WordPress is an award-winning CMS which enables you to build Blogs, Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made WordPress the most popular blog software available.
The fact that more than 14% of all websites are now powered by WordPress is proof of how fast its popularity is increasing. One of the great things about WordPress is the large number of free themes available, which are especially ideal for bloggers who are just starting out. And I am pleased to say that the quality of the free themes is improving day by day coded using HTML5 and CSS3.
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Finding the right theme for your blog can be a cumbersome process and to solve your problem, today we will be showing you the Best Free WordPress themes that can used in 2012. A few of the themes listed are the free version of a premium theme. Upgrading to the premium version usually gives you priority support and/or more features.
ShutterShot Free WordPress Theme
A portfolio design with a difference, Shuttershot shows photos in full screen in the background of the design. Even when a visitor views a blog page or page the background continues to change. A unique idea that has thankully been implemented well.
Platform WordPress Theme
Designed in HTML5, Platform is a drag and drop framework that makes creating your ideal site a breeze. One of the best free blogging themes released in 2011.
Retro Fitted WordPress Theme
A fun retro style blogging theme that comes with several widget areas.
Grid WordPress Theme
A fantastic fast loading minimal design that uses a 4 column grid layout to display posts. Perfect for a portfolio or blog.
Grid Portfolio WordPress Theme
A beautiful minimal theme that was designed for illustrators, photographers and graphic designers. There are several custom home page layouts to choose from with most displaying posts in a grid layout.
FullScreen Free WordPress Theme
Busby Free WordPress Theme
A clean blogging theme that was built using the UpThemes Theme Framework. It includes social media integration in the header and a featured post slider on the home page.
Gazpo Mag WordPress Theme
Featuring post image thumbnail support, social media integration and a beautiful home page slider. GazpoMag is a great option for an online magazine.
WallBase Free WordPress Theme
Photoria Free WordPress Theme
Journal Crunch Free WordPress Theme
Blog-O-Folio Free WordPress Theme
Blog-O-Folio is a great looking blog and portfolio design from Noupe. Features portfolio integration, built in advertisement options and an email subscription form.
Minimatica Free WordPress Theme
A fantastic looking minimal theme that has a beautiful image slider on the home page. This feature rich theme is perfect for blogs, portfolios or video websites.
Minimal Xpert Free WordPress Theme 2012
Parallax Free WordPress Theme 2012
A simplistic portfolio design that features a large homepage slider and a useful portfolio template page.
Beauty and Clean WordPress Theme
Balita Free WordPress Theme 2012
A brand new eCommerce designed for Smashing Magazine that was created to help sell children’s toys and related products. It was designed using HTML5 and CSS3 and features a beautiful home page slider, custom shopping cart and Facebook integration.
GameSpeed Free WordPress Theme 2012
The Proton Free WordPress Theme
Catopolis Magazine Free WordPress Theme
App Cloud Free WordPress Theme
ViewPort WordPress Theme
Framed Redux WordPress Theme
SmartNews Free WordPress Theme
News Today Free WordPress Theme
Lafontis Magazine Free WordPress Theme 2012
Kalixo Magazine WordPress Theme
Macolinis Magazine WordPress Theme
Copperific Free WordPress Theme
NeonSential WordPress Theme
Zincious WordPress Theme
Kryptonation WordPress Theme
Osmiumist WordPress Theme
Rheniumific WordPress Theme
Terbiumable Free WordPress Theme
Thalliumity Free WordPress Theme
Erbiumifide Free WordPress Theme
Reporter Free WordPress Theme 2012
WebFolio Free WordPress Theme
Boldy Free WordPress Theme
Inuit Types WordPress Theme
Tiberion Free WordPress Theme
Prado Free WordPress Theme
Akylas Free WordPress Theme
Aurelius Free WordPress Theme
Grading Free WordPress Theme
Design Free WordPress Theme
Plytag Free WordPress Theme
ProsZeen Free WordPress Theme
Purity Free WordPress Theme
Submarine Free WordPress Theme
Spectre Free WordPress Theme
Spectacular WordPress Theme
Another fantastic design from Smashing Magazine, Spectacular includes short codes for styling content. An elegant theme that is perfect for blogs.
Westward Free WordPress Theme
Skyline Free WordPress Theme
Elevzr WordPress Theme
Icarus Free WordPress Theme
Relay Free WordPress Theme
Tungstenation Free WordPress Theme
A good choice for a business or portfolio website. The home page features a beautiful jQuery slider. It also features post image thumbnails, social media integration, built in page navigation, custom font integration and much more.
Halicia Free WordPress Theme
AllTuts Free WordPress Theme
Womack WordPress Theme
Wootique Free WordPress Theme
A free ecommerce design that was released in conjunction with the launch of theWooCommerce WordPress Plugin. With a featured slider, custom home page and custom widgets; Wootique is a great example of what can be achieved with Wootique.
News WordPress Theme
A clean design from DevPress that could be used for a blog, news or magazine website. The home page has a beautiful featured slider for showcasing your important articles or videos.
