Popular options, without which it is difficult to imagine a modern food website – the ability for users to add content, interactive actions with recipe cards – are already included in WordPress themes in the “Food” category.
The variety of offerings on Themeforest ensures that every foodie enthusiast will find a recipe website template for a specific project: a personal culinary blog, a professional community of chefs, or an online store selling cookbooks and kitchen accessories.
A selection of 27 WordPress templates for a culinary blog/site, recipes, school, courses
1. Alanzo
An elegant, responsive template focused on catering businesses, also suitable for a chef’s personal website, cafe and restaurant websites. With Alanzo you can design your menu beautifully – thanks to the built-in “Dishes” post layout, you have access to ready-made styles for categories, recipes, and nutritional information. The theme uses parallax backgrounds, mega and sticky menus, Fontello icon font, Google fonts, interactive ajax search, supports multilanguage and is retina optimized. Each demo includes unique theme options.
3. Bridge
A creative, feature-rich, best-selling theme with an impressive collection of demos – 372+ sites to choose from. For the Food theme, the Recipes Book demo and healthy food blog Picky Eating are suitable examples – both use 2023 web design best practices and look cutting-edge. The template is adaptive, retina and SEO optimized, configured for integration with social networks, uses ajax and css3 animation. Popular plugins that Bridge works with are Visual Composer, LayerSlider, Slider Revolution, Timetable.
4. Soledad
A template for creating multi-format blogs, a niche sales champion in 2017. Those who are looking for a culinary website template will want to buy Newspaper because of the availability of high-quality thematic demos: “Soledad Food” – a blog about food and “Foodies” – a portal for gourmets, complemented by an online store. Both demos use a light background, which makes the site bright and draws attention to the photos attached to the recipes.
5. Neptune
Culinary WordPress template for a site with recipes or a personal blog for a chef. Allows you to organize an online community in which people who share an interest in preparing various dishes can view and comment on recipes uploaded by other users and publish their own. The theme creators paid special attention to cards with cooking instructions, adding a search by ingredients and a number of other useful options.
6. Gillions
Multi-conceptual template for sites built on the basis of publications. Gillian has demo WordPress cooking templates, one of them is “Gillion Foodie”. This is a vibrant blog for gourmets, where elements such as a recommended recipe slider, hashtag search, author card, and fields for advertising have been used.
7. Newspaper
News template belonging to the “Premium Templates” class. The Food Recipes demo is a great proof that the template can be used for a food blog. The author of such a blog will be able to categorize recipes, add video instructions for recipes, broadcast his Instagram feed to the main page, and provide links to all blog profiles on social networks.
8. Jannah News
AMP BuddyPress theme, its profile is news sites, online magazines/newspapers. The Jannah Foods demo is a clear 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 with recipe descriptions, you can create a portal or blog about food on Jannah News .
9. SocialChef
Theme for a web resource in a social network format for exchanging recipes and secrets of preparing various dishes. In addition to the “tasty” design with thematic graphics and support for the functionality of downloading user content, SocialChef has options for creating 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. Considering the emerging trends of 2023, the theme focuses on video content and is able to work with YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo. Vlog is an ideal choice for cooking video course sites.
11. Jupiter
The multi-selection has an excellent option for culinary resources, and it contains:
- spectacular design in an unusual style;
- ready-made vector graphics elements included in the price;
- cards for recipes have been prepared, you can evaluate them by quality.
The template looks professional and stylish.
12. Food Recipes
An “appetizing” theme for websites related to cooking. The latest update of the template was released in October 2017, now it has a full “responsive” design, 4 color skins, 5 slider options, 10 custom widgets. With Food Recipes, users can add recipes to the site by uploading them through the front-end interface.
13. Talisa
Adaptive Retina ready template for an online recipe catalog, ready for translation into any language. In addition to the options that food website templates usually offer, Talisa comes with a file with a detailed description of the settings, as well as functionality for adding posts to favorites and recipe upload forms.
14. Fazfood
A template that can satisfy the gourmet tastes of food bloggers. Sprout & Spoon provides the buyer with: a fully customizable home page, eye-catching promo widgets, multiple layouts for the catalog/individual recipe pages, and Instagram feed integration.
