While WordPress is the publishing platform of choice for more or less any type of website today, we should not forget that it has strong roots in the blogging niche. For anyone that plan to start a blog or an online magazine I would say that looking for inspiration in collections of WordPress blog themes is a great starting point. The availability of unique and great looking themes for bloggers is simply amazing.
The classic blog layout with a list of posts on the left and a single sidebar to the right is still a safe and popular direction; however, there are so many option now to make your blog stand out. Some blog themes even have layout managers and page builder and they allow you to set up the blog as you like and some even give you full control on a per page and per post level. I found a post with tons of highly customizable themes at themecrunch.com that I think you may find useful.
If you like tumblog style websites you can also find blogging themes for WordPress with this style, or if you prefer to have a news and magazine style bog it is also possible. In addition, some blog themes have adapted the portfolio or pinterest style and present blog posts in responsive grids instead of simply listing the posts.
I have collected a lot of cool WordPress blog theme designs for you in this article and hope it will serve as useful inspiration and maybe help you choose the right theme for your blog. Take a minute to share your feedback in a comment and please let your friends and coworkers know about the post if you like it.
Magazon – Advanced, Responsive WP Magazine Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Magazon is an Advanced – Responsive WordPress News or Magazine theme. It is ready to start working out of the box with a multitude of theme options, smart homepage builder, custom widgets, category styler to help you personalize your environment.
Duplex – Responsive Personal Blog WP Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Duplex is a clean personal blog theme, perfect for sharing your world. Duplex is all about posting what currently matters to you. Whether it’s graphics, videos, music, or photography, you can always find a space for it with Duplex.
Notes – Personal WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Notes os a clean and very unusual WordPress blogging theme. It is perfect for setting up a personal blog with style.
Volcano – Responsive WordPress Magazine / Blog – MORE INFO / DEMO
Volcano is a customizable, flexiblle, responsive WordPress theme for your Blog, Magazine or News website.
Volcano can be configured to focus on your work, your blogging, or both.
Theme is powered by the SMOF Options Panel, which provides tons of options to manage and modify any aspect of the theme – it is well suited for both beginners with no coding knowledge and developers.
Easy Blog - MORE INFO / DEMO
Easy Blog is an clean and elegant personal blogging WordPress theme with refined typography, responsive design, unlimited style colors and easy to read. This theme is perfect choice for your personal blog, corporate blog, or for creative blog.
Beard – Responsive WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Beard is a content-first blogging theme for WordPress. Responsive & beautiful with careful typography, Beard is here to showcase your writing. Beard is fully responsive, looks great on mobile devices and has a swipe-enabled slider for touch-screen users.
SPIKE – MORE INFO / DEMO
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.
Lucid WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Lucid is a sleek and modern magazine theme that does a great job displaying tons of content while at the same time avoiding the feeling of clutter. Clean design elements and a strict grid give the theme an organized layout that is a pleasure to read. Lucid is also fully responsive, meaning that the design will adapt to mobile phones and tablets for a more intuitive browsing experience.
Compasso – Masonry Magazine Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Compasso is a premium Magazine/Blog WordPress theme built with HTML5/CSS3. It is well suited for magazine, blog, or any websites with great amount of contents.
The Gossip: Funky Magazine WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
The Gossip is an ultra-wide, modern and fully responsive magazine WordPress theme that can be used for any type of website. The great thing with The Gossip is that it makes use of the space on wider screens, starting at 1440px all the way down to mobile devices. If you want your site to make an impact then look no further.
Blogbold – Responsive Metro Blogmagnews Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Blogbold is Responsive WordPress theme suite for blog, magazine and news web. This theme allow you to create blog, magazine and news with unlimited layout.
With layout builder and module, create your own layout. This theme came with 1 default layout and 3 customize layout template for frontpage. You can easily to modify the templates, or create your own layout. Import the XML file, will make you easier to build your web. Developed base on Bootstrap with easy to use option panel and powerfull module system by shortcode, will make end user easier to develope their own web.
Diario – Bold & Minimal Responsive WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Diario – is a bold & minimal responsive WordPress theme. Diario 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.
EMERALD – MORE INFO / DEMO
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.
