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43 Beautiful Free WordPress Blog Themes

Last updated on March 31st, 2017 by Editorial Staff
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43 Beautiful Free WordPress Blog Themes

Are you looking for beautiful free WordPress themes? One of the best thing about WordPress is the large collection of beautiful free WordPress blog themes available. In this article, we hand-picked a list of top 43 most beautiful free WordPress themes for your blog.

1. Slipstream

Slipstream

Developed by premium WordPress theme shop ThemeLab, Slipstream is a free mobile-friendly WordPress theme. It is highly optimized for speed and allows you to customize your site using theme customizer.

2. Stargazer

Stargazer

Stargazer is a beautifully designed free WordPress blog theme. Built on the rock-solid foundation of Hybrid Core theme framework, Stargazer is strictly adheres to the best WordPress coding standards without compromising features and appearance.

3. Sparkling

Sparkling

Built on Bootstrap 3, Sparkling is a free responsive WordPress theme suitable for different kind of websites. It comes with a full-screen slider, social icon integration, author bio, popular posts widget and improved category widget.

4. Hueman

Hueman

Hueman is one of the most popular free WordPress themes. It comes with multiple page layouts giving you the option to choose between two or three column layouts. It also allows users to toggle sidebars. Hueman has a theme options panel which allows you to fully customize it to match your needs.

5. Dazzling

Dazzling

Dazzling is a powerful but simple free WordPress theme. It can be used as a free magazine theme, portfolio theme, WooCommerce or any other eCommerce theme. It comes with a featured slider, call to action buttons, flexible widgets, and unlimited color choices.

6. Medium

Medium

As the name suggests, Medium is inspired by the popular blog publishing platform of the same name. With its minimalistic design approach Medium looks great on all devices and screen sizes.

7. Poseidon

Poseidon

Poseidon is a free multi-purpose WordPress theme with a spacious white layout. It comes with a full-width slider, homepage layout, and multiple page templates. The homepage layout can be easily setup using widgets.

8. Make

Make

Make is an awesome drag and drop page builder which allows you to design your WordPress site just the way you want. Its fully mobile-friendly, so you don’t have to worry about how your site will look on mobile phones and tablets.

9. Hathor

Hathor

Hathor is a multi-purpose free WordPress blog template. It comes with a featured slider, two recent post layouts, and all the usual bells and whistles you will need from a quality WordPress theme.

10. Cirrus

Cirrus

Based on Bootstrap 3, Cirrus is a multi-purpose free WordPress theme for blogs and business websites. It comes with lots of customization options which make it very easy to use.

11. Customizr

Customizr

With nearly a million downloads, Customizr is one of the most popular free WordPress blog theme. It is fully mobile responsive and comes with great customization options. It has a featured slider, custom logo, multiple page layouts and multiple color choices.

12. Vantage

Vantage

Vantage is a multi-purpose free WordPress blog theme. It can be used for business, personal, portfolio and even as a WooCommerce theme. It is fully responsive and can be used with the Page Builder plugin which adds drag and drop page layout builder to your WordPress site.

13. Enigma

Enigma

Enigma is a business and multi-purpose WordPress blog theme based on Bootstrap. It is fully responsive and comes with tons of customizations. It also supports featured slider on the homepage with multiple sidebars and page layouts.

14. Colorway

Colorway

Colorway is a simple and beautiful free theme with great set of features. You can add your own background color, add analytics support, customize pages and layout. It also comes with dummy content that helps you setup the theme just like it looks in the demo.

15. Boardwalk

Boardwalk

Boardwalk is a uniquely designed free WordPress photography theme. It is designed to be scrolled horizontally which makes it an ideal photography or portfolio WordPress theme for mobile and other hand-held devices. It looks equally great on desktop and comes with easy to use customization options.

16. Arcade Basic

Arcade Basic

Arcade is a light-weight fully responsive WordPress theme. It comes with support with for post formats, bbPress and BuddyPress support, header image, and custom layouts.

17. Pinnacle

Pinnacle

With its flat design and responsive layout Pinnacle is a bold-looking modern WordPress theme. Designed to be a multi-purpose theme, it is equally suitable for business, portfolio, and personal websites.

18. Modern

Modern

As the name suggests, this free WordPress theme offers a fresh modern design. With its full screen featured slider, bold color choices, and beautiful styles, Modern is perfect for a portfolio, business or personal WordPress blog. It has a beautiful grid layout where all blocks are perfectly aligned to match users screen size and device.

19. SinglePage

SinglePage

It is a one page free WordPress landing page template designed with Bootstrap CSS. It has four pre-designed sections on the homepage which you can configure. It also offers parallax image background support for each section. It is easy to customize and setup and ideal for small business sites.

20. Codium Now

Codium Now

Codium now utilizes WordPress featured images and a grid based layout to create a stunning looking free WordPress blog template. Its minimalistic design approach allows you to fill in the canvas with your own featured images and layout.

