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When I checked last time, there was a lot less free premium WordPress themes, to be honest this research really surprised me – quality has been grown unbelievably! There are so many themes available, so I was really picky in this article and after few days work selected 100 fresh and beautiful WordPress themes from Year 2009. Let your blog get new look with one of these mostly easily customizable themes with advanced admin,theme,widget options right now. I am sure you will find at least suitable framework and only with a little tweaking you’ll get theme what you want without paying anything.
However keep updated – soon I will showcase premium,paid themes as well, because sometimes it pays of to spend 50-80$ for great theme you will use for maybe half a year! Enjoy and let us know about your favorite themes in comments!
Touchriver is a 2 column widgetized magazine theme. Theme is enabled with javascript based custom fonts, featured post slider, About Us section, flickr gallery etc.
Release Date: August 22, 2009
Cypher v.2 is a 2 column, paper themed WordPress theme. Built for WordPress 2.8+. Cypher v.2 offers support for sidebar widgets, comments, custom default avatars.
The Folio Elements theme is the perfect solution for simplistic and light weight “portfolio” type websites.
Release Date: September 16, 2009
Magiting is a featured-packed and multi-colored free WordPress theme with TweetMeme retweet button. It has 2 columns, with an easy Options page for customization. Loaded with Social Bookmarks button, Twitter Account integration, Automatic Thumbnail Resizer without using a plugin or custom field, Adsense ready with lots of advertising blocks.
Release Date: November 12th, 2009
BlueBubble is a Free, Clean, Simple Premium Portfolio WordPress Theme for Designers, Photographer or any other creative minds! It’s designed for easy showcasing your work and it comes with some very cool features.
The Seven Five is a semi-automatic “Lifestream” WordPress theme taking minimalism to an entirely new level. This theme is intended for those looking for a simple, efficient and clean solution for integrating all the services you have come to love such as Twitter, Flickr and more. Of course, the Seven Five theme provides all the standard blogging functionality of WordPress as well.
A fully featured and free video WordPress theme which works seamlessly with Vodpod.com.
Release Date: August 13, 2009
This super cool theme streams real time tweets on blog automatically.
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Foodiary is magazine WordPress theme with 3 columns widgetized footer and advanced features.
Release Date: September 26, 2009
Matiyaga is a featured-packed and multi-colored free WordPress theme with TweetMeme retweet button. It has 2 columns, with an easy Options page for customization.
Release Date: 29 November, 2009
Spexel is a premium quality WordPress theme, AJAX powered featured content, twitter & flickr ready, multi-column, multi-layout, multi-style and built on a very effective design for any kind of website. Completely SEO optimized and Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict & CSS 3.0. Also, Spexel can be customized from a highly advanced Options Page that has over 145 different options!
Release Date: September 30, 2009
Adii’s previous custom design for his successful personal blog is now available as a free theme. It’s simple layout, and clean colour palette means easy customizations to this neatly coded theme on the ever-popular WooThemes framework.
Release Date: November 25, 2009
Bueno is a clean, minimalistic design which just oozes sophistication in both it’s typography & structure. Stripped of all fancy design elements; the reader’s focus should be on the great content that you produce. Bueno is perfect for the regular (and not-so-regular) blogger.
Release Date: July 23, 200
A vibrant personal blog theme with a colourful selection of styles, built on WooThemes flexible theme framework, boasting a selection of theme options.
Release Date: April 24, 2009
Meta-Morphosis is a visually-rich personal blog, with a magazine layout approach. Incorporating some nifty javascript font replacement and javascript widget slider in the footer, Meta-Morphosis should meet all of your personal blogging needs.
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Clean typography, a web 2.0 palette, heavily inspired by 37 signals and their wonderfully clean and focussed designs, Signal 37 is here.
Release Date: July 19th, 2009
Release Date: November 11, 2009
Fresh Mortar theme is an ultra-flexible magazine/news premium theme as a result of mashup between Fresh News and Mortar.
Release Date: July 10th, 2009
Release Date: August 22, 2009
Smashing Multimedia is a unique, flexible and advanced WordPress theme for artists, photographers, podcasters, designers and users.
Release Date: November 7th, 2009
Glassical is a glossy two column, widget ready and WordPress 2.8 compatible WordPress theme designed for passionate bloggers.
Release Date: November 14, 2009
The theme has a unique grungy design that stands out and can serve as a good baseline for your Magento-powered online shops.
Release Date: October 4th, 2009
A precise theme with a widget ready sidebar. Built on the idea of making your blog as readable as possible:
Release Date: September 23, 2009
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Ekology is the new free premium wordpress theme from web2feel.com. This is a magzine layout theme with thumbnail enabled miniposts, Featured post slider with images, Featured Video section, Customizable About us section, Customizable Banner ads, Google adsense enabled etc.
