Best post formats WordPress themes
The most popular post formats 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 OceanWP (400K+) and Twenty Seventeen (300K+). All 4,247 themes tagged “Post formats” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 post formats themes
- 1.
AstraThe most installed post formats theme, with 1M+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 6,556 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 2.
OceanWP400K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 5,720 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 3.
Twenty Seventeen300K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 119 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 4.
PopularFX100K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 115 reviews, last updated 1 year 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.
Twenty Fifteen60K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 54 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 10.
Blogsy4K+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 3 weeks ago.
All 4,247 themes tagged “Post formats”
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
- 16.8K/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
- 2.6K/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
- 3.2K/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
- 152/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
- 466/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
- 2.3K/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
- 798/day
BlogHash
Down in the last 7 days:2#38by 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
- 80/day
Twenty Fifteen
Down in the last 7 days:2#45by 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
- 1.8K/day
Blogsy
Down in the last 7 days:2#46by 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
- 69/day
News Magazine X
Down in the last 7 days:2#48by 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
- 72/day
Twenty Eleven
#54by 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
- 548/day
Blogsy News
Down in the last 7 days:3#55by 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
Twenty Fourteen
Down in the last 7 days:1#58by 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
- 1.1K/day
Phlox
Down in the last 7 days:2#60by 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
- 105/day
Twenty Twelve
Down in the last 7 days:2#61by 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
- 1.1K/day
ColorMag
Down in the last 7 days:4#67by 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
- 526/day
Newsmatic
Down in the last 7 days:1#68by 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
- 89/day
NewsGoal
Down in the last 7 days:5#69by 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
- 23/day
Sinatra
Down in the last 7 days:2#74by 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
- 1.1K/day
Botiga
Down in the last 7 days:2#75by 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
- 235/day
Vantage
Down in the last 7 days:2#76by 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
- 77/day
BlogChrome
Down in the last 7 days:9#78by AF themestoday
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
- 18/day
Rife Free
Down in the last 7 days:3#79by 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
- 37/day
NewsCircuit
Down in the last 7 days:5#86by AF themestoday
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:2#87by 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
- 50/day
Twenty Thirteen
Up in the last 7 days:1#93by 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
- 751/day
Bravada
#96by 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
Online Toys Shop
Down in the last 7 days:13#100by 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
- 35/day
BlogBrute
Down in the last 7 days:1#106by 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
- 9/day
Flexify
Down in the last 7 days:8#107by 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:2#108by 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
News Techno
#109by 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
Blogmate
Down in the last 7 days:2#110by 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
- 25/day
Hueman
Up in the last 7 days:2#114by 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
- 37/day
NewsCell
Down in the last 7 days:13#116by AF themestoday
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
Online Newspaper
Down in the last 7 days:8#117by 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
- 700+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 18/day
News Mart
Down in the last 7 days:5#118by 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
- 17/day
Consulting
#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
- 13/day
BlogMunch
#120by 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
NewsCave
Down in the last 7 days:11#121by AF themestoday
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
Blogfull
Down in the last 7 days:3#123by 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
Blink Context Blog
#134by postmagthemes3 days ago
The WordPress theme Blink Context Blog is a free, customizable, context-focused theme. Posts are selected by category, date, or comment count. It offers full customization with live preview and uses an HTML5 structure f…
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 26/day
News Host
Down in the last 7 days:3#136by 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
Flexua
Down in the last 7 days:13#142by 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
- 22/day
Blogier
Down in the last 7 days:2#145by 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
- 13/day
ShopZone
Down in the last 7 days:21#147by WPFable6 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
Bosa
Down in the last 7 days:1#148by Bosa Themes28 days ago
Bosa is a fast, lightweight multipurpose WordPress theme built for Elementor and WooCommerce. Design any type of site visually — business, portfolio, blog, or store — no code required. Built with SEO, speed, and usabili…
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 4.6(9)
- Downloads
- 105/day
ReviewNews
Down in the last 7 days:5#149by AF themes4 days ago
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 compatible with the Block Editor…
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 38/day
News Spark
Down in the last 7 days:8#156by Theme Arile7 days ago
News Spark is a modern and professional WordPress theme designed for blogs, magazines, newspapers, news portals, and online publishing websites. Featuring a clean, elegant, and visually engaging layout, it presents your…
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 14/day