WordPress Video Themes, Multimedia, vLog, Embedded or Self Hosted
No matter whether you’re embedding videos in your site or self hosting them, WordPress is the ideal solution for creating a website with engaging video content. That’s what we’ve kept in mind when looking for video WordPress themes.
If you want to show off videos on your website, you’re in the absolute right place.
There are so many options for creating video these days, nearly every handheld device is practically a little movie studio in your pocket. With cheap data plans, high quality built in cameras and more, more and more people are making and viewing multimedia content every day. Why not get in on the action?
Video is King!
So, okay, here we go, a list of the absolute best WordPress video themes we could find.
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. For just $89 a year, you get access to all of Elegant Themes offerings. That’s great if you’re a developer but even if you aren’t, it’s a pretty solid deal for the amount of flexibility you get, the help if you run into troubles and the documentation.
Divi is a real powerhouse and maybe the only theme you ever need to buy. Truly Multipurpose, truly flexible, truly powerful.
This theme is simple to use, flexible, dynamic, powerful and modern for any variety of entertainment blog, video tutorial site, magazine, video blog or video sharing page. You can totally embed your clips from place like Daily Motion, Vimeo, Hulu or Youtube or self host your videos. This theme has many remarkable advantages you’ll enjoy, like great support and documentation, powerful theme customization options, premium plugin support, front end video submission and multiple beautiful, responsive layouts. Love it!
Create
If you want to display videos with style, you should consider Theme Trust’s Create theme. This one is really well designed, offers tons of features that help you display your video or other posts, making each one look amazing. You can embed videos from popular video hosting sites like Daily Motion, Vimeo or YouTube. Even host clips yourself if you want to take complete control over advertising. Create has a bunch of features that aren’t specific to a video portfolio or video blog site too. Portfolios, WooCommerce integration, multiple header and blog layouts, unlimited widgets, custom colors, contact forms, Slider Revolution and much, much more. This is a premium theme for sure. With Create, you also get a free page builder from Site Origin. It’s really simple to use and allows for maximum flexibility in creating new and different layouts for your site.
Wrap
Wrap is a video blog or vlog, it’s a pretty strong option for any sort of video blogging enterprise. Tesla Themes made Wrap to be a perfect solution for a video magazine or video blog, whether you’re showing upcoming movie trailers, funny and viral videos, video journalism and any other video content. With Wrap, there are three different homepage layouts, a multitude of content delivery features. You can even allow for submissions from your readers and viewers, which can really help your content grow and grow. This theme offers full screen and boxed layouts, it’s responsive and retina ready, supports Google fonts, HTML5 videos and it was built with the latest version of Bootstrap for fast loading and incredible stability.
Benson
This is Benson, from CSS Igniter, it’s a fantastic theme for highlighting your video content. Whether you want to promote video, multimedia or images, the layout and design of Benson makes it possible, full screen ‘hero’ areas make a great way to add videos that really can engage your viewers, giving a highly polished and professional appearance. Benson allows for complete color and font control, there are loads of custom widgets to help add more functionality for social networking, among other things and Benson’s drag and drop page builder means your home page can look precisely the way you want it to look, since you simply drag and drop content modules where you want them to be. No coding skills required. Page options, header styles, extensions and plugins, it’s all there and CSS Igniter is known for amazing support, so you’ll never have issues customizing your site and getting it up and running with little effort.1
Adventure
This is Adventure, by Organic Themes, it’s a full featured WordPress travel blog theme that also allows you to showcase video and multimedia files in a professional and fun way. If you’re building a site for travel videos, this is a perfect choice, but Adventure is flexible enough to work for almost any sort of website. Adventure is totally responsive, it’s retina ready and responsive too, which means it will allow you to show your videos perfectly on all devices and all browsers, no matter what. That’s critical for all WordPress video themes.
That’s pretty much a prerequisite for a video site in today’s internet. But Adventure isn’t just about travel videos, it could be great for video portfolios, tutorials, viral videos and more. Adventure even allows you to set up an eCommerce store to sell products. That’s a high level of flexibility and one reason I recommend this theme. Custom headers, multiple sidebars, multiple column layouts, featured videos, the checklist of features goes on and on. Also, I should note that Organic Themes does a fantastic job with documentation and support, including one click demo data.
