Free WordPress Themes for Summer 2011

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Six month ago we’ve posted a round-up of 50 free WordPress themes,where we’ve gathered thebest free themes of 2010. And we decided that now it’s the right time to share some fresh themes with our readers.A lot of wonderful WordPress themes appeared since that time and according to the last design trends some of them are made in HTML5 and with the help of CSS3 properties. So, if you want to start your own blog and you haven’t decided yet what theme to choose, below you’ll find a lot of great and what is more free WordPress themes you’d certainly like to try. And if you know some fresh and cool free themes that we might have missed, please, share it with us by giving a link in your comment.

Themes For Blogs

Seven Five

The “Seven Five” theme which I use on my personal website theSevenFive.com has become extremely popular since I first released it several months ago. Well, I just released Seven Five 1.6 which includes a bunch of great new customization features. You can now style the theme background, font colors, border colors and link colors right through the brand new theme options page. You can also arrange all the home page sections in whatever order you like using widgets. Demo | Download

Blog-O-Folio

Blog-O-Folio is a free 2 column WordPress Theme suitable for any and all of your corporate, portfolio or personal blog needs. With a wide variety of tunable theme options and functionality to merge your portfolio with the blog, it is now ultra easy to maintain your blog and portfolio at the same time. Demo | Download

Skeptical

Skeptical’s layout is very flexible in the sense that you can display “related posts” next to your latest posts on the home page, OR have a completely widgetized sidebar. Not only that, you can also add your Flickr stream to the footer region and showcase three noteworthy blog posts tagged with a specific tag that you declare in the theme options. Demo | Download

Pongsari

Pongsari is a simple and clean theme, customized from TwentyTen theme a wordpress official default theme. The theme also support for wordpress post thumbnail and custom menu function. Demo | Download

Anniversary

Anniversary is a theme made in a classic style, with several layout options and a customizable “Thank you, WordPress” banner in the header. Demo | Download

Grey

Grey is generic enough to be used for almost any kind of blog. Whether you’re looking to setup your own design blog, a blog about photography, fashion or whatever your passion, the Grey theme should suit your needs. It is built on a simple layout, but with lots of little touches of subtle detail and texture. Demo | Download

Edgy Ellen

Edgy Ellen has a stylish design with clean grid patterns and custom typography to boost. Demo | Download

Protean

Protean is a WordPress theme from Landau Reece that allows bloggers to customise their website design for individual blog posts. Demo | Download

Spectacular

It’s a free WordPress theme and comes in two flavors; HTML 4.01 Strict and HTML5 for those of you who prefer to use the bleeding-edge draft version of the latest HTML spec. Demo | Download

Typominima

Typominima, a free typography based, gorgeous, minimal WordPress theme fit for the writer inside you. Demo | Download

Neonsential

Neonsential WordPress theme brings out the grungy yet elegant look to your blog. This premium quality free WordPress theme has a fancy custom homepage slider which highlights your featured posts. It is WordPress 3.0 compliant which is packed with a robust framework for easier backend customization. Demo | Download

Copperific

It has a stylish featured slider to showcase your personal, technology, design and other related blog niches. Also, it shows your Gravatar in every posts which is great for multi-author membership sites. Demo | Download

Harimau Malaya

A simple but complete WordPress Freemium theme, suitable for every blogger out there. Fun, Elegant, Smart, Beautiful and Professional – that describes what Harimau Malaya is. Demo | Download

Graphite

The Graphite WordPress theme is a fully functional, free wordpress theme from MediaLoot, perfect for creative professionals but suitable for anybody. Demo | Download

Themes For Galleries And Portfolios

Dezibelly

One of the most fantastic free wp themes you can find, with LOTS OF FEATURES: drag and drop layout creator, 3 different sliders, 100+ shortcodes (via WP text editor) and MUCH MUCH more… Demo | Download

Imbalance 2

Imbalance 2 turns you WordPress-based website to an attractive blog, portfolio or even online magazine. This free template designed in strict modern style with a minimalistic touch. Imbalance 2 can easily fresh up your web-magazine or blog. Due to modern flexible features and layout Imbalance 2 fits to almost any project and your visitors won’t remain indifferent. Demo | Download

Portafolio

Portafolio was created with portfolio sites in mind but it also makes for an awesome business theme or a simple blogging theme. The code is slimmed down to provide you only with the basic features you’ll want to set up your elegant showcase and a very minimal admin panel with the main theme options. Demo | Download

