50 Beautiful Free WordPress Themes
There are many talented designers out there that choose to provide WordPress themes for free. Most of the time, the only small favor they ask you is that you attribute the design to them and link back to their site (a very reasonable request).
In this collection, you’ll find 50 excellent, high-quality, free WordPress themes. These themes range from being elaborate and colorful to being clean and simple so that you may find one that suits your design tastes.
Note: Be sure to check out the license of the theme for restrictions in usage (if any) and it’s always good (and very much appreciated) to attribute the designer even if they don’t explicitly ask you to.
Color Paper
208 Comments
Umoor
November 10th, 2008
First themes are not available “403 – Forbidden” :(
Cobus Bester
November 10th, 2008
Hi! Great collection of themes! Thanks for featuring Scruffy here :)
insic
November 10th, 2008
nice themes.i love them all. i used brightness to my site.
Greg Johnson
November 10th, 2008
It’s always great to see WP CODA on “best of” lists, cheers!
CODA BLUE was released only a couple hours ago if you want to make the addition. It includes the PSD this time around!
http://bustatheme.com/wordpress/coda-blue/
wilderwein
November 10th, 2008
Do you have package of all these themes? I don’t want to download it one by one
shyboy
November 10th, 2008
I like Mimbo theme! it is very confortable!
Fubiz
November 10th, 2008
Perfect compilation!
Dainis Graveris
November 10th, 2008
yeah, free themes always comes handy :) thanks for the list, bookmarking this one! :)
Mohamed
November 10th, 2008
Cool collection, loved most of them!
Chris Loftus
November 10th, 2008
Great compilation some really good themes. Love the notepad styles.
Leesy
November 10th, 2008
Nice list but none of those were new to us. For example, any reader of Smashing Magazine would have seen the first 7 (and some others after those)
Chris Morin
November 10th, 2008
LOVE these… will definitely be using one and linking back to you soon.. Bookmarking now!
Michael
November 10th, 2008
I hadn’t actually seen any of them. Currently playing with Magazine and Color Paper. I have a preference for newsy-type themes.
Antonio
November 10th, 2008
Check this one too, there are some others cool and fresh styles here!!!
http://www.wpzoom.com/design/30-lovely-wordpress-designs/
Midla
November 10th, 2008
Cool list, definitely bookmark worthy.
nICK
November 10th, 2008
really loved the themes, haven’t seen any of em yet. definitely gonna take full advantage of this site. bookmarked!
skullpat
November 10th, 2008
Yep nice list !!
Gracias
Mickael Pinto
November 10th, 2008
Thank’s for this list of themes, I have found what I search today…
Danh ba web 2.0
November 10th, 2008
Wonderful post. Thanks you very much
You can see more: http://www.danhbaweb20.com/?p=347
Keep up the great work. I like your blog, it’s very useful
Susan
November 10th, 2008
Many I’ve seen before, but Cellar Heat is a new one.
Eero
November 10th, 2008
Here’s something new: two clean and minimalistic themes byModula.
Eero
November 10th, 2008
Modula. Obviously. My bad.
Rajeev Edmonds
November 10th, 2008
Some new themes in this collection. I can see some new magazine style themes. Thanks for sharing.
Lawrence Anderson
November 10th, 2008
Great collection.
But, It might be nice (for the contact creators) to not provide direct download links to their work.
Paulo Sacramento
November 10th, 2008
Excellent themes. Thanks!
Tal Galili
November 10th, 2008
Thanks for the links – great list (and fun to see an updated one)
T
Dan
November 10th, 2008
Great compilation of themes.
Thanks!
ntopics
November 10th, 2008
Really beautiful WordPress themes.
It makes a difference to have a
visually attractive blog.
Hope most comply with W3C.
thanks from tony
Affordable Web Design
November 10th, 2008
Very nice list i like the designs alot thanks
Fabryz
November 10th, 2008
I must quote Leesy =)
Indra
November 11th, 2008
all is great, hard to choose
Imran
November 11th, 2008
wow….. great.
insic
November 11th, 2008
i love the notepad chaos just downloaded it. thanks.
