I’m sure you’ve seen 10s of 100s of similar “Free WP-Themes” lists around the net. It’s almost infinite but unfortunately most of these lists – are repeatedly too often used therefore becoming saturated. These themes get thrown around so often – that their purpose as a visual ‘eye-candy’ is almost completely gone.
So, when I first came up with the idea of making such a post, nearly a month ago – I decided to do a lot of research and instead of posting “100+ Saturated Themes” decided to bring together a handful of unique themes that I personally haven’t seen been used much.
Each and every theme is remarkably impressive and is produced by generous designer(s) that decided to keep it free.
Share & Enjoy!
1. Blues [Preview] [Download Theme]
2. Infinity [Preview] [Download Theme]
3. Black Magic [Preview] [Download Theme]
4. Notepad Chaos [Preview] [Download]
5. GameZine [Preview] [Download Theme] [PSD Sources]
6. Arthemia [Preview] [Download Theme]
7. Revolution-X [Preview] [Download Theme]
8. WP-NewsMag [Preview] [Download Theme]
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Great finds. I personally like the WP-NewsMag theme, looks very neat and professional. I might even think about implementing it onto my blog. Thanks for sharing!
No worries, Evan. Glad you found them useful ~ feel free to use them on your site (but you have to move to Wordpress, of course).
I just dropped by your site quickly and since it’s music orientated; I would recommend searching up music-specific themes. I’m sure they are some really good ones for it.
Exactly what I was thinking, and thanks for the visit!
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Those are nice themes..
I clicked to preview smashing theme but got on another page !!
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Wow there are some nice themes here, Blues & GameZine especially strike me. This almost makes me to want reconsider my recent redesign and use one of these instead!
I’ve never seen any of these before either, so well done on providing some original info!
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No worries Dot Com Dud, I’m glad you’ve found it useful
It’s a shame not many people know about these wonderful themes, but then again it helps preserve the uniqueness.
The free theme called “USDMoneyMaker” is a perfect example of what happens to a ‘pure awesome’ theme that gets used too often. It just doesn’t have the same effect when it comes to visual eye-candy as it did perhaps when it first came out.
While I didn’t really dig the Arthemia theme from the demo, the modified version used on Dpad is a vast improvement just from the header design instead of standard text as well as the headlines plug-in that’s used there. Aesthetics are everything!
Speaking of that example you used, any idea which plug-in is DPad using to scroll through the featured posts at the top?
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Hey Stuart,
I couldn’t agree with you more. The demo for Arthemia is showcased in such a way that most of it’s features are not visible. D+Pad uses a paid script that makes the posts scroll like that.
It’s $15 and you can get the download link + full guide which is found here.
However, if it doesn’t fit your budget there’s several free ones that imitate the same effect, but then again it doesn’t look as good
Thanks for the info! While I don’t have a use for it right “now” that is a much better interface than what I’ve seen so far that I have planned for a future project so will be sure to have it bookmarked for later this year.
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No worries, Stuart.
If you need any help setting it up or any question ~ I’d be happy to lend you a helping hand
Just let me know,
Nice!!! I really like the Blue theme and the GameZine theme and I could totally use them for my ongoing project. Great finds.
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No worries, Corey
Hope you can make use of them, one way or another ~ I’ve actually used almost all of them in smaller projects over time and it’s worked out pretty well
It might just be my rubbish computer but I’m getting a forbidden message when I try to dowload any of those.
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What kind of error do you exactly get? I just tried downloading a couple ~ they work fine (Tried GameZine and Arthemia)
If you can’t download any of them, then it’s probably your computer/internet because they are all hosted on their own independent servers.
If you can, show us the error(s) you get, and perhaps we can help you out
thank for sharing, I am looking for wp-theme for my new blog
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the 1st one was nice, but the link broken already, can you update the new one?
They have been updated, hope you find them useful in your projects, Calvyn
Nice Themes..Thanks for the share!!
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Can you please check this links again?
Links not working properly, I really want this!
The links have all been revised and are properly working.
Sorry about the inconvenience, but they are now directed to the author’s page instead of a direct download.
Your site layout is breaking in IE 6…. you may want to check that.
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We will definitely look into this, thank you.
Hey guys, the links have all suddenly just failed – I’ll re-update with the new links soon.
It’s 2am here, and if I try to edit it now, probably make it worse!
I will update it tomorrow morning
Great themes. I liked the gamezine. You also have the psd files for them. I am downloading it now.
thanks
Glad you could take something away from it, MTSandeep.
