In this post we have compiled a list of some of the top free and premium HTML5 WordPress Themes.
Bones
An HTML5 Starter Theme for easy WordPress Development. Based off the HTML5 Boilerplate, Bones is the best way to start a new HTML5 Project.
Spectacular
The theme comes in two flavors: HTML 4.01 and HTML5. Also, both German and English versions of the theme are included in the download package. The theme is cross-browser compatible and supports Opera, Safari, Chrome, IE7+, and FF. Support for IE6 is not available, though the theme works in IE6, too.
Busby
Busby is a clean personal blogging theme with it’s own options panel built with the UpThemes framework. I’ve been working on this for a while now, it’s quite a different experience building a theme which will be released publicly rather than one for my own or client’s use. There are a lot more things to take into account and lots more testing to do.
Visual HTML5 WordPress Theme
Visual is a WordPress theme for creative professionals such as graphic designers, web designer, artists, illustrators and photographers. It also makes for a good personal website. It comes with filterable portfolio gallery and blog section. Homepage Slider, integrated Twitter plugin, Latest Work widget, Latest Blog Post widget, social media buttons and contact form.
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SmartStart WP – Responsive HTML5 Theme
SmartStart WP is a simple and clean but still professional theme suitable for any business or portfolio, and it’s created by using the latest HTML5 and CSS3 techniques. With a responsive design it is easily usable with any device (Desktop, tablet, mobile phone…), without removing any content!I’m also ready to your suggestions to improve this template.
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Responsy WP – Responsive HTML5 Portfolio
Responsy is a responsive html5 wordpress theme suitable for personal portfolios or creative agencies. Responsy has been coded in HTML5 & CSS3 and jQuery.
Download Responsy WP – Responsive HTML5 Portfolio →
PixelPower – Responsive HTML5/CSS3 WordPress Theme
This is a clean, modern, powerful WordPress tumblog-style theme designed for a wide variety of uses from bloggers to design portfolios.
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Swagger Responsive WordPress Theme
Swagger is built on top of the all-new version 2 of the Theme Blvd framework. Use the layout builder to accomplish just about anything you could ever think of. Use the slider manager to create as many sliders as you want.
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Barely Corporate Responsive WordPress Theme
Barely Corporate is a clean WordPress theme that couldn’t be more easy to use. With a beautiful exterior and a backend that gives you ultimate versatility and freedom, Barely Corporate will have your website up and running in no time.
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Alyeska Responsive WordPress Theme
Elegance. Flexibility. Awesomeness. These are the words that instantly come to mind when trying describe this amazing WordPress theme.
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Flipbook – Premium WordPress Theme
Flipbook is a premium wordpress theme perfect for anyone who wants to showcase their portfolio, run a blog, build a image gallery a little different.
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The Arcadian Responsive WordPress Theme
The Arcadian is our new portfolio theme designed to look beyond the typical corporate mold and give you the ultimate in WordPress creativity.
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Salutation: WordPress + BuddyPress Theme
Salutation is a WordPress and BuddyPress theme. If you are not familiar with BuddyPress, it is a social network plugin for WordPress allowing your website to become a fully functional community portal. BuddyPress lets your users interract through groups, forums, friends, status updates, private messaging and a lot more.Salutation has a clean design focused on high-level content organization.
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SevenWonders – Clean Responsive WordPress Theme
SevenWonders is a clean and modern wordpress theme that Fully Responsive, which mean the layout will adapt depending on the device screen size.This theme suitable for portfolio, photography, business, blog and almost any kind of websites.
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Website – responsive WordPress theme
Website is a responsive theme, which means it adapts to the device on which it’s displayed.
The theme cares for your content so it looks great on all devices, but you can also decide to show part of a content on some versions only, and hide on others.
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Brick + Mason: Premium Photography and Blog Theme
Brick + Mason is ideal for photographers and/or design studios. It utilizes infinite scrolling so users don’t have to leave the page to experience all your talent. This theme also uses the jQuery masonry plugin so the content will fit any browser size.
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Responsive Fullscreen Studio for WordPress
RSW Responsive functionality instantly auto adjusts website according to resolution of devices.Features Fullscreen slideshows with audio. Video fullscreen playback fro Vimeo, Flash, Youtube and HTML5 videos.
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Agency – Fullscreen Portfolio WordPress Theme
The Agency is the Next Generation Fullscreen Portfolio WP Theme. Unique clutter-free fullscreen experience with various control options. Present your works in professional manner with smooth flash-like flow.
