While there is no shortage of premium themes available for purchase, the quality of free WordPress themes can sometimes exceed the expectations that you would have for something that can be downloaded and used for free.
We’ve collected some of the best free WordPress themes for you. The free themes have all been developed to the highest of standards by some of the top names in the WordPress community, all are responsive, so will adapt to any screen size, and all have been designed with latest design trends in mind.
To make things easier, we’ve categorized the themes for you. There are themes for Writers & Storytellers, Photographers, Creative Portfolios, Businesses & Corporate Sites, Ecommerce & Shopping, Bloggers, Magazine Layouts, Masonry Layouts and Landing Pages.
Themes for Writers & Storytellers
Saga
Saga is a theme with beautiful typography that is perfect for storytellers.
Longform
Longform has been built especially for telling great stories.
Qwerty
Qwerty is a minimal longform writing theme.
Editor
Editor is a typography-driven theme for writers and bloggers.
Radcliffe
Radcliffe is an image-heavy theme for writers that want to put their content first.
Themes for Photographers
Pho
Pho is a minimalist gallery-style masonry theme for designers and photographers.
Fullscreen
Fullscreen is a free one-column photography and multimedia theme for WordPress.
Gridsby
Gridsby is a ‘Pinterest-style’ photo blogging theme for creatives.
Tracks
Tracks is a bold theme that would be perfect for both photographers and bloggers alike.
Isola
Isola is a clean theme for showcasing your writing, photographs, or videos boldly.
Espied
Espied is a grid-styled portfolio theme for designers and photographers.
Themes for Creative Portfolio
Daily
Daily is a minimal portfolio or blogger theme.
Illustratr
Illustratr is a super-minimalist portfolio theme.
StanleyWP
StanleyWP is a flat theme designed to highlight your work in a simple, yet beautiful way.
Ravel
Ravel is a clean and dark theme for portfolio and professional profile sites.
Proper
Proper is a theme that has been built purely so that creatives can showcase their work in a beautiful way.
Gridby
Gridby is a free Bootstrap WP theme that has been built so that creatives can quickly create a portfolio.
Sketch
Sketch is a spacious minimal portfolio theme.
Pure
Pure is a simple and playful theme for creative professionals.
Themes for Business & Corporate Sites
Sydney
Sydney is a powerful business theme that provides a fast way for companies or freelancers to create an awesome online presence.
CleanPort
CleanPort is a flat styled WordPress portfolio and business theme.
Make
Make is a powerful open-source, drag and drop and multi-purpose theme for businesses.
BLDR
BLDR is a multi-purpose WordPress theme with a page builder that you can use to create any type of site.
Themes for Ecommerce & Shopping
Mystile
Mystile is a clean & speedy bare-bones WooCommerce theme.
Store
Store is a clean and easy to setup WooCommerce theme.
Themes for Bloggers
Hew
Hew is a clean personal blog theme for sharing your thoughts and experiences.
Cody
Cody is a clean and versatile blogging theme.
Eighties
Eighties is a simple single column theme with its focus purely on making your content look fantastic.
Intergalactic
Intergalactic is a single-column theme that offers a distraction-free environment for reading your content.
Nulis
Nulis is a minimal single-column theme that has been built for personal blogging.
Casper
Casper is a port of Ghost’s super-minimal Casper theme to WordPress.
Allure
Allure is a theme specifically built for fashion bloggers. Or, photographers.
Gateway
Gateway is a classy theme for creating a customizable home for your awesome content.
Receptar
Receptar is a free theme with a split-screen book-like design that has been inspired by modern cook books.
Planum
Planum is a full-screen theme for blogging.
Rams
Rams is a clean and minimalist theme with plenty of style for bloggers.
Vito
Vito is a clean and spacious theme for bloggers.
Lingonberry
Lingonberry is a clean and simple theme for bloggers
Yuuta
Yuuta is a free WordPress theme designed to serve as a visual diary.
OMG
OMG is a bold and full-width theme that has been designed especially for bloggers.
Hoffman
Hoffman is a stylish and minimal WordPress theme for bloggers.
Moments
Moments is a clean blogging theme with bold typography.
Themes for Magazine Layouts
Bloggr
Bloggr is a content focused theme for bloggers or magazine layouts.
Semicolon
Semicolon is a simple and clean magazine theme for WordPress.
Acosmin
Acosmin is a feature-rich and clean magazine-style WordPress theme.
Themes for Masonry & Tumblog Layouts
Fukasawa
Fukasawa is a minimal masonry blog theme for photographers.
Crates
Crates is a responsive tumblog theme with an optional 2 column blog layout.
Nova
Nova is a Tumblog-style theme.
Pieces
Pieces is a grid-based minimalist WordPress theme designed to showcase your artwork.
Themes for Landing Page
Onesie
Onesie is a free one page responsive landing page theme for your portfolio, event or business site.
LandingSumoWP20
LandingSumoWP20 comes packed with some fantastic features and an easy drag and drop layout manager to get your landing page setup quickly.
