In this weeks theme collection we’re looking at free WordPress themes for foodie & recipe blogs. We searched for themes that have been updated in the past 3 months with an attractive design.
Julia Lite
Julia Lite is a food blogging theme made for creators who want to showcase their recipes and culinary stories easily. With a strong focus on shaping a pleasant experience for your readers, this WordPress gem makes room for you to fulfill your passion in a smart and appealing way. It’s time to embrace a more bold approach for your gourmet content in order to keep momentum with your audience.
Fooding
Fooding is a good-looking, featured-packed theme that allows you to tell your story in a dynamic, attractive and enjoyable way, making it perfect for food and recipes related websites.
Kale
Kale is a charming and elegant, aesthetically minimal and uncluttered food blog theme that can also be used for a variety of purposes. Whether you want to share recipes or fashion tips, run a lifestyle, parenting or cooking blog, Kale is a perfect theme choice. Simple but feature-filled food blog or cooking blog WordPress theme with WooCommerce integration. Beautifully designed and extremely clean, Kale is super easy to set up and is optimized for search engines. Kale comes with a special front page; with featured posts and a large highlight post, the option to show a banner or a posts slider in the header, and RTL support. It also comes with built-in menus for displaying your social media presence, multiple blog feed layouts, text and image logo options, sidebar size options (compact and default), banner/slider color overlay options, multilevel menus, automatically responsive YouTube videos, and much more! Kale is versatile enough to be set up as a small business website as well, by using the a static page as the home page and using the special front page elements to showcase services or portfolio. Kale is backed by world class, one-on-one support, and a super active team of developers and designers ready to help!
Culinary
Culinary – A Free WordPress Theme for Food and Recipes
MH FoodMagazine
MH FoodMagazine comes with nice and fresh colors, especially suitable for yummy food magazines and editorial websites from the health or fitness sector. You can have the same layout in the premium version of MH Magazine (without the need of a child theme) which can be configured by making use of the flexible layout options. MH Magazine offers additional widget areas, multiple unique custom widgets, great features and extended layout options to manage several layout elements on your site including changing the color scheme and typography.
Foodies
Foodies is a clean and fully customizable premium WordPress theme for foodies or food bloggers who want to have blogs on food receipes etc.Though, it is not just limited to food bloggers, Foodies can also be used in developing other types of blogs like creative writing, photography, riding and what not ! It is easily customizable through Customizer. Foodies PRO is a Premium Version of the theme which comes with more powerful features and customization options.
Chives
Chives is a clean, elegant and responsive WordPress theme dedicated for foodie blogs and portfolio. Chives theme has wide list of customizable features including front page customizable sections with customizer api and widgets, wide and boxed layout and many more options. It comes with cross-browser compatibility, mobile friendly design and responsive features.
FoodyLite
FoodyLite is the perfect theme for your food project. Lightweight and highly extendable, it will enable you to create a food blog and a WooCommerce storefront with a beautiful & professional design. Very fast, responsive, RTL & translation ready and best SEO practices. Your site will looks good on every device: mobile, tablet and desktop. The category page is already a recipe index with a custom widgets area for filters. It’s also retina compatible.
Foodie blog
Foodie Blog is a restaurant review / food blog style WordPress theme made for bloggers, newspapers, writers, reviewers and journalists, who has a blog and or websites. It is both elegant and minimalist so your blog posts about food, lifestyle, fashion, movies, travel, clothing, products, reviews or something third is in focus. Foodie Blog in the ways that it is both fast and search engine optimized (SEO friendly) as a theme should be nowadays. The sidebar and header widgets is perfect for adsense affiliate links or whatever else you wish to put there. Installing and setting up the theme is simple for any author, we have tried to optimize the user friendliness by making the interface clean and so it as easy as possible to set up and start using. If the business aspect is important for you, for example if you are using it as a newspaper or personal writing/journalist portfolio then it’s great since your website is able to rank everywhere on the internet with our theme, for example in Yahoo, Bing or Google. Get started with writing about dining, eating, food and restaurant reviews easy!
Blossom Pin
Blossom Pin is a free feminine and chic WordPress blog theme to create stunning, lively and eye-catching websites. Whether you want to share your expert fashion tips, your favorite recipes or create a lifestyle, travel, food, beauty, make-up, coaching, wedding, portfolio, personal, girly, parenting or cooking blog, Blossom Pin is an ideal choice for you. You can easily customize your website using the typography and color features. The beautifully placed Instagram section can be used to show your Instagram account and increase your followers. The well placed Newsletter section will help you to grow your email list and keep in touch with your visitors. Blossom Pin is mobile friendly and fully responsive to ensure your website looks great on different sized devices. Blossom Pin is Schema friendly, SEO friendly, and speed optimized. The theme is translation ready and supports RTL and WooCommerce plugin for your utmost benefit. In addition, Blossom Pin is backed by world-class, one-on-one support, and a super active team of developers and designers ready to help!