Popular options without which it is difficult to imagine a modern food website – the ability to add content by users, interactive actions with recipes cards – are already included in the WordPress themes of the Food category. The variety of offers on Themeforest ensures that every foodie enthusiast finds a culinary recipes website template for a specific project: a personal culinary blog, a professional chef community or an online store selling cookbooks and kitchen utensils.
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30+ Cooking WordPress templates for cooking blog website, culinary blog/site, recipes, school, courses.
1. Cook It – Russian developers template
You should trust Cook It, and you can consider it at least one of the best. Its developers are Russian guys – the WPShop team and the template is fully adapted for Russian webmasters but can be used for English language websites aswell.
Its advantages:
- Easy to add content. Posting new recipes is so easy that even absolute beginners bloggers will figure it out right away. For the ingredients and stages of preparation, 2 forms with fields are highlighted: create new points, fill in the fields and upload the photo in one click. Columns have headers, and rows can be swapped.
- Quality Internal Search Engine Optimization: checking the availability and correct placement of h1-h6 tags, the possibility of using seo headers, automatic affixing of micro-marking, the absence of duplicates on pages with pagination, the offset of the sidebar under the main content in the code, the absence of a link from the page to itself and closing links from indexing.
- Availability of popular features without third-party plugins: html version of the site map, article rating, spoilers, feedback form, sections for attracting attention, the “Up” button.
- Integrated ad units. The template has 7 locations for advertising banners, including in the content body. In this case, you yourself decide in which articles to show banners, and in which to hide. For the mobile version, you can configure a separate output advertising.
- Tested responsive design. The creators of the theme adhere to the concept of mobile first, you can be sure of the absolute adaptability of media content. The template was tested on all modern mobile devices that deserve attention as traffic sources.
- Flexible design settings. View changes in the live customizer, customize the sidebar output for the internal and start pages, 3 templates for the list of posts, a powerful widget to display article previews.
2. Bridge
Creative multifunctional best-selling theme with an impressive collection of demos – 372+ sites, there are plenty to choose from. For the “Food” theme, the Recipes Book demo and Picky Eating blog about healthy food are suitable – both use the best web design practices of 2020 and look ultramodern. The template is adaptive, retina and seo optimized, configured to integrate with social networks, uses ajax and css3 animation. The popular plugins that Bridge works with are Visual Composer, LayerSlider, Slider Revolution, Timetable.
3. Soledad
A template for creating multi-format blogs, a niche champion in sales. Those who are looking for a culinary site template will want to buy Newspaper because of the availability of high-quality thematic demos: “Soledad Food” – a blog about food and “Foodies” – a gourmet portal, supplemented by an online store. Both demos use a light background in the design, which makes the site bright and switches their attention to photos attached to recipes.
4. Neptune
WordPress culinary template for a recipes website or a personal chef blog. It allows you to organize an online community in which people united by an interest in cooking various dishes can view and comment on recipes uploaded by other users and publish their own. With special attention, the creators of the topic approached the cooking instructions cards, adding to them a search by ingredients and a number of other useful options.
5. Gillion
Multiconceptual template for sites based on publications. Gillian has a demo of WordPress cooking templates, one of which is Gillion Foodie. This is a vivid gourmet blog where elements such as the recommended recipes slider, hashtag search, author’s card, and advertising fields have been used.
6. Newspaper
News template related to the Premium Templates class. The Food Recipes demo is a great confirmation that the template can be used for a culinary blog. The author of such a blog will be able to categorize recipes, add video instructions for recipes, broadcast a feed on his instagram home page, provide links to all blog profiles on social networks.
7. Jannah News
AMP BuddyPress theme, its profile is news sites, online magazines / newspapers. The Jannah Foods demo is a good example of the fact that by adding elements that use modern culinary website templates: video instructions, various feeds and sliders with recommended publications, ingredient tags, structured cards describing recipes, you can create a food portal or blog on Jannah News .
8. Tasty Food
Blogging WordPress template designed for use in the theme of “Food / Recipes.” Suitable for creating a blog in all languages- the template is prepared for translation and contains a .POT file. Using the selection of positions for placing advertising banners provided by Tasty Food, you can speed up the monetization of the site.
9. SocialChef
Theme for a web resource in the format of a social network for the exchange of recipes and secrets of cooking different dishes. In addition to a “delicious” design with thematic graphics and support for loading custom content, SocialChef also has options for building a community: forum, user profiles, groups, news feed.
10. Vlog
WordPress template for “smart” video blogging, posting tutorials or viral content, which is also suitable for online magazines with a complex structure. Given the emerging trends of 2020, the theme focuses on video content and is able to work with YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo. Vlog is the perfect choice for culinary video course sites.
11. Basil Recipes
Recipe WordPress template, working in conjunction with the premium Cooked plugin. Advantages: a visual editor of posts, the option of downloading content by users, ratings, reviews, the ability to register, create member profiles, a unique slider, 10 options for laying out a recipe card, a shortcode for a cooking time timer.
12. Food Recipes
An appetizing theme for cooking sites. The last update of the cooking WordPress template was released in October 2017, now it has a full-fledged “responsive” design, 4 color skins, 5 options for sliders, 10 custom widgets. With Food Recipes, users have the right to replenish the site with recipes by downloading them through the front-end interface.
13. Talisa
Responsive Retina ready food blog WordPress template for an online recipe catalog, ready for translation into any language. In addition to the options that food website templates usually offer, Talisa is equipped with a file with a detailed description of the settings, as well as functionality for adding posts to favorites and recipes loading forms.
