There was a dry spell in good blogging WordPress themes for a few years, however there has been something of a resurgence recently. Developers are taking more risks and releasing dedicated blogging designs rather than designing all in one solutions that do everything.
In this article, I would like to show you some of the best WordPress Blogging Themes that are available in 2014. I hope you enjoy the list.
1. Keilir
Keilir is a beautiful, responsive theme designed to make your blogging experience as pleasant as possible. With superb visual design and great support for mobile and tablet devices you can easily reach all your readers wherever they are.
2. Safarica
Safarica is smart & creative professional WordPress blog theme, created by experienced WordPress developers. Perfect choice for your personal blog, niche blog, corporate/agency/business blog, authority blog or any type of creative blog or even magazine.
3. Flag
Professional WordPress Blog Theme, which is designed to facilitate the lives of hundreds of people who have, or just want to create a blog. We understand that people are afraid to buy things not to touch the goods, that is why we decided to do for you the most detailed description of all advantages and beauties of a FLAG Professional Theme.
4. Weblog
Weblog is an all simple, quick and easy personal WordPress Theme for creative Folk. With mounds of timeless theme options it’ll be no time at all before your website is setup perfectly – all with no coding.
5. Leap
Leap is a Unique, Personal Blogging & Portfolio Theme for WordPress – it has everything to quickly and easily create an awesome, personal website. With room for customization and a simple installation, Leap is a must-have theme for your personal site.
6. Bliss
Bliss is a fantastic, responsive theme designed to make your blogging experience as simple and seamless as possible. With superb visual design and great support for mobile and tablet devices you can easily reach all your readers wherever they are!
7. Backstreet
Backstreet is a modern wordPress magazine, portfolio and blog theme. With the 3 post formats (videos, audio & galleries) Backstreet can be used for almost any niche. Backstreet also built-in review system (with up to 5 rating criteria). Furthermore you can customize the look of the site easily via the custom theme options panel.
8. Booklet
If you are looking for a new experince for your blog – take a close look at Booklet. A personal Diary Theme for WordPress.
9. Bloggap
Looking to give your visitors a fun new way to browse your latest posts, display loads of content in a beautifully simple and cool way then Bloggap is great choice for you. The theme is responsive, meaning it will look and work great on all screen resolutions and mobile devices as well.
10. Bloggy WP
Bloggy is a responsive theme focused on readability with a minimalist design and optimized for mobile.
11. Place
Place is a clean & fresh responsive WordPress theme for blogging and picture gallery. Responsive design, unlimited sidebars. For really best experience use last version of your browser. Supported browsers are Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Opera, IE8 + and more.
12. Hooray
Everything you need to build an awesome blog. It is a Premium WordPress Blog Theme for news and reviews. It’s packed with countless options and features.
13. Smoothie
Smoothie is a Retina Responsive WordPress Blog Theme with beautiful clean modern design and powerful admin options. You can post audio, video ,photos and share with the people friends. It comes with post formats (video, audio, image, gallery, standard, aside, link, quote), You can choose from two type of home page layouts choose colors background fonts and more…
14. Cassia
Clean, rock solid and straightforward, Cassia excels as a dependable blog eager to take on any genre of content. Elegantly showcase your articles, photos, videos, and more via Cassia’s fresh full-post or list layouts. Whatever the subject matter, ensure your blog stands out with Cassia!
15. Fabulous
Fabulous is a modern masonry photography blog theme with a classic style that is never out of fashion. Perfect for bloggers, photographer, designers, developers and more this theme puts the spotlight on your content (where it should be). Use it as a blog or a portfolio!
16. Behemoth
BEHEMOTH was designed to give bloggers of all types an environment which would better display and highlight their content; with the use of full-page backgrounds and bold type, your actual content becomes a significant part of the overall design.
