Holiday season is here and this year will come soon to an end. Web designers released a bunch of great, high quality, free WordPress themes last year, and we collected the best 20 to showcase in this post.

Here are 20 Best Free WordPress Themes that we want to share with you now. Which ones are your favorite and which ones will you download and use in your own projects?

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Asteria Lite

Asteria Lite is a clean responsive theme with a beautiful slider, Narrow and Wide Layout Option, 10 Social Icons and 3 page templates – Full width page, Left sidebar page and a Blog page Template. The theme also allows you to design your site logo with 600+ fonts.

ButterBelly

The ButterBelly Theme for WordPress is simple and beautiful with lots of customization options that can tweaked by Theme Options Panel like logos, intro texts and background. ButterBelly Theme supports five widgetized areas and featured images. It includes stylesheets for print and the admin Visual Editor.

Twenty Fourteen

This theme lets you create a responsive magazine website with a sleek, modern design. You can feature your favorite homepage content in either a grid or a slider.

Groovy

Groovy is a beautiful, magazine styled WordPress theme. Groovy is built for bloggers who want a clean, elegant magazine WordPress theme for their blog to maximize page views, ad revenues, and create the best user experience possible.

Flounder

Flounder is a flat, minimally styled theme for bloggers which features colorful support for post formats and a clean, responsive layout.

 

Path

Path is designed for multi-author blogs and magazine style websites. It’s responsive, it supports post formats, it’s translation-ready and so much more.

Origin

Origin is a simple and stylish theme with a responsive layout. It is perfect for bloggers as it has a very well organized and spacious layout.

Inkness

InkNess is a responsive, retina ready Royal WordPress theme, with absolutely amazing features. The feature list is long enough to be not explained in 2-3 lines. This theme is suitable for all kinds of websites. You just need to use the right images.

Medicine

Medicine has user-friendly features that allow even the newest of newbies to manage your own website according to your preferences. The theme options page allows one to customize your site in just about every possible manner.

One Page

One Page is a single-page theme that displays all the essential features of your website on the home page. It makes easy for the users to get all the required information within a single page.

BillyDroid

BillyDroid is a theme for android enthusiasts. It is a freebie composed of tons of fully editable elements like sliders, menu bar with awesome effects on hover, social integration and all sorts of widgets. Works perfectly in every resolution.

Prose

This is a simple yet elegant single column theme, suitable for personal blogger. Looks great on every devices with responsive design.

Romangie

Using the Bootstrap 3 Framework at its base, the Romangie theme is fully responsive. Your webpage will look great on smartphones, tablet, laptops or your Television.

Sugar and Spice

Sugar & Spice is a chic, feminine theme created with wedding blogs and wedding industry in mind. Features include option to upload your own logo & favicon, customizable colors and background, 3 different layout options.

Travel Lite

Travel is Fully Responsive. All devices can display this Theme within their view-able area. Travel has 100+ Theme Options and Features.

Sixteen

Sixteen is an artistic and responsive theme suitable for most blogs. It supports header image with a parallax effect. A Responsive Slider, Customizable Header and Footer, Grid Layout for Homepage, etc make it one of the most unqiue WordPress themes of this month. Sixteen has been already translated into French, Russian, Arabic, Spanish, German and many more languages.

Engrave

This is a dark styled theme Engrave is simply visually stunning. The dark design is complimented with the colored buttons that show on hover. Plus the stunning blog and portfolio designs really set this theme apart from the rest.

Widely

Widely is a minimalistic theme ideal for portfolios, either business or creative. Signup is required to download this theme.

Photum

Photum is a responsive portfolio theme,  built with HTML5. It has a great feature that allows you to have a separate blog and portfolio. It is perfect for photographers as it has options included that allow you to set up different equipment and tag each photo; you can also add locations to each image.

Responsive 

Responsive is obviously a responsive wordpress theme with a fluid stackable grid system, 9 widget areas and 9 custom templates with different layouts.