When the sun’s beating down and we’re stuck indoors, nothing makes us happier than discovering free WordPress themes that say “summer” – the beach, holidays, bright colours, the works.
We’ve hand-picked five WordPress themes brimming with that summertime spirit. They’re all free and available to download now, so let’s dive in!
Lemon
This brightly coloured responsive theme is ideal for travel agencies, resorts, and hotels. With a bright image slider in the middle, you can show off your holiday pics while the social bar on the left can be customised to match your favourite social networks.
Nirvana
https://www.cryoutcreations.eu/nirvana
Ideal for travel sites or photography blogs and with fantastic column effects, Nirvana has over 200 options for customisation, including Google fonts, widgets, post formats, and more! Customise it to match your specific requirements and enjoy eight page templates, 12 widget areas, a presentation page, and even more features.
Twenty Fourteen
https://wordpress.org/themes/twentyfourteen/
Not only is this a fantastic magazine-format template, it’s also created by WordPress itself. With options for grid or slider layout and clean lines, Twenty Fourteen is perfect for your photography site or your travel blog.
Arcade Basic
https://wordpress.org/themes/arcade-basic/
Minimalist, lightweight, and bold, Arcade Basic is a striking HTML5 theme that is bound to grab your visitors’ attention. It features a large call-to-action, eight supported post formats, and a widget-based footer to help you get the most important information across in a beautiful and elegant way. Add in some gorgeous Google fonts, and you have a beautiful site ideal for weddings, festivals, and other summertime events.
Food Recipes
https://wordpress.org/themes/food-recipes/
Responsive, vivid, and based on Twitter’s bootstrap framework, Food Recipes is perfect for food bloggers, chefs, and anyone who wants to share delicious recipes or conversations about food. With bright and colourful photos, you can be sure of an eye-catching site filled with fantastic food.
We hope you enjoy using these themes, and if there are any other beautiful summertime free WordPress themes you’ve stumbled upon, share your links in a comment below.
The only thing that I hate about word press (and we use it a lot) is some of the templates. You do a budget site for a client and you see a nice template, then BANG the magic WP word appears “UPGRADE” It Should say, your site could look like this if you upgrade to the pro version or it will look like a wet weekend if you do not.
Many Thanks
Davide
Yeah, that can be a pain! When we list templates, we try to make sure that we’re finding the always-free versions, but if there is an option for a Pro version, we do recommend you pay that little extra more for peace of mind.