25 WordPress Travel Blog Themes Compared - 2023

We are getting started on our WordPress travel blog themes journey with a visually enticing theme appropriately titled, Voyager. This theme will allow your site to have a very modern look. You can include a video in the full width header to make your page visually stimulating. The Voyager theme comes equipped with a powerful page builder so creating your site will be fun instead of stressful. With its Google Maps integration, you can chart your traveling adventures on Voyager and share with friends, family and the users of your site.

There are even more features you will get from the Voyager WordPress theme such as:

• YouTube, self-hosted and Vimeo video support
• Retina ready so all of your images will always look great
• AJAX photo gallery
• Several layout choices
• Child theme
• Can work with bbPress
• 2 blog layouts
• 3 portfolio layout options

The Embark WordPress travel blog theme is a really great theme choice for any type of tour company including: walking, tours, wine tours, bus tours, sightseeing and any other type of tour you can think of. This theme comes with an integrated schedule and a payment system. In addition, there is an online booking feature so people can easily book their tours through your company and the the theme can connect your site to Google calendar, Apple or Outlook. There is full WooCommerce support which will take care of any of the eCommerce needs for your site. MailChimp can also work with this theme so sending emails and updates to stay connected to your clients is super easy.

And can you believe there is more to the Embark theme? It also has:

• Powerful page builder to quickly create your website
• Video backgrounds
• More than 1000 built in Google font choices
• Over 800 icons
• Multi language translation support so people from other countries can use your site and become clients.

This next theme was made especially for all of you bloggers out there. The Travelista WordPress travel blog can be used for not just travel, but food or lifestyle or news blogs as well. It comes with a totally responsive design which means that your blog will look fabulous on all devices and all screen sizes, even itty bitty mobile ones. It is also retina ready so your content won’t be the only part of your site looking great but your images will look amazing too. There is also WooCommerce with the Travelista theme so you eCommerce needs will be met should you need or decide to have an online shop of some kind on your blog. You can also make money from you blog by using the Adsense feature that comes with this theme.

More features from the Travelista WordPress travel blog theme include:

• Custom 404 page
• Custom CSS option
• 9 different types of post options
• Custom favicon
• Custom logo
• Infinite color choices
• 8 blog layout styles

This is another theme just for all of the travel bloggers out there that want a modern, fresh looking website. You can share whatever you want on your blog with this theme, photos, thoughts, a portfolio, you name it. This theme’s layout is especially great if you are into using lots of images. The Traveler WordPress theme comes with the MeridianStyler which you can use to personalize tons of elements on your site like: typography, background or colors. the Traveler’s design is fully responsive so your blog will stay great on any type of device or any screen size. There is also support for Contact Form 7 so you can stay better connected with your followers can keep them up to date.

There are a few more features included with The Traveler theme such as:

• Custom Instagram Widget
• Custom Integration
• Different post formats
• Custom social media profiles
• Custom “about me” widget

The Essence is number 5 of our best WordPress travel blog themes. The Essence has a more feminine looking style and layout and can also work, not just for a blog, but also for an online magazine. It is 100% mobile friendly so your site will be able to be displayed on those tiny screens and The Essence is also responsive so the site you create will look good on all devices and screen shapes and sizes. There is also the MeridianStyler with this theme so you will get tons of customizable options to adjust on you blog.

The Essence WordPress travel blog/magazine theme also comes with loads more features such as:

• 17 different blog layouts to choose from
• Social media icons located in the header
• Custom “about me” widget
• Custom Instagram widget plugin
• Translation ready so people from other countries can enjoy your site

and more!

The Travelogue (such a great name!) WordPress blog theme is another incredibly visually pleasing theme. This travel theme is a great choice for: journals, portfolios, photographers, and bloggers. This theme can work across all the different internet browsers, so no one will feel left out that your site won’t work on their browser of choice.

Travelogue is another responsive theme so your website will work on all devices and various screen sizes.There are also cool transition effects that will happen from page to page on your site when using this theme so it will give your blog or portfolio etc. an interesting, sleek and modern feel. So if you want a very visually appealing site that won’t require too much effort to set and get started then choose Travelogue for your blog.