17. Construct
Construct is a smart, professional and responsive theme designed to show off your (or someone else’s) work. It can be used as a personal portfolio or as great place to link to anything you think deserves it. It utilises a column based layout and some funky animation effects to keep your users entertained. Construct also takes advantage of AJAX which allows the user to load more corresponding posts on the fly without reloading the page or hindering SEO. It also degrades gracefully if JavaScript is disabled.
18. Blank
Blank is an Elegant, minimalistic Wordpress theme with Ultra-clean design and strongly focusing on content. It’s a good choice for blogging with all standards: Responsive, Retina-ready, Translation ready, Simple, Clean and Effective. It’s also easy to setup and you can publish your content right after installing theme. No need more coding or something else.
19. Easy Blog
Easy Blog is a minimalist, simple and super clean blog theme with focus on readability & very easy to setup. This theme is perfect choice for your personal blog, corporate wordpress blog theme, or for creative blog.
20. Spike
Spike is a bright and colorful WordPress blog theme. Spike is packed with a sleek post slider, all our widgets and shortcodes, plus our best optimizations. Spike is fully responsive and coded with the latest HTML5 and CSS3 techniques.
21. Persefone
Persefone is translation-ready, fully-responsive, unlimited colors, comes with over 500 Google Fonts, Retina Display , Canvas Menu Navigation , Social Media integration and so much more!
22. GoBlog
GoBlog is a blog style responsive WordPress theme. It supports 8 post formats (Standard, Gallery, Link, Quote, Video, Image, Status and Audio). For video and audio post formats, it is really easy to embed video and audio files to posts. This theme has beautiful slider just below header for intro text or anything like that. For standard articles, the main focus is on content.
23. Blogster
The main advantage of this theme is fully customizable theme colors, with help theme options panel!
Also, the content of the main page is a custom, and is formed using theme shortcodes. You can display an unlimited number of categories, and change the color of the categories, etc. You can also display video, audio and slider in posts!
24. OldCar
OldCar theme, it’s a creative HTML5 WordPress Theme that is suitable for personal blog or show the portfolios. There are two layout for blog, normal layout and fluid grid view. You can easy to change the main color style with custom options, and it also provides 5 styling for the wordpress custom post formats like tumblr style.
25. tdWriter
tdWriter is a responsive WordPress Theme for sharing your articles, images, videos, songs and much more! You can set your own colors and backgrounds that will make your posts and pages unique. Moreover, you can use this WordPress Theme as a personal blog or a portfolio.
26. Blogo
Blogo is a stylish WordPress Theme designed for creative bloggers. It’s also suitable for Magazine, Multimedia and Personal websites.
27. Smartblog
You can take full control of your theme with our powerful yet easy-to-use theme options panel from setting to styling.
28. Monopoly
Monopoly is a sleek, dark, dual-sidebar WordPress theme that is responsive, fully customizable and optimized. Perfect for blogs, online magazine sites, and news portals, Monopoly is the perfect choice for your site.
29. MinBlog
MinBlog is a simple, clean, modern personal theme ideal for bloggers, designers, creative people and in fact anyone! If you need a minimalist blog theme which really focuses on social networks, sharing and makes your content stand out, MinBlog is your right choice.
30. Raiden
Raiden is an elegant personal blogging WordPress theme with refined typography and aesthetics. Offering support for all 10 WordPress Post Formats, this theme is ideal for your personal Blog. Raiden also has an optional View Mode Switcher that optimizes the reading experience according to the lighting conditions. Have a look at the demo!
31. Emerald
Emerald is a bright and refreshing magazine WordPress theme that features a fully responsive design, cutting-edge HTML5 and CSS3 markup, a full complement of widgets and an integrated options panel. Built for bloggers who want to grow their blog to its full potential, Emerald includes SEO, social media and ad optimization.
32. GoodInc Flat
Your blog should standout as much as you do, and that’s why we created GoodInc. This modern and unique responsive blogging theme is truly one of a kind. From the stunning homepage slider and carousel, to the thoughtful page templates for authors, archives, site map and more. GoodInc is sure to captivate you and your readers.
