What a month it has been from a WordPress point of view. Some exciting news we read and seen was Automattic acquisition of WooThemes and WordPress celebrated 12 years.
It’s has been a month filled with interesting WordPress articles, news, tips, tutorials and of course WordPress themes.
If you during the month checked the WordPress themes directory, and other places around the web you have surely discovered a lot of new exciting and attractive free themes. I did.
As usual, every month I select 10 themes from the WordPress community that I think stand out from the crowd in one way or another. Today it’s a collection of themes for different and various niches. I am confident you find one or more themes you can use and enjoy on your WordPress website. Check out the top 10 new free WordPress themes in May 2015 edition.
Aries
Aries is a minimalist free WordPress Theme from wplov.in. This is a theme with an awesome look and feel. It can be used for all kind of blogs to display inspiring and encouraging content. Aries includes 7 colorful skins. You can create your own color schemes combining background, or add fullscreen background images as well. Use it with a single column or morphs it into two columns (content + sidebar).
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
NewsAnchor
News Anchor is the latest WordPress Theme from aThemes. This is a free theme designed in magazine style with a fresh and modern look. So if you want to you to organize and display your articles in an elegant way, then News Anchor is a perfect choice. The theme includes a number of great features and options such as customizer, front page widgets, color options, two page templates, 650+ Google fonts and configurable posts carousel.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
Yuuta
Yuuta is attractive free WordPress theme by Felix Dorner with a super-stylish look and feel. This is a perfect theme to use as a visual diary. Due the support of all post formats, the theme is capable of displaying a pretty diversified blog. You can assign unique background images to every post. Yuuta comes with a responsive liquid design, all post formats, translation ready, footer widgets and more.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
Oblique
Oblique is a flashy and trendy free WordPress theme for fashion blogs. It is designed and created by FlyFreeMedia and comes with a unique and creative design and look. This theme is perfect to showcase your fashion Store or collection in style. Features included in Oblique: Theme customizer. Responsive and adaptable design. Parallax header image, Google fonts, unlimited colors, translation ready and much more.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
Chicago
Chicago is a new free WordPress theme from Catch Themes. This is a flexible and customizable theme with customizer options. Chicago is perfect for all kind of bloggers. You can modify almost everything such as layout, styling, colors, featured slider, pagination, icons, menus, breadcrumb, widgets and much more.
BlackWell
BlackWell is a great looking beautiful new theme from InkThemes suitable for business and blog websites. It comes with lots of customization options that can tweaked by theme options panel. You can easily modify and change logos, intro texts, and backgrounds. The theme comes with five widgetized areas, featured images, stylesheets for print, admin visual editor, one-column page template and much more.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
Longform
Longform is a free theme from Cohhe Themes specially created for writers telling great stories. This is a feature-rich theme and you can easily customize a wide variety of features from the comfort of your Dashboard. Your content is placed and centered, focused so you visitors simply must read you stories. Features in Longform: Advanced theme options panel, ultra responsive design, retina ready, Aesop Compatibility and much more.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
i-max
i-max is attractive free WordPress theme by TemplatesNext for business, portfolio, personal or blog websites. With a beautiful and spacious responsive layout, you can display your product and services to your customers. i-max comes packed with great features such as boxed/wide layout, unlimited color, custom background, multiple blog layout, social media links, custom slider and much more.
Sanasar
Sanasar is a beautiful free Portfolio WordPress Theme from WebLoggerz. It is a 3 column grid based designed WordPress theme built with HTML5 and CSS3. With this theme, you can easily display and present your content in an elegant and classy way. Sanasar is optimized with great features and options. How about Responsive design, SEO optimized, integrated social media, custom branding and translation ready.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
Freak
Freak is a free theme from Rohitink Built with Bootstrap 3. It features a full-width Parallax header background. This is a creative and perfect theme for bloggers, business, and corporate websites. It comes with fully responsive design, featured slider, Retina ready, multiple blog layouts. Multiple menu bars, custom widgets for recent posts, menu for mobile phones, 4 column footer, and great Parallax effects.
STATUS: OUTDATED OR NO LONGER AVAILABLE!