The Best Free WordPress Themes of 2010

People make up their mind about a website in less than 2 seconds, so you need to grab your visitors’ attention fast.  Choosing the right theme for your WordPress blog is an essential process and it requires careful consideration.  If you get the theme right, you can customize your blog to suit your niche and give the professional image you need.

As soon as you’ve completed your free website builder program, check out these themes.  They are the latest WordPress themes available and best of all they’re completely free to download from our themes page.

  • Meta-Morphosis: this theme is ideal for a variety of different blogs and websites, projecting a visually-rich, professional image with a magazine style layout.  It has a clean, simple two-column homepage, with 8 different color schemes to choose from and 14 different language options.  If you’re new to blogging, this is an extremely simple theme to use and easy to customize.  It offers the complete package, with SEO built in. A highly recommended download to accompany our free website builder program.
  • Urbane: if you’re after simplicity, this free WordPress theme is ideal.  It’s user-friendly design has all the built-in features you need to boost your website traffic, including drop-down menus, Feedburner settings for RSS feeds and subscription by email, Twitter, featured post section, threaded comments and lots more.  You can also easily customize your theme options to specify categories on your home page and to configure your feed and Twitter settings easily. 
  • Snapshot: ideal for a photo gallery, portfolio or design gallery, this theme is visually impressive yet still extremely simple to use.  You can easily switch between a photo blog layout and portfolio design, with three unique color schemes to choose from, allowing you to customize the package to suit your exact needs.  A great out of the box photo theme, with SEO built in.
  • Tek-Advanced: released just last month, this brand new theme is great for gadget and tech style websites, with a theme reminiscent of James Cameron’s Avatar.  Compatible with the latest and previous WordPress versions, this is a really visually impressive theme that’s ideal for blogging.
  • I Do: this is the theme to choose for wedding blogs.  It’s brand new and the perfect choice for anyone looking to get into the lucrative wedding business.  As soon as you’ve downloaded your free website builder program, add this theme to create a romantic site that’s user-friendly and compatible with all versions of WordPress.
  • DailyPress: if you post daily then this is a great theme to use.  Very simple, with a news style, all complete with widget ready side bars, banner ads, tabbed content and social bookmarking options.  This is a minimalist style which is perfect for daily news.
  • BlueWeed: this theme has a great color scheme, with bright blue to really grab your readers and make them want to check out your content.  Clean, crisp and easy to use, it is packed with features such as tabbed sections for easy access to your content and fully widget ready.    
  • Svetlina: released just last week, this theme is ideal for cars, gadgets and boys toys.  With a sleek grey background and eye grabbing style, this is a fresh, vibrant and easy to navigate design that’s perfect for adding to your free website builder. 

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Melanie Citron

Melanie Citron is a freelance writer and self proclaimed “techie” who lives in Denver with her husband, Glenn, and their three dogs Ralph, Sam and Billy. Melanie has become the “go to person” for creating online businesses for her friends and family. “I do it every day so I may as well write about it” Her knowledge has appeared on websites, in local newspapers and in person as a public speaker. In her spare time Melanie loves the outdoors and hikes and cross country skis.