Shaken Grid

This was our first theme which we released to the WordPress community and one of our favorites. Shaken Grid uses jQuery Masonry which “arranges elements vertically then horizontally according to a grid.” The result is a gap-less layout even if you have varying post heights. Demo | Download

JournalCrunch

Journal Crunch is a gallery and portfolio theme with all of the features you would expect from a premium theme: easy set-up via the options page, plenty of shortcodes, built-in pagination, Twitter widgets, AJAX contact form and much more. Demo | Download

Portfolium

Neat and flexible grid-based theme for WordPress CMS, Portfolium can be used on portfolio web-sites or blogs. If you are designer, artist, photographer, or other creative specialist you can take a full advantage of Portfolium’s fresh minimalistic design that is perfect as is or as a foundation for your custom design. If you don’t need to showcase any works and just want to share some content, you can switch theme to blog style in a few seconds. Demo | Download

SimpleGallery

SimpleGallery is a simple, free WordPress theme by Cudazi – designed to showcase a gallery of photos, a bio and links to social media and other profiles. Demo | Download

Big Square

Big Square is a clean, tidy, elegant, photoblog theme. Demo | Download

Muse

Muse is a simple gallery-type theme that can be used as a portfolio, showcase, etc. Demo | Download

Paragrams

Free premium wordpress theme, Paragams was made by special techniques and correspond a grid-based lightweight design with almost no images. Paragams, thanks to a number of custom advanced features is really easy-to-use, either for you or for your visitors. This theme is really fits any journalistic-type website whether it is a news-blog or some kind of online-mag. Demo | Download

Photoria

Photoria is a simple & stylish theme ready to be used for your Photoblog or Portfolio website. Demo | Download

Dione

Dione is a special wordpress theme for web2feel fans. This is a videos showcase theme built on wordpress. It utilizes the Custom post type feature available on the WordPress 3 version. Please install this theme only if your wordpress is version 3 or above. You can use this theme to showcase your videos or trailers, just like a css gallery. The videos will open in a lightbox window. You can also setup a parallel blog section on the same template. You do not have to use any custom fields to get this working. Demo | Download

mimiThem

Very striking Worppress theme. Demo | Download

Themes For Business And Corporate Websites

Beauty and Clean

Beauty is a clean and elegant theme that can be used for your company website: it offers in fact the possibility to visualize in Home an introductory page and the latest news, a feature common to many corporate sites. Nevertheless, it’s perfect also for a more traditional use of WordPress, as also in the blog version the layout remains vital and engaging. Demo | Download

Zincious

Zincious is a freemium WordPress theme with an elegant design, custom font and pixel perfect execution. The crafty content slider showcases your featured posts to engage your readers with your important posts. It is WordPress 3.0 compliant which is packed with a robust framework for easier backend customization – no need to touch the codes. Demo | Download

Aurelius

Aurelius a slick, professional Business & Portfolio WordPress theme built to engage the user in your work. Demo | Download

Gameliso Magazine

Gameliso Magazine free cool, personal, portfolio WordPress theme. Demo | Download

HostHub

HostHub is a free WordPress theme with featured posts option. Suitable for any niche. Theme Options at admin panel. Demo | Download

BusinessTrip

BusinessTrip is a free 2 columns WordPress theme with Option/Admin Panel, featured posts and post thumbnail image. Suitable for business blogs. Features: Options Page, Featured Content, Ads banners ready, Logo .PSD included, Twitter, Facebook… Demo | Download

Academica

Academica is a non-profit / education CMS theme with a modern layout and elegant design. Demo | Download

Ikonik

Ikonik is derived from Indonesian word “ikon”, or “icon” in English. It has a modern and beautiful web typeface. Perfect for your online graphic design stores whether you want to sell vectors, icons, logos, buttons and any other graphic stuff—that would be a bold, pleasant experience for customers and also you. Demo | Download

Velvet Sky

Velvet Sky, become an e-commerce theme that provides an atmosphere full of charm. We did a lot of customization; the featured product on homepage, the category product, the product detail. Thus, become more Stimulating – customers want to explore more about the products offered, and be Persuasive – convincing customers towards the need to purchase products offered. Demo | Download

Themes With Minimalistic Design

News Leak

News leak minimalistic theme for WordPress from Vladimir Prelovac. Demo | Download

Hybridside

Hybridside, a free 3 Column Layout Theme for WordPress.The main purpose of this theme is to offer a base theme for writers who have different needs, from simple blogging to a magazine.With a minimal design and a simple structure. the main core of hybridside offers to writers the possibility to choose the body background, the color scheme for links, full support for thumbnails, wordpress menu navigation, 5 widget area and print friendly stylesheet support for your articles. Demo | Download

David Airey Theme

David Airey’s old blog design was released as a free WordPress theme Demo | Download

Swiss Dessign

Swiss Dessign is a free minimalistic WordPress theme by Dessign. Theme is easy to customize and compatible with all modern browsers.

