Best Free WordPress Themes in 2013

If you are just getting started with WordPress you will need a good design to enhance the quality of your site. While I would recommend getting a premium theme I understand that this is also an investment you may not wish to make right away. This doesn’t mean that free WordPress themes aren’t good quality, only that they lack certain features on purpose and that they don’t provide proper support in case you need to get something fixed.

With that out of the way let us focus on presenting the best free WordPress themes in 2013! We will not only use this article to list them, but also explain why they are a great choice and how you could use them. Enjoy!

Virtue

This is a clean, minimalistic theme with a great responsive layout that will look good on most platforms and resolutions. It has a great image slider, beautiful fonts and is customizable features. Whether you plan to take this theme for granted or use it as a framework to build something better is entirely up to you.

Hiero

If you are looking to get started with blogging or making your own e-magazine with WordPress then Hiero is a great theme for such a purpose. It can best be described as “bold” and modern which suits the overall purpose of the design.

TinyPress

Although this is a free WordPress theme, I certainly recommend you take careful notes from it if you are designer or developer. It is a brilliant and lightweight solution that should best be used as a framework for future projects.

BoldR Lite

BoldR is one of the more popular free WordPress themes in 2013 so far and this probably due to its simple, multi-purpose design. It looks modern, loads quickly and is fairly easy to customize. If you end up liking the theme then feel free to buy the professional version which will unlock all the features.

Photopia

This is a nice little free theme that is heavily inspired by Instagram and dedicated to for photographers and photo-bloggers. The theme is lightweight and retina-ready and allows you to showcase your photos in both high quality and resolution.

FiZZ

If you are creating a corporate or business website then this is a fairly good theme to look at. It is modern, elegant and extremely professional. It can leave a lasting impression and provides you with the tools to create a good presentation and portfolio.

Time

This theme is a bit more advance than TinyPress, but it follows a similar formula and concept. It is ideal for a small personal blog and can be used as a great framework for something more complex.

Pytheas

This isn’t just another corporate WordPress theme – it’s also free and looks great! This is what happens when flat design and minimalism meet with a need for colors and a professional tone and you can be sure that you agency/business will leave a good impression with Pytheas.

Thoughts

This theme contains everything that flat design is about – wide layouts, simplistic shapes, clean colors and beautiful responsive architecture. This multi-purpose theme can be used for a lot of things but is also a great WordPress theme framework to work with!