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10 Latest, Clean Themes Released for WordPress

Quite often, you’ll find that a large number of WordPress themes are released, but few contain the look or features you may be looking for. Many of the best themes are quickly buried by either premium themes or those that don’t have the features or settings you may be looking for.

In this showcase, we bring together some of the best WordPress themes that have recently been released. They are great for a wide array of uses, but primarily for use on your blog/personal website.

10 Great Themes Recently Released

This is by no means a complete look at themes released, but simply a snapshot of themes recently released. They can all be used on your website/blog free of charge, although there may be some “premium” versions also available with more features.

Blogwave | Details | Demo

Features a widget-ready sidebar and 404 page, as well as pagination support and banner ad management. Compatible with WordPress 2.9 and released under the GPL.

Hurricane | Details | Demo

This theme has a grungy look with five widget-ready areas, and a customization panel for basic editing. You can add your Twitter, FeedBurner, and Google Analytics information within this panel.

Crispp | Details | Demo

Crispp features consistent styling across all major browsers (including IE6), no images for fast loading, fully widget-ready areas, a separate admin area for controlling the visual aspects, plus an introduction box on the homepage.

Shofi | Details | Demo

This theme features a grid-based structure, powered by the 960 Grid System Framework. Images are automatically grabbed and resized for easy posting.

SimpleBlog | Details | Demo

This theme does not contain many features, which makes it fast-loading and easy to customize and use. It has been designed primarily for personal blogs, so there are no advertisement areas, either. A subscription area and search box have been integrated into the theme.

Profile | Details | Demo

Profile is light and minimalistic, which makes it great for use as an online business card. It is compatible with the latest version of WordPress, and integrates everything within the theme, so no plugins are required. Additionally, three color styles have been include.d

BasicPress | Details | Demo

BasicPress features four color schemes to choose from, drop-down menu navigation, a featured posts gallery, subscription and social profile features, plus other common features to make customizing and managing your theme easy.

RS16 | Details | Demo

This theme features multiple background images, Twitter integration, page navigation integration, plenty of widget-ready areas, and image-based page navigation.

ThemeRay | Details | Demo

Features the ability to add advertisements, support for threaded comments, Flickr RSS stream, a featured video, Gravatars, and more. It is compatible with the latest version of WordPress and comes in a white/gray color scheme.

BluTheme | Details | Demo

Display thumbnails in posts, “about” the author content, social bookmarks area, and place your best articles in a “featured” area. In addition, there are customization options and multiple settings to help you edit the basic features, which would normally require you to edit the coding.

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  1. Leland / Dec 31 2009

    Three themes I had something to do with. :)

    Thanks for including Blogwave, Hurrcane, and RS16 in this list.

    Happy new year!

    • webecta / Jan 1 2010

      They are all great themes, thank you for releasing them to the community.

      Have a great new year, too!

  2. Vlad Patrascu / Jan 1 2010

    Thanks for featuring blutheme.

  3. Omar / Jan 1 2010

    Thanks for including SimpleBlog :)

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