43 Minimal And Really Clean Free WordPress Themes
Dainis Graveris
In early days blogs were supposed to be simply online diaries and way how to write your thoughts without any business purpose. I will start to write personal blog in my own language as well and that’s because I wanted to find out how many simple and minimalistic themes are available for WordPress. Certainly I got again more than expected, but I tried to narrow article and be picky, but I still got 43 interesting and simplistic themes.
Enjoy typography, white color, grid, white spaces and remember – very often simply good typography and great use of white space is a lot better than theme overloaded with effects, colors, images and too much CSS styling!
1. Hybrid Minimalist WordPress Theme Framework
Everybody should know about this framework, which can be used as excellent minimalist type theme as well!
2. Thematic Minimalist WordPress Theme Framework
One more very popular and well known framework because of it’s big quality.
3. Minimalist WordPress Theme
Release Date: March 19, 2009
Outstanding theme using Mootools features to make it really unique with no picures at all.
4. How to Create a Minimalist and Typographic Blog Layout From Scratch
We also have our own tutorial and theme released by Jon Philips from Spyrestudios – definitely check it out and learn how to create your own beautiful theme! It will be a lot simpler to create such beautiful theme then you would think!
5. Modern Clix Minimalist WordPress Theme
Release Date: March 19, 2009
6. DesignMagz Minimalist WordPress Theme
Release Date: March 12, 2009
Really great typographic magazine type theme keeping everything as simple as possible.
7. Essayist Minimalist WordPress Theme
Release Date: May 31, 2009
8. The Upstart Blogger Minimalist WordPress Theme
Release Date: June 19, 2007
9. Satorii Minimalist WordPress Theme
Release Date: January 6, 2009
10. Oulipo Minimalist WordPress Theme
Release Date: January 3, 2009
11. MagaTheme Minimalist WordPress Theme
Release Date: Feb 9, 2009
12. Grid Focus Minimalist WordPress Theme
Release Date: December 10, 2008
13. Sharpfolio Minimalist WordPress Theme
Release Date: May 10, 2007
Something more dark and well known, but really good alternative for people, who enjoy dark colors and minimalism.
14. Typogriph Minimalist WordPress Theme
Release Date: April 6, 2009
15. Undedicated Minimalist WordPress Theme
Release Date: February 28, 2009
16. Cardeo Minimal WordPress Theme
Release Date: September 28, 2008
17. Clean Home Pro Minimalist WordPress Theme
Release Date: November 2, 2008
18. F8 lite Minimalist WordPress Theme
Release Date: May 2, 2008
19. Just Lucid Minimalist WordPress Theme
Release Date: April 25, 2008
20. Journalist Minimalist WordPress Theme
Release Date: September 9, 2009
21. WP-DEV Dojo Minimalist WordPress Theme
22. Basal Minimalist WordPress Theme
Release Date: June 25, 2009
23. Enormous Minimalist WordPress Theme
Release Date: January 19, 2009
Want huge typography and customization? Here – just for you!
24. Doc Minimalist WordPress Theme
Release Date: May 10, 2009
25. GreyDove Minimalist WordPress Theme
Release Date: March 19, 2009
I don’t know why, but I just love colors used in this site and sidebar. Even default theme looks really personal!
26. Freemium Minimalist WordPress Theme
Release Date: July 27, 2008
Interesting layout, which could be suitable for more serious blogging with multiple navigation and advertise fields. Great for business purposes with simplicity in mind.
27. R775 Light Minimalist WordPress Theme
Release Date: March 19, 2009
28. Carrington Text Minimalist WordPress Theme
Release Date: April 7, 2009
Carrington Text is a clean, simple theme with only text and spacing used for layout and design. I literaly love it!
29. WP Framework Minimalist WordPress Theme
Release Date: February 17, 2009
I tested this site on my own local server, sidebar should need little CSS customization, but everything else work just fine!
30. Omega X Minimalist WordPress Theme
Release Date: February 19, 2009
Great and very light theme for personal blog.
31. Aligned Minimalist WordPress Theme
Release Date: January 10, 2009
32. Less Is Less Minimalist WordPress Theme
Release Date: March 16, 2009
33. LightWord Minimalist WordPress Theme
Release Date: November 25, 2009
Something between simple and advanced theme with light colors and good looking design.
34. Constructor Minimalist WordPress Theme
Release Date: November 19, 2009
Construc your theme on good looking grid and bricks. Interesting layout for simplicity lovers.
35. Atahualpa Minimalist WordPress Theme
Release Date: September 29, 2009
36. P2 Minimalist WordPress Theme
Release Date: November 26, 2009
37. Buddymatic Minimalist WordPress Theme
Release Date: November 21, 2009
The definitive WordPress theme for 2010. Buddymatic is a highly extensible Theme Framework for WordPress & WordPress MU blogs including BuddyPress enabled home and member blogs. This framework features 13 widget-ready areas, drop-down menus, grid-based layout samples, plugin integration, shortcodes for your footer, & a whole lot more. BuddyPress functionality is integrated into the framework and activated when BuddyPress is detected.
38. Neutra Minimalist WordPress Theme
Release Date: November 17, 2009
39. Simplex Minimalist WordPress Theme
Release Date: January 25, 2009
40. Fusion Minimalist WordPress Theme
Release Date: August 13, 2009
Very simple but really great looking theme, with several great features as full screen mode or fixed and several text size options.
41. Life is Simple Minimalist WordPress Theme
Release Date: November 23, 2009
42. Titan Minimalist WordPress Theme
Release Date: October 7, 2009
Really lovely colors and beautiful simplicity throughout whole theme, maybe not so minimalistic but still very harmonic.
43. Manifest : A WordPress Theme
Release Date: March 19, 2009
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Bryan Hadaway
Posted 5 days ago 61Good list. However, I would argue that anything with textures or a graphic background is instantly no longer minimalist.
A good addition to this list would be:
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/blankslate
Hands-down, the absolute MOST minimalist boilerplate theme you can find in the entire free WordPress theme repo.
Thanks, Bryan
Mode Versandhäuser
Posted 90 days ago 60Perfect report. Thank you.
MooNy
Posted 94 days ago 59i was searchin for simple, clean themes since forever. In fact, 4 months. Thank you.
Mobile News
Posted 119 days ago 58Nice work , i am looking for clean themes like them. thanks
Aumi Seguros Baratos
Posted 125 days ago 57Thank you!!
Good report. Minimalistic themes is the best for reading, your pictures is what must add the graphic richness…!
Naeem
Posted 196 days ago 56i like thees themes nice collection