Rishi Luchun
November 11th, 2008
Love these, my site was originally based on the Vikiworks V5, but I have tweaked it quite alot so it looks different now. his Infinity one is quite impressive as well.
Technologix
November 11th, 2008
Thanks !
zoel
November 11th, 2008
Simply Ornate is forbiden …..any link for donwload? I love it
Tschai
November 11th, 2008
Impressive themes indeed: currently using a widgetized version of The Unstandard at Aytemir.com
And 1150 diggs? Even more impressive!
Ozcan
November 12th, 2008
Some very nice looking themes here.
Thanks for putting it on the one page.
Cheers!
jav
November 12th, 2008
nice list!
Amy
November 12th, 2008
Great it’s good for inspiration!
Dietmar
November 12th, 2008
I like most of the themes. They are both inspirating and you can also have a look, whoe the authors managed things! Very useful.
Maui
November 12th, 2008
This collection is awesome! Some great themes and I can’t wait to start using some of them. Thanks.
Maverick
November 12th, 2008
Very good list ! Gonna bookmark it for future use :)
Alejandro
November 13th, 2008
esta muy buena la coleccion ya estoy descargando muchas gracias
Dulce
November 13th, 2008
Hi! Thanks for including Mahiwaga in the list. You might want to update the download link and add a demo link pointing to the original author’s website. We will appreciate it. Thanks.
Connie
November 15th, 2008
I whished the template-writers would start to use language-variables
it is a real shame that you have to edit 6 or 8 files with the same textsplitters just because the designers do not realize that there are more than 1 language out there…
please, start to use the language-file-snippets!!!!!
Ordillicopods
November 17th, 2008
i want to share my free wordpress theme here.
Preview:
http://www.elegantthemes.com/preview/eVid/
Download:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/6uv0n2
Rosario
November 19th, 2008
Worth staying in your blog for more than an hour :)
Subscribed to Feeds !
balachandar
November 19th, 2008
some of the themes hosted in this url http://88.198.60.17/ were *not* available for download.
how can i get them?
Jacob Gube
November 19th, 2008
@balachandar I’ll see what’s up with those, but you can find a download link to the files by going to the WordPress theme pages (clicking on the name of the WordPress theme will take you to the page).
Duran
November 19th, 2008
On the “Forbidden” links, just copy the shortcut URL, then remove the “.zip” section to just enter the directory, then right click on the file and “Save target as”…
kusu
November 19th, 2008
its really cool!!!
Benny Ang
November 20th, 2008
Nice and Cool WordPress Theme, Keep your creativity
Asilee
November 21st, 2008
The one that I want, the link doesn’t work. Is there a way you can find or fix that link so I can download it? The one I want is called “infinity”. Feel free to message me. Thanks.
Janice
November 21st, 2008
I’ve spent the last 2 nights looking all over the internet for a theme I haven’t seen a hundred times. So glad I came across this list. I found what I was looking for. Thanks!
Adrian
November 26th, 2008
The whitespace usage in the ‘DailyPress’ theme is great.
denbagus
November 27th, 2008
thank a lot, i have looking for themes ,now i found my favourite theme
Seen Zone
November 29th, 2008
Thank you very much.
Sankeerth
December 1st, 2008
Very nice themes…. thanks for the excellent list.
ivan
December 8th, 2008
hmm, i need to write 100 beautiful free wordpress theme to compete with this articles..
good list
Straderade
December 12th, 2008
I love these type post. Bringing out some top quality themes in a user friendly post. Thank you for your time in this post and I will be checking back for more informative post!
Robertas
December 19th, 2008
To be honest this is a great list of even GREATER themes :) One of the best ones out here on the internet
Terry
December 21st, 2008
GOOD JOB! So beautiful,excellent!!!!