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Tarnished: Blog/Business Grunge WordPress Theme
Always wanted a grunge theme but never found one that actually looked good. Tarnished offers you that “grunge” look with a modern twist making it great for all types of sites including magazines, portfolios and general blogging.
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WordPress Zoom Portfolio + Blog
WordPress Zoom is the ultimate portfolio and product showcase theme. This theme is optimized for touch on the iPad and even supports keyboard control (arrow keys and spacebar).
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Confidence – Responsive Blog / Magazine Theme
The Confidence WordPress theme is perfect for personal blogs and magazine sites, it also can be used as a personal portfolio. Responsive layout makes it easier for your visitors to open your site from any various devices. Confidence is very easy to be customized for beginners or experts, with more than 80 theme options allow you to do it all from just one page.
Download Confidence – Responsive Blog / Magazine Theme →
The Daily Press: Super Simple WP Publication Theme
The Daily Press is a super simple publication theme for WordPress. This site was designed and built for businesses wanting a similar presence on the web as the New York Times and other prestigious news organizations.
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1stGiantLeap Mobile Template WordPress Edition
1stGiantLeap Mobile is a HTML5/CSS3 template tuned to look perfect in mobile browsers. The markup is device orientation (landscape/portrait) sensitive, so when you change device orientation by rotating it 90 degrees CW or CCW this template will look nice.
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CreativeLife – WordPress Theme For Creatives
CreativeLife is a design WordPress Theme perfect for Portfolio, Blogging, Agency, Freelancer and Business.
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HYPAX
Hypax is a premium, hybrid template – it can be used as a simple site or long “One Page” site. It’s great for portfolio and personal websites.
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Athena: Premium Business/Portfolio WordPress Theme
Athena is a powerful business/corporate/portfolio & blog premium WordPress theme jam-packed with features.Athena comes with 7 custom widgets, 6 color styles, 7 background patterns, sortable portfolio and featured slider custom post types, custom contact form, sitemap template, and much more.If you’re a multimedia person, with Athena is now easier than ever to upload and play your video or audio files through its custom built-in audio and html5 video player with flash fallback.
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Strings Music and Art Magazine WordPress
Strings is a powerful wordpress magazine style, provided with many options. You can put a unique background in each page, blog post, portfolio item, albums, gallery you create.
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Qreator – Responsive Premium WordPress Theme
Wide variety of fine-tune options allow you to not only modify an existing design, they will help you to create your own. And you don’t need to know the code or deal in programming for this! Create your own skins and change them even daily.
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AGT Noname Ajax / WordPress Template
The html 5 and css3 are themes suitable for you and your company whose portpolio have a unique design and operation and a blog site. This theme which has a simple usage and setup can access most pages by ajax from the main page as well as used as stabilized.
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Immersion – Responsive Fullscreen WP Theme
Immersion is the wordpress theme you need: elegant, simple, feature rich. All the latest HTML5 , CSS3, jQuery, wordpress are present.
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Eventure: Responsive Events WP Theme
Eventure is a premier WordPress theme built specifically for events. This theme utilizes a custom calendar system unlike any other.
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Shuffle – Premium Corporate & Portfolio WP Theme
Shuffle is a powerful business/corporate & portfolio premium WordPress theme jam-packed with features.Shuffle comes with 5 custom widgets, 5 color styles, sortable portfolio and featured slider custom post types, custom contact form, sitemap template, and much more.
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Rawa – Clean / Responsive / Minimal / WordPress
Rawa is a clean, minimal and responsive HTML5 / CSS3 template. It looks fantastic on mobile devices such as iPhones/Smarphones or Tablet-Pc’s. And of course it is RESPONSIVE . That means that Rawa will automatically resize and arrange the whole site to fit the actual device/screensize thanks to the magic of media queries.
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upScale – WordPress Business & Portfolio Theme
upScale is a modern business and portfolio Theme, built on one of the most flexible WordPress Themes on Themeforest.
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SWIX – Responsive WordPress theme
Swix is an extremely customizable and flexible theme, suitable for almost any kind of website. It is responsive, so it adapts to any device from mobile to high-res computer screens.
Download SWIX – Responsive WordPress theme →
Bonsai – Minimalist WordPress Theme
Bonsai is a clean minimalistic WordPress theme that doesn’t suffer from the feature bloat of other themes. The design is simple yet attractive and flexible.
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Edge WordPress Portfolio Theme
Edge is a powerful theme for creative artists to showcase their portfolio.