Best custom header WordPress themes
The most popular custom header themes for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. GeneratePress leads with 500K+ active installs, ahead of Twenty Seventeen (300K+) and Envo Royal (50K+). All 8,611 themes tagged “Custom header” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 custom header themes
- 1.
GeneratePressThe most installed custom header theme, with 500K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 1,428 reviews, updated 11 months ago.
- 2.
Twenty Seventeen300K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 119 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 3.
Envo Royal50K+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, updated 3 days ago.
- 4.
Envo One20K+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 3 days ago.
- 5.
Inspiro60K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 127 reviews, updated 2 days ago.
- 6.
Atelier WP400+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 week ago.
- 7.
Kubio20K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 6 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 8.
Twenty Sixteen90K+ active installs. Rated 4.1 from 83 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 9.
Hestia70K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 563 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 10.
Storefront90K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 155 reviews, updated 11 months ago.
All 8,611 themes tagged “Custom header”
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
Twenty Seventeen
#15by WordPress.org2 months ago
Twenty Seventeen brings your site to life with header video and immersive featured images. With a focus on business sites, it features multiple sections on the front page as well as widgets, navigation and social menus,…
- Installs
- 300K+
- Rating
- 4.5(119)
- Downloads
- 3.8K/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
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 WPZOOM2 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
Atelier WP
#27by Extend Themes11 days ago
An innovative, easily customizable, multi-purpose theme, focused on empowering users to build astonishing WordPress websites. It is mainly designed for small businesses, startups, or personal portfolio websites and work…
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 44/day
Kubio
Down in the last 7 days:1#29by Extend Themes11 days ago
Kubio is an innovative, easily customizable, multi-purpose theme, focused on empowering users to build astonishing WordPress websites. Kubio is mainly designed for small businesses, startups, or personal portfolio webs…
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.3(6)
- Downloads
- 185/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 Themeisle10 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
Colibri WP
Down in the last 7 days:1#35by Extend Themes12 days ago
A beautiful, very customizable, multipurpose theme that you can use to create amazing websites through drag and drop. It comes with a pre-designed home page, 5 header designs and over 35 ready-to-use content blocks that…
- Installs
- 50K+
- Rating
- 4.8(266)
- Downloads
- 349/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
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
Silverstorm
#48by Extend Themes12 days ago
A beautiful, very customizable, multipurpose theme that you can use to create amazing websites through drag and drop. It comes with a pre-designed home page, 5 header designs and over 35 ready-to-use content blocks that…
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 107/day
Rufous
Down in the last 7 days:1#51by Extend Themes11 days ago
Rufous is an innovative, easily customizable, multi-purpose theme, focused on empowering users to build astonishing WordPress websites. Rufous is mainly designed for small businesses, startups, or personal portfolio we…
- Installs
- 9K+
- Rating
- 2.3(3)
- Downloads
- 105/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
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
Miles WP
Down in the last 7 days:2#58by Extend Themes11 days ago
An innovative, easily customizable, multi-purpose theme, focused on empowering users to build astonishing WordPress websites. It is mainly designed for small businesses, startups, or personal portfolio websites and work…
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 49/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
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
Newsmatic
Up in the last 7 days:1#66by blazethemes11 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
Prespa Wellness
Down in the last 7 days:1#67by Atanas Yonkov26 days ago
Prespa Wellness serves as a child theme of Prespa, inheriting all the features of Prespa. The theme is tailored for practitioners, businesses and coaches in the wellness industry, including yoga instructors, nutritionis…
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 18/day
Basin
Down in the last 7 days:4#69by Extend Themes11 days ago
Basin is an innovative, easily customizable, multi-purpose theme, focused on empowering users to build astonishing WordPress websites. Basin is mainly designed for small businesses, startups, or personal portfolio webs…
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 47/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
Botiga
Down in the last 7 days:1#73by aThemes12 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
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
Prespa
Down in the last 7 days:1#79by Atanas Yonkov27 days ago
Prespa is a next-generation multi-purpose WordPress theme. It is perfect for a blog, portfolio website, digital agency, marketing, seo, consulting, sass application website, e-commerce shop as well as any type of corpor…
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 5.0(9)
- Downloads
- 45/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
Vertice
Down in the last 7 days:3#89by Extend Themes11 days ago
Vertice is an innovative, easily customizable, multi-purpose theme, focused on empowering users to build astonishing WordPress websites. Vertice is mainly designed for small businesses, startups, or personal portfolio…
- Installs
- 6K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 60/day
Oceanly Green
Down in the last 7 days:5#90by ScriptsTown3 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
Twenty Thirteen
#92by WordPress.org2 months ago
The 2013 theme for WordPress takes us back to the blog, featuring a full range of post formats, each displayed beautifully in their own unique way. Design details abound, starting with a vibrant color scheme and matchin…
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.1(62)
- Downloads
- 776/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
Avantis
Down in the last 7 days:6#97by Extend Themes11 days ago
An innovative, easily customizable, multi-purpose theme, focused on empowering users to build astonishing WordPress websites. It is mainly designed for small businesses, startups, or personal portfolio websites and work…
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 38/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
Mesmerize
Down in the last 7 days:1#102by Extend Themes2 months ago
Mesmerize is an incredibly flexible, multipurpose WordPress theme that can help you create an amazing website easier than ever, by drag and drop. It comes with a predesigned home page, 5 header designs and over 30 ready…
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.8(348)
- Downloads
- 116/day
Flexify
Down in the last 7 days:9#105by https://themerex.net/2 months ago
Flexify is a modern multipurpose WordPress theme by ThemeREX with built-in support for popular page builders (Elementor and the block editor), a slider with swipe gestures, and SEO- and Retina-ready markup. The unique s…
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day
News Techno
#106by Theme Arile7 days ago
News Techno is a modern, responsive, and feature-rich WordPress theme designed for news, magazines, blogs, newspapers, publishing websites, and online news portals. With its clean, visually appealing design, it helps yo…
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 19/day
BlogMunch
#110by Desert Themes6 days ago
BlogMunch is a fast, clean, Best Responsive News Magazine WordPress theme. BlogMunch is suitable for dynamic news, newspapers, magazine, publishers, blogs, editors, online and gaming magazines, newsportals,personal blog…
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 17/day
NewsCell
Down in the last 7 days:12#111by AF themes6 days ago
NewsCell is a fast, modern, and highly versatile WordPress child theme of the powerful MoreNews parent, perfect for gaming blogs, eSports magazines, tech news portals, and content-driven websites, featuring a fully drag…
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 13/day
Futurio
Up in the last 7 days:2#112by FuturioWP8 months ago
Futurio 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 WooCommerce…
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.8(73)
- Downloads
- 39/day