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100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes
High-quality WordPress themes always come in handy. Whether you are looking for some design inspiration or professional coding solutions — in both cases you can learn a lot, you can apply them and you can build customized designs upon them without reinventing the wheel all the time.
In this article we present 100 free high-quality WordPress themes. Together with hundreds of other designs, these themes have been manually selected, installed and tested over the last weeks. They all can be downloaded, customized and used for free in both personal and commercial projects. Links to demo-versions provide a direct preview of a theme.
Please notice that the listed WordPress themes are presented in 8 sections: vibrant themes, simple & minimalistic themes, magazine style, grid-based, clean and legible, advanced, experimental, photoblog & videoblog.
You might also want to take a look at our previous selections:
- 83 Beautiful WordPress Themes
An overview of beautiful, but rather unknown themes you might have missed. - 21 Fresh, Usable and Elegant Themes
A quite pretty selection of elegant yet well thought-out themes. - 10 Fresh and Clean Themes
The beauty of these themes lies in their clean look supported by a legible content presentation. - 13 Wordpress Magazin-Themes
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1. Vibrant WordPress Themes
FFF Lemon Twist (Demo and Download)
Several3 [ Demo ]
DM-Bloodless [ Demo]
jsTheme
Comes with a number of themes.
Smashing Theme [ Demo ]
Gossip City [ Demo ]
Resurrection
Midsight Red & Brown[ Demo ]
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Curved WordPress Theme [ Demo ]
Accord WordPress Theme [ Demo ]
2. Simple, Minimalistic Themes
Documentation [ Demo ]
miniBits [ Demo ]
Dayvan Theme [ Demo ]
Tree Theme [Demo ]
DePo Clean WordPress Theme [ Demo ]
Balance
Brilliance [ Demo ]
3. Magazine Style WordPress Themes
WP Premium [ Demo ]
Structure Wordpress Theme [ Demo ]
Visionary Wordpress Theme [ Demo ]
WP Polaroid [ Demo ]
Jello Wala Mello Wordpress Theme
4. Grid-Based WordPress Themes
Gridline Lite [ Demo ]
5. Calm, Clean and Legible Themes
Yomel [ Demo ]
Abstractia [ Demo ]
HemingwayEx [ Demo ]
Livegreen [ Demo ]
6. Advanced WordPress Themes
Neoclassical
A 3-column template system with rotating header images.
7. Experimental Themes
Bonsai, Red Growth Live
Big typography dominates.
Trevilian Way [ Demo ]
BrainTied 1.0 [ Demo ]
The front page displays only the list of recent posts.
Tropical Grunge [ Demo ]
Isolated Theme [ Demo ]
Fontella
The front page features only the main/recent post of the weblog.
Retro Mac OS X [ Demo ]
8. Photoblog & Videoblog Themes
Tumblelog For WordPress [ Demo ]
9. Sources and Further Resources
Vitaly Friedman, editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine (www.smashingmagazine.com), an online magazine dedicated to designers and developers.
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February 2nd, 2010 12:54 amNice.
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- 253March 24th, 2009 12:19 am
I’m using a theme called Admire Gray for my drupal based site. I wonder whether it’s available for Wordpress or not.
- 254March 24th, 2009 5:53 pm
The MacOS theme is very friendly ;)
- 255April 5th, 2009 12:44 am
Hi, thanks for the post, but I personally find it too many to look at.
I think you might find it a lot better if you post them in chunks of 20, but relate them to a niche, ie “top 20 wp themes for small businesses” or “top 20 wp themes for web mag”.
- 256April 7th, 2009 5:26 am
I’m using a theme called Admire Gray for my drupal based site. I wonder whether it’s available for Wordpress or not.
- 257April 15th, 2009 10:44 am
beautiful List..It’s time to change my theme blog template! Thanks a lot for sharing your collection!
- 258April 15th, 2009 11:31 pm
Hi, thanks for the post
- 259April 16th, 2009 3:28 pm
nice, really nice!
- 260April 17th, 2009 7:38 am
Thanks for this beautiful Themes!
- 261April 18th, 2009 12:47 am
I cant believe some of the themes are simply awesome and free :)
- 262April 23rd, 2009 6:55 am
The theme Red Stamp isn’t free
- 263April 26th, 2009 5:49 am
This is awesome!!! Tnkx for this huge collection of themes.
- 264April 27th, 2009 7:48 pm
Great collections
- 265April 29th, 2009 5:23 am
can i use these free wordpress themes for free wordpress account at wordpress.com…
- 266May 5th, 2009 3:17 am
well relatively new to this wordpress, can any one send me simple tutorial to me
- 267May 17th, 2009 12:36 pm
DM-Bloodless gives a server not found error…
- 268May 19th, 2009 1:38 am
Can somebody explain to me what Ajax means? It’s apparently very useful and quite importnat according to several posts, so excuse my ignorance
- 269May 19th, 2009 8:45 am
That’s a beutiful collection..thanks 4 sharing
- 270May 24th, 2009 9:01 pm
Fantastic Collection ..great !
