Wordpress Themes You (Probably!) Haven't Seen Before

Best Wordpress Themes that Change the Face of Blogging

As more businesses realize the power of blogging systems, Wordpress is slowly but surely breaking out of the "personal blogging" mold. It's becoming more difficult to point out a website that runs on Wordpress, largely because of this change in the way we're viewing the blog as a publishing platform. This has made it easier for designers to get away with really astounding themes.

One of the ways that Wordpress has changed is that many websites are using Wordpress as a Magazine. Why not? It's still one of the easiest ways to publish to the web that's out there, and with a little coding (or searching) you can have a website that looks truly professional. It's dynamic. And it's easy to build on.

What all of these things mean is that personal blogging is far from past, too. The difference is that personal bloggers are taking more chances with their design choices and using the experience to build a website that truly represents them as an artist, a mother, a grandparent, a military spouse, and millions of other things.

Whether you're looking for a fresh look or just starting out with Wordpress, you have thousands of design options available. Themes make it easy to keep an always-changing look, or to cement a brand. In this guide, we're going to look at some of the best - free - Wordpress themes currently available. And they're changing the way we view blogging.

Newspaper Wordpress Theme: Grid Focus

Some really stellar work went into creating the Grid Focus theme for Wordpress. In its basic elements, it is a 3-column Wordpress theme created and distributed free of any dependance on Wordpress plugins. That alone is something very, very hard to find in our widget and plugin bloated web world.

Visually, Grid Focus is extremely easy to get around with navigation bars located at both the top and bottom of pages, and category archives are presented at the top of the page. You can't get away from the newspaper feel of this theme, either. A very clean, strong monotone theme cements the newsy look begun by the placement of columns and elements.