We are obviously theme junkies here and everyday we check the official free theme directory. It’s only March now but many free themes have already became available since the new year. To highlight the great themes there I picked up ten themes added in 2012 that are not only coded well but look beautiful.
Like last year, 2012 has been and is going to be another great year for WordPress themes. Huzzah!
Delicacy
Culinary WordPress Theme created with food blogs in mind.
Author: alex27
Esquire
An elegant and bold theme featuring multiple, visually distinct, Post Formats.
Author: Automattic
Hatch
Hatch is a simple photography and portfolio WordPress theme. Optimized for mobile browsing.
Author: Griden
Origin
Minimalistic, mobile-optimized theme with responsive layout.
Author: Griden
Oxygen
Minimalistic, mobile-optimized magazine theme with responsive layout.
Author: Griden
Patchwork
The perfect theme for quilters, sewers and crafters. Comes in three color styles.
Author: sixhours
Rumput Hijau
Beautiful, clean and seo optimized theme focused on typography.
Author: satrya
Scrappy
A fresh, feminine, scrapbook-style theme.
Author: sixhours
Sundance
A brand new free video theme brought to you by the team here at Automattic.
Author: Automattic
Vintage Camera
An illustrated microblogging theme for the vintage camera enthusiast in five vintage styles/color schemes.
Author: sixhours
— BONUS —
Dusk To Dawn
Oh, I almost forgot this :). A theme I worked on — Dusk To Dawn — a successor of two beloved classics, Dusk and Solipsus. It was a challenging task but I’m pleased with the outcome.
Author: Automattic
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18 responses
Nice collection … these are professional looking themes and they are free … I’ll be featuring some on our website for sure 🙂
I browse the official WordPress theme repository almost every week and some how I missed these themes. These themes look really good.
Wow – great list (and with pictures to boot!)
I already have a couple of ideas in mind for a few clients that are looking to have some sites created.
Rumput Hijau looks nice, clean, and crisp! Perfect for someone who wants to concentrate on the message of the content, and not a lot of pictures (I could be wrong!)
And, Sundance, has a nice look to it for a video blog!
Thanks again for sharing!
Be Well.
Paul.
Hello,
@Takashi thanks for mentioning rumput hijau here 🙂
@paul rumput hijau now with responsive layout. Enjoy it!
You’re welcome!
Such a wonderful and amazing list! If it can be possible for me, I would like to try all this beautiful themes. 🙂 But I’ll try one by one. Thanks!/
This is such an interesting list of beautiful themes. Oxygen actually caught my attention.I think this one is the most interesting among the ten of your list. Thanks for sharing this.
Nice info, We love Delicacy
Nice Collection. Thanks!
Totally mindblowing and i like the Delicacy theme a lot.. 🙂 Cheers.
Robin.
Great themes, thanks for sharing.
Nice WordPress Themes.
I like Oxygen theme a lot. Great looking theme for any type of blog.
These are some really great these.Great design.I am really gonna try one this in my site.Great Work!
Thanks for posting This useful article full of beautiful templates.
Nice Post.
everyone time i see a good theme i have tendency to change my blog theme.This time also ,will try delicacy this time 😀
Can’t believe they are free. Thanks for this!
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