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Serene
Free premium-style blogging WordPress theme
Serene is the very first free WordPress theme released by Elegant Themes.
Bold and beautiful in its fonts and design, it makes use of the native post formats within WordPress to deliver a truly stunning look that you and your visitors will love.
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True North
Free simple and minimalist portfolio WordPress theme
True North is a free, clean, simple, and minimalist portfolio theme for WordPress.
Designed to showcase your work and/or projects in style and elegance, it provides a professional look with powerful features including: custom post type for portfolio items, multiple layout options, optimized for SEO, responsive and Retina-ready, theme options dashboard, custom widgets, and many other extras.
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GridBlog
Free grid-style blogging theme for WordPress
GridBlog is a free WordPress theme for bloggers and offers a unique grid-style layout that enables you to display a lot of your content at once.
The theme is responsive and adapts to nearly any screen size, has been optimized for speed and SEO, includes custom-built widgets, theme options panel, unlimited color schemes, coded with HTML5 and CSS3, extensive documentation, and even includes theme support!
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OneEngine
Free premium-style WordPress theme
OneEngine provides advanced features of those you might typically find in a premium WordPress theme and offers a versatile, single-page design for your website or blog.
Packed with features that include an easy-to-use administration area (back-end), it gives you access to a layout builder, parallax effects, and a multitude of other options all of which have been built using a modern flat-style design.
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Tesla
Free premium WordPress theme
Tesla is a free premium-style WordPress theme, it includes advanced functionality and features that you would not typically find in a free WordPress theme.
Ideal for use as a portfolio site, it includes: a special gallery section, traditional blog section, and a home page featured content slider for displaying your most important content – as well as a dozen other features that allow you to customize the look of your site to your liking.
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Musical
Free music theme for WordPress
Musical is a creative and artistic theme created for musicians, singers, bands, DJs, and entertainment businesses, websites, and blogs.
It features a unique design that comes with three different layout options: the default music theme, blogging theme, and a shop layout that is powered by WooCommerce.
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Parallax One
Free single-page, parallax WordPress theme
Parallax One is a clean, professional, and simple single-page WordPress theme ideally suited for businesses or those seeking a stylish design for their site.
This free theme offers: a responsive layout and design, parallax design elements, unlimited color schemes, display contact information, custom theme options panel, and a highly customizable homepage that gives you the flexibility to create a truly unique-looking site.
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Olsen Light
Free minimalist fashion and lifestyle blog WordPress theme
Olsen Light is the perfect choice for lifestyle blogs, fashion sites, or anyone wanting a clean, minimalist, modern, and uncluttered look.
The theme includes a responsive layout, custom-built widgets, integration with Instagram, social media accounts integrated, and a customizer that allows you to modify the look and function of many different sections of the theme.
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Basic
Free minimalist, starter WordPress theme
Basic was created and designed for those who want full control over their site’s aesthetics – and a great foundation upon which to build their blog or website.
It incorporates many features that you might typically only find in premium themes like a responsive layout, lightbox integration (without using a plugin), HTML5/CSS3 encoding, and many other features which help make it one of the best choices when developing your own theme.
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LiveMagazine
Free magazine-style WordPress theme
Live Magazine is a free magazine-style WordPress theme that includes features and functionality that you’d typically would find in a premium theme.
Built on Bootstrap and the Underscores framework, it utilizes a magazine-style layout and includes a number of premium-style features like: a “trending” content widget, tabbed widget, the ability to show “new” and “popular” posts, newsletter signup, and much more!
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Point
Free blog WordPress theme
Point is a free responsive blogging theme for WordPress that is both versatile and flexible.
Through the advanced theme options panel, you can choose from multiple site layouts, backgrounds and color schemes, as well as control specific features of the theme to your liking.
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Meeta
Free simple and minimalist blogging WordPress theme
Meeta is a clean and refreshing theme that will give your site or blog an ultra-clean and modern look.
Using a flat-style design it utilizes many features and functions that you might usually only find in premium themes including: post templates, responsive layout and design, custom widgets, and more! It’s flexible and contemporary and can be used on nearly any type of blog or website.
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Coming Soon
Free “Coming Soon” WordPress Theme
Coming Soon is a free WordPress theme that allows you to provide a landing page or “coming soon” placeholder for your website.
This single-page design delivers a simple, clean, and elegant look which allows you to entice visitors to return to your site or take action (sign up for the newsletter, subscribe to your blog, etc.) – great for blogs, apps, services, products, or any type of site.
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Great
Free minimalist blog theme for WordPress
Great offers up a magazine-style layout that has a more traditional or classic feel to it. The minimalist design delivers a clean and compelling look that allows your visitors to easily find exactly what they’re looking for.
Custom widgets, expert coding, and a responsive layout ensure that you create a great first impression.
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Integral
Free one-page WordPress theme for freelancers, agencies, and startups
Integral is a clean, stylish, and modern, single page WordPress theme that was designed to suit the needs of many different types of users and industries.
