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Free professional WordPress themes can serve for design inspiration or professional coding solutions. You can build customized designs upon them without reinventing the wheel all the time. Here is the collection of 19 Excellent Free Wordpress Themes.

Viewport

Viewport, a free Wordpress theme created by Paul Bennett is focused around a clean and simple, content based layout.

Infinity

The theme has 3 fixed columns, thumbnails integration, Flickr, Delicious and Twitter integration as well as an attractive visual design. The theme was designed by Zhang Yichi, the creative mind behind Vikiworks Studio from Shanghai, China especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers.

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. It was created especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers.

Cellar Heat

Cellar Heat: a free professional WordPress theme created by Evan Eckard. The design of this theme focuses on patterns and typography, and it comes in two flavors. It is designed especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers.

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. But if you are after something unique you sometimes have to expect longer load times.

Notepad Chaos

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.

Color Paper

Created by the DreamTemplate team. This theme aims to combine visual appeal with clean typography and vivid design elements. It was created especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers.

Wordpress Fun

The theme has 2 columns, thumbnails integration, a “featured” post section as well as a nice grungy design. The theme was designed by Maleika Attawel from Germany, purchased by Smashing Magazine and is now released as a gift for our readers.

Coda Blue

Created by Greg Johnson. Based on Panic! Coda webpage.

Imprezz

Imprezz – a simple and beautiful 3-column-theme, a free WordPress theme designed by Gopal Raju from ProductiveDreams especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers.

Black Magic

The theme has 2 columns and is based on grungy wooden textures and has a cool top menu which includes RSS. The theme was designed by Gopal Raju especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers.

Elegant Grunge

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

Curious

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

CreativeArt

This theme works with latest WordPress release and is widget ready.

Composito

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. Random square shapes are the defining graphics of this theme. They are used throughout the background, bringing a special rhythm to the theme.

Gallery

Gallery is a beautiful, free, gallery-style Thematic child theme for WordPress, designed by Christopher Wallace especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers. It is extremely flexible and can be used as a starting point for design galleries and portfolios.

Snapshot

Snapshot is flexible and can be used for either a photo showcase, portfolio or design gallery.

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. This theme was commissioned by Smashing Magazine exclusively for our readers and designed by the Dellustrations design agency.

Vintage

Vintage WordPress theme, a 2-column theme with various illustrations and icons. This theme was commissioned by Smashing Magazine exclusively for our readers and designed by the Dellustrations design agency. Please notice that the theme requires Wordpress 2.7 to work.

Note

Check out the license of the theme for restrictions in usage (if any) and it’s always good (and very much appreciated) to attribute the designer even if they don’t explicitly ask you to.