Demo | Download

Aqualine

Aqualine is a unique and minimalist WordPress theme, that you can easily make customization to suit your needs. It is packed with an extensive options page – easily customise your theme without touching any code: Pick your own colour accent, choose a thumbnail with excerpts layout, or display your full posts, amongst many other built in options. Demo | Download

Bueno

The theme is clean and minimalist wich just oozes sophistication in booth it’s typography & structure, also with beautiful pattern as background. Perfect for the regular (and not-so-regular) blogger. Demo | Download

Yoko

Yoko is a modern and flexible WordPress theme. The design was refined for big desktop screens, small smartphone and tablets screens. To make your blog stand out of the crowd, you can use some new post formats, choose a nice and unique logo and header image, and of course customize the background and links color. Demo | Download

Ari

Ari is a minimalistic, flexible three-column blog theme. The theme makes use of CSS3 media queries for its flexible layout and is optimized for tablet pcs and smart phones (the theme switches to a two-column layout when viewed on a horizontal iPad screen, and to a one-column layout on iPhones). You can also choose a dark color scheme and the backgound-, text- and link-colors can be customized in the theme options page. Demo | Download

Renova

Renova, a new single column theme for wordpress.The main design of renova is concentrated on a minimal style dedicated to those writers who need a simple layout without any kind of useless stuff.Just words, your words.The main core of renova offers 2 different backgrounds, full white or paper, 6 different color for links, a jquery support for hover effect and mobile device support. Yes, Renova was designed to perform well on the principal touch mobile device and tablets; now your blog can be read also from mobile user. Demo | Download

HTML5Press

HTML5Press is a WordPress theme based on the HTML5 template by Jesper. Obviously, this theme is meant to be viewed in a modern web browser, like Google Chrome or Firefox 4. The theme looks nice in Internet Explorer, but it doesn’t look as nice as it would in a modern browser. No rounded corners, transitions, or box shadows will show in Internet Explorer. Demo | Download

Expositio

Expositio is a very simple & free portfolio WordPress theme for photographers, designers & artists. Expositio theme allows you in several clicks to showcase your works to the whole world. Adjustable main page lets you to provide any information. Integrated options panel helps to customize the template from font used to color theme. Demo | Download

Style Dessign

One more minimalistic theme from Dessign

Demo | Download

Feijoa

Feijoa is a super minimal four-column WordPress theme from Chris Magiera. Demo | Download

Extricate

Extricate is a grid-based, minimalist WordPress theme for bloggers Demo | Download

Papaver

Another one WordPress Theme by Moargh.de. Demo | Download

Studio Dessign

Studio Dessign theme by Marios Lublinski.

Demo | Download

Mini Hyper

Mini Hyper is a home-made free WordPress theme by WpStyles.org, made with a lot of love and an ambition to serve bloggers world wide. It comes with a basic theme options page where you can add your Analytics tracking code and change the logo. Other than that, Mini Hyper is widget ready and works in all browsers. Demo | Download

Theophilus

jQuery-based free minimal WordPress theme by Timothy Long. Demo | Download

Minimal Dessign

Minimal Dessign is a swiss style WordPress theme form Dessign studio. Minimal Dessign is a swiss style WordPress theme form Dessign studio.

Demo | Download

Cakifo

Cakifo is a free WordPress theme built with from the rock-solid Hybrid Core theme framework by Justin Tadlock, so it provides a great starting point with many useful features. This theme is a parent theme. What this means is that to customize it, you should be creating a child theme. Demo | Download

The Columnist

The Columnist is a grid based wordpress theme. It features a newspaper column layout, neat typographic heirarchy, a tidy grid system and some css3 & jQuery greatness. Demo | Download

The Scoop

Today we have a fantastic exclusive freebie for everyone — a free to use WordPress theme called ‘The Scoop’. It has been designed by Sven Salmonsson from wpStyles.org and it is a four columned minimal magazine-styled theme with its main focus on elegant typography and aimed towards content heavy web sites. Demo | Download

