Yes, Kale is completely free to use. It is available on WordPress.org at no cost.

How many websites use Kale?

Kale has 7.0K+ active installations as tracked by WordPress.org.

What are the best Kale alternatives?

Popular alternatives to Kale include Astra, Twenty Twenty-Five, Twenty Twenty-Four. You can compare them on our theme directory.

Does Kale work with the latest WordPress?

Kale requires WordPress 6.0+ and PHP 5.6+. Check the theme's WordPress.org page for the latest compatibility information.

Kale

Name: Kale
Rating: 4.9 (206 reviews)
Author: LyraThemes

By LyraThemes·One Column·Free

4.9(206 reviews)

·7.0K+ active installs·Updated 8 months ago

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As of April 2026, Kale is a WordPress theme with 7.0K+ active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 206 reviews. It has been downloaded 546K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.0+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Top alternative: Astra.

4.9/5206 reviews

7.0K+active installs

546K+total downloads

9 yearssince 2017

Overview

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…

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Ratings & Reviews

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Recent Reviews

Elegant theme and incredible support!!

by Jill·1 year ago·1 reply

I’ve been using Kale Pro theme for some time now and have been very happy with it!! This theme is clean, stylish, and user-friendly.

What I’m most impressed with is the tech support. Steven has been the one helping me and I can’t give enough praise! If I need any customizing with styling that requires special code or have issues of ANY kind with my website, Steven is an email away and helps with all of this (super quickly) and goes above and beyond. Best support I’ve ever experienced with anything in my entire life, hands down. It’s very apparent that they care and want you to be happy with your website styling. Highly recommend!!

Clean theme & the BEST Support!

by lovestobegreen·4 years ago·2 replies

I searched for a while to find the perfect theme for my vegan fashion blog and while I know this is designed for food bloggers it works perfectly for me.

There were a number of design tweaks I wanted to make and not being knowledgeable in coding I took to the support page. I can’t say enough good things about the support I received for all the small requests I wanted and a lot of the other things I wanted to change had already been addressed in previous support requests.

This theme is fantastic, looks how I want it to look, and with the help of a top-notch support team I’m able to make it do everything I want it to.

Very beautiful theme

by 782april·4 years ago·1 reply

Thank you for this free beautiful theme, much better than storefront theme, in terms of loading speed and aesthetic. Storefront theme is really too ugly so i switch to this elegant theme.

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by johnclite001·4 years ago·1 reply

its 2021 and the theme has no functionality and no compantibility