Whether you’re a freelancer that wants to show off your work, a startup that wants to promote your services and products, or simply looking for a modern and appealing design for your website – it offers customization options to give you the look and functionality that you want.
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Pinboard
Free Pinterest-style WordPress theme
Pinboard is a Pinterest-like theme for WordPress created by MyThemeShop that is completely free to download.
It uses a grid-style layout with custom (built-in) features, unlimited backgrounds and color schemes, and is fully customizable. The responsive layout and design is built using HTML5/CSS3 and adheres to the latest web development techniques.
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Gadgetry
Free responsive tech and business blog WordPress theme
Gadgetry is able to adapt as well to a traditional blog as well as it would a business website or online magazine, it has been built with a responsive layout and design on top of the Fuse Framework to deliver a superior browsing experience for your visitors.
The homepage features a stacked grid layout which sits beneath a stylish and eye-catching featured content slider (which can be useful for showcasing your most popular/important content).
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SmartBlog
Free clean and modern WordPress blog theme
Smart Blog comes with a clean, modern, and minimalist design that includes a number of premium features – it’s a WordPress theme that can fit nearly any type of content.
From the responsive design to the “popular posts” listing in the sidebar, this theme offers a complete blogging solution.
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InstantWP
Very simple and free WordPress theme for portfolios, freelancers, and agencies
InstantWP is a theme that excels at simplicity.
With a clean and modern design that leaves your site uncluttered, it makes the perfect choice for agencies, freelancers, and portfolio showcases.
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BiancaA
Free minimalist photography, portfolio, and blogging theme
BiancaA places an emphasis on your content and images, a minimalist WordPress theme gives you the perfect platform to share your content and/or photos.
The responsive layout and design ensures your site looks great on all types of screen sizes and devices.
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DualShock
Free magazine-style WordPress theme
DualShock is a completely free, dual-purpose blog and magazine-style WordPress theme.
It features some of the best features that MyThemeShop have created, including an options panel, custom widgets, translation-ready functionality and SEO-optimized throughout. With a unique layout that includes a custom meta information box, it’s definitely worth checking out.
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GeneralPress
Free magazine-style theme
GeneralPress is a flexible, multi-purpose, news or magazine-style WordPress theme that uses a timeless color scheme – allowing it to be used for any type of blog or website.
Whether you’re running a news site, review site, or even as a personal blog – it delivers unmatched quality and features for a free theme.
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PlayBook
Free blog-style WordPress theme
Playbook is a traditional blog-style WordPress theme that is set up with a two-column layout, fully responsive design, and is packed with all of MyThemeShop’s best features and customizations.
The theme includes optimization for the search engines, custom widgets, world-leading theme options panel, and much more!
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Public Opinion Lite
Free modern magazine theme for WordPress
Public Opinion Lite is a free WordPress theme set up and designed in a magazine-style fashion.
The versatility and flexibility allows it to be used across many different industries and types of sites.
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Mommy&Me
Free parenting or mom-blog WordPress theme
Mommy&Me is a blogging WordPress theme for parent and mom (mommy) blogs. Every last detail of this theme has been hand-crafted to give you a great-looking and functioning website or blog.
Extra features and enhancements include: an image gallery, ratings/reviews, and much more.
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Charitas Lite
Free WordPress theme for nonprofits, organizations, foundations, and charities
Charitas Lite comes with advanced options that allow you to make the most of the theme’s features, this powerful and free theme provides everything you need to create a great website.
While built for nonprofits and other similar organizations – it would work well for nearly any topic or industry.
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Ribbon
Free WordPress magazine-style theme
Ribbon is a magazine-style WordPress theme that features a wide post display and traditional blog-style layout.
It features a dual color scheme, ample whitespace to showcase your content, and all of the other features you might want in a design.
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NovaPress
Free viral WordPress theme inspired by ViralNova
NovaPress allows you to create your own viral website or blog, based upon the design made the website ViralNova made so popular.
The theme features a responsive grid layout, infinite scrolling, social sharing icons (Facebook, Twitter, etc) – and will give you a professional look you and your visitors are sure to love.
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Launcher
Free, responsive “coming soon” theme for WordPress
Launcher is a responsive theme (well, technically a plugin) that delivers a clean and simple layout for announcing the launch of your upcoming website or blog.
It includes a design that adapts to your visitor’s browser with its responsive layout, a countdown timer, subscription box, and clever design effects and animations which lend some personality and flair to your site.
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Brittany Light
Free fashion, lifestyle, and personal blog theme
Brittany Light is a clean and uncluttered WordPress theme for personal blogs, fashion sites, or lifestyle blogs – with a touch of feminine design and feel to it.
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Morning Time Lite
Beautiful free WordPress theme for blogging
Morning Time Lite has been optimized for speed, readability, usability, and was built upon a responsive and clean, minimalist layout and design to ensure your site or blog looks great across all devices.
It provides the perfect format to share your content.
