Enfold
Enfold is a premium template with fully responsive designs and 26 homepage styles, each with their own blog page layouts. This inspired template is an excellent choice for bloggers who want a commercial, professional web presence. This comprehensible and advanced WordPress blogging template is a great choice for blogs with multiple authors, or who may later add authors, because it comes with elegantly-designed author pages and attribution formatting.
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Divi
If you’re looking for an elegant frontend for your new WordPress blog then Divi is a must-consider. This premium WordPress template is advanced and responsive with Retina Ready display and dozens of layout options. You’ll be able to configure everything from SEO settings to color schemes using the template’s easy point-and-click configuration options. Divi was designed to load very quickly in any web browser, leaving very little chance for anyone to see a loading bar or notice any wait times while looking at your content.
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Revenue
Revenue is the perfect template for starting a WordPress blog to create extra income. This template is completely free and can be installed on any WordPress hosting server. Revenue is responsive, clean, and minimalist in design. This theme lends itself well to SEO and has well-chosen placements for ads and other revenue-producing content. Choose this theme to start your new blog-based business if you like simple and easy to use theme options and don’t want to focus your budget on paying for a template.
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RibTun
RibTun is a unique blogging template for WordPress designed specifically for those who care about the craft of writing. This premium template comes with sleek dark and light theme options for a modern and responsive frontend. RibTun is SEO friendly, includes 8 premium plugins, and has one-click demo content importation option to make setting up your own content simple. A unique feature of this blog is that it has a function to allow your readers to ask questions, bypassing the standard WordPress comment system. All you need to get started using this template is a WordPress hosting account and the template download itself.
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Newspaper
This inspiring template for WordPress blogs is a lifesaver for those needing an easy way to setup a professional blog in a short time. Newspaper can give you the credibility you’ll need to run a small or large online news or entertainment blog. This template a special tagDiv composer to allow you to automatically install elements from a large repository, saving you time and allowing for increased functionality on your blogging website.
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Lily
Lily is an excellent choice for a blog template if you plan on posting a lot of photos and graphics. This image-centric WordPress template has a clean frontend with a sleek image slider and a grid-style featured posts section. Lily comes with pop-up promo boxes you can optionally enable and customize to collect reader emails or offer promotions. This premium template is currently priced $75 at TemplateMonster.
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NewsNow
NewsNow is another free WordPress template designed for professional blogging. This template works great for news and magazine based blogs with lots of articles and posts. NewsNow is responsive and uses a lot of whitespace to highlight your blog’s important content. This template is well coded and has a top banner area and side banner to help you advertise easily through Google AdSense or another ad platform.
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Total
Total is an easy to use and minimalist WordPress blogging template that will inspire your content and allow you to focus on creating rather than tinkering with settings. This simple premium WordPress template has been purchased over 32,000 times and thus is throughout field-tested for favorable SEO settings and bug-free coding. This template comes with drag and drop editing options so you don’t need to learn any HTML or CSS to customize your blog just the way you want it.
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Insight
This template made for WordPress blogs is inspiring and unique. Insight contains a stunning gallery page, upgraded contact forms, and half a dozen header variations so you can see what works best for your logo and content. Insight is a multi-purpose template with responsive design all throughout. This is a great choice if your blog will be more versatile than most, and you want the option to have forms, videos, products, and other features not found on most free templates.
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Buzznote
Buzznote comes with carousel sliders, WooCommerce integration, features post sliders, and tons of other premium features you won’t find inherent to most free WordPress templates. This premium blogging template for WordPress currently runs $49 at ThemeForest but is worth every penny if you have the budget for a premium template. Buzznote is easy to use, has 6 main layout options, and can be customized in over 100 ways through the point-and-click interface on your WordPress site’s frontend.
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These elegant and inspired WordPress templates can serve as the perfect platform for blogs of any type. Whether you’re starting a blog to earn money or simply to share your information with the world, these templates are the best way to get started. Choose one of the above templates with a point and click page editor if you’re not familiar with CSS and want to get started quickly and easily. Users more familiar with HTML and CSS will enjoy the plethora of options found in the premium templates on this list, including the element importation options on Newspaper. You can’t go wrong with any of these free or premium inspiring WordPress blogging templates.
This is a guest post by Nicole Rocklin.