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WordPress is very powerful and easy to use. We have been searching for some of the best free WordPress themes available on the internet, and compiled them into 45 Best Free WordPress Themes of All Time. All of them are nicely designed and look really professional. You should be able to find the suitable one for your WordPress blog. Enjoy~

BloggingPro Wordpress comes in two versions, one with the big footer like Blogging Pro, that gives information on recent posts, recent comments and most commented stories, and one without the big footer, and thus no need for any plugins at all.

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Pricing: Free
Requirements: Wordpress 2.0+
Source: http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2007/03/21/blogging-pros…

Lemon Lime v1.0 for WordPress. If you make modifications to the theme he would really love to see it, so he can learn a lot from those more experienced.

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Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://www.farfromfearless.com/2007/01/25/fff…

iTheme is a WordPress theme that is designed for the Mac lovers with a truly customizable sidebar. As an administrator, you can customize  your sidebar’s contents without modifying the source code using WordPress widgets (no programming required). As an audience, you can rearrange the sidebar by drag & drop or you can collapse the box to hide it.

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Pricing: Free
Requirements: Wordpress 2.0+, Javascript Enabled
Source: http://www.ndesign-studio.com/resources/wp-themes/itheme/

Mimbo is a magazine-style Wordpress theme which makes extensive use of WP’s template tag system to create a non-traditional layout. It contains no images and only minimal CSS styling. Mainly it exists as a clean, grid-based starter layout for designers to install and style to their own liking.

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Pricing: Free
Requirements: Wordpress 2.3+
Source: http://www.darrenhoyt.com/2007/08/05/wordpress-magazine-theme-released/

Wolfgang Bartelme’s Dark theme has been tested on WordPress 2.1.3 with Firefox and Safari, may play well with IE6/7 too. It validates as XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS 2.0.

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Pricing: Free
Requirements: Wordpress 2.1.3+
Source: http://www.ilemoned.com/archives/wptheme-dark

Digital Pop is a bright and colourful 3 column theme for Wordpress based on Fen’s NewFeel theme. It comes complete with editable header graphics and is Google Adsense ready.

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Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://www.writerspace.net/index.php/2007/04/01/digital-pop…

The Morning After is a magazine-style theme for WordPress created by Arun Kale. The theme was created based on a brief survey on the WordPress forums about what people would want to see in a unique magazine-style theme.

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Pricing: Free
Requirements: Wordpress 2.0+
Source: http://themasterplan.in/themes/the-morning-after/

Slayer and BetNG4U invested lots of work to make Styleicious Web 2.0 Wordpress Template what it is and for more than 20 hours they debugged it and improved it to work perfectly. BetNG4U even modified the rating system, because it had some javascript errors and didnt work in IE6.

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Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://thaslayer.com/2007/11/05/styleicious…

Visionary is a theme for news/magazine sites. It includes built-in video features that easily allow you to add videos to your site.

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Pricing: Free
Requirements: Wordpress 2.1+
Source: http://justintadlock.com/archives/2007/11/04/visionary-wordpress-theme

The Facebook Wordpress theme is finally out and it’s free. Not only that, there are different colours (Blue, Green, Red, Black, Grey, Brown, Pink, Yellow, Light Blue and Purple) available. As simple as the Facebook design itself, this theme brings it all together. It looks good and works great. Incorporating all of the best design elements on the Facebook layout.

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Pricing: Free
Requirements: WordPress 2.2+
Source: http://foxinni.com/my-themes/facebook-layouts-wordpress-theme/

BranfordMagazine is a combination of ¡§Revolution¡¨ by Brian Gardner, ¡§Mimbo¡¨ by Darren Hoyt and ¡§Structure¡¨ by Justin Tadlock. BranfordMagazine features a lead story with a photo, a category title, an article title and an excerpt. This is part of the tabed section on top of the homepage. There are featured articles which is to have a category for teasers, specials and whatever you like to show in a featured way.

