One of the main reasons WordPress enjoys such an unrivaled and ever-growing popularity is the constant stream of feature-rich and diverse themes that are released every day. Of course, it is the premium themes that are currently getting, as you would expect, the better reviews and deserved attention. Having said that, you should not under-estimate the quality of the the free themes that have been recently released, as this post aims to shows you.

As well as the always popular portfolio, magazine and general blogging styled themes, we have also listed a couple of bare bone themes, near the bottom of the post, which will be very useful for developers.

News

News, from DevPress.com, is an extremely powerful and feature rich theme designed for content-heavy websites.
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Dione

Dione is a videos showcase theme that utilizes the Custom post type feature available with WP 3.0. There are video guides available showing illustrating how to add videos to the showcase and also how to create a standard blog section.
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whitePress

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Vanadiumitic

Vanadiumitic comes with a featured content section, dropdown menu, subscription buttons (Twitter, Facebook and RSS), automatic thumbnail re-sizer, popular posts, featured posts, featured video and a lot more! This magazine type blog theme is great for personal blogs, tech blogs, design blogs and other related blog niches.
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Typominima

Typominima, a free typography based, gorgeous, minimal WordPress theme fit for the writer inside you.
If you’re looking for a free theme to help you put the content in spotlight, without worrying about it being suffocated by advertising space and unnecessary design blign, than Typominima is the perfect free WordPress theme.
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Modernist

Modernist has been designed with a focus on optimal typography in order to better showcase your content: text, images and video. This fast loading theme supports widgets, is SEO optimized, has clean and documented code and also includes some cool CSS3 enhancements.
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Bronte

Bronte is a 2 column minimalistic and elegant theme. Here are some of its features: jQuery slider, Custom menu, tabbed content , Twitter feeds, Featured thumbnails, widgetized sidebar and footer, Theme option page, Banner ads, Adsense, etc.
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Blogum

Blogum is a simple, grid based blog WordPress theme, designed in a modern & minimalist style. The theme has a heavy focus on your content and very clean feel. Theme supports all WordPress 3.0 features and gives you extra flexibility.
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Reptile WordPress Theme Framework

Reptile is similar to middleware and sits between your skin (theme) and WordPress. While your theme can interact directly with WordPress, Reptile includes helper functions to make many of these tasks easier. Komodo is the default skin included with Reptile and is built using the 960.gs CSS framework.
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Reference

With visitor conversion in mind, this theme features additional widget areas in all the important locations, including a top banner, a menu widget area (perfect for text links ads), three top boxes (perfect for latest news or lead generation forms), as well as 4 bottom area widget boxes (perfect for blogrolls or an “About” paragraph).
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Autobahn

Autobahn is a WordPress theme built entirely in HTML5. It’s suitable for anyone looking for an elegant, readable theme and for developers looking to build their own HTML5 theme from a flexible starting point.
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Suburbia

Suburbia is a clean and flexible WordPress grid-based magazine theme designed in a modern and minimalist style. This theme is also suitable for blogs and misc. projects. Suburbia supports all WordPress 3.0 features and gives you an extra flexibility in every single step you make.
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Portfolio Press

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Portfolio Press is a new feature rich HTML5 portfolio theme. It uses custom post types for portfolio pages, takes advantage of the new menu navigation, and includes a ton of cool features. Have a look at this short video for an overview:

Portfolium

Portfolium is a clean and flexible WordPress grid-based portfolio theme designed in a modern & minimalist style. It is ideal for designers, artists, photographers, and other creative specialists who require a professional portfolio theme.
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Aqualine

Aqualine is a unique and minimalist WordPress theme, that you can easily make customization to suit your needs. It is packed with an extensive options page – easily customize your theme without touching any code: Pick your own color accent, choose a thumbnail with excerpts layout, or display your full posts, amongst many other built in options.
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WordPress has become one of the top choices for content management systems among website owners. This has happened for several reasons, but one is the readily available collection of themes that can transform the appearance and functionality of a site. There are all kinds of themes out there, but some of my favorites are the ones that take a minimalistic approach so the content can do the talking. If you’ve been on the lookout for some nice minimal WordPress themes, then you’re in luck. Here are 10 free ones that you should find useful.

