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There are so many free themes out there nowadays. And that’s a good thing. I mean, the odds of someone else in your industry picking the exact same free theme as you is a lot less than it used to be. But with all of this selection comes a new problem: how on earth can you possibly choose the right theme with so many options?
Well, for starters, you should make sure whatever theme you choose is responsive. Ensuring your site looks good on mobile devices has always been important but it’s even more important now that Google changed its algorithm again, this time to place greater emphasis on mobile optimization.
In layman’s terms, that means your site needs to look good on smartphones and tablets or else it won’t rank well. Period. To check this must-have off your development checklist, you can use this collection of 55 free responsive themes to narrow down your selection. It offers a good sampling of some of the very best free responsive themes the WordPress Theme Repository has to offer.
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Lovecraft
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The Lovecraft theme is as good a place to start as any here and offers a responsive design that’s aesthetically pleasing and includes a bold header that’s sure to capture attention. On single posts and pages that header is swapped out for post thumbnails. This theme is retina-ready, includes stylish typography, and can be customized in a number of ways.
For instance, you can add a custom header image, select accent colors, include a custom logo, and add and remove features in the four widgetized areas. It also includes support for Jetpack, editor styles, three custom widgets, and a full-width template. Lovecraft is also translation ready.
Gridsby
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Now here’s a theme that really catches the eye. Gridsby is, as its name would suggest, a grid-style theme that offers a Pinterest-esque layout for photo blogging. It can also double as a portfolio and comes with multiple templates, unlimited colors, Google Fonts, and cross browser support.
It’s responsive, of course, and comes with XML content so you can get your site up and live in a matter of minutes. Gridsby is also SEO-friendly and promises to include free updates forever. It also has some sleek social icons at the top of the site and an expandable menu that keeps navigation options tucked away and tidy.
Radcliffe
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While there are a lot of themes out there aimed at writers, Radcliffe offers a story-centered look that’s image focused. It includes full screen featured images that you can’t help but notice overlaid with bold typography.
This theme is ideal for the long read, offering plenty of visual interest within large bodies of text to keep readers engaged and interested. Radcliffe can also be customized with your own logo, accent colors, and footer widgets. And of course this theme is responsive and retina-ready so it will look just as it should on any and all devices.
Ghazale
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Ghazale is a pretty simple theme but it offers a clean look that I really found appealing. It has a nice header image with a menu up top and social icons set off to the right in the sidebar. It includes sticky posts for keeping important content at the top of your site and/or you can designate a separate static home page using a special template.
It also comes with a full width page template, a widgetized footer, three custom boxes with an icon, text, and button on the home page template, and post thumbnails. It also has a custom social menu and a customizable search icon. This one’s not all that feature-rich but it’s nice to look at and functional.
Resonar
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Resonar is another responsive theme designed for bloggers. It includes gorgeous fullscreen featured images, making it a great choice for any kind of visually-oriented blog. Prime topics include food, art, photography, and the list goes on. It’s ideal for long reads, too, as it prioritizes those large featured images with beautiful typography, both in the headlines and within the body content.
For instance, this theme offers overhanging images and pull quotes, which helps to break up the text and make it more visually appealing. Resonar also comes with plenty of widgets and a social links menu, so you can customize the layout as you see fit. The top navigation can also include drop down menu items. All in all, a really nice selection here.
Magnifique
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If you’re looking for a responsive theme that offers a streamlined look and that celebrates minimalism, you might want to check out Magnifique. This blogging theme is all about the basics. It doesn’t have a sidebar, widgets, or any extra settings at all. It’s just a blog and only a blog.
But it looks incredibly modern while having so few features, I have to say, with support for bold images, unlimited colors, and support for Jetpack. This theme is also optimized for SEO, so it’ll be easy for people to find your site. It also has a stylish top navigation with drop down support.
Founder
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Founder is another minimalist and responsive theme that looks good on any device and can be used for a multitude of purposes. It’s great to look at and is optimized for fast load times, making it a good choice for businesses that want to highlight blog content in a straightforward way.
This theme was built with Noto Sans, the multilingual font made by Google, making it a prime candidate for translation. It’s designed to be accessible, too, so it can be read by those with disabilities the world over. Founder also has top navigation, social icons in the header, featured post support, and a nifty expandable menu that can be populated by widgets including recent posts, a tag cloud, search box, and more.
