Best Free WordPress Themes for Food And Recipe Blogs

15 themes compared · Updated August 2026 · Food & Recipe Blog

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Choosing a WordPress theme for food and recipe blogs comes down to a few things: whether it is still actively maintained, whether real users rate it well, and whether it does the specific job you need without dragging the rest of the site down.

We ranked 15 themes using our WPScore, which weighs the user rating (adjusted for how many people actually rated it), how many sites run it, how recently it was updated, and which WordPress version it is tested against. 15 of them have enough public data to be scored; the rest are listed below the ranked block, clearly marked, rather than being given a number we cannot justify.

How this list is funded. Some links here earn us a commission if you buy. It costs you nothing extra, and it does not move anything up the list — the order comes from the WPScore, which is calculated from public ratings, install counts and update history. See the method.

At a glance

1. Kale Best overall 80/100
2. Yummy Recipe 74/100
3. SuevaFree 74/100
4. Foodica 73/100
5. Yummy Bites 73/100
6. Cookery Lite 72/100
7. Spicy Recipe 71/100
8. Food Recipes 71/100
9. VW Blog Magazine 71/100
10. Elegant Recipe Blog 71/100
11. Auberge 70/100
12. VW Bakery Blocks 70/100
13. Recipes Blog 70/100
14. Advance Blogging 70/100
15. Focus Blog 69/100

Best overall Free by lyrathemes

Kale

Kale is a charming and elegant, aesthetically minimal and uncluttered food blog theme that can also be used for a variety of purposes. Whether you want to share recipes or fashion tips, run...

4.9★: from 206 ratings
7k+: active installs
Updated: Jul 2026

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Free by Blossom Themes

Yummy Recipe

Yummy Recipe is a perfect theme for creating a professional food blog and recipe website. The theme is mobile-friendly, SEO optimized, Schema friendly, and loads faster to help you rank your...

5★: from 4 ratings
2k+: active installs
Updated: Apr 2026

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Free by alexvtn

SuevaFree

SuevaFree is a free clean and minimal WordPress blog theme, with an optional minimal layout and one page section, perfect to manage your personal, lifestyle, travel, food, recipes or fashion...

4.6★: from 22 ratings
500+: active installs
Updated: Jul 2026

WPScore

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Free by WPZOOM

Foodica

Foodica is a clean and modern WordPress theme designed for food blogs, recipe websites, and culinary magazines. With a beautiful featured slider, well-structured layouts, and built-in WooCom...

5★: from 21 ratings
2k+: active installs
Updated: Feb 2026

WPScore

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Free by WP Delicious

Yummy Bites

Yummy Bites is a free WordPress recipe theme for creating a professional food blog and recipe website. This theme is designed to improve your recipe rankings on search engines with mobile-fr...

5★: from 3 ratings
700+: active installs
Updated: May 2026

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Free by Blossom Themes

Cookery Lite

Cookery Lite is a lead generating recipe and food WordPress theme with multiple Call-to-Action (CTA) to capture leads. Beside food blog, you can also use this theme for creating different ty...

5★: from 2 ratings
500+: active installs
Updated: Apr 2026

WPScore

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Free by Blossom Themes

Spicy Recipe

Spicy Recipe is a perfect theme for creating a professional food blog and recipe website. The theme is mobile-friendly, SEO optimized, Schema friendly, and loads fast to help you rank your r...

5★: from 1 ratings
300+: active installs
Updated: Apr 2026

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Free by FasterThemes

Food Recipes

Food Recipes is an editorial-magazine WordPress theme for food bloggers and recipe websites. Features a luxury Cormorant Garamond display typography paired with Jost sans-serif, an asymmetri...

5★: from 3 ratings
200+: active installs
Updated: May 2026

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Free by VW THEMES

VW Blog Magazine

VW Blog Magazine Theme is designed to be stylish and classy, This exclusive theme is developed especially for bloggers, personal blog, fashion blog, lifestyle blog, travel blog, food blog, s...

5★: from 1 ratings
100+: active installs
Updated: Aug 2026

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Free by elegantblgthemes

Elegant Recipe Blog

Elegant Recipe Blog is the best WordPress theme for Food Blog, Magazine or Recipe Website. Elegant Recipe Blog takes a clean and minimalist approach to Food Blog. The theme is integrated wit...

5★: from 2 ratings
100+: active installs
Updated: Aug 2026

WPScore

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Free by WebMan Design | Oliver Juhas

Auberge

Auberge is responsive, retina-ready, modern restaurant & café & recipes blog WordPress theme. Supports Beaver Builder page builder plugin, Jetpack plugin to create nested food menus,...

4.7★: from 14 ratings
1k+: active installs
Updated: Sep 2025

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Free by VW THEMES

VW Bakery Blocks

The Bakery Theme is a beautifully designed and versatile WordPress theme ideal for food blogs, bakeries, boxed sweets, bread, cakes, and eCommerce stores. This clean theme offers a range of...

3★: from 2 ratings
100+: active installs
Updated: Aug 2026

WPScore

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Free by astertheme

Recipes Blog

Recipes Blog serves as a digital culinary canvas crafted for food lovers, home chefs, culinary experts, and those with a passion for the art of cooking. This meticulously designed platform i...

1★: from 1 ratings
100+: active installs
Updated: Aug 2026

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Free by Themescaliber

Advance Blogging

Advance Blogging is a clean, minimal, and multipurpose blog theme designed for lifestyle blogs, food blogs, sports blogs, technology blogs, fashion blogs, SEO blogs, cooking and recipe blogs...

3.7★: from 6 ratings
100+: active installs
Updated: Aug 2026

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Free by creativthemes

Focus Blog

Focus Blog is a light and elegant theme that suits all kinds of blog. It can be used for fashion blog, food blog, travel blog, personal blog websites.

5★: from 1 ratings
100+: active installs
Updated: May 2026

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