7 Best WordPress Themes for Bloggers

Whether you’re starting a blog for the first time or you’re a seasoned blogger I have some fantastic recommendations on the best WordPress themes for bloggers.

I’ll also be sharing which blog niches these WordPress themes are ideal for.

Before you select a WordPress theme, please note that all of these themes are built on WordPress.org.

To learn more about starting a blog, sign up for my Free Start a Blog Course where I walk you through all the details.

7 Best WordPress Themes for Bloggers

Many of the WordPress themes selected below are ideal for a number of different blog niches, as these themes are easy to customize colours, fonts, and layouts to fit in with your brand colours and blogging goals.

I’ve made my recommendations based on WordPress themes I have used for my own websites and my web design business.

1. Market – Restored 316 Theme

Market, from Restored 316 is a gorgeous feminine WordPress theme built on the Genesis Framework.

Genesis Framework is free software that is installed onto WordPress to make building your website faster and easier.

Key Features:

• Easy to customize colours, sections and widgets
• eCommerce store built right in (WooCommerce) – or easy to remove if not needed
• Automatic Plugin Installation
• Responsive Design – looking great on all screen sizes
• Strategically placed Newsletter sign ups
• Upload your own logo
• Category Blog and Category Template
• Gutenberg Optimized
• Security and SEO
• Excellent tutorial documentation and support
• Category Index Page Template
• Styled for several WordPress plugins

Price: $99.00

Ideal for: Bloggers in all niches. This theme also works great for coaches and small businesses

2. Avery – Generate Press Theme

Avery WordPress theme has a feminine blog layout built with easy to update Generate Press blocks. 

The Avery theme is clean, modern and professional looking for all types of bloggers.

Avery is a starter website and blog that comes with GeneratePress Premium. This helps you save loads of time setting up your blog so you can start creating content right away.

The awesome part: When you purchase GeneratePress Premium you get the Avery theme, plus all of their other themes and premium blocks.

Key Features:

• Easy to customize fonts, colours, sections, logo and blocks
• Responsive Design – looking great on all screen sizes
• Strategically placed Newsletter sign ups
• Blog roll, category blog sections and category template
• Excellent tutorial documentation, help forum and technical support
• GeneratePress Premium has 80 other themes you get access to when you sign up
• Full flexibility to change themes and customize with new blocks

Price: $59.00 per year or $249.00 for a lifetime. 30-day money-back guarantee on both plans.

Ideal for: Bloggers in all niches who want to get their blog live ASAP.

See the Avery theme when you click the below button (then click on ‘blog’ to view)

3. Paisley – Bluchic Theme

Paisley is a fresh, modern and clean blog design layout – ideal for various blog niches.

The homepage is set up to feature multiple posts allowing your readers to see the latest content.

Paisley has the perfect layout for female bloggers in various niches – parenting, fashion, beauty, food, lifestyle and so much more.

Key Features:

• Easy to customize colour
• Full-width header image to showcase beautiful photography
• Newsletter sign-up forms built-in
• Two Gallery page layouts ideal for showcasing photography (excellent for travel, food, craft, DIY niches as well as portfolios)
• ECommerce ready – built with WooCommerce
• Contact forms built, making it easy to quickly customize
• Blog roll and category pages built-in
• 5 promo boxes showing at the bottom of the site across all pages
• Excellent hands-on tech support and documentation to help you get up and running fast.
• Bonus 1: Stock photos and sample content
• Bonus 2: Brand Style Guide Canva Template

Price: $79.00

Ideal for: Great for bloggers in various niches (as you can change the colours to suit your content). Also ideal to showcase a portfolio, recipes, crafts, DIY projects and more.

4. ChicWell – Bluchic Theme

The ChicWell WordPress theme from Bluchic offers more customizable features than the Paisley theme above and therefore allows you to stand out from other bloggers in your niche, and importantly showcase other services or products you offer on your blog.

ChicWell is built for the health and wellness industry, so is perfect for:

• Food bloggers
• Health and wellness writers
• Coaches
• Yoga instructors
• Anyone else in the health industry looking to find clients online

As always, themes can be set up for all niches by changing the colours, fonts and content – so this theme could also be ideal for you if you offer any other content and services or products.

