WooThemes is one of the premiere sources of premium WordPress themes on the web.
The company was founded by Adii, Magnus and Mark:
It has now grown into a 15-person team:
Since 2007, the team has created 113 themes, and they’re still counting. They boast at least two new themes each month to add to their impressive stable of WordPress themes.
Of those 113 themes, there are 15 that you can download and use for free.
Here’s a little bit about each of those free themes:
- Original release date: 28 November 2008
- Last updated: 31 August 2011
- Designer: Chris Rowe
- Theme Type: Personal Blog
- Description from the WooThemes site: BlogTheme does the simple things well and therein lies to power of this personal blog theme: great structure, trendy style and some nifty jQuery effects in the sidebar. So what’s left for you to do? Well, you can start by adding content…
- Original release date: 25 November 2009
- Last updated: 09 May 2011
- Designer: Ajmal Eylia
- Theme Type: Personal Blog
- Description from the WooThemes site: Bueno is a clean, minimalistic design which just oozes sophistication in both it’s typography & structure. Stripped of all fancy design elements; the reader’s focus should be on the great content that you produce. Bueno is perfect for the regular (and not-so-regular) blogger. Get it for free now!
- Original release date: 03 November 2011
- Last updated: 03 November 2011
- Designer: Jay Koster
- Theme Type: WooCommerce
- Description from the WooThemes site: Emporium is a modern, clean, responsive WooCommerce theme with it’s homepage optionally showcasing noteworthy content in a slider, recent blog posts, and store items, as well as widgetized regions to add some personal touches. It’s simple, slick styling allows it’s usage to be diverse, use it to sell anything. Beautifully.
- Original release date: 20 February 2009
- Last updated: 06 April 2011
- Designer: Izuddin Helmi
- Theme Type: Personal Blog
- Description from the WooThemes site: Irresistible is a visually-rich personal blog, with a little bit of a multimedia focus. Incorporating some nifty video-options and widgets, Irresistible should meet all of your personal blogging needs. Just add your content to the mix.
- Original release date: 23 July 2009
- Last updated: 20 January 2011
- Designer: Adii Pienaar
- Theme Type: Personal Blog
- Description from the WooThemes site: Mainstream A vibrant personal blog theme with a colourful selection of styles, built on WooThemes flexible theme framework, boasting a selection of theme options, most importantly it’s FREE!
- Original release date: 24 April 2009
- Last updated: 01 September 2011
- Designer: Izuddin Helmi
- Theme Type: Personal Blog
- Description from the WooThemes site: Meta-Morphosis is a visually-rich personal blog, with a magazine layout approach. Incorporating some nifty javascript font replacement and javascript widget slider in the footer, Meta-Morphosis should meet all of your personal blogging needs. Best of all its FREE!
- Original release date: 30 June 2010
- Last updated: 03 August 2011
- Designer: Arun Kale
- Theme Type: Magazine
- Description from the WooThemes site: The Morning After was the original magazine theme in the WordPress community and after more than a 100 000 downloads, it now has a place in our themes collection. It may be “old”, but this amazing theme is not yet dated! A definite download and one that you will thoroughly enjoy!
- Original release date: 02 November 2007
- Last updated: 22 September 2011
- Designer: Adii Pienaar
- Theme Type: Magazine/News
- Description from the WooThemes site: The Original Premium News Theme, was the very first premium theme that we ever released. This theme may be a bit rough around the edges (in terms of its looks), but we’ve used the same solid base for all our subsequent themes. Enjoy this themes’ minimalistic beauty and make it your own today!
- Original release date: 19 January 2011
- Last updated: 22 June 2011
- Designer: Magnus Jepson
- Theme Type: Parking; Under construction
- Description from the WooThemes site: Placeholder This theme is perfect if you have a website in development and you simply need to let your visitors know how to get in touch and how long until the site will launch.
- Original release date: 30 September 2009
- Last updated: 06 September 2011
- Designer: Adii Rockstar
- Theme Type: Personal Blog
- Description from the WooThemes site: Rockstar Adii’s previous custom design for his successful personal blog is now available as a free theme. It’s simple layout, and clean colour palette means easy customizations to this neatly coded theme on the ever-popular WooThemes framework.
- Original release date: 27 September 2010
- Last updated: 01 November 2011
- Designer: Nur Fathihah
- Theme Type: Personal Blog
- Description from the WooThemes site: Skeptical’s layout is very flexible in the sense that you can display “related posts” next to your latest posts on the home page, OR have a completely widgetized sidebar. Not only that, you can also add your Flickr stream to the footer region and showcase three noteworthy blog posts tagged with a specific tag that you declare in the theme options.
- Original release date: 13 October 2008
- Last updated: 28 June 2010
- Designer: The WooThemes Team
- Theme Type: Portfolio
- Description from the WooThemes site: Snapshot is the framework-equivalent of our very own WooThemes Showcase – so that already guarantees you an awesome experience! Snapshot is also flexible and can be used for either a photo showcase, portfolio or design gallery.
- Original release date: 31 August 2011
- Last updated: 06 November 2011
- Designer: Oliver Long
- Theme Type: Business/Portfolio
- Description from the WooThemes site: Swatch, our 100th theme release, is a FREE business theme with a portfolio module that allows it’s usage to be completely diverse. It’s packed full of the usual features you’ve come to expect from our commercial themes, and built on the WooFramework that powers all our themes.
- Original release date: 08 November 2008
- Last updated: 04 January 2011
- Designer: Armono Wibowo
- Theme Type: Personal Blog
- Description from the WooThemes site: Typebased is a free, personal blog design, with a very clean and elegant style. Along with the great design, we’ve also included all of the other Woo goodies in the backend i.e. custom widgets, integrated banner ad management etc. Gotta love Woo!
- Original release date: 27 September 2011
- Last updated: 02 November 2011
- Designer: James Koster
- Theme Type: WooCommerce
- Description from the WooThemes site: Wootique is a flexible, highly customisable eCommerce theme for WordPress. Boutique has been designed from the ground up to take advantage of all of WooCommerce core features whilst delivering fantastic customisability.
In addition of their free themes, WooThemes also has a section for other freebies:
Icon Sets
- WooCons #1: 170 Free Web Icons
- Pictos: Free Tumblr Icons
- Simple & Bold Social Media Icons
- Twitter Birdie Icon
- WooFunction: 178 Amazing Web Design Icons
- Hand-Drawn Web Icon Set
- Hand-Drawn Social Media Icon Set
Desktop Wallpapers
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