Are you looking for the best WordPress blogging theme to give your blog a fresh look?
In this post, we’ve rounded up our favorite WordPress blogging themes ideal for personal blogs and writers.
Some are simple with designs that are laser-focused on showcasing your blog. Others are intimidating multipurpose themes that offer dozens of premade templates to choose from and seemingly endless ways to customize them.
Without further ado, here are 20+ WordPress blog themes to consider.
The best WordPress blog themes for your website
1. Kadence Theme
Kadence Theme is our top pick because it’s the theme we use on most of our websites.
It’s a lightweight theme with a drag and drop header and footer builder, and plenty of starter templates to help you easily get the ball rolling and have your website up and running within minutes. You can control the layout of your website with options for pages, posts and custom post types.
You can customize the themes font, color, social icons, menus and more. Also, with their global color palette you can easily set up your brand colors to appear on elements such as buttons, links and headers.
Their premium version comes with additional features such as 20 new header elements, conditional elements and Woocommerce addon.
What I love most about Kadence is how many features they’ve included on the free version. Yes, the paid version offers some very important features and I highly recommend that. But if you don’t have budget for that, you cannot go wrong with the free version. Out of all the themes I have tested, I haven’t found a better selection of features in a free theme.
Price: Free. Paid plans introductory prices starts at $129/year. 30-day money back guarantee.
2. Thrive Theme Builder
Thrive Theme Builder is a sophisticated page building WordPress theme that combines the page building aspects of Thrive Architect with powerful theme options and theme building capabilities. That is to say with Thrive Theme Builder, you can customize key theme elements like your 404, search and archive pages as well as your blog page layout.
Bloggers will love the ability to customize their sites from the ground up without having to use code, but the things that truly make Thrive Theme Builder special are its marketing capabilities.
This theme has calls to action and email opt-in forms for you to use right out of the box. Custom author boxes and blog posts are available as well.
Price: $99/year (renews at $199/year thereafter) for standalone product or access all Thrive Themes products for $299/year (renews at $599/year thereafter) with Thrive Suite membership.
Read our Thrive Theme Builder review.
3. Astra
Astra is a multipurpose WordPress theme and the perfect companion for page builders like Elementor, Beaver Builder and Brizy. The theme works with Gutenberg right out of the box, but many of its professional blogging templates are reserved for the aforementioned page builder plugins.
Astra is another theme that comes with advanced theme options. You can customize more or less everything without code. This includes blog page layouts, typography, header options and more.
It’s perfect for bloggers who want more control over the way their sites look and behave as well as those who have their hearts set on Elementor, Beaver Builder or Brizy.
Price: Introductory from $47/year
Read our Astra review.
4. SmartTheme by OptimizePress
SmartTheme is an exceptional WordPress theme that makes it easy to put the focus on your content, and building your email list.
It’s VERY rare to find a WordPress theme that is both lightweight and integrates with popular email marketing services right out of the box.
This theme is included when purchasing OptimizePress – the leading WordPress landing page & sales funnel builder.
If you’re serious about building a profitable website, this theme is worth considering. It’s ideal for bloggers, writers, entrepreneurs, and more.
Price: Starts from $129/year. Higher plans offer additional add-ons such as a funnel builder, checkout builder, and more.
5. GeneratePress
GeneratePress is a multipurpose WordPress theme capable of building a wide variety of websites. It has dozens of its own site demos, but it also has dedicated demos for page builder plugins like Elementor and Beaver Builder.
GeneratePress also happens to be one of the most customizable themes on the market. It has dozens of color and typography options for you to pick from as well as multiple layouts for menus, sidebars, pages, blog posts and more.
Bloggers will especially love the theme’s blog demos and options, including controls for featured images, columns and masonry layouts, infinite scroll, and more. The dedicated support for popular page builder plugins also gives you access to creative ways to create blog posts.
Price: $59/year or $249 lifetime. 30 day money back guarantee.
6. Pro
Pro is Themeco’s powerful theme builder theme. While the developer’s premier product X uses the company’s own page builder plugin Cornerstone, Pro has been designed to combine page building with theme building.
The result is a sophisticated theme that’s complex underneath yet easy to use at surface level. You’ll never need to use code to customize your header or footer, change your blog page and overall site layouts, or customize your site’s styles.
There are hundreds of page templates and pre-designed sections at your disposal so you can create beautiful blog posts on the fly without getting caught up in the design process.
Price: $99 for one site. 30 days money back guarantee.
7. OceanWP
OceanWP is a multipurpose WordPress theme designed to work alongside a page builder plugin. Fortunately, it works with eight page builders, including Elementor, Thrive Architect, Divi Builder, Beaver Builder and Brizy.
The theme has dozens of homepage demos to choose from, ranging from dedicated blogging demos to professional layouts. It also has advanced theme options, but some features are available only as extensions.
They include sticky sections, Instagram feeds, post sliders and content displayed in modal format.
Price: $43/year for 3 sites. Lifetime offers available.
8. Schema
