Looking For Free Minimalist WordPress Themes? Here Are 20 Gems Handpicked For You
Though being a design addict, I have always loved the clean , typography based designs when it comes to blogging.
Because if you want your audience to get engaged with your writing, you need to have a design that highlights content rather than flashy widgets. Minimalist themes are just right fit for a content based blog.
During my journey of blogging, I have come across many minimal WordPress themes which are great and do a great job in highlighting content. I am using Coraline for planetnaveen.com with little customization done from my side.
In this article, I am providing links for 20 minimal (yet awesome) WordPress themes, so that you can kick start your blogging in 2012 with a clean and minimal design.
If you are already a blogger and looking for minimal WordPress themes, then just hang in here. Below are great collection of minimalist themes and most importantly, they are FREE !!!
9. Simply Delicious by mmminimal
10. Minimal Expert by WPExplorer
12. NeoClassical Theme by Chris Pearson
13. Structure Theme by ThemeHybrid
14. Life Collage by ThemeHybrid
15. Zen Habits Theme By Leo Babuta
16. Modernist Theme
19. CopyBlogger Theme by Chris Pearson
20. Coraline theme by Automattic
I hope you liked this collection. Let me know if you could use them your blog/website by dropping a comment below 
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Ola! Naveen Kulkarni,
Thanks for the info, I want to have a blog theme that’s similar to the minimalist look and feel of Apple.com, but for blogger. (not wordpress) Thnx
Cheerio
Hi Simon,
Thanks for stopping by.
Check http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/ifeature
You might be looking for something like this
Naveen Kulkarni recently posted..Looking For Free Minimalist WordPress Themes? Here Are 20 Gems Handpicked For You
Hello Naveen Kulkarni,
Thanks you for your post, Hey internet,
I want to make a website. I don’t know much or anything about internet stuff, although I can manage a Tumblr or WordPress blog. I’m not completely inept.
But those blogs won’t let me keep a substantial portion of profits earned from advertisements, which I fully intend to get.
Keeping in mind my tech limitations, what template/blog/resource would you recommend for making a text heavy but generally minimalist (nothing too fancy, just articles and tabs for searching) would you recommend?
Thanks,
Me.
BTW great blogpost
Awesome Naveen!
I’ve used the CopyBlogger theme, and I think Coraline is named after a Neil Gaiman book/movie
Keep rockin’!
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Hey Jason,
Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
Special thanks for providing information about Coraline
Naveen Kulkarni recently posted..Looking For Free Minimalist WordPress Themes? Here Are 20 Gems Handpicked For You
Hi Naveen,
I was using the Platform theme from Pagelines before getting a premium theme. It’s got a ton of features for being free but I actually won my current theme from a blogging contest.
I may switch themes again next year too because I like to change the appearance and functionality of my blog.
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Hi Justin,
Nice to know that you won the theme in the contest
Take a look the themes in the above list. May be one of them could fit your future requirements.
Thanks for stopping by and commenting. Have a great day friend.
Hi Naveen,
I’m actually using Twenty-Ten and Twenty-Eleven on few of my sites. It’s nice clean and light template. Actually your blog theme looks awesome as well.
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Thanks Smarty for stopping by commenting
Twenty ten and twenty eleven have solid framework and I believe they are widely used because of their simplicity.
I use neoclassical theme on my blog and a twenty ten on my other blog Expert Blog Tips
Have a great week ahead.