Significant features and redesigns were added to WordPress 2.7 to make blogging more valuable than ever.

Many users found their themes no longer work the way they were used to, others just wanted to enjoy the new features the new version is providing. That’s why today we wanted to present only 15 Free Premium-like WordPress 2.7 Themes that are really impressive and was released recently to use all the new features the new version is providing.

Typebased is a free, personal blog design, with a very clean and elegant style. Along with the great design, you will find some nice goodies in the backend i.e. custom widgets with some Typebased-specific custom widgets to allow you full control of what happens in your sidebar, integrated banner ad management, 5 different colour schemes to choose from etc.

Demo Can be found here

Absynthe is a beautiful, dark, and mysterious free professional WordPress theme released under the GNU General Public License.

Features Include

Integration with the Last.Fm Records plugin in the footer to showcase the music you’re currently listening to

Integration with Twitter in the sidebar.

Completely widgetized sidebar

Demo Can be found here

Snapshot is the framework-equivalent of WooThemes Showcase – so that already guarantees you an awesome experience! Snapshot is also flexible and can be used for either a photo showcase, portfolio or design gallery.

Features Include

Two different theme layouts / capabilities to allow you to switch between a photoblog / portfolio showcasing your own work or using Snapshot as a design gallery

Three uniquely, different colour schemes which can be tweaked from the backend

An integrated theme options page (to change your logo or add your Google Analytics & Feedburner account details) and custom write panel.

Demo Can be found here

Holiday WordPress is a flexible, professional theme with a two-column layout and a “featured” area for the latest story. Once the holiday is done – don’t fret – the design allows you to easily change the page elements (such as the background) for a less season-specific theme.

Features Include

A “featured” area that places your current stories at the top of the page.

The content area let’s you slightly see the background, so you can experiment with different backgrounds to get the effect that you’d like.

A widgetized sidebar for easy customization.

Demo Can be found here

CryBook is a 3 Column simple theme based on Facebook. It contain 2 widget-ready sidebar, live theme swistcher and Custom Admin Panel.

Features Include

5 colors scheme to choose.

2 widget-ready sidebar.

Support threaded comments and comment paged.

About Me section in the sidebar. Edit using the custom admin panel.

Special comment fields with avatar.

Google Adsense or any image banner in sidebar ( 300px X 250px ).

Google Analytics easily insert field.

Demo Can be found here

A bright & colorful free WordPress theme – ClearPress. The unique feature about this theme is that it divides the blog posts into three separate columns. So, if you have set your blog to show 9 posts on the home page, they will be divided into 3 columns consisting of 3 posts each.

Features Include

A pull-down sidebar which is totally unobtrusive and contains three widgetized sidebars.

Gravatar-ready and Image Gallery ready

Have beautifully styled comments and archive pages.

The CSS for the theme is commented and easy to modify for any WordPress user.

Demo Can be found here

Portfolio is a “minimalist” WordPress theme. The objective of the Theme is being used as a starting point to create portfolios using WordPress as CMS.

Features Include

Custom Write Panel function creating two new panels for the administrator, one for the posts and one for the pages.

Using Coda Slider Effect with small changes to fit the theme.

The code is commented with links to the WordPress Codex or tutorials

Demo Can be found here

Maasahan is a premium quality free WordPress theme.

Features Include

Twitter Account Integration

Built-in Page Navigation

Featured Post Gallery

Threaded Comments

Option Page for Easy Customization

Demo Can be found here

Pixeled WordPress theme features a standard 2-3 column layout with a pretty straightforward layout.

Features Include

Dropdown top menu for categories

Customizable feedburner field on top right

Widgets all around (6 positions)

An Adsense ready WordPress theme

Demo Can be found here

Viewport, a free WordPress theme is focused around a clean and simple, content based layout. The aim is to grab the user’s attention and draw them straight into the content. On the single post page the content is laid out clearly in full, with post controls and a widget-enabled sidebar. The theme also allows the blog owner to change the background image and color, and the image of the ‘Where Next?’ page.

Demo Can be found here

The theme is simply beautiful. It possesses some unique, premium-like, features that makes it highly flexible.

Features Include

Built-in support for threaded comments

125×125 right sidebar banners. Now, you can also add Google AdSense code, individually, for each of your banners.

An extensive and inclusive theme control panel

Variable layout structure: Centered content or Right-aligned content;

Demo Can be found here

FREEmium theme was designed by Paul Kadysz and developed by Dariusz Siedlecki. Both guys did an excellent job.

Features Include

jQuery menu

FlickrRSS plugin support

Threaded comments support

A lot of advertising spots (125×125, 120×600, 300×250)

2 widget ready sidebars

Demo Can be found here

“Elegant Grunge” is an unwashed yet crisp WordPress theme inspired by wefunction.com

Features Include

Automatic surrounding of all images with a frame packed with eye-candy that makes images really pop out.

A ‘photoblog’ tag page that displays entries in a photoblog style.

A widget to display thumbnails from latest/random photoblog entries.

Very configurable sidebar: Choose from no sidebar, a right sidebar, or two right sidebars

The option to select a custom image as the header

Demo Can be found here

A clean and simple magazine styled WordPress theme.

Features Include

Supports WordPress 2.7 Comment Threading

Featured posts nicely styled and designed to catch the user’s eyes.

Different ways of displaying posts on the home page.

Plugins are not required and widgets are supported.

Demo Can be found here

Versatility Lite is a two column, ad-ready, widgetized theme. The theme includes a ‘Featured Post’ section, drop down CSS menus, integrated related posts, social bookmarking buttons, and much more.

Demo Can be found here