Free themes are a great way to get a blog site off the ground. Of course free theme in the sense that it doesn’t have all the features that a premium version offers but it doesn’t mean it can’t be the “best”. Many times you get the impression that a free theme is inferior, poorly coded and bug-packed instead of feature-packed. And there are a lot out there. Fair enough. But there are also lot of the great themes available out there which is free, professional looking, responsive that suits well for your WordPress blog.
Here are some of the cool and simple free themes for your WordPress blogs. The best thing about below free themes is that all are Beautifully designed, Responsive and SEO friendly which really makes its themes as one of the best choice for Blog or niche sites.
1. Ribbon
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Ribbon is a traditional, responsive WordPress theme that is perfect for niche blogs with a lot of content to show off.
2. Best
Best is a beautiful, responsive theme for WordPress sites.
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3. My engine
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My Engine is an elegant, clean, modern and beautiful design that can be used for any type of website. This theme is carefully handcrafted with a strong focus on typography, usability and overall user-experience. Surely My engine would be a visual treat.
4. Modern multipurpose
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Modern Multipurpose is a responsive and css3 free WordPress theme. A theme with black, dark, red, white colors. Theme is fixed-width layout. Supports sticky posts feature. In this way, post stick at the top of the home page.
5. Playbook
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Playbook is a traditional WordPress theme with a dual column post layout, a fully responsive design. Playbook includes SEO optimization, custom widgets, our industry grade options panel, and much more.
6. Pinboard
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Pinboard is a Pinterest-styled WordPress theme released by MyThemeShop that is 100% free. With a grid layout and lots of built-in features, Pinboard also has unlimited backgrounds and color schemes and is fully customizable. Plus, it’s built with HTML5 and CSS3 and is fully responsive.
7. Green Chilli
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GreenChili is a clean, blog-style WordPress theme with traditional style. The fully customizable theme is responsive, optimized for both SEO and advertising, and maintains a clean yet sophisticated feel.
8. Bloggie
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Bloggie is a free WordPress theme in the standard blog structure. The theme is designed specifically to get users to read your posts, and to turn one visitor into multiple pageviews using the sidebar widgets and the related posts option.
9 . Western
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Western is really a good looking theme with features like, Custom post types, Custom menu, Custom taxonomy, Meta boxes, Featured images, etc.
10. Bueno
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Bueno is a popular theme with bloggers writing in niches from food to fashion. With a clean layout brought to life in rich color it’s easy for anyone to find themselves wanting to publish in Bueno.
11. Montezuma
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Montezuma is a responsive, customizable and search engine optimized theme. This is the second theme from the author of the popular “Atahualpa” theme.
12. Contango
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Contango is an elegant, simple and clean design that suitable for any business or personal website. This theme is powered with custom menu, custom background, custom header, sidebar widget, featured image, theme options, nice typography and built-in pagination features.
13. Responsive
A simple, great responsive theme for any wordpress sites . There is also great support along with that.
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14. Skeleton
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Skeleton is a simple, responsive theme aimed at helping you build simple, uncluttered, useable, and mobile-friendly WordPress sites.
15. Catch Box
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Catch Box is simple, lightweight, box shaped, and adaptable WordPress Theme for bloggers and professionals.
16. Mantra
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Mantra is a general purpose wordpress theme and featuring a pack of over 100+ customization options and easy to use tweaks capable of tuning WordPress to your very specific needs and likes.
17. Attitude
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Attitude is a Simple, Clean and Responsive Retina Ready WordPress Theme which adapts automatically to your tablets and mobile devices. Along with the elegant design the theme is easily customizable with numerous theme options.
Note: To download wordpress themes from 3rd party websites like MyThemeShop , Woothemes ,etc you need to sign up for the “download link”.
To install themes with the WordPress theme uploader:
- Download the theme.zip file from the member area
- Login to wp-admin >> Go to Appearance >> Themes >> Click on the “Install Themes” tab >> click on “Upload”
- Upload the theme.zip and click on “Activate”.
So these are some of the best WordPress themes which you can grab without paying a single buck. Also you can share your favorite theme which is not mentioned in the list.