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83 Beautiful Wordpress Themes You (Probably) Haven’t Seen
February 9th, 2007 in Design Showcase | 1017 Comments
Sometimes it’s just like searching for a needle in a haystack: if you’ve ever googled for free and quality Wordpress Themes, you know exactly what we’re talking about. Most designers love to create Wordpress themes, so they can demonstrate the quality of their work and add some fresh works to their portfolios.
However, most Wordpress themes are either used too often (Kubrick theme, now K2, is definitely overused) or just have nothing to offer - particularly, if you are looking for a free, impressive and professional design. However, sometimes search is worth it. In the gallery below you’ll find 83 free Wordpress Themes you probably haven’t seen yet. All themes offer quality, elegance and a user-friendly interface. … and please take a look at Dr. Web’s free Wordpress Themes.
1. Redoable 1.0 [ Preview ]
3. Soxnest link [ Preview ]
5. Fresh Theme [ Preview ]
6. Deep Red Theme [ Preview ]
7. Time Manager [ Preview ]
8. Fluid Solution [ Preview ]
9. Intra Blog [ Preview ]
12. PlainBox V1.0 [ Preview ]
14. Hemingway for Wordpress [ Preview ]
15. Hemingway Reloaded [ Preview ]
16. Hemingway Pearled [ Preview, currently offline ]
18. Rounded Blue V2 [ Preview ]
19. Freshy 1.0 [ Preview ]
20. Fresh 1.0 [ WP 2.0, Preview ]
21. I feel dirty [ Preview ]
22. Neo Sapien [ Preview ]
23. Drunk Loser [ Preview ]
25. Kiss Theme [ Preview ]
27. Theme Leia [ Preview ]
29. Pink-Kupy 1.0 [ Preview ]
32. Bastard Theme [ Preview ]
33. Beast-Blog v.2.0 [ Preview ]
34. Foliage, Foliage Mod [ Preview ]
35. Peaceful Rush [ Preview ]
36. Digg 3 Columns [ Preview ]
37. Contaminated [ Preview ]
40. (Not so) Fresh [ Preview ]
41. Aalglatt V1.0 [ WP 2.0, Preview, based on Green Marin?e ]
42. Blue Moon 1.0 [ WP 2.0, Preview ]
43. Light 1.0 [ WP 2.0, Preview ]
44. Fall Season [ Preview ]
45. Mental Disorder
46. Orange Sky [ WP 2.0, Download ]
48. StripedPlus 1.0 [ Preview ]
49. TerraFirma [ Preview ]
50. Brajeshwar v 7.0 [ Preview ]
51. Quadruple Blue [ Preview ]
54. Glossy Blue [ Preview ]
55. Unwakeable 1.2 [ Preview ]
56. The Hobbit [ Preview ]
62. Stripes Theme [ Preview ]
64. Wonderwall Daily Misery [ Preview ]
66. Don’t Touch This
67. Minima Plus [ Preview ]
68. Alternate 0 [ Preview ]
70. Pinky and The Brain Theme [ Preview, currently offline ]
72. 5thirtyone v2 [ Preview ]
73. Japanese Cherry Blossom [ Preview ]
74. BloxPress (AJAXified + Prototype + Scriptalicious) [ Preview ]
78. Seo Adsense Wordpress Theme [ Preview ]
80. So Suechtig [ Preview ]
81. Blue Zinfandel Wordpress Theme [ Preview ]
83. Vertigo Enhanced [ Preview ]
84. Lunarpages Green [ Preview ]




















































































Pat (February 9th, 2007, 10:06 pm)
Hey, I always read you entries and really like this blog. Just came here and saw you added my Wordpress theme to that list (80), funny :-)
Allexiel (February 9th, 2007, 10:20 pm)
I just released my own theme at my blog, and those free wordpress themes make me cry -_-
I want to make a new one now!
