-10-28

8. iPhoneLike

iPhone look two column theme. Web 2.0 look with big fonts. Tabbed content in sidebar. Fixed-width, widget-ready, translation-ready, paged Navigation and threaded comments. Options available for customizing. Jquery powered comments. Compatible with wordpress 2.7 and higher upto 2.8.5. Valid XHTML and CSS. Compatible with IE 7+, Firefox 3.0+, Safari 3.0+, Chrome.

• Updated 2009-10-26

9. Spooky

Spooky is a dark, gothic style wordpress theme.

• Updated 2009-10-26

10. Serious Blogger

Serious blogger is nice free wordpress theme for personal blog. The theme is released under GPL

• Updated 2009-10-26

The Top 10 Most Popular WordPress Themes

1. Mystique

Feature-packed theme with a solid design and a friendly interface. Designed by digital nature.

• Updated 2009-10-28

2. Pixel

Dark WP theme with 2-3 column layout, dropdown categories menu, multiple widget-ready placement and feedburner email form integrated, easy to customize. Enjoy!

• Updated 2009-10-12

3. Atahualpa

Version 3.4.4 – Build your own unique, professional and browser-safe WordPress Theme: 1-5 columns, fluid or fixed width, rotating header images and 2 dozen option pages. Support and tutorials at our forum.

• Updated 2009-9-30

4. wpBurn Blue

Clean web 2.0 wordpress theme developed by wpburn.Valid XHTML, tested in IE6+, Firefox, Safari, Chrome.

• Updated 2009-10-22

5. jQ

WordPress theme with two columns, four widget areas and loads of jQuery functions (dropdown navigation, font resizing and more). The theme options include a movable sidebar, custom colors, excerpts on index pages, category or page navigation, different font and color schemes.

• Updated 2009-10-26

6. Constructor

Wordpress Constructor Theme, it’s many-in-one theme (six layouts, configured colors, fonts and slideshow, widget ready). Build your own theme on settings page. For Wordpress version 2.7+ (include 2.8)

• Updated 2009-10-22

7. LightWord

Simply clever theme with two columns, right-sidebar, fixed-width, widget-ready and threaded comments. Compatible with Wordpress 2.8, valid XHTML & CSS. Stay updated!

• Updated 2009-9-30

8. Arclite

Simple but elegant theme with lots of theme options. Designed by digital nature.

• Updated 2009-9-17

9. Cordobo Green Park 2

Lightweight fast-rendering theme with 2-3 column layout and right sidebar, Widget-ready (4 slots), built-in support for plugins (e.g. twitter), support for threaded/nested comments, fully localized, easy to customize via settings-page. By Andreas Jacob.

• Updated 2009-8-24

10. Arras Theme

Magazine-styled theme with tons of features. Ready for alternate styles. Includes featured posts slideshow, different post layouts, multi-tabbed sidebar, custom single meta fields for reviews and many other customizable features.

• Updated 2009-6-11

From the simple to the complex, WordPress themes have it for free. Amazing art in code from one of the most interesting and active online communities worldwide.