Best custom background WordPress themes
The most popular custom background themes for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Kadence leads with 500K+ active installs, ahead of OceanWP (400K+) and GeneratePress (500K+). All 11,066 themes tagged “Custom background” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 custom background themes
- 1.
KadenceThe most installed custom background theme, with 500K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 456 reviews, updated 3 days ago.
- 2.
OceanWP400K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 5,721 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 3.
GeneratePress500K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 1,428 reviews, updated 11 months ago.
- 4.
Bluehost Blueprint50K+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 6 months ago.
- 5.
Neve200K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 1,284 reviews, updated 3 days ago.
- 6.
Twenty Twenty200K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 68 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 7.
Envo Royal50K+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, updated 3 days ago.
- 8.
Royal Elementor Kit90K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 92 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 9.
PopularFX100K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 115 reviews, last updated 1 year ago.
- 10.
Envo One20K+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 3 days ago.
All 11,066 themes tagged “Custom background”
Kadence
#5by Nexcess3 days ago
Kadence Theme is a lightweight yet full featured WordPress theme for creating beautiful fast loading and accessible websites, easier than ever. It features an easy to use drag and drop header and footer builder to build…
- Installs
- 500K+
- Rating
- 4.9(456)
- Downloads
- 2.8K/day
OceanWP
#9by oceanwp14 days ago
OceanWP is the perfect theme for your project. Lightweight and highly extendable, it will enable you to create almost any type of website such a blog, portfolio, business website and WooCommerce storefront with a beauti…
- Installs
- 400K+
- Rating
- 4.9(5.7K)
- Downloads
- 2.7K/day
GeneratePress
#11by Tom11 months ago
GeneratePress is a lightweight WordPress theme built with a focus on speed and usability. Performance is important to us, which is why a fresh GeneratePress install adds less than 10kb (gzipped) to your page size. We ta…
- Installs
- 500K+
- Rating
- 4.9(1.4K)
- Downloads
- 1.3K/day
Bluehost Blueprint
#13by Bluehost6 months ago
Bluehost Blueprint is a block-based, multi-purpose, WordPress theme. Compose your pages to fit any design you like with the power of Full Site Editing (FSE) and the included wide range of Block Patterns. The pre-built p…
- Installs
- 50K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 123/day
Neve
#16by Themeisle3 days ago
Neve is a next-generation, ultra-fast WordPress theme designed for top performance, SEO, and Core Web Vitals. Its lightweight codebase and small size ensure minimal overhead and lightning-fast load times. Fully compatib…
- Installs
- 200K+
- Rating
- 4.7(1.3K)
- Downloads
- 2.1K/day
Twenty Twenty
#17by WordPress.org12 days ago
Our default theme for 2020 is designed to take full advantage of the flexibility of the block editor. Organizations and businesses have the ability to create dynamic landing pages with endless layouts using the group an…
- Installs
- 200K+
- Rating
- 4.4(68)
- Downloads
- 13.4K/day
Envo Royal
#18by EnvoThemes3 days ago
Envo Royal is a fast, clean, lightweight, customizable and modern-looking free responsive multipurpose WordPress theme. Suitable for blog, creative, portfolio or business website and WooCommerce storefront. Theme suppor…
- Installs
- 50K+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 89/day
Royal Elementor Kit
#19by WP Royal17 days ago
Truly all in one Solution For Elementor Lovers. 140+ Elementor Templates KIT, 100+ Professional Elementor Widgets, Elementor theme builder, Elementor Popup Builder, Elementor Premade blocks and many other cool features…
- Installs
- 90K+
- Rating
- 5.0(92)
- Downloads
- 406/day
PopularFX
#20by pagelayer1 year ago
Lightweight theme to make beautiful websites with Pagelayer. Includes 100s of pre-made templates to design your dream website !