Thanks for that list :)
stuart (February 9th, 2007, 10:29 pm)
Nice collection. Too bad I just switched to Mephisto.
Chris Poteet (February 9th, 2007, 10:38 pm)
You have Unwakeable, but not Link [openswitch.org] which it was based on (K2 as well).
Luisa (February 9th, 2007, 11:07 pm)
Had already grabbed the first one as a placeholder for my site, while I learn how to work with CSS myself.
Love your site, thanks for all the great information you put here.
Luisa.
Navdeep (February 9th, 2007, 11:15 pm)
Very good looking themes. I hope my Blog Link [www.whitesquid.com] could be nominated under this category. :)
Han (February 9th, 2007, 11:57 pm)
Wordpress themes are overly complicated :( I’ve done a series of “wordpress themes for beginners” themes! (ie none of that unnecessary coding!)
Bill (February 10th, 2007, 12:18 am)
I’m constantly amazed at the great stuff you feature on this site. This is a fantastic list. I always dread digging through the WP themes to find one I like, and here you’ve done all the work for me. :)
Brandon (February 10th, 2007, 1:28 am)
Thanks for the list! I use a few of them currently, but most of them I’d never seen. I’m going to search the rest of your site now.
Oliver Tani (February 10th, 2007, 1:38 am)
This is an awesome list. I usually use the wordpress theme viewer online but have never seen most of these… I love wordpress for its simplicity and its numerous abilities… I just gotta stop using it on every singe site I put online! Haha!
Derek (February 10th, 2007, 2:57 am)
FYI: For items 68 and 69, the href address is pointing to the address that 67 is referring to (Minima Plus). The preview links for each are correct though. Thanks for compiling this list, it’s very useful.
Zack (February 10th, 2007, 3:03 am)
My theme is open source if anyone likes it!
Link [zackbartel.com]
Brajeshwar (February 10th, 2007, 3:39 am)
Awesome; both of my themes are “beautiful”. The KISS theme is perfectly linked to the right article and preview. However, I would wish Brajeshwar theme to be linked to the right link as the Wordpress hosted theme and preview is not updated regularly.
Brajeshwar v7.0 Theme article at
Link [brajeshwar.com]
The live demo is at Link [brajeshwar.com]
Max (February 10th, 2007, 3:48 am)
wow! I love your lists / collections. Keep on ;-)
Zane Jamal (February 10th, 2007, 3:54 am)
I just released my theme for free :)
Link [www.zanejamal.co.uk]
Matt (February 10th, 2007, 4:58 am)
Is that Soxnest (redsox) theme downloadable? I couldn’t find a link to it anywhere. They mention their themes are downloadable at Link [www.devlounge.net] but Soxnest isn’t listed. Anyone know where to find it?
David G. Paul (February 10th, 2007, 5:08 am)
Well it’s a list thats not just useful for Wordpress users, but also for people who are looking for inspiration.
Nice job!
Jim (February 10th, 2007, 5:28 am)
Can these be used for blogs housed at Wordpress.com or just if you are using the Wordpress software on your own site?
Eoin (February 10th, 2007, 5:45 am)
Can I recommend Mandigo (at ) for the next iteration of this list?
Joost (February 10th, 2007, 6:47 am)
Problem is that these will not become overused!
bill (February 10th, 2007, 7:02 am)
Link [www.opensourcetemplates.org]
The Nautica05 for wordpress is pretty sweet as well.
Eric (February 10th, 2007, 7:03 am)
Well this can’t be a coincidence…
Link [www.drweb.de]
More than a slight resemblance here - but kudos for finding 3 on your own!
politea (February 10th, 2007, 9:46 am)
how do make this themes?
Dean Robinson (February 10th, 2007, 9:58 am)
Very cool to be the top of this list, but all the traffic has killed my host :(
Direct links to the download, which should still work:
Link [www.deanjrobinson.com]
smurfstah (February 10th, 2007, 10:46 am)
AWESOME stuff mate!!! beautiful stuff here :D
inspirationbit (February 10th, 2007, 11:13 am)
If you don’t have time to go through 83 themes, then check out the list of 8 amazing Wordpress themes that I found while looking for a theme for my blog:
Link [www.inspirationbit.com]
Eve (February 10th, 2007, 12:46 pm)
Wow these are beautiful. I have a wordpress blog but don’t use it much since Javascipt cannot be incorporated in it-but I’ll consider using one of these Thanks!