Auberge
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Auberge is a responsive theme that’s the perfect choice for restaurants or cafés. It can also be used for recipe and food blogs. This theme includes support for the WebMan Amplifier plugin, which makes it possible to create a menu or feature recipes on the fly. It also includes the Jetpack plugin.
This theme also includes support for schema.org markup and Google Recipe View, Theme Hook Alliance action hooks, and more. You can also customize many aspects of this theme thanks to the customizable color and layout options, a header slideshow, and compatibility with the Beaver Builder plugin.
Auberge is cross browser compatible, retina-ready, translation-ready, SEO optimized, and uses the built-in WordPress theme customizer for easy setup. I also like how lightweight this theme is. You can add the features you want and leave the rest. And to top it all off, this theme is super stylish.
Avocation
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If you’re going for more of a corporate look, the Avocation theme is an excellent choice. It’s based on Bootstrap so can be customized in any way you want and it’s also lightweight so it loads fast. And it’s responsive so you know it’ll look good on any device from desktop to phone. It comes with robust theme options and custom widgets so you can customize to your delight.
Other features include unlimited colors, SEO optimization, Google Font support, custom post types, and speed optimization. Avocation also comes with page templates, social icons, drop down menu items, and a slideshow of blog posts. This one’s a solid choice for businesses that need a strong web presence but don’t have a ton of time to invest in getting it setup.
Lindeza
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Lindeza is another responsive theme that is designed to make establishing charitable organizations easier by streamlining “…communication between organizations, volunteers, investors,” and others who are passionate about today’s issues. It’s the perfect theme for blogs about social issues and can even be used by organizations that want to reach a broader audience.
This theme comes with a customizer that allows you to modify the layout and colors to suit your needs. It also has an easy-to-use admin panel, responsive design, and totally secure code that you can rely on.
Esteem
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You can build any kind of site you want with Esteem and that’s precisely its appeal. This responsive theme is multipurpose and includes 3 blog layouts, 5 custom widgets, 2 custom templates, and a boxed or wide layout.
Esteem can be customized in many ways to suit your unique purposes. It comes with an image slider for showing off your best content and/or images on the front page. You can customize the site’s logo and title, choose a header image and a custom background, and you can modify the CSS. It’s also translation ready and comes with free support.
Sorbet
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Sorbet is so simple but there’s something about this blog theme that just makes me happy. It’s colorful and aesthetically pleasing and its responsive design ensures it looks good on any device. It comes with multiple post formats, sticky posts, featured images, four widgetized areas, and social links.
It doesn’t have a ton of customization options but it makes up for that with total reliability (it’s made by Automattic) and colorful push-button drop down menus that keep navigation tucked away until you need it. This one’s also easy to set up and just a delight to use.
Poet
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If you like to write, you might enjoy the Poet theme. It’s actually a child theme for the Author theme, offering a slightly different take on the easy-to-read original. This theme is responsive, super fast, and makes reading on a screen enjoyable.
This theme is accessible so can be read by visitors with many different disabilities and all code has been minified so it loads quickly. Your content is displayed in such a way that it’s a delight to read and is intended to mimic the experience of reading on a printed page. Poet also includes support for featured posts, includes lovely featured images, and has a left sidebar for out-of-the-way but easy-to-access navigation.
Ophelia
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Ophelia is another responsive theme option that’s designed to be easy to setup. It’s perfect for any company site and has a great admin panel filled with features perfect for businesses. It includes a top nav menu with drop down items, a search bar, numerous color options, customizable buttons, call-to-action buttons, a portfolio, and more.
It also includes footer widgets, social icons, testimonials, a blog, and a large header slider. It even includes dummy text so you can easily launch a site that looks just like the demo in a matter of minutes. It also has a robust admin panel and secure code so you can feel confident with this theme representing your brand.
Ample
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Ample is another responsive theme choice that can be used for just about any kind of site, though it’s definitely geared toward businesses. Using this theme makes it simple to create a professional-looking site with minimal hassle. It has many options that you can use to fully customize your site as well.
Some of the features here include a large slider, a services section with buttons, a portfolio section, a call-to-action button, a blog, and footer widgets. You can also enable or disable a sidebar that’s positioned on the right side, left side, or on both sides. It’s a pretty straightforward theme but has a nice look that’s perfect for those with corporate aspirations.