Reel Story
This is Reel Story, a premium WordPress video theme that was created for videographers, cinematographers and other video makers who want to publish their content in an attractive and stylish way. Reel Story is perfectly responsive, so your posts and pages look amazing on each and every device. Reel Story allows for a wide range of customization too, with almost infinite color and font choices, making your site very appealing for your visitors, whether you’re embedding videos or self hosting them.
Wright
Wright is an amazing, simple and clean WordPress minimalist video portfolio from Made by Minimal. I really love the simple, crystal clear layout and I think you will too. No matter whether your video and multimedia files are self hosted or embedded from a site like YouTube or Vimeo, Wright is built to make your content look incredible. With a responsive layout, your site will look great even on a mobile device, which is growing in importance every day. Creative sites like Wright really help to accentuate your multimedia and make it look as good as it can. As always with Made by Minimal, the documentation and support are first rate. Buy with confidence!
Viseo
Viseo is different from some of the other video themes on this list, because it’s specifically made for podcasts and other news and informational videos. Viseo is really made for creating and promoting serial podcasts, no matter what the subject matter. Want to sell subscriptions for serial podcasts with a built in eCommerce system for subscribers? That’s what Viseo is all about. Host your video locally and it’ll look amazing on any sort of device, thanks to Viseo’s responsive design. Viseo has a drag and drop page builder for the ultimate in design flexibility, a premium slider for slideshows on any page, responsive design so it looks outstanding on all sorts of devices, there are mega menus, sticky headers, contact form support, unlimited colors and typography, and of course there’s a premium audio and video player included and plenty more.
The Motion
To build a great site for a video blog, for giving away or selling tutorials, for online video lessons and learning systems and other multimedia uses, you will want a theme that can really make your videos look great. That’s what Themotion is all about, showcasing your video work. It’s simple, it’s elegant and it does an amazing job of highlighting your videos. For any video portfolio or vLog site, you will want a responsive design, which is definitely the case for TheMotion. This theme is also WooCommerce ready, so if you’d like to set up a shop selling any kinds of products, whether it’s tutorials or merchandise, TheMotion can handle the job with style and grace. TheMotion is well reviewed too and a large part of that is that Theme Isle is so good at supporting their products. If you run into problems, they’re fast and friendly in my experience.
Wall Street
This is Wall Street and it’s a responsive WordPress business theme with the capability to showcase your video content with a modern style and it’s got plenty of features to to make your site really shine. Wall Street is simple to customize, whether it’s the custom background, text, logo, headers and text, you can add slideshows with unlimited images or videos, add custom widget areas for subscription forms, text blocks and more and with the post format types, you can easily add images, galleries, quotes, links, audio and, most importantly, video content. Graph Paper press has you covered with automatic, lifetime updates, detailed help files and more. I think Wall Street is a really high quality theme that you should absolutely consider.
Vignette
For a dynamic presentation of video or images, Vignette is a great choice. Thanks to it’s powerful, user friendly design and long features list, Vignette was designed with video and multimedia in mind, yet it can work perfectly well as a blog and portfolio for written content and still photos too. There are several widgetized areas on the front page to allow for custom page designs too, as well as a generally flexible layout for all your posts and pages. Speaking of posts, Vignette offers multiple custom post types for even more specific design possibilities.
Vignette is simple to use and customize, it gives a great user experience. I really like themes with a live customizer option and Vignette offers that. It’s great to help you make changes and see what your site will look like before you commit to any change. You have complete control over the look features and feel of your site and this totally responsive, SEO friendly site has great support, thanks to the tireless efforts of CSS Igniter. They’re really all about helping their customers.
Bramble
Looking for a great WordPress theme that uses the power of background videos to make for the best possible user experience? Thenm have a look at Bramble, from ThemeTrust. This theme has it all.
Bramble is a wonderful alternative for a portfolio web template, but additionally an also be used for a vast array of uses, since it uses the Site Origin Page Builder plugin to make for the maximum amount of control over your website’s style and feel. That’s what a drag and drop theme is all about. Bramble is amazing, it is easy to use, it’s powerful and professional too.
WordPress is all about being user friendly on both the front and back end, and the Bramble theme is true to form, you have the absolute maximum control over layouts, plugins, styles, add-ons and much more. Bramble is perfectly suited as a portfolio template, even though it may also be a fantastic blog site also. With one click demo information import, Slider Revolution, a year of free support and upgrades, pure purely responsive design and multiple optional designs, Bramble is a superb selection for your next website.
