Pinterest enables bloggers and marketers to promote content and products with beautiful photos and graphics. It presents these images in neat grids and allows for engagement using saves and comments. Since it’s so successful, you may be looking to replicate this setup on your website.
The good news is there are several Pinterest-style WordPress themes on the market. Using one of these themes, you can display your content in grid-style layouts, create image galleries, and more. For example, if you’re a creative professional, you might showcase your artwork, designs, or photos.
So, let’s look at the best Pinterest-style WordPress themes for your website.
1. MagPlus
If you’re looking for a WordPress theme that almost exactly mimics the design of Pinterest, the MagPlus theme is a good place to start. But first of all, it’s worth mentioning that it’s a multipurpose theme with over 40 demos. Therefore, you need to select the PinPro demo for it to look like that. Once you’ve selected the right demo, you’ll see a beautiful layout with plenty of white space and featured images. The blog posts are shown on the homepage similar to what you would see on Pinterest. You can upload all sorts of media types, such as audio, images, and videos. Each one has its own featured image in the gallery, where your users can then comment on the post, view it or like it. You have the option to have a slide-in menu or a primary one right at the top of the homepage. The logo resides in the middle of the header, with a powerful search bar in the header as well.
As for the design elements, MagPlus provides dozens of website building components, all of which can be placed on your website to generate unique layouts. MagPlus is also extremely lightweight. So, your users shouldn’t have any problems loading up your pages, and your SEO should improve since Google looks favorably on fast websites. The header layouts are flexible as well, allowing for you to move around the logo location, along with items like the menu and advertising space. Several premium plugins are packaged into the MagPlus theme, so you don’t have to pay a dime for them. For instance, the Visual Composer plugin is there for you to drag and drop design elements onto your website. There are also some unique free plugins like Viral Quiz, Social Jumbo Pack, and Yellow Pencil Pro. Along with some exclusive widgets and a wide variety of post formats, MagPlus is one of the more flexible Pinterest-style themes you can go with.
2. Tamashi
If you want to create an online portfolio or simply wish to share exciting things you’ve found around the Internet, the Tamashi theme is an excellent choice. This Pinterest style WordPress theme is a fantastic way to display visual media. Its minimal design never detract from your content; rather, it supports your images and offers a grid-style layout that will serve any niche well.
A few features this theme comes with include full screen sections, split sliders, horizontal scrolling, e-commerce compatibility, blog templates, and more. It’s also stocked with a few sidebar options, dropdown menus, color and font choices, and a multitude of portfolio options and styles — way too many to list out here. Custom widget areas, custom header and footer sections, shortcode support, and dark and light logo options round out the robust feature set offered here. Tamashi is a WordPress theme that can be used for any number of types of websites and that’s what makes it all the more compelling.
3. Atmosphere
The Atomosphere WordPress theme is another option for displaying your content in a Pinterest style. This theme was made with creatives in mind and uses a grid-style layout for organizing posts, galleries, and more. You can use it for a portfolio, a creative agency, or even as a blog. Photographers, designers, and other visual artists would make the best use out of this theme but anyone whose site requires a focus on images could benefit here.
This theme comes with 20 different portfolio elements, a split slider, a fullscreen showcase, gallery options, header options, and more. You can select from a variety of layouts as well including Pinterest, carousel, and masonry. Once you’re done with your customizations, Atmosphere lends itself to creating a website that’s visually engaging, immersive, and effective as a face for you or your company.
4. Pinshop
Pinshop is an ecommerce theme that is inspired by the Pinterest site and the popular Pinboard theme. With a modern infinite-scrolling design and flat-style design, users will love the experience this theme provides. The theme also includes WooCommerce integration, customizable shop pages, a customizable product slider, custom navigation, social media icons, animated “top” button and 10 theme skins.
5. SuperGrid
SuperGrid is a responsive grid theme with a minimal design that keeps the focus on content. Features include an in-grid ad widget areas, flyout navigation, infinite scroll, easy logo upload, page templates and plenty of color options. The theme also comes with SEO tools, commenting and three page templates (sitemap, full-width and commenting).
6. Pin
The Pin theme is a top-notch solution with a beautiful Pinterest style, making it look similar to a magazine or social network. When a user lands on the page they can either edit, create, view or delete the posts. Therefore, it’s mainly a place for users to make frontend decisions and share their own internet discoveries with other people. The theme provides a social login module which we like for getting your users logged into the site within seconds. There’s also a full frontend submission tool, speeding up the process for those who have new content to share. The one-click demo installation comes in handy for developers, and the unlimited sidebars are essential for designers with organization on their minds.
The Pin WordPress theme offers a live search, meaning suggestions and useful information come down whenever a user punches in a keyword or half of a word. The live search moves people through your site in a more efficient manner, and the tags and filters combine with this for an impressive navigation system. We already talked about sidebars, but it’s also worth mentioning the 13 custom widgets. These are super easy to implement, and they provide functionality for everything from social media to content creation.
One of the final features we enjoy is the review system. The system not only has rich snippets for better search engine results, but it allows you to make money with your own little ads on the review pages. Overall, reviews and ratings can be written and displayed by you, and the widgets then aggregate reviews to make nice lists for people to stumble upon. For example, one of the widgets is for all of the latest reviews. Along with unlimited colors, Disqus comments and more, the Pin WordPress theme looks great.
7. KLEO
Here’s another theme worth checking out. KLEO is a WordPress that’s designed specifically for BuddyPress, meaning you can use it to build a community or social networking site. It comes with a ton of demos that you can install with a single-click. This means you can get your site up and running much faster than you would if you have to construct a site from scratch. Code is clean and lean, so your site will load quickly and perform well. It includes a one-page option, sidebars, custom menus, an AJAX search option.
Another great thing about this theme that it works straight out the gate with the Paid Membership Pro plugin. It also has multiple blog layouts, post formats, custom post types, social sharing options, retina support, multiple header styles, and more. It also supports 600 Google fonts, icon fonts, and it includes multiple widget areas, and custom tabs.
8. Kanna
The Kanna WordPress theme is another Pinterest-style theme that could be used for a wide number of purposes. Really, you could use it for an online shop, a portfolio, a creative agency, a blog, a photography site and really anything else you can think of that requires a minimal, elegant design. This theme comes with 15 different homepage designs to choose from, tons of inner page templates, as well as blog, portfolio, and online store layouts.
The color palette is gorgeous and would suit a wedding or nature-inspired site well. You also have a number of typography options that further emphasize that elegant-inspired look. A few other features worth noting includes vertical slider, a vCard, and a multitude of portfolio layout options so you’re certain to be able to create a site layout — as well as a content layout — that always best suits your needs. Kanna is a gorgeous theme and while you can certainly customize it, you can also use it “out of the box,” as it were. A stunning choice.
