With WordPress you can build a variety of different type of sites, be it text based, image based, video based or a combination of them all. This CMS platform is very flexible, easy-to-use and that’s why WordPress is the popular platform to build websites. If you are thinking of creating a site which has video as its main content, then you would simply need a video WordPress theme to make that happen. Just install a video theme, embed/add videos to your site from different video sites like YouTube, Vimeo, DailyMotion, etc and launch your site. It’s as simple as that. These themes are perfect for building a video blog, vBlogger, game reviews, product reviews, and video curated sites.
If are searching for best video WordPress themes, then these are some useful features that you should look for: automatic video thumbnail creation, page builder, infinite scrolling, popular videos section and some themes even support automatic generation of video title heading, description, tags, etc from sites like YouTube. Some themes even support WooCommerce just in case if you want to sell products on your site. Of course, mostly all themes support video embedding from YouTube, whereby you just need to add your YouTube link in the post. You will need to decide which features are important to you, and then decide to use a theme based on that.
So now without any further ado, let’s take a look at some of the best video WordPress themes.
VideoBox
VideoBox is a video theme for WordPress by WPZoom. This is a highly customizable theme with a support for different video sites like YouTube, Vimeo, DailyMotion, Facebook Video, Instagram Video, Wistia, Amazon S3, Brightcove, Metacafe, and many others.
One of its best feature is that when you embed videos from sites like YouTube, Vimeo or DailyMotion, the theme will automatically generate a thumbnail for your post, which means it saves time and no need to manually add a featured image. On the homepage, you can select options to display most popular videos (the ones with most views or most commented), and also display the recent posts. The complete homepage is widgetized so that you can add/remove any widgets.
Features:
- Automatic video thumbnails
- Visual customizer to customize the theme
- Responsive and retina ready
- WooCommerce support
- Popular videos tab
- Complete widgetized homepage
- Carousel and slider features built-in
- Infinite scrolling
Visit Theme Demo & Details Page
TheMotion
TheMotion is a clean looking video blogging theme for WordPress which is also WooCommerce compatible. The comes with a responsive layout which makes it mobile friendly and ensures that it runs perfectly on any device. One unique feature is that it comes with Live customizer, which means as you change colors, design, or style, you can see the changes in real time.
Features:
- Translation & RTL ready
- Live customizer
- 1-minute setup
- Custom background
- In-built Mega menus
Visit Theme Demo & Details Page
VideoTube
VideoTube is a responsive video WordPress theme that offers a very simple blog layout. It’s design focuses on minimalism, and comes with a featured slider on the homepage. Adding videos with this theme is easy, as all you have to do is to just copy and paste the video link in the editor. The theme supports automatic video thumbnails so that you don’t have to manually create one. You can also allow users to submit videos and contribute to your site, and also have their own channel page.
VideoTube also comes built-in with Visual Composer, a very popular page builder plugin for WordPress which will allow you to easily create different page layouts.
Features:
- Automatic video thumbnails
- Allow users to submit their own videos
- 6 different color schemes
- Infinite scrolling
- 10+ homepage layouts
- Like button & view count
- Sort videos by: Likes, views, comments and date
- Many different shortcodes
- Translation ready
VideoTouch
VideoTouch is a responsive, retina ready theme built on Twitter Bootstrap framework. It comes with a clean yet modern looking design that’s perfect for media sites, vloggers or for audio and video websites. One powerful feature of this theme is its TouchSize Layout Builder which offers unlimited possibilities and options. This page builder allows you to have full control over your site, and you can create any type of layout with it.
Features:
- Front end submissions
- Video embed support from any video source
- Drag and drop page builder by Touchsize
- Responsive and retina ready
- Built-in mega menu
- Image lazy loading
- WooCommerce ready
- Translation ready
- Flexslider and Slicebox sliders integrated
Divi
Divi is a multipurpose theme from Elegant Themes, which can be used to build mostly any type of website. The theme is very flexible and comes with Divi Page Builder which allows you to build mostly any type of layout using just drag and drop. It comes with a video module which allows you to place your video anywhere on the site. If you are the one who likes customizing everything to your liking, and want to create your own unique design, then this is the theme that you should go for.
Features
- Divi builder
- Pre-made read-to-use layouts
- Parallax and video backgrounds
- Responsive design
- 46 content modules (for code, contact form, video, gallery, pricing table, etc)
- Live preview
- Countless possibilities when it comes to design
- Translation ready + RTL support
Slimvideo
Slimvideo is a responsive video theme that works great on any device, be it a computer or a mobile device. One of its strong feature is its Touch layout builder that allows you to build any type of page layout quickly and easily. It is based on Twitter Bootstrap framework and any element can have from 2 to 12 columns with tons of options.
Features:
- Touch Layout Builder
- Responsive and retina ready
- Google fonts integrated
- Unlimited headers and footers creation
- Flexslider and Slicebox sliders integrated
- Localization support to translate your theme to any language
- Demo content included
Viduze
Viduze is a video magazine theme for WordPress which can be used to build any video site along with many features. The theme supports BuddyPress which allows you to add social networking components to your site which helps you build a robust community around your video site. WooCommerce support is also included so that you can start a shop whenever you want.
It’s Crunchpress page builder allows you to easily create unique pages using the drag and drop interface. RTP and WPML support means you can be sure that your site can work with all the languages. Also the one click dummy data import helps you to get your site up quickly without any need to manually setup everything. A video magazine site or curated news site can be easily created using this theme.
Features:
- CrunchPress page builder
- Social login for quick sign-in
- WooCommerce support
- Localization & RTL support
- WPML ready
- Google fonts
- One click dummy data import
- iFrame video support
Video Cafe
Video Cafe will help you build your own media sharing sites like YouTube, Vimeo and Dailymotion. One unique feature of this theme is that it has frontend uploading, which allows users to upload videos directly from the frontend. The YouTube sync feature will automatically generate it’s title heading, description, tags and all such details. The Video Cafe theme is perfectly suited for online video business, gaming reviews, musical bands, video blogging, etc sites.
Features:
- Frontend video uploading
- Auto sync from YouTube
- Drag and drop page builder
- Integrated with Visual Composer
- Auto-import details from video sites
- Social Buzz plugin integrated
Hope you find this collection of video themes for WordPress useful. Let us know what you think about them in the comments below.
Hey! You have shared a great collection of some really well designed WordPress themes. However, I think a common downside with few of these themes will be their long page load time!
Well, page load time really depends on how the theme is programmed by that developer. I would say not every theme is fast and not every theme is slow 🙂