Single-site WordPress themes are gradually receding into the background, giving way to GPL licensed alternatives. Under this type of license, you are absolutely free to use a WordPress theme as you wish. To be more precise, you can install it on unlimited sites, modify its frontend and code, and even redistribute it as is or in its modified versions. All these possibilities are perfect for both developers and end users, which is seemingly why the WordPress community and its founder Matt Mullenweg prefer GPL WordPress themes to single-site ones.
One of the most reputable WordPress theme providers, TemplateMonster, also decided to enrich its ten-years’ worth of WordPress themes with GPL solutions. In this post, we’d like to show you their first designs released under the GPL license. Later, the number of TempalteMonster GPL WP themes will grow, as the TM team is going to focus solely on GPL WordPress themes eventually.
By the way, the first 5 GPL WordPress themes featured in this article are available as a bundle for only $74.
Now, it’s time to see the first ten GPL WordPress themes created by TemplateMonster. Check them out and share your opinion in the comments.
1. Style Park
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The first option from the TemplateMonster GPL WordPress themes is Style Park. Its visually rich aesthetics are notable for a bright color scheme, full-width slides, vibrant banners, image-based post previews, and a small Instagram gallery. In the theme package, you will find 3 homepage layouts along with 3 headers, 3 footers, and 4 sidebar settings.
2. Kustrix
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Kustrix is a GPL solution for fashion and beauty blogs built with WordPress. It combines legible fonts from the Google library, pastel colors, and light background, which can make your website appear easy on the eye. As this WordPress theme is integrated with WP customizer, you can edit it any way you wish and preview all the changes live.
3. Fitnesys
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This sports blog GPL WordPress theme provides sticky navigation, social media integration, and thought-out content structure with large headings and boxes. Besides a traditional trio of header, footer, and sidebar varieties, Fitnesys comes with 4 homepage layouts. They include a boxed layout and 3 full-width layouts such as one-column, two-column grid, and two-column masonry.
4. Blogetti
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Blogetti is a translation-ready GPL WordPress theme built with the mobile-first Bootstrap framework. Its image-rich design starts with a full-screen slider and ends with a carousel of post previews followed by an Instagram gallery. The main content body is complemented with multiple widgets showing the latest posts, recent comments, calendar, archive, categories, tag cloud, and other details.
5. WildRide
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WildRide supports all the essential post formats including audio, video, gallery, and others. It can be translated into any language and used with MailChimp, which is advantageous for your marketing campaign. The theme allows you to add a Facebook “Like” box, Instagram board, and Twitter feed to the widgetized area, sharing buttons to posts, and “Follow” icons to the header and footer.
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Special Offer: The first 5 GPL WordPress themes featured in this article are available as a bundle for only $74.
6. Weekly Journal
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Weekly Journal is perfect for a news website or any other website related to media.
This WordPress theme follows the WordPress customizer standard and comes with multiple plugins like posts carousel, simple slider, category tiles, etc.
7. Gadnews
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Gadnews is a technology-related solution from this roundup of GPL WordPress themes. To create a unique layout for your blog, feel free to choose from 5 homepage versions, 4 sidebar settings, 3 header and footer styles. The theme is built with a valid, well-documented code that meets both SEO and W3C standards.
8. DailySports
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DailySports boasts an information-packed layout designed using dark tones. Different color accents make it easier to distinguish among different UI elements visually. You can arrange the news in both grid and list view modes on the page and equip them with a sorting option for an easier search.
9. KingNews
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KingNews is a GPL WordPress theme that has responsive and retina-ready graphics, grid-based structure, dropdown navigation, multiple layout styles, and even a 404 page template. In terms of customization, WordPress Customizer allows for live changes of typography, palette, and other aspects. To let readers interact with your resource, the theme comes with a commenting system, contact and subscription forms.
10. Fairy Style
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Fairy Style is a GPL WordPress theme meant for eCommerce purposes, as it is integrated with WooCommerce. To help you build a user-friendly store, it comes packed with a dropdown cart, carousels, tabs, sale badges, product filters, and much more. In terms of navigation, buyers can use burger and sticky dropdown menus along with a back-to-top button.
These are the first 10 GPL WordPress Themes by TemplateMonster, and if you’d like to see the whole collection, please visit this page.
We hope the news about more GPL WordPress themes on the market will make you a little happier. Pick a design from this roundup and do whatever you like with it – customize its visuals, edit the code, resell, whatever. It’s all yours!
