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The Top 7 Free Premium-Like WordPress Themes Released in July

Alexandru Vornicescu — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:17:46 +0000

Hi there! Here I collected a small but a very great collection of 7 Free Premium-Like WordPress Themes that I consider the best free themes released in this month (July).

I’m sure you will like some of them because I spend hours to find the best from different sites and blogs.

The themes are very quality with different colors. I consider them premium because they have a great look and great functionality.

Paper Wall

The theme has a unique, colorful design that will perfectly fit for your personal blogs and, if customized, can be a perfect fit for a unique magazine-style-blog.
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Mainstream

A vibrant personal blog theme with a colourful selection of styles, built on WooThemes flexible theme framework, boasting a selection of theme options, most importantly it’s FREE!
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Mainam Clouds

Mainam is a featured-packed and multi-colored free WordPress theme with TweetMeme retweet button. It has 3 columns, with an easy Options page for customization. Loaded with Social Bookmarks button, Twitter Account integration, Automatic Thumbnail Resizer without using a plugin or custom field, Adsense ready with lots of advertising blocks.
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Grunge Style

I kind of like the idea of having stains, dirty textures, rips and torn images to enhance the look of a blog.
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Blue Station

Blue Station high quality free premium WordPress theme suitable for daily blogging. Theme has admin options page.
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Black Motion

Black Motion is high quality free premium WordPress theme. Suitable for any niche. Member of “Motion” theme series from NewWpThemes.com
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Girly Nature

This latest one that I release is the most feminine one. Hence, I named it “Girly Nature”.
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100 The Very Best of Free WordPress Themes

Alexandru Vornicescu — Fri, 01 May 2009 22:13:49 +0000

If you want to get The Best WordPress Themes for Free then this article is for you. This is the biggest collection till now on this blog and I am very proud with it.

Below you will find a collection with 100 The Very Best of Free WordPress Themes. All themes a very quality with a great interface.

These themes was selected manually with live previews and short information about every theme.

The collection is divided in 4 sections:

50 Themes for Personal Blogs
30 Magazine-Style Themes
10 Portfolio Themes
10 Clean & Minimalistic Themes

50 Free WordPress Themes for Personal Blogs:

FREEmium

FREEmium theme was designed by Paul Kadysz and developed by Dariusz Siedlecki. Both guys did excellent job. And thanks to freebiesdock.com you can download the theme for free!
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Imprezz

Imprezz – a simple and beautiful 3-column-theme, a free WordPress theme designed by Gopal Raju from ProductiveDreams for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The theme can be used in various setting for various purposes – in magazine-blogs, but also in corporate and private blogs.
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Notepad Chaos

Notepad Chaos — a free professional WordPress-theme. The theme has 2 columns, a quite vibrant design including “personal” design elements such as handwritten headings, stick-it-notes, clips and pins. The theme was designed by Evan Eckard especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers.
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Watercolor

Colorful as it is, this theme uses a lot of free style and smudging techniques, thus giving you the watercolor painting look that is so different from other themes you have seen.
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Agregado

Agregado is a WordPress theme by Darren Hoyt and Matt Dawson, commissioned by the folks at Smashing Magazine. It features a built-in lifestream module and contact form with custom control panel options.
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CryBook

CryBook is a 3 Column simple theme base with the popular Facebook. It contain 2 widget-ready sidebar, live theme swistcher and Custom Admin Panel. This is a very simple theme, you may notice that it is only a few files included. The key is, it is not only tabless but also imageless! There is no a single image used in layout!
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BlogTheme

BlogTheme does the simple things well and therein lies to power of this personal blog theme: great structure, trendy style and some nifty jQuery effects in the sidebar. So what’s left for you to do? Well, you can start by adding content…
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Colourise

This is another ported theme, this time designed by Styleshout.com. It has a widget-ready sidebar, so everything on the sidebar can be moved around with ease.
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Club Yellow

