Best Free Wordpress premium themes of 2009

Wordpress is a key to the new era of web blogging, it always come in handy. If you are a graphic designer looking to escape the coding and come up with a professional web page or if you’re a coder that wants to escape the graphical interface design.
In both cases you find wordpress the ultimate solution to have your blog up and running in a short time. Just get the theme, apply it, customize it and you are ready to go!

In this article we offer you some of the most powerful free premium wordpress themes. Offering great functionality and design. We have tried all of them and we’re happy with the results.
All themes are having a description, demo link and download link.
Just Download the desired theme and customize it to your needs… the best part that these themes are for free and can be used in both commercial projects and Personal.

Of course it would help to add some functionality to your blog by installing some powerful plug ins for wordpress like e-mail, contact form, light box gallery, payed subscription and more…
If you like to see a list of the most useful plugins check this post.

Arthemia Free: Wordpress Magazine Theme

Arthemia is combining a magazine and a weblog into one; it is not too magazine-ish nor too blog-ish. The front page of Arthemia shows the headline and featured post of yours along with the pictorial representation, that’s the magazine style, while the rest of your post will be shows sequentially just like a usual weblog. In the middle of the front page, Arthemia has a nice blue-and-black category bar which will help your readers exploring you site. At the bottom, Arthemia is outfitted with a blog must-have section, a three-list of favorite posts.

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ZinMag Futura

Zinmag-futura is a magazine theme from jinsona designs. This is a 3 column magazine wordpress theme designed to power up your site as a powerfull CMS. Theme is bundled with lot of cool features you would like to have on your site. It has a featured post carousal, featured post section, A headlines corousal,Twitter badge, flash tag clouds, featured video section, miniposts with thumbnails, mini admin panel, etc. The theme comes with a setup guide to help you customise it to suite your site best.

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Agregado

The theme features a built-in lifestream module and contact form with custom control panel options. It is commissioned by Smashing Magazine and designed especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers.

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Mimbo Pro

Pro Theme Design are giving away Five single licenses of their most popular theme”Mimbo Pro“. Mimbo Pro is a Wordpress template designed for magazine style sites. With a colorful design and customisable layout it’s perfect for users of all skill levels.

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Over Stand

A fabulous magazine-style layout, Overstand is free from clutter and highlights content beautifully using a combination of white space, large slugs, neat headlines and thumbnail images.

Orange and grey are the predominant colours and the layout ranges across three columns. The theme takes a little bit of extra work in set-up but the results can be worthwhile.

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Massive Press

Massive Press is a three-column, widget-enabled WordPress theme featuring thumbnails for each post, giving the site a mixed look – half magazine site, half web log.

The theme has a very cool-looking, fully automated “Featured Article” section within the second sidebar and integrated recent comments.

This theme is based on Grid Focus but with some additional styling and polish. It’s a very attractive theme out of the box and could easily be adapted and customized to make it look unique.

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The UnStandard

As the name suggests, this is not your standard Wordpress theme. The Unstandard breaks the blog mould, presenting an image-heavy homepage with headline text set over the top of each image.

The theme could be used for a magazine-style site, or just as easily for a straight blog, as long as the author is taking some extra time to upload images for each post.

The theme is designed to catch readers’ attention and draw them deeper into your site.

The theme has grid-aligned images for forward-facing pages (the homepage etc.), and clean textual presentation on the inner pages.

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Portfolio – WPESP Theme

Portfolio is a “minimalist” WordPress theme. The objective of the Theme is being used as a starting point to create portfolios using Wordpress as CMS.

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Cry Book

CryBook is a 3 Column simple theme base withthe popular Facebook. It contain 2 widget-ready sidebar, live theme swistcher and Custom Admin Panel. It’s compatible with up to WordPress 2.6.2 and has been tested with in Firefox3, Internet Explorer 6 & 7, Opera, and Safari. This is a very simple theme, you may notice that it is only a few files included. The key is, it is not only tabless but also imageless! There is no a single image used in layout!

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Irresistible

Irresistible is a visually-rich personal blog, with a little bit of a multimedia focus. Incorporating some nifty video-options and widgets, Irresistible should meet all of your personal blogging needs. Just add your content to the mix.

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