50 Beautiful & Free WordPress Themes for 2019
WordPress themes can run the gamut from niche uses to all-purpose. They can also vary considerably in both quality and price. Note that, just because you’ve paid for a theme that doesn’t guarantee quality.
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 building your site in 2017. The 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.
Not a professional designer/developer? Not to worry. Some of the themes below feature page builders, allowing you to create complex, feature-rich layouts with no coding necessary. Likewise, there are themes aimed at professionals looking for a basic starting point in their site development. There is something here for just about every need and skill level.
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.
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Themes for Writers & Storytellers
Libre
Built to let your words stand out, Libre is a theme that specializes in long-form writing.
Longform
Longform lets you tell your story in unique ways with the ability to publish posts in chapters, timelines and other attractive formats.
Qwerty
Qwerty is a WordPress theme that doesn’t come with many frills or dependencies. It’s built for speed and putting your content front and center.
Editor
Editor features beautiful typography and a uniquely functional tabbed sidebar. The tabbed sidebar content allows you to go well beyond the standard collection of widgets.
Radcliffe
Radcliffe is a simple, yet lovely theme featuring large, full-width images and stand-out headlines.
Themes for Photographers
Pho
Pho brings a masonry-styled layout to feature your photography. There are also several font choices included to help your words make an impact.
Tography Lite
Tography uses CSS animations to add an interactive feel your photo blog. The included filterable portfolio lets users quickly view the various categories of your work.
Fullscreen
Fullscreen is a one-column theme that features a unique, side-scrolling home page with a clickable gallery.
Gridsby
Like the layout of Pinterest? Gridsby offers a similar grid layout that opens your photos up into an opaque window.
Tracks
Tracks is a “bold and beautiful” theme that really gives each post its own moment in the sun. Large photos and bold typography make for an attractive, yet uncluttered feel.
Isola
Isola is created by the folks at Automattic, so you know this clean theme will both look great and use WordPress best practices.
Espied
Also from Automattic, Espied is a responsive, grid-style theme that provides great visuals of your work.
Themes for Building a Creative Portfolio
Daily
Daily comes with a full screen intro panel and a very clean, well-spaced interface.
Illustratr
Illustratr features bold typography and a grid-style portfolio layout. There’s also an expandable footer area.
StanleyWP
StanleyWP is a WordPress theme based on Twitter Bootstrap that features a drag-and-drop home page builder. A very simple and clean layout.
Proper
Proper exudes class with its simple layout and use of CSS animations/transitions.
Gridby
Gridby is a lovely Bootstrap theme that places your portfolio in a stunning grid display. There’s also an equally exciting storytelling layout that adds in bold typography.
Beetle Go
Beetle Go is aimed at those who want a clean, attractive way to display their portfolio. It features parallax scrolling, lots of built-in icons and several interesting layouts.
Sketch
Sketch is a very clean and minimal portfolio theme that lets your images do the talking.
Pure
Pure includes lots of great layouts and built in features like pricing tables, tabbed content viewers, buttons, icons to bring your portfolio to life.
Themes for Business Sites
Primer
Primer is a clean and spacious WordPress theme that’s perfect for small businesses.
Sydney
Sydney brings bold imagery, built-in features like a slider, animated charts, filterable portfolios and a stunning layout to promote your business.
Make
Using a drag-and-drop page builder, Make provides a number of gorgeous layouts. It’s great for online stores as it is compatible with both WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads.
BLDR
BLDR features a page builder and enough goodies packed in to create just about any type of website. Special page templates are included for testimonials, service lists and projects.
Zeal
Zeal is a stylish multi-purpose theme that can be used to build any type of site quickly.
WordPress Themes for eCommerce & Shopping
Ocin Minimal WooCommerce Theme
Ocin is a gorgeous WooCommerce theme for anyone looking to give their online store a clean and minimal appearance.
Hype
Hype works with the Shopify eCommerce platform and allows you to combine it with the power of WordPress.
Themes for Bloggers
Windmill
Windmill is a free WordPress blogging theme with the bonus of being compatible with WooCommerce.
Hew
Hew includes a nice splash of color and an expandable header that opens up to navigation and other available widgets.
Eighties
Eighties is a single-column blogging theme. There is a sidebar, but it is only available by clicking an icon, which opens it up into a nice overlay window.
Intergalactic
Intergalactic uses large photos along with bold typography in order to create a slick look while also being highly readable.
Nulis
Nulis was built as a single-column blogging theme that makes great use of whitespace and featured images for you posts.
Casper
Casper, inspired by the Ghost blogging platform, is a super-minimal WordPress theme that ensures your content is front and center.
Gateway
Gateway features an elegant look with an array of useful shortcodes through use of a separate plugin.
Rams
Rams is simple and stylish. The theme is compatible with many JetPack features like infinite scroll and tiled photo galleries.
Vito
Vito sports a very simple layout along with some CSS animation to add a touch of class.
Lingonberry
Lingonberry uses WordPress post formats to create an attractive way for different types of content to stand out.
Yuuta
Yuuta will feature your posts as a “visual diary”. You can even add a background image to each post.
Hoffman
Hoffman is a great theme for showing off your photos. There is a nice slider feature for individual posts.
Themes for Magazine Layouts
Good Magazine
Good Magazine is a clean and responsive WordPress theme that’s perfect for any content-rich publication.
Bloggr
Have a lot of content to feature? Bloggr is a magazine-style theme that makes good use of columns to help you feature multiple articles.
Semicolon
Semicolon uses a simple grid-layout of posts that lets you display lots of content without overwhelming your visitors.
JustWrite
JustWrite displays content in a way reminiscent of some of the top news sites. It’s advertising-friendly, as well.
Themes for Masonry & Tumblog Layouts
Fukasawa
Fukasawa is a masonry theme that is great for displaying photos or perhaps even Pinterest-like news and resources.
Crates
Crates is a “tumblog” theme that uses a grid system. There’s also an optional 2 column blog layout to make an extra impact.
Nova
Nova uses masonry to get your content seen in an elegant way. It’s also WooCommerce friendly.
Pieces
Great for showing off your artwork, Pieces can help you create a lovely collection of content.
Themes for Landing Pages
LandingSumoWP20
LandingSumoWP20 takes advantage of a drag-and-drop page builder to let you quickly create a stunning landing page.
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