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- Download and demo: www.flexible7.com/bluebubble-wordpress-theme
- Category: Blog, Portfolio
- Responsive: No
This theme uses the left-hand sidebar well; I like the navigation alongside the blog posts. One thing to be aware of is the use of featured images. If not every one of your posts comes with a featured image you may lose the effect of the proportionate and balanced layout. If you're a web designer you should be able to convert this free WordPress theme to a responsive layout relatively easily.
32. Big Square
- Download and demo: http://freelancewp.com/wordpress-theme/big-square/
- Category: Photography, portfolio
- Responsive: No
I'm a fan of art museums and this free WordPress theme gives you the feeling you're reading about a painting hanging on the wall at your local contemporary art museum. It designates a lot of space to the image or photograph so if you're trying to showcase your work you Big Square will do nicely for you.
33. EBUY
- Download and demo: http://www.freewpthemes.com/free-wordpress-themes/ebuy-981424749/
- Category: Ecommerce
- Responsive: No
It's only a matter of time before WordPress is seen as a viable option for ecommerce sites of all types. Free WordPress themes like EBUY continue to push the envelope and get us ever closer to that goal. This theme is well laid out and offers a great deal of features to help you share and sell your products.
34. Busby
- Download and demo: wplift.com/busby-free-wordpress-personal-blog-theme
- Category: Website, blog
- Responsive: No
Busby is a really nice free theme. Its use of bold colours and well planned fonts makes it stand out. I love the styling and emphasis on post dates. However, if you aren't posting often, a proud and boldly stated date may make your theme look stale and outdated. Frequent bloggers looking to keep visitors on their site for long periods of time will benefit from this theme greatly.
35. Blog-o-folio
- Download and demo: www.noupe.com/freebie/blog-o-folio-wordpress-theme-version-1-0.html
- Category: Blog, portfolio
- Responsive: No
Saying that Blog-O-Folio uses bold contrasting colours would be an understatement. The layout is really nicely put together and the entire theme is very functional. The dedication of real estate to blog posts and sidebar make this free WordPress theme very blogger friendly.
36. Skeleton
- Download and demo:www.freethemeforwp.com/themes/skeleton
- Category: Blog, website
- Responsive: Yes
Skeleton has a lot going for it. Firstly, it's very minimal so if you know what you're doing it will be very easy for you to layer your own flavour of style and colour on it. Secondly, it's responsive, so it's ready for any and all devices. The added bonus that it's BBPress ready just increases its value. Lots of widget and featured areas makes this a very versatile WordPress theme.
37. Shuttershot
- Download and Demo: www.web2feel.com/shuttershot
- Category: Photography, website
- Responsive: No
Shuttershot is another free WordPress theme that lets the content speak for itself. If you have less than stellar photographs or graphics you may want to use a different theme. Allocating the entire homepage to a single image will pressure you to highlight your best work. Make sure your content can support this really well made theme before you move forward with it.
38. Spectacular
Download and demo:www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/01/10/free-html-4-01-html5-wordpress-theme-spectacular
Category: Blog, website
Responsive: No
Category: Blog, website
Responsive: No
The aptly named Spectacular theme is really well designed and laid out. The colours are subtle but really help the visitor navigate the site. While this free WordPress theme does appear to be very blog-centric it would be easy enough to convert this to a small business, event or product website. Make sure that the logo or featured graphic at the top is designed to fit the theme. A black and lime green race car logo will not do this theme justice.
39. Panoramica
- Download and demo:www.cpothemes.com/theme/panoramica
- Category: Photography, portfolio
- Responsive: No
If you want to showcase images in all their glory, free WordPress theme Panoramica may be just what you're after. Its design heavily emphasizes the use of images, with its appearance fully customiseable through an extensive options panel. Panoramica also features a full-width slideshow on the homepage, perfect for grabbing prospective client's and employer's attention.
40. Meeta
- Download and demo: demo.wpzoom.com/?theme=meeta
- Category: Blog, website
- Responsive: True
Sometimes "Plain Jane" themes like Meeta get overlooked. However themes like this are easily converted and modified to fit your site and content. With two navigations, a featured graphic and a responsive layout, this free WordPress theme will act as a great foundation for your site or blog. However you will need to dedicate the time to customise it a bit.
41. Sensitive
- Download and demo: wordpress.org/themes/sensitive
- Category: Portfolio, website
- Responsive: Yes
Sensitive is a fully responsive theme built using Twitter's Bootstrap framework with Metro Styled Accent. It ships with three different page templates, support for custom backgrounds and menus. It's a great option if you're looking for clean and modern, without a lot of fussy code.
42. Strap Slider Lite
- Download and demo: wordpress.org/themes/sensitive
- Category: Portfolio, website
- Responsive: Yes
Slider Lite is a clean, modern and responsive theme that showcases a large, full-width sliding panel at the top of the page. Each post featured within the slider supports an image and caption, as well as the content itself. As with some of the other themes featured here, Twitter's Bootstrap is used to provide the functionality within the theme, making it easily extensible.
Jesse Friedman is a veteran WordPress developer. In 2012 he wrote the Web Designer's Guide to WordPress. Currently the director of web interface and development at premier digital marketing Astonish, Jesse co-organises the local WordPress meetup and is very active in the community.
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