15 High Quality Premium-Like Free WordPress Themes
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Everyday we see many beautiful WordPress themes, many are good and only a little are just one of a kind. The choice is big enough, but the search is worth it. Today we present only 15 Free Premium-like WordPress Themes that are truly impressive and you might be willing to use for your next project, which have been released over the last few months.

A free professional Wordpress-theme created by Darren Hoyt and Matt Dawson. The theme features a built-in lifestream module and contact form with custom control panel options. Features include: Lifestream module with carousel, Custom archives page, Animated js dropdown menus, Built-in drop caps for lead paragraphs and much more…

This is a 2-column layout with a nice header at the top displaying the latest posts and comments there. Features include: integration with Flickr account, inbuilt RSS and other social bookmarks like Digg, del.icio.us and stumble upon.

Simple Balance 2.0 – a free, simple WordPress theme with enough options to make it “premium-like”. This amazing theme offers many options to adjust through the theme’s Control Panel. This is a Widget-ready, customize banners setting and more…

The theme has 3 fixed columns, Thumbnail covers style, Flickr, Delicious and Twitter integration as well as an attractive visual design. The theme was designed by Zhang Yichi, the creative mind behind Vikiworks Studio from Shanghai, China.
- Free and without any restrictions
- Download from here

If you are looking for a unique theme that is quite graphics heavy then this one is for you. The background images are chosen carfully to give that paper look look and feel, so backgrounds are vital for the uniqueness of the theme. The theme is fully widgetized and easy to install.

This is a grid based design and layout, built on the popular 960.gs css framework. Features include: Widgetized sidebar with styling for all default WordPress widgets, theme options page for inserting and position a logo. Page Templates include Archives and Sitemap.

This is a 2-column layout with a nice header at the top displaying the latest posts and comments there. Features include: integration with Flickr account, inbuilt RSS and other social bookmarks like Digg, del.icio.us and stumble upon.

Created by modifying several already-existing code snippets and implemented it to a nice layout to mimic the functionality of the Coda website. Every aspect of the Coda website was duplicated and this theme works in every major browser. Code snippets used are: Coda Slider Effect, Coda Popup Bubbles, FancyBox and CSS Image PreLoader.
- Free and without any restrictions
- Download from here

True Elegance is a 3-column wordpress theme with fully widgetized sidebars. The theme also features recent activity in a visually appealing panel on top which can be controlled via AdminCP. With a clean, well commented code.

An impressive theme created by WP Elements. Massivepress is 3-column widget enabled WordPress theme featuring a thumbnail based posting style which gives you the ability to get more content in front of your users in a way that is clean and organized. Features include: Featured Articles, 3 unique sidbars that can be configured individually including the “Index Sidebar”, “Post Sidebar” and “Page Sidebar”.

A fresh 2-column styled premium WordPress theme that is now FREE. Features includes: Widget Ready, Monetization Optimized through google adsense or affiliate revenue, featured post at the top, tabbed interface at the right column, highlighted posts and more.

This is a minimalist WordPress Theme based on Upstart Blogger’s Wordpress theme “Modicus “. Thus aptly titled “Modicus Remix”. This is a 2-column layout design and if you want to use the 3-
column layout you should try the original one.
- Free
- Download from here

CryBook is a 3 Column simple theme base on Facebook. Featured include: 2 widget-ready sidebar, live theme swistcher and Custom Admin Panel. It’s compatible with up to WordPress 2.6.2 and has been tested with in Firefox3, Internet Explorer 6 & 7, Opera, and Safari.

This is a Hybrid blog/portfolio/photo/magazine style theme. Features includes: Widgeti ready with five custom sidebars, 5 different front page category loops, Slider function for bottombar and featured articles, Three level CSS/JS dropdown menu and Utilization of Custom Fields for neat image display on the front page.

“Simply Ornate” ia a free theme that focuses on typography and patterns and comes in 5 flavours. Features include: a prototype-based tab effect to browse latest posts, comments and tags. The front page is set up to show excerpts of your 4 latest posts, and also includes a mini-nav in the upper right side to allow for page navigating.

