The year is coming to an end and 2014 has been an exciting and uplifting year. When it comes to WordPress, we had 3 major releases honored to the jazz musicians Jimmy Smith (3.9), Benny Goodman (4.0) and Dinah Washington (4.1).
WordPress continues to grow by the number of users and it will be exciting to see if WordPress is able to continue to keep growing in the same pace!
There has also been a fantastic year when it comes to WordPress themes, and I mean primarily free themes. So many awesome themes have been released both in the official WordPress themes directory and on other theme designers web pages around the world. Amazing ..
Now when this year is approaching the end and we have an exciting new year to look forward to, I want to summarize and present the 50 best free WordPress themes from 2014 (my opinion), as I do every year.
It was hard to only choose only 50 themes among all the themes that have been released during this year. But I hope you like and enjoy all these great themes I have put in my list as you can check out below. I also hope that you will find great looking and functional themes to your own WordPress website in this collection ..
Twenty Fifteen
Twenty Fifteen is the new default theme in WordPress for 2015. This is a blog focused theme with minimalist layout. It features 5 color schemes, featured images, customizer etc.
Enlightenment
Enlightenment is a modern, flexible and trendy free WordPress theme from One Designs. It comes with responsive layout, Masonry grid, Infinite Scroll, post formats and much more.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
Editor
Editor is a responsive free WordPress theme from Array. It is elegant designed with crisp typography. This is a perfect theme for all kind of blogging websites presenting articles.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
Semicolon
Semicolon is an free WordPress theme created by Konstantin Kovshenin. This is a clean and very beautifully designed WordPress theme in magazine style with great features.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
Moesia
Moesia is a free business WordPress theme from athemes. You can build a great online presence with this theme. Use the 11 predefined blocks and build a great looking homepage.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
Little Auk
Little Auk is a beautiful and attractive free WordPress Theme designed by Frédéric Serva. It comes in two colors, light and dark. The design is responsive, clean and spacious.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
FlatOn
FlatOn is a super-elegant free WordPress theme from Webulous Themes with flat design. It includes ton of great features such as Awesome flex slider, responsive design.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
Ravel
Ravel is a attractive free minimalist and responsive WordPress theme built by Tung Do and Justin Tadlock. This is a theme designed and created with portfolios, galleries in mind.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
BiancaA
BiancaA is a free WordPress theme from Theme Junkie. It is designed with photographers in mind. It features advanced control panel, ad management, custom widgets, page templates etc
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
Photograph
Photograph is a creative free WordPress theme you can download from Themes4all. This is a theme perfect for photographers, galleries websites displaying creative content.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
Sparkling
Sparkling is a beautiful free WordPress theme created by colorlib. This is a theme with modern, trendy flat design based on Bootstrap. It comes with pixel perfect design and responsive layout.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
I Am One
I Am One is an elegant free one page WordPress theme from SKTThemes. The homepage includes 12 sections and the key features are Parallax slider, 5 default templates etc.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
OneEngine
OneEngine is a creative and popular free WordPress theme from EngineThemes. This is a multi-Purpose one page theme with tons of great features and options included.
Make
Make is a flexible and powerful free WordPress theme from Theme Foundry. It features drag-and-drop page builder so you can easily create custom pages on your website.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
Resolution
Resolution is a feature-rich free WordPress theme from kopatheme. The theme is designed in magazine layout and features theme options page, responsive design, sliders.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
Alizee
Alizee is a free WordPress theme from aThemes. It comes with a fully responsive beautiful Masonry (Pinterest-like) layout. It features 4 home page layouts, Font Awesome icons etc.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
Tonal
Tonal is a minimalist and free WordPress theme designed by automattic. This is a theme wih elegant typography that will put your content in focus the best way possible.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
Pictorico
Pictorico is a one-column grid-based free WordPress theme created by automattic. This is a creative and attractive theme perfect for photoblogging, portfolio and gallery websites.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
Professional
Professional is a free magazine WordPress theme created and designed by InkHive. It includes great features and options like BX slider, advanced theme options, awesome social icons etc.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
Twenty Fourteen
Twenty Fourteen is the default theme in WordPress 2014. This is a theme designed in modern and trendy magazine style and comes with a responsive and adaptable layout.
Life Is Good
Life Is Good is a minimalist and elegant free one column WordPress theme by Daniel Klose. With this theme you can display and present post and photos in a creative and elegant way.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
Felicity
Felicity is another great looking free WordPress theme from VPThemes. This is a perfect blogging theme with responsive layout, meaning it look just perfect in any devices.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
Quill
Quill is an awesome and cool free WordPress theme by aThemes. It is designed with law firms in mind. Quill includes theme admin options, full width slider, great CSS3 animations etc.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
Adventurous
Adventurous is a free great looking WordPress theme release from Catch Themes. This theme can be used for different website types such as corporate, business, photos blogs etc.