JaMilancha
December 23rd, 2008
Nice collection!
KronicDreamer
January 1st, 2009
Great selection… i decided on typebased as my main theme, and i am tweaking it as we speak :) ty
tasarhane
January 20th, 2009
Very nice themes
letras
January 20th, 2009
very good..
trace
January 29th, 2009
Sadly, some of these themes are not GPL or if they are they are violating the GPL license conditions by injecting encrypted sponorship code into the theme templates. It would be good to have a notice letting people know which are truly “free” as opposed to those that are stealing advertising from you. That way your readers can decide for themselves if they want to support that kind of thing or not. Personally I don’t. I don’t mind linking back to the designer but it is not legal to enforce conditions that involve promoting spam sites, other businesses or any other random business or website without paying for the advertising. I boycott any theme authors who engage in this underhanded practice.
Adrin
January 31st, 2009
really, i impress it.
Amanda
January 31st, 2009
Very impressive list. All the themes are beautiful and unique in their own way. Thank you! =0)
Shibani
February 2nd, 2009
Wonderful collection :)
jobucks
February 3rd, 2009
im really impressed with your collections of wordpress themes.
Infrascape
February 4th, 2009
really this is good , good collection.
Yashu
February 4th, 2009
Really Fantastic WordPress themes. I impress it.
Really I am searching for Themes, now I found it.
Thanks for the excellent list.
dootv
February 9th, 2009
wow , huge collections for me,it ‘s beatiful wordpress themes,
i already download,and i will use it in my blog,thanks you
EinbauStrahler
February 22nd, 2009
Nice and clean templates.
Thanks for sharing this collection.
Mark G.
March 5th, 2009
This is a great list. I can add some more from wordpressweekly.com where there are so many other cool themes. I like it clear and simple. :)
Madmouse Blog
March 11th, 2009
Always nice to find a collection of themes like this. I am designing my own themes this year and also releasing free WordPress themes to the public.
Sonia Khan
March 26th, 2009
im really impressed with your collections of wordpress themes.
Gian
April 5th, 2009
Great ! Thank you
Not Delia
April 6th, 2009
Excellent collection, thanks. I like the Notepad Chaos idea – that could be just right for a new site I’m planning.
dwane johnson
April 9th, 2009
i love the notepad chaos and want to download it but it says 403 forbidden when i click on it :(
any idea on what to do?
Bogdan Botezatu
April 14th, 2009
Excellent resource! While I was aware of some of these themes, some other absolutely stunned me. Great compilation, I’m waiting for an article with your plugin recommendations!
CSSJockey
April 27th, 2009
Here’s another highly customizable feature rich free wordpress theme..
Check this out:
http://www.cssjockey.com/free-wordpress-themes/imagination-feature-rich-free-wordpress-theme
vector4u
May 9th, 2009
Thanks for the great list.
I already downloaded my favorites, Infinity
bladeofmind
May 15th, 2009
thanks so much for the useful list, I am very new to this kind of blog so it takes a lot of time for me to get the nice theme.
gonna make a link from my web to here to share good theme for other.
Virgilriz
May 21st, 2009
Notepad Chaos theme is the best!
nitendra
August 10th, 2009
Awesome themes are available , difficult to make selection. wordpress fun themes best for my blog site.
David Parsons
August 14th, 2009
a great post! I just might use one of these for my own blog.
kamal
September 2nd, 2009
Nice post here…awsome free WP themes
great jobs
sayuru
September 27th, 2009
this is coooooooooooooooooooooooool……………..
thanx
Rook1970
October 16th, 2009
I recently started making themes for WP. Here is one I made that I think turned out well:
http://dominion-x.net/shop/premium-wordpress-theme-eclipse/
Kimberly White
October 23rd, 2009
I love the “WordPress Magazine Theme.”
It’s so helpful to have this list, because searching through WordPress with keywords is a coin-toss.