Typegrid – Responsive News & Magazine Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
A high-resolution theme for news sites, magazines or blogs that focuses on reading experience for all devices – mobile, tablet and desktop. With a polished responsive structure, and thanks to a toggle sidebar for tablet portrait mode, the paragraph width is always kept well-balanced for reading.
Magnificent WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Now you can display loads of content in a beautifully simple and elegant fashion using Magnificent. Featuring a four-column homepage with 5 widget ready areas, you have many opportunities to customize your content display. The theme also features seven different colorschemes, which means there is surely a style that will suite your needs.
Metro Magazine Responsive WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Metro Magazine is a clean and powerful metro inspired responsive magazine WordPress 3.5 ready theme designed specifically for magazine, news and blog sites. The theme is highly flexible, fully responsive and packed with awesome features. It is incredibly easy to use and ready to be up and running out of the box. Created using the latest HTML5 and CSS3 techniques.
GREENCHILI – MORE INFO / DEMO
GreenChili is a clean, blog-style WordPress theme that combines traditional WordPress styling with MyThemeShop features, functionality and optimization. The fully customizable theme is responsive, optimized for both SEO and advertising, and maintains a clean yet sophisticated feel.
Blogster – Responsive Blog WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
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!
In the theme a lot of settings, with which you can easily customize the theme, as you need, also detailed documentation and quick support!
Fixed WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Fixed is a super simple, photoblog-style WordPress theme for sharing your images, videos, articles, quotes, notes and more. Use it as a personal blog or a minimal portfolio to show off your latest works!
Memoir WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
It has been almost a year since we last released a standard blog theme, and considering that personal blogging still represents the core WordPress user base, I thought it was time that we returned to our roots and produced a simple blog design. Memoir is beautifully simple, but still comes packed with character and style.
Spritz HTML5 Responsive Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Spritz is a responsive WordPress theme. It is developed for performance, so javascripts and CSS are reduced to minimal terms.
Bold Magazine Responsive WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Bold Magazine is a Responsive WordPress Magazine Theme designed specifically for the Magazines.
MONOPOLY – MORE INFO / DEMO
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.
Cypher – WordPress Magazine / Portfolio Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Cypher WordPress Theme is a full featured WordPress theme to magazines, blogs, news, portfolio, personal and much more!
NEWSMAG – MORE INFO / DEMO
NewsMag is a three column, responsive WordPress magazine theme that is built for sites with lots of content. Featuring a fancy slider, multiple post display, and jam-packed with all of MyThemeShop’s best features, NewsMag is a must-have.
Notebook WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Notebook is a fun multimedia theme that takes advantage of WordPress post formats and advanced CSS3 animations. The result is a unique and highly engaging design that is sure that impress your visitors. Notebook makes it easy to share a variety of content, including audio, video, photographs and standard blog posts.
RapidNews – Responsive Magazine Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
RapidNews is a feature-rich WordPress magazine theme. Great for magazine , review, news and blog sites, with integrated reviews, video, slideshows, galleries and ADS system in each post.
RapidNews theme is highly configurable, you can completely configure the homepage and posts using the very easy and powerful theme options. Using 21 custom widgets you can create your homepage very quickly and you can get it just as you want it.
RapidNews is responsive, so that it fits and looks great on different size of devices – desktop, mobile phones and tablets.
Bloggap – Responsive Blog WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
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.
Explosion – Responsive WordPress Blog / Personal – MORE INFO / DEMO
Explosion is a Responsive WordPress Theme, best suited for Magazines and Blogs. It comes with 13 awesome widgets, 10 post formats, awesome Page Builder and tons of theme options. Explosion developed on the Bootstrap — beautifull boilerplate for responsive development so it look beautiful at any size, be it a 17” laptop screen or an iPad, iPhone.
Notably – A Responsive WordPress Blogging Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Notably is a mobile first, fully responsive, all around awesome WordPress theme for bloggers of all shapes and sizes. It’s straightforward, beautifully styled and you can make the theme your own by simply using the WordPress Theme Customizer. That’s right, no complicated Theme Options to wade through here.
Convertible WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Convertible is a new take on the classic sales page. Landing pages are useful for marketers who have a single product to sell and need to create a page to pitch it to their visitors. A landing page needs to be versatile and customizable, which is why we devised an entirely new way of managing your pages. Convertible includes a custom Drag and Drop page builder that allows you to completely customize your landing page without ever having to touch a line of code.
