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25 Free WordPress Themes You Have To Check Out

Posted on 06. Oct, 2010 by bmackler in Inspiration, Resources

The popularity of WordPress keeps growing with more and more people using this format for all different sorts of projects, ranging from personal blogs to corporate websites.   With that, people are looking for themes that will help set them apart but can not always afford a customized premium theme. 

No longer do you have to pay good money for themes with a premium feel, that have graphic sliders, cool widgets and SEO extras.  There are alot of great WordPress developers who are releasing full featured themes to download.

Here are 25 Free WordPress Themes You Have To Check Out.

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Mystique

Feature-packed theme with a solid design, built-in widgets and a intuitive theme settings interface from Digital Nature.

MidTone Mag

The well built adsense optimized layout makes this one of the best wordpress themes, and its simple yet bold colorscheme draw your users in. this fantastic free wordpress theme

Blue Rooster

The theme is a two column layout with a extra templates that can convert your blog into a CMS. The sidebar and footer are both widgetized, author and category templates included, as well as social buttons already intact.

IBlog

If you are the one inspired by Apple website design and layout, then this theme is for you. The iBlogpro4 version has so many features to customize the home page, ofcourse its a paid version. IBlog is a free version by the IBlogPro development team and it has awesome readability and layout. Fast loading, customizable wordpress theme.

Monkey PR

Nice magazine theme with lots  of flexibility

Upside

The UpSide Theme is a free WordPress theme that is best suited for personal blogs. The WordPress theme comes with 5 color schemes and 2 different layouts that you can set up on the theme’s options page in the WordPress Admin panel.

Elegant News

Elegant News is a free premium WordPress theme with featured content option and options page. Supports post thumbnails. Suitable for any niche, especially for news or magazine sites.

The Erudite

A theme for writers who want readers, not visitors, traffic, click-throughs, CPMs or what-have-you. Carefully crafted typography and generous use of whitespace lets your writing shine. Version 2 includes a dark theme option. The Erudite is a free, open source theme for writers . Its a great looking 3 column wordpress theme.

Urbane

This is a crisp rounded theme that comes with lots of features like drop-down menus, Feedburner settings (RSS and Subscribe by e-mail), Twitter, Tabs for Popular/Recent posts, Featured post section, 3 sections to pull posts from different categories on home page, auto generated thumbnails (for both home and the single entry page), threaded comments, widgetized sidebars and 3 widgetized sections on the bottom.

Aparatus

Aparatus is as a premium WordPress theme (that is free) that comes with a Mootools slideshow in the home page, widgets, thumbnails and twitter built in.

Magnesium

Magnesiumize is a free WordPress theme created by padd solutions that has a very clean and elegant design combined with some great premium-like features, perfect for any magazine style website. This theme comes with a solid framework and a robust admin options panel to make it easier for you to make general changes to your theme.

Industry

WP Industry comes with 8 different color schemes and a fully customizable layout and main features. It is a highly flexible theme with tons of options that will be great for almost anything – business, portfolio, blog, magazine and more

Kelontong

Free Ecommerce WordPress Theme that will allow you to quickly and easily set up and online store using wordpress as a content management system. If you are looking to set up shop, WordPress together with a great Ecommerce Theme will provide you with a hassle-free platform so you can easily manage your products, sales and customers.

Expi

Expi is a free premium WordPress theme with featured content option and supports the post thumbnails. Suitable for any niche. Theme Options at admin panel.

iRecipies

iRecipes is a free WordPress theme with options page. Supports the post thumbnails. Suitable for any niche especially for recipe or cooking sites.

Columbus

Columbus is another free WordPress theme developed by me! The idea behind Columbus was to create a theme that followed some pretty standard blog design/layout and that included some nifty features typically only found in premium themes. I spent some time making the back-end of this theme very clean and well documented to make it easier for people looking to customize the theme, but I also added some great customization options to the back-end for those whom do not want to mess with any of the code.

Pork & Beans

This theme has a standard navigaion, sidebar on the right, it’s a 2-column design, it has a few page templates…so far it seems like a very normal theme, however, the developer has thrown in quite a bit of Javascript a bolder color scheme and a combination of rounded corners, etches and fades.

Scandiumity

Scandiumity comes with a featured slider on the homepage, drop-down menus, social buttons, custom plugins support (popular posts and flickr feed) a very clean design and much more.

Skeptical

Skeptical’s layout is very flexible in the sense that you can display “related posts” next to your latest posts on the home page, OR have a completely widgetized sidebar.

Kenza

Kenza is a free premium WordPress theme with featured content option and supports the post thumbnails. Suitable for any niche. Theme Options at admin panel.

Magaling
Aside from these features: Twitter status integration, Featured Post Gallery, Feedburner Email Subscription, Popular Posts, Ajax Tabbed Sidebar, Automatic Thumbnail Resizer, Adsense ready with advertising blocks easily customizable via an Option Page; Magaling Reloaded is packed with an additional features: Featured Photos, Featured Video, built in Page Navigation system.

DeStyle

This magazine template comes with four different color variations to choose from in the theme panel – blue, red green and black. It is ready for advertisements, includes a nice jQuery powered drop-down menu system, threaded comments, widgetized sidebar, twitter and feed links 4 different page templates and many other great features.

Freemium

Features include – XHTML 1.0 Transitional, jQuery menu, quick submitting to web2.0 websites support, flickrRSS plugin support, threaded comments support, feedBurner subscribe via email support, a lot of advertising spots (125×125, 120×600, 300×250), 2 widget ready sidebars.

Magazeen

The theme is a two column layout with a extra templates that can convert your blog into a CMS. The sidebar and footer are both widgetized, author and category templates included, as well as social buttons already intact.

Maimpok

Maimpok  comes with a theme panel that will allow you to easily make general customizations to your site, social bookmarking links, related posts, it is advertisement ready and much more.  Maimpok has some really great premium like features.

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