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Mercury is our free WordPress blog, magazine and portfolio theme.  Simple, free and beautiful.  That’s a rare combo, but I’m being honest when I say that’s what this theme offers.

Mercury is a bold and minimalist WordPress theme created by ThemeIt and we’re totally stoked to offer it to you for free.  This theme is perfectly designed for lifestyle blogs, fashion blogs, arts and crafts, travel and food blogs, photography, and magazine sites, among others. It contains a variety of features that allow you to make your blog unique and stand out from the rest. It is simple yet modern, personal, and professional looking, a great theme for sharing your story to the world. Mercury is a responsive theme that enables your blog to adapt to the different devices used by your audience.

This theme can be installed and used as it is, or it can be customized through the WordPress Native Customizer. Here are some of the features Mercury offers:

• A clean and minimalistic design for a simple yet creative look in order not to bombard the viewers with too much design going on all over the place.
• A wide array of color options for the menu, sidebar, footer, and other sections that are customizable to fit the owner’s needs.
• Fast speed and high load ready for quick data loading and efficient content processing.
• Responsive and retina ready design to adjust to the devices and resolutions the audience are using.
• Provides 10 different blog layouts for different bloggers’ needs, and comes with a built-in archive and homepage layout.
• The blog owner could select some posts to be featured in the theme’s beautiful slider.
• Provides a customizable sidebar that can be shown or hidden in preferred pages.
• Translation ready feature for convenience to the viewers around the world.
• Custom logo and Favicon upload to help with the tiny yet important details on the WordPress site.
• A site title and tagline section to emphasize what the blog’s content is about.
• Provides custom widgets fit for the different blog types and an Instagram widget that is already pre-designed and ready to use.
• A variety of post formats – Standard, Photo Gallery, Video, and Audio – for better content compatibility.
• Supports Contact Form 7 to help manage messages and forms.
• Provides a number of social icons to promote the blog owner’s different social media sites, and social share buttons in all of the blog posts to help spread the content to other social media platforms.
• Includes demo.xml and other documentation, and is very easy to use that it could be setup in about a minute.
• It contains lifetime upgrades upon purchase.
• It is coded through HTML5 & CSS3 and is SEO optimized for better chances of search engine results promotion.
• Contains a dropdown navigation menu.
• Can be edited through live customizer along with multiple theme options allowing the blog owner to alter the site’s layout and style while previewing the changes done.

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For a clearer picture on the theme’s features, you can check out the live demo and the screenshots provided. If you have questions, feedback, and suggestions on the theme, you can be post them in the support forum system.

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While we think Mercury is a fantastic portfolio and blog theme, it might not be exactly what you’ve been looking for.  If you want more inspiration, checkout our collection of minimalist WordPress themes, WordPress personal blog themes or even WordPress portfolio themes.

Another great free theme we’re proud to offer is Silverbow.

Blue Jay is a premium style WooCommerce ready theme that’s simple to use, beautiful to look at and it’s flexible enough to set up nearly any sort of online shop.  We’re happy to offer Blue Jay up to you for free, since we believe that there aren’t enough really good WordPress themes out there that are absolutely free of cost.  Some are pretty decent, others are buggy and just flat out bad.  That’s a problem that’s been going on for a while.  If you want the good stuff, you pretty much have to pay through the nose to get it, typically.

But not with Blue Jay!  It’s free and it’s spectacular.

Perfect responsiveness means that the Blue Jay theme looks incredible on all devices, no matter the resolution.  Now, that’s pretty commonplace now, but not all free themes are responsive, so make sure you pick a great one.  Don’t settle for something that’s going to look bad on a handheld device.

Blue Jay installs really quick and it’s very simple to set up.  You’ll be blogging within minutes.

Blue Jay is totally WooCommerce compatible too, so you can sell all sorts of products on your very own online store.  Digital downloads or actual physical products, the choice is yours.  WooCommerce can handle anything.  And with a plethora of available addons and plugins to work with WooCommerce, there’s really no need to use anything else.  It’s ideal for any sort of website, any type of product and any kind of business owner.  WooCommerce is perfect for beginners and experts alike.

Blue Jay has multiple different blog layouts, from two and three column grids, full width layouts and more.  Don’t forget the ‘About Me’ and ‘Contact Me’ pages.  Tons of widgets and widget areas mean Blue Jay is really flexible.  The typography is stylish, just a hint feminine, but it works for nearly any sort of site.  I personally believe that it’s best suited as a lifestyle blog, but  you may disagree.  It’s a free country, do what you like!