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Pricing: Free
Requirements: WordPress 2.3+
Source: http://www.der-prinz.com/2008/01/20/wordpress-magazine-style…

WordPress Premium is an elegantly designed, 2/3 column, feature packed, widget ready theme that comes with three color-scheme options. The theme is bundled with all three colors. To change complete color scheme, all you need to do is, open the style.css and change the color style name to your favorite one.

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Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://cssace.com/free-wp-premium-theme-is-here/

Smashing Magazine has released a fresh, clean, user-friendly and playful Wordpress theme ¡§Dilectio¡¨ to Smashing Magazine readers. Dilectio comes from the Latin Language and it means ¡§love, solicitude, esteem¡¨.

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Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://wp-themes.designdisease.com/2007/12/21/dilectio…

Michael Whalen has decided to pack his custom made WordPress theme up and release it for free to every one out on the interwebs. The theme is called Elixir, he is releasing it in 5 exclusive fruitalicious colors, including a cool blue, lime green, smooth purple, bright orange, and of course the original pink you see on Whalesalad.

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Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://whalesalad.com/2007/07/23/elixir/

Rihanna is extremely lightweight, versatile and widget-ready for Wordpress 2.2+.

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Pricing: Free
Requirements: Wordpress 2.2+
Source: http://www.kineda.com/rihanna/

The Transmission WordPress Theme is a stunning and professional free theme with the flickrRSS plugin integration. This theme uses custom fields you can use to add an optional image to your latest blog post.

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Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://www.themelab.com/2008/03/22/transmission-free-wordpress-theme-33/

Blog Perfume released a clean and soft 3 column, widget-ready customizable WordPress theme called SilveRay.SilveRay has been tested on IE 6, IE 7, Firefox, Opera and Safari for windows. You can download it for personal or commercial purpose as long as you keep the credit link at the footer of the template.

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Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://www.blogperfume.com/silveray-clean-and-soft-3-column-wordpress-theme/

Probama Theme for WordPress is a timely Wordpress theme for supporters of Senator Barack Obama’s political career and presidential campaign. Built-in control panel options allow easy management of images, video, podcasts and other RSS info. I really love this Wordpress theme design. It looks so so nice and professional, at the same time, it keeps the simple layout which makes it very easy and comfortable to read.

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Pricing: Free
Requirements: Worpdress 2.3.3+
Source: http://www.category4.com/2008/03/11/probama-theme…

Colourise is a gorgeous, two-column Wordpress theme with an ultra large header image, a dark backdrop and a fat footer. The colours are well chosen, the navigation bar is beautifully styled and the typography is first class. With a custom header image, Colourise could make a perfect personal or professional blog.

colourise Free WordPress Theme

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://www.bestwpthemes.com/colourise/

SmashingMagazine has released Infinity ¡X a free professional Wordpress-theme. The theme has 3 fixed columns, thumbnails integration, Flickr, Delicious and Twitter integration as well as an attractive visual design.

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You can use the theme for all your projects for free and without any restrictions. However, it’s forbidden to sell or redistribute the theme without both designer’s and Smashing Magazine’s permission

Pricing: Free
Requirements: WordPress 2.5+
Source: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/08/08/infinity…

WP Coda is a theme that is created by modifying several already-existing code snippets and implementing them with a stunning design. The result is a wordpress theme that mimics the functionality of the very popular Coda website that is the object of so many developers envy. Every aspect of the Coda website was duplicated and this theme works in every major browser.

wp coda

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://wordpress.bustatheme.com/coda/

UBD has released a beautiful WordPress Theme called UBD Moneymaker Theme. A Theme Options panel makes theme enhancement much easier for people not comfortable editing source code. The theme also features a built-in ¡§Theme Options¡¨ panel which allows you to integrate Feedburner, MyBlogLog Recent Readers, and the 468¡Ñ60 in post banner ad. You can edit all of this stuff without ever touching a single line of code.

USB Moneymaker WordPress Theme

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://themes.uniqueblogdesigns.com/free-premium-theme…

Sharpfolio is a WordPress theme designed to enable Web Designers, Graphic Designers, Photographers, Motion Designers, Artists or any creative professional to showcase their work in a simple, clean, beautiful portfolio. Sharpfolio aims to focus primarily on your work, because after all, this is what’s most important.

