3 Excellent FREE WordPress Themes that I’d BUY

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As a web designer, it’s part of my work to look at different wordpress themes almost every single day. I’ve seen hundreds of them, some were good, some were excellent and then there were a few, which I wished I had designed! Here are the 3 themes that I really liked, loved actually. They might not seem the best looking themes of all time to all, but when you consider a few things like usability, monetizing options, plus things like loading time and such along with the look, these are most likely the top ones of their kind.

Infinity — a free professional WordPress-theme

Author:  Smashing Magazine

 

Features:

3 fixed columns design

Thumbnail covers style

Flickr, Twitter and delicious integration

**not widget-ready (see the development-kit below)

 

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Simple Balance 2.0 WordPress Theme

Author: Blogsessive.com

 

Features:

An extensive and inclusive theme control panel;

Widget-ready sidebars;

Top advertising space (468×60 pixels);

Sidebar advertising space: Up to 8 small square banners (125×125 pixels);

Individual settings for each banner you add:

Custom banner URL;

Do Follow / No Follow witch;

Title and alternate text;

Open in a new window or same window

Master switch (on/off) for every Ad Zone;

Variable layout structure:

Centered content;

Right-aligned content;

5 new additional color schemes (more released monthly);

Option to display the default left sidebar image, use a custom one or hide it;

Custom feed URL;

Valid cross-browser tested XHTML and CSS;

SEO smart coding;

Works with WordPress 2.6.2 (tested starting with WordPress 2.5);

 

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Blogging Pro WordPress Theme

Author: BloggingPro

 

Features:

This three column theme is WordPress 2.1 ready and should work just fine in WordPress 2.0.x. It has been tested on a variety of browsers, but we can’t promise that there will be no problems.

 

It comes in two versions, one with the big footer like Blogging Pro, that gives information on recent posts, recent comments and most commented stories, and one without the big footer, and thus no need for any plugins at all.

 

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