There are thousands of free and premium WordPress themes available. Some of these themes are extremely popular and used by hundreds of thousands of users.
In this article, we will list the 10 most popular free themes 2016 available at WordPress.org.
2. Responsive
Responsive theme is one of the most popular free WordPress themes with 100,000+ active installs. This popular theme is fully responsive and mobile friendly. Responsive theme features:
1. Sydney
Sydney is a popular, powerful and fully responsive WordPress business theme. This free theme offers plenty of customization possibilities including:
Sydney is a popular, powerful and fully responsive WordPress business theme. This free theme offers plenty of customization possibilities including:
- Access to all Google Fonts
- Full color control
- Layout control
- Logo upload
- Full screen slider
- Header image
- Sticky navigation and much more.
2. Responsive
Responsive theme is one of the most popular free WordPress themes with 100,000+ active installs. This popular theme is fully responsive and mobile friendly. Responsive theme features:
- Nine page templates
- 11 widget areas
- Six template layouts
- Four menu positions and more.
Last updated: August 10, 2016
Active Installs: 100,000+
3. Customizr
Customizr is a versatile and easy to customize fully responsive professional WordPress theme. The developers claim that this theme is designed with visitor engagement in mind and allows anyone to create a beautiful, fast and mobile friendly website, compatible with all browsers and devices.
Customizing this theme is very simple and it works well with major WordPress plugins like WooCommerce, bbPress, Jetpack and many others. A Pro version is also available.
5. Vantage
Vantage is a flexible multi-purpose theme. According to the developers (SiteOrigin), its strength lies in a tight integration with some powerful plugins like Page Builder for responsive page layouts, MetaSlider for big beautiful sliders and WooCommerce to help you sell online. Vantage is a fully responsive and Retina-ready theme.
6. Hueman
Hueman is also a fully responsive and high resolution theme for blogs and magazines. It’s a highly popular WordPress theme, offering unique toggle sidebars and it also provides a great browsing and reading experience on both tablet and mobile. Hueman also offers a variety of other features including:
Last updated: June 1, 2016
Active Installs: 70,000+
7. Virtue
The Virtue theme is highly versatile with tons of options, it is easy to customize and is loaded with great features. This theme uses the popular responsive front end framework Bootstrap. The clean and modern design is built with HTML5 and CSS3.
It’s fully ecommerce (WooCommerce) ready with all the tools you need to create an awesome online store. The design is perfect for any kind of business, online store, portfolio or personal site. The powerful theme options panel allows you to set things like your home layout, sliders, custom fonts and completely customize your look without writing any CSS.
Graphene is very popular theme which offers a variety of options and features. This free theme is available in more than 30 languages. The free version of this theme is not responsive but the mobile-optimized pro version is available.
10. Evolve
Evolve is a multi-purpose mobile friendly and responsive WordPress theme. This popular theme includes slick Bootstrap and a Parallax slider with up to five slides on any page and a post slider for 10 posts per post category. There are a number of different slider and animated effects to move captions and images into position and then back out of frame again. Bootstrap construction makes it easy to change designs around because the theme is build on a grid-like system. Customizing this theme is simple and easy with the theme customizer.
Active Installs: 100,000+
3. Customizr
Customizr is a versatile and easy to customize fully responsive professional WordPress theme. The developers claim that this theme is designed with visitor engagement in mind and allows anyone to create a beautiful, fast and mobile friendly website, compatible with all browsers and devices.
Customizing this theme is very simple and it works well with major WordPress plugins like WooCommerce, bbPress, Jetpack and many others. A Pro version is also available.
Last updated: May 6, 2016
Active Installs: 100,000+
Active Installs: 100,000+
4. Zerif Lite
ZerifLite is one of the most popular free WordPress themes with more than 90,000 active installs. This is a lite version of Zerif Pro Theme created by Themeisle.com. Zerif LITE is a one page WordPress theme built on the Bootstrap framework with parallax support. This is a popular choice for web agency, business, personal and portfolio sites.
