I really (I mean really) like WordPress. Aside from the ease-of-use, it’s a very fast way to get a website up-and-running very quickly. Set up hosting, install WordPress, upload a theme and you’re done. I have literally launched a site (several actually) in under ten minutes this way.
The time consuming part is when it comes time to choosing a design or theme for your site or blog. There are sooo many different places to find WordPress themes that the choices can be somewhat overwhelming. I decided to put together a list to help you easily find some of the best of the best themes that are available.
In the list(s) below you will find them arranged by several categories, I thought that by sorting and organizing, this might help you when narrowing down your selection. While some of these overlap, browsing through some of the links you should find some of the best themes out there:
Great Places to find WordPress Themes
- 500+ Premium WordPress Themes
- 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes
- 45 Excellent Free WordPress Themes
- 50 Beautiful Free WordPress Themes
- The 25 best free WordPress themes available
- 83 Beautiful WordPress Themes (You Probably) Haven’t Seen
- 21 Fresh, Usable and Elegant WordPress Themes
- 10 Fresh, Elegant and Clean WordPress Themes
- 18 AdSense Optimized WordPress Themes
- 45+ Must See WordPress Themes
- 40 Excellent Free WordPress Themes
- 140+ Brilliant WordPress Themes Around
- 27 Stunning Yet Free Premium WordPress Magazine & News Themes
- 55 Free & Beautiful WordPress Themes
- 180 Premium themes
- 41 Great Looking Free WordPress Themes
Photo Gallery/Portfolio Themes
- 19 Free Photo Gallery & Portfolio WordPress Themes
- 10 WordPress Themes Designed for Photo Galleries
- 35 Portfolio & Photo Gallery WordPress Themes
- 15 Portfolio Themes for WordPress
- 26 Free WordPress Photo Gallery Themes
Church Themes
- 4 Modern WordPress Church Themes
- ChurchThemes.com – A couple of premium churche themes from iThemes
Magazine-Style Themes
- Top 10 WordPress Magazine Style Themes
- 20 of the Best Free Magazine WordPress Themes
- 45+ Free Premium WordPress Themes with Magazine or Grid Layouts
- 15 Free Professional Magazine WordPress Themes
Real Estate Themes
- 17 Free WordPress Real Estate Themes
- 5 Beautiful Premium WordPress Real Estate Themes
- Gorilla Themes – They have a couple premium real estate themes
- StudioPress – Has an excellent premium theme called “Agent”
Premium Themes
Hope this helps you find some great themes the next time that you’re trying to find an excellent free or premium design, if there are any categories that I left out, please let me know!
I agree, WordPress is an amazing beast! There is so much that you can do with it!
That list just goes to show how popular WordPress actually is, amazing such a huge variety of (free) stuff you can get for it.
I agree, it’s a great blogging platform – even for CMS.