5 of the Best Free Responsive WordPress Business Themes
It turns out that there aren’t nearly as many free corporate WordPress themes as there are other kinds of theme. Nevertheless, there are some good free business themes around. Here are the ones I have found so far. PS If you know of any I’ve missed, please let me know in the comments!
1. deCente
deCente, by ThemeShift, who I recommend as a theme maker, is a newly released (March 2013) business/portfolio theme. It’s our favourite theme of this collection. Why? The home page is the most well structured, making fine use of columns and widgets to create a professional looking, trust inspiring layout. Those widgets are going to ensure adding content to your home page is simple as pie – drag and drop all the way.
Portfolio
The portfolio is quite something:
If you click on a category (branding, graphic design, etc), the portfolio filters right before your eyes, without re-loading the page. You see this feature on some premium themes but hardly ever, if ever, on free ones. When you click on an image to bring up the related post, you can then click next or previous to cycle through the entire portfolio.
Shortcodes
Full marks for the shortcode offering. Extra marks for including a page where not only are the available shortcodes set out, but explainations of what they are and even examples of how to use them!
Final thoughts
Overall, I”d award deCente 5 out of 5 stars for features (for a free theme). It looks great, too – very professional. It is possibly worth noting that there is no support for the theme unless you make a purchase (starting at 39 euros for a single theme – other, more cost-effective options are available).
2. Attitude
Attitude is by Theme Horse, a newcomer to the WordPress theme shop scene. At the time of writing, they have only three themes to their name. They are however quickly gaining traction: Attitude is currently in the top 20 most popular WordPress themes by number of downloads on WordPress.org (see the list here). So, you may be wondering, what’s so great about Attitude? Well, it’s got a big featured slider on the front page. 5 page/post layouts (left sidebar, right sidebar, no sidebar, full width and one column). A widgetized footer. Social icons. 4 widget areas. The design is clean and light. All in all, it provides a solid base on which to build. Which may be the sum of what one can ask for from a freebie.
3. Customizr
Customizr is a clean responsive theme built upon the Twitter Bootstrap framework, and coded in HTML5 and CSS3. Many aspects of the theme – color, logo slider, social media links, etc – can be edited using the in-built WordPress theme customizer, making it particularly suitable for beginners.
4. Expressions
Expressions is a fully responsive, simple yet aesthetically pleasing theme that would require only a little customisation to be used to create a business website.
5. Golden Eagle Lite
Golden Eagle looks like a foodie business theme, but it doesn’t have to be. Here’s why I like it:
- the slider has ribbon left and right buttons and feels zippy. Also, the slider navigation is clear.
- The home page thumbnails in a widget below the slider on the home page slide upwards when you mouse over them.
- The color scheme and social media icons look good.
Andrina Lite : NOT RESPONSIVE
That’s odd, because the theme description quite clearly states that it is responsive. See here: http://www.inkthemes.com/wp-themes/andrina-theme/ However, after downloading, installing and testing it myself, I can see that it isn’t. I will remove it from the list and go out and find two more themes to replace it with! Thanks Harry.
Thanks Admin for featuring our theme Attitude here.
No worries Sovit! Thanks for stopping by.
Even i liked Attitude clean and clear.
nice post…can you provide me the link to download the latest version of swift basic theme…??
Thanks for a useful post. I offer theme installation services, so I am always on the look out for professional themes. I like the approach you have taken for theme reviews. Most of the other theme review blogs just paste a picture, without explaining the reasons for their choice. Your post goes into more detail about the features that would make one adopt one theme. It provides value to people like me. Thanks so much.