This next theme on our list of WordPress travel blog themes is Penamoo. Penamoo was designed with the travel blogger in mind and easily allows your to preserve and tell the story of your travels and journeys around the world. There are lots of different layouts and styles and color choices so you can really let your creativity take over when making your blog. If you like social media, specifically Instagram, then you will love the Instagram gallery that comes with the Penamoo theme. And there are more features of Penamoo that will help make your site stunning and special like:

• Various page types such as: a 404 page, portfolio single page, portfolio home page, etc.
• One click demo import
• Social media section
• Google web fonts
• Tabbed post widget
• ACF pro

The Trawell WordPress travel blog theme is our first professional travel theme. With this theme you can create either a travel blog or travel guide website. This theme is easy to build customize, create and maintain so you can focus your energy on your content instead of focusing on putting you site together. There is built in translation with Trawell so people from all over the globe can read and understand your site and see your traveling adventures. There is also WooCommerce with this theme so should you decide to have a store or retail aspect on your blog you will have a way of a managing the eCommerce.

More features from the Trawell WordPress theme include:

• RTL (right to left language) support
• One click demo import
• Shortcodes
• Multi page posts and paginated posts
• Custom widgets
• Pagination types
• Sticky sidebars

CheerUp is the first mulitpurpose blogging theme we have come across in our WordPress travel blog themes list. Since it is a mulit-purpose theme meant for blogs it comes with an enormous amount of layouts and styles so you can find the right fit for the topic of you blog. There is a drag and drop feature that will help make building your blog easy as 1,2,3, just move your items around and place them wherever you want them to go. The CheerUp theme is fully responsive so your blog will look great no matter what device your users are viewing it on. With the MailChimp element and sign-up forms, keeping connected with your followers is incredibly easy to do.

The list of features continues for the CheerUp theme with:

• Built in custom widgets
• 6 different header layouts
• Social media sharing
• Several options of home page layouts
• WooCommerce/shop support is built in to take care of your eCommerce needs.

We continue on with number 10 on our list of WordPress travel blog themes with the Bjorn blog theme. This theme is perfect for blogs and online magazines. With its many layouts choices, you are sure to find one that shows off the content of your blog just the way you like. Whatever type of blog and whatever topic you want (travel, fashion, photography etc.) to blog about can be done with Bjorn. Bjorn also comes with a Control Panel which helps you manage your blog and its various elements to make adjustments and corrections to your specifications. And a great perk of Bjorn is that you don’t need to have any coding knowledge what’s so ever. It provides you with all the tools you need to easily create your unique blog.

More features of the Bjorn WordPress blog theme include:

• 10 predefined color skins
• 1 minute easy installation process
• 5 widgets sidebars
• 7 blog listing layouts
• Sticky header
• Foot HTML block
• JetPack infinity scroll
• More than 650 Google web fonts are integrated

As you can maybe tell by this theme’s name, Vlog is a blog theme with a heavy focus on video geared towards video bloggers, video producers or publishers. The Vlog theme is totally compatible with other video sources like: YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion and other similar types of video sites. This blog theme’s design is fully responsive so your videos and content will look great from big desktop screens to the small mobile screens. There is also bbPress support with Vlog should you want or need to make a discussion forum on your site for your followers to participate in. A cool feature of this theme is that it comes with the Series plugin which allows you to make playlists of your videos and articles.

More elements of the Vlog theme include:

• Over 200 post layout combos
• Auto detect video thumbnail
• You can monetize your site by using ads
• Custom widgets
• Easy branding
• Shortcodes
• RTL (right to left language) support

Next up on our list, I’m sure you can tell by its name, is a travel blog WordPress theme. Travel Blog can be used also for newspapers and magazines but its main focus is for personal blogs. It comes with optimized support AMP so the website you create can still work on mobile. This theme is also search engine optimized so your blog will come up high in the rankings for online search results. This means you will get more people sent to your site which will increase your site’s views. The Travel Blog theme can also support Contact Form 7 so you can easily connect with your followers and keep them up to date on things with your site.