14. Sprout & Spoon
A template that can satisfy the gourmet tastes of food bloggers. Sprout & Spoon puts at the disposal of the buyer: a fully customizable home page, eye-catching promo widgets, many layouts for the catalog / individual pages with recipes, integration of the instagram feed.
15. Chow
A WordPress theme created with a love of cooking. It allows you to get a web resource where you can share the secrets of cooking with a wide audience. It is worth noting the presence in the description of the recipe of such information as: time for preparing the ingredients, time to bring to readiness, portion size, possible allergens, nutritional value.
17. The Voux
Template for online magazines that supports social media reposting. The pages of The Foodies demo, decorated in light colors, include: a beautifully styled section of the menu dishes, a jambotron slider with parallax, a carousel from the latest publications, a pinterest widget, blocks for advertising.
18. Florentine
WordPress site template for recipes in publication format. 19 modules that can be mixed and reused will help to achieve the desired site design on Florentine. A feature of the Meridian Recipes demo blog is a mega footer with a resume, links to project profiles on social networks, a subscription form, and lists of popular recipes and tags.
19. Look
Artistically designed theme for news sites and magazines. A demo titled “Food” reveals the potential of the template as the basis of a food blog. It uses a neutral white background, which allows unique author’s photos to take on the main decorative function.
20. Kale
Belonging to the Recipes category, WordPress is a template that promises to help create the perfect food blog. Advantages of Kale: excellent typography, emphasis on the photos used, thoughtful layout for demonstrating content, support for video publication format, the ability to add a carousel from the instagram feed.
21. KALLYAS
Universal eCommerce template that allows you to make a quality website for any niche. His Chef demo is an organic food restaurant landing page. Sections of this WordPress template are: “Food delivery”, “Dish of the day”, “About us”, “Conducted events”, advertising jambotron, pricing menu, opening hours, map, email subscription for discounts.
22. Noemi
WordPress Blog Template for Lifestyle and Fashion Projects. Noemi has 10 layouts and 6 demo blogs. The demo site with recipes is decorated in light shades, overlay of translucent layers is applied to all images. New recipes are displayed on the home page in the form of banners and a list. Each recipe can be commented and shared on twitter, pinterest and facebook. Closer to the footer, an instagram widget is built-in, it is also duplicated in the sidebar of the internal pages. A button to return to the top of the site has been added to the footer. The theme allows the placement of 8 types of posts: with photo, slider, audio, video from 5 hosts. The stages of cooking are decorated in the form of a vertical “accordion” menu.
23. Basil
A modern and functional WordPress theme with a huge emphasis on external presentation. You can use it for a cooking courses site or workshop, recipes sites, food blogs and eCommerce sites. The theme is fully responsive, works with Visual Composer and uses unique shortcodes. WPML compatibility provides support for multiple language versions of the site with easy switching between them. All images of the template are configured for retina, Swiper and Revolution plugins are responsible for adding sliders. The template includes an expanded set of functions for the blog with recipes.
24. Foodbook
A culinary WordPress theme from the creator of the popular TouchSize themes and plugins. It is suitable for the recipes community, food blog, restaurant site. Community functionality can be tested in guest access mode. FoodBook has been praised by Google, GTMetrix, and Pingdom Performance. The template uses the option of lazy loading of images, due to which the pages are loaded with lightning speed. The search widget uses advanced filters, making it easier to find content. Attention animation has been added to recipe cards. There is a front-end functionality for adding recipes.
25. Spiced Blog
Niche WordPress blog template for a gourmet blog or a recipe site. The template is tailored for SEO promotion, supports all types of publications and includes 5+ custom widgets. The laconic “responsive” theme design is available in dark and light versions. The Recipe Card plugin turns recipe placement into a fun process, optimizes them for search engines and generates food calorie data. Website visitors can evaluate, save and print recipes. Integration with MailChimp will help to gain subscribers through the built-in or self-written application forms. The template works with a mobile friendly plugin for creating Swiper Slider.
26. Pluto
Minimalist WordPress Personal Blog Theme with Masonry Layout. Developers provide the opportunity to test the full version of the theme before buying. Pluto has such options as photo protection against copying, ready-made sections for advertising, moving the main menu and sidebar. The blog on the template will support publications in 8 formats. The link to the mobile version of the content can be represented in the QR code. The unique reading mode allows you to disable unnecessary items, leaving only text and buttons for reposting. The food blog theme has functionality for registering users, login, messaging, publishing posts, subscribing to updates of other users.
27. Template for cooking classes
Bright template will help you create a culinary site on WordPress with a catchy design. All settings are made in the drag-and-drop constructor of Power Builder – you do not need to understand the code. Assign ready layout schemes to the pages of the site or create your own – templates can be saved in the internal library. The demo site from the creators of the theme uses a light background and rich colors for individual blocks.
On the main page there are such structural elements as: title banner, announcements of workshops, team presentation, “attention block”, feedback slider, preview of publications, instagram photo feed, original subscription form, scroll button to the page header.
28. Alanzo
An elegant responsive template, focused on the catering business, is also suitable for the personal site of the chef, sites of cafes and restaurants. With Alanzo, you have a beautifully designed menu – thanks to the built-in breadboard model of the Dishes posts, you can use ready-made styles for categories, recipes, nutritional information. The theme uses parallax backgrounds, mega and sticky menus, Fontello icon font, Google fonts, interactive ajax search, supports multilingualism and is optimized for retina. Each demo has unique theme options.
29. Recipe
Theme with the most advanced recipe management system. In its arsenal: ratings, special marks and an advanced visual editor for the design of the Ingredients and Stages of Cooking blocks, the ability to add video tutorials, photo galleries, a system for tracking likes and views.
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