Best three columns WordPress themes
The most popular three columns themes for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Blocksy leads with 300K+ active installs, ahead of GeneratePress (500K+) and Purple (900+). All 4,336 themes tagged “Three columns” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 three columns themes
- 1.
BlocksyThe most installed three columns theme, with 300K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 874 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 2.
GeneratePress500K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 1,428 reviews, updated 11 months ago.
- 3.
Purple900+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 1 month ago.
- 4.
Customify30K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 141 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 5.
Twenty Fourteen50K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 97 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 6.
Phlox30K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 867 reviews, updated 3 months ago.
- 7.
Prespa Wellness1K+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 4 weeks ago.
- 8.
Ashe30K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 304 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 9.
NewsGoal1K+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 10.
Rife Free20K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 355 reviews, updated 9 months ago.
All 4,336 themes tagged “Three columns”
Blocksy
#10by Creative Themes12 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(874)
- 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
- 1.2K/day
Purple
Down in the last 7 days:2#25by Automattic1 month ago
Purple is a WooCommerce starter theme made for the Site Editor and modern commerce. Its clean styles and adaptable color system suit any catalog: fashion and clothing, jewelry, beauty, home decor, food and drink, or dig…
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 78/day
Customify
Down in the last 7 days:1#57by 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
- 140/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
- 1K/day
Phlox
#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
- 104/day
Prespa Wellness
Up in the last 7 days:4#63by Atanas Yonkov28 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
- 17/day
Ashe
Down in the last 7 days:2#65by WP Royal18 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
- 233/day
NewsGoal
Down in the last 7 days:4#69by themeansar14 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
- 21/day
Rife Free
#78by 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
- 36/day
Prespa
#80by Atanas Yonkov29 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
- 41/day
BlogChrome
Down in the last 7 days:11#81by AF themes1 day 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
- 19/day
Ona Architecture
Down in the last 7 days:2#83by DeoThemes1 year ago
Ona Architecture is a sleek and sophisticated WordPress theme designed specifically for architects, interior designers, design studios, construction firms, and creative professionals in the built environment. This metic…
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 17/day
NewsCircuit
Down in the last 7 days:4#86by AF themes1 day 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#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
Ollie
Up in the last 7 days:1#88by Mike McAlister7 days ago
Launch a blazing-fast, pixel-perfect website with the Ollie WordPress block theme! Ollie features over 50 beautiful pattern designs, 7 full-page pattern layouts, and a fully-customizable design system with Global Styles…
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 5.0(36)
- Downloads
- 205/day
Blogus
Down in the last 7 days:2#89by themeansar2 days ago
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
- 8K+
- Rating
- 4.5(17)
- Downloads
- 253/day
Bravada
Up in the last 7 days:1#94by 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
- 43/day
Ellusive
#97by Automattic17 days ago
Ellusive is a modern block theme built for fashion, streetwear, and lifestyle stores. It pairs a confident monospace type system with generous whitespace and full-bleed imagery, giving small commerce brands an editorial…
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 7/day
Ai Blog Plus
Down in the last 7 days:13#98by Noor Alam21 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
- 12/day
Therapy Coach
Down in the last 7 days:3#101by wpeverest4 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
- 27/day
Online Toys Shop
Up in the last 7 days:2#103by Themes Cart5 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
- 32/day
BlogBrute
Down in the last 7 days:3#107by 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
Newstack
Down in the last 7 days:1#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
Flexify
Down in the last 7 days:9#109by 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
- 2/day
Hueman
Up in the last 7 days:3#113by 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 themes1 day 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
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
- 14/day
NewsCave
Down in the last 7 days:10#121by AF themes1 day 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
BlogMunch
#122by Desert Themes8 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
- 18/day
Blogfull
Down in the last 7 days:3#123by themeansar14 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
- 18/day
Crio
Up in the last 7 days:1#130by 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
- 9/day
News Host
#133by themeansar14 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
- 12/day
Blink Context Blog
#142by postmagthemes4 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
- 29/day
Blogier
Up in the last 7 days:1#143by 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
Online Courses FSE
Down in the last 7 days:4#144by 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
Bosa
Down in the last 7 days:1#148by Bosa Themes29 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:4#149by AF themes5 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
NewsNova
Down in the last 7 days:17#160by Mystery Themes1 month ago
NewsNova is a modern, responsive, and feature-rich news and magazine WordPress theme built as a child theme of News Portal. It offers a clean and engaging design with flexible layouts powered by News Portal Blocks, allo…
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Blogsum
Down in the last 7 days:23#169by WPMatcha14 days ago
Blogsum is an authoritative, editorial blog and broadsheet news magazine WordPress theme designed for writers, independent journalists, storytelling bloggers, and modern publications. As an optimized child theme of News…
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 9/day
The Photograph
Down in the last 7 days:5#173by Superb5 months ago
The Photograph is a free WordPress theme made for photography, blogging, and creative business websites. Whether you’re a photographer, blogger, or writer, this minimalist, clean, and responsive template helps your imag…
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 22/day
Happiness Coach
Down in the last 7 days:7#177by wpeverest3 months ago
Happiness 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…
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 17/day
Polite News
Down in the last 7 days:13#178by Template Sell2 months ago
Polite News is a fast, clean and fully responsive news and magazine WordPress theme with a modern card based layout. It ships with a built in dark mode, a breaking news ticker, featured post section, editor pick cards,…
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day
CircuitNews
Down in the last 7 days:6#180by AF themes1 day ago
CircuitNews 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
- 400+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 9/day
NewsMemo
Down in the last 7 days:5#181by Desert Themes8 days ago
NewsMemo is a fast, clean, Best Responsive News Magazine WordPress theme. NewsMemo is suitable for dynamic news, newspapers, magazine, publishers, blogs, editors, online and gaming magazines, newsportals,personal blogs,…
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 20/day
BlogArise
Down in the last 7 days:2#182by themeansar2 days ago
BlogArise 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. BlogArise is suitable for dynamic ne…
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.7(7)
- Downloads
- 93/day
HOAT
Down in the last 7 days:8#186by Automattic6 months ago
HOAT is tailored for Homeowner Associations, offering templates and patterns specifically crafted to meet the common needs of websites for communities.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day
Graceful Aspire Blog
Down in the last 7 days:29#187by Aslam23 days ago
Graceful Aspire Blog is a clean, minimal, and fully responsive WordPress theme designed for bloggers and content creators. Whether you are sharing stories about travel, food, fashion, tech, lifestyle, health, fitness, b…
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Mineral Industry
#190by VW THEMES12 days ago
Mineral Industry Theme is designed with structured sections for presenting information about mining operations, mineral resources, industrial services, projects, and company activities. A Mining Company can use dedicate…
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 12/day
Blogtimes
Down in the last 7 days:9#192by themeansar4 months ago
Blogtimes 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. Blogtimes is suitable for dynamic ne…
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day