Mintozine is a free premium wordpress theme. It is a business style wordpress theme. It has a port folio section with image carousal, Custom text panels on the home page, Welcome message, Twitter feeds , Flickr gallery etc.
Creativepress is a cms with a business template layout and blog layout mixed together. The theme is very apt for your small business websites . This will let you break away from the conventional blog format sites using wordpress
With video blogging being the main influencer of this design and coupled with our experience in the vlogging world you will have a theme which allows you to make your videos the main focus of your site.
Release Date: October 19th, 2009
Newpress is built under 960 grid system and packed with in-demand features such as featured post, dropdown menu, social bookmarks button, etc
Release Date: October 21, 2009
Release Date: June 26, 2009
Premium design, being built on a neutral design theme it can be used for literally any niche without much, if any, edits.
Release Date: July 28, 2009
FreshMag is a multi-layout, multi-column, multi-style highly customizable Magazine and Blog WordPress theme which features some rare options, its theme options page has about 82+ options that makes this theme extremely customizable.
Release Date: June 5th, 2009
The theme is a two column layout with a extra templates that can convert your blog into a CMS. The sidebar and footer are both widgetized, author and category templates included, as well as social buttons already intact. The theme style is a mix of rounded corners, flat edges and wooden elements with a schema of muted, dark colors on a plain white surface.
Chronicle is a news magazine niche wordpress theme.
Theme has jquery featured news slider, News highlight section, Featured video, Tabbed content, News previews with thumbnails.
Release Date: September 28, 2009
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Release Date: May 4th, 2009
Release Date: Year 2009
Release Date: February, 2009
Irresistible is a visually-rich personal blog, with a little bit of a multimedia focus. Incorporating some nifty video-options and widgets, Irresistible should meet all of your personal blogging needs. Just add your content to the mix.
Release Date: January 6, 2009
Release Date: January 28th, 2009
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Release Date: July 30th, 2009
Release Date: June 18th, 2009
Release Date: Jul 7, 2009
The Unstandard is a split two / three column WordPress 2.6+ compatible theme.
Release Date: Year 2009
Fotofolio is a free wordpress template designed for easy creation online portfolio for Visual Workers; Photography, Graphic Design, Manga, Architect, etc. Fotofolio is very simple and easy to use, please read the instalation and usage for details. Fotofolio is created by Pupung Budi Purnama
Linquist is a simple, portfolio oriented theme, without the usual blogging garbage. Inspired by and partially based on the fantastic Sharpfolio theme.
Release Date: January 21, 2009
Portfolio – WPESP Theme is a “minimalist” Theme based on the idea of portfolio created by DAILYWP. The Theme is a starting point in the creation of portfolios, using WordPress as CMS.
Release Date: June 10th, 2009
Fullscreen is a free one-column photography and multimedia theme for WordPress that can be used for portfolios, photoblogs, videoblogs, and virtually anything else where you want your content to be front and center. It provides visual artists (photographers, painters, videographers, motionographers, illustrators) a better way of presenting their latest work online using a minimalist side-scrolling homepage.
Release Date: November 11, 2009
Striking wordpress theme with featured posts, social icons, 125×125 ads, twitter updates, threaded comments, multi page format.
Release Date: May 4, 2009
This is a 2 column design that includes an extremely funky and highly prominent RSS icon to draw visitors to your syndicated news feeds.
Release Date: May 3, 2009
This is an extremely endearing design. If you want your WordPress site to have more than a hint of cute and current, then this theme is worth a close look. It makes use of an adorable twitter icon that is sure to draw many of your visitors to subscribing to your twitter feed.
Release Date: October 23, 2009
Splendour, 3 Columns premium wordpress theme for free. It comes with greate features like login panel on homepage, featured video, Adsense ready, wp-pagenavigation integrated, post thumbnails and post excerpts and much more.
Release Date: June 17, 2009
Advanced clean personal portfolio type theme from WPSnow for free!
Release Date: November 9th, 2009
Livien is an elegant designed free WordPress theme with featured content option. Suitable for any niche. Theme Options at admin panel
Release Date: November 4th, 2009
Layer Press is free premium WordPress theme suitable for any niche. Dark style design. Theme Options at admin panel.
Release Date: October 30th, 2009
Strownes is elegant and professional designed free WordPress theme with featured content. Suitable for any niche. Theme Options at admin panel.
Release Date: November 17th, 2009
Braw is a free premium WordPress theme suitable for any niche. Theme Options at admin panel.
Release Date: October 3, 2009
2 column free wordpress theme.