Martin (February 10th, 2007, 4:07 pm)
Wow, all the themes are awesome! Very beautiful!
devnull_ (February 10th, 2007, 6:59 pm)
Awsome list! :)
Keep up the good work.
K.Dev (February 11th, 2007, 1:53 am)
Wow… Wonderful article. The title perfectly fit. All of them are really rare… I am going to use at least five of them for my blog…
Dave C. (February 11th, 2007, 1:58 am)
There are some great one’s here. I’ve been looking at themes for another site and I think I’ve found the perfect one here. Thanks for this post.
tom (February 11th, 2007, 2:34 am)
Très bons goûts dans les chois de ces thèmes..j’en avais déjà installé une bonne partie mais certains vraiment intérrésants méritent une petite mise à jour..Good job !
Gmoney (February 11th, 2007, 4:05 am)
very nice, you can check out Joomla themes 17 of them here Link [www.17best.com]
Andrew (February 11th, 2007, 6:05 am)
Thanks for including Iceburgg and Soxnest, but Soxnest is not a public theme. It was a theme designed for personal use that was than sold off to a new owner.
Pizzadude (February 11th, 2007, 6:08 am)
_o_
jez (February 11th, 2007, 11:39 pm)
one of the best write-ups. thanks!!
ahmet (February 12th, 2007, 3:05 am)
thats nice! but, i could not glance at all of them… also, it would be better if we can have some options to obtain wordpress templates easily that we can change them by manually easily i meant…
have fun :Pp
Ethan (February 12th, 2007, 4:52 am)
You should take the Organique theme off the list - it doesn’t seem to be accessible at all.
MyAppleStuff (February 12th, 2007, 6:06 am)
I have certainly seen 65 (Qwilm) as I use it my own site :-)
Great list!
Link [www.myapplestuff.com]
Al-Kanz (February 12th, 2007, 7:14 am)
Thanks ;)
Doug Karr (February 12th, 2007, 7:33 am)
Check out Link [www.havelaptopwilltravel.com]. SeanRox has built a great theme for his site as well!
xra (February 12th, 2007, 10:22 am)
woow. Thanks…! Turkish (Teşekkürler)
Bryce (February 12th, 2007, 2:24 pm)
Thanks for this, I’ll definately come here when looking for wordpress themes
firman firdaus (February 12th, 2007, 3:48 pm)
thanks for the piece. i’m one of the “free WP theme hunters”, hahaha
Jessica Field (February 12th, 2007, 5:12 pm)
Thanks for the post. Excellent!
Link [www.logoblog.org]
Kris (February 12th, 2007, 6:34 pm)
“… Haven’t Seen…”
Not anymore, digg was here :)
OverZero.it (February 12th, 2007, 7:38 pm)
I don’t use Wordpress because I don’t need a personal blog at the moment, but this themes list is very inspiring!
Thank you.
Gratis (February 12th, 2007, 9:04 pm)
very nice!
Kris Karkoski (February 12th, 2007, 11:35 pm)
I can’t seem to find where to download the SoxNest theme, could you perhaps edit it to where I can download it at? Thanks so much for this list as well.
tzMedia (February 13th, 2007, 12:36 am)
Wow hot topic!
Thanks so much
x x
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I feel as if I’ve been smashed by a two-ton heavy thing —queensryche ;)
Dan (February 13th, 2007, 1:50 am)
Using an overly popular Wordpress theme is a sure-fire way to have your blog to fall into obscurity. These are all very impressive and I hope they encourage new users to tweak their blog designs now they see what is possible.
Jason (February 13th, 2007, 2:16 am)
I just finished uploading my modified version of fjords and my friend shows me this! I’m not sure if I’m happy to see all these beautiful themes or really upset?! Regardless your magazine here is great, thank you for all the great resources.