Key Features:

• Easy to customize all website elements: colours, fonts, sections and more
• Homepage built to bring in to feature content, services, newsletter, products, freebies and more
• Newsletter sign-up forms built-in
• Two Gallery page layouts ideal for showcasing photography (excellent for food, craft, DIY niches as well as portfolios)
• Testimonials page
• FAQ page with accordion (drop down) functionality
• Dedicated portfolio page
• ECommerce ready – built with WooCommerce
• Contact forms built, making it easy to quickly customize
• Blog roll and category pages built in
• Built with Elementor page builder
• Excellent hands-on tech support and documentation to help you get up and running fast.

Price: $149.00

Ideal for: Bloggers looking to offer products and services along with their blog.

5. Journey – Restored 316 Theme

The Journey WordPress theme has a stunning photography-rich layout built with the Kadence page builder. 

The Journal theme comes with a great number of templates to help you reach your blogging goals – whether it’s getting more traffic, getting pages in your shop, increasing your email subscribers and much more.

Key Features:

• Two homepage options
• eCommerce enabled (built with WooCommerce)
• Instagram page
• Stunning about page layout
• Sales page
• Lead generation page
• Portfolio page
• 2 types of category blog roll pages
• Resources page (great for promoting affiliate products)
• Uses Kadence block editor making it extremely easy to customize all elements of your website.
• Fast theme built with Core Web Vitals
• One-click auto installation
• Excellent video tutorial, documentation and tech support

Price: $179.00

Ideal for: Photographers, travel bloggers, food bloggers, lifestyle bloggers and parenting bloggers – and any niche that has a lot of content and categories.

6. Extra – Elegant Themes

Looking to build a blog that has that professional magazine layout? If yes, Extra, by Elegant Themes is for you.

Built on the same platform as the popular Divi page builder, Extra is excellent for those who plan to write about multiple topics. –

For example, Extra is ideal for:

• Parenting
• Lifestyle
• Travel
• Tech
• Finance
• Food

But truly, Extra is great for any other niche where you plan to produce a lot of content.

Key Features:

• Completely customizable – easily adjust fonts, colours, sizes 
• Add in new modules or delete existing modules to customize the site for your specific needs
• Choose from multiple homepage and blog page layouts (just check the Extra sales page to see the various layout possibilities)
• Loads of templates modules to use: Portfolio, contact, newsletter signup, image galleries, post carousels and much more
• Member login page
• eCommerce enabled
• Reviews capability built-in
• When purchasing Extra you also get access to Divi plus the Bloom and Monarch premium plugins

Price: $89.00 per year or $249.00 for a lifetime. 30-day money-back guarantee on both plans.

Ideal for: Bloggers and content creators with plans to create magazine-style content

7. Divi – Elegant Themes

Divi, by Elegant Themes is one of the most popular WordPress themes out there, with bloggers from all niches using this theme.

Divi is flexible, versatile and can easily be set up to work for all types of content.

You can start your website build with one of the 100+ website packs or 500+ premade designs – helping you launch your blog quickly.

Key Features:

• Completely customizable – easily adjust fonts, colours, sizes 
• Choose from hundreds of premade templates, designs and layouts
• 40+ website modules for everything – sliders, call to actions, galleries, forms, etc
• Responsive real-time editing
• Huge range of shape dividers to make custom shapes to separate the sections of your blog
• Filters and effects included (Adjust brightness, saturation, contrast, opacity and more)
• Add drop shadows to images and text
• Superfast websites
• When purchasing Divi you also get access to Extra plus the Bloom and Monarch premium plugins

Price: $89.00 per year or $249.00 for a lifetime. 30-day money-back guarantee on both plans.

Ideal for: Bloggers who want to make their website 100% unique and have the time to make the appropriate changes

Tips for Choosing the Best WordPress Theme for Bloggers

When you’re choosing a WordPress theme I recommend you consider the following:

• Remember, there are other costs involved in starting a blog with WordPress – mainly your hosting, so keep these factors in mind. Make sure to sign up to my free start a blog course for more details on this.
• Don’t spend too long finding the ‘perfect’ theme – as no theme is 100% perfect. You don’t want theme shopping to stop you from launching (or relaunching) your blog afterall.
• Remember that all themes can be customized, so don’t worry if the colours or fonts aren’t to your liking – these are easy fixes.
• Try and select a theme that has all the features you need. This prevents you from spending time looking for other plugins to do the job (and plugins can slowdown your site).
• If you need help setting up your WordPress theme, you can book my installation service or if you want me to take care of building your website check out my web development services.

What WordPress Theme Do You love Best?

If there are themes you love that aren’t included in this list, leave a comment with the details and I’ll check them out!

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