Last updated - October 11, 2023
Picking the right theme is important when you are starting a blog in WordPress. Not only does it matter in appearance but also the functionality and performance of your website. In this article, you will find a list of WordPress themes that are a great choice to start your blog.
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Astra
Astra is a lightweight WordPress theme packed with loads of features. It has a collection of pre-built websites to get your website started right away. Astra also supports WooCommerce and a lot of popular page builders so creating blog websites and even adding eCommerce features is easy with Astra.
The Astra Pro license starts from $49 for annual plans.
Writee
Writee is a WordPress theme to create travel, photography, and lifestyle blogs. It has useful features like customizable widgets, and a full width/boxed slider to show images on your posts.
Writee also supports multiple languages so you can create multilingual blogs with it. The paid plan starts at $39.99 per year.
Sydney
Sydney is a versatile website useful to create blogs and portfolios for personal promotion. It has loads of features like color and layout control, access to all Google Fonts, and the ability to add logs and a sticky navigation bar.
Access the full range of the Sydney theme with the pro license, starting at $69 per year.
Ashe
Ashe is a simple blog theme for WordPress suitable for both personal and business blogs. It is a feature-rich theme that supports major WordPress page builders and plugins to create an attractive blog.
The license for Ashe starts at $29 per single website for one year.
OceanWP
OceanWP is a really popular WordPress theme around and it is very easy to set up a blog with it. It is an extension-friendly theme to create a blog with SEO best practices in its code. It works seamlessly with WordPress page builders to create your website as you want.
This theme is also integrated with Freepik and Flaticon, so you get access to millions of photos and illustrations to add to your blog.
OceanWP starts at an annual license fee of $47 for 3 sites.
Hemingway
Hemingway is a user-friendly theme to create blog websites and comes with multiple post formats and a quick setup build. It offers a responsive design with custom accents, a block editor, and custom header images.
Hemingway has no pro version and all its features are available for free.
GroundWP
GroundWP is a super-fast Gutenberg block-based minimalist WordPress theme. You can use the theme on almost any kind of blogging site like personal blogs, affiliate marketing, membership, portfolios, and online news portals.
Fluid typography and fluid spacing are two standout features. They enable the theme to adjust the font size and spaces automatically based on devices and screen sizes. The theme offers you a pattern library by which you can create numerous layout possibilities for your website.
Hestia
Hestia is a responsive WordPress theme with material design to create beautiful-looking websites. It specializes in creating front pages and is WooCommerce ready and is compatible with popular WordPress page builder tools.
Editing your webpage in Hestia is done within the customizer, the editor which lets you see a live preview of the changes as you work on them to create a unique website.
Hestia Pro starts at $69/ year for a single site.
ColorMag
ColorMag is useful for creating content-rich blogs and magazine-style websites. You can choose from ColorMag’s demos for different use cases.
It offers an SEO-friendly design with great loading speeds and advances customizing features to create unique blogs with attractive layouts.
ColorMag pro starts at $59 per year for a single site license.
Neve
Neve is a flexible theme offering the ability to build fast and responsive blogs, personal portfolio websites, and even eCommerce stores. It is easy to set up and has an SEO-friendly design to rank higher in search engines.
The Neve theme supports all the common page builders like Elementor and is compatible with WordPress Gutenberg editor. You can customize the website layout with its drag-and-drop editor.
Neve offers paid plans starting from $69 per year for unlimited sites.
Lovecraft
Lovecraft is an elegant blog theme with a two-column layout, giving your blog a minimal and sleek design. It has a large header image to show off images and a thumbnail in individual posts.
Lovecraft looks great on all devices and supports logos, adding custom widgets supports Gutenberg.
The theme is free and has no pro version.
Phlox
Phlox is a lightweight theme for blogs, personal portfolios, and even business websites. It has a wide collection of templates to create websites. Phlox offers custom widgets and supports WooCommerce and page builder integration.
The paid plans for this theme start from $39.
Mesmerize
Mesmerize is a multipurpose theme that has pre-built, editable headers and content sections to create blog websites with unique layouts. It supports WooCommerce so you can add and sell products without additional plugins.
Mesmerize offers annual paid plans starting at $79.
Author
Author is an intuitive writer-friendly theme to showcase your content and create blogs, news, and magazine websites.
The theme supports Gutenberg and WooCommerce and is fairly straightforward in what it is offering, for writers to create and present their content easily.
The theme offers all its features for free and does not have a paid version.
Blocksy
Blocksy is a fast and capable theme built to suit the Gutenberg editor. From landing pages to blogs and eCommerce stores, you can build all kinds of websites with Blocksy. It supports page builders and is optimized for search engine optimization.
Blocksy is a newer theme so it may not support older browsers. The paid plans for this theme start at $49 per year for a single site license.
Responsive
Responsive is indeed a responsive and lightweight theme with ready-to-use templates to start a blog or a portfolio website. It has an SEO-friendly design to create high-ranking blogs and is compatible with WordPress Gutenberg and page builders like Elementor and others.
The theme also offers layout and other website customization for creating original, beautiful websites.
Paid plans for this theme start at $23.5 per year per website.
Ignite
Ignite has a simple minimalistic design aimed at bloggers and business website builders. It offers custom background colors, several fonts to choose from, and social media widgets for a complete blog website.
Ignite supports Gutenberg and integration with WooCommerce.
Ignite Plus, the paid plan starts at $49.
Poseidon
This clean and simple theme has a fullscreen image slideshow to show off image content. It is suitable for creating news websites and blogs.
Poseidon has a quick loading time and is SEO friendly, and supports 650+ Google fonts in its paid version. Poseidon Pro starts at €49.
Total
The Total theme has a lot of prebuilt content to add to different sections of your website to create a complete website with ease. It also has a customizer to edit and preview as you build your blog.
The theme supports popular WordPress plugins and page builders and is search engine optimized.
Total Pro costs $55 for a year while the lifetime license is available at $99.
Hueman
Hueman is a fast and mobile-friendly blog and magazine theme for WordPress websites. It supports WooCommerce and complete customization in terms of the website layout and is SEO friendly.
Hueman Pro starts from $49 per year.
Kadence
Kadence offers drag-and-drop website customization and has templates to get started on your website with ready-made designs. It is a great theme to create blogs or portfolios as it is optimized for speed and supports popular WordPress plugins.
Kadence has annual paid plans from $59 for unlimited sites.
This list features a list of blog-optimized WordPress themes and all of them are good picks. Choose the theme that best suits the plans you have for your blog. Do you know a WordPress theme that you use for your blog that is not on this list? Let us know in the comments.
