Recommended Themes

Each theme below is free to use – some with options to upgrade to a premium version of the theme.

Blogging

Serene

Serene is a truly beautiful responsive blogging theme with post format support. The design’s elegance stems from its simplistic and spacious design. Browsing the theme is easy on the eyes and on the mind, each new post arriving like a breath of fresh air.

The theme allows you to add new background color on a post by post basis, and it supports 6 custom post types: article, video, audio, gallery, quote and link.

preview of the serene theme

 

 

December

The layout is perfect for a simple but engaging blog. The featured image for the blog post along with the border to set off the sidebar adds some dimension that would leave it feeling bare if you didn’t have them there.

This responsive theme has all the basic stuff to get you started with nice blog.

preview of the december theme

 

 

Solon

Solon has a built in featured post slider and CSS animations that reacts to your mouse with you hover over it. Also, each blog post allows you to add a featured image that will display over the post title in the blog to help make things pop.

It is a responsive theme, with options to change the layout, colors, logo, and more. Four custom widgets are included with this theme to enhance the look and feel of your site.

preview of the solon theme

 

 

Sparkling

Sparkling is a clean, modern theme optimized for smartphones, tablets, desktops and any other device. With pixel perfect design, awesome widgets and full-screen slider it makes it to stand out between other free WordPress themes.

The theme options allow for easy changes to font and colors so that you can really make the theme your own with little to no coding knowledge. And even though the theme is free, they still offer some pretty great support to help you along the way.

preview of sparkling theme

 

 


 

Portfolio

Snaps

Snaps is a free responsive portfolio theme for WordPress perfect for showcasing portrait images and galleries. Though it is a theme that would seem best for a photographer or graphic designer, the theme comes with 7 post formats that can each be made to look rather unique. Therefore, the theme can really work for any blogging project that you had in mind.

preview of the snaps theme

 

 

Arcade

Create a truly unique design with Arcade, a lightweight and fully responsive HTML5 theme. Use the theme customizer to add your own header image, page layout, site width and more.

Distinguish each post with one of the eight supported post formats, such as: Video, Image, Aside, Status, Audio, Quote, Link and Gallery.

preview of arcade theme

 

 

 


 

Website

Responsive

Responsive Theme is a flexible foundation with fluid grid system that adapts your website to mobile devices and the desktop or any other viewing environment. Theme features 9 Page Templates, 11 Widget Areas, 6 Template Layouts, 4 Menu Positions and more. Powerful but simple Theme Options for full control of your site, with easy Logo Upload and Social Networking.

preview of responsive theme

 

 

Customizr

Enjoy designing a beautiful website live with the WP customizer : 17 color options, logo upload, social profiles, sliders, layout choices, and home featured blocks. The flat and fully responsive design can be used for small businesses, portfolios, blogs, corporate sites or landing pages.

The theme has been designed to be easy to use for everyone. It doesn’t need any technical or web design knowledge to get started with.

preview of customizr theme

 

 

Colorway

Colorway is a simple and responsive theme with easy customization options, including using your own logo, background, and your own custom footer text. It includes special styles for Gallery pages, and has an optional full-width page template as well.

preview of colorway theme

 


 

Sources: Elegant Themes, Creative Bloq,