21 Free WordPress Themes for Summer 2011
New WordPress themesare released on what sometimes seems a daily basis.
But not all themes are created equal. Differences in quality become more pronounced in free themes, but there’s even a lot of discrepancies in premium themes, both in terms of visual style and actual code.
Edgy Ellen
Edgy Ellen has a stylish design with clean grid patterns and custom typography to boost.
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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.
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Muse
Muse is a simple gallery-type theme that can be used as a portfolio, showcase, etc.
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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.
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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.
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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…
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Typominima
Typominima, a free typography based, gorgeous, minimal WordPress theme fit for the writer inside you.
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.
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Anniversary
Anniversary is a theme made in a classic style, with several layout options and a customizable “Thank you, WordPress” banner in the header.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Photoria
Photoria is a simple & stylish theme ready to be used for your Photoblog or Portfolio website.
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Graphite
The Graphite WordPress theme is a fully functional, free wordpress theme from MediaLoot, perfect for creative professionals but suitable for anybody.
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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.
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TheProton
it’s a flexible free theme that can be easily customized for any purpose. TheProton is a Powerful Premium WordPress theme with a clean, elegant design, it’s best for Blogs, Magazines, Gallery and Portfolios.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Presswork
Presswork is a HTML5 WordPress Framework for designers, developers & publishers.
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