Responsive WordPress themes are the way of the future. More of us are viewing our favorite sites now with mobile devices such as Smart Phones, Tablets and other mobile devices.
It is therefore more important that we ensure our WordPress themes are responsive and viewable in this vast range of viewing media. This should include desktop, notebook computers, tablets, smart phone and larger displays such as televisions.
In this article I will list some free responsive WordPress themes that you can download and use.
Responsive
Responsive free WordPress Theme
Responsive Theme is a flexible foundation with fluid grid system that adapts your website to mobile devices and the desktop or any other viewing environment. Theme features 9 Page Templates, 11 Widget Areas, 6 Template Layouts, 4 Menu Positions and more. Powerful but simple Theme Options for full CMS control with easy Logo Upload, Social Networking and Webmaster Tools etc.
Responsive is WooCommerce Compatible, Multilingual Ready (WPML), RTL-Language Support, Retina-Ready, Search Engine Friendly, W3C Markup Validated and currently translated into 40 languages. Cross-Browser compatible and yes even the IE7. No paid memberships or clubs to get Responsive help.
| Demonstration | Download the Responsive free WordPress theme |
Twenty twelve
Twenty Twelve
The 2012 theme for WordPress is a fully responsive theme that looks great on any device.
Features include a front page template with its own widgets, an optional display font, styling for post formats on both index and single views, and an optional no-sidebar page template. Make it yours with a custom menu, header image, and background.
| Demonstration | Download the Twenty Twelve WordPress theme |
Montezuma
Montezuma
Montezuma is a responsive, customizable and search engine optimized HTML5 / CSS3 theme. Choose between responsive, flexible and static layouts. Edit or create new page templates online, without FTP uploads. Add custom widget areas everywhere.
Colorbox slideshow for standard WP galleries, auto post thumbs, advanced excerpts, Google fonts, transparent color picker, import/export settings and more. This is the second theme from the author of the popular “Atahualpa” theme. Active community at forum.bytesforall.com.
| Demonstration | Download the Montezuma WordPress theme |
Discover
Discover
A very neat and clean orange and white business theme. The theme is fully responsive that looks great on any device.
The theme supports widgets. And features theme-options, threaded-comments and multi-level dropdown menu. A simple and neat typography. Uses WordPress custom menu, header image, and background.
Get free support on http://antthemes.com/forum/
| Demonstration | Download the Discover WordPress theme |
Attitude
Attitude
Attitude is a Simple, Clean and Responsive Retina Ready WordPress Theme which adapts automatically to your tablets and mobile devices. Along with the elegant design the theme is easily customizable with numerous theme options.
Some of the highlighted options are two site layout (Narrow and Wide), 5 layouts for every post/page, 5 Page Templates, 5 widget areas, 4 custom widgets, featured slider to highlight your post/page, 11 social icons, webmaster tools, custom background, custom Header, custom menu, custom favicon, custom CSS, custom webclip icon, custom logo and many more.
Also supports some of the popular plugins like Breadcrumb NavXT, WP-PageNavi and Contact Form 7. It is also translation ready. Get free support on http://themehorse.com/support-forum/
| Demonstration | Download the Attitude WordPress theme |
Custom Community
Custom Community
Standout with a professional custom made WordPress theme designed by you. Responsive with just 1 click. Ready for your next blog, portfolio site, magazine, social network or shop. Use it out-of-the-box or customize it up to the smallest details.
Spend your time on your ideas, not on trouble shooting. Easy to use jQuery slideshow. List posts in magazine layouts. 100+ easy theme options. 20 widget areas, 5 special widgets and 2 custom WP 3.0 header menus. 15+ languages available. 3 predefined colour schemes (white, grey, black) with clean and simple browsersafe CSS design to start from.
Working with latest WordPress, BuddyPress, WooCommerce and most common plugins. Find extensive Documentation, Free Tech Support and Premium Support at http://themekraft.com/support. One of the most used BudyPress themes. Community driven development. You are welcome to contribute and report bugs or ideas at GitHub: https://github.com/Themekraft/custom-community/issues – designed and developed by Themekraft.
| Demonstration | Download the Custom Community WordPress theme |
iFeature
iFeature
iFeature 5 is the World’s first Touch Friendly Responsive Drag & Drop WordPress Theme developed by CyberChimps WordPress Themes. It lets you create amazing responsive websites that you can control on any touch friendly device including the iPad, iPhone, and Android devices.
iFeature 5 allows you to setup an entire website in minutes with touch friendly Drag and Drop Options on a per-page basis allowing you control the look and feel of every page.
| Demonstration | Download the iFeature WordPress theme |
Customizr
Customizr
Design your website live from the WP customizer screen : choose your favorite color skin, upload a logo, set up your social profiles, select your front page slider and blocks, set up the layout options (you can even play with the CSS live). Done!
The clean and fully responsive design can be used for any type of website: corporate, portfolio, business, blog, landing page, etc. The theme also includes a responsive slider generator (with call to action text and button) to make your pages or posts look beautiful.
Customizr is built with HTML5 and CSS3 upon the Twitter Bootstrap framework.
| Demonstration | Download the Customizr WordPress theme |
Eclipse
Eclipse
Eclipse 2 now offers touch friendly Responsive design, as well as Responsive Drag and Drop Theme Options that responds automatically to mobile devices such as the iPhone, iPad, and Android. Eclipse also includes Drag and Drop Elements such as the Portfolio Element, Responsive Feature Slider, and Post or Page Content.
All of which can be used on a per-page basis using Drag and Drop Page Options that also include sidebar and layout options giving you the power to control the look and feel of every page of your website.
| Demonstration | Download the Eclipse WordPress theme |
Swift Basic
Swift Basic
Swift Basic is the free version of Swift, the fastest loading, developer friendly and most advanced SEO WordPress theme with loads of intuitive customization options, giving you infinite number of layouts.