15. TinySalt
A beautiful template with twelve ready-made landing pages, each of which can be customized to your own taste. Also offered are prepared tables, recipe cards, more than three hundred theme options and more than thirty for the blog. A special plugin for WP Recipe Maker recipes is pre-installed.
16. Kruton
The attractive design is complemented by support for most well-known plugins, which will help with fine-tuning and detailed customization to suit the needs of any culinary site. An excellent option for culinary courses and online learning.
17. The Voux
A template for online magazines that supports a reposting system on social networks. The Foodies demo pages, designed in light colors, include: a beautifully stylized menu dishes section, a jumbotron slider with parallax, a carousel of recent publications, a pinterest widget, and blocks for advertising.
18. Florentine
WordPress website template for culinary recipes in publication format. 19 modules that can be mixed and reused will help you achieve the desired website design on Florentine. A special feature of the “Meridian Recipes” demo blog is a mega footer with a summary, links to project profiles on social networks, a subscription form, lists of popular recipes and tags.
19. Look
Artistically designed theme for news sites and magazines. The demo, titled “Food,” reveals the template’s potential as the basis for a food blog. It uses a neutral white background, which allows unique author’s photos to take on the main decorative function.
20. Hashtag
A WordPress template belonging to the Recipes category that promises to help you create the perfect food blog. Advantages of Kale: excellent typography, emphasis on the photos used, thoughtful layout for demonstrating content, support for the video publication format, the ability to add a carousel from the Instagram feed.
21. KALLYAS
A universal eCommerce template that allows you to create a high-quality website for any niche. His Chef demo is a landing page for an organic food restaurant. Sections that this WordPress template has: “Food delivery”, “Dish of the day”, “About us”, “Events”, advertising jumbotron, menu with prices, opening hours, map, email subscription for discounts.
22. Naomi
WordPress blog template for lifestyle and fashion projects. Noemi has 10 layouts and 6 demo blogs. The demo site with recipes is designed in light shades, with translucent layers applied to all images. New recipes are displayed on the home page in the form of banners and lists. Each recipe can be commented on and shared on twitter, pinterest and facebook. An Instagram widget is built closer to the footer; 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 for 8 types of posts: with photo, slider, audio, video from 5 hosting sites. The stages of preparing a dish are presented 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 website for cooking courses or a workshop, websites with recipes, 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 template images are configured for retina, and the Swiper and Revolution plugins are responsible for adding sliders. The template includes an advanced set of features for a recipe blog.
24. Feedy
Cooking WordPress theme from the creator of popular themes and plugins TouchSize. It is suitable for a recipe sharing community, food blog, restaurant website. The community functionality can be tested in guest access mode. Feedy has received high ratings from Google, GTMetrix and Pingdom Performance. The template uses the option of lazy loading of images, due to which pages load at lightning speed. The search widget uses advanced filters to make it easier to find content. Added eye-catching animation to recipe cards. Front-end functionality for adding recipes is provided.
25. Rosaleen
The template has many demos that cover everything related to healthy eating, lifestyle, etc. The developers propose to create an up-to-date resource about food, the ability to post articles with various content, even streaming video, is complemented by WooCommerce compatibility for an online store.
26. Hungrybuzz
WordPress theme for a personal blog with a minimalist design and Masonry layout. The developers provide the opportunity to test the full version of the theme before purchasing. Hungrybuzz has options such as photo copy protection, ready-made sections for advertising, moving the main menu and sidebar. The blog on the template will support publications in 8 formats. A link to the mobile version of the content can be presented in a QR code. A unique reading mode allows you to disable unnecessary elements, leaving only text and buttons for reposting. The theme implements functionality for user registration, login, messaging, publishing posts, and subscribing to updates from other users.
27. Pizzon
The main thematic advantage is the specialized WP Recipe Maker, which practically automates the addition of recipes in the form of ready-made dish cards; you can place ingredients, calorie content, procedure, photos and videos that relate to a given dish. Filling out the site will be very simple.
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