Best flexible header WordPress themes
The most popular flexible header themes for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Hello Elementor leads with 1M+ active installs, ahead of Hello Biz (100K+) and GeneratePress (500K+). All 4,958 themes tagged “Flexible header” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 flexible header themes
- 1.
Hello ElementorThe most installed flexible header theme, with 1M+ active installs. Rated 4.2 from 131 reviews, updated 6 days ago.
- 2.
Hello Biz100K+ active installs. Rated 2.2 from 6 reviews, updated 5 months ago.
- 3.
GeneratePress500K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 1,428 reviews, updated 11 months ago.
- 4.
Twenty Seventeen300K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 119 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 5.
Inspiro60K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 127 reviews, updated 3 days ago.
- 6.
Twenty Sixteen90K+ active installs. Rated 4.1 from 83 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 7.
Hestia70K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 563 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 8.
BlogHash10K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 13 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 9.
News Magazine X8K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 30 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
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Twenty Eleven60K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 50 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
All 4,958 themes tagged “Flexible header”

Hello Elementor
#2by Elementor6 days ago
Hello Elementor is a lightweight and minimalist WordPress theme that was built specifically to work seamlessly with the Elementor site builder plugin. The theme is free, open-source, and designed for users who want a fl…
- Installs
- 1M+
- Rating
- 4.2(131)
- Downloads
- 11.9K/day

Hello Biz
#8by Elementor5 months ago
Hello Biz is a free, user-friendly Hybrid WordPress Theme that was crafted for seamless integration with the Elementor site builder and tailored specifically for business websites. Perfect for beginners, but far from li…
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 2.2(6)
- Downloads
- 198/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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hello Commerce
Down in the last 7 days:3#80by Elementor5 months ago
Sell smart from the start with Hello Commerce. Hello Commerce is a free WordPress ecommerce theme designed to help you launch your online store quickly and professionally. Built for WooCommerce and powered by the flexib…
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 36/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

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

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

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

Therapy Coach
Down in the last 7 days:4#101by wpeverest3 months ago
Therapy Coach is a calm, modern WordPress block theme built for therapists, counselors, and life coaches. Powered by Full Site Editing and seamlessly integrated with the AllCoach plugin, it gives you everything needed t…
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 26/day

BlogBrute
Down in the last 7 days:1#104by themeansar3 months ago
Blogbrute 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. Blogbrute is suitable for dynamic ne…
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 10/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

Newstack
Down in the last 7 days:1#107by themeansar4 months ago
Newstack 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. Newstack is suitable for dynamic news…
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 8/day

Blogmate
Up in the last 7 days:1#108by peregrinethemes1 month ago
BlogMate, a child theme of Bloglo, features a boxed width design with an animated background pattern. With a horizontal blog list style, it offers extensive customization options for colors and typography. Lightweight a…
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 30/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

Hueman
#115by presscustomizr1 year ago
The Hueman theme loads fast and is 100% mobile-friendly according to Google. One of the best rated theme for blogs and magazines on WordPress.org. Powering 70K+ websites around the world.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.9(684)
- Downloads
- 39/day

Online Newspaper
Down in the last 7 days:9#116by blazethemes29 days ago
Online Newspaper is an exceptional news theme designed to satisfy all your requirements. It is customizer-based as well as fully compatible with Elementor builder. Online Newspaper theme offers extensive customization…
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 19/day

News Mart
Down in the last 7 days:5#117by Theme Arile7 days ago
News Mart is a high-performance news, blog, and magazine WordPress theme that is perfect for any Blog/Magazine, news, and even for all variants of publishers' websites. It features a unique design for a visually stunnin…
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 18/day

NewsCave
Down in the last 7 days:10#118by AF themes6 days ago
NewsCave is a fast, responsive, and SEO-friendly dark mode WordPress theme designed for modern news sites, online magazines, blogs, newspaper portals, and digital publishers. Powered by lightweight code and speed optimi…
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 10/day

Consulting
Down in the last 7 days:2#119by ThinkUpThemes6 months ago
Consulting is the free version of the multi-purpose professional theme (Consulting Pro) ideal for a business or blog website. The theme has a responsive layout, HD retina ready and comes with a powerful theme options pa…
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 3.0(19)
- Downloads
- 14/day

Blogfull
Down in the last 7 days:4#122by themeansar13 days ago
Blogfull 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. Blogfull is suitable for dynamic news…
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 20/day

Crio
Up in the last 7 days:3#129by BoldGrid2 months ago
Crio is a WordPress SuperTheme that allows front-end designers, developers and other web professionals to create without bounds or restrictions. Crio's advanced customization options are completely integrated with the…
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.2(5)
- Downloads
- 10/day

News Host
Down in the last 7 days:3#133by themeansar13 days ago
News Host 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. News Host is suitable for dynamic ne…
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 13/day

Free Press Newspaper
Down in the last 7 days:6#135by SuperbThemes4 months ago
Free Press Newspaper is a clean, classic newspaper style theme. It is made for publishers who want a simple, structured layout for a news site, magazine, or editorial blog. The front page uses a scannable press-style fe…
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 8/day

Flexua
Down in the last 7 days:12#140by Desert Themes5 days ago
Flexua is lightweight, highly extendable and multi-purpose WordPress Theme. Flexua is perfect for Startup, IT Solutions, IT Business, Agencies, Marketing, Consulting and Services Company related to any business websites…
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 19/day

ShopZone
Down in the last 7 days:20#142by WPFable5 days ago
ShopZone is a fast, clean, lightweight theme. ShopZone is customizable and modern-looking free responsive WooCommerce WordPress theme for e-commerce stores like clothing, fashion, electronics, ebooks, dress store, sport…
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 29/day

Online Courses FSE
Down in the last 7 days:5#143by ThemeGrill6 months ago
Online Courses FSE is a modern, fully customizable WordPress block theme designed for educational institutions, online course platforms, e-learning websites, and training centers. Built with Full Site Editing capabiliti…
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 16/day

Blogier
Down in the last 7 days:1#144by themeansar5 months ago
Blogier 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. Blogier is suitable for dynamic news,…
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 12/day

Newscraft Blog
#146by SuperbThemes16 days ago
Newscraft Blog is a responsive WordPress theme designed for bloggers and newspapers. Its elegant and minimalist look makes it suitable for affiliate marketers and writers who wish to write about their interests in socce…
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day