Free WordPress Themes and Theme Building Tools

Ever wonder how to build or customize a WordPress theme in Dreamweaver? It's actually pretty simple. We've included some useful tools below the free themes, and check out our blog article on customizing WordPress themes in Dreamweaver for more info.

FlexSqueeze Theme now available!

FlexSqueeze is the newest release in the Flexibility series of themes. With FlexSqueeze you can instantly create a professional sales page in WordPress.

Here are a few features, but head over to FlexibilityTheme.com for more details:

Enhanced version of Flexibility 2 so you have complete control over your blog widths, colors, images, etc.
One-click squeeze pages and the ability to create complete WordPress mini sites in minutes
Theme includes over 250 of the highest quality PNG images so you can quickly create the ultimate squeeze page
Easily choose from many sales page headers in the theme options page
Set your squeeze page display options independently from your main blog
Many, many more features that make FlexSqueeze the fastest and easiest way to create professional sales pages in WordPress!

New! Squeeze Page Vector Pack for creating professional sales pages

The Squeeze Page Vector Pack is a massive collection of vector images that you can use to create the ultimate squeeze pages. It comes with over 250 editable vector buttons, bursts, icons and page elements that you can edit in Fireworks or Photoshop to create your own custom images.

The Squeeze Page Vector Pack can be downloaded at FlexibilityTheme.com.

New! Template Packs include free WordPress theme, Joomla template, Drupal template and website template!

Our new template packs come with four templates in one zip file. The purpose of this is mainly to bridge the gap between a standard website and a blog or CMS.

For example, let's say you have a client who wants both a website and a blog but they want to make their blog look like their website. You can use the website template to build their site, and then install WordPress and upload the corresponding WordPress theme and have a seamless transition between their site and blog.

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Dreamweaver extension for building WordPress Themes

ThemeDreamer for Dreamweaver ThemeDreamer is a very cool Dreamweaver extension that allows you to easily customize or build WordPress themes in Dreamweaver. It works by compiling the individual theme files into a single WYSIWYG theme in design view. You can then edit the WordPress theme code as if you were editing your live blog!

ThemeDreamer simulates live blog post data, so you can style the CSS right in Dreamweaver's design view. Once you have made your changes, simply upload your new theme files your new blog is live! ThemeDreamer allows you to utilize the full power of Dreamweaver on your WordPress theme design!

For more information, visit the ThemeDreamer website.

Free WordPress Themes

The themes below are free to download and use on your WordPress blog. We don't provide support for them, as some of the themes are a bit older and most of our WP time is spent on Flexibility Theme support and development.

	Beach Holiday WordPress Theme Beach Holiday is another creation by Brian over at Templatelite. It's a two column fixed width theme that's widget ready and makes you want to go on vacation. Preview theme Download Beach Holiday theme

	Photoframe WordPress Theme This free theme is not our creation, but we offered to distribute it because it's very clean and allows for some cool custom functions like a replaceable header image and custom fonts for the theme title. Preview theme Download Photoframe theme

	SoulVision WordPress Theme SoulVision is a highly styled theme based on part of our MixedMedia code with a few enhancements (and fixes) added in. It's a 3-column widget-ready theme with a wide top sidebar that works great for ads, RSS feeds or other wide content. This theme was created using the ThemeDreamer extension for Dreamweaver. Preview theme Download SoulVision theme

	Xhilaration for WordPress Based on our ModXBlog theme, this is also an AdSense-optimized theme that includes prestyled areas for easy insertion of AdSense ads. It's a 3-column widget-ready theme with 3 configurable sidebar positions including the top, left sidebar and right sidebar. This theme includes built-in support for Breadcrumb-NavXT and Rob Marsh's Post Plugin Library. Preview theme Download Xhilaration theme

	ModXBlog for WordPress This is an AdSense-optimized theme that includes prestyled areas for easy insertion of AdSense ads. It's a 3-column widget-ready theme with 3 configurable sidebar positions including the top, left sidebar and right sidebar. This theme includes built-in support for Breadcrumb-NavXT and Rob Marsh's Post Plugin Library. Preview theme Download ModXBlog theme

