We spent a few days sat down, just going through hundreds of Blogger
templates to bring you this list of beautiful ones. They are
professional-looking, ready to take you to the next level. Some are only
available as free, but many come with paid versions. They're all
customizable and responsive, so you can be sure they'll look good on
mobile.
1. Blueberry
Clean and fashionable in black, grey, and red. We like Blueberry's neat
dropdown menu and the under post widgets. With a customized comment meta
element under the title, this is a theme that can help you keep track of
blog engagements and direct your focus into building your blogging
community. Plus, who doesn't like blueberries?
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| Blueberry demo |
2. Olivia
With Olivia, we're spoiled with choices. This theme comes in two versions:
light and dark. It cleverly makes use of the footer area to showcase
Flickr images, post labels, and your logo. We like that it has a meta
section to display the amount of time it takes to read the posts.
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| Olivia light demo |
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| Olivia dark demo |
3. Backpack
Backpack from Theme Xpose, probably the fanciest we've seen so far. This
theme can really host scores of huge images and then arranges them on
sliders to fit and showcase all the beautiful photographs of your last
travels. Instead of labels, adorable handmade icons are positioned on
the navigation panel.
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| Backpack demo |
4. Holiday
This is the theme we're currently trying out for Inti Binti. It's
focused on a sense of place, which plays a fundamental role in how our
identity is shaped. Our environment dictates a sense of belonging,
constructs meaning, foster attachments, and determines the ways we
mediate change.
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| Holiday demo |
5. Lexal/Lexel
Lexal/Lexel, not sure how it's really spelled, is a bold and visual
theme with promo boxes to direct readers to your blog categories. A
large header of slideshow images and an under post widget section for
all your Instagram feeds and YouTube channels.
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| Lexal/Lexel demo |
6. Lavender
Lavender is a wonderful theme designed by Odd Themes. It is available in
a grid style or single posts, along with all the elements you'd expect
to see in a lifestyle blog: an Instagram feed, a contact form, social
media subscription buttons, and ad banner spots.
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| Lavender demo |
7. Narrator
This is yet another Odd Themes' stylish, grid theme that we think would
be a good fit for a lifestyle blog, in particular a creative lifestyle.
We love the way the theme contains a frame and a link to Behance,
signaling creativity, and collaboration.
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| Narrator demo |
8. Best
This isn't Theme Xpose's most recent design, but it's certainly looking
premium. With sliding hot posts, recent post widgets, ad-ready placing,
Instagram and Pinterest feeds, your lifestyle blog is sure to stand out.
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| Best demo |
9. Monica
A fabulous and clean theme from Way2Themes. Monica is an option for
lifestyle bloggers with a focus on social reach. You certainly can
personalize the colors and add more widgets.
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| Monica demo |
10. Autumn
Autumn is definitely a theme to consider. A major plus point of this
theme is the automatic slider image on blog posts that appear if you
stack images together. We also love the font for the summary, but if you
look at the blog posts individually you'll see that the mobile-sized
font needs to be significantly larger if you want to read it on a
desktop.
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| Autumn demo |
11. Ratio
This theme is also suitable for a magazine type blog. We really like the
way it can rearrange all our cover photos into a mood board, which
reminds us of Pinterest. For your lifestyle blog, Ratio looks clean and
simple with smaller images on the homepage. The individual post page has
a related post widget below, and an Instagram feeds on the bottom. We
noted that this theme looks good up to gadgets with at least 400px
width. Anything smaller and you'd need to puzzle out the layout.
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| Ratio demo |
12. Beauty
If you want a blog that has the scrapbook feel, take a look at Beauty
from Template Clue. This personal lifestyle template has all the touches
you'd expect, photograph frames, watercolor illustration, and a
beautiful Instagram feed on the header.
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| Beauty demo |
13. Aurora
Aurora is a free template from Georgia Lou Studio. What we love about
the theme is the way it maximizes the entire screen and how readable the
font is. The layout feels clean, minimal and somewhat effortless. Even
with the Pinterest and Instagram sidebar widgets, it doesn't feel
distracting.
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| Aurora demo |
Each of these 13 themes has its own uniqueness, but they all share
one thing in common: responsiveness. You'd expect responsive
themes to automatically adjust to different screen sizes and different
types of gadgets, but that doesn't mean that it will look good on all
and every gadget out there. Just the most popular ones.
We're currently only focusing on Blogger themes right now, but a few of
these themes, like Backpack, are also available for Wordpress. Which
theme is currently installed on your blog? How has it worked out for you
so far?
Be sure to check out our post on choosing a blog template for some more tips on the
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