Fukasawa
Fukasawa is a free WordPress theme from Anders Noren designed with photographers and collectors in mind. It include responsive layout, five custom widgets, gallery slideshow etc.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
Everal
Everal is a great looking free WordPress theme from Cohhe Themes. It features a modern blog theme responsive layout. It comes with options panel, shortcodes, post formats.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
Museum
Museum is a minimalist one column free WordPress theme created by Mel Choyce and Kelly Dwan. It features a clean and spacious design that making pictures and photos look perfect.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
Katori
Katori is a free WordPress theme from aThemes with an attractive and unique design. The theme includes full screen slider, theme customizer, custom widgets, welcome section.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
Interface
Interface is a free business WordPress theme from Theme Horse. It is perfect and suitable for all kind of business and corporate websites. It comes with theme options, 4 layouts etc.
Garfunkel
Garfunkel is a free WordPress theme with Mansonry layout and Pinterest inspired style. It is created and designed by Anders Noren. It is perfect for magazines and and all kind of blogs.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
Mansar
Mansar is a free WordPress theme created by WebLoggerz. The design is fully responsive. More features are SEO optimized, integrated social media, breadcrumbs etc.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
Replican
Replican is a beautiful free WordPress theme created by SmallEnvelop. It is a modern theme created with photographer and designers in mind. It comes with a lot of great features.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
Apprise
Apprise is a beautiful free WordPress theme release from VPTHEMES. The theme comes with magazine style and will work perfectly for all kind of news websites and online portals.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
Delivery Lite
Delivery Lite is a free WordPress theme released by Theme Junkie. This is a stylish theme in magazine style. The layout is responsive, adaptable and mobile friendly.
Fictive
Fictive is free WordPress themes created by automattic. Fictive comes with a clean and elegant look. The design is responsive so your theme will look just perfect in any devices
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
Lean
Lean is a free WordPress theme perfect for all kind of blogging. Display large featured images, other creative content in style. Lean is a great choice for both bloggers and photographers.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
Pho
Pho is a free minimalist Masonry WordPress theme created by Slobodan Manic. This theme really make your content stand out. Features are customizer, 2 layout types, post formats.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
Baskerville
Baskerville is a free WordPress theme designed by Anders Norén. It is designed with a beautiful grid using the Masonry layout library. So your content is displayed beautiful.
Adaption
Adaption is a feature-rich free WordPress theme from automattic. It includes featured images, post formats, custom colors, multiple menus, custom header and background plus much more.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
Minipress
Minipress is a free WordPress theme release from Obox Themes. The theme comes with a minimalist clean design. It features typography manager, social sharing plus much more.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
Espied
Espied is a creative free WordPress theme created by automattic. It is designed with portfolio and gallery websites in mind and is just designers and photographers presenting great content.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
Gravit
Gravit is a free minimalist WordPress theme perfect for all kind of writers. It features beautiful typography, full-width featured images, post formats, custom menu etc.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
Illustratr
Illustratr is a free portfolio WordPress theme by automattic. It comes with a clean, minimalist and spacious layout. With this theme you can display portfolios and galleries in style.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
PhotoFly
PhotoFly is a free great looking WordPress theme from BlogOhBlog. This is a beautiful theme to showcase and present photos or other creative content in the best way possible.
Wilson
Wilson is a minimalist and beautiful free WordPress theme designed by Anders Norén. This is a great theme and is perfect for all kind of personal sites and blogs.
Bushwick
Bushwick is a minimalist and free WordPress theme created by automattic. This is an inspiring and creative theme with responsive and lightweight design, perfect for writers.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
Onetone
Onetone is a free and trendy one page WordPress theme from MAGEEWP. It is built with business and portfolio websites in mind. Onetone comes loaded with great features.
LeatherDiary
LeatherDiary is a free WordPress theme from TT Themes with a minimalist layout. It features a left aligned fully responsive design. Theme options panel, color schemes etc.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
Blogly Lite
Blogly is an elegant flat designed free WordPress theme from themefurnace. This is a lightweight and fast loading theme with clean and spacious layout and a lot of theme options.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
Flat
Flat is a free WordPress theme based by Bootstrap and created by the guys at YoArts. The theme comes with a colorful flat and responsive design with a trendy look an feel.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!