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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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March 24th, 2009 12:19 amI’m using a theme called Admire Gray for my drupal based site. I wonder whether it’s available for Wordpress or not.
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March 24th, 2009 5:53 pmThe MacOS theme is very friendly ;)
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April 5th, 2009 12:44 amHi, 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”.
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April 7th, 2009 5:26 amI’m using a theme called Admire Gray for my drupal based site. I wonder whether it’s available for Wordpress or not.
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April 15th, 2009 10:44 ambeautiful List..It’s time to change my theme blog template! Thanks a lot for sharing your collection!
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April 15th, 2009 11:31 pmHi, thanks for the post
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April 16th, 2009 3:28 pmnice, really nice!
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April 17th, 2009 7:38 amThanks for this beautiful Themes!
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April 18th, 2009 12:47 amI cant believe some of the themes are simply awesome and free :)
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April 23rd, 2009 6:55 amThe theme Red Stamp isn’t free
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April 26th, 2009 5:49 amThis is awesome!!! Tnkx for this huge collection of themes.
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April 27th, 2009 7:48 pmGreat collections
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April 29th, 2009 5:23 amcan i use these free wordpress themes for free wordpress account at wordpress.com…
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May 5th, 2009 3:17 amwell relatively new to this wordpress, can any one send me simple tutorial to me
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May 17th, 2009 12:36 pmDM-Bloodless gives a server not found error…
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May 19th, 2009 1:38 amCan somebody explain to me what Ajax means? It’s apparently very useful and quite importnat according to several posts, so excuse my ignorance
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That’s a beutiful collection..thanks 4 sharing
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May 24th, 2009 9:01 pmFantastic Collection ..great !
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May 25th, 2009 3:57 amThanks a lot for sharing your collection.
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June 1st, 2009 7:20 amDM-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
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June 5th, 2009 8:24 pmI tell all my friends about this list.
Thanks so much!
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June 6th, 2009 11:44 pmhello….you r rocking !
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June 16th, 2009 10:08 pmhi, these really are great and wonderful themes i like them do you people have any themes which can show my videos in classical ways..
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June 18th, 2009 1:17 amgood!
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June 18th, 2009 6:49 amNice Collection :)
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June 21st, 2009 5:13 amI like this Curved Wordpress Theme
Thanks
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June 22nd, 2009 3:40 pmThis is a great list to get good ideas and free themes from. Love WordPress! ; )
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June 22nd, 2009 6:06 pmvery excellent collection wordpress themes!
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June 25th, 2009 3:07 pmEstan muy buenos gran trabajo de recopilacion.
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July 2nd, 2009 10:43 pmThis is a great list to get good ideas. I want to test some of this nice themes on my personal blog at sk83.de
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July 7th, 2009 11:30 amWhat 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
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July 8th, 2009 5:11 amThanks.. The collection very good.
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July 8th, 2009 8:23 amThank 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
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July 20th, 2009 10:40 pmgood =)
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August 3rd, 2009 9:27 amGreat list of free themes!
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August 3rd, 2009 11:00 pmthanks for the themes. I used some at my site Genç Yorum, Genç Blog
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August 7th, 2009 1:06 amHELP! 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!
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August 12th, 2009 8:09 pmAwsome Themes cant believe some are here for free and not premium!
Thanks for your services!!! - 291
August 22nd, 2009 1:32 amWow, 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! - 292
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August 30th, 2009 9:32 pmVery nice! My favourite would have to be Yoghourt. Nice colours and nice layout!
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September 17th, 2009 8:56 amNice post! Really Love it! thank you very much!
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September 19th, 2009 6:06 pmcool wordpress theme, some fresh wordpress theme can be found at <a href="http://wpweaver.com"free wordpress theme.
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September 23rd, 2009 1:33 amThis collection of WordPress themes are really good. I like the bluebird theme very much. Thanks for sharing.
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September 23rd, 2009 9:13 pmThe best free Premium Wordpress Themes for instant download. Don’t ever pay a cent again for a wp theme.
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October 1st, 2009 4:38 amNice Collections!
I will defenetly going to use one of them.Thanks again.
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October 1st, 2009 7:09 amExcellent WordPress Themes.
Thank for sharing
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October 13th, 2009 9:55 pmGreat articles…
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October 23rd, 2009 11:34 pmGood website
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October 27th, 2009 4:31 amGreat post! Thak you for saving us time!
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October 27th, 2009 7:36 amIve 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!
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October 31st, 2009 5:15 pmGREAT article!!!
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November 1st, 2009 3:30 pmHey where did you find all this beatiful themes? I Really like them all..
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November 2nd, 2009 1:15 amthanks for sharing… really likes this…
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November 2nd, 2009 1:28 amThis 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…
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November 9th, 2009 8:54 pmso many themes! thanks! a great place for wordpress
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November 10th, 2009 12:13 amthx, great list
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November 15th, 2009 5:43 pmthanks for the post! :)
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November 28th, 2009 11:22 pmthat’s great
The best free Premium Wordpress Themes - 316
December 2nd, 2009 10:24 pmThis 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…
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December 5th, 2009 4:50 pmNice collection
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December 10th, 2009 7:00 amThx for ur inspiration!!
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December 14th, 2009 1:30 pmWonderful 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!
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December 15th, 2009 10:51 pmHow to install wordpress themes?
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December 16th, 2009 10:33 amThe 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.
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December 17th, 2009 2:35 pmliked it and shared it.
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December 20th, 2009 3:28 pmHi
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. - 324
December 21st, 2009 6:44 amthis is just amazing
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Example…I downloaded and tried out Cubismo, but on the theme designer’s site my comments still remain unanswered. Back to the search.
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December 25th, 2009 9:08 amI like the classic style then. So I’m looking for the themes that can help for SEO.
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January 4th, 2010 12:12 amit’s a nice template
Thanks a lot
Regards.you can open my Website “themeses.com” download more Mobile Phone wallpapers.
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January 7th, 2010 12:41 pm13 nice templates http://bbl-news.blogspot.com/2010/01/13-excellents-themes-wordpress-gratuits.html
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