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Part 2 Top Ten Best Free WordPress Themes and Templates

Part 1 Top Ten Best Free WordPress Themes and Templates

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This is a list of the new ten best Free WordPress Templates available on the Internet. WordPress is an amazing open source blogging platform. Which means anyone out there on the internet can take it and use or modify it. One of the best things about WordPress is the large number of free templates available. In fact there are so many free templates available for WordPress that it has become overwhelming to find the best quality templates. I have tried my best to collect the best free WordPress templates available out there. A lot of great designer and programmer are out there, who have spent there time and effort to develop these free WordPress templates. I see a lot of people using the same free templates over and over again hopefully this will help you discover new free templates available for WordPress. Even though I am listing only the best free WordPress templates you can always go through the website of the author who designed these free WordPress templates and discover more quality templates. Most of the templates here are rated according to their design in fact if you compare their features they might not score so high. But you can always modify them to suit your own need. For example K2 is great template with support for a huge variety of plug-ins by default. With out further ado I present you the ten best free WordPress templates.

I have tried my best to select templates that follow the latest design trends and those that follow unconventional design techniques. The free wordpress templates are not given in any particular order or rating.

Fluid Solution is a 3 column WordPress theme made from a template provided by Arcsin. It supports widgets and is yet another clean , simple theme which you can try out for your blog. from kaushalsheth

Demo: here Download: here Arthur: Sixshootermedia. & kaushalsheth

Typography is 2 column WordPress theme in shades of white and green with right sidebar and as usual supports widgets. The most striking part of this theme is it that it doesn’t use any kind of images. The design was developed by Jaykay of Sixshootermedia. Give it a try. Its really a cool theme. from kaushalsheth

Demo: here Download: here Arthur: Sixshootermedia. & kaushalsheth

Origami Theme/Template for WordPress is cool green wordpress theme/template which uses SIFR Technique to enhance th fonts shown in the theme. The great thing about this theme is that in the top bar there is a option to switch between fluid and fixed layout , Increment font size move the colums right or left.

Demo: here Download: here Arthur: Leevi

Balance is clean and nice looking wordpress theme from thoughtmechanics The highlight of this theme is the the collapsible and expandable menu on the top. A very clean wordpress theme/Template with an unconventional layout.

Demo: demo Download: balance Arthur: thoughtmechanics

Foliage is a WordPress theme created and distributed by 5thirtyone. One of the only dark themes that made into these wordpress themes. It also has a few cool hidden features like the expandable menu on top.

Demo: Unavailable Download: Here Arthur: 5thirtyone

This is another Sixshootermedia Css Template converted into a wordpress theme/Template by negative99. A very clean looking layout.

Demo: Here Download: Here Arthur:Sixshootermedia & negative99

A great wordpress theme/template with a ton of features inbuilt and built for blogs with multiple authors. Built by glued ideas it is one of the best wordpress templates out there. For a complete list of features look here

Demo: Here Download: Here Arthur:glued ideas

Flight WordPress theme/Template by fahlstad is a clean template without seeming very garish.

Demo: Here Download: Here Arthur:fahlstad

Hemingway Pearl is a beautiful mod of the original Hemmingway WordPress theme/Template. Though if you’re not a fan of red you could always change the colors to suit your needs.

Demo: Here Download: Here Arthur:confusedweb

A three Column template by devlounge one of the better three column wordpress templates out there.

Demo: Here Download: Here Arthur:devlounge

This Post was cross posted from bluesaze
I am working on the second Part of this Series so if you know of any other cool WordPress themes drop me a comment or line.

Other Notable wordpress Themes and Templates which did not make it to this list are

1. k2 with a huge variety of styles and mods

2. kaushalsheth has a huge collection of excellent themes.

3. ilemoned a nice bright Green wordpress theme/ template

4. sixshootermedia a great collection of clean looking wordpress themes and templates

5. krad a dark colored wordpress theme/template

6. blue-kino clean simplistic wordpress theme/template

7. thoughtmechanics a small collection of quality wordpress themes and templates

8. 5thirtyone another nice wordpress theme/template from 5thirtyone

9. ifelse famous for his collection of wordpress theme/template “A theme a day”

10. brokenkode old is gold.

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