	AdSensation for WordPress This is an AdSense-optimized theme that includes prestyled areas for easy insertion of AdSense ads. It's a 3-column widget-ready theme with 3 configurable sidebars. This theme includes support for WP-pagenavi, Sociable, Breadcrumb-NavXT and Rob Marsh's Post Plugin Library. Preview theme Download AdSensation Blue theme

	MixedMedia Series Wordpress Themes MixedMedia is 3-column theme with built-in support for the following plugins: WP-pagenavi - adds pagination navigation to multiple-page categories and archives Sociable - styled to fit nicely in the theme Breadcrumb-NavXT - adds breadcrumb navigation to the top of pages you select Rob Marsh's Post Plugin Library - included support for Similar Posts, Recent Posts and Recent Comments The theme also includes a pre-styled sidebar box for affiliate advertising ads, ideally 125x125 pixel ads. Make sure to read the readme.txt file for more details on how to configure the theme. Preview theme Download MixedMedia Gray theme

	MixedMedia Blue Theme See description for MixedMedia series above Preview theme Download MixedMedia Blue theme

	MixedMedia Green Theme See description for MixedMedia series above Preview theme Download MixedMedia Green theme

	MixedMedia Red Theme See description for MixedMedia series above Preview theme Download MixedMedia Red theme

	UltimateBlogger Wordpress Theme UltimateBlogger is a free theme for WordPress that we based on the Xtremeblogg framework and used different styling. It has plenty of pre-styled widgets, with many styled for both the left and right sidebars to give you the most flexibility. It's designed to be used with AdSense and affiliate ads, but the code is commented and can easily be removed. It's a 960 pixel (approximately) layout and we do have the Fireworks file used to create the theme, so if you want to create a new color scheme or graphics, contact us and we can send the file via email. Preview theme Download UltimateBlogger theme

	Xtremeblogg Wordpress Theme Xtremeblogg is a WordPress theme we designed recently. It's a 960 pixel widget-ready, AdSense-ready 3-column theme with all the default WordPress widgets pre-styled. We hate when you download a theme just to find out that the widget calendar or search box hasn't been styled. The theme includes a pre-styled 160x600 AdSense box on the right sidebar. All you need to do is insert your ad code between the div tags and you're set. Preview theme Download Xtremeblogg theme

TAGStention for Dreamweaver

TAGStention is a very good Dreamweaver extension for creating custom WordPress themes and templates. It includes features such as wizards for tags with parameters, support for 90% of the WordPress tags, inserting basic loops, inserting headers, and support for Ultimate TagWarrior.

We use this extension a lot when designing WordPress themes. The drop-down menus provide an extensive list of commonly used WordPress code snippets, and save a ton of time creating themes.

Download at solutoire.com

Dreamweaver extension for WordPress Templates

This Dreamweaver extension adds a toolbar to your menu for inserting commonly used WordPress code snippets. It includes the PHP code objects for Vcard, loop, header, include and others.

Download at vikiworks.com

Quick primer on customizing WordPress themes in Dreamweaver

Here's a quick tip for customizing WordPress themes in Dreamweaver. When you find a theme you like but you want to change some of the CSS code or graphics, simply open the theme in your browser. Save the page to a file on your local hard drive and then open the page in Dreamweaver. As long as you saved the entire webpage, including images and CSS, you should see the page in Dreamweaver as it displayed in your browser (plus some of Dreamweaver's design-mode quirks).

Now you have what you need to customize your theme. Simply edit the CSS file in Dreamweaver to your liking, and then save the CSS file back to your theme directory. If you changed any of the graphics in the WordPress theme, you will also need to upload those to your hosting server. When you preview your theme, it should display in your browser as you edited it to look in Dreamweaver.

This technique works for any visual changes, but if you need to change the actual structure of your theme, such as the PHP includes, you will need to edit the actual theme files within your WordPress installation. The CSS file controls the visual elements, but the page structure is defined in your page files.

See our blog post on creating WordPress themes in Dreamweaver for a more detailed explanation.