In January 2008, we put together a list of 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes. Over a year has passed and WordPress development has progressed very fast and gained even more in popularity. We felt it was the right time to put together an updated post and offer our readers the best free themes that WordPress can offer.

High quality free WordPress Themes have become harder and harder to find in the past year, with the influx of premium themes, more and more designers and developers are selling themes (and rightly so, they do amazing work). But, that aside, the quality is certainly there, and we are sure you will be impressed with this WordPress theme compilation for 2009.

Blog & Portfolio Themes

Irresistible [Demo]

One Room [Demo]

Elegant Grunge [Demo]

Typebased [Demo]

BlogTheme [Demo]

Colourise [Demo]

Cellar Heat [Demo]

Pixeled [Demo]

Outdoorsy [Demo]

Vector Flower [Demo]

Magaling [Demo]

WildDreams [Demo]

WPESP [Demo]

Portfolio Press [Demo]

Black Pearl [Demo]

Masinop [Demo]

WP CODA [Demo]

Google Chrome [Demo]

miniBlog [Demo]

Absynthe [Demo]

BlueDiamond [Demo]

BlackPower [Demo]

Old School [Demo]

Nami

Freemium [Demo]

Fholio [Demo]

Versatility Lite [Demo]

Curious [Demo]

Sketchy [Demo]

Sanddollar [Demo]

Fusion [Demo]

Matalag [Demo]

Typogriph [Demo]

Coffee Desk [Demo]

Andrea 0.3 [Demo]

Magazine & Corporate Themes

Arras Theme [Demo]

Skyye News [Demo]

Meta-Morphosis [Demo]

TheLatest [Demo]

Scarlett [Demo]

TurnOut Mag [Demo]

MegaNews [Demo]

SchemerMag [Demo]

TransGravita [Demo]

Chara [Demo]

Marcelle [Demo]

Red Accent [Demo]

Parchment [Demo]

ThemePod [Demo]

The Pinnacle [Demo]

MMOZINE [Demo]

Gamezine [Demo]

Milano [Demo]

Zinmag Tribune [Demo]

IsoTherm News [Demo]

CorporateMag [Demo]

CryBook [Demo]

Photoblog & Gallery Themes

PhotoMadness [Demo]

Snapshot [Demo]

AutoFocus [Demo]

Futurosity Aperio Prototype [Demo]

Linquist [Demo]

Fotofolio [Demo]

Viewport [Demo]

Folio Elements [Demo]

iQ2 [Demo]

F8 Lite [Demo]

The Unstandard WP 2.7 [Demo]

Minimal & Clean Themes

MagZine [Demo]

Equilibrium [Demo]

Fontella [Demo]

Minimo [Demo]

Oulipo [Demo]

Manifest [Demo]

Modern Clix [Demo]

Sharpfolio [Demo]

Sator-ii [Demo]

Undedicated [Demo]

Clean Home [Demo]

Sans-serif Racer [Demo]

Lead

Grid Focus 2.7 [Demo]

Cardeo [Demo]

Gigantic [Demo]

Smashing Magazine Themes

Imprezz [Demo]

Compositio [Demo]

Vintage and Blues [Demo]

ASCII One [Demo]

Black Magic [Demo]

Color Paper [Demo]

Cellar Heat [Demo]

Simply Ornate [Demo]

Agregado [Demo]

Notepad Chaos [Demo]

WordPress Fun [Demo]

Magazeen [Demo]

Gallery [Demo]

Infinity [Demo]

Something different…

Changing Room [Demo]

UnderCon [Demo]

Crafty Cart [Demo]

WP-Dashboard Like [Demo]

City Dreams

HELLBISCUIT [Demo]

About the author

Paul Andrew is a freelance web designer. He is chief admin for Speckyboy – Design Magazine, a web design, web development and graphic design resource blog. You can follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/speckyboy.

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