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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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- 252March 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.
- 253March 24th, 2009 5:53 pm
The MacOS theme is very friendly ;)
- 254April 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”.
- 255April 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.
- 256April 15th, 2009 10:44 am
beautiful List..It’s time to change my theme blog template! Thanks a lot for sharing your collection!
- 257April 15th, 2009 11:31 pm
Hi, thanks for the post
- 258April 16th, 2009 3:28 pm
nice, really nice!
- 259April 17th, 2009 7:38 am
Thanks for this beautiful Themes!
- 260April 18th, 2009 12:47 am
I cant believe some of the themes are simply awesome and free :)
- 261April 23rd, 2009 6:55 am
The theme Red Stamp isn’t free
- 262April 23rd, 2009 7:04 am
Balance is available at http://www.thoughtmechanics.com/
Googled “tmdevblog” from the screenshot and found it.
- 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
- 273June 5th, 2009 8:24 pm
I tell all my friends about this list.
Thanks so much!
- 274June 6th, 2009 11:44 pm
hello….you r rocking !
- 275June 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..
- 276June 18th, 2009 1:17 am
good!
- 277June 18th, 2009 6:49 am
Nice Collection :)
- 278June 21st, 2009 5:13 am
I like this Curved Wordpress Theme
Thanks
Y Are my HERO - 279June 22nd, 2009 3:40 pm
This is a great list to get good ideas and free themes from. Love WordPress! ; )
- 280June 22nd, 2009 6:06 pm
very excellent collection wordpress themes!
- 281June 25th, 2009 3:07 pm
Estan muy buenos gran trabajo de recopilacion.
- 282July 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
- 283July 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
- 284July 8th, 2009 5:11 am
Thanks.. The collection very good.
- 285July 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
- 286July 20th, 2009 10:40 pm
good =)
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- 288August 3rd, 2009 9:27 am
Great list of free themes!
- 289August 3rd, 2009 11:00 pm
thanks for the themes. I used some at my site Genç Yorum, Genç Blog
- 290August 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!
- 291August 12th, 2009 8:09 pm
Awsome Themes cant believe some are here for free and not premium!
Thanks for your services!!! - 292August 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! - 293
- 294August 30th, 2009 9:32 pm
Very nice! My favourite would have to be Yoghourt. Nice colours and nice layout!
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- 296September 6th, 2009 1:15 pm
I’ve used of Illacrimo theme and Smashing Theme before at my blog, CreativePics.Org
- 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 24th, 2009 11:27 pm
I love the second one and the Magazine Style WordPress Themes. Thank for collecting so many cool wordpress themes! But I prefer the premium wordpress templates.
studiopress coupon code - 308October 27th, 2009 4:31 am
Great post! Thak you for saving us time!
- 309October 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. http://www.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!
- 310October 27th, 2009 1:03 pm
Nice Collections!
I will defenetly going to use one of them.Thanks again.
- 311October 27th, 2009 11:03 pm
We were looking for a long time, browsing though your rich collection of themes.
I believe I just came across something great for a review system.James
Flux Travel - 312October 31st, 2009 5:15 pm
GREAT article!!!
- 313October 31st, 2009 5:19 pm
Hi, I would want to translate this article to the Russian language. Please tell me your email, simply reply to my mail. Thanks, Marcis Gasuns.
- 314November 1st, 2009 3:30 pm
Hey where did you find all this beatiful themes? I Really like them all..
- 315November 2nd, 2009 1:15 am
thanks for sharing… really likes this…
- 316November 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…
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- 318November 9th, 2009 8:54 pm
so many themes! thanks! a great place for wordpress
- 319November 10th, 2009 12:13 am
thx, great list
- 320November 15th, 2009 5:43 pm
thanks for the post! :)
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- 322November 20th, 2009 6:27 am
Great collection guys, thank you again. I specially like the Fauna theme.
Mundir
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