GREAT – MORE INFO / DEMO
Great is a traditional, magazine-style WordPress theme. With a clean, minimalist design and all the usual MyThemeShop features, Great is optimized to help your blog stand out from the crowd and dominate the web.
Great News Responsive WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Great News Magazine is a Responsive WordPress Magazine Theme designed specifically for the Magazines.
FlyingNews – Responsive WordPress Magazine – MORE INFO / DEMO
FLYINGnews is a Retina-ready and fully responsive Magazine/Blog theme. It comes with a rich feature set to allow you to create your advanced and user friendly blog with a great attractive look.
DailyJournal Responsive WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
DailyJournal is a fully responsive personal blog. The theme automatically adapt to your screen’s size, insuring that your content is always displayed beautifully no matter what device you are using to view it. DailyJournal’s design is fun and endearing, and the personal feel is great for anyone who is starting their own blog.
Eris – Responsive WordPress Magazine Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Eris is a professional WordPress theme with clean, flexible and fully responsive design. It is ideal for the magazine, news and personal blog sites. The Eris theme is highly configurable, you can completely configure the homepage and posts using the very easy and powerful theme options. The theme is built with HTML5 and CSS3.
Newsroom – Responsive News & Magazine Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
A clean and sharp theme for news sites, magazines or blogs. Newsroom gives you many ways to show your posts. With a good structure and ultra responsive layout, the viewing and reading experience is superb on all types of devices. A ton of options gives you the ability to get the theme just as you want it with a few simple clicks.
Polished WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Polish up your blog with this silky-smooth design. The theme is simple, refined, and well, polished! I hope this dark and “interfacey” design will be a welcomed addition the the ElegantThemes collection.
Journal – Responsive Readable WordPress Blog Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Great minimalistic and photography orientes WordPress blog theme.
SIMPLETON – MORE INFO / DEMO
Simpleton is a super clean, lightweight and minimalist WordPress theme. Built with flexibility in mind, Simpleton is a great standalone theme but can also work as a framework for more intensive themes to be built off of. It’s fully responsive and brings all the MyThemeShop features along with it.
Inspiration Responsive WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Inspiration is a Responsive WordPress Magazine Theme designed specifically for the Magazines, News sites and Blogs. It features a very clean and minimal design.
Nerea WordPress Responsive Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Nerea is a responsive classy WordPress theme, perfect for sharing articles, photos, videos, songs, quotes, and thoughts. Use it as your personal blog or online magazine, as an elegant portfolio or to build your small business web site.
Brennuis – WordPress Magazine/Blog – MORE INFO / DEMO
Brennuis Magazine is responsive modern clean magazine/blog WordPress theme with built in review system, page builder, sidebar manager, custom style manager, 9 custom widgets and much more. With review system you can easily create rating criteria and for each criteria you can add as many as you want fields like design, gameplay, actors, storyline, price, quality and etc. Create your dream review and share it to the people. Each page or post can has his own sidebar and background image.
NewsTrick – Responsive WordPress Magazine / Blog – MORE INFO / DEMO
NewsTrick is a cool customizable, flexible, responsive WordPress theme for your Blog, Magazine or News website. NewsTrick can be configured to focus on your work, your blogging, or both.
Theme is powered by the SMOF Options Panel, hich provides tons of options to manage and modify any aspect of the theme – it is well suited for both beginners with no coding knowledge and developers.
It comes with 25 custom widgets, 25+ widgetized areas , 5 post formats (image, audio, video, gallery, standard), 8 Home page layouts, 5 Blog layouts and tons of theme options.
Simplo – Responsive WordPress Blog / Personal – MORE INFO / DEMO
Simplo WordPress theme is for blog, personal or minimalist magazine. Sleek, minimalist and modern design based on light and dark color scheme in hand will bring your articles to the next level. Don’t forget to check the screenshots for this item.
Simplo WordPress theme is built on top rock-solid HTML5 and CSS3 Framework. It’s clearly that this theme has a responsive layout with adaptive approachment for each devices such as iPhone, iPad and many popular devices out there, give it a try using your device(s).