The Travel Blog theme comes with several more features some of which are:

• MailChimp is integrated so you can send out emails easily
• Optional fixed header
• Unlimited color presets
• Valid HTML5 and CSS3 mark-up
• Many Google font choices

The WPVoyager WordPress travel theme was designed just for the adventurous traveler. It has Google Maps integrated with it so you can choose to show exactly where you are in the world through your blog or add more features with a Google maps plugin. A nice perk to this theme is that there is a setup wizard. The wizard allows you to make sure you have configured all the main aspects of your blog before you launch your site. There is also the Google API intelligent integration so you can choose from a flexible choice of may displays when showing your pinpointed location. WPVoyager also has KML support, which is a file format that is used to show geographic data in a mapping app.

The WPVoyager comes with even more features such as:

• Map drawing tools
• Flexible footer widget
• Simple and easy shortcodes
• Translation ready so anyone can read and understand your adventures
• The TravellerPress plugin
• Social media integration

Travelog was made, you guessed it, to help travelers blog their adventures and travel experiences. With this theme comes some interesting features. There is a map markers tool which allows you to add a map, through the Google Maps integration, with your own custom markers to your posts and articles. You can also monetize your site with Google AdSense, which is supported by Travelog. There is also multilingual support so your blog can be read by people from all over the world and Travelog is fully responsive so people will not have a problem viewing your site no matter what device they are using or its screen size.

But wait, there is more. The Travelog WordPress travel blog theme also comes with:

• Optimized code
• More than 600 Google fonts
• 4 header styles
• Widget ready
• Instagram ready
• Various page templates
• Sticky menu
• WPML ready
• Sidebars

This next theme is based on Bootstrap 3.0 so it can look good on smaller screens like tablets and mobile devices.The Desert theme has many great features, like Redux Framework, to help you make your travel blog exactly the way you want it. The SEO for this theme is built in with rich snippet microdata for article and the Desert theme also works with the SEO plugins: Yoast SEO and All in One SEO. With all of this SEO potential you are sure to get tons of views, which will then lead to users and followers, on your travel blog. There is also retina support, so if you like to use lots of images they will all look great.

More features of the Desert WordPress travel blog theme include:

• Built in mega menu
• Many typography choices
• Several advanced header layouts
• Custom widgets
• Advanced shortcodes

And Desert can integrate with many popular plugins like: W3 total cache, MailChimp for easy email send out, WP super cache and others

Journey is a WordPress blog theme that could be a great choice for any travelers interested in blogging. The theme is on its second version and it is only improving with time. The Journey theme comes with the Visual Composer page builder plugin and its amazing drag and drop feature. With drag and drop you can literally drag any item you want around on your page and drop it wherever you want it to go. And if that’s not good enough, there are also several premium add ons that come with the page builder in this theme. The Journey theme is also fully responsive and retina ready so all aspects of your blog will look great on any and all devices no matter the screen size. Included is the widget MailChimp subscribe form to allow you to easily email any of your site subscribers.

The Journey WordPress blog theme also comes with more features such as:

• Translation  ready
• 8 demo choices
• Sticky sidebar
• 11different  blog layouts
• Customizable header images like video background or parallax background

Our next WordPress travel blog theme is one of WordPress’s premium themes. With the Travelmatic theme you can make a beautiful travel diary to share with friends and family. It is integrated with Google maps so you can show where you have been on an actual map on your blog.  You can also use the map drawing tool to show map markers and draw lines to show routes and use polygons to show areas. The Travelmatic theme is also translation ready so other can see and understand read about the journeys you have had.

The Travelmatic WordPress travel blog theme also comes with several more features like:

• Flexible footer widget
• KML support
• Social media integration
• Slider for page templates

With Travelmatic your blog can work on any device so you don’t have to worry about someone not being able to access your site because their device is not compatible.

