Today I release a new minimal Wordpress theme titled “Elegant Blog”. It’s meant to be a go-to theme for a content driven site, that aims to eliminate the need for some common plugins and be good to go right out of the box. It’s not designed to be flashy, just to showcase your words in a non-intrusive way that looks good at the same time. Oh, and there are options.

Features:

• Two column, minimal theme
• Post thumbnails using custom fields
• Theme option panel
• 7 built-in colour schemes plus a custom.css for your own colours
• Easy to customize css files
• Show latest tweet without plugin
• Built-in social bookmark sharing
• Add tracking code without touching template files
• Instruction file to help you get started easily

And of course there are gravatars, align classes and threaded comments etc

Screenshots:

Everybody likes pictures. Here are the colour schemes, a post example and the options panel.

Thanks to Elliot Jay Stocks for the wonderful Starkers theme framework I use to create themes efficiently.

Download the theme.
Demo the theme.

If you download the theme, or just want to support free theme developers, please consider making a donatation.  Any amount would be greatly appreciated, and I hear karma’s pretty awesome.

Leave any comments, suggestions, bugs or criticisms in the comments here.