Coherent
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Here’s another super simple yet totally stylish theme from Automattic that offers a responsive layout for bloggers. Coherent is minimal and straightforward in its approach, offers large headlines and large text for ease of reading, and a bold header image that’s sure to capture attention.
You can also establish a featured image for your posts and use block quotes to add greater stylistic appeal to your writing. It has a sliding panel that can be clicked open and closed to reveal recent posts, widgets, navigation, and a social menu. If you don’t want anything other than your writing to be visible, you can opt out of including the sliding panel.
Prana
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Another theme you might want to check out is called Prana. This lightweight theme is nice to look at and includes just enough features to keep designers satisfied. It can be used as a blog, portfolio, or business site depending on your needs.
Customization is a snap here with custom menus, custom background, a custom header, a widgetized sidebar, and featured images. This theme also comes with threaded comments and it’s search engine optimized for your convenience. Prana has a pretty basic look but I think that’s precisely what makes it so appealing. Sometimes you don’t need all the bells and whistles to create a compelling site.
The Princess
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You don’t get much simpler than The Princess. But don’t mistake simplicity for boring, because this theme is anything but. In fact, it’s quite stylish and features interesting design elements in the header and footer. The top navigation has the option of drop down menus and the whole shebang is responsive and retina-ready.
The Princess also comes with 2 blog templates, columns, sidebar positioning options, custom logo and favicon uploader, and RTL support. It’s also translation ready. Plus, you can add more menu items in the footer along with your social icons. This theme is clean and might just be the breath of fresh air your site needs.
Bakery
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If you need to build a site for a café, bakery, or any other site about food then the Bakery theme is a good choice. It’s really simple in its presentation but that’s totally a part of its charm. It comes with drop down menus and a javascript slideshow for showing off your latest goodies.
This theme is responsive and retina-ready and includes many customization options. For instance, you can customize the homepage with a custom header, services section, portfolio, recent projects, and widgets. It includes two column support, comment nesting, social icon support, post thumbnail images, custom CSS, RTL support, and more. Plus, you can make all of your modifications right from within the theme options panel.
Receptar
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Receptar is a cross between a Pinterest-style theme and portfolio blog. Whatever it is, I like it. This theme is responsive and offers super high resolution photos so whatever work you’d like to feature here looks amazing. The design is actually inspired by modern cookbooks with a split screen look.
The typography is eye-catching, too. And this theme includes support for the Beaver Builder page builder, so you can feasibly drag-and-drop your way to a new site design very quickly. It also comes with support for Jetpack, Schema.org markup, and Theme Hook Alliance action hooks. Other features include custom colors, a slideshow, and cross browser compatibility.
Sento
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Sento is another multipurpose theme that can be used for just about any business or blog site. It has a responsive layout and is retina ready so there’s been obvious emphasis of visual appeal here. Plus, it comes with a theme options panel that you can use to customize many different aspects of your site.
For instance, you can customize the included slider to feature your preferred images. You can upload a custom logo and you can use a custom static homepage that suits your business’s needs. The theme sports a boxed layout and has social icons in the header area that encourage your visitors to stay connected. There are two menu areas as well—one above the page title and one below, giving you plenty of options for offering navigation. Sento is kind of a blank slate, which is precisely what makes it so appealing.
It’s also SEO optimized, includes 10 widgets, and is updated regularly.
Rara Clean
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The Rara Clean theme is about as simple as they come but that might be exactly what your blog needs. This responsive theme is ideal for personal blogs that require a light feel or professional blogs that don’t want to stray into too much fluff.
This theme really puts your text on display, allowing you to focus on your content. It includes a simple slider at the top of the homepage for showing off your latest or best posts and pages. It also has three widgets that can be displayed under your blog posts. Rara Clean is translation ready and offers a simple right sidebar for further navigation options.
Arcade Basic
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This theme pops up on a ton of “best of” lists and for good reason: it manages to look and function great, offering users a stylish homepage that’s useful and eye-catching. This theme is lightweight and responsive and built on HTML5. It relies on WordPress’s theme customizer for allowing you to make modifications. For instance, you can add a header image, modify the page layout, change the site width, and configure both tiled and jQuery carousel galleries.
