40 Awesome and Fresh WordPress Themes

November 5, 2009 by Paul Andrew Templates, Web Design, Wordpress

Think back to three years ago and to the standards of blogging platforms and to the power of the then themes. WordPress and its community changed all that, the blogging platform has evolved into an industry standard power house CMS, yet it is still easy to use and build upon. That is why it is so popular.
Theme design has matched the WP CMSs evolution step for step, thanks to the many talented designers and developers, we showcase the best free, and the relatively fresh themes the WordPress community has to offer.

Blog and Portfolio Themes

Photo and Video Blogging Themes

Work-a-holic

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Fullscreen

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PhotoView v.1.1

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Selecta

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The Vodpod

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Magazine Themes

Pure Magazine

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Berita Business

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Arras Theme

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Wall Magazine

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WPLine 1.0

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Unique Themes

AppCloud – Ecommerce Theme

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LiveTwit

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Visiting Card

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Designer TimVanDamme designed his mini site and everyone praised it a lot for unique, beautiful concept. Usually it happens when you are really active on social media sites, you blog less. And his design was perfect solution for those who have a domain name but don’t need/want much content on the website.

ComicPress – The WordPress Comic Publishing Theme

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ComicPress is a WordPress theme for presenting your comic and blog posts. It's clean neutral style is designed to be used right out of the box, but with a little CSS knowledge you can style it as custom as you can imagine.

The Seven Five

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The Seven Five is a semi-automatic “Lifestream” WordPress theme taking minimalism to an entirely new level. This theme is intended for those looking for a simple, efficient and clean solution for integrating all the services you have come to love such as Twitter, and Flickr.

Ice Breaker

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Ice Breaker is a free domain parking theme for WordPress with four different color schemes, and easy customization through custom widgets and a theme options page.

WP Blueprint

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http://designfollow.com designfollow

great theme.
http://www.fotostatik.com Micheal

These are all nice but, they are pretty much the same theme. Doesn’t anyone notice that most wordpress themes available today follow that same format, style, and design?

It’s getting boring.
http://everythingandthegirl.com Anyabelle

I have to agree with you Michael.

Alright. Time to think outside of the box, people!
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http://www.wpzoom.com Pavel Ciorici

As I know Smoke & Tumble is not a WordPress Theme
http://dpxmag.com Vlad Patrascu

Thanks for including my theme (cleanPRESS)

Chears!
http://twitter.com/obox David Perel

Thanks for featuring two Obox themes on your list!

For anyone who is interested, Smoke & Tumble is in fact a Tumblr / Posterous theme. It will link up to our upcoming Smoke & Mirrors WordPress theme.

Thanks again, great collection :)
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Matt

Great collection, will have to try some of these out.
http://www.somoka.com somoka

Thank you so much, i love it.
http://www.webdesignsouthyorkshire.com Sheffield Web Deisign

@ Micheal – I have to agree with you there, there is a widening gap between free themes and premium WP themes. and rightly so! but if you want quality – you must pay
http://designyouwilllove.blogspot.com/ Design YouLLLove

Work-a-holic is a very nice clean one! Thanks!
Greg

Sorry guys. This is nothing new. Everyone does the slideshow magazine now, but I must admit that I do like the App Cloud eComm theme- a nice package as a whole.
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http://www.honourchickc.com/blog HONOUR CHICK

awesome collection. thanks for sharing these great themes. ;)
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isablo

a lot of these have logos that look just like the Vimeo site…tsc tsc…where is the originality in graphic design, people? Or is design today all about styling – all surface and no depth, no vision…
http://www.smashingbuzz.com Smashing Buzz

i really like all your listed WP Themes, but one is selected for my friend coming blog “iGreat” really cool neat and clean theme. thanks for this inspiration
http://www.designdazzling.com Design Dazzling

awesome collection
http://www.ejazahmad.com Ejaz Ahmad

Thanks for sharing this collection … i really like these themes
http://www.spnkingtech.com Spanking Tech

nice themes…
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http://theprodesigner.com The Pro Designer

