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.
Danh ba web 2.0, 05 October 2008
Wonderful list ! Thanks you very much
Website Design, 10 May 2010
Infinity template is top notch… liking the transparencies
Eric, 09 June 2010
Hello all,
Where should I load the zipfile of the theme I want to display on my site and where/how do I link it?
Thank you
Eric
Deepak, 04 April 2011
Hey Eric, You just got to upload the root folder of the theme you want to use into the /wordpress_root/wp-content/themes/ folder.
Then just login to your wordpress admin and activate the theme by going to the themes menu on the left of the menu side bar.
Hope it helps.
Thanks
Deepak
Darren Hoyt, 05 October 2008
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.
ilunla, 01 October 2010
thank for great themes. :D
insic, 05 October 2008
wow! this themes rocks. i love it.
Pavan Kumar, 05 October 2008
The magazine theme really looks great, but they need much more work out behind the screens… Apart from that , I liked Massive Press
Stumbled
Ahmad, 05 October 2008
So many hours were invested in the Guzel magazine and its control panel. Thanks for featuring it..really appreciated. Good luck :)
ilyas TEKER, 05 October 2008
Great!
thanks for sharing :)
MaNshY, 06 October 2008
thanx, I like Guzel.
I saw it before but i like it any way :D
Greetings
slee, 06 October 2008
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.
Nathan Beck, 06 October 2008
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!
freshness, 06 October 2008
the first one is impressive. nice job!
Patricia Skinner, 06 October 2008
Truly lovely designs. I need to start a new blog just to use one! lol
Fat Man, 06 October 2008
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.
letrodectus, 06 October 2008
so many great themes! thanks for sharing
Brandon Cox | eGrace Creative, 06 October 2008
Awesome list. The problem is not being able to manage enough sites to use them all!!
Matt Chandler, 06 October 2008
what a great list of themes. Please keep this type of information up. I really like it.
Joe, 06 October 2008
You really think these are good enough to be considered premium? Wow.
Bill, 06 October 2008
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/
Bajun, 06 October 2008
Great themes! Thanks for sharing!
Blograzy, 06 October 2008
Brilliant. I have never seen these templates even after a lot of searching one for my own. Mine is chosen now thanks. :)
Beecher Bowers, 06 October 2008
Great list of themes. Thanks!
Alex (Blogsessive), 06 October 2008
Thanks for listing Blogsessive’s theme, Simple Balance 2.0, along with such wonderful WP themes.
Jane, 06 October 2008
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!
boogiesbc, 06 October 2008
saved us all some time and cash with this list. thanks.
Alex, 06 October 2008
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.
Arjen, 06 October 2008
Great list of beautiful themes! Thanks for sharing!
veresh, 06 October 2008
Nice collection .. guzel is my favorite.
loveprone, 06 October 2008
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 :)
EmmaB, 06 October 2008
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
Skracanie linków, 06 October 2008
Not bad but “hight quality premium” is an exaggeration.
I AM ACTIVER, 06 October 2008
o nice ones, dear. they all look beautifull and popular..
i loved to comipile them .. they are all in my list toooo ..
Honour Chick, 06 October 2008
wow, excellent collection
jim callender, 06 October 2008
very nice collection, bookmarked – may come in useful one day!
DKumar M., 06 October 2008
I saw them around here and there, But it nice to keep a list on one place.
Nice Assembling.
blogsarticle, 06 October 2008
It’s nice I like it!
Gis, 06 October 2008
Thaaaaaaanks for a wonderful post sweetie :D I think I’ll shae the link to it with my readers!
Huuuugs!
Zhu, 06 October 2008
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 ;-)
Susan, 06 October 2008
Wow, there are quite a few on here that I haven’t seen before.
Ricardo, 07 October 2008
great themes tnks
Armen, 07 October 2008
To be honest, a lot of these are actually better than many of the ‘premium’ themes on offer.
Nice collection!
CRF Design, 07 October 2008
This is an awesome collection! Thanks!
Christopher Ross, 07 October 2008
Simple Balance 2.0 is one of my favorite WordPress themes, but that said your whole list is great.
BLQ Blogger, 07 October 2008
What a beautiful collection, thanks a lot :)
Amit, 07 October 2008
Wow that is really an awesome collection. I personally love Outdoorsy and Simple Balance theme from the list.
