Beyond WordPress.org, it is often difficult to find the best sites with WordPress themes, let alone for free. The sites below have powerful yet attractive WordPress themes for photographers, artists, blogs, businesses, online store, restaurant etc. Whatever the purpose of your site I’m certain one of the themes from this selection will be exactly what you’re looking for. Enjoy!

Avada Ads

It is a true multipurpose theme that can be used to create just about any type of website. Whether you need an online portfolio, a site for your offline business, or a busy content-rich news site, Avada aims to provide you with everything you could possibly need.

Awaken

If you are looking for a modern style theme with great customization and monetization options this would be perfect for you. It has a great magazine layout with three different style post block widgets, enabling you to display posts in different categories or display latest posts.

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Enigma

This is simple portfolio and blogging theme which built using bootstarp framework.

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Sparkling

With pixel perfect design, awesome widgets and full-screen slider it stands out among WordPress themes.

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TopShop

Not only for eCommerce, TopShop is also great for building the basic business website and blog. With a clean simple design, developers too will love how customizable TopShop is.

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FREE Flat WordPress Theme for Personal Blog

Without lots of added embellishments, it can be a clean and simple way to communicate a message or promote a product or idea.

Following this trend, we was started a FREE Flat WordPress theme inspired by Free Flat UI by DesignModo. We would like to say that Flat WordPress theme is both beautiful and charming at the same time.

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Fullby

It is a simple grid theme built with boostrap and font awesome.

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Wallpress

This is a Free Responsive WordPress Theme which lets your content shine. Be it an online portfolio, newspaper or magazine, all your important social content comes together at one place. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Flickr and Vimeo are ready to be plugged in with DW Social Feed.

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Art Works Responsive Theme (FREE 2013)

Your Artwork is important, showcase your imagination with style.

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Fashionista

This is a simple and clean WordPress theme to showcase your content in an elegant way.

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Artificer

Possibly the best feature of Artificer is it’s device agnostic design. That means whether you’re viewing the theme on your desktop, your tablet or your smartphone, it responds and adapts delivering an optimised design for that device.

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AyoShop

This WordPress theme suits any kind of online shop, for instance selling clothing, food, jewelry, etc. The theme was created by AyoThemes – an independent WordPress theme crafter. We thank this studio for the opportunity to share this beautiful theme.

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minimable

A free wordpress theme based on Bootstrap. Minimable demonstrates, one more time, that WordPress is not only designed for blogging.

Download minimable – Free One Page Responsive WordPress Theme →

Appz

It’s a clean and modern theme that is best suited for landing pages, showcasing your latest iPhone apps.

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Snaps

It is a free portfolio theme for WordPress perfect for showcasing portrait images and galleries.

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Libra

This is a powerful corporate/ portfolio theme with a very large layout (1170 pixel), but extraordinary responsive. In fact if you try to open it on your tablet or on your smartphone, you’ll notice that there are no limits to use or fruition of its contents.

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Slider

It comes with custom background and modern design great theme to showcase your portfolio. With elegant style & mobile friendly design.

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Frank

This is a responsive WordPress theme. It uses a modified version of the Foundation grid system. It also offers the unique feature of a modular home page layout system.

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iTheme2

It is a revamp of iTheme that was originally released by Nick La. Now with the Themify framework, it is even better and have more options. It is the perfect theme for technology & Mac related blogs. It uses media queries to target different displays such as desktop, notebook, iPhone, iPad, and other mobile devices.

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HUMIX

It is clean looking free website with plenty of white space, whilst also being responsive and customizable. A sleek custom drop-down menu, with up to five social media button logos including Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Vimeo and Dribbble.

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Customizr

Built with Twitter Bootstrap. A free responsive WordPress theme, easy to customize , built with HTML5 & CSS3 upon the Twitter Bootstrap framework.

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Newspaper

Subtle textures, beautiful typography and a modern responsive layout – that’s what it is about.