The theme includes black outlined flowers set against a yellow background on either side of the page. The theme has two columns set on a light brown page. The brown colour used inside the theme contrasts perfectly with the yellow background imposed in the theme.
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Cellar Heat

“Cellar Heat” has a few cool features built in. Gravatars are enabled, excerpts of previous and next posts per page, the theme is widgetized although I can’t guarantee they will look so hot), no plugins to be installed and a recent comments section in the footer
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Typebased

Typebased is a free, personal blog design, with a very clean and elegant style. Along with the great design, we’ve also included all of the other Woo goodies in the backend i.e. custom widgets, integrated banner ad management etc.
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Artwork

This is also a three-columns theme. Both sidebars are customizable from the admin panel! There’s also an about-us block which is editable, just open the about-us.php with your favorite text editor, and fill in your introduction text.
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Elegant Grunge

“Elegant Grunge” is an unwashed yet crisp WordPress theme inspired by wefunction.com.
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SCRUFFY

A WordPress theme with a unique “grunge” design.
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Irresistible

Irresistible is a visually-rich personal blog, with a little bit of a multimedia focus. Incorporating some nifty video-options and widgets, Irresistible should meet all of your personal blogging needs. Just add your content to the mix.
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Craftwork

This theme has a very nice handcraft layout. It’s compatible with WordPress 2.7, ready for threaded comments come with WP 2.7, and tested on various major web browsers. For better usability the widely used function PageNavi is integrated in this theme.
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SuperFresh

SuperFresh is a 3 Column fresh theme base with natural green. It contain 2 widget-ready sidebar, custom templates, with a featured post section in the main page.
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The Original Premium News

The Original Premium News Theme, was the very first premium theme that we ever released. This theme may be a bit rough around the edges (in terms of its looks), but we’ve used the same solid base for all our subsequent themes.
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Pixeled Blue

The Pixeled theme has been very well received, so I created another color scheme, based on the background of my own website, in more blueish tones.
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Just Lucid

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Here’s another great template designed by DemusDesign and ported into WordPress by me. This one actually has a separate stylesheet for 800px width, as well as 1024px width (the default). There is a style switcher script built in for this, which can be seen at the bottom of the right sidebar. The sidebar and footer are both widgetized and ready to go.
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Gluttony

Gluttony is a two-column, widget-ready, rounded-corners WordPress theme. It’s the sixth theme of the Seven Deadly Sins series to be released.
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Clean Home

Lightweight – A grand total of two images, both 2?6. The rest is XHTML and CSS.
Minimalistic – No more distracting of your users, with our theme, your content stays king.
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Review

Review is a WordPress theme created for sites with a lot of content that want to maximize their site’s monetary revenue. It is a multi-column theme, which has a unique, but user-friendly interface.
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Annexation

Annexation is a clean and usable professional WordPress theme that features a two-column layout and a prominent search bar for easy searching of your website.
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Vintage

You can freely use it for both your private and commercial projects, including software, online services, templates and themes.
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Compositio

Compositio – a simple, clean and user-friendly WordPress-theme, created by talented Elena Gafita for Smashing Magazine and its readers. Compositio is a two column theme, made to for those who want to put their content at the front with a unique light blue design.
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Greenway 3C

3 Column, Green, White, Fixed width, Widget ready, Right sidebar, Corporate, Business Blog, Personal Blog Template.
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Outdoorsy

The theme is called “outdoorsy” and it’s perfect for the individual who wants something “slightly” different from your usual standard free theme. This theme is very unique, and quite graphics heavy, which we are aware of.
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Firebug

Firebug is a dark (but colorful) theme with two widget-ready sidebars, space for 125?125 banner ads, social tagging options at the end of each post and much more.
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Minimalist

This free minimalist WordPress theme is based off of Upstart Blogger’s WordPress theme “Modicus “. Thus aptly titled “Modicus Remix”. The original Modicus theme may be a tad more versatile (such as a three-column option, which remix does NOT have).
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Elegance

