Category: Design, WordPress Themes Sets

15 Great Examples of Cloned WordPress Themes

Cloning popular websites into WordPress Themes has become a popular phenomenon. Possible that this is due that many are interested in such type of themes. Everyday you can see a lot of requests on different forums like: “I want a WordPress Theme like this site …”, and which led to the specialization of some WordPress Market Places, such as StyleWP, which are dedicated in creating WordPress Themes inspired by popular websites.

If you know any other examples of Cloned WordPress Themes, please leave a comment! I will be very thankful!

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57 Comments

Furkan February 1

This list have great looking. I think, people uses this themes more than old. Because they saw this list.. :)
Laura February 1

Haha, the funny thing being that a lot of the themes are better designed than the original!
Apple Mac February 1

Those are really clever. Some of them are pretty good clones, I doubt they would be good blog platforms mind.
nicky February 1

creating copy of another is too hard then making new one ….

nice design done by them..
David February 1

I think this is copyright infringement issue. Imagine if you buy such a theme and then get a multimillion lawsuit from the original copyright owner.

Too bad these themes providers don’t care about their clients.
Greg Johnson February 1

I like to stop by and say hi to those who mention any of the WP CODA templates, so hi :) Obviously it isn’t really a clone, but I get the point.

On another note, the Shade Pro theme should probably be the default WordPress theme. I’m so sick of K2 it hurts.
chris February 1

I am pretty sure that the creattica daily theme is the sharp theme dude, not a clone.
Pavel Ciorici February 1

@chris: Everyone knows this :)
author February 1

it’s unfortunate so many people would rather copy than create their own unique identity.
PJ February 1

Great list. WPSN was an exact clone until EPSN changed their design a few weeks ago.

I remember there were a couple of wp themes which were inspired by the wp 2.5-2.6 admin area.
186 February 1

so let me get this…..you copy a well known theme and then charge 40 bucks for it?

Ok.
Claudio February 2

Great post :)

I see your point. Original design creators must be disapointed to see some of these “lack of inspiration” themes…

but I agree with Laura too, there is a lot of effort in most of them to make it somehow better than original
foo February 3

impressive collections! nice work!
Camillo February 4

Ha! Great themes, but you forgot to mention your theme is a lot similar to the themes of envato network ;)

Anyway great job!
Pavel Ciorici February 4

@Camillo: you’re right! my theme is a modification from a tutorial by Collis Ta’eed. I mentioned about this in footer :)
Aja February 4

tmblg is not tumblr, nor is it a default theme of tumblr. it’s a custom design done by andrew for his own purposes.

just saying.
Pavel Ciorici February 4

@Aja: I know that tmblg is not the default theme of tumblr, but I liked his design very much, that’s why I’m showcased it.

Take a look on the source code of his website, and you’ll understand that this is a tumblr powered website. I also have a FF addons, that automatically shows on what engine is based that site ;)
Birkalem February 5

VPSN looks awesome, thx dude
Sivas February 5

Great, thanks.
Sasa February 5

Nice ;-)
MQ Hidayat February 7

I try to learn cloning theme for wordpress.

I create Babeku WP-Magz inspirated by Eramuslim.com.

But, the theme is still not finished, so, costumize still limited.
Jacob February 11

Even your theme looks like a clone of http://psdtuts.com :P
Derek February 19

WP Max is awesome.

Thanks for the post.
Nitin April 19

There’s this Chrome theme and the Deviant art theme :-)
mistahzee November 23

is there a clone of mtv for wordpres? anyone?
Themen December 12

I wonder if these familiar “cloned” themes have an impact on how long readers stay on the site.

If they stay longer, that would probably have an positive impact on SEO as far as Google is concerned.

Has anyone tested this?
TechThem January 17

well,
i was aware of all themes, except 2 of them.
Nice article.
Nazieb February 1

Apparently, you forgot Smells Like Facebook by me :)
Taufik February 2

@Nazieb: and WordPress said your theme is “An exact clone of Facebook layout”..

LOL