Well, 2016 is finally here and if this is the year you decide you want a new website to show off your amazing videos, you’ll need a great WordPress theme. We’ve found a whole bunch of video WordPress themes we know you’re going to love. From the simple to the complex, these multimedia themes are going to impress you.
By either self hosting or embedding video in your website, you can use a powerful way to make a tremendous impact on your website’s visitors. With the advent of mobile devices, like smart phones and tablets, along with cheap data plans and consumer level cameras that can shoot high definition video, more people are consuming more media of all kinds, and video is no exception. Plenty of viral videos on Youtube or Vimeo have been shot using handheld devices like the Android or the latest iPhone. It’s tough to stand out from the crowd of professionals trying to make a living on the internet because there’s so much competition. But a great video WordPress theme can help bridge the gap and draw in millions of views to your amazing videos.
If you’re serious about videography, you’re going to need a feature filled multimedia WordPress theme that allows you to either self-host or embed video from one of the sites like Vimeo or Youtube that have easy codes for embedding video in either a page or post. If it’s just a hobby, or if you’re a professional motion graphic designer, videographer, news photographer or even if it’s just video clips of friends and family, you’re going to want a theme that is set up to take advantage of all the features available to you.
We’ve tried to find the very best themes, some of them are Youtube type themes with the ability to submit via the front end, as well as professional level film and video portfolio themes so you can host your own clips, or sumbit them to places like Wistia, Youtube, Vzaar, Viddler, Vimeo, DailyMotion, Vevo and others.
Shiner
Howdy folks, welcome to BlingThemes newest offering: Shiner. Shiner is a simple, but attractive parallax theme, perfect for your portfolio, personal blog or whatever you want to throw at it. Even use it to embed videos, which is handy. Shiner is simple to use, but powerful enough to produce a really amazing look, right out of the box. This is a WordPress video theme you can count on.
Wright
Wright is a minimalist theme, perfect for a sleek design blog or portfolio and with Wright, you can self host or embed video clips with ease. We know you’ll love the clean, crisp navigation, and the minimalist design. This theme has a whole bunch of great features that make it a great video portfolio template. This incredibly simple and awesome theme is full of superb features that make it incredibly easy to construct a new WordPress website quickly!
Megatron
Megatron is here and it’s already a bigtime best seller on ThemeForest and it’s barely the new year. Already among the very best selling new themes of January of 2016, Megatron is a responsive, premium multipurpose theme with video header options for WordPress. Megatron is ready to help get you selling products with WooCommerce, and your shop is definitely going to look smart and load fast with this modern, well coded and professional looking WP theme. If you’re a blogger, or you’re running an online store, maybe even a design company looking to make a big first impression on potential clients, Megatron could be what you’re looking for. Megatron is a Bootstrap based theme, WPML ready, with one click demo data import, Visual Composer plug-in for layout options and the revolution slider to make a dynamic and bold first impression. The video header means this theme would look great with a multimedia impact on page one. There are a dozen or more portfolio options too, meaning your images and videos will look fantastic, no matter what.
Divi
Divi is one of the most impressive themes to come along in the last few months. Divi is a true multipurpose theme, with tons of layouts and features included. Personal blogs will look great with this dynamic theme from Elegant Themes. We think you’re going to love just about everything about this one, from the functionality to the slick and modern design, the support from Elegant Themes and best of all, the price. Divi is a real powerhouse and maybe the only theme you ever need to buy. Love it!
Vignette WordPress Video Theme
Vignette is accessible from a wide range of devices. Show your work on all audiences. Vignette can also wield the power of Jetpack in the palm of it’s hand, just like Doc Ock, right? Anyway, yes, you can harnesses the power of Jetpack to show your work in awesome gallery styles and carousels. Pretty cool! Vignette brings a minimalistic fullwidth layout and design. Your work should be the only thing that stands out.
Nillplay
Set up your pages with “Nill PlayTheme Page Builder”. No need for coding knowledge, just create a new site with drag and drop. You can easily create a hoe page, multimedia filter page for music, video, events, photo and picture galleries, biography and more. Tons of option!
Magazine Theme
It’s all about legibility and making content easily consumed by the viewer. Magazine provides a modern yet familiar layout with clean typography designed to serve up serious content without distraction.
Gleam
Gleam is one of the best. it’s an elegant and lovely full-screen theme, responsive and fluid, so it look good on any device. Showcase your pictures and images fullscreen, not covered up by your content. This almost unbelievably simple and powerful video WordPress theme is completely and utterly full of great features that make it totally easy to construct a website super quickly!
News Tube
NewsTube is a well organized and clean, modern video theme for Video, Blog and even Magazine sites, depending on what you want to use it for. News Tube is totally responsive, retina ready and has many powerful features, so it will look fantastic, no matter what device your viewers are using, from tablet to handheld to desktop computer. This powerful video magazine theme comes with a bunch of flexible theme layouts and even boasts of extensive Theme Options. That allows you to easily customize your website exactly the way you need it to be to give your readers a great experience. Cool. NewsTube supports videos from many popular sites including Youtube, Vimeo and Daily Motion and you can even self host videos too. With this video theme, you can submit video from front-end, create great video channels and playlists, or import YouTube Videos and Channels to your website. No matter what kind of video magazine you want to run, NewsTube is a great solution to get the most out of the great videos that you create.
Supernova
Black Sea
Hero
Collective
This professional WordPress theme was created with a more general, “all-purpose kind of theme” approach in mid. It comes with every feature you might need to make your website stand out of the crowd.
