50 Beautiful Free WordPress Themes

November 10th, 2008 by Jacob Gube | 215 Comments | Stumble It! Delicious

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.

215 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)

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.