This theme is fully responsive and mobile friendly with a clean and modern flat design. Zerif Lite is ecommerce (WooCommerce) compatible, WPML, RTL and Retina-ready.
ZerifLite is one of the most popular free WordPress themes with more than 90,000 active installs. This is a lite version of Zerif Pro Theme created by Themeisle.com. Zerif LITE is a one page WordPress theme built on the Bootstrap framework with parallax support. This is a popular choice for web agency, business, personal and portfolio sites.
This theme is fully responsive and mobile friendly with a clean and modern flat design. Zerif Lite is ecommerce (WooCommerce) compatible, WPML, RTL and Retina-ready.
5. Vantage
Vantage is a flexible multi-purpose theme. According to the developers (SiteOrigin), its strength lies in a tight integration with some powerful plugins like Page Builder for responsive page layouts, MetaSlider for big beautiful sliders and WooCommerce to help you sell online. Vantage is a fully responsive and Retina-ready theme.
Last updated: August 15, 2016
Active Installs: 80,000+
Active Installs: 80,000+
6. Hueman
Hueman is also a fully responsive and high resolution theme for blogs and magazines. It’s a highly popular WordPress theme, offering unique toggle sidebars and it also provides a great browsing and reading experience on both tablet and mobile. Hueman also offers a variety of other features including:
- Unlimited topper, header, footer and accent colours
- Unlimited widget areas
- 0-2 sidebars to the left or right that can be uniquely specified for each page or post
- 4 footer widget columns
- Related posts and post navigation
- Featured story or slider
- 10 post formats
- Localisation support
- Social links
- Logo upload and many more useful admin panel features.
Active Installs: 70,000+
7. Virtue
The Virtue theme is highly versatile with tons of options, it is easy to customize and is loaded with great features. This theme uses the popular responsive front end framework Bootstrap. The clean and modern design is built with HTML5 and CSS3.
It’s fully ecommerce (WooCommerce) ready with all the tools you need to create an awesome online store. The design is perfect for any kind of business, online store, portfolio or personal site. The powerful theme options panel allows you to set things like your home layout, sliders, custom fonts and completely customize your look without writing any CSS.
Last updated: July 22, 2016
Active Installs: 70,000+
Active Installs: 70,000+
8. Spacious
Spacious is an incredibly ‘spacious’ multi purpose responsive theme. With 60,000+ active installs this is a very popular WordPress theme. You can use it for your business, portfolio, blogging or any type of site. The Spacious theme offers:
Last updated: July 3, 2016
Active Installs: 60,000+
Spacious is an incredibly ‘spacious’ multi purpose responsive theme. With 60,000+ active installs this is a very popular WordPress theme. You can use it for your business, portfolio, blogging or any type of site. The Spacious theme offers:
- Four page different layouts
- Two page templates
- Four blog display types
- 13 widgets areas
- Five custom widgets focusing on business template
- Awesome slider
- Primary color option to match your logo and website
- Translation ready and many more.
- Translation of this popular theme is available in many languages.
Active Installs: 60,000+
9. Graphene
Graphene is very popular theme which offers a variety of options and features. This free theme is available in more than 30 languages. The free version of this theme is not responsive but the mobile-optimized pro version is available.
Last updated: January 6, 2016
Active Installs: 50,000+
Active Installs: 50,000+
10. Evolve
Evolve is a multi-purpose mobile friendly and responsive WordPress theme. This popular theme includes slick Bootstrap and a Parallax slider with up to five slides on any page and a post slider for 10 posts per post category. There are a number of different slider and animated effects to move captions and images into position and then back out of frame again. Bootstrap construction makes it easy to change designs around because the theme is build on a grid-like system. Customizing this theme is simple and easy with the theme customizer.
Last updated: July 17, 2016
Active Installs: 40,000+