Release Date: 12 November, 2009
Magnolia is a Premium WordPress theme which can be used for many purposes, including personal blog or simply informative, this theme comes with many great features, which are: a beautiful dynamic slider, nice login panel with j query, 3 special developed widgets (popular posts, recent comments and twitter updates), 7 color styles ( green, marine, blue, orange, burgundy, purple, blue&purple), widget sidebar and footer and much more.
Release Date: November 11th, 2009
ElegantRed is two columns free wordpress theme with simple, clean look, Unique and modern style, having the classic combination of white, silver, maroon and red, Ideal for Autos, Cars, technology, and other niche.
Release Date: November 16, 2009
HexaMag is a 2 columns mag style wordpress theme, which comes with Featured content slider, W3C valid xhtml/css and much more.
TarZine, 2 Columns free wordpress theme which comes with many features like featured content slider, feedburner RSS subscription and much more.
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Celadon is a free theme for WordPress that focuses on great looks and usability
Release Date: October 13th, 2009
Modern Style is free premium WordPress theme, suitable for any type of website with theme options at admin panel.
Release Date: October 26, 2009
Moi Magazine is a free 2 column magazine style WordPress Theme. It looks very modern and elegant from the front end and offering vast Admin options at the back end.
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Release Date: November 25, 2009
This sleek minimalist theme comes in 2 columns with dark blue color scheme.
Release Date: September 16th, 2009
Release Date: October 9, 2009
Release Date: September 9, 2009
Release Date: October 23, 2009
Release Date: September 3, 2009
Release Date: July 18, 2009
Mainam is a featured-packed and multi-colored free WordPress theme with TweetMeme retweet button. It has 3 columns, with an easy Options page for customization. Loaded with Social Bookmarks button, Twitter Account integration, Automatic Thumbnail Resizer without using a plugin or custom field, Adsense ready with lots of advertising blocks.
Release Date: 25 November, 2009
A fantastic design with 5 color styles to be choose. Who says free themes can’t have admin panel?Publishing featured contents never been this easie
Release Date: November 30th, 2009
Profile is a light, minimalistic design which is intended for small presentational sites and works as a small business card. Establish your online presence in less than 5 minutes!
Release Date: July 13th, 2009
A very simple Free Theme for WordPress blogs of travel-related topics: travel, fishing, navigation, marine, etc.
Release Date: June 5, 2009
The theme comes with 125×125 advertising space, “About me” space and a right widgetized sidebar.
Release Date: June 26th 2009
KeKo is a 2 columns fixed width WordPress theme with theme option and twitter integrated. This urban grunge style theme is suitable for use on any niche blogs such as music, personal, social, etc.
Release Date: May 28th, 2009
Release Date: July 6, 2009
Blue Station high quality free premium WordPress theme suitable for daily blogging. Theme has admin options page.
Release Date: June 24, 2009
Marangal is a featured-packed, multi-colored and 3 columns free WordPress theme. It has an easy Options page to customize your theme. It is loaded with Feedburner Email Subscription, Twitter Account integration, YouTube Video integration, Flickr Thumbnails, Automatic Thumbnail Resizer, Adsense ready with advertising blocks.
Release Date: July 15th, 2009
Black Motion is high quality free premium WordPress theme. Suitable for any niche.
Release Date: February 21, 2009
Dimaggio theme is another free WordPress theme by Led24.de for the WordPress community. The theme is a 2-column wide desing, perfect for personal and small blogs.
Release Date: June 17th 2009
MinaFlow is a 3 columns fixed width WordPress theme. It is a Magazine style theme comes with theme option to make it easier for you to customize some of the features available on this theme.
Release Date: January 8th 2009
VibranTech is a two columns lime blue WordPress theme with four featured content frontpage. The four featured columns on top is best to present your featured articles or popular news to quickly catch the attention of your readers.
Release Date: July 3, 2009
dfBlog is a free Theme for WordPress with a web design minimalist, clear and clean, with fixed page width in two columns and the sidebar at the right side.
Release Date: September 7th, 2009
2 columns, right sidebar, widget ready, 125×125px ad spots ready, Ajax sliding header content, sticky post feature, footer content section.
Release Date: August 26th, 2009
Release Date: May 10th, 2009
Release Date: 2009
Imagination is a Fully Customizable WordPress Theme and comes pre-loaded with 9 different site-wide styles to choose from, with just a click.
Release Date: June 18, 2009
Built for WordPress 2.8+. FreeStyle has built-in support for sidebar widgets, comments, custom default avatars
Release Date: August 22, 2009
Release Date: April 28, 2009
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Feature-packed theme with a solid design, built-in widgets and a intuitive theme settings interface… Designed by digitalnature.