Wonderful list ! Thanks you very much
Thanks for the mention of Agregado, and a belated ‘great job’ on the Noupe.com redesign. I do so much reading via RSS readers, I always neglect to notice design changes.
wow! this themes rocks. i love it.
The magazine theme really looks great, but they need much more work out behind the screens… Apart from that , I liked Massive Press
Stumbled
So many hours were invested in the Guzel magazine and its control panel. Thanks for featuring it..really appreciated. Good luck :)
Great!
thanks for sharing :)
thanx, I like Guzel.
I saw it before but i like it any way :D
Greetings
The themese look very nice but i wonder how they are for the user when trying to use them on a site?
What i have found is that many themes look very nice but when a user who is not totally web savvy tries to use them they are very hard for them to use.
Yeh they are great themes. It’s funny to look back at the tremendously boring stock themes you could only pick up a few years ago. But with Wordpress’ master success, everyone and his dog is out making themes!
the first one is impressive. nice job!
Truly lovely designs. I need to start a new blog just to use one! lol
These are truly some great themes and I have seen many more that people are selling that can’t even touch these.
You can easily surmise that the designers enjoyed the creation of these themes by the artistic depth that was utilized.
I plan on making more sites in the future and I will be using at least one of these themes if not more.
good themes but you dont have a unique theme when u use one of it.
so many great themes! thanks for sharing
Awesome list. The problem is not being able to manage enough sites to use them all!!
what a great list of themes. Please keep this type of information up. I really like it.
Wow! Fabulous themes. PLease keep up the great work!
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You really think these are good enough to be considered premium? Wow.
Awesome list, I just posted up a new free WordPress theme here:
http://www.thekingcart.com/2008/10/02/crafty-cart-free-wordpress-ecommerce-plugin-theme/
Great themes! Thanks for sharing!
Brilliant. I have never seen these templates even after a lot of searching one for my own. Mine is chosen now thanks. :)
Great list of themes. Thanks!
Thanks for listing Blogsessive’s theme, Simple Balance 2.0, along with such wonderful WP themes.
Love this list. I’m going to try and implement one soon.
I’ve been looking for a great template for my blog, I think the NewsMag is going to be it! Thank you so much for a very useful article!
saved us all some time and cash with this list. thanks.
Thanks for the awesome post. Congrats for getting on the top of Digg.
Oh and BTW you have just helped me find the next theme for my blog. Many thanks.
Great list of beautiful themes! Thanks for sharing!
Nice collection .. guzel is my favorite.
A good collection of WordPress themes.
The INFINITY one seems to have some coding error related to FLICKR integration.
Thank you for sorting these good themes.
enjoy :)
I really like All these themes, especially SubtlyMade, True Elegance and Coda. I am currently using MassivePress for one of my blogs and it works great
Not bad but “hight quality premium” is an exaggeration.
o nice ones, dear. they all look beautifull and popular..
i loved to comipile them .. they are all in my list toooo ..
wow, excellent collection
very nice collection, bookmarked – may come in useful one day!
I saw them around here and there, But it nice to keep a list on one place.
Nice Assembling.
Very nice designs. Thank you
It’s nice I like it!
Thaaaaaaanks for a wonderful post sweetie :D I think I’ll shae the link to it with my readers!
Huuuugs!
See, one thing I really appreciate in your blog, is that when you post series like this one, I don’t have the “seen before” feeling.
Love ya for that! :-)
I’m always interested in new themes (inspiration and just curiosity!) and I am going to check out the demo of half of the ones your posted.
By the way, have you heard of the Option Theme? It’s the free theme I used, by Justin Tadlock. I love it ;-)
Wow, there are quite a few on here that I haven’t seen before.
great themes tnks
Bravo
We change themes every once in a while just to keep the site new and engaging.
You never know what you feel about a theme until you actually put it on and wear it.
Many sites show off themes that are mediocre and some show ones that are pretty good.
You have gathered a collection that is pretty damn good.
These will help many sites out when the visitors come due to the professional and clean looks. The added functions are a plus too. One favorite is the Infinity theme. I run a comedy site but believe me, when you are picking out themes it’s no joking matter.
Cheers
To be honest, a lot of these are actually better than many of the ‘premium’ themes on offer.
Nice collection!
This is an awesome collection! Thanks!
Simple Balance 2.0 is one of my favorite WordPress themes, but that said your whole list is great.
What a beautiful collection, thanks a lot :)
Wow that is really an awesome collection. I personally love Outdoorsy and Simple Balance theme from the list.
Thanks a lot :)
Prior to seeing this post, I thought I knew about all the great themes out there. But I haven’t seen at least half of these themes before. Thanks for enlightening me and reminding me that I don’t always know everything ;)
Thanks for putting this wonderful list! I like most of them. ^3^
Nice collection of beautifull free wordpress themes. Thanks!!!
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great list.thanks for sharing
wow! amazing!
this is the best man!
i like infinity theme
Some pretty smart wordpress themes, i think that i like Agregado Lifestream and Purple Fever the most.
awesome list. I like it.
Thank you for putting susch kind of beautiful theam.observing all I think you are really an wise person
I knew this blog from my friend. thanks for sharing. I have been many idea for next my theme
really great collection ! thanks
Nice find! The Massive Press one looks kinda cool. in my opinion ,the Crybook will be perfect for a FB related site but not for other niches.
Big Thanks! I’m find cool theme here!
Very nice list :)
These are some very attractive free themes.
Thank’s mate, this is just perfect to change a bit the look of my blog!.
amazing themes, i will try it some for our site
Wow, great collection! I should try one to refresh my blog.
Thanks.
Hi
5. Outdoorsy theme is looking so beautiful .I want to use this theme in my free wordpress blog “arunword.wordpress.com”. Is it posible that you include in wordpress free template list.
wandurfullll
i might use one of these! thanks for sharing!
Thanks for all this template
Thank you very much. Wonderfuls themes.
wow Wonderful design, thx for sharing this :)
Awesome list.. i especially like number 2 for what im hoping to use it for! :-)
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These are great. I love that Crybook theme. I think I might use that.
I love the WP Coda. It’s one of the more sophisticated themes Ive seen. For those of you who like the wpcoda, also consider the wordpress slider theme its very nice with sliding header.
Love these designs, I particulary like the creation by infinity! An incredible list :-)
Awesome themes! Thanks for sharing!
I love your post and your weblog. thank you so much!!
that is a great list of themes.
Great work!
Thanks for sharing
Great Collection of wordpress themes. It will help me to improve my wordpress blog
This is an awesome list.
Actually I tried a few of them earlier.
But the problem is it takes a lot of work and I can never get enough sites to apply them.
I think I need a theme spinner now.
Well done and keep it up.
Dr Bikash
Some of these designs are really nice. Thanks for puting them out there!
wow..they are very nice T…..thank….
Cool templates, Thanks!
Especially I liked Outdoorsy!
Very vivid and live!
Great list of themes.
Thanks!
nice theme. thank u.
Thanks for the template. After long hours of searching for the right template for my blog, I have finally found the best one.
Again, thank you!
:)
nice list thanks,
wow..they are very nice T…..thank….
good template that needs to be applied. thank you very much boss
Not a good collection , i should say .
I have seen 100 times better designs that too for free
great list of free themes.
you have very very nice site. thanx god i found this site.
Great list of beautiful themes! Thanks for sharing!
Really nice.
Exelente themes!!
Really nice work – Keep it up.