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TruePixel
The original WordPress theme used by ViralNova
TruePixel was the original theme used on ViralNova.com, and was the same one used to make the owner of the site more than $400,000+ per month – quite a remarkable feat for an inexpensive WordPress theme.
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SociallyViral
The current design used by ViralNova.com
SociallyViral replicates the look, feel, and style of the current design of ViralNova (it’s practically a clone of it) – and giving you all of the features you would want in a viral website.
Features include: responsive design, infinite scrolling, strategically-placed banner ad zones, subscription box, social sharing buttons built-in, mega menu built-in, and much more.
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SocialNow
Modern WordPress theme for viral blogs and websites
SocialNow is a multipurpose theme that was designed around social sharing.
The responsive desgin includes six pre-built setups: Default, Fashion, Health, News, Viral, and Shop – and was created by one of the world’s premiere viral theme developers, MyThemeShop.
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Viral
Viral WordPress theme for sites and blogs (with voting feature)
Viral is raising the bar on social sharing and viral themes for WordPress.
Aside from the state-of-the-art design, it also features impressive galleries, a responsive design, and a unique upvoting feature for articles.
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Doberman
A WordPress theme like BuzzFeed
Doberman is a viral and content sharing theme for WordPress that will give you a Buzzfeed-like website.
The theme includes a handful of useful features like: most popular posts, optimized for sharing and virality, trending posts, fresh posts, and many other extras that optimize the likelihood of success for your content.
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NovaPress
Bootstrap WordPress theme inspired by ViralNova
Novapress is a theme for WordPress inspired by the popular website ViralNova.com.
A ViralNova clone, included with the theme you will find: a responsive layout and design, infinite scrolling, icons for social sharing, Bootstrap foundation, optimized for speed and SEO, and a theme options panel that allows you to easily customize the look and layout to your liking.
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Buzzz
Optimized viral and content sharing WordPress theme
Buzzz includes all of the features you would want to help your site’s content spread as easily as possible, giving you an easy-to-use theme that was designed for viral websites and blogs.
Features: optimized for speed and SEO, built-in review system, special sections for types of content (hot, popular, trending, most liked), responsive layout, featured posts section, easy to customize, news/updates ticker, and more.
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Harpoon
Social sharing WordPress theme
Harpoon offers a clean and professional-looking WordPress theme that uses large images and typography to create a site that will captivate and intrigue your visitors.
Features: the ability for visitors to “like” posts, social media integration, Facebook comments built-in, the ability for visitors to submit items/content, and multiple template/layout options that allow you to give your site the exact look you want.
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Me Gusta!
User generated content and social sharing WordPress theme
Me Gusta! was built specifically for sites wanting to focus on content sharing and creating viral posts.
It has all of the features you might want in a theme of this type including: social network integration, Facebook comments/discussion built-in, mark content as NSFW (not safe for work), allow visitors to submit their own content, and allows visitors to “love” your content and make “hot” once it reaches a certain number.
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Aruna
WordPress content sharing, meme, and gag-style site theme
Aruna is a unique theme that harnesses the power of social sharing and user-generated content to deliver a viral website solution that is second-to-none.
Before sites like Buzzfeed and UpWorthy, there were ones like 9gag and other meme/comedy sites. This theme allows visitors to submit content, view the most popular and trending posts, and register to be a part of your online community.
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I Love It!
Content sharing theme for WordPress
I Love It! is a WordPress theme that was built for sharing.
The social aspects of the theme include the ability for visitors to “love” your content, create their own account and submit content, create NSFW posts/content, and allow them to post comments and discussion with the built-in Facebook functionality.
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Newspaper
Viral-style WordPress theme
Newspaper is a WordPress theme that offers features and functionality similar to the top viral sites on the web.
You will see elements from Buzzfeed, Upworthy, and Distractify – with a handful of different layouts, multiple templates, and dozens of customization options to choose from – you can create a site that is both unique to you, yet powerful in its versatility.
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Bunchy
Content-sharing WordPress theme using user-generated content
Bunchy is a theme that makes use of “open lists” allowing visitors to submit their own content.
Setting itself apart from many of the viral WordPress themes that you might come across, this theme harnesses the power of your audience to expand and build out your content by allowing visitors to submit their own content for approval – helping grow your search traffic and audience.
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Furious
Viral and buzz-making WordPress theme
Furious provides a modern and clean design that includes powerful features to make your viral website a success.
The flat design and uncluttered layout allow you to create a site that is not only aesthetically appealing, but great for increasing sharing via the multimedia support and with special functionality built-in for popular, most shared, visitors’ favorite, and more.
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ViralWP
WordPress theme optimized for viral content and sharing
ViralWP was designed for easy management and content sharing.
Simple and straightforward, this theme’s design encourages your users to share your content on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites – while the administration dashboard allows you to easily customize and modify the theme to suit your needs.
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Bimber
WordPress theme built for viral content
Bimber is a popular WordPress theme that gives you all of the features you need to create a viral website or blog.