- 271May 25th, 2009 3:57 am
Thanks a lot for sharing your collection.
- 272June 1st, 2009 7:20 am
DM-Bloodless – The colored ball image is an image I created a few years ago! First time I have randomly come across my work online. joy :P
- 273January 24th, 2010 8:18 pm
nice post
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- 274June 5th, 2009 8:24 pm
I tell all my friends about this list.
Thanks so much!
- 275June 6th, 2009 11:44 pm
hello….you r rocking !
- 276June 16th, 2009 10:08 pm
hi, these really are great and wonderful themes i like them do you people have any themes which can show my videos in classical ways..
- 277June 18th, 2009 1:17 am
good!
- 278June 18th, 2009 6:49 am
Nice Collection :)
- 279June 21st, 2009 5:13 am
I like this Curved Wordpress Theme
Thanks
Y Are my HERO - 280June 22nd, 2009 3:40 pm
This is a great list to get good ideas and free themes from. Love WordPress! ; )
- 281June 22nd, 2009 6:06 pm
very excellent collection wordpress themes!
- 282June 25th, 2009 3:07 pm
Estan muy buenos gran trabajo de recopilacion.
- 283July 2nd, 2009 10:43 pm
This is a great list to get good ideas. I want to test some of this nice themes on my personal blog at sk83.de
- 284July 7th, 2009 11:30 am
What a collection…
You could spend the rest of your life looking for the best free theme.Good idea to break them down into categories.
It would be great if there was a rating for “documentation that comes with the theme”. Without some documentation it can be diffiocult to sort out some themes.
Thanks
- 285July 8th, 2009 5:11 am
Thanks.. The collection very good.
- 286July 8th, 2009 8:23 am
Thank you for this great collection of themes. I picked up a couple and will put them to good use. The value of the Word Press platform is tremendous and the theme possibilities are endless.
James
- 287July 20th, 2009 10:40 pm
good =)
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- 289August 3rd, 2009 9:27 am
Great list of free themes!
- 290August 3rd, 2009 11:00 pm
thanks for the themes. I used some at my site Genç Yorum, Genç Blog
- 291August 7th, 2009 1:06 am
HELP! when I try to submit comments onthese pages it is coming back to me as unable to submit this is spam. I am not spam. I am a real person! I am trying to find out how these are free themes. IT only says demo beside them, not download. SO can anyone explain to me how we can make them into our own sites or blogs from jsut seeing these demo templates. I found a couple I really love but cant afford to buy them. can anyone email me and let me know how to utilize these themes as our own???? thank you!
- 292August 12th, 2009 8:09 pm
Awsome Themes cant believe some are here for free and not premium!
Thanks for your services!!! - 293August 22nd, 2009 1:32 am
Wow, what a long list you’ve got here! But
the best Wordpress theme I know so far are the Revolution Themes by Brian Gardner. I’ve been shifting from one theme to another for over 2 months now until I stumble upon this awesome theme – the Revolution Music. I find it very professional, modern and stylish. The more appealing part is the ease in customizing/tweaking it, great support and best of all it’s Free! - 294
- 295August 30th, 2009 9:32 pm
Very nice! My favourite would have to be Yoghourt. Nice colours and nice layout!
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- 297September 17th, 2009 8:56 am
Nice post! Really Love it! thank you very much!
- 298September 19th, 2009 6:06 pm
cool wordpress theme, some fresh wordpress theme can be found at <a href="http://wpweaver.com"free wordpress theme.
- 299September 23rd, 2009 1:33 am
This collection of WordPress themes are really good. I like the bluebird theme very much. Thanks for sharing.
- 300September 23rd, 2009 9:13 pm
The best free Premium Wordpress Themes for instant download. Don’t ever pay a cent again for a wp theme.
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- 302October 1st, 2009 4:38 am
Nice Collections!
I will defenetly going to use one of them.Thanks again.
- 303October 1st, 2009 7:09 am
Excellent WordPress Themes.
Thank for sharing
- 304October 13th, 2009 9:55 pm
Great articles…
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- 306October 23rd, 2009 11:34 pm
Good website
- 307October 27th, 2009 4:31 am
Great post! Thak you for saving us time!
- 308October 27th, 2009 7:36 am
Ive been blogging with wordpress for a while now and i opened a few sites using the themes you showed here which are commonly. I couldnt find your email to show you some of the new exclusive ones which helped me boost my new site. allwoothemes.com is the place im talking about, theyve got a whole pack of amazing wordpress themes for free! I thought ide share it with you as a thank you for all the rest you have done for us!
- 309October 31st, 2009 5:15 pm
GREAT article!!!
- 310November 1st, 2009 3:30 pm
Hey where did you find all this beatiful themes? I Really like them all..
