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An WordPress continues to grow its reputation as a fully fledged content management system and web development platform it is increasingly being used by non bloggers. The number of plugins that expand on its already impressive feature list and the ability to uses different themes to skin the design in seconds is proving a hit with most amateur and pro web designers.
If you’ve chosen WordPress for your site the next thing to take care of is the way it looks. In this respect, there are two main options from which to choose. The first one is to hire a professional who would create a custom design. However, it is usually a costly and time-consuming process. In this article we are going to focus on the option – using ready-made themes.
Providing an opportunity to save a lot of time and money, ready-made themes are in strong demand today. Such a tendency has led to a tremendous amount of these products on the web, and many of them are available at no charge. If you want to benefit from a freebie, here is a set of free WordPress themes developed by over the previous few months by some of the top theme developers. They have a solid number of downloads and positive feedback, which means only tried-and-true offerings are listed in this post. Most of them are responsive, cross-browser compatible, SEO-friendly, translation-ready, customizable, and supplied with sophisticated features.
Don’t hesitate to look through our set of fresh WordPress themes and choose the one that will match your web resource. Even though they are of high quality, you are still recommended to back up your site just in case before using them.
Melissa
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The first free WordPress theme listed here is built for websites that deal with photography, art and design. Even if your business sphere differs from these fields, a built-in customizer will help you turn this theme into the desired one. Together with a spectacular appearance, you’ll have a wide range of features at your disposal to provide pleasant user experience and convenient navigation. Spiced with beautiful images, a contrasting palette serves as a separator of content blocks and an effective visual attraction for visitors.
Portfolio
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Portfolio is a cross-browser compatible theme allowing creative professionals to present their projects in a favorable light. With its full-screen hero header, you can set the right tone of your site, whilst a side push menu provides easy navigation for visitors. Portfolio is easily customizable, which will give you countless opportunities to make it look the way you like. To keep pace with all the WordPress changes, you will regularly receive theme updates for free.
.Multi
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Here is another free responsive WordPress theme for a photographer’s portfolio or web design agency. It boasts a bright palette, 3 sleek sliders, advanced typography options, a Google map, and social sharing buttons that no one can go without today. The theme also has a filterable portfolio for you to categorize your projects and, therefore, help customers find what they need in no time. Just give it a try, and search engines will bring your web resource to top positions on the SERP. Compatibility with WooCommerce and Jogoshop plugins will also allow you to transform your site into an e-store.
Esteem
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Esteem is a versatile solution for any website type, be it a blog, portfolio or a business portal. It features 3 blog layouts, 5 custom widgets, and 2 custom templates for business content and contact page. Using its built-in options panel, you will easily configure your website’s individuality, e.g. palette, logo, slider, etc., in the most suitable way. Moreover, this responsive and translation-ready WP theme provides compatibility with Breadcrumb Navxt, Contact Form 7 and WP PageNavi plugins.
Mia Ittalonni
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Here is a free WordPress restaurant theme meant for websites that cover issues related to the food & drink industry, e.g. a recipes blog, a culinary school or any eatery. Used as its backbone, Cherry Framework ensures easy installation and intuitive customization. This responsive and WPML-ready theme has a modern look flavored with warm colors and pixel-perfect graphics. Its stunning visuals are accompanied by lots of handy features, particularly 4 gallery scripts, custom widgets for commenting and social sharing, audio & video options, a back-to-top button, a dropdown cart, and others.
Eighties
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Eighties is a free WordPress theme embodying the latest trends of web design. Its wide-screen header image allows for visual communication of website ideas. Staying out of the way, an interactive menu and sidebar keep the layout cleaner and let readers focus on your content. The theme can be either used as is or you can easily change its appearance according to your needs.
INterior
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This responsive WooCommerce Theme is a multipurpose option that will come in handy for any online store regardless of its merchandise. An admin panel makes it possible to change even the tiniest detail of your site with several clicks. This design has an effective image gallery, banners with a zooming effect, a dropdown menu, and a skilful blend of green and white will make customers feel comfortable on your site. Furthermore, the theme is also easy to use, e.g. over 80 shortcodes are here to let you embed media and other kinds of content effortlessly.
JustWrite
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JustWrite is a fresh WordPress theme supplied with built-in page templates, multiple sidebars and custom widgets. By means of its customizer, you will have an opportunity to create a unique palette reflecting your own style. The theme also ensures website localization so that you can reach different locales of your target audience. Thanks to its responsive nature, you will be able to adapt the layout of your site to screens of any devices including desktops, tablets, smartphones, etc.
