WordPress boasts 4,200+ free themes. They are meant to provide an attractive look of your website and its content presentation.
There are themes available for any website or industry — for example, we have reviewed beautiful WordPress magazine themes and WordPress landing page themes. This time, we are focusing on themes for blogging websites. So enjoy our collection of nice free WordPress blog themes — and get inspired.
Special collection of the best free WordPress themes for blogs
These free WordPress themes are meant for various kinds of blog websites. This includes business and corporate blogs, as well as personal bloggers’ or photographer’s websites. The diversity of blogging areas are unlimited — traveling, health and fitness, beauty and fashion, cooking, life coaching, and so on.
The blog-oriented themes usually have clean layouts optimized for the attractive presentation of featured posts and images, while letting you do some layout customization. In fact, many of the multi-purpose free themes can also be used for blog websites. However, we are reviewing a few of the ones used primarily for blogging.
Hemingway
The Hemingway free WordPress blog theme can be described as simple and stylish with a two-column layout. Bloggers will appreciate both the name and design.
Key features:
- Parallax scrolling
- responsive web design
- ready for Retina display devices
- custom colors
- custom header image
- support for the special post formats
- compatibility with WordPress 5’s default content editor — Gutenberg
- custom widgets
- translation readiness
Writee
We are moving on to an elegant free WordPress blog theme called the Writee. This one has an impressive track record of 20,000+ active installations.
Key features:
- pixel-perfect design
- Google Fonts and Font Awesome
- social buttons
- custom widgets
- multiple templates
- built-in posts and sliders
- sidebar options
- translation readiness
Verbosa
The next free WordPress themes for bloggers on our list is the Verbosa — a highly customizable theme that is meant to assist in the creative efforts of bloggers, photographers, and other creative people.
Key features:
- responsiveness with a fluid layout
- Google font support
- 100+ social icons
- elegant typography
- translation readiness
- RTL support
- microformats and microdata
Fascinate
And now let’s view a modern and stylish WordPress blog theme called Fascinate. It is recommended for personal and professional blogging in various areas.
Key features:
- compatibility with WordPress 5’s default content editor — Gutenberg
- compatibility across devices
- support for WP post formats
- WordPress Live customizer
- custom author widget
- image lazyloading
- social widget
- support for MailChimp, JetPack, and other third-party plugins
Blog Way
Now it’s the turn of the Blog Way — minimalistic and designed WordPress theme for blog. In addition to being recommended for bloggers, it can also be an e-commerce store theme.
Key features:
- WooCommerce support
- social links
- responsive web design
- SEO friendliness
- author profile widget
Blog Prime
Blog Prime is a simple WordPress theme that also gives you flexibility in page creation. Its grid layout allows you to showcase the desired content.
Key features:
- compatibility with all modern browsers
- responsive web design
- speed optimization
- compatibility with WordPress 5’s default content editor — Gutenberg
- WooCommerce integration
- SEO friendliness
Serenti
The creators of the Serenti theme say they have trimmed away the unnecessary elements to reduce the clutter and provide everyone with a clean and elegant theme they will enjoy using.
Key features:
- full-width layouts
- multiple sidebars
- various post layouts
- footer widgets
- fully responsive
- native social widget
- built-in slider
Marlin lite
Martin Lite is an elegant and lightweight WordPress theme to be used in websites of creative bloggers, photographers, as well as businesses. The demo shows it on various devices.
Key features:
- fully responsive (built with Bootstrap)
- WordPress Customizer
- customization options
- the “About” and “Latest posts” widgets
- fast-loading
Author
Everything in the Author theme is created for bloggers with convenient reading in mind — including the visual contrast between the dark sidebar and light-colored body.
Key features:
- responsive web design
- fast-loading due to JS and CSS minification
- focus on accessibility standards
- increased readability
- WooCommerce support
- compatibility with WordPress 5’s default content editor — Gutenberg
Revive
The Revive free WordPress blog theme is an attractive multi-purpose one that will suit blog websites well. The “plant” imagery emphasizes the very nice “revival” idea.
