WordPress Top 10 Free Themes

With staggering stats of having more than 60 million websites, WordPress is no doubt the leading CMS in the web-world.

One of the great features of WordPress is that it allows using themes for the front-end design presentation of your site’s contents. There have been numerous theme roll-outs in the market that offers great UI. Here we have compiled the list of some of the themes that top the list in terms of features and happily announce “good things in life are free”:

1. MesoColumn
Be it your requirement for a great eCommerce site or a blogging community, MesoColumn is a feature rich theme that is based on responsive design and coding standards following CSS3, HTML5.

Features:
– Responsive
– HTML5 and CSS3 coding standards
– Support for WooCommerce, BBPress, BuddyPress, Jigoshop
– 600+ webfonts from Google
– Optional theme add-ons available

Best Suited For:
– Blogging/ Community
– e-Commerce/Business
– Website

2. Customizr 
Offers completely flexible approach to fully customize your site with design elements including sliders, layout, live CSS, skin, featured homepage blocks and much more.

Features:
– Responsive
– HTML5 and CSS3 coding standards
– Built with Twitter Bootstrap framework
– Responsive slide generator
– Translation ready (12 languages supported)

Best Suited For:
– Blogging/Community
– Portfolio
– Corporate
– Business
– Landing Page

3. Fruitful
If you are looking for a clean and simple design with highly customizable options, Fruitful can be answer to your search. It also supports Woo Commerce making it ideal option for e-Commerce requirements.

Features:
– Responsive
– Woo Commerce ready
– Customizable CSS
– Simple and clean design
– Highly customizable including options to edit sliders, imagess, social icons etc

Best Suited For:
– Blogging/Community
– e-Commerce/Business
– Websites

4. Shuttershot
Made for photographers, Shuttershot is one of the best theme choices for you if the emphasis is to be laid on the imagess. It offers option to either use full screen slideshow (on homepage) or regular blog with images slideshow in the background.

Features:
– Full screen slide show template
– Custom menu and post types
– Child theme support

Best Suited For:
– Photography
– Portfolio

5. The Newswire
Made for photographers, Shuttershot is one of the best theme choices for you if the emphasis if to be laid on the imagess. It offers option to either use full screen slideshow (on homepage) or regular blog with images slideshow in the background.

Features:
– Responsive
– Large slider
– Sticky posts
– Theme customization options (change fonts, colors and background) including customizable menus

Best Suited For:
– News sites
– Blogs/Community
– Portfolio
– Websites

6. Delighted
Looking for a light weight, efficient and professional theme for your blogs? Delighted is the answer. It also offers numerous color and language options.

Features:
– Light weight
– Featured images option for homepage/single pages
– Range of color options
– Range of language options

Best Suited For
– Blogs/Community
– News sites
– Websites
– Portfolio

7. Xenastore
This is one of the few free eCommerce themes available for WordPress, which actually stands out with its feature rich toolset. Free plugin Cart66 is used to provide the functionality of ecommerce portal.

Features:
– e-Commerce ready
– Custom post types, taxonomies
– Number of theme options
– Large widgets area

Best Suited For:
– e-Commerce/Business

8. Fresh Lite
Fresh Lite offers simplistic drag and drop features to let you customize the theme. Its interface is one of the most intuitive and tailor made for touch screen devices.

Features:
– Responsive
– Drag and drop starter
– Twitter bootstrap
– Touch device friendly interface

Best Suited For
– Blogging/Community
– Websites

9. Workality
Workality is responsive theme best suited for portfolios. With different thumbnail sizes available for portfolio layout, you may choose as per your requirements of presentation.

Features:
– Responsive
– 4 different thumbnail size types
– Twitter bootstrap
– Cross device compatibility for images, video and text content size & format

Best Suited For:
– Portfolio
– Agencies

10. Travelify
This nature inspired theme is a great free package that brings to the table responsiveness and e-Commerce readiness. Best suited for travel bloggers and nature lovers, this theme has large array of customization options.

Features:
– Responsive
– Retina Ready
– Theme customization options- webmaster tools, social icon, favicon, and logos etc
– Multiple layouts to choose from
– WooCommerce support
– Translation ready

Best Suited For:
– Travel blogs
– e-Commerce/Business
– Portfolio
– Websites