Opfer (February 13th, 2007, 12:50 pm)
Another beauty and free wpTheme ^^
storelicious.com/?p=14
DavilaCS (February 13th, 2007, 11:52 pm)
Las plantillas lo diseñso todo es muy bueno aqui realmente muchas gracias por dar cosas de primera ;)
SvT (February 14th, 2007, 12:19 am)
Big Tnx!… ;)
Website Guru (February 14th, 2007, 1:12 am)
Never thought about changing my current theme - but when I saw this! I could not but select something new :)
nakadai (February 15th, 2007, 8:49 am)
bueno, servira para darle un nuevo luc a mi blog.
saludos, a toddos los fan de la blog sfera.
bye bye,
fdjjf
Josh Iwata (February 15th, 2007, 5:45 pm)
Wonderful list of themes! It can be a bit overwhelming to sort through the plethora of WP themes available on the web. Just released a new WP theme for anyone interested in a fun, admittedly Web 2.0y, design.
Link [www.tweakcast.com]
Thanks!
Maksik (February 15th, 2007, 7:33 pm)
Thx, very useful!
Anon (February 16th, 2007, 12:21 am)
Yeah, unwakeable is basically a cheap imitation of Link [openswitch.org]. Get it right.
Photoshop Tutorials (February 16th, 2007, 9:01 pm)
Link [www.tutorials-db.com]
BooTCaT (February 16th, 2007, 10:26 pm)
Hey guyz , nice work .
Actually , i have individually visited each of these sites , but never thought of putting them at one place .
Good Job .
Jordan (February 19th, 2007, 4:01 am)
Why not just link to Link [www.drweb.de], instead of copy/pasting that post here?
Karl (February 19th, 2007, 3:56 pm)
@Jordan: Because both websites are run by the same folks… DrWeb’s for german language people, SmashingMagazine is international.
Asep (February 20th, 2007, 8:33 am)
I agree these are beautiful themes. I hope these compatible with Wordpress 2.1
sindhu (February 21st, 2007, 12:08 am)
dalarnas
Adam Walker Cleaveland (February 21st, 2007, 7:06 am)
These are some great themes - but so is the one I just released today: Cleaker 2.0.
Check it out here:
Link [pomomusings.com]
It’s a beautiful 3-column XHTML/CSS design…
iddaa tahminleri (February 22nd, 2007, 8:39 am)
good themplates but i am searching soccer themes. if you have soccer themes please contact me Link []
JM (February 24th, 2007, 3:27 am)
Seriously, thank you for contributing this. It’s so frustrating sorting through the numerous half baked templates when your looking for something that feels just right.
aaheroe (February 24th, 2007, 4:20 am)
wow… this is great wordpress theme lists !
Amazing !
jide (February 24th, 2007, 7:34 am)
Thanks ;)
ffdt (February 25th, 2007, 5:16 pm)
哎哟,娘列,这个也歹不错俩
didats (February 28th, 2007, 4:39 pm)
Just let you know,
The Chipshot theme is a fake!
The original author is me!
Not BloggingThemes!
I have sent them an email, but never get any words from them.
My friend, have a wrote about that
Link [orangescale.net]
Brandon Hopkins (March 1st, 2007, 1:44 pm)
Using one of these at my site! Thanks!
jimmyc (March 2nd, 2007, 4:08 am)
one word: Wow!
bookmarked this
http://www.virtuport.com (March 2nd, 2007, 12:09 pm)
Virtuport,
Thanks for getting my computer out of a major jam and introducing some much needed order into the chaos of my operating system. I’m looking forward to keeping my machine in excellent working order with your company’s help for years to come.
Cheers,
Hugh
Garner, NC
Link [www.virtuport.com]
Hans (March 3rd, 2007, 3:14 pm)
WOW thanks for this great list. I also released a new theme called Link [blogosquare.com]. Maybe you could have a look at it :) It’s a black minimalist theme, highly customisable, lightning fast,easy to deploy and use while supporting the vast majority of plugins out there.
