Microsoft may not widely be considered the coolest company in the world, but its Metro interface, which is characterised by bright colours, tiles, and a focus on typography, has impressed critics and consumers alike. So much so that a number of Metro-style WordPress themes have been developed, the best of which you’ll find below. Enjoy!
1. Metro Vibes
A modern and responsive metro WordPress theme perfect for a creative agency or a portfolio showcase website.
2. One Touch
One Touch is a premium theme styled after the Windows interface known as Metro. The look is clean, modern and light. As you may know, the most distinctive design element of any Metro-inspired theme is the tile. One Touch includes a tile generator, which allows you to create tiles with ease. The tile generator includes a number of customisation options so that you can select the text position, tile colour, whether you want a single or double tile, choose background image for your tile, and more.
The theme is designed to integrate with WooCommerce, the popular free WordPress plugin, so if you want to add ecommerce functionality to your site, you can.
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3. Matrix
Matrix uses animated tiles to create a Metro-like design. I recommend opening up the demo to see the animated effects, which I think are quite cool, for yourself. Features include: 4 different kinds of tile for archive pages (list, large, medium, small), Ajax effects, 10 colours, 25+ shortcodes, slider options, custom contact form, 10 social media icons, and more.
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4. Black Pearl
Black Pearl would be best suited to a company website. With its stunning visuals, it won’t fail to impress visitors.
Features include: 14 colour options (usefully divided into light and dark), home page slider, 11 custom widgets, Google fonts support, 16 animated social media icons, 2 portfolio templates, shortcode generator, 4 custom post types (portfolio, slideshow, team and special intro), carefully tested responsive design,
There are five video tutorials and a dedicated support forum if you run into any issues using the theme.
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5. MetroStyle
MetroStyle is a popular theme, so far having racked up over 3,300 purchases on ThemeForest. In the last two months the theme author, mopc76, has created a support forum and six video tutorials to help users better, which is always good to see.
Features include: magazine version of home page, two portfolio templates (3-column and masonry), sidebars can be added to individual pages and in the position you choose, extensive shortcodes, theme styling options so you can change colours and fonts with ease, two blog layouts (standard and lite).
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6. MetroMAG
MetroMAG is a Metro-inspired magazine theme with a clean design. The theme has a very high average user rating on ThemeForest, 4.83 out of 5 based on 89 ratings (at the time of writing), which indicates that it is high quality.
There is a custom admin panel which makes customising the theme, including the home page, simple:
Features include: unlimited colour schemes, 21 custom widgets, choose from over 500 Google fonts, many shortcodes, responsive slider, dedicated support forum, and more.
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7. MetroStore
MetroStore is a beautiful Metro-like theme that would be ideal for anyone after a magazine theme with e-commerce functionality. MetroStore is compatible with WooCommerce, Jigoshop and WP E-commerce. With its flat design, bright colours, and animated tiles (hover over one of the latest products in the demo), MetroStore’s design is clearly inspired by Microsoft’s Metro interface. Special features include: an app-like sidebar, a changeable colour scheme and horizontal scrolling on the home page.
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8. Metrofy
Somewhat uniquely, Metrofy was designed to work as both a one and multi page site.
One of Metrofy’s best features is the page builder, which allows you to create any number of tile-based layouts:
The theme would work well for corporate websites (design agencies, consultancy forms, etc) and portfolios.
Features include: filterable portfolios, shortcodes, translation ready, two blog layouts, light and dark skins, and more.
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9. Rocket Board
Rocket Board is a Metro-like portfolio theme with a huge number of possible layouts. I count 19 portfolio layouts alone. There are also numerous blog layouts. The home page can be setup to display your blog posts in metro style, your portfolio in metro style, or a slider with the latest posts from your portfolio and blog underneath.
Here is a video on how to setup the theme to look like the demo site, which is probably the first thing you will want to do:
There are five other videos explaining various aspects of how to use the theme, such as how to control the home page board.
Features include: nine background colours with eight overlay patterns, drag and drop page builder, frontend theme customiser, shortcodes, support forum, and more.
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10. Nemo
From the home page tiles, you can see straightaway how Nemo’s unique design was inspired by Metro. The theme is dark and minimal. The unique design refers mainly to the left sidebar and the use of Ajax effects throughout. It would be the perfect template for a web designer to showcase their work in style.
Features: five page templaes, eight shortcodes, colour options, three custom post types, filetrable portfolio, 11 PSD files included, support forum, and more.
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11. Metro Mobile
Metro Mobile uses a metro-inspired layout that will be familiar to users of Windows 8. The theme is specially designed for mobiles, but works for desktop users as well.
Features include: 13 tiles of different sizes, 24 default colours and a colour picker to create your own, slider tile with animated effects, 200+ icons, shortcodes, custom background support, and more.
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12. Argo
Argo is a one page portfolio theme with a Metro-style interface. If you like the look of Argo, check out our collection of the best one page responsive WordPress themes.
Features include:
filterable portfolio
colour options
layered slider.
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13. Metro
Metro by Themify is a professionally done Metro-inspired theme with some nifty touches. If I had to describe the theme in one word it would be ‘slick’. Take a look at the portfolio in the demo. For starters, the portfolio items are stacked in a Masonry layout, which in my opinion is the best kind of layout for grids of images. For seconds, when you hover over each image it does a flip, 3D style. There are two portfolio layouts, two and three column. To top it all off, the portfolio pages scroll infinitely. Love it.
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14. Centre
Centre is a great blog WordPress theme created with a metro design aesthetic. With lots of clean lines, bold colors, and useful features Centre is the perfect fit for professional and novice bloggers alike.
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15. Metro.press
Metro.press is a responsive premium WordPress theme inspired by the Metro design language.
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16. Modern Metro
Features include: 100% responsive, adjustable and unlimited colours, advanced and easy admin panel, and more.
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17. Everest
Everest theme is a super clean, incredibly flexible, and fully responsive WordPress theme.
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18. Aeolus
Aeolus is a WordPress theme specially designed based on the Metro design style, high contrast and flat colors are some of its great features.
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19. Metro
Metro is a responsive, highly customizable, retina-ready theme for blogging with 300 vector icons, 330 unique background patterns, 600 fonts, 5 social network widgets, and more.
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20. Metro Rox
Metro Rox is a multipurpose theme with a modern and responsive design.
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21. Metro
Inspired by the Metro visual style, Metro is a clean theme for bloggers. Features include: unlimited color schemes, a responsive layout, custom widgets, SEO optimized, theme options panel, lightbox, right and left sidebar layouts, shortcodes, choice of fonts, and more.
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22. Squid Mag
Squid Mag is a multipurpose responsive theme with Metro influences. The theme comes with 4 premium plugins worth $58 (less than the price of the theme!). Features include: unlimited colors, Google font support, 17 custom widgets, 5 portfolio layouts, 3 blog layouts, an advanced admin panel, and more.
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23. Blogbold
Blogbold is a responsive WordPress theme suitable for blogs, magazine and news websites.
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