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100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

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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:

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1. Vibrant WordPress Themes

FFF Lemon Twist (Demo and Download)

Lemontwist in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Several3 [ Demo ]

Several3 in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Adreu r2 [ Demo ]

Adreu in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Blogging Pro Theme [ Demo ]

Bpro in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

DM-Bloodless [ Demo]

Dm in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Illacrimo [ Demo ]

Illacrimo in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Elixir

Elixir in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Insense [ Demo ]

Insense in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Zeke 1.0 [ Demo ]

Zeke in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

jsTheme
Comes with a number of themes.

Nightwish in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Smashing Theme [ Demo ]

Smashing in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

DarkRed [ Demo ]

Darkred in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Gossip City [ Demo ]

Gossip-city in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Resurrection

Resurrection in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Blue Steel

Bluesteel in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

River Run

Riverrun in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Yoghourt

Yough in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Midsight Red & Brown[ Demo ]
The original page was virus-infected, the link is replaced with its text-version until the site will be cleaned.

Midsight in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Fluid Yellow Black

Fyb in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

xPlosive Reloaded [ Demo ]

Xplosives in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Red Stamp [ Demo ]

Red-stamp in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Dilectio [ Demo ]

Dilectio in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Fauna

Fauna in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

dfMarine [ Demo ]

Dfmarine in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Curved WordPress Theme [ Demo ]

Curved in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Accord WordPress Theme [ Demo ]

Accord in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

2. Simple, Minimalistic Themes

iA

Ia in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Modicus 0.2

Modicus in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Modern [ Demo ]

Modern in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Documentation [ Demo ]

Documenta in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Jentri [ Demo ]

Jentri in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

miniBits [ Demo ]

Minibits in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

GIMP Style

Gimp in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Dayvan Theme [ Demo ]

Dayvan in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Tree Theme [Demo ]

Minim in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

DePo Clean WordPress Theme [ Demo ]

Depo in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

BlueBird 1.0

Bluebird in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Balance

Balance in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Paisley [ Demo ]

Scribble in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Autumn

Autumn in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Brilliance [ Demo ]

Brilliance in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Pixelate

Pixelates in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Pockett [ Demo ]

Pockett in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Artuell [ Demo ]

Artuell in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Plane Jane

Plane Jane Ss in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Briny

Briny in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Elite

Elite in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Blue Moon

Bluemoon in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

3. Magazine Style WordPress Themes

WP Premium [ Demo ]

Wppremium in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Modicus Remix

Modicusremix in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Morning After

Morningafter in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Futurosity Magazine [ Demo ]

Futurosity807 in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Structure Wordpress Theme [ Demo ]

Structure-s in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Visionary Wordpress Theme [ Demo ]

Visionary in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

WP Polaroid [ Demo ]

Wp-polaroid in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Overstand Theme

Overstand in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Jello Wala Mello Wordpress Theme

Jello in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

4. Grid-Based WordPress Themes

Gridline Lite [ Demo ]

Gridline in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Refreshed: Grid Focus

Gridfocus in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

5. Calm, Clean and Legible Themes

Sharpfolio

Sharpfolio in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Coldblue

Coldblue in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Cubismo [ Demo ]

Cubismo in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Yomel [ Demo ]

Yomel in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Lust Wordpress Theme

Lust in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Abstractia [ Demo ]

Abstractia in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

HemingwayEx [ Demo ]

Hemingwayex in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Blubbr

Blubbr in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Ayumi [ Demo ]

Ayumi in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Greenway 3C

Greenway3c in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

K2-U3 [ Demo ]

K2-u3 in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

OldLamp [ Demo ]

Oldlamp in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Prima [ Demo ]

Prima in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

ProSense

Prosense in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Insan [ Demo ]

Instah in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Sakeena [ Demo ]

Sakena in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Margot

Margot in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

The Azure Hut

Azure Hut in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Livegreen [ Demo ]

Livegreen in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Simpress [ Demo ]

Simpress in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Glued Ideas: Subtle [ Demo ]

Glued-ideas in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Gluttony [ Demo ]

Gluttony in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

6. Advanced WordPress Themes

ExtJS Wordpress Theme

Extjs in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Lounge2

L22 in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Prebuilt

Prebuilt in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Neoclassical
A 3-column template system with rotating header images.

Neoclassical in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

7. Experimental Themes

Bonsai, Red Growth Live
Big typography dominates.

Fatarmy in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Trevilian Way [ Demo ]

Trevillian in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

BrainTied 1.0 [ Demo ]
The front page displays only the list of recent posts.