21. Origin

origin

Origin is another beautiful and responsive WordPress theme. It utilizes the minimalistic design approach to create easy-to-read WordPress sites. This makes it ideal for magazine, personal and portfolio sites.

22. Start Point

Start Point

Start Point is a one-page free WordPress blog template. It comes with several built-in options which allow you to easily setup your business homepage using WordPress. You can add your own logo, images, and content as you setup the template.

23. Storefront

Designed a developed by WooThemes, Storefront is the free WooCommerce WordPress theme. It is fully responsive and allows you to quickly and easily setup your eCommerce store using WooCommer and WordPress. It comes with several color options and layout choices, custom widgets, and multiple page layouts.

Storefront

24. Fruitful

Fruitful

Fruitful is an HTML5 compliant, responsive, multi-purpose free WordPress theme. It comes with powerful customization options, and full support for WooCommerce and WPML plugins.

25. Raindrops

Raindrops

Change fonts and theme options, colors, and header image individual pages. This powerful feature alone gives you an unlimited set of possibilities. By default the theme comes in a dark color scheme with bold font choices.

26. Twenty Fifteen

Twenty Fifteen

Twenty Fifteen is an official WordPress theme and is shipped with each WordPress installation by default. Twenty Fifteen uses google’s Nato font family which aims to support every language in the world. Twenty Fifteen has a simple two column layout for desktops. It is fully responsive and comes with features like header images, background images, unlimited color choices, and page templates.

27. Enlightenment

Enlightenment

Enlightenment is based on a theme framework of the same name. It is a multi-purpose, responsive, and free WordPress theme.

28. Gridsby

Gridsby

Girdsby is an elegant Pinterest style WordPress theme. It comes with a unique feature that allows you to post photos to a front-page gallery. It is fully responsive and mobile-friendly WordPress theme.

29. Semicolon

Semicolon

Semicolon is a responsive free WordPress magazine theme. It uses a grid based layout utilizing the featured images. It is designed for clean readability, provides beautiful page templates for your blog and other pages.

30. Spacious

Spacious

Spacious is a clean looking responsive theme. Designed to be a multi-purpose theme that can be easily used for a business, corporate, portfolio, or personal site. It comes with custom widgets, multiple sidebars and page templates.

31. Onetone

Onetone

Onetone is a single page WordPress template for business websites. It comes with a comprehensive admin panel which allows you to add unlimited options to your page. It supports custom background, logo, favicon, parallax background images, background videos, etc.

32. Moesia

Moesia

Moesia is clean business theme with parallax support. It comes with 11 predefined blocks which you can use to build your homepage. Each section can have its own parallax background creating beautiful scrolling experience for your users.

33. Sueva Free

sueva

Sueva is a free Tumblr like WordPress theme. It is fully responsive and mobile friendly and comes with a two column grid layout. Ideal for users moving from Tumblr to WordPress.

34. Full Frame

Full Frame

Full Frame is a full-width responsive theme with tons of customization options. It utilizes the built-in customizr to setup and customize your WordPress site. It comes with featured slider, call to action button, custom widgets, and multiple page layouts.

35. Zerius

Zerius

Ideal for a corporate, portfolio, or business websites, Zerius is a versatile multi-purpose WordPress theme. It is a child theme of Zerif Lite so it inherits all its features.

36. Quill

Quill

Quill is a free WordPress theme for law firms in particular. It comes with easy to add sections where you can add information about past cases, client testimonials, and build your homepage.

37. Panaroma

Panorama

Panorama is a beautiful free photography theme for WordPress. It comes with a 5 large slides on the homepage, two layout choices, and tons of customization options.

38. Farben Basic

Farben

Farben is a simplistic and versatile WordPress theme. It is beautifully designed and allows you to modify your site using the built-in customizer. You add custom background, header, site logo, change colors and site layout.

39. Engrave Lite

Engrave

Featuring a full-width featured slider on the homepage, Engrave Lite is an ideal free WordPress blog theme for business, personal, or magazine sites. It comes with its own customization panel and offers powerful features to create unique sites.

40. Flat

Flat

Inspired by the Metro design of Windows 8, Flat is a beautiful two column WordPress blog theme. It allows you to choose sidebar color, add custom background, logo, and favicon.

41. Blogly Lite

Blogly Lite

Blogly is a colorful and yet sophisticated free WordPress blog theme. It utilizes theme customizer to easily change colors and add custom background image.

42. Gridster Lite

Gridster

Gridster lite is another pinterest like WordPress theme. It is designed for photography and portfolio sites but can be easily used as a blog theme as well.

43. Saga

Saga

Designed beautifully for writers and authors, Saga is a bold free WordPress theme. It focuses on beautiful typography and clean layout. Comes with easy to use customization options so that you can configure it to your own needs.