Features: ability to create listicles (list articles), custom badges for content, integration with social media sites like Facebook, tightly integrated ad zones and management, as well as dozens of other features and customization options.
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BoomBox
WordPress theme like BuzzFeed, 9Gag, BoredPanda, and other viral sites
Boombox is a powerful and versatile theme for viral content sites with multiple layout options to choose from.
Pre-set styles to choose from include: BoomBox Original (a viral theme website), Lonely Panda (will give you a theme like BoredPanda), Buzzy (will give you a theme like BuzzFeed), and Another GAG (which is a WordPress theme like 9Gag).
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Click Mag
Magazine-style WordPress theme for viral blogs and content sharing sites
Click Mag has been optimized for content, sharing, ads, and virality – create your own website like BuzzFeed or ViralNova – with a huge list of features that help make promoting and sharing your content easier than ever.
Features: custom post gallery, a “continue reading” button (similar to Mashable’s so you can serve more ads), support for WooCommerce and bbPress, sticky sidebars, built-in reviewing system, and post/page slideshows are just a few of the many features you will find inside.
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topHot
Magazine-style content sharing theme
topHot is a magazine-style design that is able to incorporate many different types of content, a WordPress theme that was built for viral and sharing sites.
With the ability to “feature” posts, a large sliding carousel near the header, a responsive and mobile-friendly design, special content sections and features, the ability to display local weather and time – as well as an advanced set of custom extras that help your share your content with as many people as possible.
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Cuckoo
Viral, social, and community WordPress theme
Cuckoo is a WordPress theme for creating a viral website or blog that takes advantage of the community features and functionality found in bbPress and BuddyPress – allowing you to create a community around your site.
Beautifully-optimized for mobile devices and featuring fast load times, front-end post submission, and more – it will give you a powerful foundation to build your next popular site on.
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Presso
Multi-use newspaper, blog, magazine, and viral website theme
Presso is a multipurpose WordPress theme that comes with 3 unique layout options/styles to choose from: blog, magazine, and viral.
Features include: advanced post filtering, built-in review/ratings system, responsive and mobile-friendly design, off-canvas menu, mega menu functionality, infinite scrolling, instant search, and WooCommerce support/integration so you can easily sell products on your site.
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ViralNews
WordPress theme for creating a viral news/story website or blog
ViralNews allows you to easily create a viral news website or blog.
Features: premium quiz builder plugin, top social stories plugin built-in, as well as the popular Visual Composer plugin. Additionally, the theme is blazing fast for impressive load times, features a masonry-style layout, supports WooCommerce, and dozens of other features are included.
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BuzzMag
Minimalist viral blog/news/magazine WordPress theme
BuzzMag is a minimalist theme for viral WordPress sites.
A clean and modern layout easily displays your content, and helps capture your visitor’s attention to maximize their time on site and encouraging them to share your content. It features infinite scrolling, beautiful mobile views/layouts, multiple layout options to choose from, “trending” posts, and more.
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BoomNews
Viral magazine/blog WordPress theme
BoomNews gives you all of the features and functionality you could want for a viral website, in addition to strategically-placed ad spots to help you make the most of your visitors and generate the most revenue possible.
With multiple post and page layout options and customization features available, you can create a site that looks and functions exactly how you want it to.
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ViralFeed
WordPress theme for buzz and viral sites
ViralFeed allows you to create your own BuzzFeed or Diply-style website, with a clean and uncluttered design that is sure to engage your visitors.
The theme comes equipped with an ad-serving plugin, multiple header layouts, several different page/post layouts, and more.
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Vast Buzz
Viral and “buzz” theme for WordPress
Vast Buzz is a WordPress theme for viral and “buzz”-style websites.
Features: 8 different styles of website/layouts (default, comic, crazy, jokey, gag, buzzi, affiliate, moji, and jeer), premium ViralPress plugin ($20+ value), visitors can post and react to content (funny, wow, WTF, etc.), boxed and full-width layouts, and can be customized via the theme options panel.
About this collection…
As they continue to post remarkable traffic numbers, sites like Buzzfeed, ViralNova, UpWorthy, and Distractify have drawn attention to a relatively new online money-making model with their “social sharing” websites.
By carefully crafting their “clickbait” headlines, these types of sites have gone on to become some of the fastest-growing media companies and websites ever created – and established an entirely new industry in the process.
Because of the ease of entry and the ability to quickly scale, they have also built a model that can easily be replicated and copied… as long as you have some patience and creativity.
One of the sites (ViralNova) was/is pulling in $400,000 per month with a simple $40 WordPress theme.
If you’re wanting to create a viral website (or a section of an existing site like the Washington Post did with their KnowMore blog), getting up and running couldn’t be easier.
A handful of WordPress themes have been created that will give you everything you need to set up your own social sharing/viral site, incorporating many of the features and functionality that is so important in helping your content spread.
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