10 Best WordPress themes and templates – January 2019. This post lists the best WordPress.com themes which are also the best free WordPress theme for blogging. Download them all.
10 Best WordPress Themes and Templates – January 2019
1. Twenty Nineteen
2. Independent Publisher 2
3. Ryu
4. Syntax
5. Cerauno
6. Lyretail
7. Scrawl
8. Isola
9. Canard
10. Sapor
1. Twenty Nineteen
Download – https://wordpress.com/theme/twentynineteen
Twenty Nineteen is best for a minimal, typography-driven blog, or adapt it for a professional business website. Twenty Nineteen fully supports the new WordPress Editor. You can choose any of the available blocks to create a wide range of content for your site. Twenty Nineteen supports a Site Logo, which works great as an avatar for a personal blog or for your business logo or icon.
Twenty Nineteen gives your featured images a bold treatment on posts and pages: the images cover the full width and height of the screen, along with a color overlay. Twenty Nineteen uses a blue accent color by default, but you can change that. Twenty Nineteen includes a Social Icons Menu; can add links to your social media profiles, and they’ll be displayed as logos in your header.
2. Independent Publisher 2
Download – https://wordpress.com/theme/independent-publisher-2
Independent Publisher 2 is a clean and polished theme with a light color scheme, bold typography, and full-width images. It’s designed to enhance your content and provide an immersive experience for your readers. With a focus on readability, the content looks crisp and easy on the eyes. Independent Publisher 2 is responsive, adjusting its layout to accommodate various devices and screen sizes. Independent Publisher 2 was built with the personal blogger in mind, so a Gravatar profile image can be used in the header.
Users can personalize their site with a Custom Header, which is used as the background for your site title and tagline. It will display the featured Images on single pages and posts will replace any Custom Header. The theme – Independent Publisher 2 – displays a convenient estimated reading time for posts, based on a reading speed of 250 words per minute. It also includes special text styles for pull quotes and includes four widget areas: one optional Sidebar, and three Footer areas.
3. Ryu
Download – https://wordpress.com/theme/ryu
Ryu is a simple, clutter-free theme for personal bloggers. Not only does this theme have great readability with a large font size, it’s also excellent for showing off large, full-width featured images with (or without!) the image post format. (The maximum width is 1272px). Background color for an image post will automatically match the uploaded image in the post.
The theme supports Four optional widget areas are located at the top panel with social media links and a search field. It supports responsive design and the Ryu’s layout adjusts itself depending on the device you are using.
4. Syntax
Download – https://wordpress.com/theme/syntax
Syntax is a theme designed with writing — and reading — in mind. With large, easy-to-read type, a fixed navigation menu, and a responsive design that looks beautiful on all screen sizes, it’s perfect for writers who want a minimal design that lets their content take center stage.
Syntax‘s primary menu is tucked behind a tab on the left side of the screen. Syntax supports three columns of widgets in the site’s footer. The background can also be customized.
5. Cerauno
Download – https://wordpress.com/theme/cerauno
Cerauno is a polished, user-friendly magazine theme with plenty of customizable features. Add secondary content in up to five widget areas, brand your content with a Site Logo or Custom Header, include links to your favorite social networks, and add Featured Images to grab your readers’ attention. Cerauno is responsive, stretching or shrinking to accommodate any screen size.
Cerauno supports many features – Featured Images, Site Logo, Social Links Menu, Custom Menus, Widgets, Custom Header, Custom Background and No Sidebars Page Template.
6. Lyretail
Download – https://wordpress.com/theme/lyretail
Lyretail puts your social presence front and center, displaying social links prominently below the site title and logo, so readers can easily find you on your favorite social networks.
It supports Social Links Custom Menu which automatically display its icon. Lyretail supports the following features – Social Links Menu, Site Logo, Featured Images, Post Formats, Custom Menus, Widgets, Custom Backgrounds and Custom Header Images.
7. Scrawl
Download – https://wordpress.com/theme/scrawl
Scrawl is a clean, responsive theme for longform writing, with bold featured images, fancy image captions and pull quotes, and plenty of space for your content to shine. Post details fade in when you hover over them, so readers can focus entirely on your beautiful content when not navigating your site. A slide-out sidebar provides ready access to secondary content, including social links, custom menus, and widgets.
Scrawl includes styles for introductory text, pull quotes, and aligned images and captions. Scrawl supports the following features – Social Links Menu, Featured Images, Site Logo, Post Formats, Custom Menus, Widgets and Custom Backgrounds.
8. Isola
Download – https://wordpress.com/theme/isola
Isola gives you a fresh, clean slate to showcase your writing, photographs, or videos. Its primary menu and widget area are tucked behind a handy button, giving your content plenty of room to breathe, and Isola looks beautiful regardless of the device or screen size.
Isola supports Aside, Image, Video, Quote, Link, and Gallery Post Formats, with unique styles for each.
9. Canard
Download – https://wordpress.com/theme/canard
Canard is a flexible and versatile theme perfect for magazines, news sites, and blogs. It lets you highlight specific articles on the homepage and balances readability with a powerful use of photography — all in a layout that works on any device.
Canard supports three Post Formats: Image, Gallery and Link. Each post format has a unique style touches to distinguish it from the rest. Canard displays posts’ Featured Images prominently in both the Featured Content area and above post and page titles in the normal layout, quickly grabbing your readers’ attention.
10. Sapor
Download – https://wordpress.com/theme/sapor
Sapor is a theme to showcase your passion, whether it’s cooking or gardening or healthy living. Whatever you enjoy, Sapor allows you to easily share it with others. This is a minimal theme designed to let your content shine through no matter what device your readers use.
Sapor is a simple design, but its options provide a wide range of display choices. Choose between a layout with a sidebar, or a narrow single-column layout. If you add a background image, a white background is added behind the main content area. Sapor is also responsive, which means it adapts to look good no matter what size device your readers use to visit.