A theme that calls itself “minimalist” is usually just telling you that it’s going to be frustrating to work with. People define minimalist themes as basic. I define them as clean designs with good use of white space and not much to distract from your work. Here is a short but delightful list that I created addressing the need for a feature-rich minimalist wordpress theme. All these themes have great backend support behind a clean and minimal appearance.
Note: These are all premium themes with very reasonable prices. If you’d rather go the free route, check out 9 Useful Minimalist Wordpress Themes
Minimal
Price:$25
Very clean design that can be used as a regular blog or for a portfolio, or a combination of the two.
Features:
Fading taglines
Custom template
Full-featured options page
Custom widgets
Contact form
4 widget areas
Min
Price: $25
Another clean design by the creator of Min. Great use of white space and a soft brown accent.
Features:
7 widget areas
Custom theme settings page
Contact form
Kreativik
Price: $30
Another clean multi-use portfolio/blog theme. Very good use of white space with room for images to spice things up.
Features:
5 template choices
Custom-built JS slider
Admin options panel
Many layout choices
ProBlog
Price: $25
Another one by the author of Minimal and Min. He makes some very clean designs with great features.
Features:
Author bio support
Twitter integration
Social networking icons
Advertisement manager included
Thesis
Price: $87
Thesis is a framework more than a theme. It’s a building block. It’s also my favourite building block and I use a customized version of it on this site here. It’s an amazing starter theme with good typography and excellent element spacing. It’s also very easy to customize.
Features:
Very easy to customize
Huge support community
Search-engine optimized
Supports skins
Excellent admin panel that allows editing css without coding
Those are my favourite premium minimalist wordpress themes of the moment. Please share any that you are partial to in the comments below.h2
