10 Fresh, Elegant and Clean WordPress Themes
We like to observe the Web. We like to present fresh ideas, creative solutions and interesting approaches. We like to share them with our readers, making both our personal work and the work of fellows developers easier. Observing creative works of talented designers, you can improve your skills and learn new techniques. However, to do that, you need to keep an eye on fresh and inspiring starting points. We collect them. And present them to you. Every month. So you don’t have to.
Let’s take a look at 5 fresh and elegant and 5 simple WordPress themes you might be willing to use for your next project.
You can find even more themes in our post 83 Beautiful WordPress Themes and in Arpit Jacob’s Top Ten Best Free WordPress Themes And Templates.
Fresh and Beautiful WordPress Themes
1. Dark Theme Release at iLEMONed
2. iTheme
3. WordPress Theme: Hello 2007 – Hello Wiki
4. Digital Pop WordPress Theme
Clean WordPress Themes
6. JsThemeV1.1
7. WordPress Themes – esn studio
9. Recycled Canvas :: Creative Synthesis
10. Y Go Lonely
Bonus: Download 2410 WordPress Themes!
The guys over Xyberneticos.com have collected over 2400 WordPress Themes, packed them in a .zip-file (251 Mb!) and offered them for free download. Impressive, really.
fearlex
May 7th, 2007 9:49 pmNow i can one theme a every day :D
hanifan
May 7th, 2007 10:16 pmwow,thanks smashing for this pretty good wordpress template. can you give the info beside the wordpress template like popular plugin component wordpress.thanks
Pavel Ciorici
May 7th, 2007 10:50 pmThank`s a lot!!!
Calítoe.:.
May 7th, 2007 10:57 pmRegarding the Xyberneticos file, I really appreciate their effort, but after waiting forever for the file to download and the contents to unzip, one sees that it is not possible to preview the themes. In my honest opinion, I find it more comfortable to go to themes.wordpress.net and play round there.
Thanks for the info anyway.
Alex
May 8th, 2007 12:15 amRick, i see what you mean but i think its different enough to constitute as a different theme seeing as how it might have been inspired but the graphics they used we’re all theirs and the layout changed a bit so i dont think its the same code.
Smarty Blog
May 8th, 2007 12:36 amGreat collection!
Vitaly Friedman
May 8th, 2007 1:37 amDear friends,
I am really sorry about that, but the fact is we’ve been selecting these themes for the whole month, and it is quite interesting that many of them are the same. However, not all of them are the same. Well, we’re doing research as well as other bloggers (probably) do, so we must have had similar sources. We appreciate Arpit Jacob’s work offering us and fellows developers more creative WordPress themes.
Matthew Hockenberry
May 8th, 2007 2:28 amWell our theme certainly isn’t on the other list and given how weird it is (in objective, not design) I was kind of surprised to see it on the list.
Coincidently it was just really released (like 15 minutes ago) so great scoop Smashing Magazine!
James Bennett
May 8th, 2007 2:32 amGotta agree with Rick; the “Hello” theme is very obviously a rip of Dan Cederholm’s site, with just a few elements tweaked. Compare the color of the header areas, the type of pattern lurking just above the header, the placement of the navigation with the extended bar beyond the last tab…
It’s a rip. It did change a few things to not be a direct copy, but there’s little to no actual originality or creative design work going on in that theme.
eBusiness
May 8th, 2007 2:51 amThis is fantastic! We need more list of the best blog CMS themes.
Mahdi
May 8th, 2007 2:57 amreally is vrey nice
Ahmed
May 8th, 2007 3:10 amHey guys on the smashing web leading magazine ^_*
I really adore your work all over the time .. but excuse me this time .. I can’t find the real beauty with those themes and with this post this time :(
They’re simply ordinary and some below basic themes .. and without the real sense of innovation except couple of them or something ..
I really believe there are hundreds of themes that look much more attractive, simple and innovative than those ones ..
Sorry for being disappointing .. But I love you Smashing Guys :)
sd
May 8th, 2007 5:01 amHm, to me first 3 themes look like wordpress adaptations of (top down respectively) 1. bartelme design; 2. centrigy 3. iconshoppe or bunch of similar sites. I.e. looks like people behind these sites leave their skin like snakes…
Chippy
May 8th, 2007 7:29 amThank you so much Smashing, I may just use of these for myself!
Camilo
May 8th, 2007 9:20 amFinally a good breakdown! Great pics!
sand man
May 8th, 2007 9:54 amHey there Thank you for the link back and I apologize if I was too harsh.
Armen
May 8th, 2007 11:40 amI keep on top of the new releases quite well, but you’ve managed to bring a couple that I’ve never laid eyes on…nice ones too.
God job guys!
Nick
May 8th, 2007 11:40 amWow, very nice collection of themes. I would advise your readers to steer clear of the giant zip file though…Most of the themes in there are crappy. Stick with the 10 listed and customize from there.
Nick
Infected-FX
May 8th, 2007 1:19 pmThank you very much to include one of my subjects, all the others are really wonderful, I feel pleased :$
Ved
May 8th, 2007 1:21 pmWhy why why … aren’t there good themes for Blogger ?
Hitesh Mehta
May 8th, 2007 2:08 pmAmazing List!
Shay
May 8th, 2007 3:50 pmI gotta love iTheme (simplicity rocks sometimes). I haven’t seen all of these but very cool stuff.
