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- The Retailer – Retina Responsive WooCommerce Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
- Flexform- Responsive Multipurpose Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
- Metropix – Responsive Multipurpose WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
- Nimble – Multipurpose Retina Ready WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
- Souffle – Responsive Retina Multipurpose Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
- Apartment – Responsive Retina Ready WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
- Avada – Responsive Multipurpose Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
- Unicorn Multipurpose Retina Ready WP Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
- Purity – Clean Minimal Bold WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
- Thumb WordPress Theme – Responsive Retina Ready – MORE INFO / DEMO
- Supreme – Retina responsive Magazine blog WP Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
- Identify – Retina Ready Portfolio Resume Blog – MORE INFO / DEMO
- iBusiness – Retina Responsive Multipurpose Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
- Kolor – Responsive Business and Portfolio Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
- Alterna – Retina Responsive Multipurpose WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
- The Grid – Retina Ready One – page WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
- One Touch – Multifunctional Metro Stylish Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
- Super Grid Retina Ready Portfolio Blog – MORE INFO / DEMO
- Snapcase – Responsive WordPress Photoblog Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
- !Lespaul – Retina Responsive WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
- Pocket WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
- Kaleidoscope – Multipurpose Responsive Retina Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
- Forte – Multipurpose WP Theme eCommerce Ready – MORE INFO / DEMO
- Velo – A Fresh Retina Ready And Responsive Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
- Eagle Logistics Retina Ready WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
- Proxy – One Page Responsive WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
- Coco _ Clean Minimal Portfolio Blog Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
- Simplicity – eCommerce WordPress Theme Responsive – MORE INFO / DEMO
- Max Mag Responsive WordPress Magazine Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
- Hipster: Retro Responsive WordPress Theme MORE INFO / DEMO
- Journal – Responsive Readable WordPress Blog Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
- Avamys – Retina Ready Business WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Retina ready WordPress themes have been optimized to support the high quality and crisp graphics on retina screens. Not sure, what this is all about and if you should care then read on?
The WordPress community have picked up the challenge from the growing amount of mobile users and with great results. Today most new WordPress themes have responsive layouts and effectively adapt to the smaller screens of mobile devices. With the arrival of the Apple Retina screens, however, we have seen another trend – the release of WordPress Retina Ready themes that serve retina quality graphics to users with Retina Screens.
The number of users with retina-enabled devices may have been small in the beginning, but with Apples success on the tablet market there is a huge group of internet users sitting with retina screens in front of them browsing the Internet. Add to this the users with iPhone and Macbook Pros with retina screens.
In order to give your users the optimal experience you need to prepare your website and make it serve retina graphics. This is done by giving images double size and scaling them down when displaying them on the web pages. For more information on this, you may want to check out retina.js that is an open source script that makes it easy to serve high-resolution images to devices with retina displays. I also recomment you check this tutorial on creating retina graphics.
In this article, I have collected more than 30 retina ready WordPress themes you can use to serve mobile visitors with retina screens an exceptional visual experience. Check out the demos on e.g. an iPad to see the Retina effect.
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The Retailer – Retina Responsive WooCommerce Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
The Retailer is Responsive, Retina Ready WordPress theme, shop theme build forWooCommerce 2.0+ and WordPress. The theme includes everything you need to start your online store right away.
Flexform- Responsive Multipurpose Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Flexform is the ultimate multi-purpose WordPress retina theme. It’s super responsive, retina ready, and built upon the 1170px Twitter Bootstrap framework. Featuring a clean, modern, and superbly slick design, packed with the most powerful Swift Framework which offers limitless possibilities.
Metropix – Responsive Multipurpose WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Metropix is a great multipurpose retina WordPress theme with a clean metro design. The theme’s beautiful layout and stunning galleries make it perfect for a variety of sites including blogs, portfolios, business, corporate and more.
Nimble – Multipurpose Retina Ready WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Nimble is a great multipurpose theme that is multi- language and translation ready it has a full support for WordPress 3.5.1. No Need to install any plugins because the retina images are out of the box.
Souffle – Responsive Retina Multipurpose Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Soufflé is a powerful and highly customizable theme inspired by Android Holo Interface for all kinds of business, portfolio or blog purposes.Soufflé has a tons of awesome features it is Fully Responsive Liquid Layout: mobile, tablet and desktops tested on iPhone, iPad and Android, Retina Display Support , WooCommerce 2.0.4 Support, Full WPML Support, Dark & Light Themes + 10 predefined primary color skins,LESS Powered CSS and Different primary color for each page.