It’s also compatible with Jetpack, bbPress, WPML, WooCommerce, and BuddyPress. It includes Google Fonts and supports multiple post formats, includes clickable drop down menus, and plenty of social icons to connect your visitors with your social profiles. It also has really nice image/text block/button areas that allow you to display your services in a clean and professional way.
Arcade Basic is well thought out and has earned its place on the many theme roundup lists.
Metro CreativeX
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The Metro CreativeX theme has some real style. It’s responsive and minimal in structure but it has plenty of features to meet the needs of personal bloggers and business owners. This theme is has good source code that’s validated and based on HTML5 and CSS3 and you’re provided access to a support forum for additional guidance.
You can make whatever customizations you want thanks to the built in theme options panel. Add a logo, social links, custom colors, and change up the layout on a whim. It’s also cross browser compatible and is translation ready for your convenience. Plus it has custom post formats that add a little something extra to the standard post formats built into WordPress. You can also change up how your post formats look by selecting from a radio-button list of options.
Metro Creative X goes the extra mile in terms of design. There are little details all over the place that give this theme an extra level of appeal that most themes don’t bother with.
SKT IT Consultant
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Now here’s a totally professional theme that you should check out if you need to build a business site. SKT IT Consultant was designed with consulting businesses in mind, offering a minimal design that helps site visitors get your message and stay on task. It doesn’t have extra frills because the idea here is to get a visitor to contact you and everything on display helps to encourage that conversion.
The theme is responsive and uses the built-in customizer for making modifications. It offers a Nivo Slider, built-in pages like search, blog, and 404, a full-width template, and social media integration. It’s also compatible with WooCommerce as well. SKT IT Consultant can be used for any kind of business and includes plenty of stylish touches—like a widgetized footer, a “call us” line in the header, service buttons, testimonials, and more.
Ward
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Ward is a theme that makes a statement. This theme is responsive and lightweight but totally looks like it has more heft to it. It’s based on Gridiculous, giving it a decidedly professional look. It has a huge headline in the header for capturing attention along with service buttons, sticky posts, and featured images. It also supports the eight post formats and works with Jetpack for integrating tiled and jQuery carousel galleries.
The theme is built on SASS, Compass, and Bootstrap, so you can feel comfortable in its stability. Other features include Google Fonts, Font Awesome icons, shortcodes, a full-width page template, several widgetized areas, a theme customizer with live preview, custom CSS, an advanced color picker, cross browser function, and compatibility with bbPress and BuddyPress.
evolve
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evolve is a responsive and multi-purpose theme designed to be used for any kind of site. It has a quick loading and interactive-looking Parallax slider up top with five slides. Plus, it can be inserted on any page. There’s a post slider, too, that can show 10 posts per category, so there will be no shortage of options to give to your visitors. Both sliders have a bunch of effects to choose from for your images and captions.
The theme itself was built on Bootstrap, giving it a solid foundation and total flexibility. You can customize the logo, background, header, colors, and more. It also comes with Font Awesome icons, retina-ready icons, infinite scroll, Google Fonts, image thumbnails, several blog layouts, 12 widget areas, custom widgets, social icons, and more. It’s also compatible with WPML, bbPress, and BuddyPress, and it’s translation ready.
Quidus
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Now isn’t this just a lovely theme? It’s definitely a blog theme but it offers so much more than that with its minimal, responsive design and customization possibilities. It can be used for any site topic since it offers a standard framework that’s practical all around. It comes with 6 post formats and it’s retina-ready.
This theme offers unlimited colors and it’s compatible with several plugins including Contact Form 7 and Shortcodes Ultimate. It’s also translation ready and offers a free support forum in case you’re stuck.
Woodley
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If you want to set up a blog in a hurry, the Woodley theme would be a good choice. It has a two-column layout that’s ideal for featuring your main content and navigation side-by-side. The theme is also very lightweight, so it loads quickly and reliably.
Woodley doesn’t have a ton of features but it doesn’t need to. That’s not what it’s about. Instead, it’s good at being minimal and lets your content stand on its own. It does include featured images, featured posts, and a widgetized left aligned sidebar, however, so you can make some customizations in how your content is displayed.
Hemingway
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Here’s another theme that’s been featured on many best of lists. Hemingway is a responsive theme that is a classic blogging theme but offers so much more. The design is simple yet compelling with bright colors, stylish typography, and bold images that demand attention. The header image take up a good amount of space as do the featured images in posts.
