7 Free Masonry WordPress Themes – No Bricks Here!

Last Updated: 2013-12-04
Downloads: 34,144
Ratings: 4.8/5.0
Unresolved Support: None

Celebrate is a responsive theme built on top of Hybrid Core, featuring a full range of post formats, masonry layout, custom header and background.

Verdict: Celebrate won’t get your heart racing but it’s a solid theme albeit with limited customization options.

All post listings are displayed in a masonry style but the only layout customizations are whether to have a sidebar (two-column) or not (one-column).

You cannot control how many columns the masonry uses.

Further customizations allow setting the header text color, the background color, the header image and custom footer content (HTML allowed).

The theme does respond pretty well – the sidebar, if active, becomes a footer – and looks good across tablets and mobiles.

Jkreativ Lite

Last Updated: 2014-06-15
Downloads: 4,601
Ratings: 4.8/5.0
Unresolved Support: 9 of 10

Jkreativ Lite is 100% Responsive also featured masonry blog layout. This themes is retina ready so your themes will seems perfect on every modern device and cross browser compatibility.

Verdict: Jkreative Lite is a great looking theme that makes a few odd choices.

This theme makes a great first impression: the layout is clean, the number of columns responds to the screen size and the type is crisp.

But there are a few oddities such as the title only being displayed on tablets and mobiles; the single post content width not being full-width even with no widgets in the sidebar (you wouldn’t want a sidebar anyway); the permanent sidebar (the left margin) not being widget-ready; and, tablets only have 2 columns even in landscape orientation when 3 would fit quite easily.

The page loading animation is a gimmick that becomes annoying pretty quickly.

It does have some nice touches though such as a mobile-specific menu and a slide-out menu for non-desktops (although the styling would need some tweaking).

It also looks great on a tablet.

Worth a look if you don’t mind doing a little post-installation tweaking.

Gridz

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Last Updated: 2014-03-27
Downloads: 4,038
Ratings: 4/5
Unresolved Support: 4 of 5

Pinterest like personal blogging theme powered by jQuery Masonry. Beautiful retina-ready and responsive theme with flexible layout. Tons of options to customize the theme according to your needs.

Verdict: An attractive and well thought-out theme that does almost exactly what it says on the tin without any fuss or fanfare.

Gridz’s effectiveness is due to its simplicity. Whilst the “tons of options to customize” is a slight exaggeration there are enough to make this theme your own.

You can choose the the number of content columns, colors, fonts (type and size) and the location and appearance of the sidebar.

The scroll-to-top is a nice touch as is the addition of 3 footer widget areas is a nice touch and is preferable to using a sidebar when thinking about the implications of smaller devices.

Responsiveness is not bad, the selected number of grid columns is respected on a landscape-orientated tablet but the design becomes single column for all devices in portrait and mobiles in landscape mode.

If I was to be picky then I would prefer 2 columns on a tablet (portrait) and I’d also want to lose the RSS icon on a mobile to reduce the amount of space being taken up by the header.

Pinpress

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Last Updated: 2013-12-11
Downloads: 38,122
Ratings: 4.4/5
Unresolved Support: 7 of 7

A responsive theme with neat masonry layout similar to pinterest with infinite scroll. If you need a perfect mobile theme, then pinpress might be the right option.

Verdict: If the thought of masonry and infinite scroll gets you all in a lather then this is the theme for you.

Pinpress is a no-frills themes that implements a truly responsive masonry grid across all platforms. The customization options are limited to the standard list (there’s 1 menu location) so there’s little chance to get creative.

The infinite scroll works although the rearranging of the bricks can be distracting as they jump around.

Definitely one for the purists or to use as the basis for a more sophisticated solution.

Alpha Trinity

Last Updated: 2014-01-04
Downloads: 7,659
Ratings: 5/5
Unresolved Support: None

Alpha Trinity is a responsive theme with a clean multi column layout. Homepage uses the masonry javascript library so all posts tile nicely. Theme features left and right column widget areas and a custom primary menu. Link rollover color can be customized via the theme options.

Verdict: Minimalist theme that lets itself down on mobile devices.

Alpha Trinity, the barebones theme with the ironically long-winded name, is another responsive masonry theme where the number of columns, rather than the column width, changes with the screen size.

The scheme is monochrome (except for an unexpected mouseover effect on the featured images) and with little scope to change this through the basic customizations, this theme is best viewed as a foundation to a more elaborate theme.

One area that definitely requires attention is how it responds to being viewed on a mobile phone: putting the content after the left sidebar can mean plenty of scrolling before hitting anything that a visitor will be interested in.

Baskerville

Last Updated: 2014-06-25
Downloads: 770
Ratings: Not Rated
Unresolved Support: 1 of 5

Baskerville is a beautiful, responsive and retina-ready masonry theme for hoarders. It’s the perfect way to showcase your posts, videos, images and galleries, and share your favorite quotes and links. Features responsive design, retina-ready assets, full-width header image, support for all post formats, custom logo upload, custom widgets (video, Flickr and Dribbble), four page templates (including a contributors template), editor styling, like functionality via the ZillaLikes plugin and translation-ready code.

Verdict: A high-impact theme with impressive attention to detail.

I’m not sure what the “hoarders” reference is about but Baskerville is a theme that could and should be of interest to any WordPress site that publishes frequently.

A polished theme with some great attention to detail such as the sticky icons, the pointers on the headings, the mouseover bounce effect on the featured images, even the somewhat revealing of the search form doesn’t detract from the overall impression that this is a very solid theme indeed.

Working well across all the platforms, the use of footer widgets rather than a sidebar allows for an easy and consistent transition from desktop to tablet and mobile; my only gripe would be a preference for 3, rather than 2, columns on a landscape-orientated tablet.

Carton

Last Updated: 2014-02-02
Downloads: 22,708
Ratings: 4.8/5
Unresolved Support: 4 of 5

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