40+ Best Metro-Style WordPress Themes 2013
Since Microsoft first showcased us the Metro UI on Windows Phone 7, it has picked up a lot of fans.
In the new version of Windows OS, you will find the new Metro-based start screen which is known as the cornerstone of the Windows 8 interface. The best official implementation of Metro UI design available now is that applied on the Xbox 360 dashboard. More and more websites and apps are designed based on Metro UI, while WordPress themes are no exception. Some developers have designed Metro-style WordPress themes, you should have a try if you are running a WordPress blog.
Metro is an internal code name of a typography-based design language created by Microsoft, originally for use in Windows Phone. A key design principle of Metro is better focus on the content of applications, relying more on typography and less on graphics (“content before chrome”). Microsoft has begun integrating this design language into its products, with direct influence being seen in newer versions of Windows Live Messenger, Live Mesh, and Windows 8. – Wikipedia
In this collection, we will display the best Metro inspired WordPress themes, which can help you to create a beauty of Metro-style blog. Hope you will love it!
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1. Metro Rox
Metro Rox is a HTML5 WordPress Metro Multipurpose theme. The fast, easy, light theme will decorate almost any site on wordpress.
2. Metro
Inspired by Windows 8, Metro is a responsive, beautiful, minimal, and colorful theme that is perfect for blog and portfolio sites. Using the Tile custom post type, you can mimic the Metro design by showing various tiles: buttons, gallery sliders, images, maps, and text. Showcase your portfolio with either a single featured image or an image slider. Make your blog interesting by publishing different post formats such as: images, videos, quotes, galleries, links, etc. It comes with 9 different colors based on Windows 8′s Metro that you can apply to all or individually to all blog, Tile, and Portfolio posts.
3. Metropolis
Metropolis is an elegantly designed theme, combining simple color schemes and shades to complement an array of different content setups. An excellent style layer above the responsive Gantry core.
4. One Touch
One Touch is a multifunctional Metro stylish theme. This theme with Modern UI inspires confidence and motivated towards detail. It creates and gives a feeling of reliability and safety. This new minimalistic approach might just be the future of the web. There is no doubt that tablets and touch, portable devices are the future of your new site.
5. MetroStyle
MetroStyle can be applied to any business needs. Easy color and image selection with many design settings can help you transform MetroStyle into a unique business selling tool. The MetroStyle theme is SEO optimized and uses only CSS for fast loading.
6. Metro Magazine
Metro Magazine is a clean and powerful metro inspired responsive magazine WordPress 3.5 ready theme designed specifically for magazine, news and blog sites. The theme is highly flexible, fully responsive and packed with awesome features. It is incredibly easy to use and ready to be up and running out of the box. Created using the latest HTML5 and CSS3 techniques.
7. Subway
The Subway theme brings you a modern boxed layout with a broad range of options for customization. You can choose from various color and transparency options. Explore many beautiful designed details like fresh typography, icons, CSS animations and animated backgrounds. Also this theme brings you some nice custom features: Two new widgetkit styles for the Slideshow and the Gallery are included. Their design seamlessly fits into the theme. Also notice the fixed social toolbar, which appears if you hover the icon to the right of your browser window.
8. Rocket Board
Rocket Board is a super awesome portfolio WordPress Theme with METRO style. You can set each thumbnail size as 1×1, 1×2, 2×1 or 2×2 easily. This theme also allow user to set specific colour on each metro box or just use the default colour from admin panel. You can also set the first state of metro box to show as colour box or show as feature image. This theme has 9 predefined background colours and 8 overlay patterns… Or if you need to upload your own background image, it’s just fine.
9. Everest
Everest theme is a super clean, incredibly flexible, and fully responsive WordPress theme. For those using this for clients, adapting to their existing brand colors so quickly, will mean money back in your pocket.
10. (M) Social
Create your social or business website with (M) Social theme! This WordPress theme has been developed to support BuddyPress plugin which lets you to create profiles, post messages and make connections with all community. It’s based on trendy and metro design concept and can be used for business as well as for social community purposes.
11. OneCommunity BuddyPress
OneCommunity lets users register on your site and start creating profiles, posting messages, making connections, creating and interacting in groups and much more. A social network in a box, build a social network for your company, school, sports team or niche community.
12. Matrix
Matrix is a responsive, intuitive tile-based theme which is inspired by Metro design. The tiles can be made ‘live’ to display more information on the screen without occupying more space. This WordPress theme comes with 10 pre-defined colours and an advanced but easy-to-use admin panel. It is highly customizable to suit the needs of every user. Unlike conventional designs, each tile can be customized to create any design you can imagine!