Release Date: November, 2009
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Dainis Graveris is 23 years old blogger and designer, founder of 1stWebDesigner, now more silently managing everything behind the scenes. He usually hangs out in Twitter tweeting design related links and chatting with people. If you have any questions or feedback that's the best place to start! Cheers!
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012 21:29
This excellent website really has all of the information and facts I wanted about this subject and didn’t know who to ask. There’s definately a great deal to find out about this topic. I love all the points you made.
Monday, March 5th, 2012 01:55
Love this collection! Special the woothemes one!
Saturday, January 7th, 2012 04:47
I have to admit this is one of the most unique and good looking free web templates I have ever seen. Just perfect place to get quality design for a small business. We in Norway call it just billig hjemmeside Thanks for sharing.
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011 10:55
That’s not easy to find nice theme like these. Thank you.
Saturday, November 5th, 2011 14:39
I am actually using a free theme on my site now. Although I am planning to design my own, seeing your free theme list is tempting me to change my mind (and my theme!) :D you have a great collection here and I would really love to try either monkey pr or mainam. :D
Sunday, April 24th, 2011 12:41
Best collection of free themes I have ever seen – thanks for sharing!
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011 14:55
Nice collection…..and free?? Wow some talented people out there.
Tuesday, January 18th, 2011 05:02
Wow great, all site is really good. But for me, i want this #3. The color is plain and classy.
Saturday, October 16th, 2010 18:40
Thank you so much for this list, I chose 6 nice ones and I am going to try them out. I am just worried that some of them are not tested for the latest version of WP but I will look into it :)
Great list, really!
Friday, September 3rd, 2010 21:07
An amazing selection. Thank you so much for the post!
Friday, August 20th, 2010 13:59
great collection of WP themes, thanks
Friday, August 13th, 2010 02:15
Thank You A LOT !
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010 13:44
great collection theme. Im confused to take it. Almost complete, thank you
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Sirsly
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 23:29
Wowowowow
Great pre-Chtistmas gift !
Dainis Graveris
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 00:09
ho-ho-ho! :D Merry christmas!! :)
Robin
Friday, December 4th, 2009 16:32
Great line-up. Sadly still no cool travel-style blog themes…
Vikas Gupta
Saturday, December 5th, 2009 04:18
Nice collection but some themes have unnecessary and extra links at the bottom! Wish there was a download link!
Dainis Graveris
Saturday, December 5th, 2009 12:43
I believe I don’t have really rights to link directly to download link, so I didn’t add it..to give some exposure to free theme creators as well! But on linked page download link should be easily reachable!
Obed
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 19:50
The best wordpress collection of the year! Nice post! Hope to see more :)
Dainis Graveris
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 23:48
Ou, you`ll see! I promise! :)
I`ll do my best! :)
Jon Crim
Friday, December 4th, 2009 01:47
Awesome collection, gotta love free! Big fan of #77 Jungle Land.
Jerome
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 06:12
i loved this series
it’s amazing to see how much WordPress theme community have evolved since the first consolidation of theme by smashingmagazine a year or two ago
Vivek Krishnan
Friday, December 4th, 2009 23:42
Awesome list. Thanks a LOTT! These really eliminate the need for a Premium theme! Thanks again. Have tweeted!
Robomaster
Saturday, December 5th, 2009 03:17
Wow! I’ve gone through many, many theme lists and this is easily the best – the writer actually takes the time to describe each one and has themes that are all actually worth using!
So many lists like this have the 10 best themes at the top, then they seem to lose interest and shove in a bunch of junky themes just to make the lists a “100 best themes” post. Glad that this post doesn’t do that!
Laurent JOUVIN
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009 00:46
Very impressive collection – great design reference!
Suneel
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009 09:49
This is supposed to be the best list I have seen till date and I wish to agree upon so many people who have already said this, THIS IS THE LIST FOR 2009, period.
Thanks for taking so much time and effort in compiling this huge list.
Navjot Singh
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 16:28
Excellent List. Really was looking for few good themes. And one small suggestion – Demo Link for Berita Link ( #94) is wrong. Please fix it.
Raja MM
Monday, December 7th, 2009 16:34
Great! I dont know that how did you collect this much themes? :))
Michelle Mangen
Saturday, December 5th, 2009 06:15
I agree with previous comments on this post! I was working on a new website tonight and def agree this post has more than the usual amount of effort put into it.
I really like the one with the laptop / slider pictures but for some reason that one will not install – maybe it’s an issue with the 2.8.6 version of WP. Who knows.
For now, the hunt continues! Hoping I find more themes on this site. :-)
Some of these are really great themes!
Susan
Sunday, December 6th, 2009 08:21
Wow, this is an impressive list!!!
Adam
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 03:54
I liked nr 40 the most. that blue color made me think about summer and winter at the same time.