Video Touch
Video Touch is a great looking viral video and magazine theme for WordPress, allosing for front end submissions so viewers can actually submit their own content to your site. Video Touch lets your site use any type of multimedia or video source around, including self embedded videos, Vimeo, Dauly Motion and the most popular video site, YouTube. It’s a really solid amount of flexibility that Video Touch gives you that I find so impressive. With the Video Touch theme, you get a great looking grid style layout that is clean and well organized, simple to navigate and visually appealing. There are a lot of features that make Video Touch one of the finest video submission themes around and since it’s responsive, this template works great on all sites. Considering how muh video content is shared on handheld devices, it’s critical that you pick a responsive, fluid site and with the simplicity of use on both front and back end, I think it’s a tremendous theme for all video sites.
The Core – Video
This is The Core, by Theme Fuse, a premium quality, multi-purpose WordPress theme with a fantastic looking video portfolio option, great for showcasing and promoting your videos. The core is sharply designed, great looking and well coded for perfect browsing experience and a great user experience on the back-end too. With a visual page builder, you’ll join the over 150,000 users who find it easy to customize this responsive, WooCommerce ready theme and as always, the support given by Theme Fuse is absolutely top notch. Quite simply, this is among the most versatile and simple to use of all the themes we’ve reviewed so far.
Struct
Struct is a WordPress Theme that is especially designed to contain multimedia content without sacrificing navigation and page load speeds. Its responsive design helps it adapt to different screen displays and platforms. The theme’s clean and professional design further makes it suitable for websites offering software as a service, and similar mobile or tech businesses.
The Struct WordPress Theme also boasts of design flexibility. It has an easy-to-use drag and drop page builder, so creating pages from scratch is not an issue. It is also compatible with several page builders that can be easily synced so data and style updates can be quickly incorporated into the theme. Designers are also given access to a Theme Customizer which allows infinite color schemes, with over 100 settings. Background images and logos may also be uploaded.
Content management is likewise hassle-free with Struct. The theme already has five custom content types to choose from, and also allows the display of client testimonials and slideshows. Further, custom widgets like contact maps, scheduling, and social media are also integrated into the theme.
Other notable features of the Struct WordPress Theme are its retina ready and translation ready settings. It is also optimized for speed and search engine optimization.
Webly
Webly is a classicly designed portfolio theme for videos, brought to you by the original WordPress experts, Elegant Themes. They’re the leading developer of WordPress themes for a reason, great design, fantastic support and a wide range of stylish options. Elegant Themes offers perpetual code updates, so this theme will never go out of style. They also offer guaranteed browser compatibility, localization, custom color schemes and more. Webly has a charming design, full of elemens that help separate it from the others. It’s fun, the multimedia alider really helps show off your videos and we think you’re going to love it. This theme gives you a great deal of remarkable options including multiple layout variations, a great responsive design, fantastic support, powerful theme options and front end user posting. This multimedia theme is modern, flexible, dynamic, simple to use and powerful for any kind of entertainment blog, video blog, video tutorial site, magazine or video sharing page.
Oscillator
For disc jockeys, bands, nightclubs and others in the music industry, a great website could be the key to running a very successful business. Oscillator is a theme that is all about music, so you’ve got a perfect match no matter what aspect of the music business you’re into. Oscillator is also a great theme for showcasing videos, whether they’re embedded or self hosted. I’ve seen some great examples of sites using oscillator, from night clubs to dance halls, music groups to stage play production companies. The end result is always a clear, professional website that can’t help but get attention from every viewer or reader.
There are six basic custom post types included, a streaming audio player for building a track list so you can create your very own online radio station. With a unique design, tons of great widgets to add even more content and the flexibility of a drag-and-drop page builder, Oscillator gives you a ton of advantages that can help make your site a great one with incredible user experience all around.
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.
