While using your WordPress blog you must have faced a difficult situation when selecting a good theme for your blog.

One look inside the WordPress theme directory and you are lost. What exactly is a WordPress theme? A theme from WordPress infact means a group of files that allows you to have a simple graphical interface and an attractive design for your blog. 

These files are known as template files. The WordPress theme includes customizable template files, image files, CSS files, code files etc. So you see so many files work together to form a WordPress theme. A WordPress theme not only provides a skin to your blog but also decides about the blog’s presentation style.

WordPress Theme directory has so many themes that are all free to download. More over the WordPress team makes sure that each and every theme has been carefully tested for usage.

Let us now check some of the best WordPress themes available today. The themes that have been listed in this article are done so on the basis of their popularity on the web. Popularity here means, how many times a particular theme has been successfully downloaded from WordPress directory. Here we go:

Atahualpa is the most popular WordPress theme available today. It has been downloaded till this point of time, atleast 11000 times. This theme provides WordPress users with more than 250 options to customize it. More over the theme does not have any browser compatibility issues. The theme provides four side bars with drop down menus and supports more than 30000 posts.

Closely following the Atahualpa theme in terms of number of download is the Mystique which has been downloaded more than 8000 times. The theme supports built in widgets apart from many intuitive features. Then there is the chocolate colored choco theme which has been downloaded more than 7000 times.

There are two columns for this theme with a right side bar.

By the way for those who hate chocos there are two more colors, available for this theme. The Pixel theme is dark in color with 3 columns and drop down menus. The theme which has also been downloaded more than 7000 times supports many widgets and can be customized easily. Another dark theme with two columns and widget ready theme is the Motion.

For those who love reading magazines, can download the myMag theme which supports slideshow apart from a host of other features.

The above two themes are quiet popular have been downloaded more than 6000 times. Other good, popular and feature rich WP themes include: Light Word & Arras Theme, both downloaded more than 6000 times so far. Then we have Arjuna X and the Thematic that have been downloaded 5895 and 5787 times respectively. Feel free to share with us your best WP theme.