Ever since Microsoft showcased the first version of Windows Phone with Metro UI, it has become very popular. This was carried forward in the new version of Windows 8 as well with the new Metro start screen. We have seen many applications which are designed based on the metro look. If you are running a WordPress blog, you can also showcase the beauty of Metro using WordPress themes. Some of the WordPress theme developers have designed WordPress themes based on this Metro UI.
In this article, we are listing out the best metro inspired WordPress themes, sadly most of these are paid themes, but if you love the metro look, its worth a buy.
1. Metro WordPress Theme:
Metro is a Magazine/Blog WordPress theme, inspired from Windows 8 and Windows Phone 7, made by following the Microsoft’s guideline for Metro UI designs. The theme is supported on WordPress 3.0 and higher and has features like custom Background (you can set what background you want), multiple styles – red, blue & green and more.
2. Subway Theme:
It brings you a modern boxed layout or the metro look with a broad range of options for customization. You can choose from various color and transparency options. Explore many beautiful designed details like fresh typography, icons, CSS animations and animated backgrounds. Also this theme brings you some nice custom features: Two new Widgetkit styles for the Slideshow and the Gallery are included.
3. Metro Blog Theme:
This is yet another theme with Metro looks and also icons. The theme is available in 8 colors- dark blue, dark green, dark orange, dark red, light blue, light green, light orange and light red. The theme also has multiple packs based on which colors you need.
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4. Metro Press:
Metro.press is a responsive premium WordPress Theme inspired by metro design. Metro.press is powered by Warp Framework and Widgetkit, it is fully localized/internationalized, SEO friendly, and has been tested in all major browsers. Metro.press comes with nine expressive colors and style variations.
5. Metro:
Metro is an ultra-modern, clean WordPress theme designed for bloggers who want a theme to elevate their site to the next level. With crisp colors and customizable layout styles, Metro lets you showcase the best of your content. The built-in widgets let you add functionality to Metro in just a few clicks. It is also a responsive theme, so no need to worry about device or browser size.
6. MetroWP (Free):
This is probably the only free metro based WordPress theme we could find. The interesting feature of this theme is that it does not use any images, only CSS and hence the theme might not work properly on IE 6 and IE7.
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7. Metro Style:
Metro Style is an awesome paid theme which is responsive and also has the metro style. The theme has number of options including 22 theme styles or colors.
If you know of any other Metro inspired WordPress theme, free and paid, do let us know in comments.
subway is the only one worth considering.
MyThemeShop Metro theme looks awesome 😀
Love The Subway Theme its Awesome For Personal Blogs
If possible I’d love to have MetroPress’ header and the postbody/sidebar of subway.
Subway is very beautiful! I like it very much. But it is too expensive!
Can you please add our WP theme to this list? Search for MetroStyle on Themeforest.net
Another one wordpress windows 8 wordpress theme http://smthemes.com/metropress/
these theme look awesome
Nice Collections 🙂
Yes, too expensive!
Great post, thanks.
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Anyone tried this new theme from themify? http://themify.me/themes/metro/
that theme is the worst ever made , i tried it . it has serious compatibility issues with almost every browser from all version of ie to safari and so on , also it (incredibly) slow down your web site
MetroWP bahh… if it’s free is bad
Metro press is great
Awesome themes to be tried. The first one is powerful.
http://templendo.com