Best Free WordPress Themes for Header & Footer Builder

15 themes compared · Updated August 2026 · Header & Footer Builder

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Choosing a WordPress theme for header & footer builder 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. Customify Best overall 81/100
2. X-T9 77/100
3. ReviewNews 75/100
4. NewsReview 75/100
5. Simone 75/100
6. Musik 73/100
7. Yuki 72/100
8. Head Blog 71/100
9. Hemila 71/100
10. Esteem 69/100
11. Balanced Blog 69/100
12. Master Blog 69/100
13. Bands 68/100
14. Hello Animation 66/100
15. Freedom 66/100

Best overall Free by PressMaximum

Customify

Customify is fast, lightweight, responsive and super flexible multipurpose theme built with SEO, speed, and usability in mind. Unleash the power of your imagination with a true WYSIWYG Heade...

4.7★: from 141 ratings
30k+: active installs
Updated: Aug 2026

WPScore

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Free by Hidekazu Ishikawa

X-T9

The X-T9 is designed on the premise of full site editing function, and the user can flexibly customize the header, footer, etc. This theme is mainly intended for use on business sites.

4.3★: from 3 ratings
6k+: active installs
Updated: Aug 2026

WPScore

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Free by AF themes

ReviewNews

ReviewNews is a flexible WordPress theme designed for news websites, online magazines, blogs, business sites, and eCommerce projects. It includes a customizable header and footer builder com...

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

WPScore

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Free by AF themes

NewsReview

NewsReview is a responsive multipurpose WordPress child theme of ReviewNews, developed for news websites, corporate portals, and personal blogs. It offers a drag-and-drop header and footer b...

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

WPScore

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Free by Carolina Nymark

Simone

Simone is a responsive accessible theme featuring custom header and custom link colors, large images, and easy to read typography that scales to fit all screens. Other features include keybo...

4.9★: from 26 ratings
600+: active installs
Updated: Aug 2026

WPScore

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Free by Carolina Nymark

Musik

Musik is a responsive music theme with two widget areas and support for custom header image or video as well as a logo. You can combine pages and posts on your front page, and change the pos...

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

WPScore

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Free by WP Moose

Yuki

Yuki is a modern and highly customizable multipurpose WordPress theme. It has powerful Header Builder, Footer Builder and Homepage Builder to fully customize your website. You can build any...

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

WPScore

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Free by HeadThemes

Head Blog

Head Blog is a minimalistic and fast blogging theme for WordPress. It supports custom header, logo or background, and it is easy to use even for WordPress beginners. Head Blog is SEO friendl...

5★: from 2 ratings
2k+: active installs
Updated: Sep 2025

WPScore

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Free by RS WP THEMES

Hemila

Hemila is an creative multipurpose news, magazine, and blog WordPress theme. This striking theme boasts of multidimensional features including Post Slider, Post Grid, Custom Logo, Custom Hea...

4.5★: from 4 ratings
100+: active installs
Updated: Jul 2026

WPScore

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Free by ThemeGrill

Esteem

Esteem is a clean multipurpose responsive WordPress theme designed to fit business, portfolio, blogging or any type of site. The theme supports custom header, custom background, custom widge...

4.9★: from 46 ratings
2k+: active installs
Updated: Aug 2025

WPScore

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Free by HeadThemes

Balanced Blog

Balanced Blog is fast, clean and responsive WordPress Blog theme. Theme supports custom header, logo or background and it is easy to use. Balanced Blog is SEO friendly, WPML, translation and...

3★: from 2 ratings
1k+: active installs
Updated: Sep 2025

WPScore

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Free by HeadThemes

Master Blog

Master Blog is clean, modern and fast loading responsive WordPress Blog theme. Theme supports custom header, logo or background and it is easy to use. Master Blog is SEO friendly, WPML, tran...

1★: from 1 ratings
900+: active installs
Updated: Sep 2025

WPScore

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Free by BandsWP

Bands

Dedicated theme for bands, musicians, or audio artists of any kind. FREE FEATURES: Responsive, SEO-friendly, Schema-ready, Translation-ready, Custom Logo, Custom Header Image, Custom Backgro...

5★: from 1 ratings
300+: active installs
Updated: Nov 2025

WPScore

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Free by Wealcoder

Hello Animation

Hello Animation is a lightweight Elementor theme built for motion, and the companion theme for the Animation Addons for Elementor plugin. Its header, footer, banner and blog layouts are made...

700+: active installs
Updated: Aug 2026

WPScore

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Free by ThemeGrill

Freedom

Freedom is a simple, clean and responsive stylish photo blogging theme. The theme supports custom header, custom background, custom menu, widget areas and has built-in options panel to confi...

4.9★: from 24 ratings
500+: active installs
Updated: Aug 2025

WPScore

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