I just started using “PrimePress” by Ravi Varma on my crunchydata.com site, and so far, it’s the cleanest, best-looking, and best supported theme I have tried.
Heather
November 9th, 2009
There are some beautiful themes on here, and not the usual WP themes you see all the time. Thanks!
wp themes
November 12th, 2009
I am happy that one of my themes listed here. Thanks for the list. All of the themes are really perfect.
Franck Silvestre
November 17th, 2009
Never came across those themes. Thank you.
Franck
fofo
November 18th, 2009
Never came across those
TerryAnne
November 20th, 2009
Love the themes. SubtleZen is gorgeous! Looking forward to the newsletter.
geomark
November 25th, 2009
As trace said above, some of these themes have hidden links and encrypted content. That is nothing short of sleazy. There is a useful plugin that will spot this sleazy practice called TAC (Theme Authenticity Checker) available here http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tac/
Install the plugin and run it to check any themes you have uploaded before you enable them. And don’t use the ones with hidden link and encrypted content.
Mr.Mix
December 4th, 2009
really i love the collection thanks a lot !
Rosewing
December 9th, 2009
what a huge list, thank to server us with this..
thats why im using wordpress for my blog, cos people like you.
Regards
Rosewing
aang
December 12th, 2009
thank u so much
patlat
December 13th, 2009
Thanks for the great list.
Jenny
December 19th, 2009
Hey, nice post. :) Thanks for the interesting info.
Daniel Ditgens
January 13th, 2010
Hey. Thank you for this inspiration.
Scott
January 15th, 2010
Hi Great post thanks for sharing. The designs are awesome inspiration.
Lance
January 21st, 2010
Great set of themes. BEst collection in one place I have seen yet. You have made my search a lot easier. Thanks!
clicknepal
January 27th, 2010
Nice Theme! Very nice and useful for many blogger
crpols
January 27th, 2010
Wow, I have never seen such great themes for free. Thank you.
weeeeeeeeeeeeeee
January 29th, 2010
WooooooooW
A great collection
Really cool themes
Thanks!
mama
February 21st, 2010
love these styles. i went for the green wildlife for my mama blog. thanks!
ken
February 22nd, 2010
Modicus Remix looks great here on this page but awful in reality, why is that? Did they modify it? too bad :(
Tola F.
March 11th, 2010
Very nice… will most likely be coming here to pick a theme or two, especially the photo clip one. thanks
Robyn
March 15th, 2010
Amazing list of free themes.
No one should have an excuse for having an ugly site when there are so many free beautiful themes.
BlogTem
March 23rd, 2010
wow… nice themes. I really like simple balance 2.0
Thanks
bapakmu
April 3rd, 2010
Check out my premium collection at http://www.bapakmu.com . Oh .. and it is fully free…
The file is available to download anytime. with average size more than 9 Megabyte. Thats show it is premium template. :D
jki
April 7th, 2010
Very nice… will most likely be http://datinglove.org/ coming here to pick a theme or two, especially the photo clip one. thanks
jki
April 7th, 2010
love these styles. i went for the http://russian-love.org/ green wildlife for my mama blog. thanks!
Afro
April 9th, 2010
Thanks for sharing these themes. They are really beautiful.
I chosed one for my website and i really like it.
gozjtm713
April 24th, 2010
wow, what a fantastic themes! Thanks. It is useful for me to select the wp themes.
lulu
May 10th, 2010
Thanks you for sharing a very very great themes. ! I really love Firebug !
Greattechno
May 13th, 2010
thanks for list…
Sagive
May 15th, 2010
Cool :) great list, took that brown template.. 10x man
Kawita
May 17th, 2010
Thank you from my side also..this is very suitable for my website.
nuManaGa
May 18th, 2010
good themes.
jalonsoa
May 19th, 2010
Great list of themes. Some of ‘em doesn’t work though… I recommend a couple to a colleague who are willing to start up his own blog. Thanks!