Un.complicated

The Standard

Lifestreaming White

Clear

The Daily Grind

Blue Bubble

Minimal Press

Foliogrid

Clean Home

Vostok

It can be pretty tough call to decide whether to invest in a premium WordPress theme or simply stick with a free one. This could be caused by a common perception we are shared – premium and paid stuff are always better than the free ones. Well, not always, at least that’s what we think.

we beg to differ, and in today’s post we want to show you some really nice WordPress theme that is going to cost you nothing, not even the time to search. All you need to do is scroll. We promise it’s going to be awesome.

Corporate Life

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Furvious

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Profile

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Dimaggio

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Tarantino

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Stone Room

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Stunning Press

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Berita

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Shopping Press

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Marangal

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Ice Breaker

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Appcloud

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MiniCard

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Neutica

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Manifest

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Mayumi

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Vivee

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Inuit Types

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Smartblue

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Thrilling Theme

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Satoshi

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Workoholic

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Fullscreen

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Modularity

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Highdef

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Gamezine

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Rockstar

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Early Morning

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Byty

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Gumball Special

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Changing Room

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Isotherm News

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Rask

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Igloo

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Gran Impetu

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Skyye

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One Room

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Yoghurt

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Blogtheme

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Astra

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Tree House

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MiniMag

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Old School

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Hybrid News

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Vector Flower

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City Journal

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Craftworks

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Joyous Childhood

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Artwork

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Spexel

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Lap of Luxury

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Free Themes

 Irresistable

This theme kind of combines some grunge elements with the popular glowing light effects for a cool final result.

Magazeen

These trendy colors and unique layout make this theme a real attention grabber.

Compositio

Here is another simple personal theme that has lods of creativity to it, with minimal effects.

Vintage

Bold graphics and rich colors make this on of the really creative free themes out there..

Blue

Here is another creative them that makes striong use of large icons, bright colors, and more to create a multi-functional layout.

Atlantic Theme

Another theme that uses the popular glowing wave style

Color Paper

A well textured theme that is both colorful and creative.

Notepad Chaos

This theme mixes its own creativity with the popular notebook style design for a personal blog.

I Can Watch Movies

Sharp lines, interesting colors, and a great layout make this a really cool free theme

Simply

A nice, simple theme, that makes great use of white space, bright colors, and cool patterns.

Agregado

Here we see another creative life stream style layout that also uses a minimal amount of glowing colors for the background.

Desk Space

A personal blog theme that is another variation of the desktop style.

Polaroid Press

Here is a unique theme that uses some nice colors and an interesting layout

Masinop

Here is a darker theme that makes cool use of the color white, but also features plenty of bright colors.

Mortgages

A simple personal style blog with a large background image filled with color.

Paid Premium Themes

 
Retro Hero

A personal theme with a cool retro design, built in Twitter status, and Flickr RSS.

Sketchd

One of the most popular grunge themes on the market. Perfect for a personal blog or magazine style website.

Carbonated

This themes has a seemingly endless variety of colors and styles, including this grunge paint splash.

Tribal

A bold site design for blogs and websites that deal with music. Especially that in the rap and hip hop genere.

 

Traveler

Here is a colorful theme that is geared towards those in the travel industry or are just wanting a cool travel blog.

Album Theme

This theme offers a simple, but creative dark grunge style to show off your pictures without the design taking away from them.

Simplex

As you’ll see, the glowing space style is a popular design these days. This is one of many on this list.

Tribune

Like I said, a very popular look these days. This one has more of a magazine style layout to it.

Abstract

Here is a colorful theme that comes in a variety of other color schemes as well. So you are sure to find one you like.

Ambiance

Here is a life stream type design that allows you to showcase all your online activities in one place.

Lyra

A unique layout that has some colorful vector illustrations to create the background for this theme.

Perfection Grunge

Themes don’t come much brighter than this. This theme features bright colors with touches of grunge.

 
Industry

The Industry theme uses a mix of bright colors and some simple glowing styles to create a personal theme filled with style.

Ocean

Bright blues help gives this personal theme its under water feel.

Design Blog

A theme that plays on the desk idea of pads and notebook paper to create a simple but creative blog layout.

Karma

This is a simple layout and design, but offers up loads of personality and creativity.

 
Wisdom tree

Here is another vector heavy design that gives you a really unique site right out of the box.