Key features:
- Font Awesome icons
- multiple blog layouts
- large header image
- sidebar customizations
- responsive web design (built on Bootstrap)
Tracks
The Tracks theme’s stylish simplicity and dark background make it a great fit for sites focused on content and images. Its features also look nice.
Key features:
- responsive web design
- 50+ social icons
- search bar
- homepage grid layout
- crisp typography
- WooCommerce support
- compatibility with WordPress 5’s default content editor — Gutenberg
Bloggist
Bloggist is a highly customizable and elegantly looking theme for blog-oriented websites. It’s easy to play with its look and make it fit your idea.
Key features:
- a lot of space for ads
- SEO friendliness
- responsive web design
- plenty of customization options
- sidebar widgets
Blogger Buzz
Let’s now move on to the Blogger Buzz theme. It’s a feature-rich and customizable theme primarily destined for bloggers, photographers, designers, and bands.
Key features:
- built on WP Customizer
- banner slider
- featured posts
- multiple post layouts
- page and post layout settings
- responsive web design
- translation readiness
- SEO friendliness
- support for WooCommerce, Jetpack, Elementor, Contact Form 7, etc.
Clean Blogging
As you can guess from its name, Clean Blogging is a theme with a clean design, both minimalistic and simple.
Key features:
- responsive web design
- SEO friendliness
- latest posts and featured images
- 300px sidebar
- support for AdSense and banner ads
- lightweight icon pack
- a focus on readability
Corporately Blogging
Corporately Blogging is a lightweight free WordPress theme created primarily for blogging websites. The design is minimalistic and flat.
Key features:
- SEO friendliness
- large header image
- easy-to-use
- responsive web design
Swift Blog
Consider a simple and clean WordPress theme for various kinds of blogging websites called Swift Blog. It has been built (and named) with fast loading in mind.
Key features:
- compatibility with WordPress 5’s default content editor — Gutenberg
- compatibility with popular WP plugins
- translation readiness
- RTL support (right-to-left text direction)
- SEO friendliness
- responsive web design
Cream Blog
The Cream Blog free WordPress blog theme is 100% responsive and clean, with a trendy look. The creators emphasize it was made with WP standards in mind. The last update in September 2019 is a sign of active support.
Key features:
- WooCommerce support
- plenty of customization options
- WP Customizer
- responsive web design
- cross-browser compatibility
Cream Blog Lite
Our collection also features an easily customizable, user-friendly, and clean WordPress blog theme called Cream Blog Lite — a child theme of the Creme Blog.
Key features:
- responsive web design
- translation readiness
- quick demo import
- banner/slider
- various post widgets
Drift Blog
Let us now have a look at a simple, user-friendly, modern, and creative WordPress blog theme — Drift Blog.
Key features:
- responsive web design
- cross-browser compatibility
- custom “social” and “author” widgets
- options for fonts, colors, and typography
- sticky sidebar
- block customization options
The Blogging
Let us also introduce a clean and elegant theme called the Blogging theme. Its developers describe it one with clean vibe and arresting design.
Key features:
- responsive web design
- compatibility with WordPress 5’s default content editor — Gutenberg
- translation readiness
- layout customization options
- WooCommerce support
- Elementor support
- SEO friendliness
Wisteria
Our list is continued by a clean, modern, and minimalistic theme. The Wisteria developers state it is meant to help you reveal your creativity.
Key features:
- HTML5
- CSS3
- ready for Retina display devices
- high definition
- Font Awesome
- customization options
- SEO friendliness
- translation readiness with RTL support
Let your blogging website have the theme it deserves!
Hopefully, you liked our collection of useful free WordPress blog themes. There are always more opportunities! So if you would like your website to look unique and reflect your brand’s identity, have exactly the elements and effects you need, you can order a custom WordPress theme design. Contact our WordPress team!