Apartment – Responsive Retina Ready WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Apartment is a clean and responsive design with premium sliders and easy to use theme options. It has easy to use admin panel that have access to more than 500+ Google fonts and unlimited colors. With slider revolution plugin that lets you create your own animated slides and with advanced wordpress development.
Avada – Responsive Multipurpose Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Avada is so clean, super flexible and has a fully responsive design! This Retina Ready WordPress theme sets the new standard with endless possibilities! Avada is very intuitive to use and completely ready to operate out of the box. Built with HTML5 & CSS3, a lot of thought and care went into this theme making it a pleasure to use. Avada gives you an awesome tool to get your website noticed! The clean design can be used for any type of website; business, corporate, portfolio, blog and products.
Unicorn Multipurpose Retina Ready WP Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Unicorn is a minimalist design done the right way with a unique multipurpose theme that is fully responsive, retina-ready and optimized for mobile devices; with beautiful minimalist design, impressive set of features and power to customize every aspect of its layout and appearance.
Purity – Clean Minimal Bold WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Purity is a Clean, Minimal and Responsive WordPress Theme with a ‘BOLD’ feel that can be easily used as a personal portfolio or a business website. With an Extensive Documentation and aDemo Content it’s a matter of minutes to set your page up.
Thumb WordPress Theme – Responsive Retina Ready – MORE INFO / DEMO
Thumb is a advanced blog Theme. Easy to setup, enhanced with Massive Panel, Visual Composer and custom shortcode wizard. This combination makes creating content extremely easy.
Supreme – Retina responsive Magazine blog WP Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Supreme is a revolutionary Retina Responsive Magazine/Blog WordPress theme. Clean, modern, and crystal clear graphics. Featuring the incredible Swift Page Builder, you can now create and manage content the way you want, with ease.
Identify – Retina Ready Portfolio Resume Blog – MORE INFO / DEMO
Identify is a theme perfect for professionals who want showcase their work, such as designers and developers. The beautiful ajax powered portfolio is great to show your most important work to your visitors.
iBusiness – Retina Responsive Multipurpose Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
iBusiness is a responsive WordPress Theme (try resizing your browser), suited for business websites and users who want to showcase their work on a neat portfolio site. The Theme is built with KODDE Framework V2 with a lot of new options and Page Builder V2 with drag and drop and resizable blocks.
Kolor – Responsive Business and Portfolio Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Kolor theme is a responsive business and portfolio wordpress theme designed with the latest web standards (HTML5 and CSS3 ) and designed to work with any device, it fits perfectly on three types of devices: Smartphones (normal & landscape) , Tables and Normal Screens.
Alterna – Retina Responsive Multipurpose WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Alterna is an retina-ready, fully responsive Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme.Alterna gives you an awesome premium theme to create your website for any type of website; business, corporate, portfolio, blog, products, magazine, shop and many more. Alterna also Integrate WooCommerce, WPML,Facebook Page etc… Alterna includes 2 Premium WP Slider : Layer Slider (3D & 2D transitions Slider new features) , Revolution Slider , premium isotope and has a lot of awesome features.
The Grid – Retina Ready One – page WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
The Grid is a one page fully responsive wordpress theme.Easy to use with a drag and drop page builder it also uses built in wordpress customizer for secure fast theme customizations perfect for any type of website you’d like to create.
One Touch – Multifunctional Metro Stylish Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
The fast, easy, light template will decorate almost any site on WordPress. The structure of this template such is what it perfectly will be suitable for all, from the entertaining blog to a serious corporate site. Styles are included in a template for WooCommerce so you will be able to create without problems the catalog with shop on your site.
Super Grid Retina Ready Portfolio Blog – MORE INFO / DEMO
Super Grid is a retina ready, fully responsive, unique, grid-based, minimal, layout-shuffling WordPress to showcase your work. It can be used as either a Portfolio or a blog or both! It is a unique theme filled with many features that will make your work stand out from the rest.The unique Pinterest style layout is perfect for showcasing your work.Whether you are a photographer, graphic designer, a blogger, or you just want to share the things you love with the world, this is the perfect theme for you!.
Snapcase – Responsive WordPress Photoblog Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Snapcase is a WordPress theme built for images and captions. Choose a photo, write a caption, and Snapcase will display in an awesome typographic display. Whether your a professional photographer or an enthusiast, Snapcase can display your photos and captions beautifully. And another perk – Snapcase is both responsive and Retina Display ready. Your iPad has never looked so cool.
