Best WordPress Blog Themes 2019

You may have seen hundreds of WordPress themes for a personal blog, but you may not have an idea to pick the best one. In reality, not every blog theme which is claimed as the best is always the best. Why do you ask? Because every theme seller lists its theme as best, regardless of the worst performance or SEO score.

As a blogger, my preferences for selecting a personal blog theme is based on these factors.

• Instant loading speed (below 3 seconds)
• Deeply coded SEO markup especially for Google
• Feature-rich theme with unique online appearance
• A good customization Control panel

With this intention, I have listed the best WordPress blog theme for the year 2019. Some of these themes are very popular, or some are launched recently. So let’s take a look.

1. Soledad

Features	Details
Price	$59
Load Speed	2.7 seconds
SEO Score	5 points
Overall Rating	5 stars
Soledad Review

One of the most advanced SEO optimized WordPress theme with 4000+ pre-built layouts. The theme is optimized by Google certified experts so no worries in getting organic traffic. Soledad supports 1000+ slider options with almost unlimited possibilities to make your online presence unique. This theme is responsive in nature and has inbuilt AMP support features.

With all thousands of features, this theme manages to load within 3 seconds which is unbelievable. For all these reasons, Soledad is currently the best selling WordPress theme in personal blogging category.

2. Magnus

Features	Details
Price	$45
Load Speed	1.3 seconds
SEO Score	5 points
Overall Rating	5 stars
Magnus Details

Magnus is a fresh theme developed by Mythemeshop which is real “Search engine friendly” and loads quickly, even insignificant traffic hikes. This theme has two layout option, one is a typical blog type, and other is minimal. Other than that, Magnus creates an excellent reading environment with its crispy typography, thanks to Google fonts support.

As a blogger, I really appreciate an Adsense support with a blog theme for passive income, well, Magnus also supports Google Adsense integration. Also, it has an ad-blocker detection script, which makes sure that your ads are not blocked. As usual, one of the five stars rated product by Mythemeshop.

3. Canos

Features	Details
Price	$49
Load Speed	1.1 seconds
SEO Score	4.5 points
Overall Rating	4.3 stars
Canos Review

If you are a creative blogger, Canos is a theme that can fully capable of fulfilling your need. Besides its premium appearance, this theme is perfect for daily blogging. The homepage has hero slider which is full screen by default and down below it, you can show you recent blog posts in grid/boxed style. The best part of Canos is the single post section where the post meta description is shown on the right sidebar along with category, tags, author profile and page views.

Canos is blended in black and white color so that readers can really focus on your content text rather than confusing elements. For this reason, I would recommend this theme to deliver a distraction-free reading experience. However, the theme has slightly limited advanced features as compared to other themes that I’ve reviewed so far.

4. Starter

Features	Details
Price	$49
Load Speed	1.1 seconds
SEO Score	2.5 points
Overall Rating	4.0 stars
Starter Review

With the overall score of 4.0, Starter is a swift loading WordPress blog theme. Starter takes just 1.1 seconds to fully load a page from header to footer. As a matter of fact, nowadays, Google is slightly promoting the SERP ranking of fastest loading pages in its search engine. So, you can take the benefits of the Starter blogging theme as well.

Overall, the Starter is a minimal designed WordPress theme that offers some cool widgets, translation and advertising support. Concerning SEO, Starter has all the basic SEO implementation without Structure markup. Still, I would recommend this theme for clean and simple looking blogging.

5. Schema

Features	Details
Price	$45
Load Speed	1.1 seconds
SEO Score	5 points
Overall Rating	5 stars
Schema Review

Here comes my favorite WordPress personal blog theme which I mainly prefer to review products. As per my experience with Schema, I can say that Schema has the highest SEO ratings of all theme available on the internet today. It has Schema markup which tells Google the insight elements of your blog pages. For instance, Schema helps search engine to find headers, footer, sidebar, internal links, pictures, videos, content, paragraph, meta title, and description. This advance integration surely boosts your SERP in Google and make your blog stand out of the crowd.