Download Newspaper →

Smally Free Responsive WordPress Theme

This theme using modern two-column layout, and a lot of options and page-templates.

Download Smally Free Responsive WordPress Theme →

Gommero

The Theme can work for various different niches. The Website built using Gommero Theme is highly Search Engine Optimized, Easy to Use and fast in response.

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Priimo

Lightweight, clean and elegant. Customize with post slideshow, portfolios, custom header, custom background and custom page titles.

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Pytheas

It is the first of a new “explorer” series of free WordPress themes. Built without clutter and with a minimal design its a great solution for either small websites or as a starter theme.

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Crisp Persona

It is responsive, which means that it will adjust itself according to the screen size of the viewing device. In other words, Crisp Persona is mobile and tablet friendly.

Download Crisp Persona →

Time

A clean responsive theme for personal blogs.

Download Time →

Fanwood

It is an all-purpose, responsive (mobile friendly) theme with 12 optional layouts, per post layouts, multiple drop down menus, 18 widget areas, support for all 10 post formats, mobile compatible menus, and integrations for bbPress, BuddyPress, Jigoshop, and Hybrid Tabs.

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Free Responsive WordPress Theme for Photographers

This is a theme to use with WordPress that will turn your site into a clean portfolio that you can use to show off your photos.

Download Free Responsive WordPress Theme for Photographers →

Reverie

This is an extremely versatile HTML5 WordPress framework based on ZURB’s Foundation, a powerful tool for building prototypes on any kind of devices.

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Responsive Theme

Free Responsive WordPress Theme for your business or personal site, the choice is yours.

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Foghorn

This is a minimalist WordPress website built off the foundation of Twenty Eleven. It has a custom options panel for switching layouts, removing sidebars, uploading a logo, and changing footer text.

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Alien Ship

A responsive WordPress website based on Twitter Bootstrap.

Download Alien Ship →

Vasiliki

This is a minimalistic theme with jQuery masonry – A dynamic grid layout plugin. It re arranges the content grids in a brick fashion with smooth animation according the browser window size.

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Photogram

It is very fluid and responsive, thanks to its slick and nifty jQuery effects. The Masonry and Infinite Loading scripts make page scrolling more convenient than ever.

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Edublogs Forum Theme

It’s a quality theme, designed, redesigned and developed entirely with great user experience in mind.

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Digifoto

If you’re a creative or an artist, your portfolio is your business. This is the perfect way to display your showcase in a fun, engaging way that won’t distract your visitors from your work.

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Auto Focus

This is a free WordPress theme created with photographers in mind. It uses a responsive layout and includes a variety of features that make it a great choice for photographers who need an attractive and effective web presence.

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Widely

It is minimalistic theme perfect for for businesses, creatives, and individuals who want to quickly publish their portfolio and anyone else who’s serious about having a simple, well designed website with a full powered content manager.

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Toothpaste

A fresh theme with strong colors and integration with the SiteOrigin page builder.

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Visual

It is a dark minimalist WordPress theme for displaying photos and images.

Download Visual →

YAMINTH

It comes with light colors, dark footer, Google Web Fonts and jQuery fade in/fade out of images. It also has an Options Page so you can customize it as you like. You can set your logo, favicon, featured category, social networks links, advertising, etc.

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Origin

This is a simple and elegant theme with responsive layout for better viewing on mobile devices – smartphones and tablets. It’s built on the Hybrid Core framework and inherits its professional and well-organized coding practices, making it an excellent starting point for further customization and development.

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Mixfolio

It is a responsive, HTML5 portfolio theme for WordPress. Best of all, it’s free! Use it to build your portfolio or your online brand. Create Image, Gallery, Video or Standard posts using Mixfolio’ Post Formats feature.

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Adelle

It sports a clean, responsive design with friendly typography and pink and black accents.

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BonPress

This is the perfect personal blog theme. Packed with Post Formats (audio, video) feature and multiple Custom Widgets, like Twitter, Flickr, will offer you a unique experience from blogging.

