Once again, the folks at Elegant Themes offer an informative review of some of the best themes out there. In addition, the article includes a nice overview of the pros and cons of free themes vs. premium themes, as well as “freemium” themes, which they define as “the Digital Love Child Of Free and Premium Themes.” “It is a free theme (generally) from a premium theme shop.”
The 20 themes they recommend as “best” are:
- Serene by Elegant Themes
- Arcade Basic By Bovatan
- Snaps by Graph Paper Press
- Rivera by FabThemes
- Hueman by AlxMedia
- Moesia by aThemes
- Starter by ThemeUm
- SoCute Multi-Purpose WooCommerce Theme by Your Inspiration Themes
- Lensa by Colorlab
- Thoughts by WPExplorer
- December by iThemes
- MyStile WooCommerce Theme by WooThemes
- Widely by Themes Kingdom
- DW Timeline by DesignWall
- Danko by Themes Kingdom
- Multi Web Design by Crocoblock
- Flozo by FlyerZone
- Solon by aThemes
- Sparkling by Colorlib
- Meet GavernWP by GavickPro
I do recommend that you read the article at elegantthemes.com, because the author (Ariel Rule) offers a nice few paragraph summary of each theme. And even the comments thread is informative. Check it out!