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.6(115)
- Downloads
- 168/day
Envo One
#22by EnvoThemes3 days ago
Envo One is a fast, clean, lightweight, customizable and modern-looking free responsive WooCommerce WordPress theme for e-commerce stores like clothing, fashion, electronics, ebooks, dress store, sports shop, marketplac…
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 54/day
Inspiro
Up in the last 7 days:1#24by WPZOOM3 days ago
Inspiro is a fast, ultra-lightweight, and versatile WordPress theme for small businesses, creative professionals, photographers, and visual portfolios. Launch your website in minutes with 20+ ready-made starter sites fo…
- Installs
- 60K+
- Rating
- 4.7(127)
- Downloads
- 435/day
YITH Wonder
#26by YITHEMES1 year ago
Wonder is the new block-based, multi-purpose, WordPress theme by YITH. Compose your pages to fit any design you like with the power of Full Site Editing (FSE) and the included wide range of Block Patterns. The pre-built…
- Installs
- 40K+
- Rating
- 4.5(2)
- Downloads
- 37/day
Lightning
Down in the last 7 days:1#28by Hidekazu Ishikawa2 months ago
Lightning is a very simple & easy to customize theme which is based on the Bootstrap. It is also very friendly with custom post types and custom taxonomies. When you add a new one, the breadcrumbs will be adjusted and p…
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.8(12)
- Downloads
- 451/day
Twenty Sixteen
Down in the last 7 days:1#30by WordPress.org2 months ago
Twenty Sixteen is a modernized take on an ever-popular WordPress layout — the horizontal masthead with an optional right sidebar that works perfectly for blogs and websites. It has custom color options with beautiful de…
- Installs
- 90K+
- Rating
- 4.1(83)
- Downloads
- 2.7K/day
Hestia
Down in the last 7 days:1#31by Themeisle11 days ago
Hestia is a modern WordPress theme for professionals. It fits creative business, small businesses (restaurants, wedding planners, sport/medical shops), startups, corporate businesses, online agencies and firms, portfoli…
- Installs
- 70K+
- Rating
- 4.8(563)
- Downloads
- 785/day
Storefront
Down in the last 7 days:1#32by Automattic11 months ago
Storefront is the perfect theme for your next WooCommerce project. Designed and developed by WooCommerce Core developers, it features a bespoke integration with WooCommerce itself plus many of the most popular customer…
- Installs
- 90K+
- Rating
- 4.5(155)
- Downloads
- 2.2K/day
Sydney
Down in the last 7 days:1#34by aThemes18 days ago
Sydney is a fast, highly customizable WordPress theme for businesses, freelancers, and creative portfolios that want a professional online presence. It works with both Elementor and the WordPress block editor and includ…
- Installs
- 80K+
- Rating
- 4.9(795)
- Downloads
- 643/day
Futurio Storefront
Down in the last 7 days:1#36by FuturioWP9 months ago
Futurio Storefront is a lightweight, fast and customizable free multi-purpose and WooCommerce WordPress theme, suitable for business, portfolio, creative, and photography sites, eCommerce shops, landing pages, blogs or…
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 18/day
BlogHash
Down in the last 7 days:1#37by peregrinethemes1 month ago
BlogHash is the perfect pick for bloggers seeking a lightweight, customizable theme that suits them just right. With plenty of options to adjust colors and typography, making your site unique is a breeze. It's SEO frien…
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.7(13)
- Downloads
- 88/day
Twenty Fifteen
Down in the last 7 days:1#44by WordPress.org2 months ago
Our 2015 default theme is clean, blog-focused, and designed for clarity. Twenty Fifteen's simple, straightforward typography is readable on a wide variety of screen sizes, and suitable for multiple languages. We designe…
- Installs
- 60K+
- Rating
- 4.4(54)
- Downloads
- 1.9K/day
Woostify
Up in the last 7 days:1#46by dylan ngo20 days ago
Woostify is fast, lightweight, responsive and super flexible WooCommerce theme built with SEO, speed, and usability in mind. The theme works great with any of your favorite page builder likes Elementor, Beaver Builder,…
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.9(126)
- Downloads
- 161/day
News Magazine X
Down in the last 7 days:1#47by WP Royal1 month ago
Easy to use Personal and Multi-Author Free WordPress Blog Magazine Theme - Suitable for WordPress Beginners and for Professionals as Well. Perfect for bloggers, journalists, and online magazines, news, blogs, and magazi…
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 5.0(30)
- Downloads
- 77/day
Zakra
Down in the last 7 days:1#52by ThemeGrill1 month ago
