People love the feeling of nostalgia which appears every time you see some retro fonts, washed out colors and black and white pictures. A lot of designers like to combine old and new: they are brave enough to incorporate old school style into their designs. Old-fashioned retro WordPress themes are trendy these days featuring design elements from 50s and 60s. Weathered illustrations as well as the lovely badges, ribbons and shield shapes are also used to achieve a classic vintage design.
Retro WordPress themes features a timeless feel and modern functionality which is the perfect combination. In this showcase we put together 30 retro WordPress themes both free and paid which would be a perfect solution for hipsters. You can create a blog, business website, portfolio, cookbook or any other type of website using these themes.
Top 10 Retro WordPress Themes
Hipster – Hipster is a vintage-inspired WordPress theme with interactive content. You can choose from 30 background textures, multiple background images and two website layouts to customize the theme. It can be used for personal portfolios or as a creative agency website. It also supports WooCommerce.
Retro Portfolio – This is a single-page website theme with flat graphics and retro-styled design elements, such as typography, ribbons and banners. The theme has five sections: Home, About, Portfolio, Blog and Contact form. Retro portfolio presents endless possibilities for customization and showcasing various types of content.
Borderland – Borderland is a developer-friendly, creative, modern, bold, innovative, cutting-edge, multipurpose WordPress theme. Its powerful admin panel allows customization of the theme with various website layouts from one-page website to horizontal scrolling. It also features sophisticated use of parallax static image, video background and scrolling effects.
Retro – This amazing theme has strong retro feel and powerful admin panel. You can control every pixel of your theme: color schemes, fonts, backgrounds, images and add functionality with WordPress plugins. Retro also incorporates other useful features such as extensive font options, custom portfolio & testimonials post types, various shortcodes, custom widgets and a lot more!
Extinct – This theme incorporates washed colors, grunge textures and old-style fonts to replicate the vintage look. It can be used by creative agencies or for any kind of business. The theme comes with creative slider to add great visual effects to the page. Extinct is fully responsive theme, so you have no worries about the device your visitors use to visit your site.
Fox – Fox is a vintage-inspired WordPress theme with vivid background and images. It was created to showcase creative work. It integrates with Dribbble to display your latest projects. It has Work, Blog, Contact and even Purchase pages to sell your work. It will be a perfect fit for illustrators, graphic designers or photographers.
Delimondo – This one is for restaurants or food bloggers. You can choose one of five different website layouts: Seafresh, Cupcakeheaven, Amici & Pizza, Black Angus and Le Canard all made in vintage style. It comes with powerful shortcodes to make theme customization really easy. Also the theme has custom widgets, various color and font options, dynamic sliders, blog section and more.
Monaco – Monaco is an all-inclusive, stylish, thoughtfully crafted responsive WordPress vintage theme. It was developed with care and attention to detail. You can choose one of 17 website layouts to fit your business needs. It also has an integrated Visual Composer page builder and Revolution Slider premium plugin, as well as native WooCommerce integration.
PN – PN is a vibrant, colorful, elegant, well structured and highly responsive WordPress portfolio and agency website theme. It features unique design with creative parallax scrolling, Awesome Icon Fonts and vintage-style Creative Slider, as well as dozens of very interesting little details like staff blurb images and other expansive shortcodes.
Cabin – Cabin is an amazing clean minimalistic vintage-inspired WordPress theme with responsive design. You can choose from 9 different demos, such as blog, shop, left menu, grid, regular, frame, and split slider to satisfy your needs. The theme is further customizable with over 40 shortcodes, code-free color changes of elements or fonts.
More Retro WordPress Themes
If the 10 themes above didn’t do it for you, then here are 30 more themes, some paid, some free, for you to choose from. Do check out the demo and head to the source if you would like to download or purchase any fo the themes.
Pure Retro Portfolio [Demo – $44]
TimeTurner – [Demo – Download]
