25 beautiful free WordPress themes for your blog
Hello friends i am back, and this time i have something big to share with you all. Here is a collection of some of the beautiful WordPress themes which i have collected from different sources. WordPress is my favourite blogging platform. This is my first post on WordPress, and I wanted to share something big with you all, this is a first installment of 25 beautiful WordPress themes developed by some of the talented WordPress designers from all around the world. I have spend hours to collect these themes, use them for your blog and enjoy.
1. Lightning
Theme Features:
- 2 (”or 3″) Columns – Widget Ready!
- SEOized code (tableless – optimized images);
- Unique Design – Unique Sidebar Structure;
- Multi-colored sidebar;
2. Modicus Remix
This free minimalist WordPress theme is based off of Upstart Blogger’s WordPress theme .
3. The Unstandard
The Unstandard is a split two / three column WordPress 2.6+ compatible theme. The home and archive index pages utilize photos rather than text.
The Unstandard supports three independent widget zones and features:
- Sidebar – Main: Column displayed on any page but a single post.
- Sidebar – Single: Column rendered on a single post page.
- Footer – Shared: Always visible widgets towards the bottom of the page.
- Threaded / nested comments (WordPress 2.7 only)
- Gravatar support and site admin comment author highlighting
- Automatically creates thumbnails using timthumb.php – info
- Multiple color themes without touching the CSS
- Support for custom header images – replace header.png in the images directory
4. Simple Balance 2.0
- An extensive and inclusive theme control panel;
- Widget-ready sidebars;
- Top advertising space (468×60 pixels);
- Sidebar advertising space: Up to 8 small square banners (125×125 pixels);
- Individual settings for each banner you add:
1. Custom banner URL;
2. Do Follow / No Follow witch;
3. Title and alternate text;
4. Open in a new window or same window
- Master switch (on/off) for every Ad Zone;
- Variable layout structure:
1. Centered content;
2. Right-aligned content;
- new additional color schemes (more released monthly);
- Option to display the default left sidebar image, use a custom one or hide it;
- Custom feed URL;
- Valid cross-browser tested XHTML and CSS;
- SEO smart coding;
- Works with WordPress 2.6.2 (tested starting with WordPress 2.5);
5. Brilliance
his is a 3-column, widget ready theme with soothing colors and design. The theme also has provision for an adsense block in the third column where you can put your adsense code (just edit the adsense.php file).
6. WordPress Magazine theme
Features
- Tableless and Unique design
- Improved Widget support (3 sidebars)
- Dropdown navigation
- Valid CSS
- Valid XHTML
7. Portfolio Press
The theme is very small in size (58Kb only) and loads very quickly. It is also SEO optimized and has been tested with Firefox, IE6, IE7 and Opera browsers.
8. DailyPress
DailyPress” comes with widget-ready sidebars, tabbed content, banner ads, minimalistic color scheme and social bookmarking options. The theme is compatible with all versions of WordPress and has been tested with Firefox, Internet Explorer and Opera.
9. Chronicles
This is a dark-brown colored, fully validated, widget-ready, 3-column theme with rounded edges all around it.
10. Sp142 theme
11. Small Magazine
Features
- Unique and fresh design
- Widgetized Sidebar
- 125×125 ad spots
- 250×250 adsense spot
- Easily customizable using CSS
- Custom 404 Error page
- Fixed width
- Right Sidebar
- Built in Flickr support
- Styled Pagination
- Built in Gravatar
- Valid CSS
- Vald HTML
12. Vistalicious
Vistalicious is a clean WordPress theme with two columns and a green flavored background. It is advertising ready, comes with an “About” section on the header and with a custom made image for the RSS feed.
Demo
13. SubtleZen
SubtleZen is a minimalist WordPress theme with a calm background and subtle titles and headlines. It is ideal for bloggers looking for a simple layout which lets the visitors focus on the content.
Demo
14. Ashford
Features
Ashford is a free WordPress theme framework built to be a simple to use and modify.
- 33 customizable Theme Options
- Built-in SEO
- Professional CMS features: breadcrumbs, pagination, multi-level drop down navigation
- Page speed optimized
- Add a Hero image and optional link to any page
- Add a Hero image and optional link to any page
- 18 Page templates
- Advanced blog features: social sharing icons, related posts, author box, follow icons, RSS comment feeds
- Child theme enabled
Demo
15. Yoghourt
16.Sharpfolio: WordPress Portfolio Theme
Sharpfolio is a WordPress theme designed to enable Web Designers, Graphic Designers, Photographers, Motion Designers, Artists or any creative professional to showcase their work in a simple, clean, beautiful portfolio. Sharpfolio aims to focus primarily on your work, because after all, this is what’s most important.
17. ColdBlue
ColdBlue is a WordPress Theme created to be aesthetically pleasing, open, minimalistic and easy to use. It is absolutely free to download, however if you enjoy the theme please be considerate and leave the link intact. This courtesy will go towards further development of ColdBlue and future themes (which will always be free).
Demo
18. Mimbo 2
MIMBO is a clean, customizable magazine-style theme for WordPress. It’s also a simple framework which can be modified with child themes.
19. Portfolio
Portfolio WordPress Theme” is a wordpress theme designed for web portfolios and (for now) just for web portfolios.
20. Snapshot
Features
- Two different theme layouts / capabilities to allow you to switch between a photoblog / portfolio showcasing your own work or using Snapshot as a design gallery (ala BestWebGallery)
- Three uniquely, different colour schemes
21. The Original Premium
Features
- Featured Posts panel on the homepage using jQuery technology to display / hide the posts;
- The layout supports all three of the most popular web ad sizes i.e. 468×60, 300×250 and 125×125;
- Animated horizontal drop-down menu’s for category navigation.
- 7 colour styles to choose from
22. Typebased
Features
- As always, Typebased is built on our very popular backend, which includes some non-standard, non-average customisation options.
- Integrated banner ad management.
- Widgetized sidebar, with some Typebased-specific custom widgets to allow you full control of what happens in your sidebar.
- 5 different colour schemes to choose from…
23. Dilectio
24. Mahiwaga
Mahiwaga is a WordPress theme tested on the latest version of WordPress, two columns, adsense ready with advertising blocks, right sidebar, cross browser compatible with IE, FF, Opera, Flock & Safari, valid XHTML & CSS, Ajax tabbed sidebar and widget ready.
25. Firebug
Firebug is a dark (but colorful) theme with two widget-ready sidebars, space for 125×125 banner ads, social tagging options at the end of each post, Gravatar ready comments, feed subscription options, WordPress 2.5+ Gallery feature, and much more
