So far in 2012 we’ve seen an explosion of responsive WordPress themes. As mobile website traffic continues to grow, website owners are under more pressure to make sure their sites are optimized for any device. It’s absolutely critical if you want to remain competitive. Installing a responsive theme is one of the easiest ways to make sure that your site looks good on desktops and across mobile devices. Check out this list of 16 free responsive WordPress themes we’ve collected to help you get started.
Orion
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Retouch
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Oxygen
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Responsive
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Hatch
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Origin
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Ascetica
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Sundance
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Mixfolio
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BootstrapWP
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Skeleton
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Pagelines
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Basic
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iTheme2
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Flexible
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Blaskan
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Need a responsive slider to match your new responsive WordPress theme? Check out our recent post: 10 Responsive Slider Plugins for WordPress. Or you can start fresh altogether with free WordPress themes with sliders built right in.
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Very nice post Sarah, I shared it on my company intranet.
Awesome post. :) BTW what I notice is that unfortunately, many mobile optimised sites forget to put
target-densitydpi=medium-dpiin the viewport. This would be sufficient for adapting iPhone sites (320px wide) to low-end Android devices (240px wide) as my HTC Wildfire for example. The iPhone and the Wildfire share the same display size (3.5″) but have different resolutions, so the tag is needed.so beautiful theme !
I’m confused as to how i go about to download “Skeleton”
Found it… go this this link here…
https://github.com/simplethemes/skeleton_wp/zipball/master
Wow Thanks for the list of themes, I really love design of responsive, Skeleton.
Thanks
JimRiley061
Nice list. You should check out my new adapt them as well :) – http://www.wpexplorer.com/adapt-free-responsive-wordpress-theme
Thanks for letting us know! We’ll get a post up about it. :)
Great themes, thanks for posting
Oxygen, Hatch and Origin are not free anymore.
They are hosted now by DevPress…
30$ per year…2 themes per month…bla bla.
Sounds a little bit like a kind of WordPress-Jamba.
Sad to see nice Themes get lost in a wreck sales policy.
Good bye Oxygen.
Rewind…rewind.
They are also all available at wordpress.org.
-.-# …my fault.
Beautiful themes, check out also my new theme http://lucamusolesi.altervista.org/wordpress/horizontbook/
Cheers!
Thanks for letting us know, Luca! I’ll put together a little writeup on it :)
nice theme sarah.thank