Fresh & Clean

Fresh & Clean comes with a NivoSlider image slider on the homepage. Via the theme panel you can choose your sliding speed, animation and transition. You can also define a custom link for each slide or leave the option blank to show only images. Demo | Download

Delicate

Delicate is a clean, minimalistic free WordPress theme with typography and structure. Delicate built using advanced NattyWP framework so this wordpress theme is extremely customizable. Demo | Download

Melville

Melville’s creators inspired by classic literature. Without widgets and distractions— just a clean, beautiful design that focuses the attention on your writing. Demo | Download

Codium Extend

Codium Extend is a minimalist theme for wordpress and ready for all the wordpress 3.+ feature like custom menus, colors or background. Light colors and white is perfect for having a really nice blog! Demo | Download

Blogum

Simple grid-based WordPress minimalistic-theme, Blogum is designed in a modern style and can be used on blogs. Very clean theme markup allows your visitors to precisely focus on your content. Layout flexibility and additional features give you freedom in blog configuration. Demo | Download

Min

Min is a free WordPress theme. No bells and whistles, just simple clean and to the point. It has two widgetized footer areas to handle navigation or anything else you feel like sticking in there. Make sure you set your media upload to 560px wide to fit snug in the post area. Demo | Download

Wordfinder

Wordfinder is a simple magazine wordpress theme.This theme provide a very simple layout for users who want to start a blog very quickly but with a minimal layout style. This theme has many layout features,2 different main index as needed, 6 color for links and hover effect, a jQuery support for the hover effect on index and a full support of wordpress standards. Demo | Download

Sutra

Minimal theme focussed on simplicity, putting your writing front and center. Demo | Download

Simply Delicious

Simply Delicious is a free blogging theme based on mmminimal. This minimalistic theme features big images, clean styles and easy browsing… perfect for modern blogs or even portfolios. Demo | Download

Magazine Style Themes

Sight

Sight is a professional WordPress theme which was made in a modern minimalistic style and best suits for Blogs & Magazines. Layout is made using Golden Grid and it gives you a choice of information publishing – grid view or standard blog view. Extra ability of showing most important information content via big image slider on the top of the page allows you to improve your web-site’s presence and attract new visitors. It is important to be noticed that Sight is already Search Engine Optimized, so you don’t need to care about, just start and get love from Google. Demo | Download

AndroidPhone

AndroidPhone is a free WordPress theme with options page. Supports the post thumbnails. Suitable for any niche especially for mobile phones or gadget sites. Demo | Download

HubZine

HubZine is a free premium WordPress theme with featured content option and options page. Supports post thumbnails. Suitable for any niche, especially for news or magazine sites. Demo | Download

Beauty Routine

Beauty Routine is a free Premium beauty WordPress theme. Demo | Download

Dualgraph free WordPress theme. Featuring modern jQuery Powered Sliding Gallery, and theme options page. Compatible for WordPress 3.1 Demo | Download

Custom Community

Create your Buddypress community within minutes. Custom Community is a Buddypress theme that enables you to build your site with all the features you love. Easy to use jQuery Slideshow. Post template with post thumbnail integration and fancy mouse over effect. A powerful admin option page to customize every part of the theme. Clean and simple css-design. Community-navigation widget. 100% WP 3.1. Demo | Download

Agency

Agency is a magazine style theme that puts your content in a beautiful wrapper, complete with subtle page elements that is sure to add elegance to your pages. This theme is compatible with the latest WordPress release, taking advantage of some its newer features. Demo | Download

ProGlow Magazine

Proglow is a free news WordPress theme with featured content option and options page. Supports post thumbnails. Suitable for any niche, especially fashion design sites. this theme designed free from Dukthemes Demo | Download

Lucky Guess

Lucky Guess is a semi-magazine / semi-personal blog styled theme for WordPress. It packs a set of nifty features that you will find useful, especially for newer blogs. Don’t let this baby fool you – it may not be real fancy, but it will surely dress up your blog! And it loads hella fast – the theme files are minuscule in bytes! Demo | Download

PlusOne

Google+ has a very clean and elegant interface. It uses only 3 colors in its design but looks great. If you are a fan of Google+ design then there is a good new for you. I am releasing PlusOne WordPress theme for free. PlusOne is a WordPress theme that looks exactly like Google+ interface. Demo | Download