Great collection of theme.. Their are a few hear that I have not seen before so it was good to go through them…
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http://www.aldis.site40.net Aldis

Interesting WordPress theme collection, some of them are seen already, but some new for me. Anyway thank’s for sharing.
http://www.dvq.co.nz/ Matt @ DVQ

Thanks for featuring my FreeStyle, PhotoView and Simplicity themes :)
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http://premiumthemes.net R.Bhavesh

great to see two of our free themes listed in here. LiveTweet and Visiting Card.
http://www.paddsolutions.com Dulce

Hi Paul,thank you for featuring 5 of our free WordPress themes (Maalaga, Matiyaga, Masunurin, Marikit and Magiting) in your awesome compilation.

Keep up the good work!
http://www.guidesigner.net Guidesigner

Thanks for this Useful post, i really like your blog. now i am going to bookmark this as my favorite blogs lists.
http://designfollow.com designfollow

Great collection

thank you.
http://premiumthemeclub.com/ Premium Theme Club

live tweet is so special one because of it’s uniqueness.great work done by R.Bhavesh
http://customtheme.com Leland

Great post. Thanks very much for featuring the Ice Breaker theme among all these other amazing themes.
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http://www.designbeep.com Arshad

I think these kind of wordpress themes are better for the visitors.Clean themes and the visitors can find easily what they are looking for in the blogs.
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Matt

Great listing, some themes are really different and bring another originality.

What do you think of this special vertical clean theme ?

Click here : http://bit.ly/2gkCsh

Cheers
http://djdesignerlab.com Dj Designer Lab

Very useful collection
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http://psdho.me/ brum

My favorite theme is a “Work-a-holic”.
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http://www.jannis-gerlinger.de Jannis Gerlinger

They are simple and quit cool !
http://www.simplywp.net/ Kathie

Oh Wow, great to see that our theme (Foodiary) is included in the list. :D
http://scottlassiter.com/blog Scott Lassiter

Wow, these are some great looking themes. How hard is it to make money from wordpress themes? Obviously people are spending a lot of time creating them, however are people successful? Always curious!
http://www.aimonkey.com Waasys

Nice list, thnx!
http://membership-plugin.com/?hop=majid1973 nasir

your ultimate word press themes
http://twurl.nl/muaomh
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http://www.azurebright.com Mark

Very nice collection. Found some gems in there!
http://www.meyvetabagi.com/ meyvetabagi

Truly awesome templates. Much thanx for these gems
http://www.aliyildiz.co.uk Ali

nice choice because l havent seen most of this themes. nice one
http://richbugger.wordpress.com Richie

awesome collection
http://www.nikefuns.com STONE

Great! thanks your sharing.
http://newwpthemes.com New WordPress Themes

Thanks for listing some of my themes.
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http://mymoen.com eka marya

great theme.. i would like to choose one or two of them. thanks for share.
http://www.khaolaktrip.com/ hmu111

Thanks for listing some of my themes.
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http://www.exclusivetutorials.com Exclusive Tutorials

Thanks for these beautiful wordpress themes
Ajay

Great collection.
check out this one as well, http://gebysuwito.com. i liked this fresh and unique theme, simple one.
http://www.zariftech.com choudhury

WordPress is really the best blogging software out there. I have tried it for the last 6 years and its proven to be the best software ever.
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http://www.michas-world.com michas-world

thx a lot for this post, really good themes
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http://www.ozdtasarim.com FireRoxy

very good collection. thanks for sharing.
http://wordpress.themeshq.net/ Wordpress Themes

These are great themes! Thank you, will use some of them for future websites!
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Thanks.
Smoke & Tumble is best for my personal site.
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Blog and Portfolio Themes

Photo and Video Blogging Themes

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