Are you looking for the best WordPress themes for travel blogs? Nowadays there are beautiful themes that are specifically designed for travel. On ThemeForest, you can choose beautiful, modern and professional WordPress themes for travel blogs.
Travel blogs come in many shapes and sizes. And they are very popular because everyone wants to share their experiences of a world trip or long holiday with others. This is, of course, possible via social media, but in a travel blog, you can discuss your experiences in much more detail. A website is also less volatile as social media and serves as a reference for other travelers.
I’ve seen a lot of themes pass by myself. I also have a highly visited website about travel, Reis om de Wereld. But this is more of a travel portal and that’s why I picked a magazine theme.
But if you want to start a specific travel blog, it’s smarter to choose a specific theme for travel blogs. If you search for travel blogs on ThemeForest, you’ll find more than 500 hits. A good reason to separate the wheat from the chaff and choose the most beautiful, best and efficient one.
I’ll give you 11 WordPress themes for travel blogs, which I like myself. But not only that, they are also completely tailored to traveling in terms of design and have certain functions that are very useful for travel blogs.
Go Explore
Go Explore is really a beautiful theme! I found these during the research for this article. You can place travel blogs with this theme, but this theme offers the opportunity to complement the blogs with background information. Because there is also the possibility to place destinations and link them to the travel blogs. That gives it a little more depth than just a travel blog.
These destinations are nicely set up and constructed, with a clear block of information and you can also show a map on which the attractions and destinations are depicted. However, you also have to pay a little more for it, because this theme is slightly more expensive than the average theme. But I think it’s worth it.
Himmelen
What strikes me immediately about the Himmelen theme is that it has a beautiful, minimalistic design. It looks very elegant and stylish and that surely appeals to many people. The theme offers a lot of possibilities, has multiple demos to choose from, with different front pages and different blog layouts. Always good to have a good look at it in advance.
The theme works with many third-party plugins, such as WPML, social media plugins and MailChimp. And by no means unimportant; it is a fast loading website. You can also add sliders with multiple photos. So it’s a beautiful and complete theme!
Journey
The Het Yourney theme has already earned its spurs and has been downloaded around 2000 times. It also has a real adventurous look for the globetrotter. You can easily build your own pages with the WP Bakery page builder, my favorite. This page builder is integrated into the theme. The theme is also suitable as a translator and has a video header. That’s always fun!
Amory Blog
If you have nice photos, then the Amory theme may be a good option. In this theme, there is a lot of attention for photography, an important part of traveling of course. Also noteworthy are the different homepages, from full screen to a minimal version. And what to think of the demo websites! You can choose to focus on photography, but there’s also a vintage and even a hipster website. So!
If you want to sell things through the website, you can, because WooCommerce is integrated. The theme has good reviews and has been sold more than 1000x. By the way, it’s always nice to be able to put a block in each article to see how long the reading time is.
WPVoyager
The WPVoyager theme is another travel blog with extras. Here you can also place a photo at the top of each travel blog, as well as a map of Google with sights you visit. Anyway, this theme is focused on maps, because it’s equipped with KML. This is a file format for showing geographical data on maps. This way you can build your own routes into a map. That makes this theme very special.
The example website (demo) can be installed with 1 click and then it’s a matter of customizing and expanding it to your own wishes.
Voyager
A theme with an almost identical name, Voyager, is also worth mentioning. It has a beautiful front page and beautiful stylish layout. This theme also uses geographical data to allow you to show your journey on the map.
Voyager also has special fonts, which can make it a really appealing travel blog. It has a shop and the theme contains a lot of elements to make up the pages beautifully. And what not every theme has, integration with GDPress to launch a forum on your website so other travelers can ask questions. That makes it very interactive.
Travelmatic
One of the newer themes is Travelmatic, which was sold 100 times in one month. A beautiful and modern theme that is used by DeWereldReizigers, among others. A fun travel blog! This theme also has Google maps integration and also has the aforementioned KML. You can also customize Google’s maps to suit your own style. With many different homepage styles, the theme is completely set up for mobile.
Soledad
I would also like to mention the Soledad theme as an option for a travel blog. This is a so-called multifunctional theme that can be used as a magazine, food website, but also as a travel blog. The advantage of these multifunctional themes is that it often offers a lot of opportunities to build your website according to your own wishes.
So far, Soledad has been the best-selling theme of 2018!
I’m looking around almost every day in ThemeForest, but I hadn’t studied this theme in detail before. And I have to say that it is a wonderful theme. There are also a few specific demos for traveling, so you can turn it into a real travel blog with just a few clicks.
The options this theme offers? It’s too much to mention. However, I would like to highlight one: it is equipped with AMP. Accelerated Mobile Pages. This is a new standard set by Google to speed up the loading of pages, especially on mobile devices. If you provide your website with AMP, then you can count on getting higher in the search results in the long term.
So remember Soledad. I hope to use it in the future or to build it for a customer.
Roam Travel & Adventure
I confess, this is not really a travel blog, but more a website for a travel agency. But if you want to keep a travel blog as an individual and at the same time offer trips, then Roam is a beautiful theme if you want. It includes a ready-to-use booking system, supplemented with many tips and background information about that trip. Good to know!
Publisher
For WPjournalist I use the Publisher theme myself, which has many demos, including some travel blogs. Publisher itself has two specific travel blogs:
- Traveller blog
- Adventure blog
The design and images have the feeling of traveling and there is a color grid over them so that all photos have the same appearance. You have to like that because the brown shades can seem a little boring at some point.
But I like this theme a lot, with beautiful finishes, icons and a box full of extra features. Including a weather widget to show the weather by destination. Publisher also is a multifunctional theme and has the possibility of AMP. So it is certainly worth considering.
Bridge travel blog
And finally a final travel blog from reisblog van Bridge, one of the 5 bestselling themes of the moment. It is a simple travel blog, not everyone wants a very extensive theme and then this is a good option. You can easily put your travel stories on it and Bridge also has a lot to offer in terms of functionalities.
Conclusion
If you want to start a travel blog, you have a wide range of options. It is quite difficult to pick the best and most beautiful one. Take some time before you make a choice because you’re stuck with it for several years.
I myself often take a few weeks to make a choice for a WordPress theme. I regularly browse the theme and watch it from head to toe. I also compare it with other themes and at a certain point, you will get the feeling that this is the theme you want.
Above I have seen beautiful and special WordPress themes for travel blogs pass by. I’m sure there’s one among them for you too.
Good luck with your choice and I wish you a lot of travel fun!
