It’s time to recap and start anew, as always in December. Here, at First Site Guide, that traditionally means revisiting our old WordPress choices and reflecting upon newer, sleeker, and improved ones. Once again, we’ve went through everything this powerful platform has to offer and selected only the best, so that you don’t have to waste your time.
Selecting the perfect theme according to your specific desires, preferences, and needs isn’t always the easiest thing in the world – whether you’re a beginner blogger or a professional brand builder, there’s a number of things you should always consider beforehand.
Should you opt for simplicity or go for something more complex? Will you pay for excellence or save money by using decent free versions? How significant are browser compatibility and mobile responsiveness really? Then, there are plenty of additional plugins, multilingual solutions and page layout options to choose from as well. Overwhelming, right?
Even if considering pure aesthetics, there are still countless pleasing WordPress themes to choose from. You can narrow your search down with factors like presentation style, mobile readiness, or SEO friendliness and examine your favourite pick’s ratings and reviews, but that will still leave you with a lot of choices.
Don’t worry, though, since our list has it all. Whatever your intentions may be, our guides are comprehensive enough to cover each and every one of them. Lean back, scroll down and let our list lead you straight to your decision.
Free Themes
Aileron
Developed by ThemeCot
Aileron is a magazine and blog WordPress theme with a clean design and modern look. It is well suited for magazine, news, editorial, blog, photography or review site.
Bazaar
Developed by Theme in Progress
Bazaar has everything you will need for a stylish yet professional online store. It is fully integrated with the WooCommerce plugin, and has an easy-to-use options panel, allowing you to freely customize Bazaar to create a smooth shopping experience on a website that customers will want to explore for hours.
Cele
Developed by Compete Themes
Cele is a refreshingly simple and clean theme. It’s been carefully designed to look and perform great across mobile devices, computers, and tablets. Get your visitors’ attention and keep it with this content first, minimalist theme.
Clean Business
Developed by Catch Themes
Clean Business is a clean, responsive and incredibly resourceful Free WordPress Business theme that can adapt to any corporate and blog niche and provide users with an accessible interface.
Event
Developed by Theme Freesia
Event free is an easily customizable and a Event Conference WordPress theme suited to Create professional Event, Blog, Corporate websites. It is a fully responsive and fit on all devices and make every pixel look perfect. The theme is optimized and tested for fast page load times and has secure, minimalist and clean code.
Franz Josef
Developed by Graphene Themes
Franz Josef is a modern, responsive theme built on a solid framework that leverages the latest web technologies to deliver a beautiful experience. Perfect for businesses and individuals alike.
i-design
Developed by TemplatesNext
I-DESIGN is a beautiful and flexible theme with several premium features including slider, portfolio, testimonial, team members, etc.
ionMAG
Developed by WPion
ionMag is a light and fast theme designed to help you build engaging blogs, news, and magazine websites. Excellent for a dynamic, hassle-free site. It comes with a collection of features you didn’t even know you are searching for. ionMag is powered by a frontend page builder, tagDiv Composer, specially developed for high performance. It also includes an innovative Theme Panel which places all your editing options where you need them, a fully functional, customizable pre-built design, responsive & retina ready layouts. Even more, ionMag is AdSense ready to help you monetize your website with ease.
Onetone
Developed by MageeWP
Onetone is a responsive free one page WordPress theme. Designed for personal and corporate business websites, with built-in homepage sections, shortcode generator and full width slider featured on a single page.
Pixova lite
Developed by Macho Themes
Pixova Lite is a one page parallax WordPress theme, and the free version of Pixova PRO. It uses the theme customizer and it features unlimited, randomized header images, a portfolio area, pie charts, a contact form, blog & many more customization options.
Receptar
Developed by WebMan Design
Receptar is a stylish WordPress blogging theme with unique book-like split-screen design inspired by a modern cook book with emphasize on beautiful imagery and typography.
Rise
Developed by Modern Themes
Rise is a multipurpose WordPress theme which can be used as a template for any type of website.
Sauron
Developed by WP Daily Themes
Sauron is a multi-purpose WordPress theme developers have got their hands on a winning formula these days – add a massive full-width slider to the front page, add some colors, bring in some parallax scrolling and voila, you’ve created a theme that’s very likely to be liked by the people.
Everly Lite
Developed by PremiumCoding
The focus of this WordPress theme is on YOUR content first and foremost. Whether you choose the default design or beautiful grid design, Everly truly highlights what your users want the most, great content.
Premium Themes
Abaris Pro
Developed by Webulous
Abaris is a stunning WordPress business themes are custom-built to provide all the features that you need in promoting and running your business online.
Adeline
Developed by Layers
A WooCommerce Fashion Theme designed for young clothing and style start ups who want to get a head start with their website.
Adrenaline
Developed by Proteus Themes
Adrenaline is a WordPress theme for businesses which make heart beats race. Whether it is bungee jumping, paintballing, rock climbing or kayaking – we all love the exhilaration of facing our fears.
Amelia
Developed by Theme Stockyard
Amelia is a stylish and highly functional theme for bloggers and magazines. Use multiple homepage layouts, blog layouts, page layouts, and post layouts to showcase your content.
