8 Best & Free WordPress Themes of 2016

In this article we list the best WordPress Themes of 2016 that are available for free. The features of each of these WP Themes are listed below, to you give you an idea of the usability of the theme for your projects.

Planning to launch a WordPress powered website? Well, there is no denying that WordPress is the best open source software to build fully functional and dynamic websites. In fact, according to a recent study, WordPress powers more than 24.7% of the websites today. The number is impressive and so is the growth of WordPress.

To build a site with WordPress, you will need a theme to set a strong foundation for your website. The theme also gives your site a layout and architecture.

Fortunately, WordPress comes with dozens of premium and free WordPress themes to help you build a site that reflects your brand and its aim.

However, choosing one theme that best suits your business requisites certainly seems a challenging task.
Therefore, in today’s post, we have compiled a list of top free WordPress themes that you can integrate into your website and build a beautiful website out of it.

Have a look at these free WordPress themes:

1. Llorix One – Business WordPress Theme

Llorix One is a well-designed and versatile business WordPress theme that can be used to build a corporate site, a personal portfolio and so much more. Designed to be a single page theme, Llorix One is easy and simple to use that can provide a better performance for SEO. The homepage of the theme contains a range of different modules that can be customized as per your needs and specifications.

Impressive features of Llorix One:

• 100% fully responsive design that makes your website look well on all screens and devices
• Comes with a separate ribbon section that allows you to send a personal message and change the background
• Boasts of smooth parallax scrolling effect
• Highly customizable

2. Pixova Lite – Free Parallax WordPress Theme

Pixova Lite is an impressive, amazingly resourceful and versatile WordPress theme that also comes in a premium version. The responsive layout makes your site looks beautiful on all the devices and screens. The theme also allows you to capture the attention of your visitors with a nice inbuilt parallax header. Equipped with WooCommerce, you can also build a feature-rich and scalable e-store.

Impressive features of Pixova Lite

• Integrated with a section where you can add your own title and text
• Highly customizable and retina ready
• Has a single page layout
• Comes translation and WPML ready
• Is cross browser compatible

3. IsleMag – Magazine WordPress Theme

IsleMag is a modern, powerful and flexible WordPress theme ideal for magazines, entertainment and news website. The theme features a friendly and engaging design that grabs your visitors’ attention as soon as they land on your website. You can make your website even more beautiful by customizing colors, adding reviews, social media feeds, posting great image galleries and displaying ads.

Impressive features of IsleMag:

• Has a beautiful boxed layout design
• Equipped with carousels, sliders, and ad banners
• Comes integrated with a review system and widgetized footer
• Lets you choose from a range of colors
• Allows you to add Instagram feed on your site

4. Zerif Lite – One Page WordPress Theme

Designed to be one page WordPress theme, Zerif Lite is a highly customizable, retina ready and impressive WordPress theme that has a simple white menu bar at the top and a full-width background image. Zerif Lite is a bold WordPress theme featuring black and white colors primarily. Aside, the theme also offers some sections in bright hues like red, yellow and vivid light green. Built on Bootstrap Framework, Zerif Lite is highly compatible with different devices and screens available out there.

Impressive features of Zerif Lite:

• Has a validated and clean code
• Boasts of a smooth Parallax scrolling effect
• Comes integrated with WooCommerce plugin
• Equipped with a powerful and advanced theme options panel
• Is translation ready
• Features an easy contact functionality

5. Hueman – Mobile Friendly WordPress Theme

Hueman is a neatly structured, powerful and mobile friendly WordPress theme ideal for business, magazine websites and personal blogs. The theme is developed to wonderfully display text content and pictures. Optimized for SEO and speed, Hueman helps you improve your website’s search engine rankings and user experience. Thanks to its beautiful and versatile design, the theme has more than 70K active users across the world.

Impressive features of Hueman:

• Equipped with social sharing buttons
• Has boxed layout and full-width layout
• Lets you add related posts below every post
• Comes with an advanced theme options panel to let you customize the look and feel of your website

6. ShopIsle – WordPress E-commerce Theme

ShopIsle is yet another impressive WordPress theme that can be used to create personal portfolios, business sites, corporate sites and e-commerce stores. The theme is built on Bootstrap framework and thus adjusts your website according to different screen sizes and devices. The theme is also powered by WooCommerce that offers a range of tools for building a beautiful online store.

Impressive features of ShopIsle:

Comes with an advanced and powerful theme options panel
Integrated with localization files and thus allows you to translate all the theme built-in text
Cross browser compatible
Has a clean and validated code
Equipped with Contact Form 7 plugin to help you create beautiful contact forms
Also has widgetized footer and video ribbon

7. Sydney

Sydney is a simple, neatly structured and truly versatile WordPress theme that boasts of beautiful animations, a smooth scrolling, and a full-screen slider. Developed to be a multipurpose theme, Sydney is ideal for creating a personal blog, a business site, an online and so much more. The theme lets you choose from a wide range of colorful sections, Google fonts, and front page blocks.

Impressive features of Sydney:

• Has 100% fully responsive design layout
• Makes your website stand out from the rest with parallax backgrounds
• Has social sharing buttons integrated
• Is translation ready
• Has static or slider image header and social links

8. Oblique – Fashion WordPress theme

Oblique is a simple and clean Masonry WordPress theme ideal for fashion and personal blogs. The theme features a minimalist design and dark skin. Oblique comes equipped with colorful buttons, a classy black and white look and a slide-out left menu. The theme allows you o target mobile users with its mobile-friendly design layout.

Impressive features of Oblique:

• Optimized for search engines and speed
• Has slide-out left menu
• 100% fully responsive design layout
• Is translation ready
• Comes widget ready and lets you add an array of widgets
• Lets you choose from a range of colors
• Comes with custom background, Google fonts, and a parallax header

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