Hey recipe bloggers, travel food bloggers and restaurant reviewers, your search for food blog WordPress themes ended here. In this blog post I listed 5 best WordPress themes for food blogs.
These themes are selected on the basis of speed, design, customization functionality and popularity among food bloggers in India and all around the world.
5 Best Food Blog WordPress Themes
Foodie Pro Theme
Foodie Pro theme by StudioPress is a popular theme for food bloggers. Although this theme is sold by StudioPress it is a third party theme developed by Feast Design Co.
Foodie Pro works on Genesis Framework and works as child theme. Good thing about Foodie Pro is that it has minimalist style, plenty of color and typography options.
It comes with Pre-made templates to quickly and easily build your website from scratch.
Theme comes with 3 homepage and 5 sitewide widget areas which can be customized.
Popular Features:
- Minimalistic Design: The best thing about Foodie Pro is the minimalistic design that keeps your blog clean. Clean design makes it easy to read and boost website’s speed that helps in better ranking.
- WooCommerce Compatible: This theme is not only compatible with most major food ad networks, providing ad spaces but also compatible with WooCommerce.
- One Time Fee: This theme comes with one time payment so you don’t have to pay every year to get updates. Yet support is available only for the first year.
Price: Foodie Pro will cost you $75 with Genesis Framework. You can also buy its classic version in just $19 from Feast Design Co. (No support available)
Kadence
Kadence is a very powerful theme that comes with a lot of templates which can be used for recipe blog to coffee shop, travel blog to cooking courses and much more.
It gives you a lot of customization options like changing the look and feel of your website by simply using 12 pre-configured professional color palettes.
You can also customize the header, choose your favorite fonts, change layouts, customize button colors and much more.
Recipe blog template is something you should look at first if you just want to use it for a food blog. You can also read Kadence theme review here if you want a deeper look.
Popular Features:
- 80+ Templates: Kadence comes with 80+ templates that make it a popular choice with food bloggers and business owners.
- Integrations: Kadence theme can integrate with most popular plugins like WooCommerce, Elementor, bbPress and many more.
- SEO Friendly: The theme is SEO friendly and equipped with markup and schema.
Price:
Kadence Pro theme available in $149/Year that include Kadence Theme and Kadence Blocks.
You can read more here Kadence Blocks Review.
Yummy Bites Pro
Yummy Bites Pro is a theme by WP Delicious and one of the best food blog WordPress themes. This theme has a modern layout and warm color palette. This theme loads very quickly on both desktop and mobile and also SEO optimized that helps in better ranking.
This theme comes with multiple layouts, fonts and also compatible with different popular plugins like Elementor.
Popular Features:
- Multiple Layouts: 10 header layouts, 5 Slider Layouts, 7 Blog Layouts, 7 Archive Layouts, 4 Single Post Layouts, 4 Pagination Styles make it more customizable.
- Newsletter Section: This theme has a dedicated newsletter section on the homepage that can be used to collect user’s email addresses.
- Lazy Loading: Yummy Bites Pro has inbuilt lazy loading feature for images that help loading images when needed. This lazy load feature helps improve performance and speed of your website and you don’t need an extra plugin for this functionality.
Price: Yummy Bites Pro lifetime version available in $149.
Kale Pro
Kale Pro theme is available in both free and paid versions. Above the fold contains a lightweight slider where you can showcase your best recipes.
Free version has lot of features but the pro version so many features like build in ads, 600+ Google fonts and built in mailchimp forms.
This theme also has a recipe card feature so you don’t need to buy WordPress recipe plugin to showcase recipe cards and set up structured data.
Popular Features:
- Recipe Cards & Index: Theme comes with built-in recipe shortcode builder that showcase recipes with details like prep time, cooking time, ingredients list etc. This recipe card feature also uses structured data to make it SEO friendly. Recipe index another feature can be used to show list of recipes in different categories on same page.
- Instagram Carousel: This theme gives you the option to set up an Instagram Carousel in the sidebar to show your latest posts on Instagram.
- Multiple Blog Feed Displays: You can display full blog posts or just excerpts or mix both and show two excerpts followed by a full blog post.
Price: You can buy Kale Pro in $39 that counts as setup fee. Then after first month you have to pay $7.99/month for ongoing support and updates.
Ocean WP
OceanWP is the lightest and one of the most popular themes for bloggers. You can customize this theme to create a travel blog, lifestyle blog, food blog, recipe blog or even a programming blog.
Its Pro Bundle contains 240+ editable and customizable full website templates for both Gutenberg and Elementor. It also contains a separate template library for Elementor.
Pixel tracker and Popup builder make it the modern theme with ad targeting and lead collection.
Popular Features:
- WooCommerce Templates: Ocean WP contains 100+ WooCommerce templates for any type of store you want to build.
- Sticky Header: This theme offers Sticky option for Custom Header style and 2 sticky styles that are Shrink & Fixed. There are also 2 style effects that are Slide and Hide on scroll.
- Social Media Feeds: OceanWP gives you the option to display Instagram feed and option to create feed shortcodes to display Instagram feed to engage visitors.
Price: Ocean WP premium plans start from $35/year. Lifetime plans start from $141.
Conclusion
All themes given above are the best themes depending upon your needs. If you want to a theme that fits for every kind of food blogging niche like travel food blog, recipe blog or restaurant blog you should look for a theme that offers a lot of templates. Kadence and OceanWP fit into these categories. If you need a dedicated theme for recipe kind of blog Yummy Bites Pro can be the best choice.
