60 Best Minimal WordPress Themes For 2014

Minimal WordPress themes are your best bet if you want to find the perfect combination between being clean and catchy. These themes make sure that your site carries all the details without looking cluttered which is really an accomplishment. If you are also in the search of such a theme then it would do you good to go through the post we have created below. It carries 60 marvelous minimalist themes that can suit all kinds of blogs and websites.

So, whether it is an online store or a photographers portfolio that you want to create, you will find the best building blocks here. The themes offer diverse layouts and unlimited color options. Furthermore, they have been designed with HTML5 and CSS3 so that you stay ahead of the curve. The most sought-after feature i.e. responsive design too finds favor with these themes. So, don’t worry about your presence on smart phones and other similar devices.

They are coded with extreme attention to details which means that there is no chance of error. You can be assured of a smooth sailing experience, if you decide to side with any of them. So, how about having some real fun? Scroll down a bit and explore for yourself.

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Simpleton

Simpleton is a super clean, lightweight and minimalist WordPress theme. Built with flexibility in mind, Simpleton is a great standalone theme but can also work as a framework for more intensive themes to be built off of. It’s fully responsive and brings all the MyThemeShop features along with it.

Raiden

Raiden is an elegant personal blogging WordPress theme with refined typography and aesthetics. Offering support for all 10 WordPress Post Formats, this theme is ideal for your personal Blog.

FashionBlog

FashionBlog is clean, beautiful and professionally designed WordPress theme. FashionBlog is packed with all the advanced features and it is a great theme for those looking to build an attractive and engaging website.

Apparel

Apparel is a clean, ultra responsive WordPress eCommerce theme built specifically for WooCommerce. The theme provides amazing experience for mobile users as well.

CloudHost

Clean, simple yet elegant, the CloudHost WordPress theme is perfect for hosting and business websites. We have combined standard and GavickPro-exclusive solutions with several CSS3-based animations to create a professional and efficient design that exudes class but remains lightweight for rapid loading.

Real Photography

Real Photography is a super quality, clean, professional style WordPress Theme for Photographers wanting to present their shots or for designers/artists wanting to showcase their portfolio work.

Written

Written is a fully responsive wordpress theme that focus on content and personality.

Classique

The Classique theme is a clean and elegant WordPress theme which makes use of whitespace and typographical elements to showcase your work and message in a clear, concise manner.

FullScreen

FullScreen is clean, multipurpose and elegant WordPress theme with fully responsive layout. Theme is suited for all photographers, creative, business and portfolio websites.

Chameleons

Chameleons are known for their ability to change the color of their skin. The patterns and color combinations you find in chameleons are almost endless, and our new theme is no different!

Saturation

Saturation is a bright and crisp WordPress theme structured like a traditional blog that brings features built to make your blog successful. Featuring our new Google Plus badge widget, search, speed, and ad optimization, and much more, Saturation is a must-have theme.

Shop & Buy

Shop & Buy is a slick and sophisticated e-commerce WordPress theme that will allow you to create a classy, successful online store. By avoiding overloading the theme with unnecessary baggage we have created a smooth and efficient solution that optimizes loading time for the fast-paced modern world.

Flatshop

Flatshop can help you turn any WordPress site into a beautiful shop using the free WooCommerce plugin. It not only has great attention to design details, but it is also loaded with transition effects such as parallax scrolling and fly-in animation to improve the user experience.

Plutonium

Plutonium is a clean and minimal Magazine Theme, it is perfect for personal blogging its main features are a post with a gallery sliders attached to it. Perfect for your Mobile and Tablet Readers as this theme is enhanced to support responsive views.

Xone

Xone is a clean, elegant & modern one page template. It is ultimate flexible with loads of nice options and features. It can be used as a “One Page” Website or a “Multi Page” Website.

Flores

Flores has it’s own Bannery system, in which you can add images, text, videos or any other type of HTML code. You can add/edit all effects ( how often banners will show up, after how much seconds

AutoTrader

A stunning, responsive auto WordPress theme excellent for an online vehicle marketplace or an auto motor magazine or blog.

Alma

Alma is a fully responsive WordPress theme that looks great on any device and any size and even supports Retina. It features a nice big slider, an easy-to-use theme options panel, custom widgets, multi-sidebars, custom templates and layouts and more.

Wildfire

Wildfire is a traditional WordPress magazine theme that features plenty of white space and a clean, crisp and sleek minimal design. With a hint of color, a traditional layout, and full responsiveness, Wildfire is optimized to help your blog succeed.

Lava

This theme is packed with great features. The fluid wrapper is extra-wide and displays beautifully on large screens. A smooth off-canvas navigation lets visitors browse comfortably through your site.

Harrington

The theme is extremely beautiful and alluring. It is meant to give a true appeal to your business in front of your audience. The theme has got interesting elements to engage your audience.

Sparks

Sparks is chocked full of features, making it perfect for creative agencies, freelancers or businesses looking for a handsome, professional web presence.

Botanic

Your own beautiful super designer blog with the breeze of WordPress. Botanic is fully responsive. Provide the best reading experience across all devices.

Filtered

A stylish and responsive portfolio theme that will give your work the type of presentation it deserves. On top of balanced white space and typography, this theme includes several tasteful jQuery effects to help impress your visitors.

Statesman

Elegant and demure, Statesman places the focus on the written word. A unique hero image treatment is the only embellishment. Truly, a proper blogger’s theme.

Glass

Glass theme offers you a broad range of options for customizations, enabling you to create your very unique website experience. Its clean and modern boxed layout fits perfectly for any corporate or business site.

