
Kale is a free WordPress theme by lyrathemes with 7K+ active installs, ranked #313 among the most popular WordPress themes today. It is rated 4.9/5 from 206 reviews and has been downloaded 555.6K times. The latest version 2.9 was released on July 22, 2026.
Highlights
- Ranks in the top 65.3% of all tracked themes.
- Best position recorded: #312.
- Last updated 3 months ago.
- Next install milestone: next 8K+.
Trend explorer
Monthly readings
| Month | Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|
| November 2026 | #313 | ▲ 1 |
| October 2026 | #314 | — |
Monthly readings
| Month | Installs | Change |
|---|---|---|
| November 2026 | 7K | — |
| October 2026 | 7K | — |
Websites using Kale
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⌕Details
- Author
- lyrathemes
- Version
- 2.9
- Last updated
- July 22, 2026
- Added
- February 17, 2017
- Requires WordPress
- 6.8
- Requires PHP
- 7.4
- First tracked
- October 31, 2026
Description
Kale is a charming and elegant, aesthetically minimal and uncluttered food blog theme that can also be used for a variety of purposes. Whether you want to share recipes or fashion tips, run a lifestyle, parenting or cooking blog, Kale is a perfect theme choice. Simple but feature-filled food blog or cooking blog WordPress theme with WooCommerce integration. Beautifully designed and extremely clean, Kale is super easy to set up and is optimized for search engines. Kale comes with a special front page; with featured posts and a large highlight post, the option to show a banner or a posts slider in the header, and RTL support. It also comes with built-in menus for displaying your social media presence, multiple blog feed layouts, text and image logo options, sidebar size options (compact and default), banner/slider color overlay options, multilevel menus, automatically responsive YouTube videos, and much more! Kale is versatile enough to be set up as a small business website as well, by using the a static page as the home page and using the special front page elements to showcase services or portfolio. Kale is backed by world class, one-on-one support, and a super active team of developers and designers ready to help!
FAQ
How many sites use Kale?
Kale has 7K+ active installs according to WordPress.org.
How popular is Kale?
It is currently ranked #313 among tracked themes, with a peak of #312.
When was Kale last updated?
The latest version (2.9) was released on July 22, 2026.
Who develops Kale?
Kale is developed by lyrathemes.
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