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30 Free High-Quality Wordpress Themes

smashingmagazine.com — In this article we present over 30 fresh free high-quality WordPress themes. All themes can be downloaded, customized and used for free — in personal or/and commercial projects. Please read license disclaimers carefully before using the theme in commercial projects — they can change from time to time.

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  • azngoHAPPY, on 08/26/2008, -3/+29Smashing Magazine always provides the best looking Wordpress themes for download. Along with it, they even give great tips on graphics design.
    • melonhedd, on 08/26/2008, -3/+1I wouldn't listen to any of their tips if they can't even figure out how to set a background-color
    • Spuy767, on 08/26/2008, -1/+5Well, at least your site will look good when digg is crashing your server.
    • WhoDoneIt, on 08/26/2008, -1/+0I don't find WordPress blog "themes" much of ANY design let alone "graphic design". I'll be impressed the day I see a theme I'd actually want to use. In the meantime I'll stick to wrapping my own custom designs around a WordPress install.
  • MPimagery, on 08/26/2008, -8/+11What a great list!
    • kalphegor, on 08/27/2008, -0/+1As a web designer and WordPress theme maker I can say: "What a lame list!"

      Did they heard about SEO, usability, functionality, etc.? These kind of things make a site/blog better or a design/theme of higher quality.
  • BuckNutty, on 08/26/2008, -9/+1Good timing... thanks.
  • kickoff22, on 08/26/2008, -10/+2Very very good themes.
  • tinotriste, on 08/26/2008, -9/+1excellent list of free wordpress themes
  • compsciguy, on 08/26/2008, -9/+1Nice list :)
  • mesarah, on 08/26/2008, -10/+2Really amazing list
  • annjay, on 08/26/2008, -9/+1No doubt, Great collection of wordpress themes in this post. Thanks for sharing
  • joetru, on 08/26/2008, -8/+0Nice list of wordpress themes for all kinds of sites
  • ascguy, on 08/26/2008, -5/+20I'm just going to be different and say these all suck.
    • 5xSTUN, on 08/26/2008, -3/+7I'm just going to be even more different and say that these WordPress themes have mowed my lawn for the last time.
      • gdehms, on 08/26/2008, -2/+7I'm just going to be quite different and say I don't know why there is a clown dancing in my front yard singing, "End of World as We Know It". Apparently he feels fine.
      • JMnet, on 08/27/2008, -0/+1I'm just going to be a bit different and say
        The clown on my front yard is not singing, they are saying its the "End of the World as We Know It" and I think that is just fine.
  • rossnyc, on 08/26/2008, -0/+6I want the google homepage look and feel.
  • melonhedd, on 08/26/2008, -1/+1What makes these high quality?
  • konus, on 08/26/2008, -7/+1"Dirty Girl" is no longer available... i'm still waiting... ^^
  • dixieleopard, on 08/26/2008, -2/+0does anyone think that on the imagination theme, the way the person and the giant strawberry line up is ...weird? Like really weird?
    • vare2, on 08/26/2008, -0/+1It's supposed to be intentional
    • dixieleopard, on 08/27/2008, -0/+0to have a guy humping/riding a strawberry? really?
  • cricketsymphony, on 08/26/2008, -0/+2looks like we have ourselves some bots. articles don't normally receive completely generic positive comments for the first 9 posts.
  • imLissy, on 08/26/2008, -0/+1they get better after the first three... those were a little disappointing
  • penguinsix, on 08/26/2008, -0/+1Some very pretty themes. What I'd really like though would be more of a plug in that would let me do something like CMS. Have a layout that had a 'top story' then a couple smaller bits, then links to the other, trying to get most of my last 10 posts 'above the fold'. I wish there was a way for my blog to look more like the BBC News paper or the Washington Post's 'above the fold' section.
  • AnonymousD, on 08/26/2008, -1/+1on no. 5 "f the ground - to express yourself"
  • codyjohnle, on 08/26/2008, -8/+2where's the boobies?
  • trevorjez, on 08/26/2008, -0/+4are these high quality because of their looks or their usability? i'm not sure i agree with 90% of these themes...
  • xatx3, on 08/26/2008, -9/+3wordpress sucks
  • TaintBrush, on 08/26/2008, -1/+6They're all the same damn thing. Stripes and columns and web 2.0 faux-trendiness.
  • TalksInMaths, on 08/26/2008, -3/+1Is there a list similar to this except for Blogger themes? I don't use WordPress - should I? Can I still get AdSense on Wordpress?
    • theutopian, on 08/26/2008, -0/+4Yes to adsense on Wordpress.

      Wordpress is much more powerful and useful than blogger.
  • GordonFree, on 08/26/2008, -3/+1Check out how I used one of the themes : www.Moozek.com
  • Pete1the1gamer, on 08/26/2008, -3/+1So nice to toss in a picture of Obama on #6 to increase diggs...
  • Otto, on 08/26/2008, -1/+9I'd avoid downloading any of these themes without carefully checking them for hidden or encrypted code. Most of the themes I see on sites like the ones they are pointing to have holes, backdoors, hidden SEO links, etc.

    I highly recommend that you ONLY download WP themes from the official themes directory. Those are individually checked by hand and confirmed to be acceptable: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/
    • NoozeHound, on 08/27/2008, -0/+2This really needs to be highlighted. What better way to inflict trojans.
  • YodaJones, on 08/26/2008, -0/+1Some nice ones. Thanks.
  • zreed, on 08/26/2008, -2/+3I am sick of seeing free Wordpress themes everywhere. no matter how cool they are, you are a tool if you actually use them.
  • dradicke, on 08/26/2008, -0/+0I wonder if it really is so easy to install a theme like that for a total layman like me..
  • sloppychris, on 08/27/2008, -0/+1What I care most about free themes is how clean the code is. If a theme isn't semantic and does everything backwards it isn't valuable as a free theme since I can't customize it. I'd hate to put my name on something that looks generic.
  • robvdl, on 08/27/2008, -0/+0#22 looks too much like a sourceforge.net rip
  • Whitey07, on 08/27/2008, -0/+1Awesome list, helps me out looking at newer takes on designs etc, dugg.
  • NoozeHound, on 08/27/2008, -0/+1wasn't this around just a few days ago?
  • theadvinci, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1A really great list.
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