A warm, editorial theme for food and recipe blogs.
A clean sans body type built for long-form storytelling. Starter includes home page, recipe page with recipe cards, ingredient and step lists and tip callouts. Go for the complete look and get the archive, about and contact layouts — everything you need to write recipes that feel personal, not templated.
$79
starter · or $109 for all six layouts
Built to work with
WP Recipe Maker
Yoast SEO
Block editor / Full Site Editing
WordPress 7.1+
No page builder needed
What you get
Chloe is a finished blog, not a blank canvas. Install it, drop in your recipes, and the layouts are already doing the work.
WP Recipe Maker, restyled
The WPRM block is styled to match the theme — recipe card, ingredient table and numbered steps. No plugin CSS fighting your design.
Yoast-ready structure
Clean heading order, semantic markup, and breadcrumb support so Yoast has something real to read. Recipe schema comes through WPRM untouched.
Edit it all in WordPress
Colors, fonts, headers and footers are editable in the WordPress editor. Change the palette once and it carries across every page.
Fast by default
Self-hosted fonts, no page builder, no bundled plugin stack. Recipe blogs live and die on load time, so the theme stays out of the way.
Patterns for the bits in between
Newsletter band, cookbook promo, video playlist, category pills, tip callout. Drop them into any page from the pattern library.
Written like a person
A script accent for asides and notes, a long-form measure that’s actually comfortable to read. The theme is built for blogs with a voice.
Every layout, page by page
Six layouts ship with Chloe. Here’s what each one does.
In Starter
Home
A full-width hero, a latest-recipes grid, a video section with a playlist rail, a category block, a newsletter band and a cookbook promo. Every band is a pattern you can reorder or remove.
- Hero with overlay title and CTA
- 4-up recipe grid, repeatable per category
- Video + playlist section
- Newsletter signup band
- Book / product promo block
In Starter
Recipe post
The layout that has to earn its keep. Category pills, a script subtitle (number of servings from WP Recipe Maker), then a two-column ingredients and steps block that stays readable at any length.
- Category pills above the title
- Handwritten subtitle line
- Two-column ingredients / steps
- Numbered step markers
- Tip callout for notes from you
- Jump-to-recipe and print styling
In Starter
All Recipes
Search and color-coded category pills sit above a four-column grid, so readers can find last summer’s recipe without scrolling for a minute.
- Recipe search field
- Category pills, one tint per category
- 4-column card grid with cook time
In Starter
Archive
Archive displays the breadcrumbs, title, description and 4-column card grid with cook time.
- Works for category, tag and date archives
Everything
About
A portrait-led story page: intro, a short bio in the long-form measure, a pull quote in the script face, and a strip of favourite recipes at the end.
- Portrait + intro split
- Long-form bio column
- Script pull quote
- Favourites strip
Everything
Contact
A styled form for brand enquiries and reader questions, next to a short note about what you do and don’t answer.
- Form styling for the major plugins
- Social links block
The thoughtful details, built right in
The small pieces are where recipe themes usually fall apart. These are done.
Ingredients beside steps
Quantities set in the accent color and aligned in their own column, so nobody has to scroll back up mid-cook.
Tip callouts in your handwriting
A soft tinted block with a script line for the thing you’d say out loud. One pattern, drop it anywhere in a post.
Category pills that mean something
Each category gets its own tint, used consistently on posts and archives so readers learn the color before they read the label.
Questions
Not to use the theme — posts, archives and patterns all work without it. But the recipe layout is styled specifically for WP Recipe Maker, and the free version is enough. If you already use it, your existing recipes pick up the new styling on activation.
Yes. Chloe styles the content you already have — it doesn’t ask you to re-enter anything. Featured images, categories and recipe cards all map across. Set your homepage and menus after activation and you’re done.
All of them, in the WordPress editor, without touching code. The palette and type scale are defined once and applied everywhere, so changing the accent color updates links, buttons and ingredient quantities together.
The about and contact layouts. Home, archive and recipe post are the pages a blog runs on, and Starter has those finished, plus the full pattern library. If you already have an about page you like, Starter is enough.
The theme is yours to keep and keeps working. Support just stops being included — you can still email, and I’ll answer when I can.
No. Chloe is a block theme, edited entirely in WordPress itself. No Elementor, no Divi, no extra license, no page builder bloat slowing the site down.
Your recipes deserve a beautiful home.
Browse the demo first. If you love the look, make it your own tonight.