Best 15 Free Beautiful Responsive WordPress Themes

The quality of the design of your website is as important as the quality of the content and products you offer. The design of your website makes a big difference in the perceived value of your brand’s offerings. If your website is poorly designed, it will not only hurt your brand’s credibility but will also repel potential customers and users.

So, if you are serious about growing your business and care about your brand’s credibility, you need a beautifully designed, professional-looking website. But here’s the catch: Good Design Costs Good Money. And if you are just starting out or if this is the first time you are trying your hand in the online business game, I am sure you aren’t interested in spending thousands of bucks just to test the waters.

If you are using WordPress, which I assume you are if you are reading this article, you are in luck. There are thousands of free beautiful themes available for WordPress. A nicely designed theme will not only help you achieve a better conversion rate but will also help you build trust with your customers and audience.

While there are thousands of free themes available for WordPress, most of the themes, well, don’t offer much functionality or aren’t easy to customize. When looking for a theme for your WordPress website, here are a few things you should look for:

• Responsive Design: Most of the people who will visit your website will be mobile users. And if your website isn’t optimized for mobile devices, guess what? you will lose all those prospective customers and subscribers. A good theme will offer a beautiful design that easily adapts to any screen size.
• Minimal Design: The more distracting elements there are on your website, the less likely are your visitors to notice your offer (products/services) and buy what you are selling. If you run a blog and want people to actually read your content, it’s really important that you stick to a clean, minimal design.
• Customization Options: If the theme doesn’t offer much (or any) customization options, you won’t be able to customize the design of your website to suit your branding needs. And if the design of your website doesn’t suit your brand, it really doesn’t matter how great it looks or how fast it loads up.

To save you hours of boring research, we have compiled a list of the best free WordPress themes available on the internet. If you are looking for a premium design, you should check out our collection of premium WordPress themes over at Colorlib. On the other hand, if you are looking for even more free WordPress themes, have a look at our collection of free WordPress themes at Colorlib.

Shapely

Shapely is a beautiful One Page theme by Colorlib. It’s fully responsive and can adapt to any screen size. It’s a multipurpose theme and comes with dozens of useful customization features. That means you can customize it however you want and use it to create any kind of website.

This theme is translation ready meaning you can easily translate it to any language of your choice to reach your customers and readers in their native language. It comes with built-in support for most of the popular WordPress plugins like JetPack and Contact Form 7.

Shapely comes with a full-screen hero image on the homepage that you can easily customize with just a few clicks to display your best content.

Breviter

Breviter is a free WordPress theme that offers a clean, minimal design. It’s perfect for creating personal blogs or blogs with a main focus on the content.

While it’s best-suited for blogs, it offers tons of useful customization options to help you use this theme to make any kind of a website. This theme focuses on emphasizing different types of content including images, videos, standard text posts and quotes.

If you just want the basic features of this theme, you can download the lite version of this theme for free. But if you are looking for premium support, more features and updates, you can get the premium version of this theme for just $39.

Tyche

Tyche is a stunning free eCommerce theme for WordPress. It is fully responsive and looks great on all devices. If you are looking to start an online store with WordPress, Tyche is a great choice. It offers built-in support for WooCommerce.

This theme is retina ready and displays crisp, razor-sharp text of high-resolution retina displays. It offers dozens of customization features to help you match the design of your website to your business’s branding theme. Whether you sell T-Shirts or Shoes, you can easily customize this theme to suit your branding style within just a few minutes without the need of a developer.

Tyche comes with a full-screen slider on the homepage that you can customize within just a few seconds to showcase your best products and your latest promotions.

Hestia

Hestia is a free multipurpose theme that offers a beautiful, clean material design. It’s WooCommerce-compatible allowing you to easily build stunning online stores within minutes.

This theme offers a responsive design that easily adapts to all screen sizes and graciously displays your content on all devices. Its compatibility with SiteOrigin Page Builder allows you to easily create beautiful content for your website with just drag-and-drop without writing a single line of code.

Activello

Activello is a multi purpose WordPress theme by Colorlib. It offers a clean, minimal design that helps focus the user’s attention on the content. This theme comes with dozens of customization options, so you can easily customize this theme with just a few clicks to create any kind of a website.

It’s fully compatible with WordPress Customizer which allows you to make live changes to the design of your website. It also comes with a featured slider on the homepage powered by FlexSlider that you can use to display either your recent posts or your best content.

Activello is translation-ready, so you can easily translate it to the languages your customers and readers speak. It also comes with support for infinite scrolling which loads more content as soon as the user reaches the bottom of the page.

Sentio

Sentio offers a minimal, modern responsive design with the main focus on the content of your website. It comes with beautiful typography and looks great on all devices. If you are a blogger, Sentio is a great choice. It will not only help you build credibility but will also help you stand out of the crowd with the beautiful design.