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Codium

It is a minimalist and responsive theme for wordpress and ready for all the wordpress 3.+ feature like custom menus, colors or background. Light colors and white is perfect for having a really nice blog!

Download Codium →

Skeleton

It has several useful shortcodes, such as tabs, toggles, cross-browser CSS3 buttons, and layout columns. It also includes a bbPress skin/stylesheet and sample child theme.

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Paper

This is a unique style WordPress Theme, simple, character of this theme is use of school paper as background and usage of two letters of character sketches.

Download Paper →

Aselia

This is clean, minimalistic, but nevertheless absolutely breathtaking.

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Meeta

This is a simple blogging theme, but packed with many premium features, like: unique widgets, custom templates. The theme is absolutely free!

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Free Real Estate WordPress Theme – Realty

It is a powerful website that is packed with all the trimmings of a Real Estate Website. The theme is fully responsive from desktop to mobile phones.

Download Free Real Estate WordPress Theme – Realty →

Mystile

This is a clean, lightweight WooCommerce theme, designed as a canvas which you can use as-is, or easily create a unique design to match your products.

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Workz Free Business & Portfolio WordPress Theme

It features a design/function specifically for business and portfolio style websites so you can showcase your work and what your business is all about.

Download Workz Free Business & Portfolio WordPress Theme →

Simple’n’Bright

Colorful, shining yet clean simple theme for your business, portfolio or blog.

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Bodega Free WordPress Business & Portfolio Theme

The theme features a very minimal design thats perfect for small business and portfolio websites. Included are some cool features such as a homepage slider, custom post types for the portfolio, filterable portfolio page, shortcodes, widget footer and of course the ability to run a regular blog alongside your site.

Download Bodega Free WordPress Business & Portfolio Theme →

Rolex

This is basically a business theme. So if you are a service provider or product vendor this theme could power your website in the most neat and elegant fashion. Theme holds a beautiful jQuery slider on top and there is a widgetized section on the home page to list out your services or products in style. The blog section is arranged in a grid fashion.

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Iridium

It is a theme to be used as a landing page for mobile apps. The homepage of the theme is built in such a fashion to showcase an iPhone app and its features, screenshot etc.Iridium comes with features like custom menu, featured thumbnails, custom header, theme option panel, etc.

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Xenastore

It is an ecommerce theme. This theme depends on an ecommerce plugin called Cart66 to function as an e-commerce portal. This is a free plugin with an option to upgrade to a paid pro version. The theme is feature rich with custom post types, taxonomies, metaboxes, Theme options etc.

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Ultra

You can easily switch between a business or blog layout for your homepage as well as create a portfolio or services page simply by using the custom portfolio page template and selecting a portfolio category via your theme options page.

Download Ultra Free Business WordPress Theme →

Best Theme

A Beautiful, Responsive Theme for WordPress Sites.

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Simple Non-Profit WordPress Theme

With this free website any non-profit organization can have an effective website. It includes features to showcase your programs and events, and several elements are easily customizable.

Download Simple Non-Profit WordPress Theme →

BizWay

This is one of the easiest themes to build your Web Presence in 10 Minutes or less, in few Simple Steps. The Theme with the presence of Theme Options Panel, makes it easy for you to have your own branded new Website for your Business or Personal Use in Minutes.

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Launch

Good looking micro blogging which doesn’t cost a penny. It is a sweet little theme for the personal blogger who likes to blog in style. Provides support for your own self-hosted video, audio, images, galleries, asides, links, quotes and of course good old standard posts.

Download Launch →

Ultima Portfolio WordPress Theme

For a free wp theme Ultima as its name says is a powerful and flexible wordpress theme. it has the options to switch colors, background colors or even choose your own background image pattern, the home page can also be controlled what ever you want your theme to look like you can do it using the control panel or theme options.

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Delphi

This is new free premium WordPress template. This is a blog style theme with a brand featured post slider and an intro section below it.