33. Allianz
Allianz is a Modern Responsive WordPress Blog Theme with a clean, professional design and modern scrolling effects, which will be a great solution for your business, portfolio, blog or any other purpose.
34. Big City
BigCity is a Personal and Blog WordPress Theme. Packed with powerful features to suit almost every needs and yet so simple to use. Works with latest WordPress versions.
35. Arcadia
It’s highly customizable and very easy to use. No matter if you want to change a color or a font face, this is the place where you start to customize your theme and give it an individual touch!
36. Pravda
Pravda is a super-duper customizable, ultra responsive, retina-ready WordPress Theme that everybody wants.
37. Blogger
Blogger – Responsive Blog & Folio WordPress Theme, is a fully configurable and easy to use WordPress theme with a lot of great features. It has been specifically designed to be easily customized and it’s created for creatives who want to make personal blog in minutes.
38. Literary
Not only is Literary a beautifully crafted blog theme, it also comes with a post type for showcasing your books and a post type for your portfolio.
39. Hobby
Hobby Wordpress Theme has many custom built features you won’t find in other themes. Hobby is Wordpress 3.6 ready, you can start building your blog now on current Wordpress 3.5 or 3.6 beta and take advantage of new blog features.
40. Blogdrops
Blogdrops is infinite, fresh and minimal WordPress theme with mansory and fully responsive layout. Theme is suited for personal or magazine websites. Theme includes lots of advanced features and functions and is based on solid backend framework.
41. Fable
Fable is beautiful theme built for blogging. The theme tells a story by building a visual narrative through post variation. Fable is built for easy reading. Its spacious, full-width, and long-format style makes scrolling a pleasurable journey. Each post type is displayed boldly, giving your content the full-screen attention that it deserves without bombarding the senses.
42. Breeze
Breeze is a fantastic, responsive theme designed to make your blogging experience as simple and seamless as possible. With superb visual design and great support for mobile and tablet devices you can easily reach all your readers wherever they are!
43. Collections
Collections – Minimal Multipurpose Blogging Theme. It’s handcrafted with care to meet the needs of creative entrepreneurs, small innovative businesses, hobbyists and bloggers.
44. Modern Blog Theme
The fully responsive and adaptive Modern Blog theme serves as the perfect fit for any blog, news, or online magazine site and scales from big screens all the way down to smart phones. Its state-of-the-art minimalistic and flat design shows your audience that you are up-to-date with today’s design trends.
45. Journal Elegant
Journal is an awesome WordPress theme which brings elegand & unique design. It’s ideal for blogging. It’s very flexible, fully customizable and powered with Redux Framework. Journal also provides you a pure reading expereince with a feature called Reader Mode. Click the ‘reader button’, sit back and enjoy your reading.
46. The Writer
A minimal writing theme, built for aspiring writers, authors and columnists. Nothing else. We have made sure that your long form articles are packaged in an easy to read layout which is customizable and mobile friendly.
47. InfinityGrid
InfinityGrid was designed for the personal blogger. The advanced theme options area makes it very easy to navigate and set up the theme which is perfect for the novice Wordpress user.
48. OnTheGo
OnTheGo is a completely hand-drawn theme that was scanned in and compiled to create a fresh and interesting design. It is fun and playful while maintaining an air of professionalism, and its unique appearance is sure to make your website stand out amongst the crowd. OnTheGo can act as a page-based CMS, or as a traditional blog.
49. Penoolis
Penoolis is personal blog WordPress theme designed for bloggers or writers who like a simple, clean and spacious layout for their personal blogging site. Penoolis focuses on the most important thing from a blog, the content.
50. Hoarder
A grid-based, layout-shuffling, finger licking theme with support for all sorts of content – it’s responsive to boot. Show off galleries, quotes, links, video, audio, or good old standard posts. With three different home page templates, you’re sure to find a look to suit your blogging needs.
What do you think is the best WordPress blogging design available in 2014?
Please feel free to share your thoughts in the comment area below :)
Kevin
