Looking for some theme advise/recommendations

Warning: massive wall of text ahead! I apologise in advance! 😛

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Hello everyone,

I am looking for a suitable theme that allows me to create a news website with a database (archive) functionality. The theme should allow me to create ”profile” pages (not as in user profiles, but profiles dedicated to a certain topic, for example ”WW2 Generals”). The profile pages are basically summaries of people, organisations, etc. but displayed in a nice, organised way.

I am also looking for a theme/design/template that allows me to create a functional, easy-to-search database. The theme for the database doesn’t have to be the same as the theme for the news website/profile pages (in fact; even the profile pages can have their own dedicated theme; different subdomains will be used for different purposes, so different themes is not an issue at all!)

Lastly, we like to have a site suitable for a non-profit or political organisation; a nice, clean theme with a professional look that doesn’t distract too much, but it shouldn’t be too clean either.

I know wiki software exists, which I could use for the database section, but I’d rather not. I want the database to be a bit more ‘attractive’ and customisable.

A few examples of websites that have what we want to achieve:

News:

http://www.bbc.com/news (clean, multiple-level menus with great, organised category division)

http://www.middleeasteye.net/ (example of a clean news site. What I particularly like is that visitors can easily sort news by country and the language buttons to see a different version (language) of the site. The different colours for different sections is an added bonus)

Themes that have some new/modern features, like a collapsable ”sidebar menu”, are a plus.

Profiles:

Example of how a ”profiles” page could look:

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/turkey/2015-08-03/turkeys-cover

Maybe not the best example since that’s not the most ”clean” web design, and it’s subscription based which we are not going for. But it’s a very ”dynamic” design nevertheless. I am sure it’s possible to achieve a similar look (header cover/image with some with space ”cut out” for the title, categorisation, images, etc.) is possible with other themes. In fact, I have found similar designs in many themes, but the REAL problem is; there are so many different themes that we don’t know what to choose anymore.

Database:

http://www.ww2db.com (easy to search, large database. Standard wiki could’ve been used for this archive, but their way of archiving the information looks better).

As you can see, the ”database” can basically be incorporated with most multipurpose wordpress themes. We just want a theme that allows us to organise content in a beautiful, easy-to-search way for visitors.

General information/non-profit themed etc.

We actually found a few themes we could use. But the problem with these themes is that they are really focused on donations, charities, etc. That’s not what we want; we are looking for a theme that provides users with general information about us and with links, banners, etc. to our other ”main” websites (news website, database, profiles site). So it mainly serves as some sort of ”mothership” under which the other sites are united. This means this website is not content-heavy like the other themes, so the theme doesn’t require as much features. It simply should be clean, organised, and preferably ‘modern’ (clean, big buttons, rounded, etc.).

Some examples:

http://agenda.chimpgroup.com/
http://themeforest.net/item/politics-plus-government-campaign-wordpress-theme/full_screen_preview/12831881

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I know I am asking a lot, but I would appreciate it if you could even recommend one thing for one of the purposes described above! Willing to pay someone who is prepared to do some research and come with a good recommendations.

PS: The themes will of course be customised to our own needs, but we like to work/start with a framework first and build and customise the websites from there on. This is just the beginning (well, not even) of a very long project :).