When it comes to making your WordPress blog look the way you want, there are thousands of unique themes out there to help you achieve the effect you are going for. The fact of the matter is, with so many high quality free WordPress themes, it’s sometimes a bit of a guilt downloading and using one because you feel bad that the developer isn’t getting a cent for their effort. Still, it doesn’t feel so bad that you don’t want to download and use the theme.

In the spirit of getting the most out of your blog, let’s review the top ten themes that really do deserve to be paid themes:

• Mystique – This one is a real beauty. Minimalistic but still boasting plenty of features like allowing for a custom header, offering a flexible width and being fully optimized for translations! You can’t beat that combination of advantages.

Mystique

• Piano Black – For a free theme, Piano Black offers something a huge number of people prefer: a black theme. That’s not always easy to find if you still want a classy looking WordPress theme. The multi-level drop down menu helps make site navigation a snap, too.

Piano Black

• Comment Central - With an easy to look at layout, Comment Central gives a very simple look and feel that’s also easy on the eyes. Drop down menus and a widget ready interface help make this truly unique theme a great addition to any blog.

Comment Central

• Arras Theme – Here’s a magazine style layout for WordPress that is a genuine thing of beauty. Not only does it offer an excellent slide show option for your latest posts, it allows for latest a side bar with multiple tabs and even a sticky post at the top. Very sleek, very powerful.

Arras Theme

• Thematic – Here’s a stripped down, ready to rock theme that’s exceptionally effective for those concerned with SEO. It can be used either as is, extended with plenty of plugins or even as a base to construct your own design.

Thematic

• Inanis Glass – Let your users select the way they want your site to look. This theme gives them that choice and then saves their choice via a cookie. A great way to let your visitors customize their browsing experience.

Inanis Glass

• AutoFocus – Not all of us are about the writing, some of us prefer pictures. For photo bloggers, nothing’s more powerful than AutoFocus at helping your blog look visually stunning with no coding effort on your part.

AutoFocus

• Clear – Writers of the world really need visitors to focus on their words and that’s why Clear was developed. Keep the visitors paying attention to what you’ve written without a lot of visual interruption from sidebars, menus and widgets with this free one column theme.

Clear

• Bruce – Here’s a very simple to use theme that looks complex. It’s got an eye catching layout perfect for keeping your visitors browsing longer than you might expect.

Bruce

• News Magazine Theme 640 – This theme lets you build a magazine or newspaper style site quickly and with plenty of options. Place ads or even Google Analytics with the click of a button.

News Magazine Theme 640

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