If you are a startup or small business, you may not have the budget for a custom website at the start, and while we dont recommend you use one forever, a Free WordPress theme presents a cost effective way to gain your first web presence. There are many different styles available to you, so I’m going to look at some free business and corporate WordPress themes. If you choose the right theme for your business, add your great content and a custom logo it will be hard to tell your site is powered by a free theme.
Boldly
Features : Widget ready ( footer and sidebar ), Easy to setup, Theme Options Page, WordPress Post Thumbnail Enabled. WordPress 3.0 Menu Management Support, Latest Tweets Build-in Widget, Build-in Pagination, Homepage Ninvo Slider, JQuery PrettyPhoto Lightbox, JQuery Forms, Ajax based contact form, Live form email validation.
SimplyBiz
Business portfolio style great for anyone who want’s to showcase their works online. This theme comes with a clean but professional design, navigation supports dropdown features as well as adding short description to parents menu, has portfolio slider which built on custom post type that wordpress 3.0 comes with, has 3 services panel page, featured video on sidebar and a lot more.
Wise Business
Features: 3 color styles, Widget ready, WordPress Post Thumbnail Enabled, WordPress 3.0 Menu Management Support, Easy to setup, Theme Options Page, Custom Home, Portfolio,Testimonials page templates, Latest Tweets support, JQuery Lightbox, JQuery Superfish Dropdown Menus, JQuery Form, Ajax based contact form, Live form email validation
Zincious
With an elegant design, custom font and pixel perfect execution, we bring you an awesome freemium WP theme – Zincious WordPress theme.
The crafty content slider showcases your featured posts to engage your readers with your important posts. It is WordPress 3.0 compliant which is packed with a robust framework for easier backend customization – no need to touch the codes.
Copperific
Looking for a free premium quality WP theme that let you stand out of the crowd? Our latest Copperific WordPress theme will be your solution. It has a stylish featured slider to showcase your personal, technology, design and other related blog niches. Also, it shows your Gravatar in every posts which is great for multi-author membership sites.
Vanadiumitic
Vanadiumitic WordPress theme comes with a featured content section, dropdown menu, subscription buttons (Twitter, Facebook and RSS), automatic thumbnail resizer, popular posts, featured posts, featured video and a lot more.
Manganescent
Manganescent WordPress theme comes with a built-in Facebook Share button, Twitter Tweet button, featured content section, dropdown menu, subscription buttons (Twitter, Google, Facebook and RSS), automatic thumbnail resizer, popular posts, featured posts and a lot more.
Nickelation
This magazine type blog theme is compatible with WordPress 3.0+ versions. The robust framework makes it easier to manage and customize the backend administration without touching any codes.
Ultra
Ultra is a theme that is ideal for businesses that want a very clean, elegant and professional website, however, with the custom portfolio and blog templates it is also an awesome website for personal portfolios and blogs. You can easily switch between a business or blog layout for your homepage as well as create a portfolio or services page simply by using the custom portfolio page template and selecting a portfolio category via your theme options page.
FreeBizz
FreeBizz is a really clean and professional free WordPress theme that was created with corporate and small business websites in mind. FreeBizz comes with a clean layout that is easy to edit and ideal for showcasing your business.
Akylas
This theme carries the blue shade that is perfect for any kind of Blog. Theme is widget ready, advertisement ready and an easily customizable theme to use. Works in IE7, IE8, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera and on the Latest version of WordPress 3.0 and below.
Orsted
Orsted Theme is a very stylish Green Theme perfect for Blogs. Theme is widget ready, advertisement ready and an easily customizable theme to use. Works in IE7, IE8, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera and is compliant with the Latest version of WordPress 3.0 and below.
Heliumified
Heliumified WordPress theme comes with a clean design and equipped with tons of fantastic features. This WordPress 3.0 compliant theme has 5 color schemes to choose from; aside from that you can also use custom colors to match your blog’s color palette.
Businezz
This is a business styled theme which can be used by anyone wishing to launch a company,corporate or business website/portfolio. Businezz sports a crisp design that will add value to any blog/website that implements it.
Boronic
Boronic WordPress theme comes with 5 different color variations to match any blog’s niches. This free premium WordPress theme comes with a featured content section, subscription buttons (Twitter, Facebook and RSS), automatic thumbnail resizer, popular posts, featured posts, featured video and a lot more.
SimpleFolio
SimpleFolio is a portfolio theme that includes a blog and a very extensive option page that allows you to exclude all your portfolio items from the blog page. It also includes a front page slider.
Berita
Here comes my best wordpress business theme to date, called Berita. It is minimalistic looking theme that will suit every company that wants to display its corporate image clearly and professionally. Web designers may use it for their online projects and offer their clients web sites with all premium features they will need.
The Standard
Incorporates a fancy jquery slider – but it keeps to a grid layout, once again built on Vladimir Carrer’s “Golden Grid”. The administration area is rather extensive and allows for a tremendous amount of customization.
Maparaan
Maparaan WordPress theme comes with a customizable front page which showcases the “About Us” and “What We Do” sections. This special multi-colored 5-in-1 free WordPress theme is packed with a better framework and a robust admin options panel to accommodate the General Settings, Page Tracker, Social Networking, Related Posts, Page Navigation and Custom Ads Settings.
Corporate Life
Corporate life theme perfectly suits small business websites, supporting widgets and containing a promobox for fast access to information, featuring w3c valid code and convenient Ajax contact form.
Do you know any nice themes we’ve missed out ? Please let us know in the comments …
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