WordPress Portfolio Theme

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://webrevolutionary.com/sharpfolio/

Elegant Grunge is an unwashed yet crisp Wordpress theme with a feature footer, styled image frames, a page template with a uniquely configurable sidebar and a photoblog tag page.

It features automatic surrounding of all images with a frame packed with eye-candy that makes images really pop out. A ¡¥photoblog’ tag page that displays entries in a photoblog style. A widget to display thumbnails from latest/random photoblog entries.

elegant grunge wordpress theme

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://michael.tyson.id.au/wordpress/themes/elegant-grunge/

Versatility Lite is a two column, ad-ready, widgetized theme. The theme includes a ¡¥Featured Post’ section, drop down CSS menus, integrated related posts, social bookmarking buttons, and much more.

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Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://thinkdesignblog.com/free-wordpress-theme-versatility-lite.htm

Here is a brand new one called Equilibrium, which is aimed at those who want a clean and simple magazine styled blog. Plugins are not required and widgets are supported.

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Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://madebyon.com/equilibrium-wordpress-theme/

SmashingMagazine has released Color Paper a free professional Wordpress theme. This theme aims to combine visual appeal with clean typography and vivid design elements

Color Paper Free WordPress Theme

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/10/30/color-paper…

Simple Balance 2.0 – a free, simple WordPress theme with enough options to make it ¡§premium-like¡¨. Simple Balance 2.0 is launched under a new slogan: ¡§More Power. More Style. Your Style!¡¨ Why? Because that’s what it has to offer! More control over it’s options, advertising space, layout and color, and with each future update you’ll be able to tweak it more and more to your own style.

Simple Balance 2.0 - Free Simple WordPress Theme

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://blogsessive.com/blogging-tools/simple-balance-free-simple…

Smashing Magazine released Simply Ornate ¡X a free professional Wordpress-theme created by Evan Eckard. This theme was designed with the main focus being on patterns and typography and comes in 5 flavours.

Simply Ornate - Free WordPress Theme

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/10/01/simply-ornate…

Agregado Lifestream Theme ¡X a free professional Wordpress-theme features a built-in lifestream module and contact form with custom control panel options. You can use the theme for all your projects for free and without any restrictions. However, it’s forbidden to sell or redistribute the theme without both designer’s and Smashing Magazine’s permission.

free professional wordpress theme

Pricing: Free
Requirements: WordPress 2.6+, Firefox 3.0+, Safari 3.0+, IE7+, PHP 5+
Source: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/09/08/agregado-a-free…

We need a break, we need a Minimalist Wordpress Theme called Modicus Remix. This theme is based off of Upstart Blogger’s Wordpress theme ¡§Modicus¡§. Thus aptly titled ¡§Modicus Remix¡¨.

Minimalist Wordpress Theme

Pricing: Free
Requirements: WordPress 2.5+
Source: http://www.artculture.com/wordpress-themes/modicus-wordpress-theme-remix

Magazeen is a free wordpress theme which was designed with the main focus being on typography, grids and magazine-look. The Magazeen theme is packed full of cool features to really encourage your readers to explore new posts and similar items. The first thing you might notice is the jQuery image showcase at the top. The other cool and fully automated feature is the related posts drop down effect.

Free Magazine Look WordPress Theme

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/02/23/magazeen…

Now we are introducing a free WordPress theme for your WordPress e-Commerce store called Crafty Cart that requires the WP e-Commerce plugin for shopping cart functionality, but works as a fully functional blog on its own.

Shopping Cart Theme

Pricing: Free
Requirements: WP e-Commerce Plugin
Source: http://www.thekingcart.com/2008/10/02/crafty-cart…

WooThemes has released a Free theme called Irresistible. It is a visually-rich personal blog, with a little bit of a multimedia focus. Incorporating some nifty video-options and widgets, Irresistible should meet all of your personal blogging needs. Just add your content to the mix.

