The availability of themes for WordPress is staggering, but for some reason there us a limited supply of dark WordPress themes. The process of choosing colors for your website is one of the most crucial parts of the web design phase. Colors have a strong impact on visitors and specific colors often evoke certain types of emotions. Dark website templates tend to represent elegance, elite and give a non-mainstream, unconventional and grunge look and feel. This makes dark templates for WordPress websites excellent for building unique websites that stand out from the crowd. Dark website design often make use of dark backgrounds and light colors on typography. This is the opposite design style compared to the wast majority of websites and when the dark background effect is used correctly it is great for highlighting messages in web page elements. Dark website templates are great for agency and freelancer portfolios, photography websites and online image galleries. However, they also do a great job as band website templates.
RockWell – Portfolio & Blog WordPress Theme – MORE INFO | DEMO
Introducing Rockwell – one of the great and includes unique features in WordPress Theme. It allows you to choose and explore many attractive and creative theme options that will surely suit your style.
Core Minimalist Photography Portfolio – MORE INFO / DEMO
Core is the Minimalist Photography, Portfolio, Personal website Template built with latest WordPress features. Custom Post Type and Image Uploader etc.
Modernize – Flexibility of WordPress – MORE INFO / DEMO
Modernize is extremely well designed dark website template for WordPress and will make most business website rock. But it is not just looking good, it is fully responsive and comes with a very powerful page layout builder. Without any coding you can easily put together a new layout for a any page. Only thing I was missing when testing this theme was the possibility to add widgets as a layout element.
Locus One Page – WordPress Portfolio Theme MORE INFO / DEMO
This is as the name indicates an one page dark WordPress theme and it really stands out visually.
Crevision – Responsive WordPress Theme – MORE INFO | DEMO
Crevision is a creative responsive WordPress theme created for corporate and portfolio websites.It is a very simple, clean and professionally to view showcasing your work.
PENDULUM – Dark WordPress Theme – MORE INFO | DEMO
Looking for a new, fresh and modern theme for those people who loves music? Pendulum comes your way – a premium WordPress theme that match your desire WordPress sites or blog.
Valerie – Photography WordPress Theme – MORE INFO | DEMO
Valerie is a full ajax driven dark WordPress website template with a unique design. It’s a minimal yet powerful wordpress theme. It contains two preset skins, dark and light and also unlimited other color options for every element. Valerie is a perfect theme for photographers or other artist to showcase their work in a professional way. It has a compatible layout with mobile devices. We have tested it in all major browsers in desktop and mobile devices.
Magnifica | Dark Website Template – MORE INFO | DEMO
Magnifica designed mostly in news, blog & magazine sites. Magnifica WordPress theme is stylish and powerful that has the ability to change different kinds of layouts, colors, texts and extremely customizable.
Agency – Fullscreen Dark WordPress Theme – MORE INFO | DEMO
The Agency is the Next Generation photography WordPress theme. Unique clutter-free fullscreen experience with various control options. Present your works in professional manner with smooth flash-like flow. Future-proof approach and infinite scalability. Extensive customization options with unbranded options panel. Powerful Typography Plugin included. The definitive portfolio solution for creative professionals available now.
Dark Gritty Theme – MORE INFO | DEMO
The right theme to choice for music bands websites would be the Foxhound Dark and Gritty theme. It comes with a multimedia effect and the ability to upload and make your own header for the website.
Nocturnal: Premier Audio WP Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Nocturnal is an audio/music focused theme that is geared towards nightclubs and/or bands. The featured content is built to support posters and flyers.
Amped – MORE INFO / DEMO
Finding something dark and beautiful theme to highlight video, music and games? Amped theme is all you got! Includes Amped theme package that also build on the rock-solid Genesis Framework for WordPress.
TypeMagz – MORE INFO / DEMO
TypeMagz gives your blog a nice magazine look with a good color contrast that makes your posts stand out and easier to read. It comes with theme administration panel and is tailored for journalists and online magazines.
Sport and Grunge – WordPress Shop & Newsletter – MORE INFO | DEMO
The Sport and Grunge WordPress theme is an excellently dark and grunge style that focuses mainly in sports event or even music sites. Sport and Grunge is easier to use platform and plug-in.
WordPress Milky Music/Business/Portfolio Theme – MORE INFO | DEMO
Simple and flexible WordPress theme designed for music, business, blog, portfolio websites. Easy to manipulate or even easy to customize.
