Choosing A Great Wordpress Theme For Your Blog
Wordpress currently has 1,042 Free Themes on offer, which have been downloaded in total over 9,000,000 times. These simple facts, whilst impressive, should also serve to put our minds at ease when choosing a suitable theme. After all you can rest assured that Wordpress is not going to add rubbish to it’s ever growing library of themes & to be downloaded over 9,000,000 times proves the overall quality of the themes on offer.
I have decided that whilst the more seasoned bloggers amongst you may be quite happy to trudge through page after page of themes in your search of the No1 theme for your blog ! The newcomers to blogging would find such a practice mind boggling to say the least, therefore I have decided to provide a top 12 list, which is compiled from both the Wordpress Featured Themes & the Wordpress Most Popular Themes.
This will greatly reduce the number of themes to choose from & should help make selection a lot easier for the newcomers.
Wordpress Featured & Most Popular Themes
Most if not all the themes listed below have been available for quite a while & have therefore stood the test of time, in as much as most bugs or problems will have been ironed out in new version releases of each theme. I would suggest however, before making a final decision, that you spend a few moments & visit the themes homepage. You will find that most if not all will have either a forum, or at the very least an extensive comment list, this is a great way to keep informed of any problems that users may encounter whilst using these themes.
1. Pixel
Download Pixel is a Dark WP theme with 2-3 column layout, dropdown categories menu, multiple widget-ready placement and feedburner email form integrated, easy to customize. This is an excellent theme for beginers to start learning customization techniques !
Downloaded 6,549 times
2. Arclite
Download Simple but elegant theme with lots of theme options. Designed by digitalnature.
Downloaded 6,400 times
3. Atahualpa
Download Version 3.4.4 – Build your own unique, professional and browser-safe WordPress Theme: 1-5 columns, fluid or fixed width, rotating header images and 2 dozen option pages. Support and tutorials at our forum. Although this is an exceptional theme, it may be a little too much for the novice to cope with. Downloaded 5,694 times
4. Mystique
Download Feature-packed theme with a solid design and a friendly interface. Designed by digitalnature.
Downloaded 5,390 times
5. Constructor
Download Wordpress Constructor Theme, it’s many-in-one theme (six layouts, configured colors, fonts and slideshow, widget ready). Build your own theme on settings page. For Wordpress version 2.7+ (include 2.8)
Downloaded 4,641 times
6. Arras
Download Magazine-styled theme with tons of features. Ready for alternate styles. Includes featured posts slideshow, different post layouts, multi-tabbed sidebar, custom single meta fields for reviews and many other customisable features.
Downloaded 4,363 times
Download Profi WordPress theme with five colour schemes, two/three columns, six widget areas and tons of functions. Automatic post thumbnail, Featured posts, Control Panel in sidebar, Dropdown page and category menu. Powerfull theme options menu (including: Logo change, Exclude categories feature, Category description, Customizable sidebar layout, great Ads manager, About Me image and text feature, Featured video section, Social Manager). Downloaded 3,496 times
8. Suffusion
Download Suffusion is a lightweight theme with a power-packed set of options. Its focus is on elegance and simple looks. It has 5 widget areas that support one-column, two-column and three-column fixed-width formats, 16 pre-defined color schemes. A customizable multi-level drop-down page menu, inbuilt support for featured posts, a customizable tabbed sidebar, inbuilt Twitter support, threaded comments. Downloaded 3,246 times
9. wpBurn Blue
Download wpBurn Blue is a Clean web 2.0 wordpress theme developed by wpburn.Valid XHTML, tested in IE6+, Firefox, Safari, Chrome.
Downloaded 3,148 times
10. jQ
Download WordPress theme with two columns, four widget areas and loads of jQuery functions (dropdown navigation, font resizing and more). The theme options include a movable sidebar, custom colours, excerpts on index pages, category or page navigation, different font and colour schemes.
Downloaded 3,106 times
11. Thematic
Download Thematic is the ultimate in SEO-ready themes, Thematic is a highly extensible, WordPress Theme Framework featuring 13 widget-ready areas, drop-down menus, grid-based layout samples, plugin integration, shortcodes for your footer, & a whole lot more. Perfect for any blog and the starting point for theme development. Downloaded 3,029 times
12. monochrome
Download This theme supports widget, threaded-comments, theme-options, and translation is ready. Also including page-navigation and multi level dropdown menu.You can see live demo including more information here Demo
Downloaded 3,005 times
To Summarize
Please bear in mind that these Wordpress Themes are provided free of charge, their creators rely on our good nature to make a small donation in aknowledgement of their efforts. This will go a long way towards providing any help or assistance you may need. You will at times stumble upon comments from users that appear very rude ! Please refrain from being abusive, it will not get you the help you require & you will only succeed in alienating yourself from the very people that could help you.
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