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Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://www.woothemes.com/2008/11/typebased/

Compositio is a two column theme, made to for those who want to put their content at the front with a unique light blue design. Random square shapes are the defining graphics of this theme. They are used throughout the background, bringing a special rhythm to the theme.

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Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://designdisease.com/blog/compositio-wordpress-theme/

The themes include full PSD-templates and can be used without any restrictions whatsoever. The designer would like to reflect the vintage, old-style look and thus look attractive, unusual and memorable. The result is the Vintage WordPress theme, a 2-column theme with various illustrations and icons.

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Pricing: Free
Requirements: WordPress 2.7+
Source: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/01/28/vintage-and-blues-wordpress-themes/

Pixeled Blue WordPress theme features a standard 2-3 column layout and the following goodies: dropdown top menu for categories; customizable feedburner field on top right (optional – requires feedburner ID); widgets all around (6 positions); footer navigation and a sweet, transparent look.

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Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://samk.ca/freebies/pixeled-wordpress-theme-in-blue/

FREEmium theme was designed by Paul Kadysz and developed by Dariusz Siedlecki. FREEmium has flickrRSS and threaded comments support. There are 2 widget ready sidebars, jQuey menu and a lot of advertising spots (125¡Ñ125, 120¡Ñ600, 300¡Ñ250). You can use the theme on your non-commercial and commercial blogs.

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Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://freebiesdock.com/freemium-wordpress-theme/

Journic Wordpress Theme is a colorful artistic wordpress theme perfect for a personal creative blog. It comes with some basic features plus some features that usualy free themes don’t have:

creative wordpress theme

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://www.wordpresscenter.com/blog/journic-wordpress-theme/

Imagination is a Fully Customizable WordPress Theme and comes pre-loaded with 9 different site-wide styles to choose from, with just a click.

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Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://www.cssjockey.com/imagination/

IsoTherm News is out and ready for professional use. It is magazine styled theme with everything you need to start publishing your own web journal with all the features you will need to attract new visitors. There is a Featured posts box. It supports Video and Popular Posts Widgets as well.

news wordpress theme

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://bizzartic.com/2009/03/29/isotherm-news-magazine-wordpress-theme/

Manifest is a clean and streamlined WordPress theme that focused on the content and not the distractions. It utilizes a single column, 500 pixel wide layout. No sidebars. No widgets.

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Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://jimbarraud.com/2009/03/19/manifest/

OneRoom is a beautiful three columns theme with fixed width and widget-ready free wordpress theme. It has built-in author section in sidebar and gravatar support for comments. This theme has been tested in all the major Web browsers (Firefox, IE6+, Opera, Google Chrome, Safari).

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Pricing: Free
Requirements: WordPress 2.7+
Source: http://web-kreation.com/index.php/wordpress/oneroom…

Scarlett is an elegant wordpress theme designed for bloggers who like light colored or bright colored themes. This theme is suitable for any niche. The theme layout is stylish and dynamic contents elements are built into it. Scarletts is also WordPress 2.7 ready with threaded comments.

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Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://web2feel.com/scarlett-theme/

Imprezz is a simple and beautiful 3-column free WordPress theme. The theme can be used in various setting for various purposes – in magazine-blogs, but also in corporate and private blogs. The theme supports WordPress 2.7.1 and works well with the zdcomments widget.

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Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/03/10/download-imprezz…

Readers Comments

Although there are some ‘classics’ here, some don’t fit in here at all…’cause there are some much better ones.

Matter of taste I guess.

Peter

A rather arbitrary selection.

Cool. Facebook FTW!

This is a great list! Thanks for taking the time to put it together.

This list has some themes I haven’t seen before and some layouts that made me think about projects I have in the works. Very useful!

Not sure if all of these deserve to be on a list claiming to contain some of best wordpress themes of all time but a great list none the less. Great resource with a pretty nice variety.

Some of them are good but some are very poor. Try to select them better next time.

It’s an ok collection, they’re mostly cookie-cutter themes – very similar looking but generally good. The problem is a lot of them are overused so you’re site wouldn’t be original.