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Wallbase

This is new fab series theme released following the success of the shuttershot theme. This too is a fullscreen slideshow portfolio theme.

Download Wallbase →

Black and White WordPress Theme

Easy-to-use and highly customizable. Theme admin panel. Fullscreen background images. Enhanced photo galleries.

Download Black and White WordPress Theme →

Fullscreen

This is a free one-column photography and multimedia theme for WordPress that can be used for portfolios, photoblogs, videoblogs, and virtually anything else where you want your content to be front and center.

Download Fullscreen →

Widescreen

This is a photography theme for WordPress that features multiple homepage layouts, including a fullscreen slideshow, a homepage video and featured posts. Ditch your old Flash website for improved SEO results and mobile compatibility.

Download Widescreen →

Oversized WordPress Photography Theme

It is a free WordPress theme for photographers that uses a full-size background image for a dramatic effect. The full-screen image slideshow is perfect for showing off your best work.

Download Oversized WordPress Photography Theme →

High Resolution

This is great for showcasing your photos regardless of whether you specialize in landscapes, weddings, portraits, or any other type of photography.

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Murmur

On top of its powerful blogging features, this is a portfolio theme for showcasing web design and photography projects. It can also manage your team/staff member profiles. Portfolio projects and team member profiles are handled via custom plugins made specifically for Murmur.

Download Murmur →

Grid

Design for illustrators, photographers and graphic designers. The focus should be on your Artwork not the theme.

Download Grid →

Pronto

It includes an awesome notification region at the top for displaying important notices, a custom logo upload field, a custom flickr widget, threaded comments, light-box built-in…and some other sweet features.

Download Pronto →

Photum

It will turn your site into a clean portfolio that you can use to show off your photos. Designed it to be neutral and clean so your work can stand out – there’s nothing worse than a portfolio site that detracts from your work.

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Workaholic

It is a free minimalistic two and three column WordPress theme that focuses mainly on showcasing portfolios for artists, web designers, photographers and illustrators.

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GoPress Free WordPress Theme

This is a super minimal and lightweight free WordPress Theme by WPExplorer that is perfect for any magazine, news or blogging website. The theme has been created with a focus around the basic post format to keep things super simple and make it easier for you to transition from another theme to this one or vise-versa.

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Dotos

A photo blog theme with support for Jigoshop e-commerce plugin so you can blog and sell your photos too.

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Workz Free Business & Portfolio WordPress Theme

It features a design/function specifically for business and portfolio style websites so you can showcase your work and what your business is all about.

Download Workz Free Business & Portfolio WordPress Theme →

Condor-Lite

This is a Free, Clean and Elegant WordPress theme for personal portfolio built with latest WordPress 3.1 features.

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Photographer

For amateur and professional photographers to show and display their photography. This theme was inspired by the works of Thomas Hawk.

Download Photographer Free WordPress Theme →

DailyPost

It is intresting theme ideal for your everyday notes and thoughts, which supports post formats and several customisation options. The theme is a special one because of it’s responsive design, thus you will get the pleasure to read the post with your mobile device.

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Fizz

Simple, responsive theme, suitable for personal or corporate blog.

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Alexandria

Theme with business style home page layout with welcome section, 3 product/services blocks and a client quote/testimonial section. 2 logo section layout options. 2 premade (Blue, Red) ready to use color schemes/skins. 3 widget areas in footer, 1 widget area in sidebar. 2 page layouts including a full width page template. Social media icons in footer.

Download Alexandria →

Discover

A very neat and clean orange and white business theme. The theme supports widgets. And features theme-options, threaded-comments and multi-level dropdown menu. A simple and neat typography.

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Ryu

It is a clutter-free theme for personal bloggers. It has a great readability with a large font size, and the one-column layout is perfect for displaying large images. Optional widgets are located at the top panel with social media links and a search field. Background color for an image post will automatically match the uploaded image in the post.

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Clippy

Simple, responsive, pin-style theme for your personal blog.

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