20 Fresh WordPress Themes

20 Fresh WordPress Themes

By Tom Walker on March 8th, 2010 in Articles

WordPress, with its emphasis on accessibility, aesthetics and web standards, is one of the finest blog applications available. The application’s architecture means that the visual and technical design can be endlessly adapted to suit users’ requirements. There is a vast number of WordPress themes available to download; this post brings together 20 of the freshest contemporary conceptions currently on offer.

1. Blacko [Skinpress]


Blacko is a free WordPress theme with all the essential blogging features, ideal for any blog niche. The theme has a classy aesthetic with clean page layouts and stylish black background.

2. Piano Black [Mono-lab]


Mono-lab presents an exceptionally sleek theme in dark tones, with a two-column page design.

3. Wood3 WP [Skinpress]


This theme from Skinpress has a subtle wood effect and all the necessary facilities for a WordPress blog site.

4. WP-Creativix [Iwebix]


This free theme is ideal for creating portfolios and business-orientated sites. The custom settings enable users to create various styles and colour schemes according to their needs and taste.

5. Blue News [New WordPress Themes]


Blue News is a theme that can be tailored to any niche requirements with an options page, featured content, editable banners and an intuitive three-column layout.

6. Notepad [Nickla]


Nickla’s pleasingly simple notepad theme takes its inspiration from the iPhone’s Notes app.

7. Black Stone [DynamicWP]


The DynamicWP team present this two-column theme, which features a fixed-width design, theme option panel for customisation, four widget positions and featured latest post.

8. SimpleFolio [Slimmity]


SimpleFolio displays a clean and professional aesthetic with two page templates to choose from in advanced usage, and image control enabled through the post page. There are two widget areas and the theme supports both threaded and paged comments.

9. Avelius [Lorelei]


Avelius is a fresh magazine-style theme available to download from TopWPThemes. The widget and ad-ready design features two fixed-width columns including a right sidebar.

10. Vermillon [Lebenleben]


Lebenleben’s colourful blog theme is based on a 12-column grid system, with a stylish, harmonious design inspired by the Helvetica font.

11. BusinessCard [Elegant Themes]


BusinessCard is a simply presented and easy to manage theme. The one-page design offer’s visitors to the site clear and concise information and a fully functional gallery.

12. Greener Side [Adazing]


This verdant grass-styled theme balances quirky graphics with functional, clutter-free content in a two-column design.

13. Kelontong [iCreativelabs]


Kelontong is Mac-style theme for online stores to showcase their products. The super-clean design creates a highly professional feel to the theme, which is fully customisable, while the powerful features are ideal for e-commerce requirements.

14. Holistic Teahouse [RebeccaRing]


Holistic Teahouse is a quality, two-column design with a dark, warm colour scheme. The theme requires no plugins, and is fully sidebar and widget ready.

15. Smooth [Lebenleben]


This theme is aimed at writers who want to showcase text content in a non-nonsense design. The emphasis is firmly on clear typography with minimal touches of colour.

16. Stratie [New WordPress Themes]


Stratie is a theme that can be customised for any niche site, with theme options, two columns, editable banners and widget-ready format. Users have options for featured content and video, Twitter, sidebar ads and banners.

17. Gunungkidul [Jauhari]


Gunungkidul is a distinctive theme with a grid-based two-column layout. Features include Auto Grab Image, Recent Twitter and Flickr, Custom Header and all the other essential blogging tools.

18. Tauri [Skinpress]


SkinPress presents Tauri, a clear, uncomplicated theme, which is easily adjusted to suit any blog niche.

19. Blogwave [Custom Theme]


Blogwave is a simple, useful theme to create plainly laid-out blog pages. A built-in theme options page allows the user to choose between the four available colour schemes: blue, green, red and orange.

20. ChocoTheme [CSS mayo]


This theme has a two-column layout with a right side bar, with a stylish chocolate colour scheme and stitching detail in the design.

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About The Author
Tom Walker

Tom Walker is an avid fan of all things tech, most definitely including RoR and anything with an Apply logo on it. He is a full time blogger for a British specialist supplier of Hewlett Packard cartridges to homes and businesses. For more, follow him on Twitter.

Comments
  • March 8th, 2010 at 8:57 am.

    Hi, thanks for adding one of our free themes…that’s very nice :)

  • March 8th, 2010 at 10:29 am.

    Amazing themes. I want one of them.

  • March 8th, 2010 at 5:16 pm.

    A fairly good list of wordpress themes. Although, I think I’ve seen quite a few more in variety that scream “elite” when getting it for free or premium.

  • March 8th, 2010 at 6:20 pm.

    Love the themes! If you guys are looking for background layouts for your Facebook profile page, check out http://www.pagerage.com. My friend introduced me to this site. They have so many layouts to choose from and they are all free. So glad I found that site!

  • March 18th, 2010 at 4:18 pm.

    Very nice collection.You can also visit mine to my blog post here

  • March 21st, 2010 at 10:49 am.

    Blue News [New WordPress Themes]: i like this theme, it’s very good :D

  • June 21st, 2010 at 3:57 pm.

    You have created a nice article and I thank you for sharing it with us.
    good work

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