Since this theme doesn’t have a million features, it’s super easy to set up. One-click activation means your site can be up and running in just as long as it takes you to write some content and upload a few images. Hemingway includes support for 4 post formats, custom accent colors, a custom header image, and more.
Customizr
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The Customizr theme is really many themes in one. You install it just as you would any other WordPress theme, but you can, as it’s name would suggest, customize it to look and function however you want. Seriously, you can use this theme to build a business website, a landing page, an online store, a portfolio, a personal blog, or anything else you can think of.
Customizr has a lot of live preview options, so you can customize the layout and make changes without having to touch any code. It’s responsive, and overall easy to use. Just a few of the possible features include a custom logo, custom header, slider, full width layouts, call-to-action buttons, social icons, animation effects, one and two column layouts, right and left sidebars, gallery options, a blog, WooCommerce and bbPress integration, and so much more. If you want the ultimate in flexibility for your website, this is absolutely one of your best free options.
Lucy
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Another really flexible theme you might want to check out is called Lucy. This responsive theme offers a professional style that can be used for any kind of business. It’s built on HTML5 and CSS and gives visitors a stylish UX that feels distinctly modern. It’s responsive, of course, and is built to be lightweight so it loads quickly.
Lucy is also highly customizable and lets you add a custom logo, header image, change the layout, add sliders, and more. You can also modify the site’s colors. Additional features include a portfolio, blog, testimonials, footer widgets, and more.
Nictitate
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Nictitate is a responsive theme that offers beautiful layout options for a multitude of business types. It comes with so many features, you’d swear it was a premium theme. It comes with a wonderful portfolio feature that showcases different sized images with lovely animations that present the option to enlarge the image or click through to another page.
It also includes some fantastic service buttons, a testimonial scroller, call-to-action buttons and banners, a skills list, and a latest posts section for your blog. There are also two widgetized footer areas with social icons, a search bar, a Flickr widget, a calendar, and newsletter signup form. It also has a pricing table feature, online store integration, contact form, and more.
Oblique
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If you’re looking for a theme to show off your photography, fashion pieces, or artwork, Oblique ought to do the trick. It’s done in a masonry style that’s ideal for showcasing your latest work. It includes a parallax header that’s presented at an angle—hence the theme’s name—to give a bit more visual interest.
Other features include unlimited colors, Google Fonts, social media integration, and more. Blog posts are presented with a stylish animation effect and an expandable menu appears on the lefthand side of the screen where you can list out your pages, posts, and a description of your site.
Hannari Pink
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Hannari Pink is a child theme for Hannari, but the pink skin adds a but more flair so I decided to feature it here. This theme is responsive to any device and offers a beautiful layout that can be customized to suit your needs. You can create multiple sidebars if need be, select from multiple blog layouts, and configure drop down menus.
It also has a slider, social icons, service buttons and descriptions, a widgetized footer, social icons in the header, and more. Hannari Pink is also SEO optimized, includes a sitemap, and post meta. And the pink accents make this theme ideal for a subtle business site or informational site.
Aries
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Aries is a great responsive theme that can be customized in a number of ways. It features seven different skins, one of which is bound to please you. Or, you can create a custom color scheme with background images and accent colors. You can also choose between a single column or two column layout with a sidebar.
It’s ideal for bloggers, and new ones at that. It’s super simple and lightweight, too, so setup is a snap and you won’t have to deal with any load time lag. Headlines are bold and eye-catching and the navigation is tucked away in a drop down menu. Perfect.
Simplified Blog
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The Simplified Blog theme is pretty much exactly what it sounds like. This theme is completely easy to setup and use. It’s meant for writing up quick blog posts, publishing them, and being done with it. All while providing a responsive and reliable foundation, of course.
You can customize a fair amount of this theme, however. Add a custom header, links, meta, and background colors. Add a custom logo and select from Google Fonts. You don’t need to dive into the CSS or anything. Just use the theme customizer and you’ll be all set to go. It’s built on HTML5 and CSS and you can choose between a fixed or fluid layout. Full support is included as are galleries, custom menus, and threaded comments.
Flat
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I really like the Flat theme. It’s a one page theme that’s totally adaptable to a full site and offers plenty of options for building a custom site for your own creative vision. It’s built on validated code, is cross-browser compatible, and includes a theme options panel for easy customization.
