Hey there, you blogger you!

So you want to know which free WordPress Themes are one of the best because you don’t feel quite ready to invest in a paid theme. That’s totally OK.

There are thousands of free themes available online with beautifully designed templates and easy to use.

I know many bloggers who started with a free theme. It gave them a chance to really learn what they like and need in order to be pleased with the blog’s design.

If you don’t like your current theme, you can easily switch to another one. You haven’t paid for it after all so you didn’t lose any money in the process, which is great!

But you do have to be careful when choosing a free WordPress theme. Even though they have many advantages there is always a bad side.  The disadvantage is that most are bloated and bad for SEO due to uncorrected bugs, they lack support, and have limited customization options.

This is not to say that all free themes are bad, NO! NO! There are many good ones out there, but you will need to do in-depth research and analysis or get trustworthy recommendations before finding one.

I’ll try to be as helpful as I can be here but if you can’t find a theme that suits you out of these 10 WordPress theme I selected for you then you’ll have to dig a little deeper. And here they are.

1. Shapely

Shapely is a free responsive multipurpose theme by Colorlib. It’s a theme with a very clean and minimalist design which I absolutely love.

It is built on bootstrap and offers a mobile-responsive design that can easily adapt to all screen sizes. It can be easily customized to create any kind of a website.

This theme comes with tons of useful customization options including the ability to customize the color of every theme element. It also comes with support for popular plugins like Contact Form 7 and Yoast SEO.

It’s translation ready and can be easily used to create a multilingual website. It also comes with support for WooCommerce and can be used to build an online store.

It also offers a fullscreen hero image that you can customize with a few clicks to display your best content on the homepage.

This theme is the best suited for business, landing page, portfolio, e-commerce, store, local business, personal websites but can be tweaked to be used as blog, magazine or any other awesome website while highlighting its unique one-page setup.

2. Ascendant

Ascendant is a free responsive multipurpose theme. This theme is great for creating event-driven websites and agency pages.

It offers a minimal, clean design that is responsive and looks beautiful on all screen sizes. This theme comes with over five sidebar layouts that you can use for your posts and pages.

It also comes with support for Easy Digital Downloads and WooCommerce allowing you to easily create stunning online stores that look great on all devices.

You can download the basic version of this theme for free. But if you are looking for premium support and updates, you can either buy the premium version for $59 or sign up for an annual subscription for $119.

This theme is especially great for designing event-oriented websites and agency pages. You can take advantage of the member functionality to showcase people on your organization and add testimonials to boost social proof.

Ascendant is completely responsive and will adapt to the screen size of any device. Your content will be handled gracefully and will shine in every way possible.

3. Sparkling

Sparkling is a free modern-looking WordPress theme that offers a beautiful flat design.

It’s fully responsive and its layout easily adapts to all screen sizes. It can easily be customized to create any kind of a website.

This theme comes with tons of customization options and support for popular plugins like W3 Total Cache and Contact Form 7. It also offers support for WooCommerce allowing you to easily create stunning online stores.

It ships with support for Font Awesome and infinite scroll. Sparkling comes with the ability to customize the color of all theme’s elements to suit your needs.

It’s translation ready and can be used to painlessly create multilingual websites that look great on all devices.

4. Newspaper X

Newspaper X is a free beautiful WordPress theme for online magazine sites. It offers a mobile-friendly design that displays your content gracefully on all devices.

While it’s best for creating online magazines, you can easily customize it suit your needs. This theme offers support for most of the popular plugins like Contact Form 7 and W3 Total Cache.

It comes with built-in support for WooCommerce allowing you to easily create online stores. It’s retina ready and displays razor-sharp text.

It’s also translation ready allowing you to painlessly create multilingual websites. If you are planning on creating a magazine-style website, Newspaper X is the way to go.

It can be used for creating magazine sites in all industries including Fashion, Technology, and Lifestyle.

5. Amadeus

Amadeus is a responsive blog theme that features a modern and clean design.

Features include a parallax header image, Metaslider integration, ability to use Google Fonts, social icons, full-color control, custom widgets and much more. T

he menu of this theme is designed to be simple and elegant, providing a certain ease of navigation. Make sure your users will deal with it without too much hassle. You can download Amadeus theme here.

6. Pilates Center

Pilates Center is a responsive, fully editable, cross-browser compatible, and SEO-friendly Sports WordPress Template based on Cherry Framework 5 and manufactured for yoga & pilates centers websites, and could cater for many other niches.

The process of customizing your website has never been that easy with WordPress Live Customizer, which enables you to see changes you make to your site live, without reloading your page.

No more brain-teasing with codes, you can compose your pages simply but in a proper way with TM drag-and-drop Power page builder.

Appointment manager and timetable plugin save your customers time, allow them to book an appointment directly on your website and provide them for schedule.

Feel free to add versatile content to diversify your pilates center website and impress your customers with pleasant backgrounds integrated with Parallax scrolling animation.

Make your wellness center popular with this professional Sports WordPress Template.

7. Olsen Light

A fantastic free fashion/lifestyle blogging theme for WordPress.

Olsen light is a beautiful and elegant WordPress theme for bloggers. It can be used for fashion, lifestyle, travel, music, or any other personal blogs.

The theme has a modern and neat design, with a photo-friendly layout. It also comes with classy typography, icons, and buttons. It has nice author boxes, widgets, and an Instagram carousel.

Overall, a great theme for blogging and photo galleries. As for the features, Olsen Light has a responsive design, custom widgets and logo, customizer options, elegant fonts, social network options, Instagram integration, and SEO optimization.

It is also translation ready, retina ready, optimized for speed, and can be used for photo blogging as well.

Learn more about Olsen Light theme from this useful video.

8. Socially Viral

It is a nifty theme to use if you want to incorporate a lot of the social media.

This theme also looks great on mobile, making it a solid option. It is a beautifully designed WordPress theme that is built to be engaging, fast, and most importantly, boost viral traffic.

With features to help increase social sharing, you’ll get more traffic from the web’s top social media websites and also boost your search engine rankings.

9. Capri

Capri uses a nice combination of black and white with colorful images to create a nice contrast.

It’s a minimalistic theme end extremely easy to use without being boring. This theme is the most suitable for travel blog but could be used in any lifestyle niche without any issue.

Like other ThemeIsle themes, it supports an online shop and provides a solid mobile experience.

10. Silvia

This minimalistic photography theme provides you with the blank canvas you need to let your photos shine.

With plenty of room to let your photography breathe, your visitors will be able to enjoy your work without any unnecessary distractions.

However, Silvia also has plenty of options and settings to help you give your website the right look and feel. This theme’s gallery mode makes it easy to publish images on your site in a range of creative ways.

Thanks to the varied selection of layouts this theme includes, you’ll always be able to present your content in the best way.

So this is it for top 10 FREE WordPress themes. After looking through many features (such as user-friendly and costumization options and design), these are my personal winners and also extremely recommended by most web developers.

What are your thoughts it?

Is there any free theme you would personally suggest to your fellow bloggers? Let us all know in the comments below. I’ll definitely check it out and maybe even add it to this list.