You can view the live demo version Link [blogosquare.com].
benaouida abdel malik (March 3rd, 2007, 9:41 pm)
envoayéé mois des magasines
eric (March 5th, 2007, 7:50 pm)
Good collection of wp themes, my congratulations, this is another one
Link [www.cibernenas.com]
deckie (March 6th, 2007, 6:57 pm)
didats: YES, you`re the owner of that theme Umalas. im joining you to say it to the world. let them shame for what they done.
hendra (March 8th, 2007, 10:56 am)
Woow, great list. I take the first one in the list. But, before that, i download all that interest me and try it at localhost. But, i like Redoable. Many thanks!
aşk (March 11th, 2007, 11:15 pm)
iyi spam he :D
vibhash (March 12th, 2007, 2:45 am)
Awsome list:)
imaginepaolo (March 14th, 2007, 4:50 pm)
What do you think about my theme? Thanks…
rivermaya (March 18th, 2007, 11:09 am)
The Soxnest Link’s preview did not match, it previewed Iceburgg
Columbus Ohio directory (March 19th, 2007, 6:35 am)
Without question, one of the more valuable blog posts I’ve seen in some time. Thanks for taking the time to put this together. I will most certainly pass it along to friends!
RenderFaux.com (March 19th, 2007, 8:38 am)
Your blog is awesome, alot of really great templates here!
Abdullah Ibrahim (March 22nd, 2007, 1:23 pm)
Yet another sweet post from Smashing Magazine. All are awesome. I really loved them.
Issis (March 23rd, 2007, 1:42 am)
I would like to know if this templates can be used for free. I´ve got a blog in Wordpress and I would like to change the current template for one of this. How can I change it? Or these templates are only for looking them.
carlos (March 27th, 2007, 6:28 am)
You should check this site Link [www.iphonefan.com] it has the best theme I’ve ever seen
Almer Viloria (March 27th, 2007, 2:25 pm)
can we link exchange?
david (March 27th, 2007, 9:21 pm)
i use one of them, and it is look good ;)
wedtaur (March 27th, 2007, 9:43 pm)
My theme:
Link [www.yoshiblog.com]
Solltex (March 29th, 2007, 11:57 pm)
i use one of them, and it is look good
Ruby on Rails (April 2nd, 2007, 5:29 am)
nice work! thank you
şen (April 2nd, 2007, 8:33 pm)
templates are perfect thanks for everything
ismail yk (April 8th, 2007, 1:09 am)
Karwaszowi za pokazanie 83 Beautiful WordPress Themes You (Propably) Haven’t Seen. Ukradłem sobie stamtąd temat o wdzięcznej nazwie Hemingway. Po niewielkich, kosmetycznych
dirk (April 13th, 2007, 3:19 am)
great posting, I like the design the guys from Magnus did on their corporate blog. Check it out, Link [blogs.magnus.nl]
Hardik (April 13th, 2007, 7:36 pm)
good collection…
Raspana (April 15th, 2007, 4:59 pm)
Hi. My name is Hamed.
I spent a lot of times to find a nice theme for wordpress, but i’m so tired now!
…
Good lock
isa (April 15th, 2007, 7:26 pm)
Hi!
The XV doesn’t work in my WP!
I’ve uploaded it correctly but WP doesn’t recognize the style.css
:-(
Smith (April 18th, 2007, 2:02 pm)
We use your Themas to Our Blog Site
Thanks alot
Pink is the new blogPink Is The New Blog and pink panther, pink depression glass with pink world and pink rose with pink is the new blog.
Link [www.pinkisthenewblog.info]
Bryan Le (April 23rd, 2007, 1:06 am)
Hey there,
Just a heads up - the 3rd one featured, Soxnest - the URL is actually Link [www.soxnest.com] not the one you have working.
Bryan
Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz (April 23rd, 2007, 2:35 pm)
bryan le: link no.3 is the right one. this is the theme we want to show.
parveen (May 3rd, 2007, 8:07 pm)
Instead of going to wordpress.org and searching for the required ones from thousands of wordpress themes is very time consuming. I think this would form a good comprehensive list of quality themes to look on .
Vent Swap (May 4th, 2007, 1:51 pm)
Hi, I’ve been looking around for the english version of the “GreenDog” theme.
Thank you.