Braintied in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Tropical Grunge [ Demo ]

Tropic in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Aspire

Infocreek in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Isolated Theme [ Demo ]

Sandbox in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Supermini

Supermini in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Fontella
The front page features only the main/recent post of the weblog.

Fontella in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

ASCII Themes

Ascii in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Retro Mac OS X [ Demo ]

Retro in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

8. Photoblog & Videoblog Themes

Tumblelog For WordPress [ Demo ]

Stumblelog in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Nautilus

Nautilus in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Nishita [ Demo ]

Nishita in 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

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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  1. 251
    Solexy
    March 21st, 2009 11:12 pm

    thx,
    i like: jsTheme,Greenway 3C,Margot

  2. 252
    vishal
    March 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.

  3. 253
    hotels
    March 24th, 2009 5:53 pm

    The MacOS theme is very friendly ;)

  4. 254
    Krystian
    April 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”.

  5. 255
    estetik
    April 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.

  6. 256
    giuseppe
    April 15th, 2009 10:44 am

    beautiful List..It’s time to change my theme blog template! Thanks a lot for sharing your collection!

  7. 257
    mantolama
    April 15th, 2009 11:31 pm

    Hi, thanks for the post

  8. 258
    SymnInheshy
    April 16th, 2009 3:28 pm

    nice, really nice!

  9. 259
    Action
    April 17th, 2009 7:38 am

    Thanks for this beautiful Themes!

  10. 260
    Manas Mukul
    April 18th, 2009 12:47 am

    I cant believe some of the themes are simply awesome and free :)

  11. 261
    macthekat
    April 23rd, 2009 6:55 am

    The theme Red Stamp isn’t free

  12. 262
    PhitZone
    April 26th, 2009 5:49 am

    This is awesome!!! Tnkx for this huge collection of themes.

  13. 263
    shraqs
    April 27th, 2009 7:48 pm

    Great collections

  14. 264
    Khurram Z
    April 29th, 2009 5:23 am

    can i use these free wordpress themes for free wordpress account at wordpress.com…

  15. 265
    Bhavesh
    May 5th, 2009 3:17 am

    well relatively new to this wordpress, can any one send me simple tutorial to me

  16. 266
    Emily from How to Blog
    May 17th, 2009 12:36 pm

    DM-Bloodless gives a server not found error…

  17. 267
    Andrew
    May 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

  18. 268
    Giuseppe Martone
    May 19th, 2009 8:45 am

    That’s a beutiful collection..thanks 4 sharing

  19. 269
    bhargava
    May 24th, 2009 9:01 pm

    Fantastic Collection ..great !

  20. 270
    Suresh
    May 25th, 2009 3:57 am

    Thanks a lot for sharing your collection.

  21. 271
    dave
    June 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

  22. 272
    Travis
    June 5th, 2009 8:24 pm

    I tell all my friends about this list.

    Thanks so much!

  23. 273
    abhi
    June 6th, 2009 11:44 pm

    hello….you r rocking !

  24. 274
    bubbly
    June 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..

  25. 275
    johnny
    June 18th, 2009 1:17 am

    good!

  26. 276
    MMF
    June 18th, 2009 6:49 am

    Nice Collection :)

  27. 277
    Tarek
    June 21st, 2009 5:13 am

    I like this Curved Wordpress Theme
    Thanks
    Y Are my HERO

  28. 278
    Mike Grace
    June 22nd, 2009 3:40 pm

    This is a great list to get good ideas and free themes from. Love WordPress! ; )

  29. 279
    narayana
    June 22nd, 2009 6:06 pm

    very excellent collection wordpress themes!

  30. 280
    avelasquez
    June 25th, 2009 3:07 pm

    Estan muy buenos gran trabajo de recopilacion.

  31. 281
    Sebastian K.
    July 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

  32. 282
    Keith Davis
    July 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

  33. 283
    ripek
    July 8th, 2009 5:11 am

    Thanks.. The collection very good.

  34. 284
    James Holmes
    July 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

  35. 285
    Xesbeth
    July 20th, 2009 10:40 pm

    good =)

  36. 286
    Srinivas
    July 21st, 2009 2:22 pm

    Any theme list is incomplete without fusion Watch in action @

  37. 287
    ithemesdotnet
    August 3rd, 2009 9:27 am

    Great list of free themes!

  38. 288
    genc yorum
    August 3rd, 2009 11:00 pm

    thanks for the themes. I used some at my site Genç Yorum, Genç Blog

  39. 289
    Cathy B
    August 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!