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GreenChilli
Free WordPress blogging theme
GreenChilli was designed especially for bloggers. Featuring a clean and modern layout with a traditional blog-style feel to it, the theme has been optimized for usability and functionality.
It was built with SEO and forward-thinking trends in mind, with a responsive layout that can adapt to any visitor’s screen size.
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MaterialWP
A simple and free Material Design blog theme
MaterialWP is a very clean and simple blogging theme built with Bootstrap and Material Design.
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SportsBlog
Free sports blog WordPress theme
SportsBlog is a blog-style WordPress theme for sports blogs, websites, or online news publications. Every detail of this theme has been carefully-crafted to give your site a polished and professional look that enhances your content.
If you’re looking for a modern sports design – then this is worth checking out.
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Diary
Free unique blogging theme for WordPress
Diary delivers one of the most intriguing and unique designs for bloggers that you will come across.
The distinctive left-aligned layout of your posts and content gives it the ability to adapt to large image sizes and designed to captivate and lure new visitors or readers to your posts.
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JustBlue
Free theme for bloggers
JustBlue is a responsive theme for WordPress built using HTML5/CSS3 to give you the very latest in web development features.
It offers a clean and professional-looking design that would be suitable for nearly any industry, field, or topic.
Dual navigation menus and custom widgets allow you to have some additional functionality not found in most free themes.
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Verb
Free WordPress blog theme for news sites, magazines, personal blogs, or review sites
Verb offers a magazine-style layout that is modern, responsive, clean, and versatile.
The theme would work equally as well as a personal blog as it would an online magazine or news publication.
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Bloggie
Free WordPress theme for bloggers
Bloggie comes with a traditional blog-style layout that delivers a clean and uncluttered look – it gives you everything you need to quickly get your blog up and running.
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iTheme2
Free Apple/Mac OS-style WordPress theme
iTheme2 replicates the look of an Apple operating system and is based upon one of the most popular free WordPress themes in the official directory.
The responsive layout and design that is paired with the advance functionality, gives you a premium-like theme for free.
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Groovy
Free minimalist magazine-style WordPress theme
Groovy was designed with a very clean and minimalist magazine-style design that heavily incorporates whitespace and typography to deliver great-looking results.
Both elegant and bold in its appearance, it’s a clean and user-friendly free theme.
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Academica
Free education and blog WordPress theme
Academica was designed to function as a CMS-style theme for the education or non-profit field.
With a professional-looking design that conveys trust, it will lend credibility to your organization, school, college, or other institution – while still offering modern features and design elements.
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Delivery Lite
Simple, responsive, and free magazine-style blog theme for WordPress
Delivery Lite is a clean and elegant solution for blogs, with a magazine-style design that is simple and uncluttered.
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AccentBox
Free, simple, and responsive theme for WordPress
AccentBox makes subtle use of textures, shadows, and styling for a theme that is both elegant and polished-looking.
With a cool color palette, it provides a design that is both appealing not visually overstimulating – giving your site’s visitors the ability to focus on your content.
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Parallel
Free single-page business, startup, and freelance WordPress theme
Parallel is a business-centered theme for WordPress that makes use of a one-page design to display your information.
Share your client work, testimonials, projects, photos, and information via the easy-to-use layout and design.
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Journal
Free premium-like magazine-style theme for WordPress
Journal delivers features you would typically only find in a premium WordPress theme.
With a built-in contact form, optimization for SEO, multiple page layouts and templates, a responsive layout and design, and unlimited sidebars as just a few of the theme’s many highlights – it makes a perfect choice for many different styles of sites and blogs.
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WP Premium
Free blogging WordPress theme
WP Premium garnered much acclaim and recognition when it first debuted, a pioneer of its style of theme. It provides a clean and simple layout which appeals to many bloggers and different types of topics and content.
While it has been a few years since it was first released, it has been completely overhauled and updated to work with the latest versions of WordPress.
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Schema Lite
Fast-loading free WordPress theme for bloggers and blogging
Schema Litewas designed for the blogger looking for a professionally-coded theme that adheres to modern web design and development techniques.
Nearly every facet of the design has been optimized: SEO-friendly, Schema.org integration (for rich snippets), blazing-fast load times, flat-style design, responsive layout (adapts to mobile devices), built-in ad management, custom ratings/reviews functionality, and a powerful theme options panel that allows for unlimited customization.
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Grandstand
A clean, simple, and fast-loading WordPress theme for bloggers
Grandstand is a free theme that was built for bloggers.
With a super-clean and minimalist layout that will give your blog a modern look and feel, it’s also packed with modern web design features like HTML5, CSS3, and a responsive design.
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StanleyWP
Free Bootstrap portfolio theme for WordPress
StanleyWP is an ultra-clean and simple WordPress theme built with Bootstrap, Material Design, and crafted for showcasing your portfolio.
About this collection…
This roundup of some of the world’s best free WordPress themes should (hopefully) have helped you find a great theme for your site or blog – one that functions well and conveys the look you want.
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