Swatch Free WordPress Theme
A free business and portfolio design that was developed to celebrate the release of the 100th theme from WooThemes. Features a custom homepage, featured slider, custom widgets, custom typography and multiple colour schemes.
Fungus WordPress Theme
A Colourful blogging design that has social media links integrated in the sidebar and support for post image thumbnails.
WordPress Anniversary Theme
Released at the beginning of 2011 by Matt Mullenweg and ‘The WordPress Crew’, the anniversary theme has a traditional blog structure with a prominent header image.
Fotofolio Landscape WordPress Theme
Designed for artists and photographers, Fotofolio Landscape automatically resizes uploaded images to fit the surrounding area and includes a useful slideshow option.
SixHours WordPress Theme
A great looking minimal blogging theme from Caroline Moore.
Big Square WordPress Theme
A clean minimal design that is suitable for photo blogs. Perfect for travel blogs, personal blogs, portfolios and photography websites.
AutoFocus 2.0 Lite WordPress Theme
Designed for photographers, AutoFocus lite is a simple HTML5 powered design that has a grid design and clean typography.
WordPress Diary Theme
A retro style design that was designed in HTML5 and CSS3. It uses Google web fonts, has built-in pagination and an AJAX powered contact form. Uploaded photos are displayed beautifully using lightbox.
Splendio WordPress Theme
Based on the Twenty Ten theme, this is a feature rich colourful blogging theme from Smashing Magazine. One of the few free designs that also comes with the original layered photoshop psd files.
Gynix Tema WordPress Theme
A business design which places featured articles on the home page. The theme could easily be used for a blog as well.
Triton Lite Free WordPress Theme
Triton Lite is a self-proclaimed ‘All In One’ design that features a beautiful home page slider, shortcodes for styling content and 3 built in widget areas.
Bonpress Free WordPress Theme
A colourful blogging theme that supports custom widgets. It includes custom widgets for social media services and comes in 4 colour schemes (blue, black, pink, orange).
MyPhoto Free WordPress Theme
The first photography theme from WP Explorer is a minimal effort that uses Javascript to highlight photos when a user hovers over them. It’s clean and fast loading, making it a good choice for a photo website.
Shadows Free WordPress Theme
A minimal blogging design that was created for WordPress 3.0+. It supports post thumbnails and includes built in pagination and an author information box on blog pages.
MyCorp WordPress Theme
A business theme that features a home page slider, custom post types and custom fonts.
Lefty WordPress Theme
A fun blogging design that doesn’t take itself too seriously. The home page has a featured post image slider and you can use custom fonts using Google fonts.
theSevenFive Free WordPress Theme
A social media theme that is powered entirely by custom widgets. Through the options page you can style the colour of the background, fonts, links and borders.
Side Blog Free WordPress Theme
A great looking blogging theme that uses post image thumbnails in the index and in the recent posts section on the sidebar.
PolarMedia Free WordPress Theme
A multimedia friendly design that would be suitable for a blog, news website or online magazine.
PhotoClick WordPress Theme
One of the few one-column themes that was released in 2011. It comes in two colour schemes and includes short codes and custom widgets.
Min Free WordPress Theme
This is an extremely simple, clean and to the point theme. It has two widgetized footer areas to handle navigation or anything else you feel like sticking in there.
Ari Free WordPress Theme
A beautiful 3 column blogging theme that comes in a light and dark version. It uses Google fonts and has great social media integration.
Scherzo WordPress Theme
A simple, clean and minimal design which features a widget ready sidebar, custom header image and custom background.
Showcase Free WordPress Theme
A portfolio design that could also be used for a corporate website or blog.
WP Creativix Theme
A nice corporate design that also features a basic portfolio template (which has jQuery lightbox support).
Steira WordPress Theme
A boxy minimal blogging theme from the Automattic team.
Ambrosia Free WordPress Theme
An HTML blogging design that is optimised for viewing on mobile devices. It features 4 widget areas, two custom menus and an option to stick posts.
HTML5Press WordPress Theme
Created using HTML5 and CSS3, the theme lets you choose from over 40 Google fonts. It includes a featured posts slider, post image support, post format support and 6 colour schemes (pink, blue, green, red, orange, and bluish purple).
Portfolio Press – Free WordPress Theme
Another theme that was designed using HTML5, Portfolio Press is a good option for a simple portfolio blog.
Liquorice WordPress Theme
A beautiful vintage design that uses Google fonts.
Delicate WordPress Theme
A clean minimal blogging design that was created using the NattyWP framework.
PressWork WordPress Theme
An HTML5 WordPress Framework for designers, developers & publishers. The user friendly front page editor allows you to move things around and modify your website in a live environment.
BlueBubble Free WordPress Theme
A simply minimal design that would be suitable for a blog or a portfolio. Includes an advanced option panel, 8 different colour schemes and social media integration.
Amphion Lite WordPress Theme
A blogging design that comes with 2 theme skins, 2 custom widgets, 2 short codes and 2 WordPress menus. Featured articles are displayed prominently on the home page in an image slider.
