Every business should be using the power of blogging to gain added market exposure

We have put together 10 Free Wordpress themes for business blogs. Wordpress is the simplest means to begin blogging for business, it is the same platform we use for B2Blog our FREE resource for our clients.

Blogging for business gains market exposure, furthers your companies reach into the market and can add a valuable means of communication while engaging your market and customers.

Searching for Wordpress themes can easily overwhelm you as there are literally thousands of free Wordpress themes to choose from, unfortunately many are just ugly, full of bugs or do not work on the latest version of Wordpress. 

We decided to try and put an end to this time consuming task by beginning the first of many pages of the best of the best Wordpress themes all available free for download, so here we are at the first of such resources.

1. GridLock Version 1.5  | Download GridLock 1.5 | Visit the GridLock Page

GridLock is a elegant Wordpress theme that displays with a clean no nonsense layout for your content to shine through.

If you are looking for a professional look, perfect for corporate blogs GridLock is for you, with suburb attention to detail with subtle graphics. 

Gridlock separates its content into a primary category and a secondary category for your posts; with this type of set up, you can give your readers their favourite content and have space left over for your personal things, all on the same page.

Gridlock does not look like the majority of free Wordpress themes out there, with much thought going into the design and layout of the template furthermore the coding is clean and bug free.

2. MonoMag | Download MonoMag | Blue Version | Visit the MonoMag Page

MonoMag is a feature rich Wordpress theme, perfect for blogs that have the need to display lots of content over many pages and categories.

Monomag is a mixed-column Magazine style Wordpress theme with an editable .PSD logo and the ability to create automatic featured post and thumbnails.

With nice attention to detail and a colour scheme that makes the theme shine while allowing for many blogging applications, MonoMag will sit nicely with many different business markets. MonoMag is available for download in two colour variations, the standard grey version and a nice blue version. 

3. Fresh Version 2.0 | Download Fresh 2.0 | Visit the Fresh Page

Juicy is the new Fresh 2.0 design, originally ported from a Bartelme's design, fresh has nice graphics and clean lines.

Fresh has some very nice supporting graphics and icons, while it is not overloaded with design to detract from your content.

Fresh has all the features you need including widgets and gravatar support. Fresh requires Wordpress version 2.5 and above.

If you are looking for a little bit of design flair to show off your business content than Fresh could be just for you, the blue is a nice touch for business orientated blogs. 

4. Simple Paper | Download Simple Paper | Visit the Simple Paper Page

Simple Paper is just like the name says clean and simple, but with simplicity comes style.

Simple Paper is from the people at BlogOhBlog, they produce many Wordpress themes most are commercial viable so of course you often have to part with a little hard earned for one of their designs.

Simple Paper comes with a unique design, fixed menu, stylised comments, paginated posts and easily editable CSS. The this is fully CSS/XHTML validated and has been tested with Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari browsers without any problems.

5. Xplosive Reloaded | Download Explosive Reloaded | Visit the Xplosive Reloaded Page

We have another theme from BlogOhBlog, Xplosive Reloaded has to be included in the top 10, it is clean well made and comes with 4 colour options.

It is to be expected that BlogOhBlog would feature more then once in this list, their premium themes are of very good quality and the prices are very reasonable.

Xplosive Reloaded is of the same quality of their premium themes but is free, the theme comes with 4 colour options to suit the scheme of your business. 

All the themes work on the latest version of Wordpress and will give no hassle installing, although they are simple in design the attention to detail makes them stand out from the plethora of Wordpress free themes available.

Other free themes from BlogOhBlog include Excellence a clean subtle green theme, Digital Statement it should probably be included in this list, Daily Press is another of their free themes that looks quite good as well.

6. NisposaMag | Download NisposaMag | Visit the NisposaMag Page

NisposaMag is a clean professional design with white on grey, featuring nice icons and supporting graphics.

Away from the predominantly white themes comes NisposaMag featuring a large top section for latest post lists, categories and comments. 

NisposaMag shows clean design with attention to detail, nice rounded corners on the main menu and the main grey is easy on the eyes always something to consider when the viewer is reading long posts.

NisposaMag supports images and advertising space, allowing for a little visual flair.

It is a two column fixed width design and of course is widget enabled and runs on the latest version of wordpress, if you are looking for a theme away from the mainly white designs and still look professional than maybe NisposaMag is for you.

7. Premium News | Download Premium News | Visit the Premium News Page

Another entry from a company that makes themes is Premium News from the people at WooThemes.

Although not to the same standard as some of their current premium themes Premium News can still be considered a good option for a business blog.

Featured Posts panel on the homepage using jQuery technology to display / hide the posts. The layout supports all three of the most popular web ad sizes i.e. 468×60, 300×250 and 125×125,animated horizontal drop-down menu’s for category navigation.

Our only gripe with WooThemes is they do not support their free themes, if you have an issue you are on your own or you can purchase their support pack for $40 US, although we do understand they are in the business to make money. 

8. iTheme 1.1 | Download iTheme 1.1 | Visit the iTheme 1.1 Page

If you are a Mac lover then you might just love this theme, well designed and clean lines produce a very Mac theme from the good people at n-design. 

Featuring a very snazzy drag and drop sidebar, iTheme incorporates slick design while still clean enough for business purposes, full widget enabled.

If you use this theme you must keep the link in the footer which for a theme of this quality is fair enough, if you do want it removed I believe you can contact them and for a small fee it can then be removed.

Although not graphically heavy the sheer attention to detail and subtle use of icons produce a very commercial looking theme. If this is the quality of their give away then you would have to say their paid design work will be outstanding. n-design also have another free Wordpress theme Glossy Blue, it is of the same design standard as the iTheme and is also defiantly worth a consideration.

9. Green Icon | Download Green Icon | Visit the Green Icon Page

From Ask Graphics we have Green Icon, another professional design company that releases free themes to get the word out there.

A little of green and black can describe the Green Icon, if you are looking for something a little darker maybe give this a go.

As you would expect from a professional studio there is great attention to detail while still keeping the design light and quick to load.

3 Column theme with green header, black sidebars and silver post areas. Page menu has nifty icons and theme works with 2.3.1 and below

Ask Graphics also have other free themes including Perl a nice light designed theme, Old Black again with nice attention to detail and supporting graphic. Ask Graphics have around 27 free Wordpress themes for download, there is bound to be a design you like.

10. The Morning After | Download Morning After | Visit the Morning After Page

Coming in at number 10 is the Morning After, now we believe the background needs to be changed which is easy to do; the current background you might not want to look at on a morning after.

Morning After has been chosen for simplicity for a business looking for a straight magazine style theme, it's clean lines produce a theme worthy of many a business.

Morning After has all the functionality you would expect in a high class theme, widget ready, good layout and simple clean code and design. 

It is highly customisable allowing for many applications and would look professional for many corporate blogs.

It is not graphic heavy but what imagery it does use is smart and well thought out, the light colour scheme allows your content to shine through while still providing a professional look and feel. Because of the simple design it can be simply customised to suit your needs and with a few subtle images could see it working for any business.

We hope you find this page useful

This brings us to the end of our first list of free wordpress themes for business, we hope you find the resource useful and saves time and energy locating a quality Wordpress theme.

We will be listing more resources like this so check back often, and if at any time you find a broken link; please let us know by using our contact form. (Remember to let us know what and where was broken)