50 Best Free WordPress Themes of 2010

2010 was the year of the free theme. The team at WPBeginner chose our 50 most favorite free theme for 2010.

Personal and Photo Portfolio Themes



1. Obscorp: A blue and gray WPCrunchy theme with large social media buttons and space for a header video. Download Now.



2. Monokrome: With your photos displayed artfully across the center of the design, Monokrome showcases photos where they belong, on the homepage. Download Now.



3. Brave Zeenat: A grayscale theme with header navigation and wide post images. Download Now.



4. Simple Folio: Clean and simple tan, Simple Folio had a rotating content area for featured images. Download Now.



5. Shaken Grid Theme: A theme we showcased earlier in the year, Shaken Grid allows for a fluid flow of photos and text in a multicolumn format. Download Now.



6. Gallery Theme: If you need to showcase your work, Gallery Theme allows you to display multiple thumbnail sized images without overwhelming your visitor. Download Now.



7. Creative by Nature Theme: For those who want to bring more whimsy to their portfolio, Creative by Nature Theme lets you show your work, tell about yourself, and share some of your personality. Download Now.



8. Mansion Theme: By integrating your images into your home page, Mansion Theme puts your photos where they belong, in the spotlight. Download Now.



9. Spectre Theme: Use your website to highlight your biggest investment, yourself. Showcase bookings, blog posts, and featured posts with Spectre Theme. Download Now.



10. Snapshot Theme: Part portfolio, part showcase, Snapshot Theme is an all around great theme for photo bloggers and designers. Download Now.

Clean Themes



11. Fresh and Clean WordPress Theme: A WPExplorer creation that allows for colorful thumbnails to stick out beside clean and simple content. Download Now.



12. Structure Theme: A clean magazine style theme that allows you add media when you want to, and showcase written content when you don’t. Download Now.



13. Manifest Theme: A great minimal theme puts your information first, and with it’s resume style, Manifest Theme does just that. Download Now.



14. Satochi Theme: A minimal theme that doesn’t lack features or pages, Satochi Theme is clean and functional. Download Now.



15. F8 Lite: F8 Lite is a free minimal theme that features your photography without clutter. Download Now.



16. Doc Theme: A way to showcase stories and themes within a website, Doc Theme allows you to put your thoughts online in the word processor style that we hold so dear. Download Now.



17. Mono Columnist Theme: Finally, Mono Columnist is a minimal theme that is great for writers and offers multiple color options. Perfect for a minimalist who is tired of white backgrounds. Download Now.



18. Miniml Press Theme: A cool three column theme, Miniml Press Theme is a great way to organize lots of categories and content without cluttering your content area. Download Now.



19. Enkelt Theme: White and clean, but with a featured post slider, Enkelt Theme offers the best of minimal and customized themes. Download Now.



20. BlueBubble Theme: Clean boxes of content with a contact box in the sidebar, BlueBubble makes your site clean and simplified. Download Now.

Colorful Themes



21. Art Theme: Colorful and beautiful, Art Theme allows for creativity to flow against a background of color. Download Now.



22. Koi Theme: With the grace of the fish it is named after, Koi Theme showcases your content with stellar beauty. Download Now.



23. Florance: A cute floral orange and green design to showcase any content. Download Now.



24. Cyangant: Love cyan? An elegant theme that showcases this forgotten color is your ticket to a happy site. Download Now.



25. Melitus: With a bubbly blue header, Melitus stands out because of it’s unique recipe-card like square excerpt display. Download Now.



26. Monstic Theme: A cute design with a monster in the clouds, Monstic is great for those with a whimsical side. Download Now.



27. Imagination Theme: With a header designed like an artist’s sketch pad, Imagination Theme allows for colorful creativity. Download Now.



28. Compositio Theme: With a luminous light blue background and happy squares, Compositio Theme is a great theme to unleash the happiness in your blog. Download Now.



29. Deskspace Theme: With a cute and colorful cartoon watching over the design, Desktop Theme is great for the blogger with personality. Download Now.



30. Simplista Theme: With a shock of a purple background, Simplista Theme is a quirky colorful design for adventurous bloggers. Download Now.



31. Selecta Theme: Selecta Theme incorporates Polaroid style content boxes with a bright blue background for a beautiful blue experience. Download Now.



32. Glassical Theme: A beautiful light blue theme, Glassical lights up your content with a stellar background color. Download Now.

Niche Themes



33. Kelontong: An ecommerce theme that goes well with any product. Download Now.



34. Vintage Theme: Vintage Theme is a great throwback theme with a travel feel, perfect for travel bloggers or vintage lovers. Download Now.

All Around Great Themes



35. Glory Themes: With green and orange working in synergy, Glory theme is part sticky note and part construction site themed, a perfect theme for anyone. Dowload Now.



36. Papertagz: With a clean clipboard design, Papertagz works for just about any blogger. Download Now.



37. Overstand: With bold text and cute icons, Overstand is a great way to showcase ideas and multiple categories. Download Now.



38. iBusiness: Neat and easily applied to just about any business, iBusiness Theme displays your excellent content while maintaining a large about section on the top of the home page. Download Now.



39. RunOne: With a cool green and white color scheme, RunOne is a cool design with a simple and clean gray sidebar. Download Now.



40. Blackboard Theme: Playful and reminiscent of grade school days, Blackboard Theme is a cute and friendly theme for your WordPress site. Download Now.



41. Aparatus Theme: A sweet design with perfect embellishments, Aparatus Theme is a great way to showcase your content and promote yourself. Download Now.



42. Epsilon Theme: With a large space at the top of the theme dedicated to featured posts, Epsilon Theme puts the emphasis on your awesome content with an elegant gray background with red accents. Download Now.



43. MegaNews Theme: Built with a magazine in mind, MegaNews Theme allows for quick display of multiple categories on the home page. Download Now.



44. BlackPower Theme: With a elegant integration of content and your most recent tweet embedded in the header, BlackPower Theme can easily be customized to just about any niche. Download Now.



45. Notepad Theme: Notepad Theme allows you to take the aesthetic of the popular Notepad application and apply it to your blog without hassle. Download Now.



46. Sketch Ace Theme: A stone gray background provides the perfect canvas for killer content. Download Now.



47. Bueno: For a free theme with a delicate texture and bold header text, Bueno will make you feel great about your site. Download Now.



48. Argentpress Theme: A black background with a gray pinstripe highlights the space for featured posts and images in the Argentpress Theme. Download Now.



49. Delighted Black: Give your content on a pedestal with this brilliant gray scale design. Download Now.



50. Ultra Wood Theme: Ultra Wood uses a antiqued wood panel background to highlight spectacular content. Download Now.