We hope this article helped you find the perfect WordPress blog theme for your website. You may also want to checkout our list of 40 useful tools to manage and grow your WordPress blog.

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  1. stephen cooke says:
    Aug 23, 2018 at 1:30 am

    which is best theme for showing around 20 x 60 second videos?

    Reply
  2. Danny Blaabjerg says:
    Feb 2, 2018 at 4:39 am

    Thank you a bunch Syed! This list of Themes is the best I have ever seen. Now I can finally get my Blog / Non-Profit Organization up and running.

    Cheers
    Danny

    Reply
  3. Daisy Lucy says:
    Jan 24, 2017 at 12:48 am

    Wao! Amazing Business themes.Thanks!

    Reply
  4. abhisek says:
    Jan 5, 2017 at 10:41 am

    hello
    great post.I have a question on my mind.Need free wordpress theme for creating blogs. Style should be like this blog can you suggest some good free wordpress theme for creating this type/style of website. should be able to put adsense ads on my website.
    Waiting for a response from your side.

    Reply
  5. Crazy Tom says:
    Dec 21, 2016 at 2:07 pm

    I need a WordPress theme for my video tutorial how can I get it, Please add a link here include price. I want to add my youtube video embed code and create a playlist in this theme.
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    Reply
  6. Brad says:
    Oct 19, 2016 at 4:51 am

    Thanks for your awesome listings for a blogging themes. I am currently using Bloggers lite for my WordPress site. It comes with fully responsive design, live customization, left-right side bar, unlimited color options.

    Reply
  7. Delores Weaver says:
    Oct 4, 2016 at 11:58 am

    Hi, What do you think of the Weaver theme. Incidentally, I;m not related to this theme. I started using this theme because I was told it was the best, but I am having problems with. However, I must tell you, I’m not all that literate about themes (lol). Can you share your opinion about it, I notice you didn’t list it.

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Oct 5, 2016 at 10:18 am

      We haven’t looked into it. But you can see our guide on things you should consider when selecting a WordPress theme.

      Reply
  8. Howard says:
    Aug 29, 2016 at 9:34 am

    All wonderful! BUT:
    What type of theme is great and clean for a writer who is
    1. Giving essays and opinions and loaned product reviews on a subject (niche) but not selling his OWN products , per say.
    2 taking display ads from company products he reviews or endorses (affiliates also)
    3 has enough navigation / or menus for e.g: about; about publisher; advertise with us; contribute;
    Contributors… Etc. or can any theme allow this to be added in or customized?
    Would a blog/web style be better or a pure blog theme? Paid or free is not an option
    Thanks

    Reply
  9. Aniket Srivastava says:
    May 4, 2016 at 8:34 am

    I need a free theme in which the post featured image fits the full screen with content on overlay for all the posts. Is there such a theme available?

    Reply
  10. Bhuwan Roka says:
    Mar 19, 2016 at 1:56 pm

    Thank you for sharing amazing Business themes. I love it.

    Reply
  11. Younus VP says:
    Feb 11, 2016 at 8:23 pm

    Very nice pick. Thank you very much!!!

    Reply
  12. Barbara Walker says:
    Aug 30, 2015 at 11:05 am

    As a really new beginner, should I have any concerns about these themes always staying current with WP itself? What about plugins? If they are offered can I also expect them to be updated with all themes as WP is updated? Thanks

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Aug 30, 2015 at 1:26 pm

      WordPress has a built-in updates system. This update system not only notifies you about updates available for the WordPress core but it will also notify you about updates available for themes and plugins installed on your website. These updates can be installed from your WordPress dashboard by just a few clicks. You need to keep your plugins and themes up to date by installing these updates as soon as they appear on your dashboard. As a beginner, you should make sure that you have setup a backup plugin so that you can easily restore your site to an earlier version if something goes wrong.

      Reply
  13. Robert Baker says:
    Jun 5, 2015 at 12:22 am

    awesome themes.

    Reply
  14. Ayo says:
    Apr 6, 2015 at 6:09 pm

    I use Hueman for my blog, neat and responsive

    Reply
    • Younus VP says:
      Feb 13, 2016 at 2:43 am

      Please let me have a look at your blog…

      Reply
  15. Rút Gọn Link says:
    Mar 31, 2015 at 7:58 pm

    perfect theme. tks Wp beginner

    Reply
  16. Nafees says:
    Mar 31, 2015 at 5:48 am

    There’s also one more: Genbu.

    Reply
  17. Louise Findlay says:
    Mar 30, 2015 at 1:17 pm

    I find that when you use Origin, the WP.com version is better.

    Reply
  18. Tim says:
    Mar 30, 2015 at 9:38 am

    I’m surprised that none of the themes created by Anders Norén are listed, especially his newer theme, Lovecraft.

    Reply

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