Ozh
May 8th, 2007 4:20 pm2410 themes in a single archive is not impressive, it’s a total waste of time, space and bandwidth. Who wants to dig through such a number of themes, which has to include anything from top notch to super ugly ?
Paweł Kata (Oszczędzanie pieniędzy)
May 8th, 2007 7:02 pmI was getting a little bored with K2 modifications and now You’ve listed the best of the best for me :-) Thanks sooo much for this list.
Alex Burr
May 8th, 2007 8:38 pmYou guys really should get rid of #3. It’s quite obviously a cheap rip-off of SimpleBits. Just admit you made a mistake and take it down.
Carlos Eduardo
May 8th, 2007 10:14 pmI love this collection!
Thank you for this list…
Aki
May 9th, 2007 12:10 amThese are totally cool !
tomtail
May 9th, 2007 6:50 pmwould be nice if you post also some nice compatible themes for Drupal..
thx anyway!
Cocoliso
May 10th, 2007 12:56 amHmm. Cheers but maybe you could explain what you like about these templates. In anycase, the designs look fine.
Paul Enderson
May 10th, 2007 7:06 amExcellent stuff guys – as usual! I think my personal fave has to be the iLEMONed bartleme theme. :)
decybel
May 10th, 2007 10:18 amcheers mates :)
faizan
May 10th, 2007 11:20 amany effort from sm to look for clean joomla template?
Alex
May 11th, 2007 1:35 amThe website hosting ‘iTheme’ seems to have gone down! Anyone got a mirror?
Motto Agency
May 11th, 2007 3:24 amLike them all however the iTheme… that background… just seems like I’m seeing that too much these days…
Mike
May 11th, 2007 8:38 amHmmm,nice list. I’m considering a new theme for my blog. This surely will help. Thanks!
Yogi
May 11th, 2007 5:32 pmGreat list..
Jack Day
May 12th, 2007 6:38 pmOnce again, another awesome post. This makes me want to start a blog! But I dont have anything to post.
And navdeep, thats a nice design!
Cheers,
Jack
nina osenar
May 12th, 2007 11:01 pmiTheme is superb.. i really like it
Abazza
May 13th, 2007 2:04 pmFine collection. In the beginning of wordpress it was easy to find good themes,… now there are so many themes,… thats why its very useful to find your list.
Thank you!
esn studio
May 14th, 2007 8:30 pmThank you for featuring my theme (esn studio – Golden Green). That made my day. :)
Mahdi
May 16th, 2007 6:30 pmoh this file is very big for me.
BooTCaT
May 17th, 2007 12:51 amthanks for spotting us , the zip of all those cute and great wordpress themes .
thanks and it was really helpful rather than collecting them , individually .
7
May 18th, 2007 10:58 amVery nice theme.
Cary
May 20th, 2007 5:56 amThe only similarity I can see between SimpleBits and Hello Wiki is the header. Oh right, nobody else has ever made a header like that before. Dark background with menu underneath. Get real.
kevinshow
May 21st, 2007 5:33 pmgood job
thx u
raar
May 22nd, 2007 2:36 pmartentertainment
XmasB
May 23rd, 2007 6:18 pmThanks for this great list. I have finally found a theme that I actually really like.
robert
June 5th, 2007 8:57 amI’d really like the Minyx theme if available in english
Sharat
June 22nd, 2007 2:45 amiTheme and iLemoned are the best of the lot.
I guess the future belongs to themes with Ajax supported sidebars now….as in iTheme :)
Thanks for the compilation
DN
September 7th, 2007 4:59 pmnice themes
thanks
devid
October 12th, 2007 4:22 pmI’ve just found some blank templates to create my own themes, they’re very good for a starting point!
Jeff Adams
January 2nd, 2008 1:38 pmI think I might have to give WordPress a go, they really seem to be getting it right design-wise. I’m going to be checking the other articles on these now!
ALVIN
March 11th, 2008 9:38 amvery nice theme lists , Well done
thanks
ALVIN
Kristi Ambrose
May 4th, 2008 9:32 amwhy is it when i goto that link all i see is spanish? no one else said anything about it being in a different language so maybe im missing something
Christian Dalsvaag
June 4th, 2008 4:07 pmThese are simply beautiful. Thank you!
Miocarbon
September 24th, 2008 10:30 amThanks for let me know this beautiful wp themes. Still plan to build another blog using your themes
Reenata
September 30th, 2008 3:47 pmThanks for the great Theme!!!!
Rosario
November 21st, 2008 8:31 amNice themes. Looking for more..
Thanks
jagadish
December 18th, 2008 2:27 amNice Themses Thanks for themes. Love them.
silifke haber
February 4th, 2009 7:31 amThanks supper themes…
Jade
March 28th, 2009 1:11 pmNew Order WordPress Theme is beautiful css design!
tutkum
April 20th, 2009 11:22 pmthank you
kust
May 5th, 2009 10:23 pmCOOL=)
Kunnu
October 16th, 2009 6:44 pmTruth: all are low quality themes and useless
Afro
April 9th, 2010 2:20 amI like wordpress themes a lot and i use them on three of my sites. I have had these debate at afrowall about the best open source script out there and wordpress seems to be the leader. too many good themes and plugins.
Patrick
June 25th, 2010 8:51 amFresh, Elegant and Clean, how you told. Very nice. Looking forward to hear more like this … Patrick
yoyo
June 9th, 2011 12:22 ami love your work .i use one of it for my other blog..
Liska
January 17th, 2012 9:44 pmThank you for useful material. Added your blog to bookmarks.