Anissa
Developed by Alien WP
Anissa is a beautiful WordPress blogging theme, designed in a feminine style with elegant Typography and post styling. It features a custom image header with text and custom logo upload.
Ansel
Developed by Imagely
Ansel is a beautiful theme with a wide open landscape feel, just as Ansel Adams would have wanted. Its pixel perfect styling is ready for desktop and mobile. Complete with a homepage slideshow, multiple blog, page and post templates.
Artwork
Developed by MotoPress
Artwork is an exclusive responsive WordPress theme created to showcase diverse artworks of artists and photographers. It can be easily adapted for needs of both art experts and fans in building online art studios and portfolios.
Ascend
Developed by Kadence Themes
Built to surpass your expectations. Amazingly versatile, easily customizable and loaded with features you will love. Ascend is a multipurpose theme with several fresh and original layout options for your website’s header and menus, including a very stylish vertical menu and a stunning transparent header that changes as you scroll. Check out all of the unique demos!
Avoir
Developed by Plethora Themes
Avoir is a minimal, clean and flexible WordPress theme for creative professionals such as graphic & web designers, creative agencies, freelancers, photographers, graffiti artists and visual artists in general.
Bandana
Developed by DesignOrbital
Bandana is a modern, creative and beautiful WordPress theme. Bandana is easy to use theme with clean code and elegant design. The theme is suitable for any kind of blog, business, creative agency and portfolio.
Bellini Plus
Developed by Atlantis Themes
Bellini is the perfect theme for creating a eCommerce store or shop. Responsive & flexible layout built with Bootstrap.
BizzBoss Pro
Developed by IndigoThemes
BizzBoss Pro is a brand new WordPress theme that allows you to create stunning websites with ease. It featured powerful functionality, and live editor drag n drop page builder.
Blanche
Developed by VivaThemes
Blanche is a clean and professional WordPress theme that will make your website stand out from the crowd. Packed with features and with its modern design will enable you to create your eCommerce or portfolio website very quickly.
Cherry
Developed by NGRThemes
Cherry is a responsive portfolio WordPress theme for minimal loving creatives focusing on simplicity and showcasing your work in an eye-catching and visually stunning layout.
Citadel
Developed by Rocket Theme
Citadel brings your site to life with integrated support for YouTube, Vimeo, and locally-hosted MP4, WebM, Mov, and Ogg videos. Citadel also provides a clean design that ensures that your content is exactly where it needs to be, center stage.
Construct
Developed by My Site My Way
Construct is an ultra-lightweight and minimalist theme with a focus on customization, making it the perfect starter theme for your own website or next web design
CustomizrPro
Developed by Press Customizr
The Customizr Pro theme has been designed to increase your traffic and engage your visitors. It allows anyone to create a professional and mobile friendly website in a few minutes, with conversion oriented features.
EightLaw Pro
Developed by 8 Degree Themes
EightLaw Pro is a powerful feature-rich premium WordPress theme perfect for lawyers, law agencies and other creative websites. It is cutting edge law theme with clean and modern design. It includes all required features and functionalities with tons of customization options.
Emporium
Developed by Purely Themes
Emporium WordPress and Woocommerce Theme is exactly what you need to boost trust of your customers or guests and facilitate a good image of your business.
Enigma Premium
Developed by Weblizar
Enigma Premium theme is a super professional one page WordPress theme for modern businesses. Ideal for creative agencies, startups, small businesses, and freelancers and best of all it’s so easy to use that you can have your website up in minutes.
Enliven Pro
Developed by ThemezHut Themes
Enliven Pro is a modern beautiful multipurpose WordPress theme which is perfect for making business websites, portfolio websites, online shops or just simple personal blogs.
Entrepreneur
Developed by MotoPress
Entrepreneur is an ideal WordPress theme for small business owing to the modern and clean look. Spectacular home page displays eye-catching images, detailed content blocks to introduce your services, and a professional Appointment Booking Calendar.
Fashion Trends
Developed by SKT Themes
Fashion Trends is simple and user friendly not just from the backend but also from the front end with easy navigation. It’s perfect for fashionistas who who want to give regular fashion tips and style tips.
Focus
Developed by ThemeVan
Focux is a multi-purpose single product WooCommerce WordPress theme deep integration with WooCommerce.
Gridlove
Developed by Meks
A creative grid style WordPress theme with a focus on news and magazine websites. You’ll have an extraordinary website up and running in no time!
Huesos
Developed by Audio Theme
Huesos (Spanish for bones), as its name suggests, is a straightforward, content-focused theme built to provide the foundation for your online presence.
Iris
Developed by YITH
Iris is an elegant theme with a fully responsive design. Minimal and rich at the same time of all most recent functionalities, which make it an exceptional product even in the eyes of the most demanding customers.
Journalistic
Developed by UpThemes
Journalistic is a wide-format, Medium.com-inspired theme for long-form stories and articles. Craft beautiful, immersive experiences for your readers.
