20 Free WordPress Themes for Writers
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Isn’t it time you started a Blog?
Having a professional, well maintained blog is becoming essential to your writing career. Promote your writing, develop a community of fans, create a strong presence: all possible with a well designed, popular blog.
So here are 20 Free WordPress templates designed to help you project a professional, polished image. As always I have tried to link directly to the designer’s site, but have quite a few going to the WordPress Theme Viewer. I have tried to stay away from LinkWare: you’re trying to promote yourself, not someone else.
20. Typewriter-Let’s start with the obvious- Typewriter is a clean, well laid out design with an image of a classic, retro typewriter in the header. Basic Blog Theme without a lot of features.
19. Tropical Grunge-
Tropical Grunge WordPress theme
A Dark Green Background with a light text area, Tropical Grunge has a cool header image and would work well on Fantasy writers‘ blogs.
18. Abstractia- Another Dark Green Theme, with a little more professional look.
Abstractica WordPress Theme
17. Zeke 1.0- A popular Theme. Dark Red header and yellow text, with a woody background. Well laid out for monetization and sales.
Zeke WordPress Theme
16. RetroBook-An antique book. Small area for text, lots of wasted space. If you want to put up a bio and biblio, but don’t want to actually blog, this might be the way to go.
retrobook WordPress Theme
15. Nebula- A great Sci-Fi Theme. Dark Text on a static image of the Horsehead Nebula.
14. PDawn- dark theme, with a depressing/ Horror image. Very understated and elegant. Would Work for most horror, except Extreme.
PDawn Theme
13. Point Blank- Speaking of extreme Horror…Milo is a prolific designer of awesome looking themes. He’s all over the WordPress Theme Viewer. Unfortunately, a lot of his themes can be considered experimental- Cool looking and State-Of-The-Art, but hard to use and modify. Point Blank isn’t one of these. It works, and works well.
Point Blank Horror WordPress Theme
12.Nebula 1.8- Another Dark Sci-Fi Theme. More of a dark Tech / Cyber feel.
11.WP-Premium- A professional Theme with three different color schemes. What I’m using here (Red Theme). Not real personal, but easy to work with.
10. Options Theme- Unusual Theme with lots of “Options” Can be used for a blog or a Magazine Style Theme. Two Color Styles- “Light, which was this site’s previous theme and is more personal, and “Dark”, Which I use on Battlestar Grammactica. Theme options are controlled not by editing the files, but through a Dashboard Applet.
9- Visionary- Another Theme by the same designer as Options. This is a News style theme, but is not as cluttered and should work well for a personal writer’s site. No Picture since it’s a clean grid / Magazine style theme.
8,7,6,5,4. Notebook, Duffy, Blue Jeans, Aspire and Genesis- All these themes are pretty impressive, and pretty nice looking. Aspire was used on My daughter’s site, and was the inspiration for this list. When looking for the original designer, I came across InfoCreek’s website and all these Themes. They all seem based on the same structure.
Duffy Theme
Duffy and Aspire are Antique themes, Notebook has a Feminine touch, Blue Jeans is Rustic and Genesis is High Tech.
3. Halloween-Good Dark Template. Actually not so much Horror as Grungy Industrial. Extra Points Because the Designer uses it for his own Site.
Horror WordPress Theme
2.DFire-A dark Theme with Light Sidebars and an Unusual color scheme. Nice images throughout.
DFire Theme
1.Sandbox- C’mon, You’re Creative, right? Why Not Make your own theme to reflect your true personality? Sandbox is a theme designed to allow easy customization and configuration. A lot of the Free themes I’ve found use this as their starting point.
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thanks a lot
I particularly like the wooden background on one of the free templates.Much obliged and it will fit nicely on my writers resources site – Andrew – Australia
Thanks. good luck.
Thanks. good luck.