6 Free Wordpress Templates for Food, Cooking, and Recipe Blogs

Written by: Amy Carson • Edited by: Robin L.
Updated Nov 9, 2010 • Related Guides: Wordpress | Flickr

If you use Wordpress to blog about food, cooking, or recipes, then you may want to check out these six free food-related themes. Not only are these Wordpress templates great for “foodies,” but they’re widget ready and most support gravatars as well as threaded and paged comments.

Dress Up Your Wordpress Food Blog

In the blogging world, it pays to stand out, and the best way to make a good first impression is with an attractive theme. Luckily for us less-technical types, several Wordpress designers offer free themes, with the only catch being that they ask that you leave a link back to their site in the footer. To me, it's a small price to pay, and if I like a theme enough to use it, I'm more than happy to leave that link in there.

If your Wordpress blog is about food, cooking, or recipes, then check out these six food-related free Wordpress themes. Yum!

Food Recipe

Many of the themes I've selected have ridiculously simplistic names and Food Recipe is one of them. Food. Recipe. We get it, but where's the creativity? Oh. It's in the theme itself.

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There aren't any pictures of food in this theme, but it's designed to look like a menu from that classy-yet-warm-and-homey cafe down the block. It has a wood-grain background and looks like an opened-up menu, with the left side - posts - looking like menu items, and the right side looking a bit like a drink/sides list in layout.

Food Recipe is:

Two column fixed width
Threaded & paged comments ready for WP 2.7
Widgets ready
Gravatar ready
Works on Wordpress v2.5 and above
Tested on IE6/7, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome
XHTML & CSS Validated

Strawberry Blend

Strawberry Blend. And Orange Squash, and Citrus Mix…you get the idea. Bright and fruity, these themes are two columns, fixed width, and feature a color and art theme based on fruit.

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Veggies and Spice

The Veggies and Spice Wordpress cooking theme looks ripe for cooking, with pictures of asparagus, onion, peppers, and tomatoes in the header graphic, and little touches like the cast-iron frying pan post separator. Color-wise, the theme is subdued and highly readable in shades of gray.

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Recipes Blog

Boring name for a Wordpress theme, isn't it? Luckily makes up for it with looks and personality. It features torn paper-look borders, vegetable icons on posts and widgets (pumpkin, peas, and peppers), warm colors, and some food/cooking imagery.

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Features:

Valid XHTML and Valid CSS
2-column layout
Comment gravatar, related posts and recent posts ready (no plugin needed)
Tested in Firefox, IE, Opera and Safari.

Cake Recipe

Good for a baking blog! Cake Recipe is three columns, in deep crimson and dark gray, with a tasty cake header image.

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Simply

All right, Simply isn’t specifically designed for food, cooking, or recipes, but the giant cupcake in the demo certainly put that idea in my head. And it’s a light, attractive theme too with spring-themed colors. Comes with preset Flickr and Twitter sidebar widgets, but they can be easily removed if you don’t need them.

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Me Jan 13, 2012 4:22 PM

RE: 6 Free Wordpress Templates for Food, Cooking, and Recipe Blogs

if only there was a place to download!

web design perth Nov 29, 2011 9:18 AM

It is very interesting article and quite impressive and more informative too.Thanks a lot for sharing.Looking forward to read such article.Keep it up.

website development Oct 17, 2011 5:58 PM

Thanks for the list of templates but please share some hotel templates.

Paul (GetMeCooking) Sep 13, 2011 11:46 AM

GetMeCooking Recipe Template for WordPress

As well as those templates, there are a number of recipe template plugins for WordPress, including ours. It makes adding recipes in a consistent format quick and easy, is fully customisable, takes care of all the SEO for you and has lots of other features too!

Please see http://www.getmecooking.com/recipe-template for information.

Angelica Jul 23, 2011 9:17 AM

Awesome

Very nice list of themes for food blog. Thanks

Laura May 18, 2011 12:23 PM

help

how do i load the template i curremtly have a blogger food blog http://cevenolkitchen.blogspot.com/ and want to move it to wordpress where my other blogs are www.masdudiable.com and http://laurahudsonstudio.wordpress.com/.
If I create a new blog how can i find these templates to create it using them - i searched on wordpress and could not find them

DD May 4, 2011 7:02 AM

Here's one good Recipe Theme for Wordpress

Hi Amy,

Thanks for listing such useful themes. I just found this clean and warm Recipe Theme for Wordpress : http://curryandspice.in/free-wordpress-blogger-theme-for-recipe-cooking-blogs/

Cheers!

adimas Mar 29, 2011 9:56 PM

need opinion

i have a food niche blog, i'm still confuse which theme i will use for my blog. one i have installed don't satisfy me, can you give me suggestion which one is suitable for my blog? the adrress is http://elitefood.net
thanks for you attention

steve Mar 25, 2011 3:48 PM

still hungry

i found some other interesting ones http://therecipegenie.blogspot.com/

Restaurants Brugge Mar 21, 2011 1:28 AM

Restaurants Brugge

Nice post you have good blog collections.

Amartya | A Note Feb 11, 2011 1:23 PM

downloading now

hi, thanks for these, i'm looking for food template for my food blog, i'll use the recipe template. thanks again

simplyD Dec 23, 2010 2:15 PM

WordPress and Recipes

VERY nice templates Amy!! I just love how well WordPress integrates with websites that deal in recipes and other food related interests. We went with a recipe based website that pulls recipes in from RSS feeds, and then just sends the visitor directly to the page of the contributor when they click on the recipe they want. Check it out, it's a great way to give your visitors broader choices, and at the same time it helps the recipe contributors by channeling traffic to them:

http://simplydelicio.us/

We've grown by leaps and bounds over the past 1 1/2 months when we first launched, when we were ranked at 14,000,000 on Alexa, and as of today we're in the top 60,000 sites in the US. Just goes to show how ANYTHING is possible if you can help many people get what they need!

Amy Oct 11, 2010 10:02 PM

Nice List

I'm surfing the web looking for templates for a friend requesting a food website, so this was a good find. :) Thanks!
Amy
Create a Website

Zahzel Rose Sep 20, 2010 8:46 PM

Recipe Blog template

TY I will use this I have a site already www.myfatplan.com
But, Iwill make a new one using one of these templetes. TY!

Amy Carson Aug 13, 2009 4:27 PM

I forgot a link!

Oops, forgot a link!

Here's the link to the one called "Recipes Blog":

http://www.templatepanic.com/article/recipes-blog-wordpress-theme

Thank you all for the kind comments. Nishanth, your blog is lovely!

Shan Biryani Jul 28, 2009 4:04 PM

thanks

I might use one of these for this biryani page

Maybe the veggie and spices one.

Nishanth Nair Jul 22, 2009 9:32 AM

Thanks for the post

Thanks forthe post. it was helpful for me. checkout my site. http://deeparecipes.com

barbera del monferrato Jul 22, 2009 8:28 AM

barbera del monferrato

I was just thinking about your food, cooking and you've really helped out. Thanks!

Chef Tony Jul 19, 2009 1:52 PM

download?

did I miss any links to download? I' can search of course, and we should talk, you sound like a foodie / geek just like me?! :) thanks for article, one of your suggestions might work just right for my crabcake business I"m starting.

6 Free Wordpress Templates for Food, Cooking, and Recipe Blogs

Dress Up Your Wordpress Food Blog

Food Recipe

Strawberry Blend

Veggies and Spice

Recipes Blog

Cake Recipe

Simply

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