This theme is translation ready, so even if you create content in a language other than English, you can easily translate this theme into the language you and your readers speak. It’s also WooCommerce compatible, so if you ever wish to start an online store, you will be able to do it within just a few short minutes.

Writee

Writee is a free personal blog theme that offers a clean, minimal design. If you are looking to start a personal blog with the main focus on the content and your message, this theme is a great fit. It offers a fully responsive, mobile-friendly design that looks great on all devices.

This theme includes custom Widgets and is compatible with WordPress Customizer allowing you to make live changes to the design of your website. It also comes with a full-width slider to help you showcase your best content.

Pixova

Pixova is a one-page WordPress theme that is perfect for Agency websites. It comes with parallax sections to help you create a beautiful scrolling experience.

This theme is translation-ready allowing you to translate it into any language you want and easily build multilingual websites. It’s optimized for speed and offers dozens of customization options including the ability to use custom CSS. It also allows you to customize the Typography styles of the design to use Google fonts of your choice.

If you are looking for just the basic features, go ahead and get yourself a copy of the lite version of this theme. But on the other hand, if you want premium support and timely updates, you can either buy the Pro version of this theme for just $59 or subscribe to the yearly membership for $149 to get access to all themes and lifetime updates.

Ascendant

Ascendant is a stunning multipurpose WordPress theme that offers a clean, minimal responsive design. It’s retina-ready, adapts to all screen sizes and displays crisp, razor-sharp text on high-resolution retina displays.

If you are looking to start a multilingual website, you can easily do it with this theme as it is translation ready. It’s also fully compatible with WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads allowing you to painlessly build beautiful, responsive eCommerce websites.

This theme comes with dozens of customization options and offers complete control over the layout of your pages/posts. You can choose from over 5 different sidebar layouts.

If you are looking for the basic version of this theme, you can get the lite version of this theme for free. But if you are looking for premium support and updates, you can either get the premium version of this theme for $59. Or sign up for an annual subscription for $119.

Bento

Bento is a responsive, mobile-friendly multipurpose theme for WordPress. It comes with a premium design. It comes with dozens of customization options allowing you to use it on any kind of a website.

This theme offers a full-screen hero header on the homepage. You can customize it with just a few clicks to display your best content or your best product. This theme is fully compatible with WordPress Theme Customizer allowing you to make live changes to the design without editing code.

ShopIsle

ShopIsle is a beautiful WordPress eCommerce theme that is perfect for creating online stores with WooCommerce. It offers a clean, responsive design which looks great on all devices.

This theme comes with dozens of customization options allowing you to use to for any kind of an online store. It comes with a customizable hero header that you can customize within seconds to display your best content.

Blaskan

Blaskan is a free theme for WordPress that is perfect for creating Lifestyle Blogs. It offers a content-focused design to help focus the user’s attention on the content. If you are trying to create an image-heavy site, Blaskan is a great choice.

It’s translation ready which means you can easily translate it to any language you want to reach your customers and readers in their native language. This theme is fully compatible with WooCommerce allowing you to painlessly create stunning online stores.

Sydney

Sydney is a free business theme for WordPress. It offers a clean, minimal design that is responsive and looks great on all devices.

This theme comes with a lot of customization options including Layout Control, Logo Customization, and Sticky Navigation. It comes with a customizable full-screen homepage hero header that you can customize to display your best content.

Kale

Kale is a free WordPress theme that comes with a clean, minimal design to help focus the user’s attention on the content. This theme is perfect for creating photography portfolios, lifestyle blogs, and travel blogs.

It is compatible with WooCommerce allowing you to painlessly create beautiful online stores within minutes. It also comes with dozens of customization options and offers a customizable featured-slider on the homepage.

Newsmag

As the name suggests, this theme is made for News and magazine sites. Newsmag offers a clean grid-based layout to help you create a professional-looking magazine website.

This theme offers features like News Ticker, and Color Coded Categories. These features are very useful when creating a news site including. It offers full control over the layout of your pages and offers multiple layout options to choose from.

If you are just looking for the basic version of this theme, you can get the lite version for free. But if you want premium support, more features and updates, you can either get the pro version for just $59. Or sign up for an annual subscription at $149 to get access to all the themes and lifetime updates.

Conclusion

All of the themes on the above list are fully mobile-responsive and offer dozens of customization options. So, whether you are starting a website for your online portfolio or to sell your product, you will be able to easily customize these themes within seconds without writing a single line of code.

Almost all of the above themes are WooCommerce-compatible. So you can also use them to start a stunning online store in a pain-free way.

Did we miss your favorite WordPress theme?

Which one of the above WordPress themes do you like the most?

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