Collection of Best HTML5 WordPress Themes of 2012

HTML5 is a specification for how the web’s core language, HTML, should be formatted and utilized to deliver text, images, multimedia, web apps, search forms, and anything else you see in your browser. In some ways, it’s mostly a core set of standards that only web developers really need to know. In other ways, it’s a major revision to how the web is put together. Not every web site will use it, but those that do will have better support across modern desktop and mobile browsers (that is, everything except Internet Explorer).

Just like WordPress, HTML5 is becoming more and more popular everyday. Website powered by HTML5 WordPress Themes and plugins which are are more compelling (Also check :Best WordPress Plugins With HTML5 Fallback) . All modern browsers have already started implementing HTML5 features but some browsers have limited support for all HTML5 tags.

Best Premium HTML5 WordPress Themes

Visual HTML5 WordPress Theme

Visual is designed for people who love a clean design and functionality. It’s built on a solid modular framework and it comes with a custom set of Widgets which allow you to build your own layout.

Visual comes with a modular structure, which means you can customize the whole theme as you wish. The homepage is really flexible, you may choose to use or remove the homepage slider, the message board, center and footer areas etc..

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Nitro Modular HTML5 WordPress Theme

Nitro is a Modular HTML5 Theme for WordPress. It’s built on a solid Grid System Framework, the modular design gives you a full control on the theme layout. Homepage, Columns, Sidebars and Widget areas are designed to make this product really flexible and easy to use.
Nitro has a modular structure, which means you can customize the whole theme as you wish.

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Daydream – A Modern WordPress Theme

Daydream is an extremely variegated WordPress theme packed with many great features all accessible trough an incredibly easy and cool Control Panel. It comes in 15 colors and 25 (and growing) patterns to give even more personality to your website.
It was coded using the latest technologies: HTML5 and CSS3 , and also supports new HTML5 features like the video tag.

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Mingle – Multi-purpose WordPress Theme

The theme uses HTML5 and CSS3 to create advanced styles using the latest technologies. Proper heading tags and coding standards are used to ensure outstanding search engine optimization. We take pride in creating well formatted and easily managed code.

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Salutation: WordPress + BuddyPress Theme

Salutation is a WordPress and BuddyPress theme. If you’re not familiar with BuddyPress, it’s a social network plugin for WordPress allowing your website to become a fully functional community portal. BuddyPress lets your users interract through groups, forums, friends, status updates, private messaging and a lot more.

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Studio Zen Fullscreen Portfolio WordPress Theme

Studio Zen is a powerful theme for photographers and creative artists.
Features Fullscreen slideshows with audio. Video fullscreen playback fro Vimeo, Flash, Youtube and HTML5 videos.
Fullscreen Focus view toggle clears other elements for best view of fullscreen slideshows.
Portfolio includes a Horizontal Slide scroller with captions support, and Galleria slideshows, both placed on background images with focus view toggle.
A transparent fullscreen template where slideshow shortcodes and thumbnail galleries can be displayed nicely. Portfolio Galleria slideshow is currently generated by this template.
Post formats ( Aside, Quote, Audio, Video, Link, Image, Gallery )
Custom Widgets ( address, social icons, flickr, gallery, twitter, recent posts, popular posts )
Internationalized ( localize with your language .po .mo files included )

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Best Free HTML5 WordPress Themes

HTML5Press

HTML5Press lives here. HTML5Press is a WordPress theme based on the HTML5 template by Jesper.

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TwentyTen Five

Upgrade WordPress to HTML5! Download and install TwentyTen Five, or use it as a framework for your own HTML5 themes. It’s FREE!

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HTML-ified TwnetyTen

So we all know WordPress 3.0 ships with a shiny new theme called Twenty Ten. You probably also know that this theme is “HTML5″ ready. What does that mean? Not much. Basically that the code validates and the doctype is the new HTML5 doctype. No <header>, <footer>, <asides>, etc to be found (understandably). So I decided to take the theme and make it as HTML5-ified as possible.

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Toolbox

A semantic, HTML5, canvas for CSS artists and an ultra-minimal set of super-clean templates for your own WordPress theme development.

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Spectacular

A free WordPress theme that aims to provide a warm and pleasurable atmosphere for personal musings and ramblings. The theme comes in two flavors: HTML 4.01 and HTML5.

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Euclides

Euclides is the perfect theme for those who write tutorials online. While they concentrate on web developers, anyone can use this theme. By the way, Euclides is a free WordPress theme?

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H5 WordPress Theme

In an effort to inspire more WordPress theme designers to embrace HTML5, Digging into WordPress releasing the “H5” Theme Template. The H5 Theme Template is a bare-bones WordPress theme built entirely with HTML 5 and styled with CSS 2.1. As you may know, HTML 5 provides greater flexibility and interoperability than previous markup languages, and enables us to build well-structured themes that are more flexible, interactive, and semantically precise.

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H5 WordPress Theme

Starkers HTML5 is now available on GitHub, you can now download it, fork it, change it, basically do whatever you want to do with it.

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The Travel Theme

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Free Dream

A theme presented by Dreamweaver Gratuit. FreeDream is a clean and simple theme using HTML5 and CSS3 properties. This theme works fine on every current versions of MSIE (6, 7 and 8), Firefox and Safari.

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Roots Theme

Roots is a starting WordPress theme made for developers that’s based on HTML5 Boilerplate, Blueprint CSS (or 960.gs) and Starkers that will help you rapidly create brochure sites and blogs.

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Handcrafted WP Starter Theme

Handcrafted WP is a starter theme built for WordPress developers who are doing more than building blogs. The theme is based on Ian Stewart’s Toolbox Starter theme and Paul Irish & Divya Manian’sHTML5 Boilerplate plus some other awesome features based off our years of experience. This is not a framework, but an almost-naked starter theme that gives you a rock solid starting point for crafting a serious website on the WordPress platform.

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Constellation Theme

The Constellation Theme is an assemblage of awesome resources, put together to form an extremely flexible WordPress foundation.

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Brave New World WordPress Theme

The theme is free of layout and styling beyond a modified version of Eric Meyer’s reset CSS and a baseline typography. Just like Elliot Jay Stock’s Starkers theme this is a base theme free from cruft yet incorporates HTML5, WAI-ARIA landmark roles and hCard andhAtom microformats.

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