# Blog templates

Free Joomla templates for blogs and personal sites, with reader-focused features such as reading time, author boxes and progress bars. All templates here are free; JA Purity IV needs a free JoomlArt account.

Plume, a Joomla 5 template, adds a category-driven slideshow, reading time, an author box and related articles. Signal Dark is a dark design with self-hosted fonts and a reading progress bar. JO's Cassiopeia by JL Tryoen is a Cassiopeia child template with colour and font options, an off-canvas menu and a sticky header. Astroid Three by TemPlaza covers personal blogs with drag-and-drop layouts.