Viewfinder – Photography wordpress theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Viewfinder is a dark photography theme for WordPress which provides the perfect showcase for your art. There are no gimmicks, nothing that will fall out out fashion, just a timeless design that focuses user’s attention on you and your talent – this is how it should be. Coming in two different flavours, light or dark, and with the ability to add an unlimited number of galleries, there’s plenty of scope to set this up just the way you want it.
Black Aperture – MORE INFO | DEMO
This theme is typically provided for video games with some key features like standard featured images, Custom built Theme Options panel and more.
Videozoom – MORE INFO / DEMO
Videozoom is an elegant theme with a neat-featured slider. It is ready to play any music videos you want to embed into your posts. It offers multiple posts layout, drop-down menus, video integration, custom templates, Theme options and many more features.
Garage – MORE INFO | DEMO
Garage is a magnificent WordPress theme, it includes easy to use administrative panel, custom widgets, slider, menus and lots of other useful features. It is excellent solution for auto blog.
Music Pro – Music Oriented WordPress Theme – MORE INFO | DEMO
Music Pro WordPress theme is in favor of music industries. It is incredibly customizable, easy to manage dark style theme
Storm WordPress – Full Screen Background Theme – MORE INFO | DEMO
Storm is a stunning full screen image, video and audio background template with a custom full screen gallery. Imagine a multimedia packed website with the ability to easily create any form with our amazing Quform plugin also available with the theme.
Blender WordPress Portfolio Theme – MORE INFO | DEMO
This theme is made likely for business websites and creative professionals. Blender WordPress theme comes from light and dark layout that has amazing functionalities to enhance the creativity of making websites.
Eventful an Events WordPress Theme – MORE INFO | DEMO
Eventful is a Premium WordPress Theme developed to create events-oriented websites. Taking advantage of the powerful custom-post-type feature in WordPress (v 3.0 and above), we created a complex platform that can handle events, locations and artists with a bundle of features and options.
Invictus – A Premium Photographer Portfolio Theme – MORE INFO | DEMO
Intended for photographers, creative professionals or even designers and for private users. Could customize fully on image and video options.
Filmatica – MORE INFO | DEMO
Filmatica is beautiful free WordPress theme for personal web pages. This is a complex wordpress themes with lots of useful features like custom widgets, feedback form, slider, video supporting and many other.
Mercurial – One Page Parallax WordPress Theme – MORE INFO | DEMO
Mercurial WordPress Theme has a built-in one page with parallax effect in simplest way and fully responsive. Fitted for businesses, events, companies and etc.
Obscura – Responsive WP Fullscreen Gallery & Blog – MORE INFO | DEMO
Obscura is a responsive WordPress blog template with 8 post format options (standard, image, gallery, video, quote, link, chat, audio) with an amazing fullscreen gallery and social timeline page to display feeds of your social media accounts (Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Tumblr, YouTube, Dribbble, Vimeo, Pinterest and Custom Feed).
Simple Portfolio – Responsive WordPress Theme – MORE INFO | DEMO
Simple Portfolio has been specifically crafted for personal portfolios or small design firms. Responsive design means users will be able to browse the site in all kinds of screen sizes. Built with HTML5 and CSS3.
Backstage – MORE INFO / DEMO
Backstage is premium wordpress music magazine theme for musicians and artists showcasing their media, future shows and music using {hugely|very} flexible custom widgets and audio players. This {beautifully|wonderfully} crafted layout {was created|was made} by Elliot Jay Stocks and boasts 7 alternate styles.
Vixen – Responsive WordPress Theme – MORE INFO | DEMO
Vixen is elegant to look and feel. Perfect for creative professionals or even businesses. In which one of the important feature of Vixen is fully mobile friendly and responsive.
Identity – Responsive WordPress Theme – MORE INFO | DEMO
Excellent for businesses, aside from that it’s light dark layout will look your website more productive. CityLife business theme comes with a lot of features like 32 shortcodes, full localization support and a lot more.
G – Responsive Portfolio WordPress Theme – MORE INFO | DEMO
G is Responsive minimal wordpress theme perfect for photography and video portfolio.
