Meet Hive

Hive is a lifestyle blog WordPress theme for people seeking for a timeless look.

What’s Inside

Customize it to fit your needs

By using the default WordPress Customizer, you can change your website’s layout, buttons, fonts, and everything in between in a matter of minutes. Make this lifestyle blog WordPress theme feel like you without any coding skills.
unique typography elements for this lifestyle blog WordPress theme
Beautiful Type

Use the unique typography elements

Dropcaps, columns, highlights, you have them all to create a one of a kind website.
 
With the help of these custom typography elements, you can be sure that your blog posts will get the attention they deserve. 
adaptive layouts for Hive
VERSATILE LAYOUTS

Highlight each post with adaptive layouts

Each blog post’s layout will automatically adapt to the type of content you publish.
 
This way, you have the freedom to mix-and-match portrait images and long titles and be sure that your articles look spotless.
flexible home page that adapts to different post formats
Meaningful Design

Adjust the home page to any content

With Hive, you can change how your blog posts look on the home page by using post formats
 
No matter if they are just text, images, videos, audio files — you name it, your engaging stories will always look good.
advanced colors and fonts customization for your lifestyle blog with Style Manager
More Customizations

Apply color palettes with a few clicks

By using Style Manager, our friendly customization tool, you can choose from a wide variety of color palettes and fonts or create yours and apply them instantly.
 
Everyone’s different, and your blog should offer your audience a one of a kind experience.
Gutenberg Ready WordPress Theme
Updated Features

Publish easily with the new editor

Gutenberg is here to stay, and you can take full advantage of its great features.
 
Hive is fully integrated with the new block editor, and that means you can write articles or create pages easy and fast.
Premium Assistance

Get premium assistance from real people

No robots or automated messages will stand in your way. Our teammates are ready to answer all your questions or concerns so that you get the job done
 
Besides, Hive has a comprehensive knowledge base available directly in your Dashboard, so you’re never alone in this adventure.
  • Easy translation

    You can make room for a bunch of cul­tures to enjoy your sto­ries. Our themes have a good deal with WPML (WordPress Multilingual Plugin), which means is ful­ly com­pat­i­ble.

  • Good SEO practices you can trust

    Google ranking is relevant on multiple levels: it places you in the big league of bloggers, and it keeps you there. We covered all the responsible SEO practice for a killer start.

  • Fast loading speeds

    You won’t just get the looks but also the speed your website deserves – that’s why we paid extra atten­tion to do every­thing is nec­es­sary for your site to run faster and smoother than ever.

  • Mobile and responsive ready

    Its ver­sa­tile design match­es mobile devices’ require­ments and allows every­thing to run smooth­ly and effi­cient­ly. Now, your con­tent is cer­tain­ly where it deserves—in the spot­light.

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Other Features

We got you cov­ered by offer­ing every­thing you need to achieve results. With us, you are in great hands regard­ing the set of fea­tures that bring real val­ue in the long run.

Write meaningful stories with this lifestyle blog WordPress theme!

Build a top-notch blog where the content is where it should be: in the spotlight.

An online journal for The Globe Setters community, cultivating the art of living and travel.

The Wardrobe Detectives's site built by Gabi Conac, a personal stylist from Calgary, Canada.

A blog for the KptnCook mobile app, built to share delicious recipes from food bloggers.

The LEP's site built for a publishing house founded in 1979 in Switzerland.

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Sites built on Hive

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Product Reviews

Overall rating:
4.71 out of 5
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efe10.5ergezer, Engineering Student From Turkey!
Customization level
Expert in using WordPress

I have been in the IT industry for a long time, but I don’t think I’ve ever had a business partner as kind and well-intentioned as George. This is truly a first for me. The documentation is superb, well-organized, and easy to understand. The code runs surprisingly fast, beyond what one would expect from WordPress. If I ever embark on a different web project in the future, this will be my first destination.

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christina.musson, Blogger from Ontario, Canada
Customer support
Proficient in using WordPress

We wanted a theme for our Wordpress site that looked clean and that would be easy for users to navigate our blog posts. Hive by Pixelgrade was perfect for this.

I do wish there were further customization options available- installing CSS Hero became helpful for this, although the plugin disrupted the look of certain features in our Pixelgrade theme.

George from customer service was extremely helpful and kind and responded quickly to all our questions. We would recommend Pixelgrade to a friend.

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Mikka Luster, Physician from Iceland
Customization level
Proficient in using WordPress

I am unsure if and how this theme has been updated in the past (no changelog found anywhere), meaning I am a little nervous about the coming bigger changes to the_loop() and others breaking the site or, at the least, not being taken advantage of.

The amount of whitespace in medium-smaller breakpoints and in general is somewhat overkill. Especially embedded pictures should not be even smaller than paragraph text, taking advantage of Gutenberg’s “wide” would fix so many things but, again, I am not even sure the theme has seen much work since Gutenberg.