Goodwin
Goodwin is a photography and video portfolio theme that uses full width layout to really make your projects pop. Goodwin has a custom slider that supports video and photos alike, even mix and match with a slide show incorporating both. That makes for an eye-catching presentation of your creativity. There are simple and AJAX albums where, again, you can show off multimedia and photography. AJAX allows you to preview everything on the same page, or use the standard simple album to display a gallery slideshow. The popular masonry layout features a vertical scrolling design with impressive impact. Goodwin is a professional level theme and it’s aimed at thos who want to take their videography or photography career to the next level. Showcase your art, your skills and your career with this powerful theme.
Orion Press
Orion Press is a premium WordPress blog with reviews engine built right in. it’s very easy to customize with the handy Visual Composer plugin included. Includes multiple layout variations too, so your WordPress magazine will look just as great as you want it to. Orion Press is a magazine theme with really powerful video post features too.
Glider
Glider is the best choice for people who want to be successful! Whether you need a large professional corporate site or a small entertaining blog, or want to create an informative magazine – the multi-functional ultra-modern Glider theme will fit all sites purposes!!! It has super stylish design that is fully responsive.
Empire
Empire is a truly unique theme with a layout unlike anything we’ve ever seen before for WordPress, and it features a video header, so you can display an amazing, eye catching front page for all your guests to behold. I really love this design, the clean, sharp lines, the typography, the code. This video portfolio is dynamic too., but it’s smartly designed to let your content be king. Sans serif fonts for the headings make this a modern looking theme with a ton of downtown style. We thing agencies and freelancers will love the clean style. Oh, yeah, that grid layout happens automatically, which means you won’t have to fight with the theme to make it look the way you want it to. You’ll be showcasing your multimedia projects in no time flat.
Invicta
Invictus is a Fullscreen Image and Video WordPress Theme for photographer or creatives. Invictus is so easy to use, super versatile and has a fully responsive design! With it’s flexible theme, page and post options Invictus is very intuitive to use and completely ready to operate out of the box.The possibilities are endless! We have build Invictus with latest HTML5 & CSS3 and a lot of love and care went into this theme making it a such a fun to use. Invictus brings you an awesome way to showcase your portfolio in a special way! Invictus can be used for any type of portfolio, but was mainly build for photographers, creatives or video artists.
Pure Photo
Pure photo is a great looking full featured theme that allows you to showcase and sell photographs, video, prints or anything photography or videography related. If you want a WordPress website that matches your high end camera, Pure Photo is a fine choice. This full responsive theme for WordPress has both light and dark versions, a live WordPress customizer, which allows for instant style changes with live preview, so you can change out fonts, colors, layouts and element sizes before they go live on your website and decide exactly what you want in real time. There are 20 custom developed short codes included, so your posts and pages can look stylish, with simple and clear cut navigation and more. There are two premium WP sliders included too, Revolution and Layer Sliders, with 9 unique full screen slider effects. We think showing off and selling photography and video clips with this theme is going to be a great way to get your company more business.
Jarvis
Flick
With flick, posting videos to WordPress has never been easier. Flick is a clean, multimedia portfolio theme that is perfect for bloggers who have media content such as video, photographs, images, graphics and other media. It’s fully responsive with a nice clean design, so the focus always stays on your content, and there are slick mouseover effects and features to help maximize your blogging potential.
OnPlay
onPlay is an advanced video magazine theme for WordPress, with a lot of unique features and flexible layout. Everything is easy customizable and you can add as many featured categories on homepage as you want. Tons of post types make this magazine theme more than just a multimedia site, it can work for anything you want it to.
Videozoom
Videozoom is an elegant theme with a neat featured slider, ready to play any videos and multimedia files you want to embed into your posts. With JW Player integration you can even play your self-hosted videos! If you’re a filmmaker or videographer and you don’t want to use YouTube or Vimeo anymore, this could be a great theme.
Photify
Photify is fully responsive video WordPress theme with powerful dashboard and post/page template managers. It can be used for photo and picture galleries, showcases, to create portfolios or just for blog.Theme has been checked with Theme-Check, works on new browsers, code has been validated with W3C.
Pluto
Pluto can be used as a video portfolio site, video blog, corporate or creative template. Additional pages can be easily created with the existing elements, there are 10 predefined pages already created. Whether you‘re displaying on desktops, tablet, mobiles, your work, your images, your products will always look the same!
Arigato
Arigato is a great business theme with a fully mobile friendly and responsive design. Not just in theory, actually tested, tweaked, and perfected on iOS and Android with a custom mobile layout built just for them. 200+ Shortcodes with abilities to do everything from control the home page banners to adding testimonial quotes, contact forms, multi-media galleries, columns/custom layouts, videos, google maps, and so much more.
This Way
This Way is designed with HTML5 & CSS3. Features include: fullscreen image & fullscreen video background with audio support. This theme has really great navigation and that full screen video is full of impact!
Video Pro
VideoPro is a feature-rich theme that can be used for video sites, news & magazine sites or any type of sites that you can imagine.
Crema
Crema is a video ready, multifunctional and rich featured template. The widgetized mainpage let’s you populate the frontpage however you like. Use our custom widgets to create a video, blog or business page! This almost unbelievably simple and dynamic wordpress video theme is cram packed with the best choice tools that make it very simple to build a new WP site very quickly!
Wentasi
Wentasi is an amazing Tumblr style WordPress theme with special video post types to make your blog stand out from the crowd.
Chapter Two
Chapter Two is a multi-purpose responsive WordPress theme, suitable for personal or corporate projects. I personally think it’s best suited for a video blog or for posting any kind of video or film project. It comes packed with 6 pixel-perfect-designed skins, 5 custom post types and a lot of widgets and shortcodes, so you can display your content nicely and easily.