This theme is responsive and includes sidebar navigation, which keeps menu options visible without interfering with the main content. Flat also has stylish typography that demands attention as well as oversized featured images that pull in your readers. Support is included as well, making this theme a true standout.
Dispatch
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The Dispatch theme is responsive, fast to load, and easy to customize, making it an excellent choice for personal and business sites, alike. You can add a portfolio, feature your services, or just maintain a blog with relative ease. It comes with both full width and boxed layouts and is built on HTML5 and CSS3.
You have a lot of customization options here. This theme includes a custom logo, over 360 font icons, custom widgets, sidebar positioning options, pagination, color options, and more. It’s also retina ready and SEO optimized, and translation ready. Documentation and support are also available.
Hathor
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Hathor is a great responsive theme for businesses. With it, you can create a custom layout and select the colors and style details you prefer. It features a slider on the homepage with animated transitions, service boxes with buttons, a “showcase” section for portfolio pieces, a blog, and a “meet the team” section for talking all about your employees.
This theme also comes with two styles for the header, service boxes, and latest posts. It has a full-width and boxed layout option, offers SEO optimization, and is translation ready. Plus, animated on hover social icons are included in the footer. This one offers all the layout options you need to build an attractive, professional site without a lot of fuss.
Yuuta
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If you want a visually-oriented theme that’s perfect for photoblogging, travel journaling, or telling a story, you should take a look at Yuuta. This theme includes support for all the post formats, which means you can create a blog that doesn’t look the same post after the post, and instead has some real personality.
The full screen images are really nice to look at and the overlaid text is subtle yet totally legible. Speaking of legibility, the typography is on point, offering a distinct look while remaining familiar. The main navigation is tucked away in the top right corner in an expandable drawer along with a search box. There’s also a footer with widget support.
Radiate
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Radiate is a really popular theme on the WordPress Theme Repository. It’s responsive and offers a super clean layout that’s simultaneously minimal and feature-rich. It comes with a parallax header image, infinite scroll, and support for service or feature boxes. It’s retina-ready, translation ready, and offers several customization options.
For instance, you can add a custom background, select a primary color for your links and icons, and add custom CSS, if you’d like. It also supports the WordPress Gallery feature, includes widgetized areas, and has a featured section. Plus, Theme Grill offers free support on their site for this theme.
Loose Leaf
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Loose Leaf is another theme worth considering if you want to build a portfolio. Many people can make use of portfolio themes from photographers to web designers to corporations. It comes with a custom header image, that you can opt out of if you want, that’s overlaid with text. This is your call-to-action area that can be used to convince your visitors to complete a specific task.
This theme supports the custom content types included in the Jetpack plugin. This means you can create a masonry style portfolio and a dedicated page for your testimonials. There’s also a blog, a widgetized footer, and buttons for adding visual interest to your portfolio descriptions.
Fortunato
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Fortunato is a responsive blogging theme that’s minimal in design but doesn’t lack features. You can accomplish anything you want to accomplish with this theme. It offers a full width layout with an expandable menu that acts as a left aligned sidebar. There is navigation across the top as well.
It also has many customization options including unlimited colors, a theme options panel, dropdown menus, a custom header, social icons, and sticky posts. Fortunato is a pretty simple blog theme but offers a unique presentation, making it a surefire standout.
ColorMag
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Looking to build a magazine? ColorMag is a good choice. It’s responsive and provides the perfect layout for magazines, newspapers, and business sites since it puts your content first. It offers a news ticker across the top, ad space, drop down menus, a widgetized footer, and a whole lot more.
Some of its features include a featured slider, a widgetized home page for the ultimate in flexibility when it comes to customization, custom logo, custom header, 8 custom widgets, social media icons, a theme primary color, a custom menu, and support. ColorMag is also translation ready.
Tracks
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Tracks is another responsive theme that’s very simple and ideal for personal blogs and even photography websites. It definitely places an emphasis on images, with large featured images that appear next to your post headlines and excerpts. The grid-style layout means all of your content is immediately visible.
There’s simple hover effects, a logo uploader, social icons, a search box, and a boxed layout for pages. On posts, headlines are large and there are some nice typographical choices, particularly the date and author and categories and tags. Tracks also has comment display controls.
