Fall Cleaning: 20 Free WordPress Themes from October 2013 to Brush the Dust Off Your Website

This is the season where nature gets more colorful than during any other time of the year. Before things get white, cold and - well - colorless, nature takes a stand. Why don't you, too? Your site could well need a little dusting. We know you've been promising that to yourself many times throughout the year. Do it like nature does, prepare your blog, magazine, whatever you maintain, for winter tristesse.

Today we show you the new (and some re-issued) WordPress themes of October 2013. All these themes are free, though some have commercial variants available. We stated that where applicable...

Fleebig: Full Background Theme

Genre: Blog
Responsive: Yes
Features: Multicolumn layout, full background slider
License: Free + Premium

Brew: Starter Theme Based on Bones and Bootstrap 3

Genre: Portfolio
Responsive: Yes
Features: One page layout, Bootstrap built
License: Free

Hills: Amazing Theme for Blogs About Nature

Genre: Blog
Responsive: No
Features: Lots of widgets, big slider
License: Free / Premium

The Restaurant: Highly Customizable Theme for Food Lovers

Genre: Showcase
Responsive: Yes
Features: Big slider, clean code
License: Free

iFeature 5: Touch Friendly Responsive Drag & Drop Theme

Genre: Blog
Responsive: Yes
Features: Big slider, minimal
License: Free

Hannari Free: Responsive and Flexible Theme

Genre: Blog
Responsive: Yes
Features: SEO optimized, grid
License: Free + Commercial

Fancier: Dark Responsive Theme

Genre: Showcase
Responsive: Yes
Features: Custom menus, grid
License: Free

Opulus Sombre: Dark & Modern Mobile Friendly HTML5 and CSS3 theme

Genre: Blog
Responsive: Yes
Features: Widget integration, featured images
License: Free

Careta: Fully Multidevice Responsive Theme for Blogs

Genre: Magazine
Responsive: Yes
Features: Color customization support, grid layout design
License: Free

Hro: Minimalistic Theme

Genre: Blog
Responsive: Yes
Features: drop-down menu, Google handwritten fonts
License: Free

Aldehyde: Minimal Responsive Theme with a Parallax Header

Genre: Magazine
Responsive: Yes
Features: Responsive slider, parallax header
License: Free

Expert: Clean Theme with a Strong Appeal

Genre: Magazine
Responsive: Yes
Features: Admin panel, Antispam without captcha
License: Free + Commercial

WordPost: Minimalist Theme for Multiple Purposes

Genre: Corporate
Responsive: No
Features: Two columns, full width slider
License: Free

Enclosed: Clean and Modern Theme, Highly Readable

Genre: Corporate
Responsive: No
Features: SEO optimized, full width slider
License: Free

Busiprof: Clean Theme for All Types of Businesses

Genre: Multipurpose
Responsive: Yes
Features: Threaded comments, full width template
License: Free

Modern Estate: Sleek and Responsive Real Estate Theme

Genre: Corporate
Responsive: Yes
Features: Featured image support, cutting edge HTML5 and CSS3
License: Free

WiziApp: The Ultimate Mobile WebApp Experience

Genre: Multipurpose
Responsive: Yes
Features: Flexible header, mobile oriented interface
License: Free

Engrave: Visually Stunning Dark Styled Theme

Genre: Corporate
Responsive: Yes
Features: SEO optimized, 600 google fonts
License: Free + Commercial

Sixteen: Artistic and Responsive Theme with Parallax Effects

Genre: Portfolio
Responsive: Yes
Features: Custom background support, header image with parallax
License: Free + Commercial

Collage: Portfolio Blog With a Collage Slider

Genre: Portfolio
Responsive: Yes
Features: Social share bar, collage slider
License: Free + Commercial

These are our new entries for October 2013. If you can't get enough, check out the previous installments: September, August, July, June/May, April, March, January/February, December 12, November 12, October 12 and September12! Don’t forget the Best of 2012 collection and our Summer-Special 2013. Have fun and let us know if we missed out on important new entries. Which ones are your favorites?

About the Authors

The shock family is a group of web enthusiasts, designers and developers dedicated to the creation of all kinds of resources for the web. They are well known for their various projects, such as themeshock, a site with quality WordPress themes and useful freebies, iconshock, the largest icon repository with more than a million icons and WPthemegenerator, the online creation tool for WordPress and XTML themes.

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