Look no further, if you are planning on starting a new blog, we collected for you the best free Wordpress blog themes. You are welcome.
Seriously, we just help you save a ton of time that you would need to find what you fancy. There are more than 1,500 free themes in the official directory alone. And thousands more elsewhere. Just imagine how long it would take you to go through all of them.

Let’s face it, it can be a real struggle picking the one you like, when browsing through the infinite collection of themes in WordPress directory. It calls for a never ending story of scrolling and clicking and scrolling and clicking (nope, that’s not a typo). You do not want that.

Nowadays’ standards and expectations in a website are high. Not only do they need to be mobile friendly and fully search engine optimized, but your visitors are also getting pickier and pickier.
In other words, you cannot just go out there, click the first theme you stumble across and think you are done. In some of the cases, it might do the trick but it’s better to pay more attention to the design, responsiveness, SEO optimization and all other fancy stuff.

If it happens that you are in a hurry, here are our top 3 themes:

After investing a good chunk of time into going through all the stunning free WordPress blog themes, we picked only the best of the best.
Hint: we did not focus only on the themes from WordPress.com, we did a thorough research of the whole web.

That said, whether you would like to start a personal blog, a travel diary, a food blog, a yoga blog or just any other kind of blog, these themes will help you start the new project straight away.

Still, I advise you to use the free theme only to test the waters. However, if you are serious about your website and want to make it grow and potentially even earn a buck here and there, premium WordPress themes would be a better option for you. They offer so much more features, plugins and can be customized exactly the way you like it.

To kick off your blogging journey in style, here is a collection of the finest free themes.
The only thing left for you to do is to choose the theme that meets your needs, install it, add your personal touch to it and your online journal is pretty much ready.

A collection of the best Free WordPress Blog Themes

Everly Lite

With its modern and minimalist design, Everly Lite theme is a hipster inspired WordPress theme for bloggers and creatives. The main reason why it stands out from the crowd is due to its primary focus on promoting your content. Bring it forward and grab new visitors’ attention in an instant.
Other than that, you can create stunning photo galleries without any real coding skills.
However, if you would like to bring it to an entirely different level, you can always upgrade it to the premium theme version and benefit from so much more.

Freyja Lite

Whether you would like something that goes against the grain, Freyja Lite is your free WordPress blog theme of choice. It offers the reader an amazing experience flipping through the content and getting the most out of it.
Every fantasy and mythical world enthusiasts will absolutely love this theme. However, if you like the layout and are not really into the fiction, you can always customize the time and make it look the way you like (just change the images). Not all features are available in the lite version of the Freyja, still, if it suits your needs, you can use it forever.
For a full version of the theme, go ahead and check out the premium blog theme.

Oblique

Many like the minimalistic lifestyle and many like to apply it to the online space, too. Let’s face it, no one really likes too many distraction on a site he or she visits.
That said, Oblique is a blogging theme that will help you go as minimalistic as you like with your website. It was created with fashion blogging in mind. However, you can freely use it for any type of blogging you are after.
A clean and fully responsive design with a parallax header and a clean code will help you take your visitors by storm.

Point

Though it might be free, Point is a multipurpose WordPress theme that features way more than you think. Its layout is 100% responsive (works on any device fluently!) and the theme is search engine optimized. Make it rank high in the major search engines for the keywords you would like your blog to appear!
Moreover, it offers unlimited backgrounds, custom widgets, is translation ready and supports RTL languages.
It doesn’t always mean that a free theme lacks in features. Pretty much every free WordPress blog theme you find in this list has a variety of premium features that will ensure you to create a stunning website at no extra cost.

Cronus

A business owner, a startup or an individual, Cronus is a perfect fit for all three. You can use it both for blogging, as well as to showcase your amazing work to random visitors and new potential clients. Everyone enjoys resting their eyes on a beautiful work.
It offers a great user experience with a clean design that can be browsed from all devices. As for the features, you get a full-width header, custom widgets, Contact Form 7 and social options to name a few. Plus, a free support that will assist you if you come across an issue that you struggle to solve on your own. (But no such thing will really happen, believe me.)

Karen

Kare is a free WordPress blog theme that goes above and beyond. It includes a bunch of different page and post types, two different sliders, full-width footer, social media buttons and more.
Not to mention, you can super easily customize the color of the theme using the color picker. Change color of the text, links and even background.
Moreover, whether you are a lefty or a righty, you can place the sidebar on either side. To make your content stand out even more, you can also add custom thumbnails to your posts to attract the visitors and make them go wow.

ColorMag

To make your website have a magazine or newspaper look, needless to say, ColorMag is a theme perfect for you. It has a classic look and comes with advertising placements where you can put banners or other media and visuals. Every category and topic you plan to cover can be presented with a beautiful color what will make your web page look more dynamic.
Visitors can quickly access the content from the top menu or search for a specific term by typing it in the search bar. Get your new magazine going with ColorMag.

Nisarg

Food, travel, art, creative, design, you name it, everyone that has a passion for something can now bring it to the web with Nisarg free WordPress blog theme. Now is the perfect timing for you to create an online journal and tell the world what you enjoy. If nothing specific interests you, start a personal blog and write about your life in general.
With Nisarg, you get a whole lot of customizing options that will allow you to add a personal touch to your website. It supports eight different post formats, is translation ready, has a responsive layout and an option to add your own image to the header.

xMag

Blogs and magazine site creators, xMag is here to serve nearly all of your needs. With its versatility, you can very easily and quickly create a news-oriented website. It comes with several options that you should know about before deciding whether it is for you or you should pick another one from this list of amazing free blog themes.
To go straight to the point, it features one and two columns, sticky post, custom background, colors, header and menu, is translation ready and accepts custom featured images. Doesn’t all this intrigue you?

Amadeus

An exceptionally minimalistic free blog theme with a fresh and clean design, we are talking about the Amadeus theme. Custom widgets, parallax header, Google fonts and social icons, all this and more is what you get with the Amadeus. It doesn’t really matter what niche your blog will be all about, this time is open for every journalistic project you would like to launch. Start sharing your thoughts with the world, begin new discussions, break the barriers and make it popular.

Editorial

Finally, you decide to start a news focused website. Will it be a blog or will it be a magazine website? You cannot decide. You sleep on it but the struggle is still on. How to decide what to create?
If that is your case, the Editorial theme is something you should go with. It is perfect for almost any kind of sites; blog, newspaper, magazine, etc. The theme is built on Customizer, meaning, you can change most of the sections of the theme the way you fancy. Moreover, with custom widgets, you are able to help users access different sections of your sites with ease.
Now you know what to go with and the struggle is no more.

There you go, pick any free WordPress blog theme listed above and start your blogging journey today.
Once again, don’t forget, you can always step up your game and make your project look as professional as possible with a premium WordPress blog theme. With a premium theme, there are endless possibilities how you would like to customize and personalize your website.

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