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:
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.

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

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.

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

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

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


A Blogger and Digital Marketing Executive. Hamza Shariff started Duri Digital as a passion to empower readers to learn and update their knowledge & skills in the digital marketing field.
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