Free Responsive WordPress Themes with Sliders

1. Adapt

Adapt by WPExplorer is a premium-like free theme (a freemium theme, if you like) with a responsive home page slider. The theme would suit someone looking to create a portfolio or business website.

Since you’re reading this post (and not just skim reading, I hope), I’m going to assume that you dig sliders. Not just home page sliders. Which is good, because Adapt allows you to use sliders on single post, like so:

How cool is that?! For a free theme, that’s pretty neat, no?

Adapt also comes with a load of shortcodes for coloured boxes, text highlights, buttons and columns.

It also features a couple of page templates, full width and landing page, a blog page and a widgetised footer (into which you can easily add tags, recent posts, search, etc.).

Theme Features

• responsive layout


• home page slider


• portfolio slider on single posts


• full width and landing page templates


• blog page


• widgetised sidebar and footer

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2. Oxygen

Oxygen is a clean magazine theme built on the Hybrid Core framework. Most importantly of all, for the purposes of this post, it features a home page slider.

I’m a big fan of the general layout: sidebar, content, sidebar. It’s not a layout you see too often these days, but it looks great in the demo.

If you like widgets (and let’s be honest, who doesn’t?) you’ll like Oxygen. It’s because of them that you can easily add calendar, search, tag and text widgets to your sidebars and footer.

Theme Features

• responsive design


• home page slider


• 5 widget areas


• lightbox gallery

3. Respo

Oh Respo, how I admire the aesthetics and functionality of thee. For personal blogs and magazines particularly, Respo is a wise choice.

Slider-wise, what Respo has to offer is a FlexSlider powered by jQuery. And very nice it is too.

Free themes with shortcodes are always a nice surprise. Respo comes with shortcodes for buttons, columns, and even icons (and more).

Theme Features

• responsive design


• responsive slider


• full width page template


• shortcodes


• sidebar tabs (latest/popular/random posts, tags)

4. F8 Static

F8 Static is a theme capable of transforming your site or blog into a fully functioning photography or multimedia portfolio site.

5. Eclipse 2

Eclipse 2 now offers touch friendly Responsive design, as well as Responsive Drag and Drop Theme Options that responds automatically to mobile devices such as the iPhone, iPad, and Android.

6. iFeature

iFeature 5 is the World’s first Touch Friendly Responsive Drag & Drop WordPress Theme developed by CyberChimps WordPress Themes.

7. Yasmin

This theme is powered with features like custom post type, taxonomies, custom menu, featured thumbnails etc. Portfolio post types are used to display your portfolio items. This theme supports two portfolio items.

8. iTheme2

iTheme2 is a revamp of iTheme that was originally released by Nick La. Now with the Themify framework, it is even better and has more options.

9. Orion

This theme is ideal for design agency website, designer portfolio etc.

10. Ascetica

A spacious and elegant portfolio/blog theme with responsive layout. Best suited for bloggers who want to showcase their work alongside their posts, photobloggers, designers, and photographers.

11. Neuro

A professional responsive HTML5 blog WordPress theme with drag and drop theme options by CyberChimps WordPress Themes.

12. Cakifo

Cakifo is a free, responsive WordPress theme built from the rock-solid Hybrid Core theme framework.

13. Response

A Free HTML5 Responsive Drag & Drop Starter WordPress Theme by CyberChimps WordPress Themes featuring Twitter Bootstrap, and responsive touch friendly theme options.

14. Customizr

Customizr is a beautifully designed multipurpose free theme coded in HTML5 and CSS3 and based on the Twitter Bootstrap. Not only can you style your website live, but you can add sliders to any post.

15. Expressions

Expressions is a simple theme, but also a pleasant looking one. The theme is flexible, and with a little customisation could be utilised for a wide range of purposes.

Free Responsive WordPress Themes with Sliders