WordPress Template Collections: Free and Designer Themes

Personalize your WordPress blog with designs that’s uniquely you.  Switch it up as often as you want.  Or, give your magazine, portfolio, or business website professional presentation.  We’ve all been to websites and had no idea what to do there.  Don’t let that be you.  Your website should be presentable and easy to use.  After all, even when you’re sleeping, people all over the world see your site, 24/7/365.

How important is your WordPress blog and website theme?  The very first thing Cyrus Shepard said about blogs and websites “done right” was

overall design of your site is the first thing visitors see and it significantly influences bounce rate, pageviews and conversions. People who get scared by the idea of professional design often pay the price with a fast, cheap and mass-produced layout.

For those of you wondering about Google Rankings, site design and usability is now super important!

 

Where to get free and premium wordpress templates.

WordPress.org Free WordPress Themes

WordPress’s Official directory of free themes submitted by anyone in the design community.  Quality varies from professional feature-packed themes to terribly useless broken themes.

 

ThemeForest

Premium WordPress Themes ($5 – $40).  My go-to place for professionally designed and coded WordPress themes.  The LARGEST selection of the most impressive WordPress themes around.  Most themes are exclusive to ThemeForest with features and design elements that would cost thousands if you hired a freelance designer.

 

WooThemes

Free and Premium WordPress Themes.  Subscription gives you access to all the themes.

 

Graph Paper Press

Free and Premium WordPress Themes.  Specializing in minimalist WordPress Templates for photographers, videographers, designers, models, artists, media bloggers, vloggers, and businesses.

 

Templatic

Free and Premium WordPress Themes for business and pro bloggers.

 

ElegantThemes Premium WordPress Themes

Large Collection of quality themes with tons of features. Many of the themes are perfect for businesses.

 

Hire Freelance WordPress Website Designers

 

Sometimes you just need a completely customized WordPress template, including specialized features, custom plugins, widgets, social networking capabilities, you name it.  WordPress templates doesn’t just change the look and feel of your WordPress site, so just a graphic designer isn’t enough. WordPress templates requires computer programming for features that allow visitors to do things on the website as well as things administrators and authors like yourself can do in the Dashboard.

 Creattica

 

oDesk

 Elance

 Freelance Switch