The worst decisions are the ones based on impulse and thoughtlessness. Given the fact that there are tens of thousands of WordPress themes, it’s never a good idea to judge a theme by its seemingly appealing cover. More often than not, WordPress users grab the first theme they like, install it on their site and start to customize, only to trip themselves once they realize that the theme lacks certain features or is too hard to properly customize.
Older themes, which go back 2+ years, are more likely to cause problems in regards to customization. While newer WordPress themes can be too dependent on external plugins and software. As a result, we encourage everyone to be clear about their design needs — even if that means copying inspiration from other sites. Lifestyle is a massively popular niche, and WordPress devs have not hesitated to craft thousands of themes for this specific market.
But, with so many choices and design variations, can you ever find a theme that’s good enough? In this roundup of the best lifestyle themes for WordPress, we are going to focus on trendy and stylish themes. What this means is that all of our picks are of high standard, but also come equipped with all the necessities of modern content publishing. The more a theme can do without the help of plugins the merrier.
Last but not least, this roundup is a mix between free and premium. Starting off, we’re going to focus on the best free lifestyle themes, and then move on to showcase some exceptional designs from premium WordPress developers. Take your time, examine features, check all pages, and when you’re ready — go for your favorite pick!
Chic Lifestyle
The name might give it away, but Chic is a feminine oriented WordPress theme for girly, trendy, and fashion related lifestyle blogs. Chic Lifestyle uses a combination of modern content presentation elements, and a smooth Bootstrap-based core to deliver an exceptional content experience. The header part is dedicated to adding social icons, a logo, and your site navigation links. Below this, you’ll find a selection of different Featured Posts displays. Whether you wish to go for a full-width slider, or smaller boxes — it’s entirely up to you! We feel that both choices match well the overall feel of Chic’s design.
Notable Features:
- Live Customizer to enable codeless design customization.
- Extensive selection of social media icons and buttons.
- Smooth transitions betweens posts and pages.
Travel Lifestyle
Travel Lifestyle is a clean, lightweight WordPress themes for travel writers. If travel and writing is something that comes to you naturally, then you’re going to find this theme as an excellent way to express your thoughts and stories. The creative use of different font styles helps to instill a unique sense to your site. Blog posts are presented in traditional list manner, making it easy for readers to find your latest content.
However, the crown jewel is the post pages themselves. The ability to switch between Sidebar and No-Sidebar layouts for your posts comes in handy when you want to write long-form stories over short-form articles. And the footer area offers a 4-Column layout where you can add any kinds of widgets.
Notable Features:
- Modern design emphasizing beautiful typography.
- SEO Optimized core to ensure content exposure on search engines.
- Robust options dashboard to help you customize this theme.
Lifestyle Magazine
Lifestyle Magazine provides an eloquent design structure to help you start a new lifestyle-related magazine quickly. Integrated with modern features like news tickers, featured posts, and custom post display — the Lifestyle Magazine embodies the qualities of modern editorial magazines. Depending on whether you’re an individual or an organization, the sidebar gives you room to add widgets that further promote the content of your magazine.
Article layout is simple enough that you can actually add multiple customization features. Something like social media buttons, related posts, and a custom author box. Last but not least, in this theme you’re going to find custom settings to enable multiple banners across different design locations.
Notable Features:
- Versatile design that’s ideal for both lifestyle and other types of magazines.
- WooCommerce support so that you can start an online store alongside your articles.
- Drag & Drop functionality for moving around design elements.
Savona Edge
Savona Edge is one of the many iterations from the original Savona theme. Even though Edge fits the multi-purpose use case, we feel that the design is ideal to be used for lifestyle blogs and magazines. The precise display of content means that users can effortlessly browse the site to find the content they like. A beautiful featured slider is positioned at the top the homepage. Any posts tagged with Featured will be added to this slider respectively.
You can also create featured categories. These are displayed below the slider. Each featured category can include a photo and category name. Overall, this helps to emphasize the most prominent content on your lifestyle blog.
Notable Features:
- Pixel-perfect content alignment from top to down.
- Instagram widget above the footer to help you foster social media shares.
- High-quality post design aimed for maximum readability.
Blossom Mommy Blog
Being a parent is definitely a lifestyle, and more often than not, it’s the mother that starts an online blog to share her journey. But, in order to start a parenting blog, you must first find a reliable design. Something that feels right, something that looks great, and something that helps you publish your best content.
And with all that being said, we feel that Blossom Mommy fits in this category exceptionally well. This modern and stylish theme is ideal for both moms, and any lifestyle enthusiasts as well.
Notable Features:
- Modern design adaptation for mobile devices.
- An inspiring selection of layouts for flawless content presentation.
- Integrated Store design to help you launch a digital storefront.