When I first download GameZine – I spent about 2 hours trying to locate it’s PSD Files. Then I ran across it’s dedicated forums, which had a pinned post.
This post just makes it easier for everyone
Excellent Theme, download and bookmarked this page, thanks a lotz
The links have been updated and they should be working now!
Sorry for the inconvenience everyone, but now instead of a direct download link – I’ve posted their corresponding author’s download page.
It’s just an extra step of locating the actual download link but shouldn’t be a hassle
Most Free themes have not been updated for WP 2.7, you could make this listing more valuable by pointing out which ones are up-to-date.
Hmm, that’s an excellent idea ~ Thank you for recommending it!
I’ll definitely look into perhaps dedicating a post for this
excellent themes, esp notpad chaos and infinity
nice list.. GameZine is cool..
thanks..
Many of the links are not working
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They have been revised and verified, what error(s) do you get P@r@noid?
Perhaps if all fails, you can do a Google Search.
Sorry about that, but everything works from my side :confused:
Great find!:) Thanks for sharing
Great themes, I liked blues theme.
Thank you for sharing.
Great post dude. Thank you for sharing
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Excellent! I always in searhing themes for my sites and here it is a real gift! Are they really free? Am I use them in my projects with modification?
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These are great! I love the look of your blog. Which theme did you use here and did you have to customize it much?
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The theme is 100% custom to Blogusion. It was made by me, and was done from scratch. Stick around for the V2.
It’s going to be epic
If it’s half as good as this one then it already is!
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No worries guys, glad so many people found it useful
@Kuna – Our theme was custom coded by Alex and isn’t a free/commercial theme. So, when it comes to customization it’s on 100%
I must admit, when I first saw the thumbnail for this post I got very excited that you’d released the Blogussion theme for free
Back to the post, I absolutely LOVE infinity, would be great for a personal blog. It’s just one of those themes that doesn’t really have that much of a purpose (sorry to say), but it just looks amazing to sit and stare at!
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Oh man, all are great themes!
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awesome stuff.. love the first one very much…
now, I am thinking to change my theme LOL.
thanks for sharing
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Hey Linn,
You’ve had that theme for some time right? Perhaps a change wouldn’t be such a bad thing after all
Man… you are the best! No words!
P.S. It seems I can’t see the first theme “Blues”.. some error is appeared.
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I’ve seen a few of these themes around before, but still all very nice, usable, and customizable. Thesis still rocks the house, as well as http://graphpaperpress.com
You thesis mod really rocks – nice job!
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Dear Janith,
I just visited your blog for the time and it rocks. I have subscribed to remain updated. I really liked this post and it sure is useful ALOT.
Anyways, had a question. The preview website of theme “arthemia” is Dpad magazine and I really love the plugin (content slider made in flash) he is using…. I have seen similar one named “featured content” or what ever but its not flash based. So can you let me know what is the name of this plugin or anyother info regarding it?
Thanks again for this wonderful post. Keep updating and rocking.
Regards,
Umar.
Nice themes buddy !
Especially Black Magic !
Cheers !
Wow these are some nice looking themes. I just bookmarked this page.
Nice collection of themes buddy ! ..
Cheers !
Cheers for these, I’ve been looking for some professional looking WP themes for a while
It is ugly themes. Please update sweat WP Magazine theme.
wow.. great themes, downloaded Black Magic theme, its looks great! i will redesign my
magic party site
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Thanks for the share. I am gonna download most of them in preparation for my new blogs. Some themes are a real steal.
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Glad you liked them Richael! There are some great themes here…
Wordpress theme can not be used for my site.
Great list.. and really worth $$$ themes !
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Thanks for the WP theme list – i liked the Blue theme the best – functional and cool as well
ZQ
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This is a great list. I’ve been using Arthemia for one of my blogs for a while now. And, whenever I visit that blog, I just feel happy. It just looks that cool (at least to me).
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Wow those are actually good themes! I like Blues and Arthemia the most. Might change mine.
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Great themes. I liked the gamezine. You also have the psd files for them. I am downloading it now.
thanks
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I guess is too late to grabe #6.. looked good!
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I like the WPNews Mag Theme most. There are more some good themes for free. Did you know freemium.com? Try it out!
Thanks for that link! I will let my friends know!
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I’m planning on getting my own personal blog and I think Arthemia will be my wordpress theme.
Thank you for sharing.
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Thanks a bunch. Downloaded the infinity theme. IT looks GREAT
Thanks for sharing themes
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nice, but, I had viewed in another website for this theme.