Amazing themes Wordpress for me. Thanks you very much
You can see more great WP themes in my blog: http://tr.im/lqTt

Thanks for the collection! :)

Wow.. i havent seen some of it anywhere .. thanks for sharing !

Great themes…..thanks much for collating and sharing this wonderful collections…. :-)

The one i use is listed here!!!

I find some comments a bit harsh here. I read quite a lot of these ‘best themes posts’ because I enjoy seeing new themes, and I find the selection kind of cool.

It is a matter of test, but most themes here are quite relevant and very good values (not talking about the price — duh, there are free, but the work).

Kepp up the good work!

My search for the elusive “perfect theme” continues. This was a nice list, but some of them did not belong.

Muchas gracias! awesome templates!!

The are great, thanks for the post!

Azim

Hey,

This is really a great list.New and updated one.

Thanks for sharing..

Azim

You took me through a walk down memory lane with many of these themes.

Some poor themes in “Bests” list

Eddie T

Visionary hasn’t been available since November 2007.
Poor choice.

AMAZING!!! The best theme collection I’ve ever seen. 5 stars and top quality. Congratulations!!!

Great collection of themes

Awesome list of templates. Thanks for posting this!!!

Awesome collection of Good Themes.

I am using Oneroom theme for my blog. Looks great, however taking little bit time to load the entire site. It would be great, if the Oneroom designer could decrease the loading time.

Thanks
Sankar

It’s great i need it :D

Hbiloo

Awesome!!!

wow, awesome collection brov,
thax a lot

Well i see that my template is in the list.

Good recopilation

Great work, and great collection! BloggingPro – the best i’ve seen

nice and useful list, word press lot of variety about feature and theme also. thanks for sharing this

There’s some really amazing work in here. It’s hard to beleive that some of thes are free.

I’m actually using Irrisistable from WooTheme and it’s fantastic and of a very high standard.

great list of word press theme …..thanks

Very nice themes, Thank you :)

Excellent selection here! There at least 5 or 6 that are original, eyecatching, and look very sophisticated.
In fact, I’m using one of them now!

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Dave

The Simple Balance theme sucks…

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It’s an ok collection, they’re mostly cookie-cutter themes – very similar looking but generally good. The problem is a lot of them are overused so you’re site wouldn’t be original.

nice collection dude, more please

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Greak\t collection, they all look nice. Thanks for sharing.

all look great – excellent collection – thanks for sharing and keep up the hard work! :-)

Great Themes – Much better than i have seen around – although as i have read through the posts – some more recent and original would be great.
But still an awesome collection of themes.

The best WordPress Theme is the one you make of your own! ;)
Never let them fool you: JUST DO IT! lol

Nice place to look for Themes

Reall nice themes. My favorite one is the SmashingMagazine theme. Very cool !

A few of these aren’t really “bright” but I like the list. Thanks for posting it up

Thanks, this collection. First theme the best.

REALLY nice i love it ! thanks a lot for this BIG JOB !

Dianna

Thanks for the wordpress themes. They will be helpful for my class.

I was looking for really nice theme for my sister and I found two themes BloggingPro and Mimbo for her blog
They both seems me cool and most appropriate. I was wondered where were they cached !!!

Really Thanks to you :)

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fantastic! i love ur collections, stunning though.
btw, thanks for this compilation

VIkas

Hi there,

Awesome list, I got around 5 themes for my website.

Nice work.. keep the great work and bring more such wesome posts of wordpress themes..

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They’re mostly cookie-cutter themes – very similar looking but generally good. The problem is a lot of them are overused so you’re site wouldn’t be original.

I was looking for really nice theme for my sister and I found two themes BloggingPro and Mimbo for her blog
They both seems me cool and most appropriate. I was wondered where were they cached !!!

Great site, thanks for share wordpress themes.

The problem is a lot of them are overused so you’re site wouldn’t be original.

Great Themes … found what I was looking for … Thanks. Stumbled !

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Great list, a few of these themes are my favorites. I will have to pass this along to some of my clients.


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