Best WordPress Video Themes for 2014

If you’re creating a video centric site in WordPress, then you need a theme that supports the engaging and interactive format of video content. Most WordPress themes are designed for multiple post formats, and sometimes these features may not be enough to build a site with mainly video content.

1. onPlay

onPlay is a magazine style theme with support for adding featured content and videos into main slider. You can also add tabbed featured categories. Built with HTML5, onPlay comes with built-in support for custom logo, background, and headers. It also comes with shortcodes to add different elements into your posts and pages.

2. Vidiho

A beautiful video blog theme, Vidiho comes with a large slider on the homepage so that you can display your videos in HD. Another great feature is that when a video thumbnail is clicked, the video in the post opens in a lightbox popup. Apart from that it comes with lots of premium theme features such as short codes, page layouts, widgets and social media integration.

3. VideoGrid

VideoGrid is a WordPress video theme with great features to help you share rich-media content. It comes with dark and light color variations. It also has integrated jQuery lightbox for images and videos. Another nice feature is the sorting filters which allow users to sort content by featured, most liked, and most commented posts first without reloading the page.

4. VideoCraft

VideoCraft by InkThemes is a feature rich WordPress video theme with built in video module. It’s a responsive theme and comes with two color skins. On the main page it has a slider where you can show your featured, popular, and related videos. It also allows you to easily upload your own video and audio files. It can also be used as a membership site where users can share or upload their own videos.

5. eVid

A video blogging theme by Elegant Themes, eVid comes in two color skins and designed specifically for creating video sites with WordPress. It has a slider on the homepage, and displays video posts in a nice grid. Apart from video related features it comes with all the usual premium theme features such as theme options panel, custom logo, shortcodes, etc.

6. Videozoom

Videozoom is a WordPress video theme with built-in video options on the post edit screen. It comes with four column layout, layout switcher on the front-end, and three color skins. It has a video slider on the homepage with thumbnails previews.

7. Amped

Amped by StudioPress is built upon Genesis Theme Framework. It is designed to support multimedia formats so it can be used for band websites with video embed support. It comes with 6 layout choices, theme options, and featured image support.

8. Sundance

Sundance is a free WordPress theme designed for WordPress video sites. It has a video slider on the homepage and with its minimalist design approach it looks elegant and clean. It supports video post format and standard theme features such as custom header and custom background. It also has a custom links feature which allows you to link to your social media profiles.

9. Socially Awkward

Socially Awkward is a responsive WordPress multimedia theme developed by Justin Tadlock. It supports WordPress post formats and is designed to feature your content based on post format like audio, video, standard blog posts, etc. It allows you to easily link your social media profiles and supports all the standard WordPress features.

10. Postline

Postline is a premium WordPress theme inspired by Facebook Timeline. It allows you to display your posts with thumbnails and your video thumbnails in a timeline view. Apart from timeline view, you can also choose grid view or any other layout available with the theme. It comes with built-in support for jQuery lightbox popup to display your images and video content.