Chapter 16
Ten Free WordPress Themes
IN THIS CHAPTER
Finding good WordPress themes
Using popular WordPress themes to style your website
The list I present here isn’t exhaustive by any means. Chapters 8, 10, and 11 give you a few more resources to find a theme that suits your needs.
All the themes in this chapter meet the following criteria:
- They’re user-friendly. You don’t have to tinker with anything to get things to look the way you want them to.
- They’re compatible with widgets. In a word, widgets are wonderful. I cover them in Chapter 9.
- They’re free. Some very nice premium themes are out there, but why pay if you don’t have to?
- They use valid code. Although you may not notice it, valid code that meets W3C (
https://www.w3.org) standards won’t cause errors in browsers.
Hybrid Core
Theme designer: Justin Tadlock
https://themehybrid.com/hybrid-core
Hybrid Core is more of a theme framework, or parent theme that can be modified endlessly to create the perfect child theme, than a theme to use straight out of the box. But don’t let that description intimidate you! The theme is crazy-easy to use and very user-friendly.
By default, the Hybrid Core theme is plain and simple, but it encompasses all the WordPress features and functions you might want:
- It’s SEO-ready. Hybrid is completely ...
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