Rob
June 9th, 2010
The only one i liked wasn’t available for download! What a pile of nonsense!!!
pondicherry
June 17th, 2010
thanks , this theme inspired me , anyway i use this ,thanks once again.
Nur Mohammad
June 27th, 2010
Extraordinary post, specifically the themes are awesome.
Nur Mohammad
July 13th, 2010
I used some of them. Some are almost professional but not all. I think the admin should care about it that, keep a little collection, but they must be extreme for the wp theme seeker. Thank you.
Ryo
July 19th, 2010
I love the snapshot and iTheme probably the two best in my opinion.
mel
July 19th, 2010
nice design…
WpNull
July 26th, 2010
good selection of templates, designers need to have equal
backpacker
July 26th, 2010
Great looking themes and all in one place. Thanks for saving me a heck of a lot of time!
tobiCOM
August 8th, 2010
Nice seection! Most like the simple Themes
YaWeZ
August 28th, 2010
Thanks nice themes
Moiz
September 1st, 2010
Thanks for the brilliant list of the theme love it :)
robbie
September 4th, 2010
Amazing themes, thank you so much.
msn show
September 12th, 2010
thanks , this theme inspired me , anyway i use this ,thanks once again.
bita
September 13th, 2010
so boring and useless.
gretz
September 17th, 2010
Love it…anyway!
Halen
September 20th, 2010
Beautiful templates, all of them are best in the graphic work.
Sarah Jones
September 23rd, 2010
Yes, most beautiful templates
Freddy Chin
October 6th, 2010
It’s a great collection. It’s really helpful for the designers point of view.
davide scalzo
October 19th, 2010
I m new to wordpress an this is really a good collection to get started. Thanks for sharing
Dekpress
November 4th, 2010
Thank you very much, it is very beautiful theme.
Atomatar
November 14th, 2010
Hi, fine collection exhibited here, now whats next is: Content!!
All the best
Pho Phyu
November 26th, 2010
hi
very nice themes…
thanks you so much…
Mathias San Miguel
November 26th, 2010
Nice Themes, but some of the links (A lot of them) doesnt work
irsolo
December 21st, 2010
hey thanks…… fantastic
BosHan
January 3rd, 2011
i will consider to start using wordpress..
Arun Kumar
January 11th, 2011
Thanks for the posts
Prashant
January 12th, 2011
Nice Themes…I really liked it great work…
Rali madhusudhana chary
January 12th, 2011
I am saying heartily thanks.
Now i will start the blog posing.
PPI
January 13th, 2011
Awesome and excellent collection of templates.
Web Design Stuff
January 14th, 2011
Great collection. thank you. bookmarked.
Wilfried F. Voss
January 20th, 2011
I’m always searching for new WordPress themes for writers and authors, and I found some very good samples here. Thanks!
AfterU
January 21st, 2011
Thank you greate theams!
steve marshall
January 23rd, 2011
Great list of themes…these are awesome..some were pretty inspiring for some custom ideas…
MIKE
January 31st, 2011
thanks! i can use this!
lora
January 31st, 2011
love’ very nice
vivin
February 12th, 2011
thx a lot ! I’ll use one of them for my blog
Daissi
February 15th, 2011
I like ColdBlue theme. It has nice ‘cold’ color combination
neel
February 19th, 2011
Excellent post with list of all the free themes. I like Agregado theme as i used this theme on my website some time ago. I love it…
ryan
February 25th, 2011
nice wordpress theme list. i searched allot for these themes thanks for these excellent themes.
Dessign
February 26th, 2011
This list is from 2008 but some of those wordpress themes still look good, If you make amazing design it hold its value for long time,
Marios
CC
February 26th, 2011
Arjuna-X (google it) is also a fabulous WordPress template.