Thanks a lot :)
Rhett Soveran, 07 October 2008
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 ;)
whlooi, 07 October 2008
Thanks for putting this wonderful list! I like most of them. ^3^
NaldzGraphics, 07 October 2008
great list.thanks for sharing
zoel, 07 October 2008
wow! amazing!
Jetrois, 07 October 2008
this is the best man!
rozy, 07 October 2008
i like infinity theme
Sakib, 09 October 2008
awesome list. I like it.
Muhibbullah shiddique, 12 October 2008
Thank you for putting susch kind of beautiful theam.observing all I think you are really an wise person
only free, 13 October 2008
I knew this blog from my friend. thanks for sharing. I have been many idea for next my theme
pisake, 14 October 2008
really great collection ! thanks
web, 14 October 2008
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.
Nalivaeff, 16 October 2008
Big Thanks! I’m find cool theme here!
Kris, 17 October 2008
Very nice list :)
These are some very attractive free themes.
Bolsa de empleo freelance, 19 October 2008
Thank’s mate, this is just perfect to change a bit the look of my blog!.
Anggi, 20 October 2008
amazing themes, i will try it some for our site
Icon, 21 October 2008
Wow, great collection! I should try one to refresh my blog.
Thanks.
aman, 22 October 2008
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.
film izle, 27 October 2008
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highblood, 27 October 2008
i might use one of these! thanks for sharing!
blogngeblog, 03 November 2008
Thanks for all this template
Salih BiLGiN, 03 November 2008
Thank you very much. Wonderfuls themes.
revenue, 03 November 2008
wow Wonderful design, thx for sharing this :)
Scott Wood, 06 November 2008
Awesome list.. i especially like number 2 for what im hoping to use it for! :-)
Ann, 11 November 2008
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.
Mark Russell, 16 November 2008
Love these designs, I particulary like the creation by infinity! An incredible list :-)
DMoghi, 16 November 2008
Awesome themes! Thanks for sharing!
HIROYA, 24 November 2008
I love your post and your weblog. thank you so much!!
vishal, 25 November 2008
Great work!
Thanks for sharing
thinkflick, 02 December 2008
Great Collection of wordpress themes. It will help me to improve my wordpress blog
Dr Bikash, 08 December 2008
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
Budget Web Company, 20 October 2009
Some of these designs are really nice. Thanks for puting them out there!
Arbi, 03 November 2009
wow..they are very nice T…..thank….
destination wedd, 17 November 2009
Cool templates, Thanks!
Especially I liked Outdoorsy!
Very vivid and live!
Travis, 17 November 2009
Great list of themes.
Thanks!
aang, 20 December 2009
nice theme. thank u.
tips, 25 December 2009
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!
:)
Pritush, 26 December 2009
nice list thanks,
dewapelangi, 10 January 2010
good template that needs to be applied. thank you very much boss
My-Geek, 15 January 2010
Not a good collection , i should say .
I have seen 100 times better designs that too for free
tuti, 24 January 2010
you have very very nice site. thanx god i found this site.
shahid, 25 January 2010
Great list of beautiful themes! Thanks for sharing!
sbuster, 04 February 2010
Exelente themes!!
Rahmad Yudian Pratinta, 17 February 2010
GREAT INFORMATION ABOUT WORDPRESS THEME, THANK YOU
weeeeeeeeeeeee, 22 February 2010
Superb themes, Thanks
gerard, 03 March 2010
great looking templates thanks for sharing have just started blogging every little bit helps thank you
Icon collections, 08 March 2010
really a great post here. all is very very attractive. Thanks to share this meaningful post.
Marshall, 13 March 2010
Infinity!
This theme is simply amazing.
Muhammad Azhar, 20 March 2010
all themes are good thnx for sharing
Shikeb Ali, 22 March 2010
Nice deserved to be tested … and to be shared with others. Re-tweeting it @shikeb.
Alan, 25 March 2010
really amazing themes…loved it
Kirsten, 25 March 2010
very nice post….enjoyed watching it
cooledit, 07 April 2010
thx 4 sharing! I like a Simple Balance 2.0.
All Downloadable Flash Resources, 20 April 2010
Nice summary, add to favorite, thanks.
rinu rhadi, 16 May 2010
nice collection, i love it
kalaxweb, 20 May 2010
great colections..!!
thanx alot
rio, 21 May 2010
Thanks for sharing,,
it is beautifull template
Sagive, 28 May 2010
love it, took 3 templates (gona covert to hebrew)
thanks a lot friend :)