Top 7 Free Wordpress Themes
Good Wordpress theme are hard to find now that the market it deluged with sponsored-link bearing crap. A search for “wordpress themes” in Google brings up advertisements to the max, most of which seem to be created by color-blind SEOs looking to get link-love and a buck with Google. Still, there are truly great new themes being made, you just have to be able to separate them from the noise.
Why? I want to add something to the WP Theme Community, which is my selection of the best themes. This post is intended to cut down on the noise.
Theme #1) Andreas 1.12
It looks like Wordpress’ default theme should have. Simple, with three columns, nice blue colors, and big text. It’s also got the Kubrick inspired top header image for your customization or monetization delight.
Theme #2) Presscut 1.0
The thing that got me about this one is the brilliant use the left and right column whitespace to put up a patterned background / extra-wide border.
Theme #3) Iceburgg
Iceburgg, dogg. The one thing that can be said about this cute, blue, cold, colorful theme is that it suits–and only suits–a winter season. If you were to use this as your general theme, you should probably customize and genericize all the graphics to taste.
Theme #4) Gridlock 1.4
The only thing I don’t like about gridlock is the large, grey right hand column, which seems out of place with the rest of the theme. Overall it has a very magazine-style text-based approach that works well.
Theme #5) Deep Red
Unique, this theme is thick. It’s got Web 2.0 written all over it, with big regions of text and color. The innovation is in the massive right-sidebar and header which wrap the content with text, rather than widgets or images.
Theme #6) Beautiful Day
Yep it’s the same theme directory again, but this one gets a nod for its well-done colorspace and menu bar. The image overlay hovers are beautiful, and the blue colors make it look as good as Windows Aero.
Theme #7) Dark Theme
Bartelme, again, shows us how it’s done. I thought I’d end this list with BIG BANG, and here it is. This is the theme that powered his site until he recently redesigned it into a sleeker, sharper look. If you like wide, you can’t get wider than this. And, it’s professional–this guy’s a web designer by trade!
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on May 24th, 2007 at 11:59 pm
Great list! I think Gridlock and Deep Red are fantastic.
on May 25th, 2007 at 12:07 am
I really like iTheme myself, but there are a few issues with it that I still need to fix.
on May 25th, 2007 at 10:57 am
Gridlock and Deep Red are defenetly nice!
on May 27th, 2007 at 5:38 am
Meh. Your taste in themes is reprehensible, but thanks for the effort.
on June 1st, 2007 at 6:47 am
J’ai déjà traduit le thème dark en français et j’envisage de traduire deep red et iceburgg
It’s true that it’s hard to find good unsponsored themes now.
on June 16th, 2007 at 5:48 am
Creative. you have a good taste on selected the theme. And thanks for the list..
on June 20th, 2007 at 10:31 am
Nice themes! Thanks so much for sharing.
Love PressCut and Beautiful Day so much.
Downloading them NOW
on July 16th, 2007 at 11:55 am
thanks very nice…
on July 25th, 2007 at 8:08 am
Do these blogs allow the user to customize the footer links to their own? If they do, than these are good choices.
on July 25th, 2007 at 11:09 pm
Los mismos de siempre pero gracias
Ahi te dejo un par de clics.
on September 12th, 2007 at 9:42 am
I like Andreas theme…
on September 14th, 2007 at 5:17 am
thanks for your time and for the list of themes you collected. great work
i also suggest you to take a look at my wordpress templates at www.theme-finder.net
on March 19th, 2008 at 4:39 am
Theme # 6 and 7 are the crackerjacks. I’ll definitely try out one these two
on July 2nd, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Better is to create new templates www.ibiznes.katowice.pl because a lot of blogs have the same themes.