This year we talked a lot about WordPress but we talked very little about its templates. In previous posts we told you how to install it, maintain it and how to protect it as much as possible, so in this note we want to show you 25 templates that are a bonus track!
As you know, there are free WordPress templates and paid WordPress templates, but don’t worry, in all of the ones that we will show you, you won’t have to spend a single cent to get them and give your WordPress a new look.
Each WordPress template responds to a type of site and you will find ecommerce templates, templates for news sites, templates for institutional sites or templates for photo galleries.
Before we start, let’s review what a WordPress template is…
A template, theme or theme is nothing more than a “skin” that you can place on your WordPress to change its appearance and give it your personalized touch, always aiming to improve the experience of your visitors on your website or blog. When installing WordPress you can choose from a few included templates (you will already see the cactus image in the default installation), but you will find thousands of options to personalize your site.
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The 25 Recommended Free WordPress Templates of 2018
Suffice
Suffice is a super flexible WordPress template and it is not only amazing with its simple and elegant design, but has great customization capabilities. If you have an ecommerce developed with WooCommerce, this template is ideal and flexible enough. It uses SEO best practices and has top-notch performance. This theme also offers you a wide range of unique demos from which you can choose any to create your own cutting-edge website. Additionally, this template features flexible header styles, advanced color options, widget areas, handling everything by drag and drop.
sydney
The Sydney template is ideal for an institutional website and provides a quick way for businesses or freelancers to create a stunning business page. This template offers many customization possibilities like access to all Google fonts, full color control, layout control, logo upload, header image and much more.
Hestia
Hestia is a modern and simple WordPress template. Fits creative businesses, small businesses, corporate sites, agencies, and e-commerce (fits WooCommerce very well). It has a multipurpose one-page layout with a widgetized footer, blog, and a clean look. It is also compatible with Flat Parallax Slider, Photo Gallery, Travel Map and Elementor Page Builder.
CoverNews
CoverNews is a very elegant, modern and free WordPress template that is perfect for news sites and blogs or online magazines. This template is fully responsive and looks great on all screen sizes, from small devices to huge screens. The theme is well optimized and we have very good comments from those who chose it.
Online Shop
Online Shop is a powerful, dynamic and customizable multipurpose WordPress eCommerce template. Online Shop comes with plenty of advanced features, options and widgets to create any type of online eCommerce sites. This WordPress template is perfect for a fashion store, sports store, men’s, women’s or children’s store, jewelry, kitchen or food store, toy store, digital product store. In short: it is perfect for almost anything
Photography
Without a doubt, if I had a photography studio I would use this template in my WordPress. Fotografie is a modern WordPress photography theme that comes with high-quality features and minimalist design. It is ideal for creating websites for Photographers, Graphic Designers, Freelancers or Artists. It comes with basic features that are extremely crucial such as various header options, portfolio, color options and menu options to create a simple and elegant website, in no time.
Oswald
This template has a functional design that helps display your content in a simpler way. This WordPress theme excels in the details so you can create an effective presentation and have a website easily.
Education Hub
Education Hub is an education-focused WordPress template ideal for universities, colleges, and other educational websites.
Hotel Booking
Hotel Booking is a perfect WordPress theme for hotels, restaurants. It is very mobile friendly and has a very lively home page, very easy to set up and customize.
Travel Magazine
Travel Magazine is a stripped-down version of the “Numinous” WordPress Magazine WordPress template, suitable for news, newspapers and magazines. Some viral content websites use it because it is quite lightweight and fast (of course, if you host your site on WNPower).
Start Magazine
This WordPress template is specially designed for online magazines, newspapers, news portals, publishers and bloggers. It is elegant without neglecting simplicity and helps you present your content in an attractive way for the visitor’s eye. From a PC, tablet, smartphone or any device it looks splendid.
Shopera
Shopera is quite simple and is made to set up an ecommerce. If there’s one thing you probably want to know: it’s modern and integrates perfectly with WooCommerce. It is undoubtedly one of the best templates if you are looking to start setting up an online store. This WordPress template is not to be missed!
Customizr
Great WordPress template! As its name suggests, Customizr is a WordPress template that is very easy to customize and you can create beautiful and mobile websites, whether for your blog, e-commerce store or business. It is also integrable with plugins such as WooCommerce and bbPress. Customizr is used by over 100,000 sites worldwide and has hundreds of 5-star reviews received on the official WordPress site.