13. MetroStore
The Metro UI is becoming more popular ever since Microsoft released Windows 8 and Windows Phone 7. Inspired by its simplicity and flat design, ColorLabs released the MetroStore WordPress theme to please the eyes of Windows 8 fans. Among many others, flat colors and design are some of its great features. MetroStore is a great choice for you who runs an online magazine that also functions as an e-commerce site.
14. Metrofy WP
Metrofy WP is a responsive Metro Inspired WordPress theme. This theme was designed for creating portfolios, agency & consulting firm websites and corporate websites.
15. Argo
ARGO is a unique and creative WordPress Theme with clean and modern design. It is perfect choice for your corporate agency, creative studio or for portfolio. It can be customized easily to suit your wishes.
16. Metro Vibes
A modern and responsive metro WordPress theme perfect for a creative agency or a portfolio showcase website.
17. SquidMag
SquidMag – a carefully crafted theme that lets you display your work the clean, fancy way. Some of the theme’s strong points are: unlimited colors, fully responsive, advanced admin panel (easy drag and drop interface), modern metro style look & feel, different portfolio and blog styles, lots of widgets and much more.
18. Modern Metro
Modern Metro is a cool responsive Metro style WordPress theme.
19. Nemo
Nemo is a metro inspired, full ajax site with a unique design. It’s a dark, minimal yet powerful wordpress theme. Nemo is a perfect theme for designers, photographers or other artist to showcase their work in a professional way. It has a compatible layout with mobile devices.
20. GavickPro Magazine
Come out of the shadow, present your online identity by creating your blog or other personal website with GavickPro Magazine WordPress theme!
21. Amzola
Amzola is a modern & Metro reponsive magazine theme.
22. The Wetro
The Wetro is Windows 8 Metro layout inspired HTML5&CSS3 theme. With it’s powerful wordpress substructure you can manage everything.
23. RENOVA
Renova is a highly unique and reusable, one-page creative portfolio theme with fully responsive layout built using Bootstrap framework. Renova is a one page theme with flat design trend but a advanced blend of uniqueness.
24. SQ: Square Metro
The SQ: Square Metro WordPress theme combines a metro UI style look and feel with an “everything square” concept. The result is a clean, colorful online agency portfolio theme. It gives priority to what’s more important — your work and content.
25. Diablo
Diablo is an eye-candy minimal and responsive WordPress theme build to power personal blogs / magazines, concerts or night clubs, complex photography or images related sites.
26. Platinum
Platinum is a magazine based design or as what commonly called blogging theme its design is based and inspired by the popular OS called windows 8 and as well as it is a responsive design suitable for any kind of mobile and tablet device.
27. Mantra
Mantra is beautiful metro design portfolio and completely responsive. Perfect to show your work in a creative way and stand out above the rest.
28. K-BOOM
K-BOOM is one of the powerful Music & Events WordPress Theme, it is meant to serve for Music Projects, Events, Portfolio or just for Blogging. It is a theme with ultra responsive layout adapting perfectly and allowing you to visit it from any devices you want.
29. Rootsmetro
Inspired from Windows 8, Rootsmetro is a Responsive retina ready build it yourself WordPress theme with a powerful customizer and page builder.
30. Ikebana
Ikebana is a premium WordPress portfolio theme created by Satori Studio. Ikebana is a responsive and retina-ready theme, which means your website will be equally usable and good-looking on both large monitors, laptops, tablet devices, and smartphones, including those with high-definition screens.
31. Metro Shows
Metro Shows is versatile Responsive WordPress Theme and loaded with great features! The design can be used on any website but has a modern metro style to it which works great along side responsive.
32. Increase
Increase is a premium business WordPress theme, of which the main feature is an ability to change color easily precisely for any element.
33. Metpo
A key design principle of Metpo is better focus on the content of your Website, whether it is typography or corresponding media.
34. Metrika
Metrika is a modern, dynamic, high-quality OnePage WordPress Theme. Flat design, simple and expressive animation will make your content unique.
35. Puzzles
Puzzles is an up-to-date theme for WordPress with great opportunities. When you install the theme on your website, it won’t be looking the way other websites do.
36. InTouch
InTouch is a super-duper customizable, very unique, responsive, retina-ready WordPress Theme that everybody wants. InTouch can be configured to focus on your work, your blogging, or both.
37. Pandora
Pandora is a powerful theme with fresh and crisp design and responsive layout built especially for the news, magazine and blog sites.
38. Metro
Metro Theme is a Professional WordPress theme designed for digital agencies which want their website to have the metro UI style. It has an admin panel for the theme with tons of options which put you in control of all the content.
39. Second Touch
Second Touch is clean, retina ready, fully responsive metro style theme. Its powerful customization capabilities enable you to create your outstanding website easy and fast. Its super modern metro style will draw your attention once and for all.
40. Mana
Mana is a flexible & most powerful WordPress theme for creative website creators.
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