Bootstrap Blog
Bootstrap is arguably the most prominent front-end framework in the world. Even though developers don’t always mention it, most WordPress themes utilize some form of Bootstrap functionality. Bootstrap Blog happens to utilize the entire framework features palette to deliver this astonishing WordPress lifestyle theme. Using a mixture of trending elements and a custom layout — Bootstrap Blog feels authentic as it does modern.
Notable Features:
- Full use of Bootstrap elements, forms, widgets, etc,.
- Easily adjustable font types, image locations, and content layouts.
- Custom breadcrumbs that make content navigation simple and easy.
Cressida
Cressida is a lavish WordPress theme for fashion, travel, and similar lifestyle blogs. Unlike traditional blogs, Cressida emphasizes the diversity of design, and as such, implements many creative elements that help to instill a design personality. Despite being authentic and original, it takes hardly any time to set everything up. Using the demo installer you can activate a pre-built demo in minutes. This ensures that you achieve the same design quality as shown in the demo.
Notable Features:
- MailChimp integration that makes it easier to collect email subscribers.
- A variety of Featured post types that can be displayed on the homepage.
- Built-in widgets for social media, related content, and much more.
Fashion Lifestyle
Fashion Lifestyle is a trendy theme for lifestyle blogs using the WordPress platform. With this theme, you can give your amazing lifestyle articles a life of their own. Further, due to a native integration of WooCommerce — starting your personal online store is just a click away. If you take a look at the demo, the store functionality is added to showcase how your products would look in the eyes of readers. It’s a unique concept that takes some skill to execute, but clearly, Fashion Lifestyle takes care of it effortlessly.
Most importantly, you can change the appearance of many site elements using only the Customizer feature. Additionally, utilize features like email forms to grow your email list, or take advantage of the responsive design that displays content beautifully on mobile devices.
Notable Features:
- An attractive content slider to put on your homepage.
- Social media integration to help you add social buttons easily.
- Popular posts widget that can be placed in any widgetized area of the site.
Feminine Lifestyle
Feminine Lifestyle is a user-friendly theme for female lifestyle bloggers. The white background mixed together with pink colors help to tie together the scheme of femininity. A huge advantage to using this theme specifically is that you can quickly activate a pre-built demo design. As a result, unless you plan on customizing, you are able to write blog posts immediately.
The flexible design of article pages opens the door to customization and additional plugins. Albeit, Feminine Lifestyle provides tools for social media marketing, email list management, and custom content display across sidebars and widget-enabled site areas.
Notable Features:
- Advertisement dashboard that’s useful in adding ads to your site.
- Trendy and stylish widgets for displaying various types of content.
- Hundreds of font choices to spice up your typography.
Health Coach
Health Coach is our in-house built theme for health professionals and wellness experts. As a business theme, Health Coach prioritizes your independent services but doesn’t forget about content needs, too. On the homepage, you can go all out with presenting yourself as an expert in a specific health-related field. Talk about your experience, your goals, and most importantly, the ways in which you can help others.
Once you’re done with all of the business stuff, you can start focusing on writing blog posts. Inside the homepage content blocks, you’re going to find one specific block that lets you highlight your latest posts directly from the homepage. Most of all, Health Coach provides a seamless WooCommerce integration so that you can turn your website into a digital store. WooCommerce works for both physical products and services, but also any digital goods you might have to offer.
Notable Features:
- One-Click Demo import so you can get on with things quickly.
- Redux Framework dashboard to give you endless customization options.
- Visual Composer provided at no charge to you. Most well-known page builder in the world!
Yvy
Yvy is a trendy WordPress theme created for all types of blogs and magazines. Additionally, Yvy is great for business purposes and also to start an online store. The creative use of smart web technology ensures your website looks and feels professional. Even if you decide to move things around and adjust element placement, Yvy adapts naturally to maintain a fully responsive structure throughout.
But, best of all, there are more than 14 pre-made demo designs you can activate. Some Demo’s we liked the most are Travel, Magazine, and Beauty. But there are also choices for writers, food experts, and lovers of minimalism. Overall, Yvy feels like a steal relative to its price range in the current market.
Notable Features:
- High-Speed Performance across the board to ensure optimal load speed.
- Fully compatible with modern page builder plugins.
- Countless templates for Posts and Pages. Get creative with content publishing!
HolaLady
HolaLady is a lavish multi-concept powerhouse that’s going to impress your readers. Built as a Lifestyle / Fashion theme — HolaLady provides the means to give your content the best presentation possible. Using strict code practices, this theme loads incredibly fast on both desktop and mobile devices. Furthermore, a block-based design structure means that you can change your blog appearance however you like.
That’s also part of the reason why HolaLady is able to offer so many different demo styles. You can activate Lifestyle, Fashion, Travel, or even a Healthy Food design. But, even if with that much flexibility some doesn’t feel right, just jump into your favorite page builder and restructure the site with your personal creative ideas.
