30 Fresh Free WordPress Themes
“Writing old school HTML code was never very much fun but now it’s getting downright tedious for most people.” – Mike Davidson
We live in a wonderful world, where you are not forced to start from scratch when designing a website. There are countless of website templates out there on the internet, just a mere Google search away. Quantity, though, does not equal quality, and you might find yourself spending too much time choosing which template to use.
In our ongoing quest to give you the best design resources, we have compiled this list of 30 fresh and free WordPress templates, so you don’t have to waste precious hours looking for the right template.
1. BizFlare
You can confidently use this template when designing a business website. It’s a responsive HTML5 and CSS3 template that comes equipped with three product or service blocks, and a client quote or testimonials section.
2. Syntax
A successful design makes people read the websites contents. As such, there is no way you can go wrong with Syntax. It’s marvelously minimalistic, and it’s just pretty enough to attract attention, without distracting the user from reading the articles on it.
3. Blogly
We are happy to inform you that this next entry on our list has flat design. It looks absolutely stunning, and it will look like that weather you’re viewing it on a PC, PC tablet or mobile phone. It’s built from scratch to be lightweight and easy to use, and it does away with the control panel, building in all the options into the WordPress theme customizer.
4. Vantage
Drag & drop is quite possibly the easiest thing in the world, and making things easy and accessible is this template’s purpose in life. It comes with a headline widget you can customize and put anywhere you see fit, and the free drag & drop Page Builder that comes with this will probably make this your go-to template.
5. Hueman
If you were looking for a high-resolution template, than look no further. You’ve just found your template. It looks real gorgeous, and has unique toggle bars to make browsing it an overall pleasant experience from any kind of device.
6. Invert
Easy custom admin options, three custom page templates, optimized SEO, and lots lots more. You get a lot of stuff for free with this template, making this template you want to use when you want to make a site in record time.
7. Fullby
Built with Bootstrap, and featuring a totally awesome modular grid, Fullby is a very eye-catching template you can use when creating a magazine website. It’s also fully customizable in CSS, so you can be sure that you’ll make it your own, rather than just applying a template.
8. Reviewgine
Corporate websites are serious business. It’s hard to design for them because you can’t get too playful, or too serious. You need to hit that sweet spot of making it “human” enough for people to be able to relate to it, but “robot” enough to make it seem efficient. This theme does just that, while also offering you widgets and advanced theme options so you can tweak to fit your exact needs.
9. Nicitate
Nicitate is based on the Kopatheme layout manager, so aside from just being a pretty template, you can also add your personal touch to it. It’s a great template to use for both a portfolio website, and a corporate one.
10. DW Minion
As far as blog themes go, they don’t get much better than this. It’s sleek, minimalistic and responsive, making the user pay full attention to the website’s contents. Various types of post are supported, so maybe it’s time you consider changing that blog theme of yours.
11. Preus
Magazine themes are some of the coolest themes you’ll find, and this one really stands out in a crowd. It comes with a parallax header, responsive layout, custom widget and two navigation menus, all neatly provided in a .pot file.
12. typefocus
Typography is a hot trend for 2014, so when making a website you really need to stop and ask yourself what role it -typography- is going to play in it. If the answer is “a big one”, then stop thinking and use this minimalist, type-oriented theme.
13. Opus
Simple looking and simple to use, opus is great if you want to really play around with a theme before applying it to your website. Type is once again heavily featured here, with big characters making the text easy to read.
14. Virtue
This is a really great, versatile theme, that does whatever you want it to do. From ecommerce to portfolio, you got it all covered here. The control panel lets you set things like custom fonts, layouts and sliders, so you can put your personal touch to your project.
15. Customizr
Elegance is something most of us strive for, and that’s exactly what you get with Customizr. It’s responsive, has a three-column design and fluid layout, making sure that not an ounce of elegance is lost, whatever device it’s browsed from.
16. Gadget
The easy way to make your website appealing, Gadget is a fantastic template to build your website from. The design is responsive, as you would expect from a theme called gadget, so the website will look great on any platform.
17. Stanley WP
Whether you’re making a blog or a portfolio, this theme is here to aid you. It’s simplistic design, built in Bootstrap, highlights your websites content, while never for one second looking plain or dull.
18. Isis
With Isis you get a clean, responsive, retina-ready theme that you can use for any kind of website you might be building. The theme includes two home page layouts, two header styles, ten social icons, four widgets, one slider, three page templates, four Google fonts, and much, much more.
19. TopBest
Themes should be many things, but the main thing a theme should be is customizable. Sporting five different homepage layouts and tons of shortcode. It also has a portfolio gallery, which also comes in four different layouts, and sidebars at the left, right and bottom footer.
20. Nova Lite
When designing, browsers can be your worst enemy. What looks good in Chrome might just look horrible on Firefox, and let’s not get started on Internet Explorer. Based on Bootstrap, and using HTML5 and CSS3, Nova Lite makes sure that your website will look top-notch on any browser.
21. Progeny MMXIV
When a template is built for something so specific, you know it’s probably going to do a great job. Progeny is a theme for music websites, so all it’s features revolve around that. It has sections for music, gigs and video, and to top it all off, it also looks brilliant.
22. MH Magazine Lite
For anything editorial oriented, this is your theme. It’s clean and modern, and it doesn’t get much better than this, as far as magazine templates go. You’ll have to buy the full version if you want to customize it more, but it looks really cool as is.
23. Luminus
We’ve mentioned drag & drop builders earlier on our list, so we thought we’d give you another theme that has this wonderful feature. Luminus is retina ready, 100% responsive, has three page templates and extensive theme options, making it really customizable.
24. CWP MegaResponsive
Fluid and responsive. What more could you possibly want from a theme? It’s really great to use for a blog or magazine website, and it’s simple look means you have a lot of room to maneuver when customizing it.
25. Bushwick
Images will attract people’s attention. Seeing text attached to an image will make people want to read that text, because it might have something to do with the image. This theme is designed in such a way that people will definitely see the image, and that will make them click the post.
26. Inkness
A responsive theme with a three-column grid system, Inkness is a simple theme that gets the job done really well. It’s stand-out feature is its lovely responsive slider, guaranteed to make the user spend some time browsing the site.
27. Codium Grid
It’s a cliché to say that french things are classier, but in this case it’s just true. Codium is a ready-to-use, responsive theme, based on a grid system. It’s also responsive, and will look great on any device.
28. Kirumo
Benefiting from both a full width page template, and support for custom background color and images, Kirumo is a handsome little template you can toy around with, and use on any project you might have going on.
29. Sixteen
If you don’t have a portfolio, then this template will make you want to have one. It looks and feels great, and it definitely makes people want to spend some time browsing it. You get a responsive slider, customizable header and footer, a grid layout for the home page, among other things, so this is a great theme to add to your collection.
30. Writr
We end with a content-oriented theme, as the name itself suggests. Nothing really flashy about this last entry, it just does what it’s suppose to do: highlight the content. It does come with six different color schemes (turquoise, blue, green, gray, purple and red) so there is a bit of customization going on.
That concludes our list of 30 WordPress templates. We hope you found them useful, and that they’ll help you make your website stand-out. Tell us which ones you used, or just simply which ones are your favorites, in the comment section.
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