The JNews WordPress theme can not only works great for blogs but for online news sites as well. This theme comes with a very handy drag and drop page builder to make building, customizing and creating your site incredibly smooth and easy in real time. There is also the WP Bakery Visual Composer and Customizer for even better customizing options.The JNews theme was made with attention to SEO and was built for SEO performance with both desktop and mobile.

More features of the JNews WordPress theme include:

• A wide variety of demos like: Health magazine, science news, fashion blog and so much more
• 10 blog templates
• Instagram feed widget
• Integrates with popular plugin
• Shopping cart
• Push notification

So even if you are not one of the most tech savvy people you can still easily create an amazing, personal and unique travel blog to digitally document your travels.

Next up is the Nova WordPress theme. This theme is a general blog theme but it is a great choice for anyone wanting to make a travel blog because it comes with a special demo for this topic. The Nova theme has a responsive layout to your blog will look great on all devices and all screen shapes and sizes. It is also WPML ready so your site can be translated into other languages for others to enjoy. It also has a new feature of a translation panel.

And the list of features just keeps going with the Nova WordPress theme like:

• Live search with AJAX
• Infinite color choices
• Mega menu
• 6 built in header layouts
• Sticky sidebar
• Child theme is included
• Supports animated GIF images

Nova can also support MailChimp so you can easily send out emails to your followers to stay better connected and keep them up to date.

Number 20 of our Best WordPress Travel Blogs Themes list is a very popular theme called Divi. Divi is not blog or travel specific but it was one the most powerful WordPress multipurpose themes available. Divi comes with its own powerful page builder so building, customizing, creating and maintaining your site is so simple and easy. With the page builder you can “build anything visually” so whatever your dream blog or website looks like can be accomplished, even by those who are tech challenged, thanks to Divi.

Divi has so many features it is touch to even come close to listing them all but here is a sample of what else Divi bring to the table.

• Real time design
• 46 content elements
• Responsive editing
• Pre made layouts
• Import and export
• Customizable UI
• In line editing

And So Much More!

The Soledad multipurpose blog theme continues our list of WordPress travel blog themes. It comes with the Visual Composer page builder plugin so you can easily customize, build and maintain your site or blog. This theme can also work with WooCommerce should you need or decide to have an online shop or some other retail aspect on your travel blog or site. The Soledad theme is also search engine optimized so you won’t have to worry about going unnoticed in large search results. Your site will rank high and be seen thanks to the seo feature.

More features that come with the Soledad WordPress blog theme include:

• 11 custom widgets
• Sticky sidebar
• 5 different article styles
• 9 header styles
• RTL (right to left language) support
• More than 800 sliders
• AMP support
• Over 2000 demos for home pages

The MagPlus WordPress theme is great for not juts blogs but magazines, news, review sites and more. But let’s focus on why it is a good choice for you to use for a travel blog. This theme comes with 40 demos so you can choose which one will give you the right look for your blog. It also comes wit a pre built travel specific blog design should you want to use that. This theme is also responsive, even on mobile so your followers can access your blog wherever they are. There is also the drag and drop Visual Composer page builder plugin for easy and quick creating and customizing on your blog.

With the MagPlus WordPress theme you will also get:

• A template builder
• Fast installation and setup
• Library home page
• Social sharing
• 20 exclusive widgets
• Shortcodes
• Endless color choices

And we have come to number 25, the last but not least of our WordPress travel blog themes, Gillion. The Gillion theme is a multi concept theme that can be used for blogs or magazines and it comes with many pre built demos for many different website topics including travel blogs. The very popular Visual Composer page builder plugin comes with this theme so you know customizing your site will be incredibly easy and even fun. With its drag and drop element, building your website from scratch is simple. It is SEO optimized so you can bring in more viewers and followers and Gillion works with MailChimp so you can send out emails and keep people up to date and connected.

More features from Gillion include:

• Over 5 different blog layouts
• 404 page customization
• Social share functionalities
• Over 12 custom widgets
• More than 5 different blog layouts
• Blog slider
• No coding knowledge needed to make your site awesome!