  40. 290
    dijifx
    August 12th, 2009 8:09 pm

    Awsome Themes cant believe some are here for free and not premium!
    Thanks for your services!!!

  41. 291
    Emzii (Proud To Be Pinoy)
    August 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!

  42. 292
    Travel
    August 30th, 2009 11:50 am

    Great! I was looking for an attractive, discrete well-designed template and I am glad I found the model here!

    Great site… Just keep it going!

    Patrick Swanson

  43. 293
    Adsense Profit
    August 30th, 2009 9:32 pm

    Very nice! My favourite would have to be Yoghourt. Nice colours and nice layout!

  44. 294
    Maxim
    September 1st, 2009 12:27 pm

    WOOOOOW this is Just Great themes i love theem allllll thanks for article

    Maxim

  45. 295
    semmy@ web 2.0 images
    September 17th, 2009 8:56 am

    Nice post! Really Love it! thank you very much!

  46. 296
    wpweaver
    September 19th, 2009 6:06 pm

    cool wordpress theme, some fresh wordpress theme can be found at <a href="http://wpweaver.com"free wordpress theme.

  47. 297
    techgist
    September 23rd, 2009 1:33 am

    This collection of WordPress themes are really good. I like the bluebird theme very much. Thanks for sharing.

  48. 298
    Braydon
    September 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.

  49. 299
    Notzaa
    September 24th, 2009 11:09 am

    This so cool. Thanks for sharing.

  50. 300
    Shahid Saifi
    October 1st, 2009 4:38 am

    Nice Collections!
    I will defenetly going to use one of them.

    Thanks again.

  51. 301
    Omagaz
    October 1st, 2009 7:09 am

    Excellent WordPress Themes.

    Thank for sharing

  52. 302
    jagoane
    October 13th, 2009 9:55 pm

    Great articles…

  53. 303
    Mark
    October 20th, 2009 2:56 am

    the best themes of wordpress, thanks for that..Market

  54. 304
    steve
    October 23rd, 2009 11:34 pm

    Good website

  55. 305
    Oscar
    October 27th, 2009 4:31 am

    Great post! Thak you for saving us time!

  56. 306
    Daniel F.
    October 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!

  57. 307
    Marcis G.
    October 31st, 2009 5:15 pm

    GREAT article!!!

  58. 308
    en ucuz
    November 1st, 2009 3:30 pm

    Hey where did you find all this beatiful themes? I Really like them all..

  59. 309
    creativebrain
    November 2nd, 2009 1:15 am

    thanks for sharing… really likes this…

  60. 310
    アダルトイレブン
    November 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…

  61. 311
    Tim
    November 5th, 2009 3:58 am

    thanks for the post! lots of awesome stuff

    Tim
    Wordpress2U

  62. 312
    天天成长的博客
    November 9th, 2009 8:54 pm

    so many themes! thanks! a great place for wordpress

  63. 313
    dubovoy_aleksandr
    November 10th, 2009 12:13 am

    thx, great list

    • 314
      Judy
      November 15th, 2009 5:43 pm

      thanks for the post! :)

  64. 315
    amithc
    November 28th, 2009 11:22 pm

    that’s great
    The best free Premium Wordpress Themes

  65. 316
    アダルト無料動画|アダルトイレブン
    December 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

  66. 317
    TupaiTambun
    December 5th, 2009 4:50 pm

    Nice collection

  67. 318
    okta
    December 10th, 2009 7:00 am

    Thx for ur inspiration!!

  68. 319
    BrandonSch
    December 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!

  69. 320
    Dhika stone
    December 15th, 2009 10:51 pm

    How to install wordpress themes?

  70. 321
    Doug C.
    December 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.

  71. 322
    Santosh Raut
    December 17th, 2009 2:35 pm

    liked it and shared it.

  72. 323
    sana
    December 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.

  73. 324
    nerudo
    December 21st, 2009 6:44 am

    this is just amazing

  74. 325
    Doug C.
    December 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.

  75. 326
    Jack Blue
    December 25th, 2009 9:08 am

    I like the classic style then. So I’m looking for the themes that can help for SEO.

  76. 327
    Allen
    January 2nd, 2010 11:56 am

    Mac OS X is freakin creative…. Photoshop Tutorials

  77. 328
    david boo
    January 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.

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    David Morgan
    January 7th, 2010 11:54 pm

    Sweet list! Here’s another to consider, http://structuretheme.com


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