Emexci (May 4th, 2007, 9:47 pm)
you can add the itheme
found at Link [www.ndesign-studio.com]
bony (May 5th, 2007, 7:57 am)
Thanks for the great themes here. I have always been looking for some great themes. I have used the NeoSapien in my Link [www.bonyuts.com] and the fresh them is used by my friend in her Link [www.agendassos.net] as well. Thanks :)
wordpress themes biz (May 9th, 2007, 10:00 am)
thanks for these themes.i like white backgrounded professional themes.and i am trying to do some themes myself.you can check my page Link [www.wordpressthemes.biz]thanks.
Aviance (May 10th, 2007, 5:56 pm)
Maybe you will like my theme. And maybe someday i will be in this great list :)
Link [www.flying-people.com]
serdar (May 12th, 2007, 2:57 am)
thanx, nice themes..
anarsist,
Link [www.anarsist.org]
E-Kereta (May 12th, 2007, 5:08 pm)
TQ for the great compilation. I will use one of the theme in my blog….
Abazza (May 13th, 2007, 7:13 pm)
Nice collection. Thank you for wour work. We usind theme number 40,… not so fresh,… but looking for some new stuff. I think we discovered the right to collection to find.
Thank you
Abazza
serdar (May 14th, 2007, 12:56 am)
woww thanks soo much, that’s nice themes..
GnC,
i using black.
Bucky (May 15th, 2007, 9:46 pm)
Great list.
Now I don’t have to manually do it myself. I have been looking for a page like this for some time now. :)
Thank you.
claudia (May 20th, 2007, 11:34 pm)
Hey this is a really cool article and i am going to pass it on to the rest of my friends. Thank you for your research and time to put this neat resource together. –Clau
Jonathan (May 23rd, 2007, 5:14 pm)
I’m stunned by these layouts. I’ve just finished redesigning my girlfriend’s blog and feel like and idiot…
Link [insearchofdessert.com]Link [www.insearchofdessert.com]
athew (May 26th, 2007, 2:39 am)
thanks. my new blog using Sirius .
Ali Sanaei (May 29th, 2007, 12:49 am)
Thanks a million!
great themes, wish I found you before ;)
Doc Oth (May 31st, 2007, 7:00 am)
Very good overview of some of the better themes out there!
JDM Blog (May 31st, 2007, 3:52 pm)
what a nice compilation…great job
kenisha stone (May 31st, 2007, 10:57 pm)
I would like to know how could I get in contact with your compnay. I see some items that I would like to use to create a web page, but I need to know what I can and can not use. I also want to know if there is a template available for purchase on the design that you choose. is there a phone number that I can use to speak to a customer service rep?
Hornswaggled (June 1st, 2007, 3:18 am)
Im running number 79 on another site I have. Too funny! Some of these are great. Im probably looking at this a little late as I have seen many of these around but then again I am always looking out for new styles.Thanks for the list.
Thomas (June 2nd, 2007, 12:25 am)
Great collection of sophisticated themes. In case someone is looking for something simpler but easier to customize, you might want to have a look at a template I just completed. Again, it’s not a visual stunner, but if simple design and easy customization are what you are looking for, you’re invited to check it out.
Free WordPress Themes (June 6th, 2007, 10:54 am)
We have 2 very new WordPress themes inspired by 2 upcoming movies Fantastic Four and Transformers. I bet none of you have seen them yet? Ohh and by the way, they are free. :-)
HDR (June 6th, 2007, 5:58 pm)
Wow, that’s quite a list!
Eric (June 6th, 2007, 8:30 pm)
Very nice themes! I’m using one of them that is on your list (highly modified though ;) ) - Glossy Blue.
Taking a look at these, I may just add another one..
-Eric
Michael Krotchie (June 7th, 2007, 5:00 am)
Great post, thanks for all of the choices!
marc (June 8th, 2007, 4:31 pm)
many thanks for themes!
Bertrand (June 9th, 2007, 12:37 am)
Many thanks for your great liste, I found THE one ;)
ThemeMaster (June 9th, 2007, 5:49 pm)
Good themes. Thanks!