18 Elegant WordPress Free Custom Background Themes

18 Elegant WordPress Free Custom Background Themes

WordPress is a free blogging platform that allows you to create your own blogs and websites. You can install WordPress themes from the online WordPress theme library and customize the way your theme looks, such as by changing the theme color and images. Most themes come with a background image that you will see as soon as you install and activate the theme. You can add a customized image to your background in one of two ways.

So, here in our today’s post I am going to share with you some of the fantastic free custom background themes for WordPress that are useful for your wordpress blogs. While compiling this list, it’s always a possibility that I missed some other great resources. Feel free to share it with us. You may want to take a look at the following related articles: Freemium WordPress Playlists Widgets, Multisite WordPress Free Plugins and Premium WordPress Directory and Listings Themes.

1. Resonar

Resonar is an elegant blog theme that features full-screen Featured Images. It’s perfect for blogs about fashion, food, or design, and the layout works especially well for your longform features with large images. The theme, pairing gorgeous images with beautiful typography, helps you create posts that will make a visual impact – and resonate with your readers. Each post displays a full-screen Featured Image, which helps to visually tell your story. The large Featured Image is also used for a Sticky Post on your blog’s homepage.

Resonar
Resonar

2. Lyretail

Lyretail puts your social presence front and center, displaying social links prominently below the site title and logo, so readers can easily find you on your favorite social networks. When activated, your Custom Menu or Widgets will appear in a convenient slide-down menu. Click on the arrow icon in the upper right corner to display the panel.

Lyretail
Lyretail

3. Satellite

Satellite is a snappy personal blogging theme with beautiful typography, prominent featured images, and a fresh, modern look. If you add a site logo, it will appear in the upper-left corner next to your site title, and in the slide-out sidebar above the site title. If you’d prefer to display your Gravatar in these areas instead, navigate to Customize → Theme and put your email address in the text field to show the Gravatar associated with that email account.

Satellite
Satellite

4. Saga

Saga, a theme tailor-made for writers, by a writer. Saga’s impeccable typography and attention to detail make for an enjoyable reading experience, and with support for large featured images and multiple post formats, the theme is flexible enough to be used as a photoblog, a personal journal, or a tumblelog. When activated, your custom menu or widgets will appear in a slide-down menu. Click on the menu icon in the header to show them.

Saga
Saga

5. Twenty Fifteen

Twenty Fifteen is super-clean, content-focused, and designed to bring a little more simplicity to our blogs. Its careful attention to typography, featuring the expertly designed Noto font set in elegant and harmonious margins, makes it beautiful in multiple languages around the world. It looks great on devices of all sizes, from desktop to mobile and everything in between. The theme adapts to any screen without sacrificing usability or design integrity.

Twenty Fifteen
Twenty Fifteen

6. Market

Market is my first WordPress theme designed for WooCommerce. This theme has a Minimalistic design, with some stunning CSS3 Powered animations. Fully Responsive in Nature, this theme offers you everything you want from a Woo Commerce theme.

Market
Market

7. Flat

Flat is a charmingly flat and minimalist design that is new to the WordPress Theme Repository. It has a customizable blurred background, off-canvas sidebar and uses Twitter Bootstrap and Font Awesome.

Flat
Flat

8. Twenty Ten

Twenty Ten is our first update to the “default” theme (the one you see when you start a new blog) on WordPress.com. The goal with Twenty Ten was to create something stylish, customizable, simple, and most of all, readable. Since every new WordPress.com user would be seeing Twenty Ten, we wanted to design an example of what a WordPress theme can do. Twenty Ten comes with a selection of great header images. It’s easy to switch between any of the included header images or upload your own.

Twenty Ten
Twenty Ten

9. Neutro

A responsive modern design theme geared to unleash your website content potential. Built based upon HTML5, CSS3 and the rock solid Hybrid Core framework, ensuring the best design and backend code. With Theme customizer and custom css, you can easily customize the theme look and feel to match your desire. This theme is a perfect starting point for any kind of website you desired to own.

Neutro
Neutro

10. Alexandria

HTML5 & CSS3 Responsive WordPress Business theme with business style home page layout with welcome section, 3 product/services blocks and a client quote/testimonial section. 2 logo section layout options. HTML5 & CSS3 Responsive WordPress Business theme with business style home page layout with welcome section, 3 product/services blocks and a client quote/testimonial section. 2 logo section layout options. 2 premade (Blue, Red) ready to use color schemes/skins. 3 widget areas in footer, 1 widget area in sidebar. 2 page layouts including a full width page template. Social media icons in footer.

Alexandria
Alexandria

11. Pictorico

Pictorico is a single-column, grid-based portfolio theme with large featured images and a post slider, perfect for photoblogging or a portfolio site. Pictorico looks its best when you assign a Featured Image to your posts. Featured images appear on the blog index and archives; if no featured image is set, a solid background color is shown instead.

Pictorico
Pictorico

12. Edin

Edin is a fully responsive theme, ideal for creating a strong – yet beautiful – online presence for your business. Edin is responsive, from desktop to mobile, and everything in between. The theme adapts to any screen without sacrificing usability or design integrity.

Edin
Edin

13. Weddings

Weddings is an elegant, responsive WordPress theme designed for wedding websites. The theme includes multiple pages, homepage slider and gallery support. It uses special pages to deliver the story of the bride and the bridegroom, as well as wedding details and to create online invitations.

Weddings
Weddings

14. Adaption

Adaption is a flexible, responsive theme that makes you look good on any device. Its strong structure supports any type of content, while full-width featured images help your content pop. An optional right-hand column displays if you add widgets to the second sidebar.

Adaption
Adaption

15. Sidespied

Sidespied is an elegant portfolio theme geared to showcasing creativity. Whether you’re a painter, sculptor, photographer, videomaker, or want to shine a spotlight on another type of original work, Sidespied puts your projects in the forefront.

Sidespied
Sidespied

16. Superhero

Superhero features a heroic full-bleed Featured Content area, full-bleed featured images, a fixed header, and subtle CSS3 transitions. Superhero has a widget area sidebar that appears everywhere in the site (except when using the Full-Width page template. Superhero has a single, primary custom menu area in the header, that can be set up by going to Appearance → Menus.

Superhero
Superhero

17. White

White is a very unique, refreshing and amazing theme with plenty of amazing features. With a fully responsive design, this theme will work beautifully on all tablets, smartphones and desktops. Other Features include multiple page layouts, theme options, responsive slider, grid layout for posts, multiple sidebars, footer widget area, stunning css animations, footer and top navigation menus and much more. This theme is fully translation ready and will suit on all kinds of blogs or websites.

White
White

18. Goran

Goran is a functional and responsive multi-purpose theme that is the perfect solution for your business’s online presence. Goran looks great on devices of all sizes, from desktop to mobile and everything in between. The theme adapts to any screen without sacrificing usability or design integrity.

Goran
Goran