- 311November 2nd, 2009 1:15 am
thanks for sharing… really likes this…
- 312November 2nd, 2009 1:28 am
This is a great collection, awesome. I really like every one of it…
Great creativity. Keep up the good work.Smashing magazine is a great inspiration for all…
- 313November 5th, 2009 3:58 am
thanks for the post! lots of awesome stuff
Tim
- 314November 9th, 2009 8:54 pm
so many themes! thanks! a great place for wordpress
- 315November 10th, 2009 12:13 am
thx, great list
- 316November 15th, 2009 5:43 pm
thanks for the post! :)
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- 317November 28th, 2009 11:22 pm
that’s great
The best free Premium Wordpress Themes - 318December 2nd, 2009 10:24 pm
This is a great collection, awesome. I really like every one of it…
Great creativity. Keep up the good work.Smashing magazine is a great inspiration for all…
アダルト無料動画 - 319December 5th, 2009 4:50 pm
Nice collection
- 320December 10th, 2009 7:00 am
Thx for ur inspiration!!
- 321December 14th, 2009 1:30 pm
Wonderful post , You really hit the
mark with this, I just don’t understand why people quite get what you’re saying.
I’m not for sure how many people I’ve talked to concerning this very
thing in the past few days, and they just don’t understand.Never the less, Excellent post!
- 322December 15th, 2009 10:51 pm
How to install wordpress themes?
- 323December 16th, 2009 10:33 am
The biggest problem here (as I found with Blogger) is that free themes often don’t come with any documentation. You are basically left to your own devices to figure things out and any comments left on the theme creator’s site don’t usually get any replies.
- 324December 17th, 2009 2:35 pm
liked it and shared it.
- 325December 20th, 2009 3:28 pm
Hi
Wow people are really getting creative on changing wordpress around from a blogging platform. Im guessing someday int he future we will use wordpress for everything online! Just activate the plugin you want are your done. - 326December 21st, 2009 6:44 am
this is just amazing
- 327December 22nd, 2009 10:48 am
Example…I downloaded and tried out Cubismo, but on the theme designer’s site my comments still remain unanswered. Back to the search.
- 328December 25th, 2009 9:08 am
I like the classic style then. So I’m looking for the themes that can help for SEO.
- 329January 4th, 2010 12:12 am
it’s a nice template
Thanks a lot
Regards.you can open my Website “themeses.com” download more Mobile Phone wallpapers.
- 330January 7th, 2010 12:41 pm
13 nice templates http://bbl-news.blogspot.com/2010/01/13-excellents-themes-wordpress-gratuits.html
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- 332January 11th, 2010 11:15 am
Thank you so much man!
I will use one of them in my own site - 333January 11th, 2010 10:54 pm
It’s really a good website for web designer. yeah, very nice, I like it.
- 334January 17th, 2010 12:14 am
Nice theme
- 335January 17th, 2010 5:47 am
Thanks, perfect themes ;)
- 336January 30th, 2010 11:59 am
Great themes!
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- 337January 21st, 2010 6:13 am
Fabulous as always. Thank you for your reporting! I’ve done a detailed review of CleanPress in my italian wordpress blog: http://www.temigratis-wordpress.it/professional/cleanpress/ . Thx a lot.
- 338January 22nd, 2010 8:34 pm
The above “Elite” theme towards the bottom of the list has been updated. Several bug fixes, and overal interface tweaks. Much cleaner! Check it out:
wpzone.net/wordpress-themes/elite/You might also like the new version of “Light.” It’s a classic (you’ve probably seen it around) and we fixed some bugs and cleaned up the design a bit as well. Looks much much better. Check it out here:
wpzone.net/wordpress-themes/light/ - 339January 26th, 2010 9:15 am
thanks for the post it’s going to be a BIG help.
- 340January 26th, 2010 9:17 am
thanks for input, i’m glad i found this.
- 341January 29th, 2010 3:22 am
Here, the original, thank you for the beautiful theme.
- 342January 29th, 2010 6:06 am
I’ve found a promising site with great themes >>
http://magazinethemeswordpress.com/
Enjoy everyone :)
- 343January 31st, 2010 8:19 am
Wow awesome Themes! Great list!
I just use Joomla for my Website Prepaid Vergleich but I wan´t to use WP for my new Website…
Just downloaded the Gridline Theme, wanna try it out :)
Thanks again
- 344January 31st, 2010 11:55 pm
wow… real vibrant themes are here… but they have been distributed among many people and thus, they cannt be proved a unique theme for one’s blog.
So for Custome xieno.com Wordrpress Theme Design, we would have hire some profession wordpress theme designer…
anyway.. nice work… keep rocking guyz..
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- 346February 4th, 2010 12:20 am
Hi,
Seen this on Amazon, however can’t find any reference to it on your site to check out more about the book before I buy:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0470684151/ref=pe_3421_18585601_snp_dp
Can you point me in the direction of more information?
Thanks,
Andrew - 347February 6th, 2010 4:21 am
çok güzel bir çalışma
- 348February 7th, 2010 2:33 pm
Wonderful collection of themes.
I work on so many projects for clients and I think I just got a selection of quality themes that I will use.Thanks!
- 349February 7th, 2010 9:53 pm
Amazing… is the word i would say !! keep smashing SM ;)
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