Kadence Theme

A fast theme by default. Flexible by design.

Kadence is the theme for whatever you’re building: a blog, business site, store, or course. Design it visually, then add WooCommerce, security, and multi-site tools as your site grows.

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The last WordPress theme
you’ll need

Most themes make you choose: eye-catching or fast, flexible or lightweight, powerful or beginner-friendly. Kadence Themes delivers it all, no trade-offs.

Deep layout controls

Adjust padding, margins, sidebar placement, and page width for any page, post, or custom post type. Every layout looks the way you actually pictured it.

Customize your header and footer

Build any header or footer in minutes with the visual builder, complete with sticky bars, transparent headers, mega menus, multi-row navigation, and 20+ header widgets.

Global styles

Set your fonts and colors once in a single panel, and every page on your site picks them up automatically. No more re-styling page by page.

Lightweight

Kadence ships a clean, optimized codebase right out of the box, so your site loads fast without any extra tuning on your end.

build anything

Add exactly what your site needs, nothing it doesn’t.

Kadence works with the tools you already use, including WooCommerce to sell online, Kadence Blocks for advanced layouts, and professionally-designed templates when you want to get started instantly.

WooCommerce store tools

Seamlessly build and customize a full online store. Pro and Elite plans add Shop Kit, a bundle of 18 additional features for stores that need more than the basics.

Kadence Blocks plugin

Add rows, tabs, accordions, galleries, and more with Kadence Blocks Pro. Get full page builder flexibility, advanced blocks, and dynamic content, all in your WordPress editor.

Starter templates

Start from a professionally designed template and start editing your real site in minutes, no more staring at a blank page.

kadence theme Pricing

One bundle, Simple pricing. No surprises.

Start at $99 with the theme and blocks. Upgrade when you need security, commerce, or multi-site management.

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Theme + Blocks

Essentials

$99 /year

Get Essentials

The Kadence foundation. Beautiful theme, 30+ blocks, 200+ starter templates.

Kadence Blocks Pro page builder
Premium themes & templates
Kadence AI (coming soon)
Header & footer builder
Mega menus & advanced navigation
Custom fonts & pattern hub
Child theme builder
CAPTCHA

Pro

$299 /year

Get Pro

The Kadence stack for creators and small studios. Adds Security, Backups, Shop Kit for WooCommerce, and Memberships.

Everything in Essentials
Shop kit for WooCommerce
Security firewall, 2FA, Patchstack
Daily backups, one-click restore
Speed & performance optimization
Content restriction & memberships
Add-ons: ActiveCampaign, MailChimp, etc.

For agencies

Elite

$499 /year

Get Elite

Built for agencies, with Kadence Central for white-label client portals and multi-site management.

Everything in Pro
Multi-site management (Central)
A/B testing & conversion insights
White label client portal
Promotional sale banners
Popups & slide-ins
1,000 emails per month (Kadence Mail)

Kadence theme FAQ

Questions, answered.

Want to know more? Check out our FAQs for answers to common questions. Talk to a human — usually under 4 hours.

Kadence Theme offers a complete suite of design, performance, and customization tools built right into the WordPress Customizer. Key features include:

Built-in navigation tools: Integrated breadcrumb generation (compatible with popular SEO plugins) and customizable scroll-to-top buttons.

Header & footer builders: Drag-and-drop interfaces to build custom, sticky, or transparent headers and responsive footers, complete with integrated social links.
Global design controls: Site-wide control over color palettes, full typography settings (Google and web-safe fonts), and consistent button styling that updates across your entire site in a few clicks.
Flexible layout options: Custom sidebar, full-width, or narrow layout settings tailored for individual pages, posts, and custom post types (CPTs).
Responsive styling: Device-specific controls allowing you to customize layout, typography, and spacing separately for desktop, tablet, and mobile screens.
Performance & SEO optimization: Lightweight architecture with built-in schema markup, best SEO practices, and one-click CSS pre-loading for faster load times.

Yes. Kadence is built from the ground up as a lightweight, block-first WordPress theme designed to load in milliseconds. It avoids bloat, providing exceptional performance out of the box while maintaining high layout flexibility. Kadence Theme features built-in SEO best practices, structured schema markup, clean HTML, and a one-click CSS pre-loading to ensure fast page render times.

Yes. Kadence includes granular responsive controls directly in the WordPress Customizer. This allows you to adjust font sizes, layouts, padding, and visibility independently for desktop, tablet, and mobile screens.

Yes. You can manage layout settings for standard posts, pages, and custom post types (CPTs) directly in the WordPress Customizer. Options include boxed, unboxed, full-width, narrow, or custom sidebar layouts. Global color palettes and button settings update across all content types simultaneously.

Kadence offers deep, native WooCommerce support. You can customize product loops, enable sticky “Add to Cart” buttons, deploy off-canvas sliding carts, and streamline checkout flows. Higher-tier plans also include the Kadence Shop Kit for advanced store features and custom field management for WooCommerce emails.

Kadence integrates with a wide variety of plugins and page builders. Take a look at our full list of plugin and software integrations.