Notable Features:
- Custom Shortcode generator so you can add a special touch to your content.
- Beautiful Instagram feed widget to highlight your best photos.
- Dozens of Header styles. The first thing your readers see.
Journo
Journo is a creative magazine theme that’s living in a league of its own. Our first impression feels like Journo is a perfect choice to start a digital publishing brand. And, without surprise, Journo has numerous elements that verify this feeling. For example, you’re able to add a massive header banner that showcases your latest journal edition. Readers can see the cover photo and also head over to the purchase page.
Further, you’re able to add a beautiful full-width subscription form that’s going to help grow your email list. But, despite these brand-friendly features, what makes Journo so special is its natural design flow. The intuitive alignment of categories, post types, and the latest news is what makes Journo such a great choice for anyone operating a digital magazine.
Notable Features:
- Multiple Homepage examples you can import as full designs.
- Visual Composer page builder for WordPress included.
- An extensive Shop design to help you sell digital prints and other journalistic products.
Minnosh
Minnosh has a degree of personal feel to it, making this minimalistic theme a wonderful choice for any independent lifestyle blogger. Light colors combined with a diverse content display selection means that Minnosh can handle both low-stream and high-stream content sites. Your readers are greeted with a compact introductory segment where you can introduce yourself, add a photo of yourself, and mention your social media links. Below this follows a creative featured content slider.
One of the things that many themes struggle with is the display of content from within multiple categories. Displaying each category individually can take up so much design space that you’re left with a mess. Luckily, Minnosh provides just the right thing to solve this issue. It’s called a Category Display widget that’s found on your homepage. You can add categories, and readers will only see content for the selected category.
Notable Features:
- Suitable for Personal and Magazine blogs.
- Live Customizer for maximum customization options.
- Websafe, Custom Fonts Uploading and 800+ Google Fonts.
Mindest
Mindest is a well-built WordPress theme based on minimalist design principles. Even though the only colors present are white, black, and gray — Mindest excels in pleasant user-experience combined with a high readability standard. At the end of the day, the only metric that matter is as to whether a reader finished a post or not. And we believe that Mindest is an exceptional choice if you want to emphasize your stories above all else.
We’ve seen bloggers use this theme to share their stories on travel, food, nature, crafts, fashion, and general lifestyle topics.
Notable Features:
- 10+ Header Layouts – With ability to control logo, navigation spaces.
- Custom Stylesheet Management — add colors and adjust element apperance.
- Detailed documentation explaining theme’s possibilities.
Fallsky
Fallsky delivers a strong design presence suitable for lifestyle bloggers in fields like travel, photography, beauty, and fashion. The stylish composition of design elements instills a sense of professionalism. And if you find yourself overwhelmed by the number of customization options, simply opt to use any of the provide Demo designs.
Content can be displayed in both traditional styles like list posts, but also in a photography-infused style where only the featured image is shown. Our gut tells us that Fallsky will be best used for brands looking to start a digital content enterprise. The style is provided, all that’s left is for you to start writing stories.
Notable Features:
- Multiple Author Posts — more than one person can write the same piece!
- Diverse social features that keep readers in a consistent engagement loop.
- A selection of color schemes: dark and light.
Alimo
Alimo has that trendy millennial feel attached to its design, making sure that your new age audience stays engaged and satisfied. If you glance at the demo, you’ll see that Alimo works best in scenarios where you are publishing stories with colorful images. The colors help to emphasize aspects like big font choices, and also improves content readability. Then again, it’s WordPress and anything is possible!
Interesting features we found are animated header styles, so you can add an animated logo for example. Also, Alimo comes with a widget for playing background music! Why the heck not, right? Most importantly, Alimo enables a Reading Mode — a button that removes all those fancy elements from the site and gives readers a way to focus primarily on reading.
Notable Features:
- Quote sharing; make specific paragraphs instantly sharable on social media.
- Want to sell merch to your readers? No problem, WooCommerce supported!
- Custom content slider built for Visual Composer.
Milieu
Milieu is a classy and artistic WordPress theme for those of you who love expansive design presentation. Indeed, this theme uses large photo presentations and content displays that won’t go unnoticed by the reader! At the same time, this unique design concept helps to establish a strong brand presence for your lifestyle journal or magazine.
There’s so much attention being paid to small details like meta-tag alignment, and how different content styles work together to enable limitless creative freedom. Lifestyle blogging is all about having fun, emphasizing important parts, and giving your readers a wonderful experience. Milieu theme follows this criterion exceptionally well.
Notable Features:
- Limitless choices for layout presentation. Switch things around using Block Elements.
- Widgets for Twitter, Instagram, and other social networks.
- Custom Header styles.
