Gone are the days when everyone was looking for gorgeous WordPress themes with lots of graphics. Now minimalism is in trend, and most people try to make their blogs and websites look as clean and simple as possible.
If you’re also tired of complex WordPress themes and want to try something fresh and simple, just have a look at our collection of the coolest minimalist themes – you’ll definitely find at least one that will meet all your requirements.
PlusMag
PlusMag is a minimal theme. Perfect for blog / magazine authors. Available in multiple colors and a really unique layout it can make your blog stand out of the crowd.
Penelope
Penelope is a minimal WordPress theme shipped with some great features such as featured boxes, a slider and a little beta cap just in case you are not 100% there yet.
Hero
Hero is a responsive and minimal portfolio theme for creative types who want to show off their best work and highlight their services. One of the key features of this theme is the parallax home page banner that allows you display your key message in an engaging fashion.
Infinity
If you’re looking for a clean and minimal theme to showcase your work, Infinity is the theme for you. It comes with project filtering and infinite scrolling for blog posts. And it’s all wrapped up in a responsive layout, which means it will look great across multiple screen resolutions and devices.
Reveal
Reveal is a responsive portfolio theme that’s designed to look great no matter the device or screen size on which it’s viewed. Its minimal and clean styling paired with Ajax powered project viewing make this theme perfect for showing off your best work.
Freshfolio
Try an original, awesome and efficient way for showcasing photography, design, illustration portfolios’ or even paintings and art.
Lucid
Lucid is a sleek and modern magazine theme that does a great job displaying tons of content while at the same time avoiding the feeling of clutter. Clean design elements and a strict grid give the theme an organized layout that is a pleasure to read. Lucid is also fully responsive, meaning that the design will adapt to mobile phones and tablets for a more intuitive browsing experience.
SimplePress
SimplePress is a slick new page-based theme great for anyone looking to give their website a clean and professional look. My goal with this design was to make something similar to our other business-oriented themes, but with a simpler and crisper aesthetic. The theme features a un-bloated bloated homepage with a beautiful javascript slider and clear hierarchy, as well as fully functional Blog and Gallery sections.
Modest
Modest is a truly elegant and simple design that doesn’t sacrifice character or style. With this theme I really wanted to strip down all extraneous detail and give people some lightweight and pure. It was hard to resist my natural instict to add additional design elements, but I think this exercise in restraint has yielded a theme that will serve many people well.
Evolution
Evolution is our first fully responsive design. What makes the theme so special is its ability to adapt to various screen sizes. Evolution come with 4 distinct layouts, each meant to improve your user’s experience when browsing on mobile phones and tablets. No longer will they need to zoom and scroll to view your site, as the theme’s layout will adapt to the small screen and serve your content in an intuitive way automatically. Just try reducing your browser’s window size when preview the theme to see the magic in action!
Notebook
Notebook is a fun multimedia theme that takes advantage of WordPress post formats and advanced CSS3 animations. The result is a unique and highly engaging design that is sure that impress your visitors. Notebook makes it easy to share a variety of content, including audio, video, photographs and standard blog posts.
eList
eList is a verstile Directory WordPress Theme. Using eList, you can create an online directory of any type, and allow your visitors to submit new listings from the front end. The theme also comes with eCommerce integration, allowing you to charge your visitors for new or featured listings.
Minimal
Minimal is a great theme for those who want to give their blog a truly simple and elegant feel without sacrificing any of the advanced features you have come to expect from ElegantThemes. The colors are easy on the eye, and the overall minimalist approach to the design makes for a relaxing and userfriendly experience for your visitors.
Trim
Trim is simple, professional, versatile and fast. We have had a lot of requests for a less stylistic, lightweight design, and that is exactly what we created. Trim might be simple, but with that simplicity comes a sense of balance and crispness that is quite refreshing. Coupled with a bunch of great features, Trim is a great theme that will prove useful for a variety of different websites.
Magnifique
Magnifique is a minimal responsive WordPress theme for bloggers. Go back to basics again. No need for sidebars, widgets or complicated settings. Just blog.
Centita
Centita is WordPress Theme with minimalist and elegant look that suitable for your professional corporate website, easy to customize and rich of features.
Yin and Yang
Yin & Yang is a light, minimalistic, simple to use portfolio theme. Quick to setup and easy to customize, thanks to the powerful admin panel, and the detailed documentation, Yin & Yang is the perfect theme for showcasing your most important work directly in front of your potential clients.
Classica
Classica is a beautifully minimalistic portfolio theme, free from gimmick and trend, making your talent the focal point of your portfolio – the way it should be. Present your work in a professional manner with a timeless design.
MiniBuzz
MiniBuzz is a simple, clean and minimalist business wordpress theme suitable for business, portfolio, company and corporate. This theme can also be used for personal or blog site.
Vulcan
Vulcan template is designed Modern and minimalist template, suit any kind of website. Vulcan available in five color option, it comes with three variations slider. With New Features of WordPress 3.0 Vulcan has been coded to improve capability of the WordPresss 3.0 features.
Studio8
An elegant and minimalist WordPress theme for a design studio or photo studio. The theme has a fullscreen background gallery for featured work, twitter ticker, jquery paginated portfolio layout and blog, awsome hover effect, and an ajax contact form. The template offers a quick and easy setup. And its timthumb free.
Dreamy Clean
Dreamy Clean and Minimalist WordPress Portfolio Theme comes with extensive and fast support, 12 color skins and unlimited skin variations, 10 custom page templates, 8 different sliders, 30+ web fonts support, unique 6 homepage presentation variations, unique 4 colum animated presentation menu, portfolio and testimonial custom post type supported, automatic image resize, ajax powered contact form, easy and powerful admin settings panel and much more.
Oxygen
A premium-quality, responsive magazine theme for WordPress. Oxygen is a highly extensible parent theme, built on the industry-recognized Hybrid Core framework – a great base for creating your own child themes.
This article is written by Amelia Hunter from teqno-logical.com. Amelia is interested in the latest technologies, design and computer games.