!Lespaul – Retina Responsive WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
!LesPaul is multipurpose, modern, elegant, super flexible, Retina-ready responsive WordPress theme which offers great scalability to fit your needs. The theme gives you streamlined user-friendly admin interface using much less screen real estate than in any other theme working with !LesPaul is simply pleasure. Well thought, designed and coded, the theme will respond to your content immediately. Built for future and using modern, SEO optimized HTML5 & CSS3!
Pocket WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Pocket is a super simple, photo blog-style WordPress theme for sharing your images, videos, articles, quotes and more. Use it as a personal blog or a minimal portfolio to show off your latest works. Pocket is responsive, all the way down to mobile. Images, videos and text will scale down gracefully to iPad, iPhone and all devices in-between. This theme looks just as great in your pocket as it does on the desktop.
Kaleidoscope – Multipurpose Responsive Retina Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Kaleidoscope is a minimalist fully responsive WordPress theme with beautiful, strong typography along with delicate, colourful graphic elements that will make your content stand out and keep your visitors happy.The theme was designed with simplicity and flexibility in mind, both for the visitor and also for the editor. We’ve used the latest trends in responsive design using HTML5+CSS3+JavaScript, giving you a lightweight page size and pleasant browsing experience.
Forte – Multipurpose WP Theme eCommerce Ready – MORE INFO / DEMO
Forte is a strong. flexible, all purpose theme with an adaptive layout.With its huge admin panel you can set almost any color of the skin.
Velo – A Fresh Retina Ready And Responsive Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Velo is a slim , colourful wordpress theme. a truly original choice for showcasing your artworks, pictures, videos, illustrations and for telling the world what you want with style , personality and balance.
Eagle Logistics Retina Ready WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Eagle logistics is a fully responsive retina ready worpress theme. A 5 star rated theme support with an extensive documentation and is WordPress 3.5.1 ready.
Proxy – One Page Responsive WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Proxy is a single page WordPress theme for creative teams. Fully responsive from head to footer and retina display ready.It has a widgetized homepage sections that you can edit and re-order with a simple gesture.
Coco _ Clean Minimal Portfolio Blog Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Coco is a clean and minimal portfolio/ blog WordPress theme with amazing features like the following: Ready for WP 3.5.+, Google Fonts, Retina ready, Responsive Design, Custom logo option, Ajax Content Loader , Build-In Social Share and a lot more.
Simplicity – eCommerce WordPress Theme Responsive – MORE INFO / DEMO
This elegant and extremely flexible WordPress theme comes with responsive design, ready for retina and support such eCommerce plugins as: WooCommerce, JigoShop, eCommerce.
Max Mag Responsive WordPress Magazine Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
A feature-rich, professional media and magazine theme. Max Mag is fully-responsive and includes unlimited color schemes, a “sticky” menu bar, a slider on each category page, 5 different ad units, including a wallpaper ad, a drag-and-drop homepage, 14 custom widgets, secondary feature headlines, SEO friendly and so much more!
Hipster: Retro Responsive WordPress Theme MORE INFO / DEMO
Introducing Hipster WordPress, the perfect responsive WordPress theme for any personal or business website . Hipster’s fully responsive design looks great no matter what device you’re viewing it on, desktop, tablet and mobile phones. Customize your site with the extensive options panel using over 30 backgrounds patterns, full screen rotating background images, and 2 page layout styles .Check out the custom mobile menu that was created for small screens! Hipster is full of premium plugins to build your dream website, tons of page layouts, and awesome retro style design.
Journal – Responsive Readable WordPress Blog Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Journal is an ultra-readable and fully responsive WordPress blog/magazine theme. It is a bold, minimal and fully customizable WordPress theme, designed to put emphasis on your content.
Avamys – Retina Ready Business WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Avamys is flexible and retina ready WordPress theme. Thanks to responsive design it looks good on tablets and mobile phones. By default you can choose light or dark style and one of 9 prepared color schemes, but thanks to color pickers you can set up your own colors to the theme. With one click you can change layout style from wide to boxed version and with couple more you can set up your own background. If you want to give page or post it’s own character you can start with title background option. Thanks to this option you can set background color, font color, or choose background image for your page or post title. Theme is very easy to use, set up and customize.
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