It supports all the awesome WordPress features like menus, post types, post formats, you name it and it will be there in Swift.
| Demonstration | Download the Swift Basic WordPress theme |
Catch Box
Catch Box
Catch Box is simple, lightweight, box shaped, and adaptable WordPress Theme for bloggers and professionals. It is based on HTML5, CSS3 and Responsive Web Design to view in various devices. 10 Best Reasons to use Catch Box Theme. 1. Responsive Web Design, 2. Custom Menus (Primary, Secondary and Footer menus), 3.
Theme Options for light or dark or blue color scheme, custom link colors, three layout choices, two content choices between excerpt and content option in homepage, feed redirection, custom css styles, 4. Featured Sliders where you can define number of slides and post IDs, 5. Social Links (Facebook, Twitter, RSS, Linkedin, Pinterest, etc), 6. Webmaster Tools (Google, Yahoo and Bing site verification ID, Header and Footer codes), 7. Custom Backgrounds, 8. Custom Header, 9. Catchbox Adspace widget to add any type of Advertisements, and 10.
Support popular plugins. Multilingual Ready (WPML) and also currently translated in Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Danish, Germany, French, Polish, Czech, Croatian, Italian, Swedish, Russian and Arabic. Free Support Forum at http://catchthemes.com/support-forum/forum/catch-box-public/
| Demonstration | Download the Catch Box WordPress theme |
PageLines
PageLines
A responsive drag-and-drop platform for professional websites based on HTML5 and CSS3. PageLines will help you do amazing things faster & easier than ever before. Designed by PageLines in California.
| Demonstration | Download the PageLines WordPress theme |
Appointway
Appointway
Appointway Theme for WordPress is a simple and beautiful theme which can be built easily through the inbuilt Themes Options Panel. The Theme is very simple to Install and you can get your website ready in minutes.
Theme comes with various different customization options that can tweaked easily by Theme Options Panel. You can easily change Logo, Intro texts and background. Appointway Theme supports multiple widgetized areas on sidebar and footer and also allows you to place widget on the homepage enabling you to have unlimited customization possibilities.
Theme supports featured images. It includes stylesheets for print and the admin Visual Editor.
| Demonstration | Download the Appointway WordPress theme |
WP StrapBlogger Lite
WP StrapBlogger Lite
WP StrapBlogger Lite is about blogging with style. A clean and light WordPress theme built on Twitter Bootstrap with a two column layout format. Sporting the Bootstrap Carousel on the home page to compliment your content (posts) plus a home page intro widget area.
The theme supports individual widget areas for blog (post lists), posts (single post) and pages plus four widgets in the footer area. The theme customizer presents the end user with options to hide the navbar on the home page, set slider to fade or slide plus the option to turn on/off the carousel, hide the footer credit links plus add your own custom copyright details.
As a design default, posts are rendered with either the featured image, first image in post or a placeholder image if no images are attached to the post. See website for more details and documentation.
| Demonstration | Download the WP StrapBlogger Lite WordPress theme |
WP Opulus
WP Opulus
WP Opulus is a modern, highly customizable and responsive (mobile-friendly) HTML5 and CSS3 WordPress theme that allows you to change the site’s colors, frontpage layout, headers, page templates, fonts, and much more! Take advantage of the portfolio custom post-type to showcase your gallery of work.
The responsive layout works with any browser so your website looks great on iPhones, Android phones, tablets and desktops. Opulus boasts an extensive custom theme options panel, up to 20 custom widgetized sidebars for your pages as well as a widgetized footer, simple social networking and script integration.
| Demonstration | Download the WP Opulus WordPress theme |
Aspen
Aspen Responsive WP Theme
Tired of looking for a theme you want? The Aspen Theme is the easiest way to create a perfect site that looks how you want and is mobile friendly! You are in control. Start with one of the many included subthemes, then tweak away for the exact look you want. Aspen has the options you really need – all in a simple to use “checkbox” interface. No need to know programming or complex styling rules – but if you do, Aspen offers plenty of flexibility for more advanced users.
Sixteen sidebar locations with multiple layout options. The responsive mobile view will match your site’s desktop look – automatically!
Features include: context sensitive help; translations for more than 18 languages; IE support; WP Multisite; popular plugins supported; active support forum.
| Demonstration | Download the Aspen WordPress theme |
Alexandria
Alexandria
Responsive WordPress Business theme with business style home page layout with welcome section, 3 product/services blocks and a client quote/testimonial section. 2 logo section layout options.
2 premade (Blue, Red) ready to use color schemes/skins. 3 widget areas in footer, 1 widget area in sidebar. 2 page layouts including a full width page template. Social media icons in footer.
| Demonstration | Download the Alexandria WordPress theme |
Expressions
Expressions
Expressions is a full featured responsive theme that looks great on full size screens, ipad and mobile devices. Users have the flexibility to create the website that suits your style, with extensive theme options, post metabox options, and page metabox options.
Comprehensive user documentation is available at the demo site.
| Demonstration | Download the Expressions WordPress theme |
Quark
Quark Responsive Theme
Quark is your basic building block for creating beautiful, responsive custom themes. It’s a simple and elegant starter theme built on HTML5 & CSS3.
| Demonstration | Download the Quark WordPress theme |
Hazen
Hazen
Responsive WordPress theme with multiple homepage layouts, 4 ready to use skins(Black, Blue, Red, Green), two column layout, three column layout, featured posts, social icons, twitter updates, threaded comments and widget support.
| Demonstration | Download the Hazen WordPress theme |
What is your favorite free responsive WordPress theme. Add it to the comments below and I will add it to this list of theme.
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