Best left sidebar WordPress themes
The most popular left sidebar themes for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Astra leads with 1M+ active installs, ahead of Kadence (500K+) and Blocksy (300K+). All 7,128 themes tagged “Left sidebar” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 left sidebar themes
- 1.
AstraThe most installed left sidebar theme, with 1M+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 6,555 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 2.
Kadence500K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 456 reviews, updated 3 days ago.
- 3.
Blocksy300K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 873 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 4.
GeneratePress500K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 1,428 reviews, updated 11 months ago.
- 5.
Neve200K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 1,284 reviews, updated 3 days ago.
- 6.
PopularFX100K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 115 reviews, last updated 1 year ago.
- 7.
Hestia70K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 563 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 8.
Storefront90K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 155 reviews, updated 11 months ago.
- 9.
Futurio Storefront10K+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 9 months ago.
- 10.
BlogHash10K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 13 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
All 7,128 themes tagged “Left sidebar”
Astra
#3by Brainstorm Force11 days ago
The Astra WordPress theme is lightning-fast and highly customizable. It has over 1 million downloads and the only theme in the world with 6,000+ five-star reviews! It’s ideal for professional web designers, solopreneurs…
- Installs
- 1M+
- Rating
- 4.9(6.6K)
- Downloads
- 16.2K/day
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
Blocksy
#10by Creative Themes10 days ago
Blocksy is a fast, modern WordPress theme with advanced WooCommerce support and full compatibility with the block editor.
- Installs
- 300K+
- Rating
- 5.0(873)
- Downloads
- 3.3K/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
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
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
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
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
OnePress
Up in the last 7 days:1#41by FameThemes3 days ago
OnePress is an outstanding creative and flexible WordPress one page theme well suited for business website, portfolio, digital agency, product showcase, freelancers and everyone else who appreciate good design. The them…
- Installs
- 50K+
- Rating
- 4.6(154)
- Downloads
- 316/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
Blogsy
Down in the last 7 days:1#45by peregrinethemes26 days ago
Blogsy is a modern, high-performance WordPress theme designed for bloggers, news publishers, and content creators who demand style and flexibility. Effortlessly shape your site with built-in support for the powerful Gut…
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 72/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
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
Blogsy News
Down in the last 7 days:2#54by peregrinethemes4 months ago
Blogsy News is a modern, high-performance WordPress theme designed for bloggers, news publishers, and content creators who demand style and flexibility. Effortlessly shape your site with built-in support for the powerfu…
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 21/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
Shopvane
Down in the last 7 days:4#57by SaifBrand1 month ago
Shopvane is a fast, lightweight multipurpose WooCommerce theme for book stores, fashion boutiques and general online shops. It ships with a full-width hero slider, four product card styles, category tiles, editorial ban…
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day
Phlox
Down in the last 7 days:1#59by averta3 months ago
Phlox is a modern, lightweight and customizable theme perfect for almost any type of website including, blog, portfolio, business, agency, news & magazine, food & restaurant, travel, and photography as well as WooCommer…
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.8(867)
- Downloads
- 106/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
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
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
Rife Free
Down in the last 7 days:1#77by apollo13themes9 months ago
Rife Free is a great portfolio and photography WP theme with 7 ready-to-use demo layouts. It is also perfect for business, blogging websites and for your shop because it is WooCommerce compatible. More cool features in…
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.9(355)
- Downloads
- 39/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
Customizr
Down in the last 7 days:1#85by presscustomizr1 year ago
Customizr is a simple and fast WordPress theme designed to help you attract and engage more visitors. Provides a perfect user experience on smartphones. Powers more than 100K active sites around the world. Hundreds of 5…
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.8(993)
- Downloads
- 54/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 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
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
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
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
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