Finding a FREE Wordpress Template

August 17th, 2009 |

Author: Pixie

Lilly green free wordpress template

Well, An update on my journey. As you will see I managed to get rid of the basic Wordpress template. I was quite impressed with how simple the Wordpress software makes it to change templates. I started yesterday with doing a google search for FREE WORDPRESS TEMPLATE and found some really nice templates.
The first website I viewed was http://wordpresstemplates.name . I was shocked to see such good quality templates for free.
I decided on this template first to play about with:

I really liked this template and once downloaded I followed the easy process of installing it into my Wordpress.
SEE HOW TO INSTALL A WORDPRESS TEMPLATE HERE

Once installed it did look nice but for some reason when I viewed the template on my fellas computer from a different browser it did go all messy and not keep the text in the picture boxes etc. So even though this looks nice be careful to always check it on different browsers. I’m not quite sure if it was because of the widgets or plug ins in my wordpress that were causing issues as I was new to all that as well but either way its still a nice template, worth playing about with.

Next I just looked through google and looked through the different websites offering free wordpress templates.

Some more good sites I found were:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/01/08/100-excellent-free-high-quality-wordpress-themes/

http://www.freewpthemes.net/

http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/

There is alot to think about when picking a template. How you want your navigation, is it widget ready and AdSense ready..So much to think about and that’s before I even try and contemplate designing my own wordpress template rather than using a free one.

I did find a very nice basic layout on wordpress.org. That’s the template that’s here at the moment. I was very impressed that they made it easy to change the header image and the background so at least it can be made to look different from other free templates with my own graphics. All i did was download the template, go into the Images folder within the template files, and there i could view and header what was obious the background image and the header image with photoshop. Very easy indeed.

I do worry this particular template is rather to garish. So I think I will be changing it again but that’s the greatness I’m finding with Wordpress, they make it so simple to install new themes it doesn’t matter if I change things often while picking whats right for me and this website.

Well enough for now, Dam school holidays make it impossible to work and deal with a 6 year old