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