Amadeus
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Here’s another blog theme that’s responsive and includes a simple design that’s distinctly modern and perfect for sharing your inner thoughts with the world. It includes a parallax header image and the MetaSlider plugin, so you can be certain your site has plenty of visual appeal.
The blog itself has stylishly presented featured images and a righthand sidebar that allows you to show off your author photo, latest posts, a calendar, and any other widgets you want to include. There’s also a widgetized footer, social icons, custom widgets, and custom colors. It also includes support for Google Fonts and it’s translation ready.
Relic
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Relic is a theme for those in the real estate industry. It’s responsive and flexible, allowing you to customize it to suit the needs of your business. It includes a slider that you can customize to feature images and property information alongside call-to-action buttons to encourage conversions.
It also includes a listings section, latest posts section, and a widgetized footer for displaying tags, contact info, social icons, and more. With this theme you have unlimited color options, a post photo gallery, Google Fonts, 3 post layouts, SEO optimization, and compatibility with WooCommerce.
Interface
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For businesses, the Interface theme is a good choice. It’s responsive and simple, offering all the features you need to promote your company without being bogged down with too many options. You can customize it quite a bit though, since you’re provided with a narrow and a wide site layout, 4 post or page layouts, 5 page templates, 8 widgets, 6 custom widgets, and more.
It also comes with a featured slider that can be overlaid with custom text and calls-to-action, info bars at the top and the bottom of the site, 10 social icons, and more. You can also customize the header, menus, backgrounds, logo, favicon, and CSS if you’d like. This themes is retina-ready, child theme compatible, includes narrow and wide layouts, and free support.
Freak
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The Freak theme is one I really enjoy because it’s versatile and performs great. Right away, the large header captures attention and the parallax effects add interest. The social icons encourage connection immediately and the numerous navigation options ensure visitors know precisely what they’re getting.
You can make any kind of site you want with this theme including a blog (personal or corporate) or a magazine. It’s built on Bootstrap, and includes support for featured images, custom widgets, mobile menus, a responsive slider, a featured posts area, and it has a 4 column footer. It also has Font Awesome icons, smart typography, and it’s retina ready. And the best part is Freak performs as well as it looks.
StrongHold
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Another responsive theme you should take a look at is called StrongHold. It’s multipurpose, so can be used for any kind of site, and is built on HTML 5, CSS3, SASS, and Bootstrap, so it’s reliable and totally functional. It’s best suited for businesses with portfolio needs but really, anyone can use it.
It comes with an advanced theme options panel for total customization, a primary widget area and 7 other widget areas, a clean top navigation bar with hover animation effects, an Awesome Slider, page builder with multiple layout options, short code builder, demo content, custom widgets, testimonials support, social media icons, Google Fonts, and WooCommerce support.
Totomo
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If you’re looking for a simple responsive blog theme, Totomo is a good choice. Not only does it give you a clean platform on which to display content, it’s also inherently attractive, offering large featured images, multiple post types, a spacious contact form, and plenty of social icons to keep your audience connected with you.
It also has a large image slider on the homepage, dropdown menus, image galleries, a related posts widget, and more. Totomo isn’t the most feature-rich theme in the world, but it definitely does provide an excellent option for bloggers looking for something a little different.
Atomic
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For personal websites, Atomic is a great theme to use. It’s excellent for displaying straightforward information about you, your life, and your work. Post a resume, your personal projects, or other interests. This responsive theme includes a full-width header for totally immersing visitors in your content but is otherwise pretty minimal, placing the most emphasis on clean typography.
It’s also ideal for showcasing a simple portfolio of photography or projects. You can customize the header and footer, the navigation bar has simple hover effects, and it works with galleries. Atomic doesn’t really include very many features other than these, however. It’s designed to be lightweight and expanded upon using plugins or additional code, if you have the skill set but it’s still usable right out of the box.
Parchment
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For a simple blogging theme that puts your content at the forefront with no distraction, you’ll want to take a look at Parchment. This theme is super easy to setup and looks fantastic from the get-go. It doesn’t have very many options or features. It just offers an easy place to blog that looks good on any device.
There is some level of customization allowed for, however. For instance, you can customize the background colors, text colors, and fonts. It’s also compatible with a few plugins including Jetpack, Civil Footnotes, and Subtitles.
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