 

Quick Tab

A bright blue theme that uses some cool ajax slides to make the theme especially functional.

 
Bright

A simple personal blog design that lives up to its name with soft colors and a sky like background header.

Slurpie
This is another grunge paid grunge theme.

 

In this article we present 100 free high-quality WordPress themes. Together with hundreds of other designs, these themes have been manually selected, installed and tested over the last weeks. They all can be downloaded, customized and used for free in both personal and commercial projects. Links to demo-versions provide a direct preview of a theme.

Please notice that the listed WordPress themes are presented in 8 sections: vibrant themes, simple & minimalistic themes, magazine style, grid-based, clean and legible, advanced, experimental, photoblog & videoblog.

1. Vibrant WordPress Themes

FFF Lemon Twist (Demo and Download)

Several3 [ Demo ]

Adreu r2 [ Demo ]

Blogging Pro Theme [ Demo ]

DM-Bloodless [ Demo]

Illacrimo [ Demo ]

Elixir

Insense [ Demo ]

Zeke 1.0 [ Demo ]

jsTheme
Comes with a number of themes.

Smashing Theme [ Demo ]

DarkRed [ Demo ]

Gossip City [ Demo ]

Resurrection

Blue Steel

River Run

Yoghourt

Midsight Red & Brown[ Demo ]
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Fluid Yellow Black

xPlosive Reloaded [ Demo ]

Red Stamp [ Demo ]

Dilectio [ Demo ]

Fauna

dfMarine [ Demo ]

Curved WordPress Theme [ Demo ]

Accord WordPress Theme [ Demo ]

2. Simple, Minimalistic Themes

iA

Modicus 0.2

Modern [ Demo ]

Documentation [ Demo ]

Jentri [ Demo ]

miniBits [ Demo ]

GIMP Style

Dayvan Theme [ Demo ]

Tree Theme [Demo ]

DePo Clean WordPress Theme [ Demo ]

BlueBird 1.0

Balance

Paisley [ Demo ]

Autumn

Brilliance [ Demo ]

Pixelate

Pockett [ Demo ]

Artuell [ Demo ]

Plane Jane

Briny

Elite

Blue Moon

3. Magazine Style WordPress Themes

WP Premium [ Demo ]

Modicus Remix

Morning After

Futurosity Magazine [ Demo ]

Structure WordPress Theme [ Demo ]

Visionary WordPress Theme [ Demo ]

WP Polaroid [ Demo ]

Overstand Theme

Jello Wala Mello WordPress Theme

4. Grid-Based WordPress Themes

Gridline Lite [ Demo ]

Refreshed: Grid Focus

5. Calm, Clean and Legible Themes

Sharpfolio

Coldblue

Cubismo [ Demo ]

Yomel [ Demo ]

Lust WordPress Theme

Abstractia [ Demo ]

HemingwayEx [ Demo ]

Blubbr

Ayumi [ Demo ]

Greenway 3C

K2-U3 [ Demo ]

OldLamp [ Demo ]

Prima [ Demo ]

ProSense

Insan [ Demo ]

Sakeena [ Demo ]

Margot

The Azure Hut

Livegreen [ Demo ]

Simpress [ Demo ]

Glued Ideas: Subtle [ Demo ]

Gluttony [ Demo ]

6. Advanced WordPress Themes

ExtJS WordPress Theme

Lounge2

Prebuilt

Neoclassical
A 3-column template system with rotating header images.

7. Experimental Themes

Bonsai, Red Growth Live
Big typography dominates.

Trevilian Way [ Demo ]

BrainTied 1.0 [ Demo ]
The front page displays only the list of recent posts.

Tropical Grunge [ Demo ]

Aspire

Isolated Theme [ Demo ]

Supermini

Fontella
The front page features only the main/recent post of the weblog.

ASCII Themes

Retro Mac OS X [ Demo ]

8. Photoblog & Videoblog Themes

Tumblelog For WordPress [ Demo ]

Nautilus

Nishita [ Demo ]

9. Sources and Further Resources

• WordPress Themes That Don’t Suck
• BlogPerfume WordPress Themes
• 48 SEO WordPress Themes
• Skinpress.com
• WPDesigner.com
• Clazh.com
• Best WordPress Magazine Themes
• ScribbleScratch.com
• Photoblog Themes