In my extensive years of blogging, I have stumbled upon countless numbers of blogs and websites using minimal themes. Needless to say, a lot of bloggers prefer simple themes and because of that, we are showcasing several WordPress minimal themes with a touch of elegance. Why stick with boring, old themes when you can take it a notch higher? These themes create a simple twist to the basics to make your blogging experience more fun and enjoyable.
These clean, minimalist designs are carefully crafted to make your website stand out. Tons of custom-widgets and sliders enable you to highlight your finest works of art. We also have displayed traditional magazine-type themes packed with useful features. For those who want to stick with clean designs, we have added themes with vibrant colors to maintain the minimalist look while making your website eye-catching at the same time. These WordPress minimal themes offer exude elegance through beautiful and stunning typography. All these themes are responsive and user-friendly. They help you improve not only the overall appearance of your blog but its functionality as well. If you are aiming to give your website a professional look, browse these themes and you will surely find what you are looking for.
Great
Great is a traditional, magazine style WordPress theme. With a clean, minimalist design and all the usual MyThemeShop features, Great is optimized to help your blog stand out from the crowd and dominate the web.
Ascetica
A spacious and elegant portfolio theme with responsive layout. Best suited for bloggers who want to showcase their work alongside their posts, photobloggers, designers, and photographers.
TechCompass
TechCompass is a powerful blogging theme with a beautiful slideshow on the homepage that makes your site stand out from the crowd. It has also multiple custom widgets and several ad locations.
Principles
Principles, a minimalist blog without the unnecessary extras. A place where great bloggers can blog again and interested readers can read again.
Uridimmu
Uridimmu is a parent theme for bloggers. It supports WordPress nav menus, has several widget areas, and allows per-post layouts.
Glamour
Glamour elevates minimalism with a splash of color. With a multiple column post display, clean design that includes a splash of color, and the ability to customize almost everything, Glamour is a great choice for bloggers who want flexibility, speed and elegant minimalism.
Casual
Casual is a free WordPress tumblog theme with infinite color options and a friendly, personal layout.
Verb
Verb is a blocky, portfolio-style theme with an empahsis on typography and attention to detail. Show off your latest photos and videos in all their glory with the responsive portfolio grid. Write blog posts about your cats with the beautiful, minimal blog.
Nimble
Nimble is a big, bold, and beautiful theme that does not let its own style get in the way. With each design I struggle to strike a balance between style and function.
Hybrid
Hybrid is a user-friendly, search-engine optimized parent theme, featuring several custom page templates and multiple widget-ready areas, allowing you to create any type of site you want.
Lucid
Lucid is a sleek and modern magazine theme that does a great job displaying tons of content while still maintaining a minimalistic layout. Clean design elements and a strict grid give the theme an organized layout that is a pleasure to read.
Old Post
Old Post is a WordPress tumblog theme with a grid-based home page layout, infinite scroll and classic touches.
Gridz
Gridz is premium wordpress theme siutable for freelancer, creative agency or general business site. Built in drag and drop page builder makes creating and managinig new pages, posts and portfolios a breeze.
SimplePress
SimplePress is a slick new page-based theme great for anyone looking to give their website a clean and professional look.
Retro-fitted
Retro-fitted is a fun parent theme that is perfect for bloggers. It supports WordPress nav menus, has several widget areas, and allows per-post layouts.
Nominal
Nominal is a crisp, grayscale WordPress blog theme. Responsive by design, with all the usual features including options panel, custom shortcodes and widgets, Nominal also is optimized for SEO and speed, in order to help your blog rise to the top of the web.
Tree
Tree is a minimal WordPress theme designed for primarily for blogs. The themes aims at making posting easy and informational to the end user while displaying a clean interface.
Magnificent
Now you can display loads of content in a beautifully simple and elegant fashion using Magnificent. Featuring a four-column homepage with 5 widget ready areas, you have many opportunities to customize your content display.
Femme
Meet the most advanced theme. Femme is a responsive magazine theme for WordPress. Powered by the amazing WooCommerce engine.
Prototype
Prototype is a specialized parent theme with multiple nav menus, several widget areas, and per-post layouts, allowing anyone from designers to users to quickly create beautiful sites.
Memoir
Memoir is a Tumblog style WordPress Theme which makes use of WordPress Post Formats feature and boasts awesome typography.
Convertible
Convertible is a new take on the classic sales page. Landing pages are useful for marketers who have a single product to sell and need to create a page to pitch it to their visitors.
BusinessOne
BusinessOne is a beautiful business theme with a really flexible homepage and a great set of features. Specialized custom widgets, isolated sidebars for each section plus our simple custom options panel
Cakifo
Cakifo is a elegant, responsive theme. With its HTML5 markup and support for all the WordPress and Hybrid Core features you love, it might be the perfect theme for your blog.
LightBright
LightBright makes it easy to share your daily life through it is tumblr-style post types. Using the custom post types added in WordPress 3.0, the theme adds special integration options for photos, video, audio, quotes, notes and links.
Pocket is a super simple, photoblog-style WordPress theme for sharing your images, videos, articles, quotes and more. Use it as a personal blog or a minimal portfolio to show off your latest work.
Mustache
Mustache is a flexible, single page WordPress theme for creatives, professionals and all sorts of businesses.
Press Two
Press Two is a complete re-write of our most successful theme Press. Advanced features such as Custom Post types and our Typography Manager give you more control over this minimalist magazine theme than you could dream of.
My Life
A serene blogging theme that emphasizes your content with readable typography. It uses post formats, has three nav menu locations and supports upto three-column layouts.
Boxline
Boxline is a clean, modern and elegant WordPress magazine theme. With a combination of subtle, soft grays, clean textures and some bright colors, your site will stand out.
