20 Inspiring Free WordPress Themes To Start Anew in 2014
Christmas and New Year have been and gone. If reshaping your WordPress site is one of your New Year's resolutions, the following article is for you. The following themes have all been created between December 2013 and today, thus can be called the freshest there are. 17 of our 20 newcomers work fully responsive, a trend that has been on the rise for quite a while now. Also growing is the amount of themes which are based on Bootstrap, retina-ready or working with Google Fonts. We are sure you'll find your next blog layout among the following. All these themes are free, though some have commercial variants available. We stated that where applicable...
Flat: Free Flat Design Theme for Blogs
Genre: Blog Responsive: Yes Features: Off-canvas sidebar, Bootstrap 3.0 License: FreeDapple: Basic Business Theme
Genre: Corporate Responsive: Yes Features: Slider ready, SEO optimization License: Free + commercialLycanthropy: Flat Styled Theme for Magazines
Genre: Magazine Responsive: No Features: Two columns layout, featured images ready License: FreeIndo Lite – Free WordPress Business Theme
Genre: Business Responsive: Yes Features:WooCommerce Compatible. Service Section. Team Section. Sticky Menu. Multi tabs. Business icons. Hover effects. Multiple blog layouts. License: FreePolaris: Simple and Feature Rich Theme for Businesses
Genre: Corporate Responsive: Yes Features: 15 Widget areas, tabbed site navigation License: FreeExility-light: Elegant And - Well - Light
Genre: Blog Responsive: No Features: Built in slider, post thumbnails License: FreeGreatDesign: Clean Theme for Personal Sites
Genre: Blog Responsive: Yes Features: Shortcodes ready, SEO optimization License: Free + commercialEmptilium: HTML5 Magazine Theme Perfect for Any Device
Genre: Magazine Responsive: Yes Features: Featured article slider, built-in Google Fonts License: Free + commercialTempera: Elegant Theme with a Solid Framework
Genre: Corporate Responsive: Yes Features: 8 different layouts, post formats support License: FreeStargazer: Powerful, Complete and Extremely Solid WordPress Theme
Genre: Multipurpose Responsive: Yes Features: SEO friendly, post formats support License: FreeBoldly Go Blue: Child Theme for Stargazer, Perfect for Business Sites
Genre: Corporate Responsive: Yes Features: Widgets ready, custom background License: FreeTblog: Fluid Theme for Personal Bloggers
Genre: Blog Responsive: Yes Features: SEO optimized, retina ready License: FreeOnesie: Single Landing Page Theme for Portfolios
Genre: Portfolio Responsive: Yes Features: One-column layout, custom backgrounds License: FreeGadgetry: Clean and Modern Theme for Smaller Magazines
Genre: Magazine Responsive: Yes Features: One click auto-install, built-in SEO options License: Free + commercialLefty: Premium Quality, Left Aligned Multipurpose Theme
Genre: Multipurpose Responsive: Yes Features: W3C valid, built-in Google Fonts License: FreePopmovie: Perfect Theme for Cinema Websites
Genre: Magazine Responsive: Yes Features: Social share bar, shortcodes ready License: Free + commercialYume: Clean WordPress Theme for the Average Blog
Genre: Blog Responsive: Yes Features: Widget ready, custom menus License: FreeSugar & Spice: Girls Will Like It
Genre: Multipurpose Responsive: Yes Features: Custom menus and backgrounds, translation ready License: FreeFlatty: HTML5 and Retina-ready
Genre: Corporate Responsive: Yes Features: Retina ready, Bootstrap 3.0 License: FreeElisium: Responsive Business Theme
Genre: Corporate Responsive: Yes Features: Support available, SEO friendly code License: FreeAvante: Magazine Theme with Nifty Photo Effects
Genre: Magazine Responsive: No Features: Theme option panel, FancyBox lightbox for galleries License: Free These are our new entries for December 2013. If you can't get enough, check out the previous installments: 2013: November, October, September, August, July, June/May, April, March, January/February, 2012: December, November, October and September! Don’t forget the Best of 2012 collection and our Summer-Special 2013. Have fun and let us know if we missed out on important new entries. Which ones are your favorites?About the Authors
The shock family is a group of web enthusiasts, designers and developers dedicated to the creation of all kinds of resources for the web. They are well known for their various projects, such as themeshock, a site with quality WordPress themes and useful freebies, iconshock, the largest icon repository with more than a million icons and WPthemegenerator, the online creation tool for WordPress and XTML themes.(dpe)
I am gona use Avante: Magazine Theme on my cars related site.
We’ve used Avante a lot of times in the past. This is a great list to choose from. Haven’t seen “Flat” before, will definitely be using that on our next wordpress project.
Thanks for the nice roundup!
nice themes thanks for sharing
Solid and minimal themes. Not what i am looking for, but still good and clean
Cool collection.. Thanks for sharing.. :) I like the Lycanthropy Theme, Its easy to customise this them i used this theme for my blog and customised it.. :)
Wow.. great themes, specially I love these two -Sugar & Spice & Flatty.
I loved this theme Emptilium HTML5 Magazine Theme and I have a lifestyle blog where I can use it.
With the beginning of 2014 bloggers are active in customizing their blogs and giving a new look to the visitors. The themes introduced by you for WordPress blogs sounds good as these are available free of cost. Now its time to customize your blog and make it charming. For my blog I already customized it and get good response from my visitors.
Good, Clean and Minimal themes. Perfect for 2014. Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful and Functional themes. Perfect for 2014!
My favorite theme “Flat: Free Flat Design Theme for Blogs”, I would download and use on one of my website, thank you for introducing