Radcliffe
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Radcliffe is a great option for bloggers who want to give a spectacular presentation of their content. It is notable for full-screen featured images accompanied with beautiful typography. The imagery will look impeccable on both desktop and handheld screens due to the responsive design. This translation-ready theme will bring your website a lot of visitors from abroad. Customization options make it possible to upload your own logo, change a color scheme and add more widgets to the footer.
Jewelry
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This jewelry Jigoshop theme reflects minimalism in its design with strong attention to detail. Feel free to take advantage of its mobile-friendly nature, integration of Bootstrap functionality and frequent updates that will always keep your site modern. Thanks to custom post types and formats, each page of your web resource will have its unique look to stand alone from the others. Packed with comprehensive documentation, this responsive and translation-ready theme is easy to set up and edit.
Storefront
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Storefront is a responsive WordPress theme integrated with the WooCommerce plugin, which makes it perfect for any eCommerce project. Its clean and simple homepage is designed to display recent, on-sale, top-rated and featured products as well as their categories. The theme has a schema markup to enhance SEO rankings of your e-store and customization options to personalize its look. Only a few clicks are enough to make changes, and you can preview them in real time. As Storefront is fully localized, your site will be accessible to the international audience.
Saga
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Saga is a customizable WordPress theme designed specifically for writers. Use of gorgeous typography and featured images will let you tell your stories with flair to attract more readers. The theme comes with a mobile-friendly menu so that users of smartphones and tablets can look it through conveniently. You can choose from more than 400 icons with which to enrich your website design. Saga also provides integration with a number of useful plugins such as Custom Header Extended, Custom Background Extended and some others.
Pho
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Pho is a retina-ready and responsive blogging theme with a lot of white space, which will make your site easy on the eye for viewers. It comes with elegant Google fonts (Helvetica, Cabin, Open Sans, Droid Sans, Droid Serif, Raleway), 2 layout types (Full Width & Right Sidebar) and 2 templates (Standard & Masonry). A clean code will ensure fast performance of your site, and a customizer will let you tweak the theme effortlessly.
Griffin
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Griffin is a one of the latest free WordPress themes intended for bloggers and anyone who runs a personal site. Its multi-column design is enhanced with a custom header image and logo upload to individualize your web resource. This responsive theme has a fluid layout adjustable to any screen dimension, which provides optimal viewing experience for everyone.
Blogland
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Blogland is a well-structured and clean WordPress theme for bloggers and designers. It is equipped with powerful yet easy-to-use functionality and custom widgets for different sidebars (Newsletter, Social Widget, Popular / Recent Posts). Compatible with WordPress 4.0+ and powered by Grove Framework, this responsive and SEO-friendly theme meets the latest standards of web design. Blogland also provides integration with WooCommerce, Jetpack, Shortcodes Ultimate and WPML plugins.
Gridsby
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Gridsby is a responsive Pinterest-style gallery theme with extensive functionality and a SEO-friendly code. When clicked on, gallery items open in a CSS3 animated lightbox. A built-in color picker will let you create an ideal palette for your site, whereas a Google font selector will help you choose the typography matching its overall design. Being cross-browser compatible, this minimalistic theme will work properly in various web environments, namely Chrome, Opera, Firefox, IE 9+ and Safari.
Moesia
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Moesia is a business WordPress theme meant to build a catchy online presence for your company. With its help, you will create an outstanding homepage with 11 content blocks, a full-screen header image, Google fonts, social icons, and cool animation. A parallax effect will make your homepage feel more dynamic, which will appeal to your website visitors for sure. On top of everything, this corporate theme is fully responsive, translation-ready and customizable.
Baskerville
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Baskerville is the right choice for a content-heavy blog, a news portal or an online magazine. The theme features a trendy full-width header at the top and supports different post formats to embed more diversity into your web pages. Audio & video options will let you enrich your site with the multimedia content. Baskerville is a responsive theme, which is really useful in the age of rapid mobile technology progress.
Convac Lite
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Convac Lite is an elegant WordPress theme that is tailor-made for professional bloggers. Powered by SketchBoard Framework, it supports multi-level navigation, custom pagination and threaded comments. This translation-ready theme is compatible with all the modern versions of web browsers. Its responsive layout will be automatically scaled to the screen of the device used by your website visitor.
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