Optimizer
Optimizer is a fairly easy-to-use template, chosen by many beginners in creating sites with WordPress. There are many clients who use it to create landing pages or landing pages for the promotion of services, products or microsites. It is a 100% responsive WordPress template, built with HTML5 and CSS3, optimized for SEO, and retina ready. Friendly also with WooCommerce, bbPress, Mailchimp, Contact Form 7.
Writers
Writers is a blog-style WordPress template that is perfect for bloggers, journalists, and authors. If you are a writer, author or blogger, then this theme is perfect for you. Includes optimized SEO code so that your content gains a better position in search engines.
ShopIsle
ShopIsle is a free WordPress template perfect for your bootstrap-based WooCommerce stores. Due to its flexibility, ShopIsle can also be used for a business site, has a full screen image, provides a responsive blog section, is WPML ready. You will also get photo galleries, Contact Form 7, Meta Slider.
Accelerate
It is a multi-use template created for simplicity and ease of use. This theme is a work of art that has this premium look and feel that will make your site stand out. Accelerate is perfect for business sites, blogs, personal websites or any other type.
Portfolio Lite
Portfolio Lite is minimal and designed for artists, designers, photographers and creatives. Because? Because it combines a simple and clean design, totally visually oriented. The theme features a slideshow page template that creates a great experience from the first impression. Image presentation is centered vertically and horizontally in the browser window.
Freddo
Surely you have visited 1 page websites. Freddo is a multipurpose WordPress template, with all the features you need to create a complete website on a single page. In the same home page you can include all the sections of your site, such as “about us”, “team” section, “products”, “contact” and much more. If you already have a site running you can import its sections to see how it looks. Freddo is fully compatible with WooCommerce and allows you to create an ecommerce, compatible with multi-language and with the most common page builders (Elementor, SiteOrigin, Beaver Builder).
WP Bootstrap Starter
For Bootstrap fans! The best WordPress starter theme based on the world’s most powerful frameworks: Twitter Bootstrap (the most popular HTML, CSS and JS framework for developing responsive and mobile-first projects on the web) and Font Awesome (or Fontawesome, a complete set of 675 pictographic icons for easy to scale vector graphics on websites). This template, like WordPress, is licensed under the GPL. Page templates include right sidebar (default page template), left sidebar, and full width. Currently using Bootstrap v4.0.0, widgetized footer area, WooCommerce ready, compatible with Contact Form 7, Visual Composer and Elementor Page Builder.
iFeature
iFeature allows you to create manageable websites from any touch device. It works perfectly on iPad, iPhone and Android mobile devices. With per-page options, this theme allows you to control the appearance of each section of your site, maintaining a fixed header and has a nice design to display the author’s bio of your posts if you use it as a blog. Something curious is that it includes a testimonials section so you can highlight and show your clients’ comments to increase conversion and includes a section to show your work team in profile photos with a detail.
Virtue
The Virtue template is extremely versatile with tons of options and easy to customize so you can build a WordPress website in record time. You are built with html5 and css3 and Bootstrap, fully compatible with mobile. It integrates perfectly with Woocommerce with all the tools you need to design an incredible online store. It is also ideal for any type of business. It has a powerful options panel where you can configure everything without limits. You will love how easy it is.
OnePress
OnePress is another option for creating a single page website with WordPress. Very suitable for business websites, portfolios, digital agencies, product showcases, freelancers and for everyone who appreciates good fresh design.
MasterBusiness
The Master Business template is great for setting up a business website in the best minimalist Apple style. It is suitable for businesses as well as commercial websites. This theme can be used in different areas, catalogs, design, art and much more. Loaded with several useful features, it helps you create and manage your site with ease. As the theme is cross-browser compatible and also supports responsive design it is a great tool to showcase your business.
Vantage
Vantage is multifunctional and very flexible. Its strength lies in its tight integration with some powerful plugins like Page Builder, Smart Slider 3, and WooCommerce to help you sell online. Use it to start a commercial site, an online storefront or an ecommerce store.
Storefront
Storefront is a perfect template for your next ecommerce project. Designed and developed by WooCommerce Core developers, it features custom integration with WooCommerce and many of the most popular WooCommerce extensions. It has multiple layout and color options to customize your store, multiple widget regions, a responsive layout, and much more. If you are a developer, you will love its code and it will be a pleasure to customize and extend it because it is very flexible.