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10 Modern, Mobile Friendly, Responsive (Free!) Themes for WordPress and Blogger

More people are checking in on their favorite websites and blogs from their phones, tablets, e-readers and other devices that aren't laptops or desktop computers. If you want some of that traffic, your best bet is to offer a mobile version of your blog that doesn't make your readers constantly pinch and zoom to get a look at your latest outfit and read your bon mots.

What to do if you don't have the skills or budget to whip up a mobile version of your site? Consider a responsive theme that automatically adjusts based on the size of the screen viewing it. It's not a perfect solution – since mobile connections are often slower than regular computers, you'll want to keep large images to no more than 2 or 3 per page to ensure that everything loads quickly for mobile readers. Responsive themes don't actually change the original image size, so lots of large photos would still take a while, but having a mobile friendly layout is better than nothing.

Google has recommended responsive design as their preferred way of showing mobile content…

Google has recommended responsive design as their preferred way of showing mobile content, so you may get a small search boost from having a mobile friendly theme as well.

Download The Best WordPress Themes Here

For an idea of where to start, consider one of these modern, clean themes that offer a clean slate for customization and highlighting gorgeous images. They're all free, and there's a little more Blogger love with some great options there.

WordPress

Note: these themes are for the hosted version of WordPress (download from WordPress.org), not WordPress.com

Unique

unique responsive theme

BonPress

bonpress theme

Accent Box

accent box responsive theme

Codium Extend

codium extend responsive theme

Gridly

gridly responsive theme

Orion

orion responsive theme

 

 

Blogger

Excelencia

excelencia responsive theme

ExtraNews

extra news responsive theme

Main Photo

main photo responsive theme

Dazzling

dazzling responsive theme

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  2. Oh K

    I’m still a fan of Simple. It’s easy to personalize and loads very easily!
    Load time is a big concern! 🙂

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  3. Mallory Brown

    still going to stick to Ethereal. It just fits in with my blogging style.
    chromobeauty.blogspot.com

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  4. Nasreen

    Too late to change I guess. My Simple template has been so customized I don’t remember what it looked like.

    http://lazyobsession.blogspot.com

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  5. Kotryna Bass

    these are some great templates! if any of you are looking for something more custom, have a look at my shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/kotrynabassdesign

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  7. Sarah Lee

    Good stuff over here! Ryu is another fairly new theme that has responsive width- I’m a huge fan. The body text is ginormous, but I decided it was worth taking the $30 plunge to do custom CSS (so, a custom font size), and I’m so happy with it.

    Thanks for the roundup!

    🙂 Sarah
    http://sanfranista.wordpress.com

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  8. Sandeep

    Nice list. I want to convert my theme to responsive after watching the post. 😀

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  10. PBCE, Best Engineering College in Chennai

    I have no words to thank you. Just awesome, thanks for such a great collections.

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  14. Reyven Biloy

    Awesome. Thank you for sharing. Gonna use some of them as core theme for my projects.

    CHEERS!

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  16. Saharsh jain

    Really nyce collection thnx for ssuch post downloaded two of’em ,might overtake my blog these templates are killing awesome

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  17. juliana jones

    Everyone want to get a responsive design for their website. and you demonstrated awesome wordpress themes. It’s good for wordpress designers.

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  22. clapsnslaps

    Hi very Nice Post i am read the article and get very good information from this post.

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  24. Madiha Durrani

    Thanks for posting! These themes will come in handy now thinking about to create an other site

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  25. Bikramjit Singh

    Appears a great collection…just downloaded UNIQUE and applied license for ORION.Not tried anyone yet.Does these themes provide option to display ads as well?

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  26. Zebra Themes

    Unique is a very nice themes among other themes. However the whole collection is fresh. Responsive themes have became popular since the tarting era of smartphones. We have also made our free WordPress theme responsive recently.

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  27. beritaresmi.com

    Add Fresh Line theme in your list. It’s a simple yet modern theme

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  30. Bloggerlamongan

    Thanks a lot for those themes. I picked Dazzling, it seems suitable for my blog.

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  33. Brad

    These really are some of the best WordPress themes. I would like to share one free blogging theme with you that is Bloggers Lite and which is fresh design and have various blog page layouts.

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  34. Matthew

    Mesmerizing list of templates. I am changing my mobile template right now after seeing this post.

    http://basketballhooplab.com/

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  35. Anita

    Among all themes, Gridly is the best for design. I used this theme for my 2 websites.

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