As the number of podcast listeners continues to grow in 2019, and ad revenues from podcasts increases, more entrepreneurs and businesses will see it as a profitable means to reach a wider audience. If you’re looking to setup a website for your own podcast, you may want to consider WordPress as a viable platform.
Do a quick search for the term “podcast” in the WordPress.org plugins directory and you’ll find a growing number of reliable and quality plugins to publish and manage your podcasts. However, you’ll also need an attractive theme for your new site which supports audio post formats.
To help you get started, here’s a list of 2018’s five best free WordPress themes for podcasts & internet radio shows. Each of these themes has been recently updated and has received a rating of at least three stars out of five. Most importantly, each theme supports audio post formats to publish your podcast.
Podcast
Podcast WordPress theme by ilovewpcom
Podcast is a free WordPress theme intended for podcasts, youtubers, streamers, radio hosts, comedians, influencers and bloggers. Podcast theme comes with 7 built-in color palettes: black, blue, green, orange, purple, red, teal. The theme let’s you put the sidebar on the left or on the right.
Challenger
Challenger WordPress theme by Ben Sibley
Challenger is a premium-quality theme for modern blogs, podcasts, and vloggers. As a fully responsive theme, your website will look awesome on laptops, tablets, and mobile devices. The design is simple and minimalist with special attention paid to the typography for maximum readability. The free Challenger theme includes a diverse feature set including 4 widget areas, 50+ social media icons, and a completely customizable header section for email list building. Use it for a business, niche news magazine, or professional blog. Challenger is also fully compatible with the new Gutenberg post editor.
Tracks
Tracks WordPress theme by Ben Sibley
A bold, beautiful, and responsive theme. Tracks is perfect for personal blogs, magazines, and photography websites. It includes a logo uploader, over 50+ social media icons, search bar, comment display controls, premium layouts, and more. Tracks has a dark, simple, and minimalist design that makes it great for publish both text and image based content. Use it for a travel blog, online newspaper, video site, podcast, or even an eCommerce store thanks to its WooCommerce compatibility. As a free theme, you can use Tracks for as many projects as you’d like. Now fully compatible with the new Gutenberg post editor.
Audioman
Audioman WordPress theme by Catch Themes
Audioman is a well-designed, modern and trendy music WordPress theme built for musicians and bands that focuses on promoting their music and events. Simple modules and features are available in Audioman so you can build a complete and custom website right away. The theme comes with an array of features — such as header media, featured slider, featured content, hero content, playlist, portfolio, testimonials, and more — to keep your music website on the forefront. Audioman is completely responsive, which means your website will look incredibly sleek and visually appealing on all the devices with different screen resolution. The theme is deeply engaging, and the features provided in it will assist you in gaining genuine followers in a short period of time. To top it all, the theme is translation ready.
My Music Band
My Music Band WordPress theme by Catch Themes
My Music Band is simple, clean, responsive and easy to use Music WordPress Theme which has been specially designed, prioritizing the musicians and music bands to promote their music. The theme is deeply engaging and attractive, powerful and unique, stylish and flexible; a perfect solution for music related websites. It mainly focuses on creating an elegant personal website for the musicians in only a matter of times. My Music Band, a music WordPress theme is fully responsive and resizes fittingly to all devices. Your visitors can access your website regardless of the device or screen sizes they prefer to use. This theme comes with an array of crucial features—such as featured slider, featured content, playlist, hero content, portfolio, color options, and more—to keep your music website on the forefront. With all the incredible features integrated into My Music Band, your website will surely provide a musical vibe to your audiences making it more engaging and visually aesthetic.