Schema is really simple to use WordPress blog theme. You can start enjoying its richness and great support when you purchase a copy of it for your blog. Admittedly, I would highly recommend this theme for personal blogging.

6. Writing Blog

Features	Details
Price	$39
Load Speed	3.6 seconds
SEO Score	2.5 points
Overall Rating	4 stars
Writing Blog Review

One of the highest selling themes on Themeforest, Writing Blog is inspired by Medium.com design with a lot of rich features and acceptable SEO score. In fact, if you are tired of the same old blogging layout, Writing Blog gives you a whole new level of blogging experience. I really liked how they did with the 6+ homepage styles. These homepage styles are in different formats like Grid, List, Classic or even Masonry.

In each style, you can set the specific featured post to get viewers attention to it. In general, If you are looking to provide a comfortable reading experience for your audience, Writing Blog is a great option you have. Check the theme details for more in-depth review and test results.

7. Typograph

Features	Details
Price	$35
Load Speed	1.8 seconds
SEO Score	4.5 points
Overall Rating	4.6 stars
Typograph Details

Take the power of Gutenberg editor with you. One of the fastest loading WordPress theme if not the fastest. Typograph is best blog theme to focus on content first. Typograph is a dream theme for bloggers who are looking for a modern looking design. It is a perfect example of a personal blog theme which has all the essential element to make a successful blog.

Not only it does look good, but it also has some of the exclusive features that increase readability such as, Article labeling, Post time format, Auto-load next article, Post views counter and Lead paragraph style. Also, there is an easy search box embedded right in the theme’s header.

• Lightninging fast loading speed
• Slider free full content view
• High-quality reading experience
• Perfect for personal blogging and affiliate marketing

So, take advantage of new Gutenberg type post format with Typograph. The theme worth every penny as it has scored 5.0 stars in loading speed and a whopping 4.5 stars in SEO metrics score.

8. Reply

Features	Details
Price	$44
Load Speed	1.2 seconds
SEO Score	4.5 points
Overall Rating	4.8 stars
Reply Details

Reply is a personality based website where you can promote yourself such as Neil Patel, well, sort of same. It is a personal blog cum portfolio WordPress theme. The theme has a beautiful blog page with additional space to show off your work, your profile and you can also sell your stuff directly, thanks to Woocommerce integration.

This theme has a white background and bold back typography on the top of it which simply makes it elegant and clean content-rich platform for enthusiast readers. Another thing to remember in Reply is that it is Retina & HDPI Ready. In other words, It processes high-quality resolution in large device sizes.

Reply makes it easy to integrate third-party web application like Google Analytics, YouTube and Vimeo video embedded, etc. Also, link building looks hugely affecting in this theme with a green underscore link that can be seen easily by readers. This helps in reducing the bounce rate of your blog.

9. Readable

Features	Details
Price	$99
Load Speed	2.9 seconds
SEO Score	3.5 points
Overall Rating	4.1 stars
Readable Review

Readable is one of those modern looking themes that create a unique experience in the reader’s mind. This theme looks just like the material design at a very first look. In reality, its build on the top of the Underscore framework to serve a creative reading feel for readers.

The theme is a little bit pricey but it worth every penny. With a good SEO implementation and average page load speed, Readable is one of the smartest choices to build a personal blog.

10. Cavan

Features	Details
Price	$39
Load Speed	2.9 seconds
SEO Score	2.5 points
Overall Rating	3.8 stars
Cavan Details

Looking for fun blogging theme? Try Canvan. One of the cool looking theme with a lot of different color palette layers that will make your post look like the metro style.

Canvan comes with well-detailed documentation and demo data so that you can exactly match your blog with the original demo site. Also, the download file includes a child theme, just in case, if you want to edit the CSS style or simply want to enable or disable new functions. So, I would suggest you to check the details of this theme to know more.