Ready-to-use themes is one of the greatest benefits of any CMS. Especially when it comes to WordPress. You can easily find whatever template you like and quickly make a reality of every whim. Carefully surfing through the web you can choose among
business themes,
blog/magazine layouts,
portfolio templates,
coming soon pages,
and even ecommerce themes.
Nowadays there is no limit in working with WordPress. Furthermore the main template directory is regularly updated with new high-quality, premium-like but absolute free of charge wordpress themes. Such templates don’t inferior to their brothers, maybe they are not distinguished by extensive admin panels or graphics, but they provide the same functionality including responsiveness, neatness, mobile-readiness, sliders, fully optional galleries, shortcodes etc. You always have the opportunity to finalize them as most of these templates have a transparent clean structure that can be easily used as a base.
To save you precious time I have collected best of the best wordpress themes from 2012 year. I have divided list into 4 main sections: Business wordpress themes, Blog and online Magazines templates, Portfolio and Gallery layouts and Other themes that includes coming soon pages, default basic layouts.
Business WordPress Themes
1.Iridium is a WordPress theme to be used as a landing page for mobile apps 
2.Folder – Sleek and responsive WordPress Theme 
3.NeoArts – Single Page Business 
4.Grid Layout responsive wordpress theme 
5.Pytheas – responsive wordpress template for corporate websites 
6.3 Responsive WordPress Themes 
7.Siren is a responsive WordPress theme. 
9.Pytheas – responsive corporate website 
10.Tyrant 
12. Prospect- powerful business theme 
13. Small Business
14. Gommero- available in free and paid version 
15. Leatherly 
Blog/Magazines
1.Lantern is a minimalist theme from fabthemes 
2. Left 
5.Freshbit 
6.Pinboard 
8.Madison – vintage and wood styled website layout 
9.Clean Response WordPress Theme 
11.Shortnotes – also wp template for blogging 
12.Thoughts – responsive theme 
13.Clean Retina 
14. Workality
15. Leaf
16. The Night Watch
17. Mosaic- clean and minimal 
18. Quintel 
19. Tetris – tumblog 
20. Minimalizine – minimal blog layout 
21. WarmWinter – simple layout for blog 
22. blogBox – blog wordpress theme with slider 
23. Newspress 
24. Herakles – dark blog theme 
25. ElegantWhite 
26. Lucas Theme 
27. Montezuma 
28. Photo Theme 
29. Keiran – two-column blogging wordpress theme 
30. Digifoto 
Portfolio
1.Solio is a single-page portfolio WordPress theme 
2.Onepager – Responsive Portfolio WordPress Theme 
3.A Modern WordPress Portfolio Theme 
4.Monaco is a free theme from fabthemes 
6.Simple Photo Responsive Theme 
7.Stitchop – portfolio wp theme 
8. Winter – blog and gallery wordpress theme 
9. Photo – for photographers’ portfolio 
10. D5 Design 
11. Rasputin – portfolio and agency wp theme 
12. Stripefolio – portfolio theme for wordpress 
13. Lantern – standard online portfolio 
14. Snapshot 
15. Solio – single page wordpress portfolio 
Other
1.Crumbs provide you with eigther a static holding page or with WordPress theme 
2.Veecard – one page wordpress theme 
3.Viper – directory wordpress theme 
4. Glider – responsive wp theme without incorporating multimedia 
5. Lexiity – coming soon wordpress theme 
6. Discussion – board wordpress theme 
7. Trendy – simple basic wordpress theme 
8. Convention – minimal basic theme 
PART 2 – Best WordPress Themes of 1st half
If you find another good free wordpress theme don’t be shy tell us via comment form. Let’s create a comprehensive collection together. We are looking forward to hearing from you