Elegance is a premium blog theme. It has a really interesting design in the header, and the whole layout of the theme is looking great.
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Brilliance

“Simplicity is the key to brilliance”

Bruce Lee believed in this fact and so do I. Therefore, I have named my new WordPress theme as Brilliance. This is a 3-column, widget ready theme with soothing colors and design.
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WP Premium

Featured in Smashing Magazine, this famous free theme has been praised a lot by actual wordpress users for it’s elegance, usability, strategic layout and SEO friendy code.
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Blues

This theme is a variation of the theme presented above; however, it tries not to focus on the vintage look but on a simple, clean, and user-friendly design.
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Absynthe

Absynthe is a dark, mysterious theme that utilizes natural textures and surfaces to create a feeling of depth and high contrast. Absynthe utilizes a fully-widgetized sidebar and also has a unique Last.fm footer and Twitter widget design.
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Magaling

Magaling is a premium quality WordPress theme with Twitter status integration. Additional features include Featured Post Gallery, Feedburner Email Subscription, Popular Posts, Ajax Tabbed Sidebar, Automatic Thumbnail Resizer, Adsense ready with advertising blocks easily customizable via an Option Page.
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DailyPress

The new theme is called “DailyPress” and comes with widget-ready sidebars, tabbed content, banner ads, minimalistic color scheme and social bookmarking options. The theme is compatible with all versions of WordPress including the latest 2.6 version and has been tested with Firefox, Internet Explorer and Opera.
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Versatility Lite

Versatility Lite is a two column, ad-ready, widgetized theme. The theme includes a ‘Featured Post’ section, drop down CSS menus, integrated related posts, social bookmarking buttons, and much more.
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Curious

Curious is another free WordPress theme designed in a clean classic layout.
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Rewire

3 Columns, Thumbnails on Posts, Gravatar on Comments, SEO Optimized, Works with the Latest Version of WordPress
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Timeline Digest

The last free theme release from dezzain studio are nobusx2 in way back end of 2007 and here i present a new theme that finally seen the light from dark corner of the site.
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BloggingTips Evolution

The Evolution WordPress Theme is a clean, dynamic theme which we have released under the Creative Commons License. It was designed by our friends at Design Saurus and is widget and gravatar ready.
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Statement

The theme features a nice and clean look with two sidebars on the right and a tabbed section (available in many premium themes nowadays) for recent posts, comments and archives.
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Vector Flower

This theme is compatible with WordPress 2.7.1, ready for threaded comments come with WP 2.7, and tested on various major web browsers.
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SubtlyMade

The SubtlyMade Theme for WordPress is the first fully-developed theme from Everyone Knows, Graphic Design Studio.
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PolaroidPress

PolaroidPress is a little personal blog theme with an artistic background and a nice little polaroid that can hold your personal images. The polaroid uses an image randomizer so you can add as many images as you want.
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Color Paper

Color Paper: a free professional WordPress theme, created by the DreamTemplate team. This theme aims to combine visual appeal with clean typography and vivid design elements.
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Brown Magic

The design comes in rust, browns and a range of orange color. This is complemented by the subscribe for feeds graphic which is 3d RSS cube on the top right of the design.
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Shades of Blue

The sidebar and the footer are fully widgeted, and the navigation is coded for drop-down menus. Shades of Blue has been developed to accommodate threaded comments and sticky posts.
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WildDreams

The theme has a wild feel and is based on 2 columns. The psd source file of the logo and header background has also been included with the package. Feel free to change the logo and header with yours.
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30 Magazine Style Free WordPress Themes

Magazeen

Magazeen — a free advanced WordPress-theme in a magazine-llok created by the talented WeFunction Design Agency. This bold magazine 2-col-theme was designed with the main focus being on typography, grids and magazine-look.
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Arthemia

The new Arthemia can list pages in your blog automatically. Unlike the old one, you do not have to hard-code the PHP file if you update your page title and structures.
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