People who love food, who talk about food, who take pictures of food invariably become food bloggers, and why not – it’s fun! Besides the domain name, one of the biggest things an aspiring food blogger has to choose is their blog template.
It’s not as hard as it seems, although the themes we list below are for WordPress (because we use WordPress for this website), the tips below can be used for any format of website.
Some tips on choosing a theme for your food blog:
White background, black font
Since a food blog is all about the pictures and the descriptions of the food/ restaurant/ recipe, you don’t want to distract your readers from this fact. Black font on a white background is proven to be the easiest and most natural way for people to read.
If your blog is mostly pictures, you can consider a black background, but only if your post is made up of 80% pictures or more.
Blog Width
Stick to a fixed width template, where it looks the same width no matter what size screen you view it on. The reason for this is that problems will come up with some old computers and computers with small screens if your blog automatically adjusts it’s width to suit, such as pictures and fonts overlapping etc.
The width for the body of content (where you write your posts) should ideally be between 450px – 500px wide, to maintain a nice sentence length as well as to keep pictures nice and small (file size) and load faster.
Two or Three Column Themes
Sticking to a theme with 2 or 3 columns will make your blog less cluttered. Since it’s all about the photos and descriptions, this is where you want people to focus. The cleaner the better.
The Themes
We’ve compiled a list of themes which we think would work well as food blogs, most adhering to the tips we’ve suggested above, but some not, just to give it some variety.
They’re all free to download and are taken from the WordPress official website. You’ll need a self hosted WordPress blog to be able to install these.
If you’d like a custom website for your blog or restaurant, contact our Web Design department for more information.
Constructor
WordPress Constructor Theme, it’s many-in-one theme (six layouts, configured colors, fonts and slideshow, widget ready). Build your own theme on settings page. For WordPress version 2.7+ (include 2.8)
Arras Theme
Magazine-styled theme with tons of features. Ready for alternate styles. Includes featured posts slideshow, different post layouts, multi-tabbed sidebar, custom single meta fields for reviews and many other customisable features.
iNove
Inspired by MacZone.sk, created by mg12. It is very stylish, widget supported and doesn’t require any plugin.
jQ
WordPress theme with two columns, four widget areas and loads of jQuery functions (dropdown navigation, font resizing and more). The theme options include a movable sidebar, custom colours, excerpts on index pages, category or page navigation, different font and colour schemes.
Ani World
Ani World WordPress Blog Theme designed by ani world!
iBlog2
The iBlog2 theme by Pagelines, inspired by Apple. Support for native WordPress ‘post thumbnails’ added in 2.9. Change options in appearance > iBlog options. This version is localization ready, so send us your translations.
Sliding Door
A unique template featuring sliding images in the header based on phatfusion imagemenu. Look at theme homepage to see the menu in action – the preview does not work on wordpress.org!!!! Sliding images in header link to pages, or can be redirected using the Page Links To plugin. The theme has a comprehensive support forum to help you get started at http://mac-host.com/support
Good Theme Lead
Profi WordPress theme with five colour schemes, two/three columns, six widget areas and tons of functions. Automatic post thumbnail, Featured posts, Control Panel in sidebar, Dropdown page and category menu. Powerfull theme options menu (including: Logo change, Exclude categories feature, Category description, Customizable sidebar layout, great Ads manager, About Me image and text feature, Featured video section, Social Manager).
Duo Tone
A photo blogging theme. Colors change to match the photo.
Patagonia
Patagonia is a very good looking WordPress Theme with a clean design. This theme is search engine optimized and compatible with the latest wordpress version. Patagonia Theme supports Tag clouds, categories, dinamic widgets, gravatars. You can also visit our site at: http://www.wpthemesplanet.com/
Fusion
Light and clean WordPress theme from digitalnature. Localization support and theme options available
simpleX
Simple and Clean WordPress Blog Theme designed by WPshoppe! Now with Theme Options to choose different color combinations.
Vigilance
A lean and clean WordPress theme featuring standards and search friendly code. A built in Theme Options menu allows for serious customization.
Dialogue
A light and easy to customise professional & multilangual wordpress theme (french, german, polnish, english). Dialogue is XHTML and CSS validated and widget ready!
StudioPress
A clean, Adsense-ready WP theme.
Eos
Eos is a professionally designed, clean and elegant theme inspired by the colors of an aurora. Available in several languages. Leave us a comment on our website: SRSsolutions.com
Tropicala
Simple, modern, lightweight
Modern Style
Modern Style Theme with theme options page. Fixed-width, widget ready, two colums, right sidebar support hierarchical categories. Compatible with WordPress 2.8 and higher.
This Just In
Compatable with WordPress version 2.7 and higher. A clean, optimized with enhanced archives and a large header image, designed for professional and/or photography blogs. This version adds support for threaded comments and sticky posts.
Panorama
2 column theme, compatible with WP2.8 and threaded-comments – add your own header image – 6 backgrounds, left or right sidebar, link/hover colors, jQuery dropdown page menu, and twitter badge all fully customizable – licenced under the GPL. Language localization supported, DA, AR, DE, FR, IT, NL, ES, SE.
We hope you found this post useful. If you’d like custom web design, please feel free to contact our web design department for more information.
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