Moview
This video and movie centered theme, called MovieW, offers a pile of fabulous options like powerful theme customization, great support and intricate documentation, multiple beautiful, responsive layouts, front end video submission and premium plugin support. MovieW is like any of the high powered video database themes in this collection, it’s simply one of the best. This theme is sleek, flexible, feature filled, gorgeous and unique for any kind of news or entertainment site, tutorials website, video journal, video news magazine or Vblog. MovieW allows you to create a site similar to IMDB or Rotten Tomatoes, with reviews and ratings system, you can swiftly create a database of films. Pretty cool. You can totally embed your clips from the biggest sites like Netflix, Daily Motion, Youtube, Vimeo or Hulu or even host your own videos. This WordPress video newspaper, magazine, periodical, journal or blog theme is engaging, modern, beautiful, easy to use and well designed because it is powerful, well designed, modern, professional and bug free. The design is elegant, sleek, fashionable, crisp and modern and it has many amazing features, among them the ability to make a database of recent DVD releases, theatrical releases, Blu-Ray movies as well as catalog TV shows with reviews.
VLog
Vlog is a powerful and well crafted portfolio theme for your videos. Whether you’re self hosting your own video files, or using a service like Vimeo, Twitch, Daily Motion or YouTube, Vlog is a wonderful theme that has what it takes to be a perfect portfolio page for your work. You can built a personal video blog, a complicated magazine based around video clips and more. Building a website with a lot of tutorials? They’re going to look incredible on Vlog, displayed in a very unique and pleasing way that’s simple to set up and even easier to use for both front and back end users. How about sharing your viral videos or maybe even humor videos? They’ll look great too, because Vlog is such a perfect solution for your video blogging needs. Your content has never looked better.
What are some of the features of Vlog? You can organize your videos into distinct playlists, thanks to the incredible ‘Series’ plugin. For multi-part content like video podcasts or tutorials, it’s an ideal way to keep things organized. This theme automatically detects thumbnails too, so you won’t need to upload a separate thumbnail for every video clip you post. There’s a ‘watch later’ mode and a cinema mode, for distraction free viewing. Over two hundred post layout combinations make Vlog a fantastically flexible design too. But it’s not so bulky that Vlog doesn’t load and run incredibly fast, this theme is perfectly optimized for speed and that helps rank higher, helping you build your traffic.
VideoGo
When your magazine concentrates on having a lot of great, high quality video content, you need a magazine theme that really helps accentuate that content. VideoGo is one such magazine theme. VideoGo is the ideal WordPress multimedia newspaper, blog, magazine, periodical or journal theme. It’s beautiful, modern, well designed, easy to use and engaging because it is clean, fresh, feature filled, strong and well made from the design to the code to the tech support and everything else in between.
The design is modern, fashionable, sleek, crisp and elegant and it has many great features, like Visual Composer for page building, Mega Menu for easy navigation, multiple blog and post format layouts to ensure that your content is framed the way it needs to be framed, no matter what the subject matter. This WordPress video theme is well organized, well coded, very beautiful, very powerful and well designed for any sort of tutorials website, news or entertainment site, video news magazine, video journal or Vlog. Another cool feature is that you can set up a different layout for each and every type of page or post. Pretty flexible. You have the ability to embed your clips from all the big sites like Daily Motion, Vimeo, Youtube or Hulu or host your own video files. You’ll have a lot of terrific functions you’ll love, like powerful theme customization options, great support and documentation, front end video submission, premium plugin support and multiple beautiful, responsive layouts. Give VideoGo a shot, you won’t be disappointed.
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.
Viduze
This is Viduze, a well built, well styled, simple to navigate and easy to customize video magazine theme for WordPress. Any kind of journal, magazine, newspaper or blog will look great with Viduze. This theme is really easy to use, well designed, it has clean code, it’s modern, engaging and beautiful. How can one theme do all that? Well, it’s fresh, strong, clean, well made and feature filled, that’s how. Features like iFrame support, WooCommerce and more. The responsive design of Viduze is very trendy, the features on the back end are simple to use, it’s a cool, refreshing and easy way to display any sort of multimedia content. The navigation is very straightforward and the list of features is comprehensive.
This theme offers you a great deal of fabulous options you’ll enjoy, like multiple responsive layouts, SEO optimization, great documentation and fantastic support, featured, popular and recent videos, multiple colors and fonts and powerful, flexible theme options that let you make this site your own, separating it from other sites that might be using the same theme. Viduze theme is sleek, unique, BuddyPress ready, it’s flexible and gorgeous for any sort of video blog, magazine, video sharing page, video tutorial site or entertainment blog. You really can build an entire social network around the videos on your site, whether it’s gaming, movies, music videos, sports highlights…you name it. Viduze allows you to embed clips from all of the major sites like Hulu, Vimeo, Youtube or Daily Motion or host your own videos.
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