A great travel theme has to be more than just a travel photo. It has to be functional, stylish and — to make this list — free!
WordPress’s new theme directory doesn’t yet give good results when searching for “travel,” so here are 20 great WordPress themes for travel blogs.
Polaroid
Hit them right between the eyes with a massive, Polaroid style photo of your eternal holiday. It’s easy to change and randomize what images appear so you can keep things fresh.
Fontella
While great for featuring your latest posts with big, glossy pics, Fontella does make you dig into the site for more updates and information.
Discovery
Call me modern, but a handheld GPS says a lot more about travel than a 17th century compass. You, however, can unleash your inner Indiana Jones with the discovery theme.
Victoria
I love the way Victoria breaks up “blog” and “feature” posts straight out of the box. This is a great theme for someone looking to do narrative travelogue as well as write informational or magazine style features.
Cutline 3c
The three column cutline theme is simple and SEO friendly. It doesn’t take a lot of work to maintain and, although a little basic, does a good job of keeping everything in fine order.
I feel dirty
Covered with paint splashes and scribbles, this theme allows your inner artist to hack away on the WordPress page. Its design is clear and easy to navigate… if you can stop the pages from peeling away.
Oriental
Oriental’s bright red and yellows with lovely cherry blossom line art make this a graceful theme for your Asian adventure. Mosaic-style blocks give lift and texture to a simple layout.
Foliage Mod
This green and grungy template introduces a little play into your theme with a cool pull-down menu and grassy effects.
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Best Travel
It’s a little cliche, but nothing says “I’m on a beautiful, tropical beach and you’re not” quite like Best Travel. Bright orange highlights give life to a potentially dull theme.
Open Air
Light and spry, the Open Air theme allows you to showcase a stunning landscape photo with semi-transparent information panes hovering above it.
Travelog
Great design: selotaped photos, hand-scribbled RSS button. I like its raw and cluttered effect. So will your visitors.
Adventure
I’m a sucker for passport stamps…and now I can have one on my blog! Get your very own border control-vetted travel theme.
Dilectio
Colourful yet stylish, Dilectio gives a clean, uncluttered feel and smooth relaxing lines.
Bluebird
Minimalistic, straight-forward and blue. This light and airy theme features a stylish, singing bluebird: perfect for forest lovers and addicted tweeters.
Travelogue
It’s been through a few transitions, but the Travelogue theme is still a great way to showcase your trip. With stamped cardboard effects, it gives a Get Smart-era feel to your travels.
Nature Nouveau
A vine creeps up the side of the page to explode in a floral display at the top. With relaxing colours, this theme captures a carefree, work-less lifestyle like few others.
Photo and video themes:
Nautilus
Let your images do all the talking. Nautilus is a sharp, clean design with some clever touches.
Nishita
Nishita’s logical layout and photocentric force makes for another great photo theme. If a picture’s worth a thousand words, this baby’s going to serve you well.
Photo WP
An “on-black” photo theme which will reward vibrant colours. It’s built from the ground up to make it easy for photographers to become bloggers! Thanks to Flickr integration, it shouldn’t take too long to get things firing from the world’s internet cafes.
Revolution TV
Going to vlog your way around the world? The hottest new theme for WordPress video blogs is undoubtedly Revolution TV, which puts your video content right at the front of what’s happening.
Community Connection
Want to start your own WordPress travel blog? Check out Craig’s instructions on setting up a WordPress Travel Blog account or wait for the upcoming instructions on creating your own self-hosted WordPress install.
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Great list of special Themes. Some are different from any others I see before.
Its cool that I dont must search in 200 Themes for my favorite.
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nice collection of WP themes
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Good themes
thanks thetravelers notebook
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Hi Craig,
very beautiful themes! It’s not easy to find a nice theme in the hundreds of wordpress themes available out there. If possible, I’d like to suggest my theme, designed specifically for travel blogs: http://blog.tui.it/info/travelclub-theme/
Thanks
Francesco↵ -
wao whats a nice themes. i like those themes. thanks for sharing
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i’m going to give the polaroid one a try for a new blog i have been thinking about. We shall see how it does! Thanks!!
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very nice themes.i have some other themes but i never find like yours. now i m going to make another blog and i will add one from above list. thank you very much for sharing.
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Thanks for doing “my” job
Now I don’t have to search through travel wordpress themes since I have already 20 hand picked ones to choose from!↵ -
Very great and nice list of Wordpress themes.Its really makes blog beautiful.
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Thanks for sharing this great list, I found my template at my first google search!
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What about the theme you guys are using! Its a nice travel version of Gawker, congrats.
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Thanks for sharing this great list, I found my template at my first google search!
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Wonderful theme collection.. thanks for sharing it.
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perfect
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great collection of wordpress themes, thanks for sharing
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Thanks thetravelers notebook
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Nice theme collection.. thanks for sharing it
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Great collection.
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Great collection of FREE THEMES ! I’ll be passing this around. Thanks.
Cheers,
Mike↵ -
Great collection.
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link for the best travel theme is down, any change we can get it reuploaded?
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Wordpress.ORG not .COM. Puhleez! I’m getting a teeny bit testy on the subject. There are those of us WP’ers out there for whom these themes are meaningless.
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Many thanks. Great list templates and good post.
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Greetings from Germany. Thx for this cool list
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