Best WordPress themes for blogs in 2021

Date:
Wed, 23 Jun 2021 21:10:23 +0000

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High quality WordPress themes to make your blog look its best.

FULL STORY ======================================================================Best WordPress themes for blogs

1. Baskerville 2

2. Hemingway

3. Hestia Pro

4. OceanWP

5. Typology

Read on for our detailed analysis of each theme

Blogging is one the most popular activities online - it seems that everywhere you go, and every site you visit, theres a blog in there, somewhere. Blogging is a great way to express yourself, and put your thoughts down to share with others, and if youre using the popular website builder and optional web hosting solution that is WordPress , youll know it has a plethora of themes that cater to this specific activity. Weve selected five we feel are definitely worth a look at if youre thinking of venturing into this weird and wonderful world. Also check out our roundup of the best web hosting Baskerville 2 (Image credit: Baskerville 2) 1. Baskerville 2

A good all round blogging theme, ideal for those starting out Simple Easy to use Free

Baskerville 2 is a good theme to get your started with blogging. You can add text, images and videos with ease, and create nice looking pages, even with the standard configuration. A custom menu is located just below the header, making it effortless to subdivide your blog into easy to navigate sections.
As youd expect for a modern theme, its fully responsive and looks great whichever screen its viewed on.

You can of course alter the theme to make it feel more unique to you,
altering the background, changing colours, reveal the pages sidebar, choose from three different widgets for the footer, among others options.
Baskerville 2 comes with three page templates. Galleries can be added, the headers dimension altered, and you can also include add a site logo. Best of all, Baskerville 2 is free to use, which is perfect, especially if blogging
is still a hobby for you - for now. You can sign up for Baskerville 2 here Hemingway (Image credit: Hemingway) 2. Hemingway

Few options, but a nice clean look, for those who just want to get on with creating their posts Modern look Simple to use Little customization

Another free option is Hemingway . This ones a very simple theme with only a handful of customisation features, but its purpose is to display your blog in a clean manner, offering the reader a generous amount of white space. Its responsive and retina-ready to ensure the best experience on any device, and has a customisable full-width header with support for parallax scrolling to make your page feel modern and fresh.

It comes with four post formats, depending on the content of the post itself (one with an image above the post, and one for short updates, for instance), and you can alter the accent colour if youre not fond of the default green. You can sign up for Hemingway here Hestia Pro (Image credit: Theme Isle) 3. Hestia Pro

A versatile theme that can work for many different types of websites Visually interesting options Support for a host of different types of sites

Although Hestia Pro is advertised as an ideal theme for one-page websites,
its actually much more versatile than that. Its designed to work well with blogs for instance, which is why its making the list. You can alter the
design on the fly, and one of the features we liked was the ability to add parallax images or videos in the header, to make for a more visually striking website.

Customisation is impressive. Youre able to adjust each pages section, for example, and choose different headers for each of them. Theres also a lot of versatility in its blogging options. To simplify matters, everything is centred around WordPress own Customiser but is also compatible with other
page builders for greater customisation options.

Prices start at $69 for use on a single site, and include one year of support and updates. If youd like to install this theme on additional sites, the Business option lets you do that for up to three of them, for $99. Agency,
for $199, removes any such limits, and also includes live chats and priority support. You can sign up for Hestia Pro here OceanWP (Image credit: OceanWP) 4. OceanWP

A beautiful, popular theme to help you create striking blogs Core theme is free Loads of customization options

OceanWP is another blogging theme that advertises itself as being free, and in a way it is. The core functionality is. Its a very popular WordPress
theme, having been downloaded over 3.6 million times. Its a fully responsive and retina-ready theme that caters to not just blogs - its currently pushing its e-commerce capabilities for instance. One of the great things about OceanWP is the number of Demos it has available - select the one you want to apply to your site in just a few clicks except theres a catch: the vast majority of them arent free. You will find the odd free demo, and all the
ones weve seen are very nicely done, but if youre itching for a pro one,
youll have to hand out the cash.

Prices start at $39 per year for a single site, and comes with 12 premium extensions and 109 pro demos. If you work on more than one site, you can choose Business for 3 ($79 per year) or Agency for 25 ($129 per year). Theres also a one-off lifetime price if you hate subscriptions of $159, $319 and
$519 respectively. You can sign up for OceanWP here Typology (Image credit: MEKS) 5. Typology

This theme can help you create a clean and minimalist blog with enough customization options to keep your visitors interested Clean Minimalist Good range of customization

If all youre focused on, is writing, and dont care about stuff like images or video, then Typology could be the theme for you. Similar to Hemingway above, its focus is on creating a minimalist site to showcase your words above all else. But of course, you can also add images and video should you want to, which merely enriches the look of the page, rather than distract from it.

It comes with header options, multiple pagination choices, including infinite scrolling, and custom widgets (which reside in the sidebar). Typology also
has multi-author post support, 404 page customization, and even e-commerce integration.

You can try all this for free for seven days, or take a look at some
real-life examples on the companys website, and if you like what you see, you can purchase it for $49, which includes future updates and six months of tech support (which can be increased by a further six months for $13.88). You can sign up for Typology here We've also highlighted the best WordPress hosting



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