20+ Fresh Free WordPress Themes: August 2015

Is it summer where you are? If so get down to the beach, pool or wherever you want to spend your days. Don't read the following article. Should the weather not enable you to enjoy offline life stick with us and find inspiration in our latest list of 20+ fresh free WordPress themes, created during this summer. Seems there was quite a bit of rain worldwide.

All these themes are free, though some have commercial variants available. We stated that where applicable. Enjoy!

Proper Lite

Creator: Modernthemes
Features: Transitional header load, fully responsive, hover effects and translucid descriptions, bottom social icons, retractile right-side menu
License: Free for personal or commercial use

Planum Free

Creator: DinevThemes
Features: Full width posts tiles upfront layout, hover descriptions, Jetpack ready
License: GPLv2

Cropobox Lite

Creator: DinevThemes
Features: Responsive, flat minimal design, infinite scroll, grid layout, rounded header image
License: GPLv2

Virtue

Creator: Kadence Themes
Features: Showcase header, secondary product showcase, fully responsive, eCommerce support, latest posts mini grid layout
License: Personal use

Woodley

Creator: wpmultiverse
Features: Lightweight, two-column layout, quick setup, minimal style, blogging focused
License: GPL

Satellite

Creator: Automattic
Features: Left-side retractile menu  and social icons bar, single-column posts layout upfront
License: GPLv2

Wallstreet

Creator: Webriti
Features: Full-width photo header, fully responsive, hover twisting, lighting and translucent description effects, multi-page theme, single-column posts layout upfront
License: GPLv2

Dispatch

Creator: wpHoot
Features: Full-width showcase header, flat minimal design, fully responsive, page-bottom widgets
License: GPLv3

Longform

Creator: Cohhe
Features: Opaque and hover descriptive images as header grid, full-width single-column posts layout, pagination
License: GPLv2

Catch Adaptive

Creator: Catch Themes
Features: Full-width header, static background, double column posts layout, right-sidebar for search bar and archives
License: GPLv2

Munchkin Maestro

Creator: thremes
Features: Fully responsive, accurate visual editor, media embed support, single-column posts, pagination upfront
License: GNU

Studio

Creator: Emil Uzelac
Features: Static full-width header background, single-column layout posts, fully responsive
License: GNU General Public License v3

Lasermo

Creator: Simple WP Themes
Features: Full-width showcase header, auto showcase info widget, multiple layouts, flexible footer sidebar
License: Personal use

Vito

Creator: Nico Andrade
Features: Transitional webpage load, hover effects, minimalist design, right-sidebar with categories and latest comments and posts, upfront post pagination
License: GPLv2

Yuuta

Creator: Felix Dorner
Features: Fully responsive, full-width background design, feature content switch with transitional effects, translucent screen-size menu, grid layout
License: GPLv2

Patio

Creator: Fikri Rasyid
Features: Bold landscape featured images, portrait images fit to screen height size, post showcase, grid layout, mobile friendly
License: Personal use

Lightning

Creator: Vektor Inc
Features: Showcase header, responsive, search bar, Bootstrap based
License: GPLv2

Powen

Creator: Supernova Themes
Features: Showcase header with hover description, post pagination upfront, minimal clean design, right-sidebar with search bar, calendar, recent post and comments
License: GNU

Store

Creator: Rohit Tripathi
Features: Hover animated elements and cards, pan showcase flat minimal design, product filtering, rating, pricing search bar, right-sidebar
License: GNU GPL v3

Brasserie

Creator: Template Express
Features: Fancy cursive titles, multilingual, fully responsive, hover auto-zoom, multi-level pages and optional full-width or left-sidebar templates
License: GNU

Touringg

Creator: Themeshock
Features: Full-width showcase header and single-column posts layout, several fully customizable elements, bottom widgets
License: Personal use

 

These are the new entries this summer. If you can't get enough, check out the previous installments:

2015: February, March, April

2014: January, February/March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

2013: December, November, October, September, August, July, June/May, April, March, January/February,

2012: December, November, October and September!

Don’t forget our roundup of the 100 best WordPress themes from 2014 as well as the 100 best WordPress themes from 2013 or the Best of 2012 collection. Have fun and let us know if we missed out on any important new entries. Which ones are your favorites?

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