An elegant collection of best minimal wordpress themes for 2013. Today complex and graphics loaded website designs are not everyone’s choice. There are still hundred and thousands of people who loves to have clean layout for their website. But finding such layouts and responsive design is a little bit hard task. So I decided to write an article on this inorder to help you all.
According to me personally minimalistic wordpress theme will not only helps to bring focus on your content, but it will also help to increase your website speed. It will help you to improve you web presence and will reduce your bounce rate. Overall you can say, clean look can really impact your SEO. Want to know how ?
Since they are not burdened with graphics and too many style-sheets, so you website loads much faster than ever. And because you have good typography which looks perfect on white background, so your readers will never leave your blog in the middle. We also have some great collection of free minimal WordPress themes, most of them are responsive but are perfect for those who don’t need advance features.
Excellent Minimal WordPress Theme For 2013
If you really want to improve your reader’s experience, user attention and page-views then minimalism is for you. All the themes listed in my collection are compatible with 3.5 plus updates. Since all of them are premium, so you will get very detailed documentation, Search engine friendly structure and dedicated support for developer.
Beard
A beautiful blogging theme for wordpress. Its based on content-first design, in which the maximum focus is made on text rather than graphics. This usually improves readability and page views. It supports lots of post formats, is responsive, offers Google analytic integration and provides options to add personalization.
More InfoWritten – Minimal Blogging Theme
An attractive and responsive blogging theme which very elegant layout. It has very sleek look without any use of images or graphics. The whole structure is powered by CSS and HTML which makes it extremely fast and easy to use.
It offers a whole set of options to customize each and every part of your website. You can change color of sidebar, content area, background, can define fonts and many more. Different types of post types, formats, custom widgets, page template are supported which gives you extra power.
PreviewRead WP
A wordpress template created to focus on content and text rather than adverts and graphics. It offers incredible readability with perfect fonts and low CSS transition effects.
Currently it supports 600 plus webfonts and has inbuilt support for SEO plugins. It also offers support for 20 different social media integration, 3 different page layouts, responsive design along with support for almost all post formats.
PreviewEmerald
A refreshing, responsive and magazine style theme. It has been developed on the cutting edge HTML5 and CSS3. Best part is that, it’s not only cross browser compatible but also carries validated and clean codes.
Emerald offers you with almost every option to customize the look and feel of your website. You can add custom background, can generate unlimited color skin, have short codes to add awesomeness to your content. You can also chose from any Google web-fonts for your typography. Not only that it also offers social media integration and SEO settings to add custom meta description tags.
PreviewSimpleton – Minimal WordPress Theme
A super clean, easy to use and feature rich theme for your blog or website. You can use it as a standalone template or you can design your own personal custom child themes while using it as base framework. This is the real power of simpleton.
If we consider its features, then you will get very responsive design, lots of custom widgets, social media & advertisement integration. Along with it you also get fancy light box to enhance the look and feel of your site, option to add any webfont from Google directory and finally translation ready.
PreviewBoxline
A modern, elegant and eye-catching theme for magazine and blogging websites. A lot of care has been taken while developing this template. It not only loads fast, but is also ready for search engines.
The most unusual part of this theme is the rating button which it carries. This button helps you readers and visitors to rate any particular post which they personally like the most. It also offers the custom option panel which lets you control your typography, different design elements, advertisements and finally personal branding.
You also get almost 40 plus shortcodes, inbuilt related post widget and support for social networking integration. Overall its perfect for every magazine or personal blogging website.
PreviewStarling
A super clean and elegant minimal thumblog theme for WordPress. It has simple and responsive layout along with support for post formats, custom 404 error pages, pagination, two different menu locations, feed-burner subscription form and many widgets.
More InfoNominal
It’s a premium, responsive and perfect minimal wordpress theme with loads of custom options. Personally I feel that its has been designed for professional and established websites. It not only offers the basic features like options to upload logo, favicon, but also offers very good placement areas for advertisements.
If we consider its other important features, then the list may go too long. In simple you will get option panel to manage the web fonts and to choose the perfect one for your headlines and for your content area. It’s also cross browser compatible and is responsive to almost every screen.
PreviewGood Space
A theme designed specially for creative people, authors, bloggers and agencies. Actually its an all in one solution for everyone. It offers you the power of portfolio and at the same time give options to use it as on any blog/magazine style website.
But the most important and powerful feature is ” Page Builder “. With its help you can create unlimited widgets, can assign the width of the columns, can change typography and almost everything which is present on your site. You also get drag and drop slider manager, 4 different styles for blog, 6 styles for footer, inbuilt translation support, price table and loads of short codes.
PreviewClassica
It’s perfect for web designers, online corporate websites or for those who want to showcase their art work in most fascinating way. It also supports page templates which means you can also use it on your personal blog. And personally I just love the fonts which has been used to enhance the typography.
Considering its features, you will get custom widgets like twitter, flicker, blog update and video embed. You also get jQuery magic for your drop-down navigation, sliders. It also offers power to customization the default login page, shortcode and full localization support.
PreviewPurity
A perfect clean portfolio theme for corporates, agencies and designers. the complete design offers very bold look and still keeps our focused on content. It also carries validated CSS & HTML codes, which make it SEO friendly and fast loading.
On the homepage you get a full width slider along with which you can also add any custom text. You get very extensive theme option panel to customize and maintain your design. Purity also offers dozens of shortcodes, 20 different page templates, sidebar manager and lots of custom widgets. It also has nivo slider along with Ajax enabled contact form.
PreviewSpacing
A bold looking portfolio WP theme perfect for both personal and business purpose. You get extensive and powerful option panel to manage your site. It’s also completely search engine optimized and offers inbuilt breadcrumb navigation.
Apart from these, you also get hands on Flex Slider, pretty photo gallery, Ajax based contact form, dozens of short codes and finally lots of custom widgets like recent posts, twitter updates, flicker and other. And to offer little bit more ease to use, you get drag and drop manager for your homepage and sidebar.
PreviewMinimal Desire
This theme is perfect for every design and fashion based sites. It’s a 5 start rated and one of the most downloaded template in its category. With desire you will get all basic features and addons. Additionally you gets hands on 2 color schemes, short-code generator, validated HTML codes and finally 7 different page layouts.
PreviewDaisho
It’s a perfect solution for professionals and design companies. Actually its a minimal grid WordPress theme which offers lots of options and addons to customize the look of your site as desired.
And the best thing is you get premium typography plugin for free. This will let you change your font family, size, weight and styles with just few clicks and without adding any custom codes. Apart from this, it’s fully responsive with supports for video sites, homepage slider, news sections, contact form and social sharing buttons. You also get inbuilt support for SEO plugins like wordpress SEO by yoast and others.
PreviewMokoo
A SEO ready and easy to use minimal theme for WordPress. It’s perfect for almost every niche based site, since you can use it with portfolio, magazine or personal blogging sites. It offers lots of page templates which makes it ready for every niche and interest based bloggers and webmasters.
You get responsive design, one click Google fonts integration, HTML5 based video & audio support, contact form, cross browser support, plus every basic theme options. It also provides 20+ layered PSD.
More InfoThis post will be updated every time I find any new minimal wordpress theme. I have tried to collect few of the most amazing and clean designs. If you have any suggestions, then please let me know about it.
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