Although it is usually a shade associated with “sadness,” the color blue can actually be a very visually appealing color to look at, especially when paired with other “cool hues.” In fact, a lot of great and cohesive looking WordPress themes use blue as a predominant color. Mixing blue with dark shades and industrial-type backgrounds can really give your blog an interesting and modern look. Likewise, adding brighter blue hues to other radical and eye-catching colors can really help your blog to stand out and demand attention. If you’re interested in spicing your WordPress site up with some blue-love, then check out the great and free WordPress templates below. Most of the below themes contain useful tools like image sliders, easy thumbnail integration, and some fancy bells and whistles to help you get your blog noticed.

 
Remedy

“A mixture of darks, lights, and all the posting tools you could want.”
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Magazeen

“Looking for a lighter blue theme with a ton of “gallery style” features?”
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Irresistible

“No image sliders here, but a sweet gallery feature and a pleasing color palette makes up for it.”
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Chlorineous

“A very eye-catching and modernized theme complete with sliders and easy thumbnail posts.”
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Creativepress

“A neat looking multi-color blue theme that is split into a header, body, and footer.”
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Typepress

“An interesting mixture of dark blue and lime green that manages to “pop” pretty effectively.”
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Selecta

“Really only useful for a video-enthusiast website, but still a really powerful blue theme.”
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Maasahan

“A very impressive looking blue theme with “wood outlines.” Complete with a featured posts gallery.”
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Dangdoot

“A great theme that is as easy to use and maneuver as it is to look at.”
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Wise Business

“A black and white theme with blue overtones, geared towards business related websites.”
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The Piecemaker license

With which type of license comes the Piecemaker?

The Piecemaker is published under the MIT license. This license allows you to use the software for nearly any purpose including commercial projects.

Am I allowed to integrate the Piecemaker into a template?

Absolutely, yes! The Piecemaker can be integrated into any website template, which may also be sold on online marketplaces. If you want some free advertising for your template, you can also give us a shout and we’ll integrate your template into our Piecemaker showcase.

Find out more here:

http://www.modularweb.net/#/en/piecemaker/faq/

Or download the PlugIn right here:

http://bit.ly/Piecemaker2

The Piecemaker is Open Source

We‘d like you to get the very best out of the Piecemaker. Therefore it’s been made open source. Feel free to use it however you want, generally including also commercial projects.

There is just one exception to the rule:

Please do not sell the Piecemaker as a stand-alone component in the way it can be found here for free download!

Other than that there is just one more request we have, although it‘s of course no binding condition: If you create something cool with the Piecemaker – Let them know! They’d love to showcase your work on their website site, too.

Finally here is the fine print to establish this.

The MIT License

Copyright © 2011 by Björn Crüger, Modularweb GmbH & Co. KG, Germany

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the „Software“), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED „AS IS“, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Eye candy comes in many colors. This year’s Best 11 definitely covers a wide gamut. Some have the power to wow. Some have the flexibility to amaze. And others are simple and adaptable. But every single one of them will make you look like a million bucks. Whether you’re building a site for a client, or building one for yourself. This spread of eye candy will not leave one wanting.

1. RockWell ™

 Author freshface

2. Picture This ™

Author CadenGrant

3. DICE Ultimate Business & Portfolio WP Theme ™

Author bringthepixel

4. PhotoPharm: Premium Photography and Blog Theme ™

Author themolitor

5. Metropolis ™

Author themeton

6. RT- Theme 15 Premium ™

Author stmcan

7. Minimalisto ™

Author AtiX

8. The Times ™

Author kotofey

9. James ™

Author themedutch

10. SLASH ™

Author Dream-Theme

 11.  Udesign ™

Author internq7

Check out all the rest of the seriously cool WordPress themes at Themeforest.

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Typebased is a free, personal blog design, with a very clean and elegant style. Along with the great design, theme also included all of the other goodies in the backend i.e. custom widgets, integrated banner ad management etc.

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The Original Premium News Theme is a bit rough around the edges (in terms of its looks). It features space for featured Posts panel on the homepage using jQuery technology to display / hide the posts; layout that supports all three of the most popular web ad sizes, animated horizontal drop-down menu and more.

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Groovy Blog is a colorful, funky theme this time aimed at personal bloggers. The customizable home page showcases your blog posts in a neat tabber and your uploaded images in a gallery component. Theme has 17 amazing colour schemes to choose from 17 amazing colour schemes to choose from.

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Groovy Photo is the cool premium wordpress theme. This one is aimed at photobloggers. A vibrant, fun color palette set in a neat layout with tons of neat features like a completely widgetized sidebar with custom widgets included in the theme packaging.

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A very neatly coded, pixel sharp portfolio-based theme designed by the UK based web legend Dan Rubin. This theme boasts an impressive widgetized home page, custom typography, and impressive portfolio handling functionality.

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A hugely flexible theme built on a neat jQuery layout plugin that arranges your posts vertically than horizontally with complete control over the number of columns on the home and archive page. Theme is ideal for magazine, portfolio and gallery based websites.

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Antisocial was one of our most anticipated themes yet. Antisocial is the perfect online business card and personal blog theme to aggregate all your online profiles in a beautiful slick and unique design.