Rustik – Minimalist Dark eCommerce Theme – MORE INFO | DEMO
Rustik is a beautiful minimalist WordPress e-Commerce theme that makes your products the center of attention. You can create your own logo on the fly in the theme options with a selection of 500+ fonts, and any font size, font style and font color, or simply upload your own logo. The theme comes with two readymade color schemes and you can adjust many color options from the theme admin to give it your own style.
Fairytale Full Ajax Portfolio WP with Video Audio – MORE INFO | DEMO
Fairytale is full screen responsive ajax portfolio and blog theme with background video and audio manager support. It has creative and unique style. The theme provides all the functionality you will have to present your portfolio in a creative, professional and stylish way. It has powerful and flexible theme options panel, which is very easy to use.
Clubber – Events & Music WordPress Theme- MORE INFO | DEMO
Clubber is the appropriate theme for dj’s and club music fans. It’s simple to use and personalize, comes loaded with strong tools for events managing, sharing music, videos and much more.
Sound Rock – Music Band WordPress Theme – MORE INFO | DEMO
Soundrock is a wordpress theme specially designed for Bands and music websites. This template is easy to modify and ready to be up and running out of the box.
Walliness Under Construction – WordPress Theme – MORE INFO | DEMO
Walliness is a perfect solution for any site currently underconstruction or under maintenance. This template comes with nice features like “live twitter feeds”, “newsletter submission form”, “fully working contact form” and much more.
Elitist – Responsive Portfolio WP Theme – MORE INFO | DEMO
Elitist is a completely responsive dark WordPress template that scales from 1200px to an iPhone’s screen so you do not lose customers regardless of the device they use to see your website.
Photo Nexus WordPress gallery 2 in 1 – MORE INFO | DEMO
This theme is a great dark style WordPress theme for those who need a convenient way to publish and showcase a self managed Gallery of Photos, Artworks or Designs.
Photolux – Photography Portfolio WordPress Theme – MORE INFO | DEMO
Photolux is a powerful and elegant Portfolio and Photography WordPress Theme which is best suited for photographers and creatives who use portfolios to showcase their work.
Chocolate WP – Responsive Photography Theme – MORE INFO | DEMO
Chocolate WP is a feature rich dark WordPress theme for photography portfolios.
Verb WordPress Theme – MORE INFO | DEMO
Verb is a blocky, portfolio-style dark theme for WordPress with an empahsis on typography and attention to detail. Show off your latest photos and videos in all their glory with the responsive portfolio grid. Write blog posts about your cats with the beautiful, minimal blog.
Cosmos – Creative WordPress Theme – MORE INFO | DEMO
Cosmos is a great dark website template design with a news or magazine layout.
Nemo – Metro Inspired WordPress Theme – MORE INFO | DEMO
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.
Queed WordPress Theme – MORE INFO | DEMO
Queed is a dark WordPress theme designed specially for portfolio display. Using a modern layout you can get a stylish website in a few minutes.
Soundboard – a Premium Music WordPress Theme – MORE INFO | DEMO
Soundboard is a powerful dark music WordPress theme with special features for bands and solo artists. With Soundboard you can display your tour dates, discography, videos, images and sell your band merchandise – it has pretty much everything you need for a band website.
Dottoro Studio – Multipurpose WordPress Theme – MORE INFO | DEMO
Dottoro Studio is a feature-rich dark WordPress theme with a cool business layout. It provides a flexible framework for the quick and simple creation of any type of website. Custom post types, widget areas, subheaders, slideshows, 80+ shortcodes, 400+ theme options and so much more.
Morphis – Responsive WordPress Theme – MORE INFO | DEMO
Morphis is a responsive WordPress Theme that adapts with any browser width, resolutions or devices. It is a great personal theme perfect for blogging or for showcasing your portfolio. Its clean and minimal design suits the modern look of web design today while not sacrificing clean and quality code.
Journal Responsive WordPress Tumblog Theme – MORE INFO | DEMO
Journal is a simple, yet fully-featured WordPress theme geared towards the avid blogger and Internet content collector. It allows you to express your thoughts, images, and other media in a pleasant and easy to navigate way. Oh, and it’s responsive too.
Bandzone: WordPress Theme made by Musicians – MORE INFO | DEMO
Bandzone WordPress Theme is specially designed with a great help of our friends from a local rock band. No matter what band are you in, rock, pop or rap you don’t want to have a corporate website. What you need is a clean, well-arranged website focused on events, albums, photo gallery and blog. That’s exactly what we’ve done.