Smashing Magazine has released 2 free high-quality WordPress magazine-themes. 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.

The theme is available for free download and can be used for any purposes without any restrictions whatsoever. You can freely use it for both your private and commercial projects, including software, online services, templates and themes.

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.

It’s also an Adsense ready WordPress theme – the divisions are all made to fit standard ad formats. The welcome message on top right can also be customized through the admin panel – no need to mess into the code.

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

There are hundreds of premium wordpress themes on the web waiting to be paid for. Some of them are worth it, some are not. FREEmium wordpress theme is definitely worth paying for. But guess what! FreebiesDock is giving it away for free. How sweet is that?

FREEmium theme was designed by Paul Kadysz and developed by Dariusz Siedlecki. Both guys did excellent job. Blog Perfume is proud to be the sponsor of FREEmium wordpress theme.

FREEmium has flickrRSS and threaded comments support. There are 2 widget ready sidebars, jQuey menu and a lot of advertising spots (125×125, 120×600, 300×250). You can use the theme on your non-commercial and commercial blogs.

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

Incidentally, WordPress themes have become the most widely-used subset of site frameworks on the Web. Because of this, savvy developers now have the chance to create—and support—robust template systems that will not only drastically alter the Internet landscape, but also set the standard for best practices in coding and site development in the years to come.

The Thesis Theme for WordPress is a high-quality template system that you can use to improve your site immediately. Thesis boasts the strongest SEO of any theme on the market today thanks to its expertly-coded HTML + CSS + PHP framework. The days of worrying about your in-site SEO are over—with Thesis, your strategy is “just add links”.

The Thesis options panel allows you to command your site with ease, while Thesis does all of the heavy lifting behind the scenes. Thesis also offers a plug-and-play stylesheet system that you can use to produce unique, customized creations.

When you purchase a theme from DIYthemes, you are essentially getting a lifetime subscription to that theme. This means that you’ll be able to login at any time and download an updated version of the theme—it’s how you’ll keep your Website up-to-date and on the digital edge.

Pricing: Personal ($87), Developers ($164)
Requirements: -
Source: Thesis WordPres Theme

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.

A custom page template that allows complete customisation of the sidebar: Supply a list of tags to automatically display related posts, and specify any text/html to be displayed.

Per-page and per-post configuration to turn on and off automatic image framing, among other things, and a global configuration interface – turn on/off the RSS link, set your own copyright message, or add your own extra header content – like adding a rel=alternate link to your Twitter feed. And a ‘feature’ footer that you can add widgets to.

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

PremiumThems has announced their official launched few days ago. The team there has been working very hard to build, not only some of the best Wordpress themes on the web, but also one of the best sites for those interested in both buying and selling themes.

Most of the themes has advanced features and elegant design. Pin featured articles to keep them at the top of the site, show off your Flickr Photostream with the FlickrRSS plugin, and see Popular Stories, Comments, and Tags in a tabbed interface. Have a look at the following themes, you will be amazed with the quality.

Also,you can submit your own themes to PremiumThemes. However, they are very picky, they only allow themes of the highest quality. If they accept your theme, they will verify that you own it through your website to prevent fraudulent submissions. You receive 75% of the revenue (minus affiliate payout if there is one) from the sale.

P.S. You can get $20 off by using Coupon Code: blogperfume

Pricing: $79
Requirements: -
Source: PremiumThemes.com

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.

The theme comes with a “Featured Post” section at the top. All you have to do make an article go there, is to give it a tag of “featured.” There is a “Welcome” section at the top to the left of the “Featured Post” Section. The theme comes with a variation between Admin comments, and normal blog visitors. You will just have add your admin email address to make them display properly. The theme comes with 2 areas for you to put ads, both in the sidebar.

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

We have featured 2 Minimalist WordPress Themes a while ago. Both Modicus Remix and Grid Focus look clean and professional. 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.

The theme is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. Which means you can use it for whatever you want. However, you must keep the Made By On credit in the footer and must not sell or redistribute the theme without permission.

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

We have mentioned ElegantThemes a while ago, which provides WordPress themes of quality and integrity. Recently, they have released a new theme called eGamer. eGamer was designed with video game blogs in mind, however, it can certainly be adapted to any niche. This theme contains some advanced features as follows.

Video Embedding

When you make a post you can add a custom field with your desired video embed code (taken from a video streaming website such as youtube). This video is then displayed on your single post page below the rest of the content in its own box.

Post Ratings and Reviews

Whenever you make a post you will notice that a new section has been added below your text editor entitled “eGamer Rating settings.” Within the field just type a number between 0 and 5. Once you assign a rating a star-rating image is generated and placed on your post page below the title.

Thumbnail Images

For each post you can assign a single thumbnail image. This thumbnail image is automatically resized, cropped, and paced throughout the blog.

Featured Articles

You can choose featured articles for your blog which will be displayed through a javascript scroller on the homepage. These are set to rotate automatically, and can also be rotated by mouse click.

Advertisement Options

The theme comes with two optional advertisement areas. There are four 125×125 banner image spots that can be displayed in the sidebar, as well as a single 468×60 banner that is displayed at the top of the page. The banner images and URL’s are managed via the theme’s options page, and both nodes can be turned on and off at any time.

eGamer is the first Quality Premium WordPress theme for Gaming industry I have ever seen. Just join ElegantThemes, and you would be able to download eGame along with other Premium WordPress themes with the cost of $19.95/year only.

Pricing: $19.95/year membership
Requirements: -
Source: http://www.elegantthemes.com/gallery/egamer/

SmashingMagazine has released Color Paper a free professional Wordpress theme. This theme aims to combine visual appeal with clean typography and vivid design elements. The theme is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. You can use the theme freely for all of your projects, without any restrictions. However, it’s forbidden to sell or redistribute the theme without both the designer’s and Smashing Magazine’s permission.

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