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Some great free Wordpress themes
April 17th, 2009
It is so easy to give your blog a professional look these days by grabbing a well-made, free Wordpress theme and tweaking it to your specific tastes. The biggest hurdle is filtering out all of the poorly-made themes that are floating around the interwebs to find the right one to start with.
There are tons of websites that offer free WP themes these days, but I have found that many of those themes lack features, flexibility, usability, or simple beauty that even beginning bloggers deserve. However, several design companies and individual designers who make premium (for-pay) themes offer certain themes completely free of charge. Usually these are older themes or simplified themes, but they are often higher quality than 80% of the other free themes you will find.
So without further adieu, here are a few of my recent favorite places to find free Wordpress themes:
- http://designdisease.com/portfolio
- http://www.woothemes.com/category/themes
- http://human3rror.com/2009/02/06/simpl3-theme-release (only one theme)
- http://www.smashingmagazine.com/category/freebies
- http://freebiethemes.com/themes (a few very simple, minimalist themes)
Do you have a favorite place for free Wordpress themes?
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Armen
April 24th, 2009 at 1:29 am
Thanks for the recommendation, Ben.
We’re in early days yet (barely two weeks old), but we’ve got off to a good start. With the kind of themes we have coming in the future, it should be interesting to see how the WordPress community responds.
On another note…I really like what you’ve done here. Nicely balanced.
benstewart
April 24th, 2009 at 8:09 am
Thanks, Armen. I look forward to seeing what you all have in store.