Top 8 Recommended Free WordPress Themes for Bloggers

Are you planning to start blogging as your new hobby? Before this article we have a written an article on How to create a WordPress website from scratch. Make sure you read through all the steps before creating one and choose the best recommended free WordPress themes for your blog.

And now after that we wrote this article for you, Bloggers to let you know of the best recommended top 8 free WordPress Themes to start off with your blog.

Checkout these FREE WordPress themes for your blog:

1. ASTRA

COST-FREE

For a beginner, this is the best free WordPress themes. Astra can be both used for business and personal blog website themes. I would always recommend it to entry level bloggers.

Its easy to use experience and minimal knowledge to design the blog makes it as one of the most commonly used theme in the world. 

MAJOR FEATURES:

  • Responsive and Compatible
  • Build in support for Woo-commerce
  • Can be translated to any languages
  • Tons of color options.
Astra Theme

2. HESTIA

COST-FREE

Hestia is one of easy to use and design blog is also will be suitable for both business and personal blog.

You just have to learn on how to drag and drop to design in the WordPress live customizer.

Popular, simple and easily designed.

MAJOR FEATURES:

  • Flexible and responsive designs
  • Supported Woo-commerce feature
  • Easy to setup
Hestia Theme

3. GENERATE PRESS

COST – FREE + PREMIUM

One of the best of lightweight, responsive free WordPress themes for your blog.

With 300,000+ active website, this is a real deal.

Even DURI DIGITAL is build on GeneratePress WordPress theme.

MAJOR FEATURES:

  • Lightweight and responsive
  • Premium options are available
  • Search engine optimized
  • Plugins compatibility
  • Layout control
  • Page builder friendly.
GeneratePress Theme

4. OCEAN WP

COST-FREE + PREMIUM

Ocean WP is one of the best and most popular free WordPress theme with more than 3,200,000 downloads.

It can be used as Business site, personal blog, Magazine sites and also e-commerce sites.

MAJOR FEATURES:

  • Super flexible and easy to use
  • Multiple layout choices
  • Custom logo support
  • Live customizer support
  • Multiple sidebar areas
Ocean WP Theme

5. BENTO

COST-FREE

With tons of features, Bento is a super good multipurpose theme 

I would recommend you to use this if you have a blog with business services, like portfolio (or) Freelance personal website.

MAJOR FEATURES:

  • Customization options
  • Fully drag and drop feature
  • useful for broad websites
Bento Theme

6. GO

COST-FREE

Go theme is like a basic theme option with minimalist designs. This was Gutenberg’s first WordPress theme used to build blog websites.

MAJOR FEATURES:

  • Minimal Designs
  • Simple and easy access
  • Contact form plugin support
  • Mostly used for personal blog
  • 60.000+ active installations.
Go Theme

7. HUEMAN

COST-FREE

Hueman is one of the best of magazine style free WordPress theme. It mainly focus on content and the image gallery. As you can see in the below image preview, this will be great for any magazine (or) newsletter style blogs.

MAJOR FEATURES:

  • Responsive and mobile friendly
  • Easy customization
  • Multiple sidebars
  • Custom layout support
  • Best for Magazine type blogs
Hueman Theme

8. POSEIDON

COST-FREE

Poseidon theme, which can be used for both professional business website and personal blog website.

There is also widget based news type website and Magazine type template for easy setup.

FEATURES:

  • Full screen image slideshow
  • Clean typography
  • Best for Magazine type
  • 20.000+ active installations