The consensus is that WordPress has benefited greatly from the explosion of the premium theme market. It has brought new designers, ideas and extensions of the WordPress blogging platform to proliferation. WordPress is far more versatile and complex a CMS than it was in its first few years of development. At the same time, there is a portion of the WP community that bemoaned the decline of free themes that was such an exciting part of WP in its early years. The abundance of free themes in 2004-2007 (along with plugins) is arguably what set WP ahead of its competition.
The following list was created to champion free themes released within the last few months, to revive a glimmer of the former WP theme glory and to offer alternative to the Premium market. What you’ll find is a range of high quality free WordPress themes that easily rival their paid equivalents. Enjoy!
1. Food Recipe
2. Artisan
Demo | Download
3. Sweet Banana
4. Nilpress
5. Feed Me Seymour
6. Avesta
7. Grace Theme
8. Helvetipress
9. You Are Theme
10. Grid
11. Berylliumous Theme
12. Magilas Theme
13. Continent
14. BookZine
Demo | Download
15. Kinetic Magazine
Demo | Download
16. Boldy
17. AllTuts
18. Simplio
19. Zen Blog
20. The Erudite
21. Capella Theme
22. Craviora Theme
23. Unwind
24. Lucid Theme
25. Twenty Ten – Blogging Inside Edition
26. Guerilla V2
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Aug 4th, 2010, 10:25 pm | #
Thanks for sharing. These are great. There are only 2 themes that I've seen on other lists, the rest are new to me. Bookzine and Unwind are my favorites. Shame there's no demo for Bookzine though. I'll just have to install on it my sandbox site to see how it works.