Zakra is a powerful and versatile multipurpose theme that makes it easy to create beautiful and professional websites. With over free 40 pre-designed starter demo sites to choose from, you can quickly build a unique and…
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.9(600)
- Downloads
- 196/day
Twenty Eleven
Up in the last 7 days:1#53by WordPress.org2 months ago
The 2011 theme for WordPress is sophisticated, lightweight, and adaptable. Make it yours with a custom menu, header image, and background -- then go further with available theme options for light or dark color scheme, c…
- Installs
- 60K+
- Rating
- 4.6(50)
- Downloads
- 647/day
Customify
#55by PressMaximum1 month ago
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 Header & Footer builder (inside th…
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.7(141)
- Downloads
- 145/day
Twenty Fourteen
Up in the last 7 days:1#56by WordPress.org2 months ago
In 2014, our default theme lets you create a responsive magazine website with a sleek, modern design. Feature your favorite homepage content in either a grid or a slider. Use the three widget areas to customize your web…
- Installs
- 50K+
- Rating
- 4.4(97)
- Downloads
- 1.3K/day
Twenty Twelve
Down in the last 7 days:1#60by WordPress.org2 months ago
The 2012 theme for WordPress is a fully responsive theme that looks great on any device. Features include a front page template with its own widgets, an optional display font, styling for post formats on both index and…
- Installs
- 50K+
- Rating
- 4.6(159)
- Downloads
- 1.2K/day
Ashe
#62by WP Royal17 days ago
Personal and Multi-Author Free WordPress Blog Theme. Perfect for personal, lifestyle, health & fitness, food, cooking, bakery, travel, beauty, fashion, wedding, photography, news, quotes blog, auto blog, small business…
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.9(304)
- Downloads
- 280/day
NewsBlogger
Down in the last 7 days:2#63by spicethemes2 months ago
NewsBlogger is a dynamic and versatile child theme for the popular NewCrunch WordPress theme. Perfect for bloggers, journalists, and online magazines, it offers enhanced customization options, improved performance, and…
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 5.0(10)
- Downloads
- 41/day
ColorMag
Down in the last 7 days:1#64by ThemeGrill7 days ago
ColorMag is a fast, flexible WordPress theme built for news portals, online magazines, personal blogs, and publishing sites. Trusted by 50,000+ publishers worldwide, it's the #1 news & magazine theme on WordPress.org. W…
- Installs
- 40K+
- Rating
- 4.9(1.6K)
- Downloads
- 518/day
NewsGoal
Down in the last 7 days:1#65by themeansar13 days ago
NewsGoal is a fast, clean, modern-looking Best Responsive News Magazine WordPress theme. The theme is fully widgetized, so users can manage the content by using easy to use widgets. NewsGoal is suitable for dynamic news…
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 24/day
Newsmatic
Up in the last 7 days:1#66by blazethemes12 days ago
Newsmatic is complete solution for your news website with full Elementor compatibility. By integrating the News Kit Elementor Addons plugin on your site, you can now customize any part of the theme with the Elementor pa…
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.8(87)
- Downloads
- 88/day
Total
#68by hashthemes14 days ago
The Total WordPress Theme is a versatile, feature-rich, and fully responsive theme designed to help you create stunning websites effortlessly. With over 40,000 active installations, Total offers a clean and elegant desi…
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.8(64)
- Downloads
- 93/day
Twenty Ten
Down in the last 7 days:1#71by WordPress.org2 months ago
The 2010 theme for WordPress is stylish, customizable, simple, and readable -- make it yours with a custom menu, header image, and background. Twenty Ten supports six widgetized areas (two in the sidebar, four in the fo…
- Installs
- 50K+
- Rating
- 4.7(54)
- Downloads
- 614/day
Sinatra
Down in the last 7 days:1#72by sinatrateam28 days ago
Sinatra is a lightweight and highly customizable multi-purpose theme that makes it easy for anyone to create their perfect website. You can use it for any type of website from blogs, businesses, online shops, creatives,…
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 5.0(41)
- Downloads
- 1.2K/day
Botiga
Down in the last 7 days:1#73by aThemes13 days ago
Botiga is a fast, lightweight WooCommerce theme for building modern online stores and eCommerce websites. It works with both Elementor and the WordPress block editor to assemble pages quickly. A clean, modern design wit…
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.9(164)
- Downloads
- 241/day
Vantage
#74by SiteOrigin7 months ago
