10 Great Free Parallax WordPress Themes You Just Can’t Ignore

Parallax scrolling has become a popular web trend at the moment. This web design trend makes the background images to move a bit slow compared to the forefront, and thereby results in creating a 3D effect as you scroll down the page. This eventually heightens the interactivity of the website featuring a parallax effect.

Though parallax scrolling is a popular technique, you will still not find many high-quality templates based on this design approach. But we have done extensive research to find high quality and responsive parallax themes for your wordpress website. They all are licensed under GPL 2.0 or more and this means you can use them for your commercial projects. You can also use them to learn how to implement this web design technique on your existing website.

In this post, we’ll be presenting you with 10 of the best parallax scrolling WordPress themes worth considering.

Parallax A Free Wordress Theme

Created by CyberChimps, Parallax is a responsive WordPress theme that helps in creating stunning looking websites. Most importantly, it enables creating beautiful background images based on the latest parallax effect. In fact, the theme features 3 different parallax areas.

What’s more? The Parallax theme allows adding many different plugins in a single theme. And thus, give you enough time for setting up a site from scratch in just a few minutes. It comes equipped with several useful features like touch-optimized drag and drop options, sliders, and much more.

Advertica

Are you searching for a responsive parallax WordPress theme that can help serve your need to put up a multipurpose site? In that case, Advertica Lite is exactly what you need. It’s a responsive and multipurpose theme ideal to be used for a business or a portfolio site. Also, this theme proves a viable means for startups, as it helps showcase their site in a manner that makes it visually captivating.

The design of the theme makes it an apt choice for creative professionals, any construction business, a contractor and so on. This theme comprises of both responsive bootstrap frameworks, as well as, a parallax section that will help to create a mesmerizing effect on your audience.

Zerif Lite

This is one of the most preferred parallax scrolling effect theme used by roughly a thousand of WordPress users. Zerit Lite boasts a stunning one-page design, clean and validated code. It even comes loaded with a “Theme Options Panel” – that makes updating website settings like logo, layout, colors, etc. a hassle free task.

Furthermore, the theme is compatible with all the modern browsers and offers localization support as well. It is a fully responsive theme and can be accessed using any device. The best aspect about the theme is the “Get in Touch” section on the homepage that enables users to contact you easily and quickly. Besides this, Zerit Lite contains several other useful sections, including Features, About, Your Team, Testimonials and Blog.

Quill

Quill WordPress theme is created by the team at ‘Athemes’, keeping to serve the need of law firms in mind. Simply put, this theme is perfect for people associated with a law agency. Quill doesn’t contain unnecessary bloat – in the form of too many elements on the front page. Instead it only includes only relevant blocks – that helps show your potential clients what all you have to offer.

This is a fully-responsive theme that helps your visitors to access the site even when they’re on the move. Moreover, it features a full-width slider that can be used for running any promotions or as a sales page to drive people to your site.

Inkzine

Want a magazine style responsive WordPress theme? Then, you can consider choosing Inkzine for the same. It is a superior quality parallax magazine theme suited for WordPress blogs. It is based on the popular and widely used Twitter Bootstrap 3.0 framework.

The theme comes pre-packaged with tons of features like Responsive Layout, Parallax Header, Theme Options, and many more such features. And, Inkzine is fully translation ready theme that’s been made available in French and Spanish.

Radiate

What makes this theme truly spectacular is its transparent navigation menu bar, and a full length parallax slider. Besides, its efficient design will definitely help enhance customer experience. This is a responsive theme and gets easily displayed on any device.

Just below the headers, you’ll find 3 content boxes in the theme containing a featured image along with an excerpt – that gives the theme a magazine like appearance.

Overall we can say radiate is a professional and responsive blogging theme. It support parallex scrolling and has very minimal design. Consideirng the header image you get option to upload your own header images and can change the colors using wordpress customizer.

You also get inbuilt support for infinite scroll provided by jetpack wordpress plugin. Now if you ever feel that you need custom design, then you can use it’s custom stylesheet to add and override default styles.

Starter

Starter is an amazing theme for people seeking for a free to download yet premium looking WordPress design. This is a one page theme, featuring a sleek look that makes it an excellent option for creating a landing page.

It is a responsive theme that comes with many different modules – all packed onto just a single page. For instance, you can choose to add things like sliders, image galleries, and other components with a parallax effect. What’s so amazing about this theme is its portfolio gallery that allows designers, artists and other creatives to showcase their work in a quick and the most efficient manner possible.

Foodeez Lite

Foodeez Is a theme which has been developed by a popular theme developer for food blogs. It’s a perfect theme for restaurants and hotels and can even be used by food bloggers.

I personally like its full width slider which can be used to present latest recipes or featured contents. I also like its hundred percent parallax background which looks really awesome and improves overall website appearance.

But if you ask me about its features then i would like to tell you that it has got lots of widgets areas where you can display latest posts, tags and recipes. If you scroll down the page then you will find the grid based slider.

I also like its widgetized footer area where you can add maximum the widgets.

Evolve

This is another multi-purpose parallax WordPress theme that has been revamped, so as to make the theme a fully responsive one – suited for all devices. It comprises of two different sliders, namely: Bootstrap and Parallax slider. Apart from this, you’ll find several animated effects within the theme – that enables to move captions, as well as, images back and forth from the place from where they have come.

The slider can automatically change the slides, or you can do so using the button and arrow-like navigation elements displayed on each slider.

Hemingway

What you’ll love about this theme is probably its simplicity and a defined style. This is perfectly suited responsive theme for bloggers that features two-columns. While one column can be used to display your content, the other one is suitable for presenting images thumbnails, tags, post categories, etc.

So, if you can settle for less (i.e. a theme without high-end graphics, animations, and so on), then Hemingway is the right theme for you.

AccessPress Parallax

Last on the list is yet another beautiful-looking WordPress theme, called AccessPress Parallax. It has become pretty popular among WordPress users, because of its ability to render 3D effects. This eventually makes the theme an ideal choice for setting up a storytelling site that easily grabs attention of your visitors.

From featured sliders, to call to action, theme options panel and so on, AccessPress Parallax has everything that is needed for building a winning parallax WordPress site. Some of its key features are easy customizability, capability to setup a multi-purpose site, clean code and much more.

Conclusion

So, I hope that you’ll find the right parallax theme for your WordPress site from this collection. I will try to keep this post updated with new upcoming free themes.

Author : Ava Garcia is a developer by profession and working with a WordPress Outsourcing company – OSSMedia for the last 5 years. She loves to share information regarding to web technology. Above listed collection of parallax scrolling WordPress themes is one of her creation.