SympalPress

SympalPress is our brand new responsive theme for personal bloggers. It has a clean uncluttered design and uses Post Formats so you can let your content do the talking.

Studiofolio

Studiofolio is a gorgeous minimalist premium WordPress theme for a portfolio. It is well documented and comes with some filters for your portfolio’s work.

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.

Pureview

Pureview is a lightweight, flexible and powerful WordPress theme with a minimalistic style, a splash of color, and all the features you will ever need. Fully customizable, fully responsive, and optimized for search, advertising and readership, grab Pureview today!

Mesh

A clean and well-structured portfolio theme with a focus on full screen media. Perfect for artists, designers, photographers and other creative types.

WP-Scribely

WP-Scribely is a premium WordPress theme designed for writers, bloggers and other thought leaders. With its one-column layout and stunning visual display, your readers’ attention will be focused just where you want it.

SpotMoto

SpotMoto is a uniquely designed elegant and professional WordPress Theme which can be used to showcase your multiple products and services on a single website.

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.

Metropolis

Metropolis is an elegant WordPress theme with a classy design and a fully responsive layout. With easy customization options and a friendly layout, this theme is a great option for any hotel website.

Nimble

Nimble is a big, bold, and beautiful theme that doesn’t let its own style get in the way. With each design I struggle to strike a balance between style and function. Nimble’s colors are toned down but still delicious and its style is bold but still leaves room to breath.

Hoarder

A grid-based, layout-shuffling theme with support for a wide variety of content. Create galleries, quotes, links, video, audio, or standard posts.

CleanBold

CleanBold is ultra-clean and simple portfolio WordPress theme which was designed with businesses and designers in mind.

Medi

Medi is responsive and well behaved in every screen size. Never lose clients due to medium restrictions!

Victoria

Victoria Theme is a modern theme with a classic two-columns, responsive layout. With easy customization options, this theme is a great choice for villas, inns, B&Bs, holiday rentals, hotels, etc.

Bold

Bold is a blog and portfolio theme that allows you to showcase various types of media (images, videos, galleries, sliders, and maps) in a fullwidth design. Your media content is put in center focus with beautiful typesetting.

Visage

Visage is a contemporary blending of stunning, refined visuals, combined with a polished undertone, providing a unique look that is flexible and intuitive to use. Each preset has its own unique widget suffixes, such as clouds or paint splatters.

Collective

A powerful and in the same time easy to work with responsive professional WordPress theme ready to push your business forward.

Gather

Gather is a minimal and fully responsive e-commerce theme. With this theme, you can sell your products, show off your work, and maintain a blog and do it all in style. Gather is WooCommerce ready, so you can have your online shop up and running in no time!

Carter

Carter is a one-of-a-kind Builder Theme, utilizing jQuery Masonry to layout your blog posts and exchange products. Carter features built-in exchange styles, custom alternate modules, and a beautiful responsive design.

deLighted

Our free deLighted theme is a simple and leight-weight blog WordPress theme. You can easily change it to your needs with the customizer and just get blogging.

Divi

Divi is built on a strong foundation of powerful features that give you complete creative control over how you build your website. Hover over the different elements in the sample layout below to reveal the building blocks that were use in the creation of the design.

WP-Enlightened

This is truly a Multi-Purpose WordPress theme. Whether you’re a creative wanting to show off your portfolio, a small business on the move or a content-focused thought-leader, WP-Enlightened has you covered.

PhotoFrame

PhotoFrame is a clean, refined and responsive photography / blogging theme. It’s the perfect theme for photographers, designers, filmmakers, and creative professionals for sharing and managing your work online

Decente

Show off your work with this free responsive business, portfolio theme with complex, yet easy-understandable theme options, post layouts and custom widgets. The entire home page is a widget area.

WP-Brilliance

Beautifully bright, and loaded with creative functionality. That pretty much sums up WP-Brilliance. Whether you have a business website, blog or an online magazine, WP-Brilliance has the looks and the tools to help you.

Crio

Crio is an Elegant and Vanguardist Multipurpose WordPress Theme suitable for any kind of creative and business use.

Cross

Cross is a unique wordpress theme designed for your corporate, creative or e-commerce business.

deLayed

deLayed is a minimal responsive blog theme that puts a clear focus on what matters most… your content. As deLayed is based on FrameShift you have a powerful backbone to tailor things to your needs.

WP-Shopkeeper

WP-Shopkeeper is perfect for selling anything. Just load up an interesting image, add a description and your pricing, and get ready to sell your products or services!

Bluap

If you are looking for the perfect theme for promoting your mobile or tablet apps, look no further. Bluap is the definitive showcase theme, with a powerful responsive design built on CSS, so not only will your website look great whether on a desktop browser or mobile, it is also lightweight and will load quick as a flash.

Tree

Tree is a minimal WordPress theme designed for primarily for blogs. The themes aims at making posting easy and informational to the end user while displaying a clean interface.

Techblog

A well designed, clean and stylish WordPress magazine theme technology related blogs. this theme has a stylish look with weird shapes making it a unique look for your blog. soft color schemes that you can choose from.

Vogue

Vogue is a fashionable and elegant WordPress theme that is focused on highlighting your content with a minimalist, clean design and tons of sleek features. Responsive, fully customizable and fully optimized, Vogue is pure class.

 

About The Author

This post is contributed by Sunalini Rana. She is a working mom, who left her stable career as a human resources manager to pursue her dream of becoming a professional blogger. She’s self-taught in web design and photography, and always loves learning new things and helping others along the way. She also has an unhealthy passion for delicious food like pizza and burgers.