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20 Top Free Responsive WordPress Themes

20 Top Free Responsive WordPress Themes

Tom Ewer

October 22, 2012

20 Top Free Responsive WordPress Themes

If my recent post on responsive design has shown me anything, it is that the responsive design debate is well and truly alive.

Although one would struggle to argue that responsive design isn’t the future, that is not to say that all sites must be responsive. In my opinion, there are a handful of reasons as to why one might not choose to “go responsive”, which I revealed in my first post on responsive design earlier this year.

One of the reasons was the potential cost-benefit (or lack thereof). If the costs associated with responsive design are not matched or exceeded by the extra income generated, one might think twice about going responsive.

However, you can largely circumvent this issue by using one of the free responsive themes available on WordPress.org. If you have the will and the technical ability to do a bit of tinkering and are not looking for a top-quality premium/bespoke design, you could be up and running with a responsive theme at no extra financial cost.

With that in mind, I thought I’d trawl through the WordPress.org theme repository and pull up a selection of the best responsive themes currently available. Enjoy!

Origin

Origin

Demo / Download

Skylark

Skylark

Demo / Download

Esplanade

Esplanade

Demo / Download

neni

neni

Demo / Download

Responsive

Responsive

Demo / Download

Sampression Lite

Sampression Lite

Demo / Download

Montezuma

Montezuma

Demo / Download

Lugada

Lugada

Demo / Download

Max Magazine

Max Magazine

Demo / Download

Ice Cap

Ice Cap

Demo / Download

SimpleX

SimpleX

Demo / Download

Pagelines

Pagelines

Demo / Download

Pachyderm

Pachyderm

Demo / Download

Book Lite

Book Lite

Demo / Download

SimpleMarket

SimpleMarket

Demo / Download

Skirmish

Skirmish

Demo / Download

Designfolio

Designfolio

Demo / Download

Picochic

Picochic

Demo / Download

Oxygen

Oxygen

Demo / Download

Catch Box

Catch Box

Demo / Download

author

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!

51 responses

Martin

October 27, 2012

What WP theme are you using for this blog? It is amazing. Thanks 🙂

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Renato

October 28, 2012

Make available for download the theme that you use (managewp4) would bring an incredible number of backlinks, I would be one of those people. gets the hint.

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Ganesh WP

December 5, 2012

Might want to add this one : http://bit.ly/UfjXvX

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The tech ideas

December 10, 2012

Catch box is the best from all these themes ..

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Wedding Photography Wordpress Themes

December 16, 2012

Great collections, thanks for sharing 🙂

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blogger

December 21, 2012

do you have a blogging related theme?i liked this ones but im looking for something about blogging, seo,ect

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Peter shay

December 30, 2012

Great selection of themes. Only thing is that I cannot tell which theme offers changeable background image. So I have to load each one to discover this. It’s very time consuming. Other than that. Thanks very much.

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John carpenter

December 30, 2012

Nice selection. All sites should now be mobile friendly. Those who are not only leave themselves open to losing even more customers. It’s a misnomer!

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Appu

January 3, 2013

Lugada is an excellent theme. i needed something similar for a project of mine and i found it here. thanks a lot.

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Projektowanie Ogrodów

January 3, 2013

For me Oxygen and Catch Box are the most attractiva for me. Thanks for article.
Cheers!

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Tyres

January 5, 2013

Great selection. I can say Catch box is one of the very best free themes.

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Mathew Stephen

January 8, 2013

Awesome Collection Tom! Superb Work!

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David

January 9, 2013

How are they free they all seem to wnat money for them. Have I looked at them correctly , can you advise ?

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hdyazilim

February 13, 2013

tşkler..

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sasa

February 19, 2013

magic themes my friend
thank you

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Jason

March 15, 2013

Thank you for this incredible list, Tom! Wondering which theme you feel is the best, that offers the option to add online payment capabilities, such as PayPal?

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Mac

March 16, 2013

Thank you for this great collection!Maybe I will use some of them.

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jake

March 19, 2013

love these themes! i get most of mine from templateezy.com aswell as vector graphics etc.. great collection tho!

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Jocuri Diferente

March 25, 2013

Great Collection, Montezuma i like it most!

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Fakhar

April 7, 2013

Its really a cool list. Samprassion lite I used for a wordpress site. Undoubtedly, a great share. Carry on Tom.

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WP_Ninja

April 16, 2013

Good collection Tom, I have tried Pagelines and some other famous theme frameworks, but I prefer to design themes from scratch using tools like TemplateToaster, it gives me a solid theme framework, flexibility to start from scratch, I can add/remove or design Widget Areas, Page Templates and much more http://www.templatetoaster.com

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Mramorov

May 13, 2013

Thank you so much! I think I found the theme for my blog!

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Implant n

May 30, 2013

Thank you very much for this theme, it’s very useful

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manish khatri

June 18, 2013

Thanks for this great effort, i will use in my site also

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Rachat sur

July 10, 2013

Thank you very much for this selection! My favorite is Pagelines! 🙂

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prechu

August 10, 2013

Nice collection of Themes, I really love them. Keep up the good work.

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Guru

October 6, 2013

Great selection and awesome work..:) Thanks

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checkingweb

October 7, 2013

Awesome! Thanks for sharing

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Pinky pal

October 15, 2013

Thanks for this list, lot of tasteful creativity. Great options, and free. Tough to beat.

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Bharat

January 15, 2014

Hey that is the excellent collection of wordpress themes i choose the “book-lite” which i think is nice for the readers.

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Aaesha

January 26, 2014

really fabulous WordPress themes. suoerb loving them.

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Madiha Durrani

February 23, 2014

Thanks for posting! These themes will come in handy now thinking about to create an other site

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Sandy

March 1, 2014

Help!!

Looking for a free, responsive WordPress theme for a very busy grassroots education activist group. We have calls to action, information, links to articles that we must post regularly. Any suggestions? An events calendar would be wonderful, but I haven’t seen any. We post a lot of content so a strictly events calendar theme like Eventbrite wouldn’t work. Would Responsive work?

Thanks! We need to get this up and running today!!!

Sandy

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Mursaleen

May 31, 2014

really great post keep it up bro 🙂

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Jessica Bright Verge

October 6, 2014

Presently I am using Juno WP theme, but i don’t know which one will be good for my website, my site Bright Verge is a news site, if you have some better choice for http://www.brightverge.com, please tell me. I need a beautiful and customized theme for SEO and clear and good font for readers.

Thanks Regards,

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sai kumar

October 29, 2014

looking for free wp themes… so landed here.. I am a beginner in WP.. Mr. Tom, may I have your email id or skype for help in designing my website?

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Shell

November 7, 2014

Its easy now to make responsive themes, while I have found TemplateToaster.

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memoona

November 8, 2014

Hi,

WoW! this is what i am looking for. I really like your blog please keep it up. Thank you for sharing nice information.

I really appreciate your work.

with kind regards,

Memoona

buy premium WordPress theme

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