If you have a passion for travel, food, gadgets, or simply enjoy ranting, you may already have discovered the benefits of blogging. Recording your forays into food or experimentation with radical communists allows you to share your news and views with the internet community.
WordPress has thousands of templates to help you get started. In this guide, you’ll explore five of the very best themes specifically for hobbyists and bloggers. Some of these such as ‘Writing’ also incorporate SEO features meaning people searching online will be more likely to stumble across your blog.
If you’re starting on a shoe-string budget, consider using one of the free themes we’ve listed here, such as Morning Time Lite.
The Blogger has multiple widgets for forms, emailing and more
Helpful documentation
Retina-ready
Newsletter feature
The Blogger is a WordPress theme suitable for storytelling and writing. It comes with a responsive design and multiple gallery features. The Blogger also comes with a live customize which helps you to tweak every part of your theme.
It is Retina-ready and can be optimized for tablets and smartphones. Users can try the theme before buying. They can test drive the customize to see if it meets their needs.
There are a wide variety of widgets and sliders available to showcase your posts in image or video format.
The Blogger comes with helpful documentation that is straightforward and easy to follow. Mail Chimp for WordPress is also included. This allows you to send out new letters to blog subscribers.
The theme integrates with Ninja Forms. Users can easily create and add forms with the drag and drop feature.
A regular license costs $14 (£14.58) (currently on sale for $12) which includes future updates and 6-months support. Users can upgrade to 12-months support for a further $8.63 (£6.7).
Food lovers will enjoy the mouth-watering layout of this pro blog for a price
Detailed tutorials
Uses Genesis Framework
Expensive
Foodie Pro helps users to create a beautiful BiOcard Templates based around all sorts of culinary delights.
It is created by the Genesis Framework. This means your website will have a solid combination of this Framework along with WordPress. The theme comes with a huge amount of typography and color options.
Users can build their site using up to 3 homepage and 5 site wide widget areas. These can be customized to fit around your brand.
The theme allows users to upload their own logo with one click. There is also full support for text-based logos.
Foodie Pro’s ‘Theme Customize’ allows users to customize the theme’s settings, colours and backgrounds images.
The ‘Foodie Pro Theme’ can be purchased for $12.95 (£98.23) for one year. This includes the Genesis Framework, Foodie Pro Theme, instant access, unlimited updates, supports, sites and access to detailed tutorials.
If this is not enough, users can avail of the ‘Pro Plus Membership’ for $499.95 (£17.81). This includes all the ‘Foodie Pro Theme’ has to offer plus access to every theme the company makes including future themes.
Multiple homepage demos
Suitable for beginners
Hard to search documentation
Soledad was created as a website builder for all skill types. It is geared towards users who want to run blogs or create magazines.
The theme is highly customization with multiple homepage layout models available. Users can also change the appearance of the ‘Category’, ‘Tag’, ‘Search’ and ‘Archive Layout’.
Soledad is an SEO responsive WordPress multipurpose blog and magazine theme. It’s compatible with BBPress and Buddy Press. The theme is fully responsive and displays well on all screens.
Soledad has over 4000 real homepage demos which can be installed with just one click. There are also a number of single post templates for different stories.
The theme can be purchased for $14 (£44.58) which includes future updates and 6 months support which can be upgraded to 12-months for an extra $17.63 (£13.32).
Some online commentators have lamented the lack of a search feature when it comes to support documentation.
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