Khore
Developed by Showthemes
Khore is the most flexible WordPress Event Theme for your Conferences and Events.
Label
Developed by Pro Theme Design
Label is a stylistic theme created specially for art and fashion bloggers. With a distinctive masonry powered layout, a full screen post slider, and a classy vertical header – it’s sure to make your website stand out.
LandScape
Developed by PremiumCoding
Through careful thinking process, this theme was specifically crafted to adapt to modern needs of professional photographers, including a full-fledged support for responsive devices, so that your photographs look stunning on any smartphone or tablet devices.
Magnetic
Developed by PixelEmu
Multipurpose business WordPress theme with an awesome compact design for homepage. The theme is extremely flexible and includes many helpful settings to keep easy theme management and effective work on your website.
Match
Developed by DoveThemes
Match is a modern, responsive and clean wedding WordPress theme. You can mange and customize your wedding website or blog easily by using an easy to use options of Match wedding WordPress theme.
MH Magazine
Developed by MH Themes
MH Magazine WordPress Theme is the perfect solution for online magazines, news websites, professional blogs and other editorial related projects.
Minus
Developed by Thrive Themes
The first thing you’ll notice about the Minus theme is the strikingly minimal design. Most pages are carefully composed with typography, white space and very little else. This minimal design makes the theme highly adaptable to almost any purpose and any brand.
Monstroid
Developed by Template Monster
Monstroid is a multipurpose WordPress theme. It is packed with everything you could only dream of, to make the process of buidling websites as easy as possible.
Origin Mag
Developed by WPZOOM
OriginMag is a simple but sophisticated magazine theme. The offers a customizable homepage, support for eCommerce and a responsive design, making it a powerful choice for your site.
Parallax
Developed by Themify
Parallax theme is a combination of two cool trends – parallax scrolling and single page design. It is designed to help you to build a stunning parallax scrolling site with ease.
Personal Trainer Pro
Developed by FrogsThemes
Personal Trainer Pro is a responsive WordPress theme for Fitness Centers, Gyms, and Personal Trainers. It comes packed with features to manage your website and is fully responsive so it looks great on any device.
Piero
Developed by CMSSuperheroes
PIERO is a stunning and professional Corporate/Freelance/Agency/Creative wordpress theme, with a clean, modern and crisp design perfect showcasing your business/creative work.
Shopkeeper
Developed by Get Bowtied
Built with the eCommerce functionality in mind, Shopkeeper is a fully responsive Premium WordPress Theme with a pixel perfect design and extensive functionality.
Solopreneur
Developed by FancyThemes
Solopreneur is a responsive blogging theme with the two high-converting landing pages that highlight your latest products or help build a loyal readership.
Spacious Pro
Developed by ThemeGrill
Spacious is an incredibly spacious multipurpose responsive theme coded & designed with a lot of care and love. You can use it for your business, portfolio, blogging or any type of site.
Splash
Developed by StylemixThemes
Splash WordPress theme has been designed and built especially for sports clubs, basketball teams, football, soccer teams, sports news and other sports organizations.
Store
Developed by Rohitink
Store is a Premium Quality and one of the Most Powerful WooCommerce Themes ever created, and the best thing is its available for free without any Restrictions. This Free theme has so many features, that you won’t need to use any other theme to run a successful eCommerce business.
TechMag
Developed by Magazine3
TechMag design has a technology blog vibe to it. Magazine3 took the mobile first approach while making this theme with speed and performance in mind.
The Ken
Developed by Artbees
The Ken is the ultimate WordPress theme for small businesses, artists, agencies and creative professionals.
University
Developed by Cactus Themes
University WordPress theme is now used by more than 2000 site owners and has always been on top of WordPress education themes.
Weston
Developed by ThemeTrust
Weston is the best theme we’ve ever created. It comes packaged with the amazing Visual Composer plugin, which gives you the power to build your content exactly the way you want it.
Writer
Developed by MyThemeShop
Writer theme is a fully responsive and impressive WordPress theme for writers, freelancers, authors, and journalists. It is free of clutter allowing readers to focus on the content.
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Most of above listed themes are flexible enough to create similar looking website with the same color scheme and other functionality. To create a unique website, one will have to hire a developer.
Hey Marco,
I always seek for the new WordPress themes to experiment. As I am a WordPress theme developer so it’s always good to know about the latest trends.
I really like the themes by Modern themes. They have really put it together.
Thanks for sharing the list.
~Ravi
Thanks for sharing beautiful themes list.
Thanks for including Bellini 🙂 We spent a huge amount of time building the most performant WooCommerce theme. Check out the free version as well:
https://wordpress.org/themes/bellini/
Thank you for sharing a free Bellini version with our readers, Asif! Keep up the good work! 🙂
Thanks for the comprehensive list of WordPress themes 2017. We thanks to you for adding Bandana in your list. Bandana is a clean WordPress theme with minimal set of options. I would also like to share the free version of Bandana.
https://wordpress.org/themes/bandana/
Thanks one again.
It’s our pleasure, Amy! Thank you for sharing the free version of Bandana with our readers too, I’m sure they’ll highly appreciate it!