WordPress is an award-winning open source and CMS  which enables you to build Blogs, Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made WordPress the most popular blog software available.

One of the great things about WordPress is the large number of free themes available, which are especially ideal for blogger who are just starting out. The developers and the website designers that are very frequently working with WordPress know that the way they do their themes or theme framework has a very important and great impact on their efficiency.

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These frameworks are very important as they can help to eliminate some repetitive work which is also very necessary .the responsive frameworks have become very popular over the past few years.

A theme framework is basically defined as a theme that is flexible and they can be used as the head or the major themes for building up various other themes of various kinds. These flexible themes can really make theme development a lot easier job for the web designers or developers.

And today we are going to cover 10 best wordpress themes frameworks.

1) Reverie

Reverie Framework is an extremely versatile HTML5 WordPress framework. A powerful tool for building prototypes on any kind of devices. It is optimized for Search Engine while at the same time improve readability.

It is extremely easy to create your blog, CMS, brochure and any other kind of sites with Reverie.

2) Thematic

Thematic is a free, open-source, highly extensible, search-engine optimized WordPress Theme Framework featuring 13 widget-ready areas, grid-based layout samples, styling for popular plugins, and a whole community behind it.

It’s perfect for beginner bloggers and WordPress development professionals.

3) Carrington Theme

Carrington is a CMS theme platform for WordPress that makes it easy to create unique looks for different categories, post types and comments just by creating custom templates. By design, the Carrington framework is designed to be extremely flexible and modular.

By building onto the already robust wordpress framework, Carrington Theme expands the possibilities of layout on all pages, including your homepage, posts page, category pages and showcases.

4) Wonderflux

Wonderflux is a professional, free WordPress theme framework.

It allows you to rapidly develop highly sophisticated, custom WordPress themes with just a handful of files (minimum is just 1 – style.css) using the principle of a Child theme.

5) Bones

6) Skeleton

Skeleton is a simple, responsive theme from Simple Themes.

Skeleton is a WordPress theme aimed at helping you build simple, uncluttered, useable, and mobile-friendly WordPress sites.

7) The Buffet Framework

The Buffet Framework is a theme framework designed not only for the theme developers who will be using the theme actions and filters to create the child themes, but also for the end users who would be able to add and remove what they want.

Like most WordPress theme frameworks, the Buffet Framework utlises WordPress actions and filters to allow theme developers to add additional content without editing the templates files using the child theme concept.

8) Presswork

9) White Board Frame Work

Whiteboard framework for WordPress was developed to speed up the development of WordPress themes.

Whiteboard does so by eliminating the time spent on code common to all WordPress themes and includes non-intrusive code that improves the overall WordPress theme in many ways – including SEO, speed, usability, mobile support, and multi-lingual support.

10) Starkers

STARKERS is a bare-bones WordPress theme created to act as a starting point for the theme designer.