
Activello is a clean, minimal multipurpose WordPress blog theme developer using the Bootstrap frontend framework making it fully responsive and mobile-friendly. The theme features pixel-perfect graphics and design. Activello comes with several custom widgets and a fullscreen slider to showcase your content with style.
Activello theme is a very flexible free WordPress blog theme well suited for food, travel, adventures, photography, personal, fitness, corporate, or any other awesome blog. The theme is optimized to work with WooCommerce, W3 Total Cache, Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, Jetpack, Yoast SEO, and many other free and premium WordPress plugins.
The theme is SEO friendly with Schema compatible structure that will make Google love your website. Activello theme is also fast to loads providing additional SEO and usability boost.
We are open to suggestions on how to make the Activello theme become the next big thing. If you feel that you know how to improve this theme even more, please let us know on the support forum or via Twitter.
Activello is among the best and most popular free WordPress themes available today.
This theme is the highest rated food blog WordPress theme by our customers and has received a rating of 4.9/5. Activello is still actively maintained: version 1.6.1 shipped on 10 August 2026.
Where Activello works best
Activello’s full-width slider and clean blog layout suit a content-led site. It is one of our picks in the roundups for themes with a slider, personal themes, fashion themes and travel themes, and it appears in our free WordPress themes collection.
- Version: 1.6.1
- Last updated: 10 August 2026
- Requires: WordPress 6.0 or later · PHP 7.0 or later
- Active installations: 4,000+
- Rating: 4.9 out of 5 from 23 reviews on WordPress.org
- Total downloads: 724,824
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= 1.6.1 =
- The no-js class swap is now printed from a wp_head hook (priority 0, still ahead of the stylesheets) instead of being hardcoded in header.php, so child themes and plugins can remove it
- Footer credit links use https
= 1.6.0 =
- Removed the Epsilon framework: the Customizer toggles are now a small theme-owned control with identical appearance, and saved settings are untouched (Epsilon’s upstream repository no longer exists, which also made fresh git clones of this theme unusable)
- The repository no longer uses git submodules — cloning or downloading from GitHub now just works
- Rebuilt the About Activello screen on core admin markup; the Recommended Plugins tab now renders WordPress’ own plugin cards with details modals
- Removed the never-satisfiable "required actions" importer nag and its notification system
- Regenerated the translation template (181 strings, zero extraction warnings) and refreshed all 26 bundled translations
- Passed Theme Check: development files no longer ship with the theme, the 1.1 MB screenshot is now an optimized 318 KB JPG and the welcome logo shrank from 778 KB to 11 KB
- Verified WooCommerce shop, product, cart, checkout and my-account templates on WordPress 7.0 / PHP 8.5
- Removed the obsolete Grunt/Travis toolchain
- Corrected the style.css theme headers for the WordPress.org directory: added the missing "Requires at least" header, removed tags the theme cannot back up (rtl-language-support without an rtl.css, footer-widgets with no footer widget areas, accessibility-ready), added the e-commerce tag, refreshed the description and aligned the licence statement (GPL v2 or later) across style.css and the readme
= 1.5.0 =
- Security: added nonce and capability checks to the welcome-screen AJAX handlers, which previously ran without either
- Security: removed unused plugin activate/deactivate handlers that ran on admin_init, and moved the demo front-page setter onto a proper authenticated AJAX action
- Fixed the Bootstrap version mix: the theme now ships genuine Bootstrap 3.4.1 CSS and JS (includes the CVE-2019-8331 fix) instead of 3.3.7 CSS with 4.x JS and a hand-patched mobile menu
- Fixed the front-page slider failing to initialise when jQuery Migrate is disabled; updated FlexSlider from 2.6.3 to 2.7.0
- Rewrote theme JavaScript in plain DOM APIs — theme scripts no longer depend on jQuery, load in the footer, and honour prefers-reduced-motion
- Removed Modernizr and the legacy IE conditional-comment markup
- Escaped remaining output across templates, widgets and admin screens; colours are re-validated at output time
- Fixed PHP 8.5 deprecations and the WordPress 6.7+ early-translation notice; verified with zero notices on WordPress 7.0 / PHP 8.5
- Added block editor support: wp-block-styles, align-wide, responsive-embeds and an editor stylesheet matching the front end
- All theme assets are now versioned from the theme version for reliable cache busting
= 1.4.9 =
- Fixed Epsilon_Section_Recommended_Actions class loading in customizer
- Added missing required header information in style.css
- Fixed CSS syntax error in style.css
- Updated theme version and compatibility information
- Improved theme stability and performance
= 1.4.8 =
- Fixed translation loading issue by properly initializing translations after WordPress init
- Moved welcome screen setup to load after init hook
- Fixed Epsilon_Control_Toggle class loading in customizer
- Improved theme compatibility with WordPress 6.8
- Added support for block styles and wide blocks
- Enhanced accessibility features
- Updated theme tags to reflect new features
= 1.4.7 =
- Fixed customizer controls
- Improved theme compatibility with WordPress 6.7
- Enhanced security features
- Updated theme dependencies
= 1.4.6 =
- Fixed responsive issues
- Improved theme compatibility with WordPress 6.6
- Enhanced performance
- Updated theme dependencies = 1.4.5 =
- Improved Escaping = 1.4.4 =
- Improved Escaping
= 1.4.3 =
- Compatibility with jQuery 3.0
= 1.4.2 =
- Sanitization fix
= 1.4.1 =
- Security Fix
= 1.4.0 =
- Improved accesibility with keyboard navigation
- Updated list of recommended plugins
= 1.3.4
- Structured data missing hatom author
- Allow theme to display more than 2 sub level menus
= 1.3.3
- Fixed search functionality
= 1.3.2
- Added a new Blog Layout
- Added option to show all categories in the blog page
- Fixed mobile menu
- Integrated with Travis
- Added a notice inside admin dashboard so users know they need to regenerate thumbnails
= 1.3.0 =
- Fixed slider & JetPack Photon integration
- Added Epsilon Framework as a git sub-module
- Fixed image serving – we were serving larger images than necessary
= 1.2.0 =
- Added Welcome Screen
- Added Customizer Documentation Section
- Fixed search menu css
- Added for customizer colors defaults
- Fixed Social Widget title bug
- Fixed responsive menu css
- Added logo max height
- Added native WordPress Additional CSS section
- Activello functions now are pluggable.
- Fixed Woocommerce related tab issue
- Added dates for comments
- Fixed WordPress gallery css issue
- Fixed categories html bug
= 1.1.0 =
- Updated Bootstrap to 3.3.7
- Updated Font Awesome to 4.6.3
- Updated FlexSlider to 2.6.3
= 1.1.0 =
- Added Link to documentation
- Fixed compatibility errors with the WP 4.6 and PHP 7.
- Now you can use unlimited number of slides on Slider
- Other minor code tweaks and improvements
- Added French translation thanks to Eddy Lelièvre-Berna
- Added Greek translation thanks to Tsakman
- Added Slovak translation thanks to Marek
= 1.0.3 =
- Added TGMPA & Kiwi Social Share Plugin
- Updated theme tags
= 1.0.2 =
- Several improvements to get it approved on WordPress.org
= 1.0.1 =
- Code cleanups
- Added translation files
= 1.0 =
- Initial release
