5 Best Free WordPress Themes for Blog

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If you are planning to start a blog on WordPress, or you already have a blog, then you should take a look on the list of the Best Free WordPress Themes for Blogs.

At the time of starting a blog, it is a bit tough to select a perfect theme. This happens with almost everyone at the beginning, because of the wide variety of recommendations of themes out there.

I have selected 5 FREE WordPress themes perfect for bloggers. You can try any of these. All the themes on this list are optimized for speed & performance, as well as SEO.

1 | SCHEMA LITE

SCHEMA LITE HIGHLIGHTS:

  • Highly optimized load speed.
  • Optimized for SEO.
  • Rich snippet for SEO.
  • No customization required.

Schema is the fastest and SEO friendly theme for WordPress. As you can see from the name of the theme is Schema, it includes rich text snippets for articles, which will help to rank higher on Google Search.

The free version of the theme has fewer customization options, but you will love its already customized look. You do not need to spend time on customizing the theme, just add a logo and a site icon.

New bloggers usually face some speed issues, and spend some time optimizing the site speed properly. Here, this theme will take care of everything, so you could focus only on the contents. And of course, this theme is also optimized for mobile devices (fully responsive).

This theme is also ready for woo-commerce. If you are struggling to find a theme, then definitely you should go with this theme.

2 | NEVE

NEVE HIGHLIGHTS:

  • Highly customizable even on the free version.
  • Optimized for SEO.
  • Fast loading speed.
  • Free starter templates available to start with.

NEVE is highly customizable and, at the same time, it is beginners friendly. Even if you are new to WordPress themes, you will get easily customizable options. The theme also loads fast, it can improve user experience as well as SEO. It has inbuilt AMP features, although you will need an AMP plugin to explore the features.

NEVE has enough documentation to play with the theme features. You can visit it’s official documentation page to get to know what you can do with NEVE.

The best part of this theme is that you can customize each and every element, like on the header and on the footer area.

3 | GeneratePress

GneratePress Highlights

  • Fast loading speed.
  • Optimized for SEO.
  • Starter templates available.

GneratePress is a good choice for blogging. This theme is ultra-fast. You can compare this theme’s speed & performance with the Schema Lite theme.

This theme is highly customizable, has a lot of options to customize the theme.

Speed is a vital part of the SEO of a website. You will love this theme’s ultra-fast speed.

GeneratePress has some appealing starter templates to start.

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4 | OceanWP

OceanWP Highlights

  • Highly customizable.
  • Speed optimized.
  • Great features available on the free version.

If you have a lot more expectations from a free WordPress theme, then this is the ideal theme. After using OceanWP, I must say it has some premium-like features on the FREE version of this theme.

As for the speed, this theme is pretty optimized.

5 | ASTRA

Astra Highlights

  • Lot of customization options.
  • Optimized for speed & performance.
  • Free starter templates to start.

Astra is the most downloaded free theme on WordPress theme repository. This theme has many option to customize.

If you can optimize it properly, it will be loading very fast. And, you know, speed is of of the essential parameters to increase SEO ranking.

The theme comes with lots of starter templates. You can choose one of those to start your blog.

Nur Islam

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