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
Skylark
Esplanade
neni
Responsive
Sampression Lite
Montezuma
Lugada
Max Magazine
Ice Cap
SimpleX
Pagelines
Pachyderm
Book Lite
SimpleMarket
Skirmish
Designfolio
Picochic
Oxygen
Catch Box
memoona
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
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Shell
Its easy now to make responsive themes, while I have found TemplateToaster.
sai kumar
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?
Jessica Bright Verge
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,
Mursaleen
really great post keep it up bro 🙂
Tom
Thanks!
Sandy
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
Tom Ewer
I’m afraid I’m too late then Sandy! To be honest, I don’t have anything specific in mind…
Madiha Durrani
Thanks for posting! These themes will come in handy now thinking about to create an other site
Aaesha
really fabulous WordPress themes. suoerb loving them.
Tom Ewer
Thanks Aaesha 🙂
Bharat
Hey that is the excellent collection of wordpress themes i choose the “book-lite” which i think is nice for the readers.
Tom Ewer
Thanks Bharat! Glad you enjoyed 🙂
Bharat
It is awesome theme Tom many of my friends appreciated that theme…..thanks a lot.
Pinky pal
Thanks for this list, lot of tasteful creativity. Great options, and free. Tough to beat.
checkingweb
Awesome! Thanks for sharing
Guru
Great selection and awesome work..:) Thanks
prechu
Nice collection of Themes, I really love them. Keep up the good work.
Rachat sur
Thank you very much for this selection! My favorite is Pagelines! 🙂
manish khatri
Thanks for this great effort, i will use in my site also
Implant n
Thank you very much for this theme, it’s very useful
Mramorov
Thank you so much! I think I found the theme for my blog!
WP_Ninja
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
Tom Ewer
Interesting…a WYSIWYG-style theme designer? Sounds like a disaster for recipe, but then I’m a cynic 😉
Fakhar
Its really a cool list. Samprassion lite I used for a wordpress site. Undoubtedly, a great share. Carry on Tom.
Jocuri Diferente
Great Collection, Montezuma i like it most!
jake
love these themes! i get most of mine from templateezy.com aswell as vector graphics etc.. great collection tho!
Mac
Thank you for this great collection!Maybe I will use some of them.
Jason
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?
Tom Ewer
For that you’ll want the awesome Easy Digital Downloads plugin. It’s theme agnostic so can be used with any of them.
sasa
magic themes my friend
thank you
hdyazilim
tşkler..
David
How are they free they all seem to wnat money for them. Have I looked at them correctly , can you advise ?
Tom Ewer
Hi David,
Click on the “Download” link for whichever theme you like. On the subsequent WordPress.org page, click on the “Download” link. They’re all free.
Cheers,
Tom
Mathew Stephen
Awesome Collection Tom! Superb Work!
Tom Ewer
Thanks Mathew 🙂
Tyres
Great selection. I can say Catch box is one of the very best free themes.
Projektowanie Ogrodów
For me Oxygen and Catch Box are the most attractiva for me. Thanks for article.
Cheers!
Appu
Lugada is an excellent theme. i needed something similar for a project of mine and i found it here. thanks a lot.
John carpenter
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!
Peter shay
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.
blogger
do you have a blogging related theme?i liked this ones but im looking for something about blogging, seo,ect
Tom Ewer
Check out our themes of the month series (accessible via the sidebar).
Wedding Photography Wordpress Themes
Great collections, thanks for sharing 🙂
The tech ideas
Catch box is the best from all these themes ..
Ganesh WP
Might want to add this one : http://bit.ly/UfjXvX
Renato
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.
Tom Ewer
We’d then also have a whole bunch of sites that look like ours 😉
Martin
What WP theme are you using for this blog? It is amazing. Thanks 🙂
ManageWP
Thank you – we made it ourselves 🙂
GIZIPP
This site theme is awesome too. 😀