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Top 5 Free WordPress Themes of the Month — August 2013 Edition

Tom Ewer

Themes of the Month

This month I’ve had some excellent themes to choose from and had a tough time narrowing them down!

In this edition of our Themes of of the Month series we’re all about clean, simple design that transfers well to tablets and mobile devices.

They are all simple to use and customize ensuring that you can easily convey a unique style and brand on your site.

Whether you’re showcasing images, videos, blog posts, or all of the above, one of these designs will be the perfect fit for you. Enjoy!

5. Iconic One

Iconic One

Iconic One is a premium theme built for speed with a Google Page Speed score of 95+. It’s perfect for your SEO needs and is compatible with All in One SEO Pack and WordPress SEO by Yoast.

It’s a simple, straightforward theme that’s easy to use. The bonus is, if you do encounter any glitches, support is free.

Demo / Download

4. Icy

Icy

Icy is an attractive theme with somewhat elegant overtones. It has a responsive layout, is child theme friendly, and has easy to customize features (including no less than six widget areas).

Demo / Download

3. Tuesday

Tuesday

Tuesday is a free responsive theme with a minimalistic style that is perfect for bloggers.

There are three layouts to choose from, as well as the option to add a blog logo. Header images and background settings are supported and there are also custom widgets and menus. Tuesday is optimized for phones and tablets.

Download

2. Untitled

Untitled

Untitled is a simple yet striking theme which instantly grabbed my attention.

Its layout would suit all kinds of websites and it is capable of presenting high quality photographic content and videos in a bold and beautiful fashion. It has full-bleed featured posts and great featured image support too.

Demo / Download

1. Highwind

Highwind

I really like this theme, hence why it’s number one this month! It has a clean, simple, yet elegant design which is fully responsive and designed to showcase content.

There are plenty of presentation, widget and typography options to allow you to give your site a really unique feel, as well as loads of hooks and filters to extend and customize Highwind via plugins and/or a child theme.

Demo / Download

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Tom Ewer
Tom Ewer is the founder of WordCandy.co. He has been a huge fan of WordPress since he first laid eyes on it, and has been writing educational and informative content for WordPress users since 2011. When he’s not working, you’re likely to find him outdoors somewhere – as far away from a screen as possible!

17 responses

  1. allmyhoney Avatar
    allmyhoney

    Hey Tom, can you please do a list of top plugins for the EU Cookie Directive. I always find myself searching for a Cookie Directive plugin for WordPress because there seems to be a lack of quality plugins that work well with sites and dont cause extra issues – be nice to see a list on here and see what is what. Let me know if this is something you feel could be useful as I see the lists you made before as very handy to see what is being developed and used out there. Cheers

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  2. James Koster Avatar
    James Koster

    Cool to see my theme (Highwind) featured here, thanks Tom! If you wanted to add a demo link for it (noticed some of the others had demo links) feel free to use my site; http://jameskoster.co.uk.

    Cheers!

    Reply
  3. Cesar Falcao Avatar
    Cesar Falcao

    There’s a lot of bad free themes, but I liked this selection, specially #2. The only thing is how secure are they?

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  4. Nick Avatar
    Nick

    The first WordPress theme is absolutely gorgeous!

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  5. Sergey Avatar
    Sergey

    Perfect Themes! Thanks a lot

    Reply
  6. Vivek Khanduri Avatar
    Vivek Khanduri

    All are nice themes.

    Reply
  7. Mayank Avatar
    Mayank

    I am looking for a theme that can be used for a sports website. Can you please refer any such theme to me?
    Thanks,

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  8. Rey Avatar
    Rey

    any idea about latest auto-responsive wordpress themes of sept 2013 ?

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  9. PBCE, Best Engineering College in Chennai Avatar
    PBCE, Best Engineering College in Chennai

    Iconic one wordpress themes is very minimalist and it’s free. Thanks for such great help for me… i have downloaded it. after appy i will link you.. thanks again.

    Reply
  10. saif Avatar
    saif

    hell me sale you are eap

    Reply
  11. MWR Avatar
    MWR

    Icy looks pretty cool to use as a magazine style site. Going to give it a whirl on a test site and see what it looks like on tablet.

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  12. Majestic Avatar
    Majestic

    Great themes..I really like this Iconic One theme

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  13. Dan Avatar
    Dan

    Thanks for the themes. Making a yoga website today and gonna use one of your templates.

    Reply
  14. darmowa bramka Avatar
    darmowa bramka

    This time I don’t like any of the listed themes …

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  15. mark Avatar
    mark

    I like all of them but I really, really like Iconic One – just the classic clean lines and simplicity of it all.

    Thanks for sharing them here.
    Mark

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