Susan
February 28th, 2011
Out of these, I like the wp theme “infinity” the best.
ann
March 5th, 2011
what a beautiful list of themes – i’m so glad i found you – i can add to my directory of themes for futures use
Anna
March 9th, 2011
Great list, here are some more :- http://websoulz.com/amazing-100-free-wordpress-themes/
apu_aja
March 22nd, 2011
thanks a lot, for links too
Marc S. Peron
March 27th, 2011
Very nice work. However,, I am looking for a 3 column layout dwith two sidebars next to each other on the right side with white content background and a blue or green color. I’ll keep looking.
Thank You
Marc
Vrdnik smestaj
April 15th, 2011
Thanks for very nice wordpress themes…
Sokobanja
April 24th, 2011
Excellent post, thanks for the nice explanation, I really like
Md. Hemonto Haider
April 29th, 2011
truly magnificent collection
Apartmani
May 2nd, 2011
Thanks for the best WordPress themes on internet!!!
Linesh
May 11th, 2011
Nice post , Thanks for sharing :)
Vamshi
May 18th, 2011
These templates would really help budding designers in long way…. Thank you for sharing with us
navjot
June 7th, 2011
Absolutely fantastic collection, the website has been bookmarked. Cheers
G.N.R.S.U
June 14th, 2011
some themes can not download at all !!!
Sweb
June 26th, 2011
A lot of functional and modern themes that fit into many sites. Thank you very much
Snave Wehttam
June 28th, 2011
Great themes, perfect for a wide variety of sites. Thanks
Majalah
June 29th, 2011
Mimbo 2 is one of the best wp theme for magazine style. I use it on my news site
Santhosh
July 11th, 2011
You have given too many good option; thanks for this problem of plenty! Many of the themes are cool..
apu_aja
July 14th, 2011
thanks for themes, many options for my blog
Wesley
July 15th, 2011
Lots of good options. I will download the iTheme and the Ashford.. very nice.. free too… Got to love that!! Thanks, Wesley
anandy
July 16th, 2011
great collection of themes
Raghavendrabsrg
July 21st, 2011
download links not working!!
kaushal
July 27th, 2011
such a great collection please continue ur work thanks for this
sn
August 7th, 2011
wow!
interesting themes ever!!!!!
but i am still new on wordpress, and i dont have any idea how to import those themes into wordpress blog.
please..could any one help me. what’s the next step?
panax
August 7th, 2011
thanks for themes, many options for my sites
Sonia
August 14th, 2011
Really awesome themes. I am going to use one of these theme.
Barsha
August 24th, 2011
Illacrimo theme is very beautiful.
Minimal design but very colorful
sunclara
September 2nd, 2011
The Original Premium News
it best theme style
Thank you so much again for This theme.
dev
September 2nd, 2011
I have a web CSS template, Can anybody covert its into wordpress theme. pls reply
Je Suis Vert
September 3rd, 2011
Thanks for sharing these templates, they look very beautiful and free!
Abdul Gafur
September 11th, 2011
Thanks for this..
you’re awesome!!
DWI JO
September 20th, 2011
Great template,, thank you.
Gunungkidul Handayani
September 20th, 2011
Now i am switch to simply ornate,, your theme list is awesome.. :)
Agus
September 21st, 2011
Awesome themes! Thanks a lot
Melissa
September 22nd, 2011
Thanks for these great themes :-)
TutsPress
September 30th, 2011
amazing list. Thanks for the templates.
dimmi
October 4th, 2011
Woow… this is Beautifull thems!
Marios
October 6th, 2011
Its great to see WordPress themes from 2008 in 2011, what a big difference, but some of them I still like it,
Daniel
October 16th, 2011
Awesome themes. I love the theme called ‘iTheme’ and might apply the current version (v2) to one of my sites. Thanks for this post!
Jokesmantra
October 18th, 2011
Very Nice Post.Thanks….
Enqer
October 19th, 2011
wow! thank you!
Vremenska
November 7th, 2011
Thanks, I install 4 from this list!!! Great work!
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