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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tobiCOM
Posted 884 days ago 30Thanks they are ALL great!!
BeyondRandom
Posted 889 days ago 29I never realized that there were so many minimalistic themes out there. Thanks for sharing all these.
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turisuna
Posted 894 days ago 28Wow cool collections, I’m a fan of white background theme, and you give me lot of choices here. My favorite theme from these collections is the Atahualpa Minimalist WordPress Theme, because it looks clean and wide. Thanks for the sharing :)
cardeo
Posted 904 days ago 27Thanks for including my theme in your list.
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Luis Lopez
Posted 905 days ago 25Great list, I found them really clean and very usefull if you want to customize them maybe. I don’t how well they are in code, but I really like some.
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Dainis Graveris
Posted 905 days ago 26Check out if you interested, when I investigated themes myself..several offered great customization options even from admin panel..an I think..it goes better and better..with WordPress :) Thanks, Luis!
Logo Bliss
Posted 905 days ago 24A nice collection of mininal themes..so clean !
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Pritam
Posted 905 days ago 23Hi Dainis,
Thanks for including two of my themes (Undedicated and GreyDove) in your list. Just wanted to let you know that GreyDove was released in November this year. :)
Check it out:
http://www.nyutech.com/2009/11/greydove-wordpress-theme-with-adsense.html
Thanks
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bono
Posted 905 days ago 22Now those are really really clean designs. Nice.
Cheers!
Susan
Posted 906 days ago 21The best list of “simple” clean themes I’ve come across.
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Bingo
Posted 906 days ago 20Wow! A great list just in time. I’ve just begun to search for a minimalist theme to use for a upcoming website. Now I really got a bunch to tryout :)
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BunnygotBlog
Posted 906 days ago 19these are just wonderful and inspirational.
You did a great job.
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corey
Posted 906 days ago 18The best part of this – it’s free. Second best part – it’s free. Third, it’s a good list ;).
Thnx.
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Chris McCorkle
Posted 906 days ago 17Most of these are great for beginning WordPress theme designers to break down and rebuild. Thanks for the post!
The Gator
Posted 906 days ago 16A great collection. The return to ‘simple’ is a welcome breath of fresh air!
Alex
Posted 907 days ago 15great selection! I’ve personally used Hybrid and Thematic frameworks, when I started out with theme design and it was a very good way to learn the in’s and out’s.
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Destiny Islands
Posted 907 days ago 13This is awesome! I have been looking to start up my own video wordpress blog, and these themes are perfect to start with and customize. Nice post as always 1st!
Tristan Gerard
Posted 907 days ago 12Nice selections of themes thanks for sharing.
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Mike
Posted 907 days ago 11Regarding #17 which you have labled as “Our Special” theme – is actually called ** Clean Home Pro ** . The “our special” was just the headline they wrote on announcing the theme.
Dainis Graveris
Posted 907 days ago 14Oh, sorry – thank you, I will change title right now :)
Tommy Holiday
Posted 907 days ago 10great themes!
i missed this theme: http://www.thomasveit.com/bluebubble-free-premium-wordpress-portfolio-theme/
Rahul - Web Guru
Posted 907 days ago 9I’ve selected my choice of minimal WP theme… thanks for the list…
Cheers.
Robbert
Posted 907 days ago 5Hi, Great collection, thanks!
I also have a small addition to make: I’d expect the free theme called Cleanr as well in here, it would perfectly fit in. I’m not related to the developer whatsoever, but I use it on my own blog. It’s only a 2-column theme, but its strength is that it delivers a very easy read for your visitors.
Keep up the good work! Regards, Robbert
Dainis Graveris
Posted 907 days ago 6Thanks, Robbert! Damn, I found that theme already, but thought I’ve already included it in this article! Thanks for your recommendation, I definitely add that theme as well shortly! :)
Senthil Ramesh
Posted 907 days ago 4Sharpfolio is minimalistic and catchy while Atahualpa has lot of options. Why don’t you add neo classical theme that has similar seo strategies as that of Thesis. NeoClassical is free.
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Dainis Graveris
Posted 907 days ago 7looks really good, I’ll add NeoClassical theme as well – thank you for information and helping to make this article even better :)
Eric B.
Posted 908 days ago 3These are some very nice themes.
Thanks for sharing!
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Rockstar Sid
Posted 908 days ago 2Thanks a lot.. I love clean wp themes with white colors… Liked dojo (http://spaceninja.com/dojo/) theme! Bookmarked this page for future reference on my niche sites..
These themes work awesome for more CTR ;)
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Dainis Graveris
Posted 907 days ago 8Thank you, I am glad you appreciated this work, it’s one great theme indeed! :)
designfollow
Posted 908 days ago 1great themes sample
thank you
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