Customizability could be better. Independent font selections, for example, as well as allowing us to use locally saved Google and other fonts to not piss off the perpetually annoyed GDPR/DSGVO disciples of doom, would be amazing.

Yes, all this can be done in a child theme, but at this point I am not sure I want to stick that much time into a child theme without any clear indication if this theme is still around in, say, a year.

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Michael Vogel, Entrepreneurship Professor from Bremen, Germany
Customization level
Proficient in using WordPress

I was looking for a well-designed masonry-style WP theme. The demo website of the Hive theme is extremely beautiful and elegant, which really caught my attention. Though actually, the blog I want to use it for will be much more conceptual, rough, imperfect and open-ended, so I needed to “un-beautify” the theme. Due to another project, I didn’t have any time to work on it lately, but it’s high up on my list.

One downside: When I changed the background colour from white to something darker, I noticed a bug in the theme and informed the Pixelgrade team. Andrei provided some CSS code as a workaround in no time, which was great. However, the theme itself hasn’t been updated, so I guess the bug is still there. I hope that a bug-free version will be circulated shortly.

I would recommend Pixelgrade, especially for the forthcoming responsiveness I have experienced.

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Susanne Hartig, Blogger, Vienna - Austria
Customization level
Newbie in using WordPress

Spend some time online to look for a new theme to pepp up my old blog. Fell in love with “Hive”. Took a lot of time to think about it and then .. just did it! I managed quite allright. Had one problem, but the support solved it superfast. Seems to have been no biggy for them. Very friendly, too! Made the entire experience even better.
I love the design. This is high quality for sure, worth every cent of it.

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Sara Molovinsky, Social Worker from United States
Customization level
Proficient in using WordPress

Andrei was quick and efficient in solving my issue. I couldn’t figure out why a photo wasn’t showing properly and he was able to fix it and show me how to do the same thing with the rest of the posts.

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Vlad Mykol, Software developer from UK
Customer support
Newbie in using WordPress

I am new to WordPress and trying to set up my own blog. Themes from Prixelgrade look really good and their Support team makes a good job 👍 All good so far but I’ll definitely write another review when have more experience with it

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Frédéric, Communications Manager and blogger from Switzerland
Customer support
Newbie in using WordPress

I am absolutely delighted and grateful by Pixegrade’s customer service. The response is immediate, and the team has always tried to answer my questions and solve my problem (without giving up until it was in order). In addition to offering great themes, they also offer seamless support.

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Andrei's response (Pixelgrade team)

You are too kind, Frédéric!🙈 Always great to hear this feedback from our customers. Cheers!

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David Fox, Learning and Development, from USA
Customization level
Proficient in using WordPress

I bought Hive because it was the best-looking blog I found that was in alignment with my sense of style. I don’t see any downsides. I am able to do with it exactly what I want.
To a friend I would say that Hive incorporates the best retro feel with modern tech capability.

One point of dissatisfaction is I feel limited with how to create title styling. It is complicated to have to use quotes or colons or all caps to effect bold or italics, although, after 200 blog posts, I’m getting the hang of it.

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Alin Clamba's response (Pixelgrade team)

Thanks for your review, David.

Lars Reimers, Blogger
Design quality
Proficient in using WordPress

I bought hive theme because I liked the easy look. I am still struggling to enhance site speed, but pixelgrade stuff is super supportive and helpful to speed the site up. Great experience 🙂

Ease of use
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Alin Clamba's response (Pixelgrade team)

Thank you so much for your time and review, Lars.

  • What will I need to use this theme?

    You will need your own domain and a web hosting with the current WordPress version installed. To make things easier for you, we recommend the Flywheel hosting company.

  • Can I customize the themes?

    Yes, all of our themes are licensed under GPL (like Word­Press itself), so you can cus­tomize them with no restric­tions. Feel free to adapt it to your own writing or business needs!

  • Do I need to purchase any plugins?

    This theme does not need premium plugins to configure it as showcased in the demo. Some plugins might require premium licenses for advanced features but that’s not a requirement.

  • Does this theme use a page builder?

    You should be able to run any page builder of your choice (Elementor, Divi, Visual Composer or others) with no problem. All this said we didn't use one when creating this theme.

  • Can I use the themes for client work?

    If it’s just one client, sure. If you’re a freelancer or a small agency that wants to create multiple websites for clients, you can pick the Themes Bundle plan and have unlimited access to all of our themes to build as many websites that you want.

  • What is your refund policy?

    Although we don’t think you’ll ever want a refund, our goal is always to be fair and reasonable. The refund policy is not any different: we offer a 14–days no‐risk money back guarantee on all of our themes. No questions asked!

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