There are a lot of rules when it comes to cooking, but not so many when it comes to food blogs. However, just as working with better ingredients pays off in the kitchen, so does using a quality WordPress food blog theme.
With the right theme, you’ll have access to features that will make going from household cook to famous food writer much easier. Unique recipe styles, social media integration, and more will help you easily format and promote your content.
In this roundup, we’ll introduce you to 13 of our favorite food blog themes. For each, we’ll share unique features to consider to help you pick the perfect one to share your recipes with the world. Let’s get to it!
Our Kale Pro theme was built with food bloggers in mind from the ground up. It comes with a modern, versatile design that’s ideal for crafting quality web content. Plus, it packs a lot of advanced features perfect for sharing recipes, including unique layouts, on-page Instagram feeds, and rich snippets for search engines.
If you’re looking for a premium theme that’s easy to use and includes all the features you might need to promote your recipes, Kale Pro might just be it.
Price: One-time setup fee of $39 with a month of free support included.
Elara Pro is another food blogging theme from our collection. It includes a lot of the same features that make Kale Pro an excellent fit for food bloggers, including a built-in recipe builder, multiple layouts for your posts, and more.
However, where this theme shines is when it comes to monetization. Elara Pro offers built-in ad sections, promo boxes, and easy integration for email lists. If you have experience with blogging and you know you want to monetize your work, Elara Pro enables you to get the ball rolling with ease.
Price: One-time setup fee of $39 with a month of free support included.
Divi is a massive multipurpose theme that works just as well for blogging as it does for personal websites, online stores, and plenty of other types of projects. It comes with a built-in page-builder tool, which is what makes it so versatile.
The Divi Builder enables you to harness dozens of pre-built modules to help you put together a professional-looking blog. This theme provides a recipes landing page layout as well. However, it doesn’t include any built-in modules for food blogs specifically, and it’s one of the most expensive themes on the market.
Price: A one-year license for Divi costs $89 and includes access to several other themes and plugins.
Sprout and Spoon is a food blog WordPress theme by SoloPine. It uses a simple yet elegant design.
It offers a few features designed specifically for food blogs, making it suitable for publishing recipes.
Sprout and Spoon has built-in recipe cards optimized for SEO, and flexible recipe index options. It also allows you to choose how you showcase your content with options for multiple blog and post layouts.
Price: A one-year license for Sprout and Spoon costs $39.
Neptune is a fully-fledged food blog WordPress theme by Osetin. It uses a packed homepage layout and a vibrant, colorful style.
While the previous themes on this list are versatile enough to cover an assortment of topics in the food, lifestyle and beauty categories of blogging, Neptune is best suited for food blogs that have a complete focus on publishing recipes.
Recipe cards are optimized for SEO. Readers can also add the number of servings they need and have the amounts for each ingredient update automatically. You can also add nutrition information. Readers can rate and review recipes, submit their own recipes, post in forums, and earn badges and achievements.
Price: A one-year license for Sprout and Spoon costs $39.
Lahanna is a food blog WordPress theme by Pixelwars. It comes with three homepage demos, each of which uses a feminine design.
Lahanna is another versatile theme that combines food blog features with blogging features. This makes it a fantastic option for food bloggers who publish a mix of recipe and non-recipe posts.
Recipe cards include interactive steps and ingredients and are optimized for SEO and recipe index templates are included with filter options available.
Price: A one-year license for Lahanna costs $69.
Soledad is a multipurpose blog and magazine theme by PenciDesign. It comes with dozens of homepage demos that can be configured into thousands of layouts.
This includes several food blog demos, which include recipe functionalities. There are also plenty of other blogging demos that would complement food blogs quite well.
The theme has the Pendi Recipes plugin included, that allows you to create recipe cards optimized for SEO. This theme also includes multiple recipe index layouts.
Price: A one-year license for Soledad costs $59.
SuperFood is a fun, colorful theme for food enthusiasts. It doesn’t only tackle blogging, either. This theme also includes designs for online stores, bakeries, coffee shops, and even restaurants.
All that is possible thanks to SuperFood’s focus on your images, which you can highlight through several unique gallery styles. If you want to keep your site solely focused on blogging, you might consider using its blog demo to kick-start its design.
Price: A one-year license for SuperFood costs $75.
Food and Cook uses one of the simplest designs featured on this list but comes packed with plenty of powerful features.
Because of its simplicity, Food and Cook is versatile enough to be used by a variety of different bloggers who want to include recipes on their blogs.
Price: A one-year license for Food and Cook costs $49.
Some of our favorite food blogs aren’t one-man operations. Instead, they feature recipes from chefs spanning the entire world. This idea is at the core of what makes Talisa unique.
This theme includes a front-end recipe submission form that your readers can use to share their own favorite meals through your website. More recipes often translates to more traffic, so this arrangement can benefit you, too.
With Talisa, you can open the gates for your users, who will be able to navigate hundreds of recipes easily thanks to this theme’s advanced categorization features.
Price: A one-year license for Talisa costs $59.
Although this theme features the least imaginative name among all our picks, it more than makes up for it with the most advanced recipe taxonomy system we’ve seen so far. Using Recipes, you can publish your own favorite dishes and let users submit their own.
Beyond that, Recipes enables you to organize content using categories, ratings, views, cooking time, and almost any other factor you can imagine. It even lets you save favorite recipes for future reference. The cherry on top is that it comes in both light and dark versions, so you can choose which style suits your aesthetic.
Price: A one-year license for Recipes costs $59.
Savory isn’t just a fantastic pick for food bloggers, but also for restauranteurs. This theme includes designs for all types of food websites, from restaurant pages to classic one-cook blogs.
If you’re leaning towards setting up a website for a restaurant, Savory also integrates with OpenTable, which enables you to book reservations online and keep track of your table availability. This way you can easily pair your website and your restaurant management interface.
Price: A one-year license for Savory costs $69.
If style is high on your list of priorities, you’re going to love Look. This is a modern magazine theme that includes designs for all kinds of online publications, including food blogs. It makes fantastic use of negative space which results in a timeless minimalist design.
However, looks aren’t all this theme has going for it – it also includes a drag-and-drop page builder you can use to customize your food blog’s style as you see fit. Additionally, Look packs an in-depth review system for rating recipes according to multiple criteria, such as taste, difficulty, and more.
Price: A one-year license for Look costs $69.
Conclusion
Growing a successful food blog requires lots of experimentation, a flair for presentation, and hard work. Combine those with a nice sharp knife and you have all the elements of an excellent chef. All you’re missing is the perfect food blogging theme to share your culinary creations with the world.
There are so many types of food blogs it’s impossible to recommend a single theme that’s perfect for all use cases. If you’re starting a one-cook food blog, Kale Pro is an excellent choice due to its easy-to-use recipe builder. For community sites, on the other hand, you can’t go wrong with Divi or Look.
Do you have any questions about how to choose the perfect food blog theme? Let’s talk about them in the comments section below!