OnlineMag

OnlineMag is a free 3 columns WordPress theme with Option/Admin Panel, featured posts and post thumbnail image. Suitable for personal blogs. Features: Options Page, Featured Content, Ads banners ready, Logo .PSD included, Twitter, Facebook… Demo | Download

Elegant

Elegant is clean and simple yet professional theme, it has 2 color schemes, black and white. It’s best suited for business and portfolio sites, but you can also use it for blog etc. This layout is very easy for your visitors to understand and navigate without any hassle. This theme has different sections on homepage, so you can easily put your content in there. Demo | Download

Magazine1

Magazine1 is a professional solution for any Blog/Magazine WordPress site. With a simple and stylish design, it is very easy to customize and use. Demo | Download

The Morning After

The Morning After was the original magazine theme in the WordPress community and after more than a 100 000 downloads, it now has a place in our themes collection. It may be “old”, but this amazing theme is not yet dated! A definite download and one that you will thoroughly enjoy! Demo | Download

Yellow Magazine

Yellow Magazine free blog, cool, personal WordPress Theme Demo | Download

Ophion

Ophion Theme is a simple yet elegant Minimalist Style Design Theme. It has a management console, is widget ready, advertisement ready and is an easily customizable theme to use. The featured image area on the homepage is run off the JQuery image rotator. Works in IE7, IE8, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera and is compliant with the Latest version of WordPress 3.0 and above. Demo | Download

Nublu

This is a sleek blue colored theme that comes with a configurable slider, drop-down menus and Cufon-enabled headlines. The theme also sports a twitter bird that will sing out your latest tweet from your Twitter.com account. Nublu has automatic thumbnail generation, as long as you have a picture uploaded with your post. WordPress 3.0+ menu system is integrated into this theme for easy customization of your navigation menu. Demo | Download

Suburbia

Suburbia is a free premium WordPress theme for magazines. The layout is very clean and flexible and designed in a modest and minimalistic style. Magazine is not the only purpose, so Suburbia suits for blogs and various project either. The theme was made in cooperation with Demian Peeters (aka Moodyguy). Some unique features of Suburbia give you an extra flexibility in every single step you make. Demo | Download

Aluminiumism

This WordPress theme is great for personal blogs, tech blogs, art and design blogs and other related blog niches. Demo | Download

Amphion Lite

Amphion Lite is a wordpress theme with 2 gorgeous skins 2 fonts and various other features. Demo | Download

iTheme2

iTheme2 is a revamp of iTheme that was originally released by Nick La. Now with the Themify framework, it is even better and have more options. It is the perfect theme for technology & Mac related blogs. It uses media queries to target different displays such as desktop, notebook, iPhone, iPad, and other mobile devices. Demo | Download

Splendio

Splendio is a beautiful theme, designed by Vlad and Elena Scanteie which was developed exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers. As usual, the theme is free to use in both private and commercial projects. The theme is based upon the Twenty Ten WordPress theme and requires WordPress 3.0 to run. Demo | Download

Distant Dawn

Distant Dawn is a dark and stylish 3-column magazine type WordPress theme from WPClassic. Demo | Download

Landing And “Coming Soon” Themes

Placeholder

This theme is perfect if you have a website in development and you simply need to let your visitors know how to get in touch and how long until the site will launch. Demo | Download

Timelaph

A sleek, dark, spaced-out landing page or email newsletter subscription page featuring the amazing UpThemes Framework. Demo | Download

Landis is a simple one page Landing/Under Construction WordPress Theme that allows you to keep your users informed while you are building a your amazing new website. This WordPress Theme will allow you to quickly and easily create a landing page on a your website project that tells the visitors what is going on and when the site will be launched. Demo | Download

Holding Pattern

A highly customizable landing page theme featuring the amazing UpThemes Framework. Demo | Download

Coming Soon

Showcase your product in one single page with featured image and description on the right. Lots of iPhone App websites are built this way. You can use this theme to create a website just like that. Demo | Download

Frameworks for WordPress

HTML5 WordPress Shell

A great starting point for quickly creating WordPress Themes using HTML5. Download

Whiteboard Framework

Powerful, clean, simple, and well-noted code for efficient WordPress theme development. Download

Constellation

The Constellation Theme is an assemblage of awesome resources, put together to form an extremely flexible WordPress foundation. Demo | Download

Skimpy

Download

Gantry

Gantry is a comprehensive set of building blocks to enable the rapid development and realization of a design into a flexible and powerful web platform theme. Download

Presswork

Presswork is a HTML5 WordPress Framework for designers, developers & publishers. Download

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