If you’re a fan of vintage design or run a retro-themed business, then you’ll need a WordPress theme built on a classic vintage style with complementing elements. A retro vintage themed website don’t necessarily mean you go all black and white though. There are many creative ways to give retro style to your website.
So if you’re looking for one such theme, take a look at this list of retro vintage WordPress themes that have been designed with much attention to the detail. All these themes are equipped with modern features and plugins and vintage designs that’ll give your visitors a good dose of nostalgia. Let’s take a look.
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1. VintWood
VintWood is a retro-styled WordPress theme that can cater to a variety of business types. The theme features vivid colors with a state-of-the-art responsive design and is totally retina-ready graphics.
You’ll be really impressed by the theme’s wide and boxed layout options, the different types of pages it offers, many amazing color schemes, and a good number of quality fonts and icons. There’s also complete documentation and prompt support available with it.
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2. Retro
Here is Retro, a premium WordPress theme designed on strong vintage outlook and a feature-heavy admin panel. It comes with beautiful layout options and complete support of TI WooCommerce Wishlist and built-in analytics.
It is really easy to set up through drag-and-drop builder and without needing to write a single line of code. There are also unlimited color options, font styles, custom post styles, social integration, and much more.
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3. Hipster
Hipster is a responsive and retina-ready WordPress theme that’s quite multi-purpose and designed on retro theme. You get a lot of customization options with 30 background patterns, layout styles, social media integration, and even mobile menu.
With the theme, you also get support for WooCommerce, a fully-functional contact form, portfolio layouts, and much more. The installation is also pretty simple supported by complete documentation.
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4. Vintage Retrolie
Either you’re running a vintage-themed business, retro photography site or blog, Vintage Retrolite WordPress theme will work best for you. It is teeming with retro elements spread all over the layout and on different pages.
The theme perfectly combines many pre-made layouts, classic fonts, color schemes, HD video sliders, custom shortcodes, and advanced admin dashboard along with many other features. There is also a whole bundle of famous useful plugins built right into it.
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5. INKA
Inka is simple yet elegant WordPress theme that features a beautiful retro style with interesting features. Its WooCommerce integration makes it ideal for e-commerce website and with the many portfolio options you can make it into a solid portfolio site for artists and designers.
The other features Inka boasts of are the many slider options, homepage layout options, bundle of premium plugins, color combinations, retina-ready graphics. Thanks to the detailed documentation, it’s also quite easy to install.
6. RetyX
A blog and portfolio theme designed on vintage theme, RetyX offers a whole bunch of features and options. You can customize layout, styling, colors, fonts, and a lot more in terms of design and functionality.
With the theme you also get 5 custom Widgets, CSS3 animations, 4 post templates, and 30+ shortcakes with easy shortcode generator. The developers also provide simple installation and a detailed documentation file to help you along.
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7. Pure Retro
Pure Retro is a beautifully-created one-page WordPress theme with all the retro design elements you can think of. The theme is fully responsive and adapts itself easily for any device you’re using.
Some of its other interesting features include customizable homepage, portfolio gallery, SEO features, and complete documentation.
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8. The Newspaper
Designed on the theme of a classic newspaper, The Newspaper is a responsive WordPress theme ideal for a digital gazette, news websites or blog. You’ll be impressed by the developer’s attention to detail throughout the design.
With the theme, you can choose from different layout options for homepage, blog, portfolio, and headers. It is also quite flexible in terms of color selection, fonts, page layout, and creating custom forms along with other options.
Preview The Newspaper WordPress Theme.
9. Cabin
An elegantly designed multi-concept WordPress theme, Cabin offers a number of beautiful and practical demos to choose from. All the demos are responsive and retina-ready, and offer a powerful admin panel to manage the theme.
With Cabin you’re bound to get impressed with the endless layout combinations that you can make using different elements from each demo. It is also bundled with header styles, Google fonts, shortcodes, icons, and SEO optimization options.
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10. The Lifestyle
The Lifestyle is a well-designed vintage-inspired WordPress theme that can work for any kind of blog or portfolio site. It features a clean and minimal design with a focus on readability and a good user experience.