Vantage is a flexible multipurpose theme. Its strength lies in its tight integration with some powerful plugins like Page Builder for responsive page layouts, Smart Slider 3 for big beautiful sliders and WooCommerce to…
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.6(165)
- Downloads
- 85/day
BlogChrome
#75by AF themes6 days ago
BlogChrome is a customizable WordPress blog, news, and magazine theme built as a child theme of ChromeNews. Ideal for personal blogs, online newspapers, digital magazines, editorial websites, and news portals, it featur…
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 17/day
Newsup
Down in the last 7 days:1#76by themeansartoday
Newsup is a fast, clean, modern-looking Best Responsive News Magazine WordPress theme. The theme is fully widgetized, so users can manage the content by using easy to use widgets. Newsup is suitable for dynamic news, ne…
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.8(188)
- Downloads
- 484/day
NewsCircuit
Down in the last 7 days:4#84by AF themes6 days ago
NewsCircuit is a powerful, feature-rich, and SEO-optimized WordPress theme designed for news, blogs, magazines, and online publishing platforms, offering a stunning responsive design, accessibile and blazing-fast perfor…
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 16/day
Blogus
Down in the last 7 days:3#86by themeansartoday
Blogus is a fast, clean, modern-looking Best Responsive News Magazine WordPress theme. The theme is fully widgetized, so users can manage the content by using easy to use widgets. Blogus is suitable for dynamic news, ne…
- Installs
- 9K+
- Rating
- 4.5(17)
- Downloads
- 275/day
Oceanly Green
Down in the last 7 days:5#90by ScriptsTown4 days ago
Oceanly Green is a clean, fresh, and thoughtfully designed WordPress theme for blogging, news sites, educational platforms, and eco-focused businesses. Built with a nature-inspired color palette, dark green vibrant tone…
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 210/day
The Coffee Shop
Down in the last 7 days:2#91by Superb9 months ago
The Coffee Shop is an awesome free WordPress theme for coffee shops, restaurants and cafés - it also works great if you're a barista, food/coffee blogger or reviewer, but flexible enough for a company or business type w…
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 25/day
Online Toys Shop
Up in the last 7 days:7#93by Themes Cart4 days ago
Online Toys Shop Theme provides a structured storefront for displaying products, categories, offers, and essential shopping information. Toy Stores can organize products into clear categories and present product images,…
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 37/day
Ai Blog Plus
#94by Noor Alam20 days ago
Ai Blog Plus is a fast, SEO-friendly WordPress theme designed for AI bloggers, tech magazines, news portals, and digital publishers. It combines a modern responsive grid layout, clean typography, and Gutenberg block sup…
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Bravada
Down in the last 7 days:2#95by CryoutCreations1 year ago
Bravada looks amazing, behaves flawlessly and scales to any screen. It goes anywhere, it's for everyone and everything. It's clear, clean and simply gorgeous. It has CSS powered animations that will bring users to their…
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 3.6(14)
- Downloads
- 45/day
Spacious
Down in the last 7 days:2#96by ThemeGrill1 month ago
Spacious is an incredible free business WordPress theme that fits small to medium businesses. This responsive theme is optimized for speed. So, you end up with a business website that loads within 1 second. Since Spacio…
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.9(852)
- Downloads
- 110/day
Rubik News
Down in the last 7 days:9#99by kantipurthemes2 months ago
Rubik News is a is a clean, modern, user-friendly, fast-loading, customizable, flexible, functional and fully responsive WordPress News, Magazine, Newspaper, and blog Theme.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 10/day
TutorStarter
Down in the last 7 days:2#100by Themeum1 month ago
Tutor Starter is a free WordPress LMS theme powered by Tutor LMS, the popular eLearning plugin for WordPress. It is designed to let Tutor LMS take center stage while also letting you pick what feels right. Tutor Starter…
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- Downloads
- 45/day
SaasLauncher
Down in the last 7 days:1#103by CozyThemes1 month ago
SaasLauncher is a modern Full Site Editing (FSE) WordPress theme for SaaS businesses, startups, software companies, digital agencies, technology companies, consultants, and modern service businesses. Built with the Word…
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 5.0(12)
- Downloads
- 43/day