30 Grid-Based WordPress Themes

Grid based layout designs can be very useful for building structured, usable and content rich (not limited to) websites. Grid design certainly has some major benefits for developers (its really easy to to plan where things should go), but its real power lies in what it can do for your readers and users. With a structured grid layout, an everyday user visiting your site can quickly understand and locate the content they want making it very obvious for users to navigate.

In this article we have 30 WordPress themes have been developed with a grid framework. All of the themes have been built using popular CSS Grid Frameworks such as the 960.gs, Blueprint, YUI2 and The Golden Grid. We have also included a couple of WordPress grid frameworks at the bottom of the post which you may find useful.

Grid-A-Licious

Grid-A-Licious

GRID WordPress Theme

GRID WordPress Theme

Tanzaku

Tanzaku

960 Grid System Base Theme

960 Grid System Base Theme

The Columnist

The Columnist

Shaken and Stirred

Shaken and Stirred

FolioGrid

FolioGrid

Newspress – Magazine Theme

Newspress - Magazine Theme

Swiss for WordPress

Swiss for WordPress

ASCII One

ASCII One

Bueno

Bueno

ThemeMeme Aperio Prototype

ThemeMeme Aperio Prototype

Simplicious

Simplicious

Monokrome

Monokrome

AutoFocus

AutoFocus

Oulipo

Oulipo

Miniml Press

Miniml Press

The Daily Grind

The Daily Grind

The Standard

The Standard

Un.complicated

Un.complicated

New York, New York

New York, New York

960bc (Blank Theme)

960bc (Blank Theme)

Modern Clix

Modern Clix

Gridblog

Gridblog

Grid Focus

Grid Focus

Neoclassical

Neoclassical

Thunderbolt

Thunderbolt

WPESP

WPESP

Thematic, A WordPress Theme Framework

Thematic, A WordPress Theme Framework
Thematic is a free, open-source, highly extensible, search-engine optimized WordPress Theme Framework featuring 13 widget-ready areas, grid-based layout samples and styling for popular plugins. It also offers a comprehensive range of free child themes, which you can view by clicking the link below.

Simon WordPress Framework & Blank Theme

Simon WordPress Framework & Blank Theme
The purpose of this theme/framework is to allow you to rapidly build and deploy grid based WordPress driven web sites. Simon flexible and basic two-column layout uses Blueprint Typography Framework and the 960.gs.

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