One feature that stands out about this theme is that it’s based on ‘no sidebar’ layout, a huge header image, and an easy navigation menu. Another interesting aspect is that it’s been translated into 10 major languages and is fully responsive and retina-ready.
Preview The Lifestyle WordPress Theme.
11. Abby
A flexible and responsive WordPress theme, Abby offers multiple features to house any type of blog or an artistic portfolio website. From marketing and business to blogging and news broadcasting, the theme can meet the demands of any website.
The theme features slider revolution, 7 contact form layouts, blog page options, homepage options, live customizer, CSS3 animations, headers styles, and much more. It is also responsive, retina-ready and offers one-click installation.
12. Forest
If you’re looking for a vintage-themed WordPress theme bundled with features, then Forest is the one for you. From customization to SEO optimization, the theme has everything you need for a great website.
The theme offers creative layout options, unique typography, responsive layout, retina ready display, and much more to look forward to. Moreover, you can import the demo to your site with just a few clicks.
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13. Vintage Immersed
Vintage Immersed is a unique yet simple WordPress theme inspired by a retro look and feel. It is multi-purpose, responsive, mobile-ready, and pretty easy to install with a lot of customization features.
The theme features rugged website templates, split header and centered logo menu design, pattern boxed web pages, and top forum support among other things. Also, the many built-in customization tools will ease the theme customization for you.
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14. Nelson
For retro-themed fashion and styling websites and blogs, Nelson is a good option. It is a stylish and well-designed WordPress theme with integrated WooCommerce plugin and online booking system.
It is also quite powerful on the technical side being integrated with Elementor page builder with support for Gutenberg editor. You can also use any oof the 8+ creative demos, pre-built pages, two skin options, and easy customization options.
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15. Retro Geek
If you’re a fan of the good ol’ terminal, then this RetroGeek theme will be interesting to you. It is lightweight with pretty fast load time and features a simple and minimal design.
There are also some retro features included with the theme like ticker that writes the tagline as if the text were sent with a 300 baud modem. Also, the possibility to display the page title as ASCII-Art and of course an ASCII-Art logo that you can define yourself or you can choose one of the integrated logos.
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16. Retro Blog
This is a super simple WordPress theme based on retro style. Though the theme is quite versatile, but it’s best suited for photo blogs, influencers, and personal/ travel blog.
The theme focuses on crisp typography that compliments its overall look and feel. It is equipped with native Customizer theme options so you can modify the layout and other elements according to your requirements.
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17. 90s Retro
If you’re running a website based on old Geocities theme from the 90s, then this 90s Retro theme would be just the ideal one for you. It can be a great theme for gamers, retro games fans, and collectors, etc.
It has been designed to give a classic retro website look with pixel fonts, neon colors, animated GIFs, and the 90s retro music running in the background.
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18. Skanda
Skanda is a vivid and colorful WordPress theme to house any portfolio, design agency website, event website or personal blog etc. Being integrated with WooCommerce and Contact Form 7 plugin, it can also be used as a creative e-commerce website.
There are many features that the theme boasts of including and easy-to-use admin panel, responsive layout, multiple navigation, header, and layout options. There’s also complete documentation with installation guide and a tutorial for guidance..
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19. Visual Coffee
Visual Coffee is a vintage style WordPress theme with a clean and minimal design. It can work well for a personal as well as a professional blog with custom background and menu options through the feature-rich Live Customizer.
You’ll find the theme to be equipped with everything necessary for a professional blog. There are multiple customization options, threaded comments, option to add your own logo to the header, and is fully translation-ready.
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20. Kinginrin
The classic yellow-and black retro-looking WordPress theme, Kinginrin can go with any kind of personal or professional website or blog. It allows you a number of customization options along with being translation-ready.
The theme comes with WooCommerce plugin and Contact Form 7 plugin, making it suitable for running any kind of e-commerce business. Additionally, you can install and modify the theme without having to write a single line of code.
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21. VintClub
Running a food or beverages business with a vintage touch? Take a look at VintClub. It is a handcrafted WordPress theme for retro-themed restaurants, clubs, pubs, or bars featuring everything you need in a professional website.
It features responsive design, retina-ready graphics, an array of page types, different layout options, and a good number of color schemes, fonts, icons, and much more. The developers provide you with latest theme documentation and active support.
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