Best thing about Blue Jay?  It’s free.  Free baby!  So what do you have to lose?  Check out the demo below and download Blue Jay today.

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So, that’s Blue Jay.  It’s a wonderful WooCommerce ready blog theme, but it may not really be what you’re looking for, so you may want to check out our collections of similar themes, such as these WordPress minimal themes, WordPress personal blog themes or even WooCommerce WordPress themes.

Another great free theme is our Silverbow theme, for blogging and eCommerce too.

This is Montana, a free WordPress blog theme from ThemeIt. If you’ve been on the hunt for a sweet looking, free, minimal and modern, slick and clean WordPress blog theme, then you may have just found it. Montana is a nicely arranged, simple to use WordPress theme that’s great for beginners who want a site quickly, but for folks who also want a nice amount of features usually only found in a premium theme.

Bloggers in today’s world are looking forward to get their blogs up and running within a short period of time. As a result, they prefer to use WordPress. On the other hand, WordPress can easily be used to create a responsive website or a blog without having any coding experience. You just need to get a suitable theme and install it on WordPress. Out of the available WordPress themes, Montana has received much attention in the recent past. The ability to create a responsive website with minimum hassle has contributed a lot towards the popularity of Montana.

What is Montana?

Aside from a pretty big state, Montana can simply be defined as a blogging theme that is based on WordPress. It focuses mainly on the readability of content. On the other hand, Montana comes out a clean design, which can help website/blog owners to deliver the best possible user experience to guests. With the unique design of Montana, website owners would be able to let their content do the magic. That’s because the large and legible fonts that are paired with generous spaces would encourage the visitors to keep on going through the content of the website. This would benefit the website or the blog at the end of the day.

Features of Montana

The unique and impressive features that are offered by Montana have contributed a lot towards its popularity. This theme consists of a clean and minimalistic design. It has become a popular trend among website designers in today’s world to stick with clean and minimalistic trends. This fact has also increased the demand for Montana. On the other hand, a lot of people in today’s world tend to browse the internet through their mobile devices. If the website does not have a responsive design, people who browse through mobile devices would not be able to get a smooth experience. As a result, they would avoid using the website at the end of the day. However, it would not be a major issue with Montana because the theme is responsive by design. Once installed, the website would instantly be transformed into a responsive website. This can help the website owners to save a considerable amount of money as well.

Montana offers four different blog layouts. On the other hand, it has two different slides styles. It is up to the user to analyze these options that are available for them and select the best one. People who start using Montana theme would get the opportunity to customize every aspect of their website or blog as per specific requirements. In other words, they can show or hide almost every aspect of the website and customize it as per the specific branding guidelines of the company. Build in social media connectivity buttons are icing on the cake.

Final Words

Montana would be an ideal solution available for a person who is looking forward to create a responsive blog or a website. It can deliver an excellent user experience as well, which would contribute a lot towards the long term popularity of the website/blog.

Montana was built with the reader in mind, the simple and modern, clean and clear design, the ease of navigation, the nicely integrated social networking icons, the clean typography, the simple site icon and logo uploads, it was all built to help make your blog completely readable.

Montana has:

• Super Fast Loading Pages
• Fluid and Responsive Design
• Four Blog Layouts
• Two Featured Sliders
• Clean Code
• Custom Widgets
• Powerful SEO Optimization
• 100% GPL License

And best of all, it’s completely free.  Grab a copy below!

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Thanks for downloading Montana, let’s get started!

• After installing the .zip package and activating Montana, you’ll want to style your homepage.
• To get a look that is close to the demo site, click on Appearance>Customize
• Select Theme Options>>Featured Area Settings.
• Click Enable Feature Slider and select how many slides you’d like to show.  You’ll need to select your post category to show slides from the same category, so I created one just for the slider called…slides.  Creative, right?  That makes it easy to keep track of what you’re doing.  So once you have your featured slides set up, you’ll want to add the promotion box images.
• Still under Theme Options, click on Promo Box Settings.  You can upload images and type in titles directly into the three boxes, even add a URL to each one as I’ve done in the demo.  It’s just that easy.

Most of the rest of the adjustments you can make are pretty much standard WordPress features, like changing the number of posts on the front page and so on.

We’ll keep this page updated.

While we think Montana is a fantastic portfolio and blog theme, it might not be exactly what you’ve been looking for.  If you want more inspiration, checkout our collection of WordPress minimalist themes, WordPress personal blogging themes or even portfolio WordPress themes.

For more free themes, check out our theme Silverbow.  It’s totally free and it’s awesome.