20+ Free WordPress Themes to Start the Year With (January 2016)

Let me welcome you to the first issue of our monthly themes roundup for 2016 - the January edition. I hope you've had an excellent special season and switched years comfortably. Now is the time to start anew. What have you promised yourself to change this year? If the design of your Wordpress website is among these promises, look no further. We have the freshest WordPress designs of the net for you.

These Fresh Free WordPress Themes Want to Make Your Site Strive

All these themes are free though some may have commercial variants available or require registration.

Cosimo: Blogging & Portfolio WordPress Theme

Creator: CrestaProject Features: Grid posts layout, single-column layout, pagination, full-width header, hover zooming/twirling effect, social icons in the footer. License: free for personal and commercial use (GPL)

Popper: Accessibility & Mobile Friendly WordPress Theme

Creator: Morten Rand-Hendriksen Features: Design focused on accessibility, mobile friendliness, and touch capabilities, customizable page icon and header with colors and background images License: free for personal and commercial use (GPLv2)

Kotha: Clean Responsive WordPress Theme

Creator: ShapedTheme Features: Retina ready, responsive design, contact form 7, two blog layouts, right sidebar and full width, customizable color schemes. License: free for personal and commercial use (GPL)

BlogSixteen: Free Blogging WordPress Theme

Creator: Marcus Tisäter Features: Clean style layout, a sidebar menu with thin line-edged boxes, easy installation, infinite scroll, supports CarouselOwl 2.0 and contact form 7. License: free for personal and commercial use (GPLv2)

Politics-ready WordPress Theme

Creator: Rescue Themes Features: Multiple widgetized areas, custom home page template, home slider, logo image upload, footer copyright text, sitewide accent color, developer friendly. License: free for personal and commercial use (GPLv2)

Realistic: Material Design WordPress Theme

Creator: Themient Features: Responsive, six color schemes, custom sidebar positions, 40 pattern backgrounds, material font icons, five custom widgets, custom 404 page, ripple effect. License: free for personal and commercial use (GPLv2)

Amadeus: Music Related WordPress Theme

Creator: ThemeIsle Features: Responsive, Parallax effect, hover effects and overlayers over images, animated smooth scrolling, top navigation bar retractile to the menu when in smaller screens. License: free for personal and commercial use (GPLv2)

Unit: Clean Blogging WordPress Theme

Creator: Ben Sibley Features: Responsive, clean style, a retractile top bar for typical sidebar content, several pages, single column container, medium size thumbnails. License: free for personal and commercial use (GPLv2)

Anaglyph Lite: Clean Multipurpose WordPress Theme

Creator: Fruitful Code Features: Fully responsive options, Bootstrap responsive, smooth scrolling, a clean blog with fading effects, several eCommerce features, organized documentation. License: Free for personal use

West: Agency Home Page WordPress Theme

Creator: aThemes Features: Flat style, six different home pages, hover effects, parallax and sliding in effects, circle framed solid icons. License: free for personal and commercial use (GPL v3.0)

Opportune: Clean & Responsive Multipurpose WordPress Theme

Creator: Shaped Pixels Features: Responsive layout, multipurpose, clean style, six blog page layouts, several shortcodes, integrated gallery, several post formats. License: free for personal and commercial use (GPL)

Hallooou: Multipurpose HTML5 Responsive Template

Creator: W3 Layouts Features: One-page layout, flat style, hover and loading CSS effects, dynamic counters, embedded full-width map container, sticky top bar, full-screen overlayer menu. License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 unported

Curated Bundle of Parallax WordPress Themes

Creator: ByPeople Features: 30 different themes featuring parallax effects, one-click bundle download, suggest, comment, flag, and share options. License: Free for personal use

Tomatoo: Restaurant WordPress Theme

Creator: ThemeShock Features: Responsive layout, customizable header slider, food shape patterns as background, fancy social icons, customizable footer, sidebars, grid layout and logo. License: Free for personal use

SocialMag: Social Blogging WordPress Themes

Creator: Freewptheme Features: Multi-page, built-in options page, responsive design, featured posts slider, WooCommerce ready, seven custom widgets, translation-ready. License: Free for personal use

Activello: Simple Multipurpose Blogging WordPress Theme

Creator: Colorlib Features: Mult-page, posts section, and right sidebar layout across pages, wide header slider, hover effects over thumbnails, clean style. License: free for personal and commercial use (GPLv3)

PressNews: Magazine WordPress Theme

Creator: Themes4wp Features: Multi-page, post slider header, hover effects, intercalated images and content in single column posts layout, pagination, right sidebar. License: free for personal and commercial use (GPLv2)

Lightning: Bootstrap Based WordPress Theme

Creator: Vektor Inc Features: Multi-page layout, clean style, full-width automatic slider, single column home and right sidebar sections across its pages. License: Free for personal use

Simple East: Clean & Flat Blogging WordPressTheme

Creator: NavThemes Features: Multi-page layout, clean style with flat elements, single column boxed posts section, right side widgets, regular pagination, dark schemed footer. License: free for personal and commercial use (GPLv2)

BlogMaster: Blogging WordPress Theme

Creator: Themes4wp Features: Multi-page layout, clean style, thumbnail slider header, static right sidebar, hover effects, standard pagination, single column post section. License: free for personal and commercial use (GPLv2)

Coni: Multipurpose Clean WordPress Theme

Creator: QuemaLabs Features: Full-width one-page layout, clean style, quote lightbox slider, lazy load, sections, non-sticky top navigation bar, line icons. License: free for personal and commercial use (GPLv2)

IndiBiz: Multipage Simple WordPress Theme

Creator: InfoTuts Features: Multipage layout, clean style, minimal icons, sticky top navigation bar across and along pages, single column home page. License: free for personal and commercial use (GPLv2) If you want more free and still fresh themes check out our collection of last month. Which one is your favorite? Featured Image by Alexander Gounder from Pixabay