Step 4. Designing Your Lifestyle Blog

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Step 4. Designing Your Lifestyle Blog With Free Tools and Templates
WordPress itself is totally free – and you can add lots of free extras to your WordPress site, too.

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Changing Your WordPress Theme
A great place to begin is with choosing your blog’s theme (template). All blogs start out with the default WordPress theme for the year, but you’ll likely want to change this to a theme that better matches your personal style.

There are lots of free themes that work very well for lifestyle blogs, including themes that offer lots of extra features beyond WordPress’ defaults.

A couple of great (free) lifestyle themes to check out are:

Elementor – Elementor is my favorite WordPress theme because it’s really fast and has a fantastic drag-and-drop page builder that lets you get your site looking just how you want. The free version is likely to be all you need to begin with, but the paid version offers even more extras.

Felt – this WordPress theme is fast, adaptable, and modern. It’ll look great on your readers’ phones as well as on computer screens, and you can customize your colors, fonts, logo, and more. There’s also a paid version with more features.

There are lots more WordPress themes to choose from, too. It’s easy to choose a new theme for your site: just log in to your admin area, then go to Appearance → Themes → Add New.

Here, you can choose from lots of different themes. You might want to put “lifestyle” into the search bar to get the most relevant options:

Lifestyle Blog WordPress Themes to Design Your Blog
To change your theme, just hover your mouse over the theme you want and click “Install”. (You can also preview the theme if you want to check it out in more detail.)

Tip: Changing your WordPress theme doesn’t change any of your content, like posts, pages, and blog comments. Those will all still be in place – but things like fonts, colors, and layout will have changed.

Adding WordPress Plugins to Your Blog
WordPress plugins are useful add-ons for your blog that let you include new features. You can get free plugins for all sorts of things, like:

An online store. If you plan to sell products, whether digital or physical, then you can use the free plugin WooCommerce to create a fully functioning online store for your blog.