UrbanNews – WP Magazine Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
UrbanNews is a premium WordPress magazine theme. Unlimited color schemes, unlimited galleries, 11 page templates, 2 premium widgets included, and fully customizable – UrbanNews is built on a responsive modern grid layout that offers a unique way to display lots of cool content and imagery. No custom post types, the option to turn on/off responsive layouts, easy to add galleries and video, 125 fully customizable icons available – the options are plentiful, easy to manage, awesome to work with.
Forward – Modular Magazine Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Forward is new, fresh and bold WordPress theme with modular and fully responsive layout (1200px). Theme is suited for heavy content magazinewebsites. Theme includes lots of advanced features and functions and is based on solid backend framework.
GLAMOUR – MORE INFO / DEMO
Glamour elevates minimalism with a splash of color. With a multiple column post display, clean design that includes a splash of color, and the ability to customize almost everything, Glamour is a great choice for bloggers who want flexibility, speed and elegant minimalism.
Bulletin Responsive Tumblog WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Bulletin is a simple and elegant “Tumblog” style WordPress theme perfect for many types of websites such as blogs, portfolios, photography, and personal use sites.
PressGrid – Frontend publishing & Multimedia Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Every wordpress magazine themes are not made for frontend publishing feature. We will introduce to you frontend publishing and multimedia theme. Because our theme has support Oembed it has included Soundcloud + Vimeo + Youtube + Twitter + Instagram. Our 5 post format is easy to configure also Page additional options are better than before.
Theme Option has included all of theme feature options and before you work around our theme please create Frontend editor page, Profile settings page, Favorite posts page, Logout redirect page. Don’t forget to enter Facebook APP ID, Twitter Token Key then social login section works on your theme and users are able publish posts instant from their Twitter, Facebook account.
ExtraGrid – Creative, Blog & Multimedia theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Every site owner wants to rank higher in search engines. Choosing a good SEO Optimized theme is also very important for your site to rank higher. If you want to it, ExtraGrid is a right choise for you. This theme is built with SEO best practices, regarding Titles are place heading (h1, h2, h3,…) tags, important content is always placed before other one and Theme SEO panel.
Supreme – Retina Responsive Magazine/Blog WP Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Supreme is a revolutionary Retina Responsive Magazine/Blog theme. Clean, modern, and crystal clear graphics. Featuring the incredible Swift Page Builder, you can now create and manage content the way you want, with ease.
Newses – MORE INFO / DEMO
Minimal news blog theme with a left sidebar layout.
TrustMe – Responsive WordPress Magazine / Blog – MORE INFO / DEMO
TrustMe is a Responsive WordPress Theme, best suited for Magazines, News and Blog websites. It comes with 23 awesome widgets and 18 widget areas and 4 post formats (image, audio, video & allery) and tons of theme options.
TrustMe developed on the Bootstrap — beautifull boilerplate for responsive development so it look beautiful at any size, be it a 17” laptop screen or an iPad, iPhone.
Noble – Responsive Magazine Builder Kit Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
This is a very flexible blog and magazine theme. The entire first page consists of widgets, so you can change its texture and appearance of your own discretion. Kit includes widgets that are well-matched to the design, which we will supplement regularly.
PIXELMAG – MORE INFO / DEMO
Pixelmag is a tri-column, responsive WordPress magazine theme. Three columns help show your readers more content on the pages, and the related posts bring more of the content they love. Plus, it’s optimized for SEO and speed, giving you a huge advantage.
Bloggit – Responsive WordPress Blog,Magazine,News – MORE INFO / DEMO
Meet Bloggit – a responsive blog and magazine WordPress theme. Created for all types of information, inspiration, gossip, reviews, and more Bloggit is the perfect theme for any blog.
Journal Responsive WordPress Tumblog Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Journal is a simple, yet fully-featured WordPress theme geared towards the avid blogger and Internet content collector. It allows you to express your thoughts, images, and other media in a pleasant and easy to navigate way. Oh, and it’s responsive too. That’s a thing now.
Magzimize: Bold News & Magazine WordPress Theme – MORE INFO / DEMO
Magzimize – A Bold News and Magazine WordPress Theme, Great User Experience makes complexity being easy. Awesome usability and SEO optimized, suite for content lover and collecting great resource on the internet.