Let’s Spring: 22 Fresh and Free WordPress Themes for March 2015

Hero areas, ghost buttons, Material Design, parallax scrolling are the craze in 2015 and seamlessly combine with the ever-growing trend to responsive design. WordPress theme developers have taken the challenge and are constantly coming up with new and interesting interpretations of the latest design trends distilled into one heck of a theme. We have taken the challenge, too, and again curated another round of the latest free WordPress themes. Take them as inspiration or use them as they are. All you need is a self-hosted WordPress, and you're good to go... All these themes are free though some may have commercial variants available. We noted that where applicable...

Eptima Corporate

  Created by: Sketch Themes Features: SEO optimized, great for companies, shortcodes and lots of color settings License: free for personal and commercial use | GNU General Public License

Aventurine

  Created by: RedRadar Features: Extremely simple, large typography and bright tones License: free for personal and commercial use | GNU General Public License

Create

  Created by: Catch Themes Features: Large headline and fullscreen background, mobile-first design License: free for personal and commercial use | GNU General Public License v3

Counsel

  Created by: Mud Themes Features: Very versatile (business, blogs, etc), social icons, Flexslider with texts and clickable buttons License: free for personal and commercial use | GNU General Public License

Incart Lite

  Created by: Sketch Themes Features: WooCommerce theme, animated icons, translation-ready License: free for personal and commercial use | GNU General Public License

Hermoso

  Created by: CSSIgniter Features: Very colorful and simple, super customizable License: free for personal and commercial use | GNU General Public License V2

Bloggr

  Created by: Modern Themes Features: Simple customization, Pinterest-like layout, Google Font selector License: free for personal and commercial use | GNU General Public License V2

Auberge

  Created by: WebMan Design Features: Retina-ready, responsive, ideal for restaurants and food blogs License: free for personal and commercial use | GNU General Public License V2

Isomer

  Created by: FabThemes Features: Needs a few plugins to be used properly, great for portfolios License: free for personal and commercial use | GNU General Public License V2 Non-commercial

Fara

  Created by: FlyFreeMedia Features: Masonry layout, color options, custom logo and favicon License: free for personal and commercial use | GNU General Public License

FlyMag

  Created by: FlyFreeMedia Features: Lots of customization options, Google fonts, custom page templates License: free for personal and commercial use | GNU General Public License

Typography

Created by: SM Themes Features: Heavy focus on text, simple layout, quirky slider License: Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial

Hexa

  Created by: FreeWPThemes Features: Timeline-based, attractive icons and animations License: free for personal and commercial use | GNU General Public License V2

Ariwoo

  Created by: Arinio Themes Features: Highly customizable, social network links, SEO optimized License: free for personal and commercial use | GNU General Public License

Ascent

  Created by: Pitabas Features: Fully responsive, huge homepage slider License: free for personal and commercial use | GNU General Public License

Harmonic

  Created by: Automattic Features: Good use of images, great for blogging, double or single column layout License: free for personal and commercial use | GNU General Public License

Photolab

  Created by:  Cherry Framework Features: Ideal for image-oriented blogs, various post types License: free for personal and commercial use | GNU General Public License

Boutique

  Created by: WooThemes Features: Storefront child theme, ideal for small stores, unique color schemes License: free for personal and commercial use | GNU General Public License

Material Gaze

  Created by: M-e-h Features: Inspired by Material Design, alternative color scheme, custom headers License: free for personal and commercial use | GNU General Public License

Zifer Child

  Created by: Theme Isle Features: Responsive, gallery section, rich footer License: free for personal and commercial use | GNU General Public License

Masonry

  Created by: DevriX Features: Fit for creatives, fantastic grid layout, custom headers, menus and more License: free for personal and commercial use | Creative Commons Zero (CC0)

Foodeez

  Created by: Sketch Themes Features: Aimed at restaurants and hotels, full-width header background, clean layout License: free for personal and commercial use | GNU General Public License These are our new entries for March 2015. If you can't get enough, check out the previous installments: 2015: February 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? (dpe)