We love minimalism here at Fimply, we find the beauty in simple and clean designs and luckily so do many other theme designers. If you are looking for a minimal theme for your personal blog, then this is the collection for you. We have hand-picked the best modern and minimal WordPress themes for personal bloggers we could find – all these themes are from the official directory so you know they are well designed and have passed the stringent requirements for code quality required to be listed there.
We present to you over 30 Free Minimalist Blog WordPress themes which you can download below.
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Aura
A single column minimal personal blog theme by Fimply.
Simple Style
A simple starter blog theme by Fimply for WordPress, perfect for crafting your own designs with.
Elegant White
A traditional layout minimal blogging theme by Fimply.
Hatch
Responsive layout, optimized for mobile browsing (iPhone and iPad). Ideal for sites where images are the main type of content. The customization options include theme settings page, custom background, custom header.
Oxygen
A lovely minimalist theme for blog or magazine style layout.
Origin
Origin is a minimalistic theme with responsive layout suitable for content heavy blogs and news websites.
Ascetica
Ascetica is a simple portfolio and blog theme with responsive layout, sticky posts slider, and a widget for presenting your work.
Free Minimalist
Free Minimalist Theme Responsive WordPress is great theme for any designer, with clean design and minimal layout. Minimalist WordPress theme has minimalist style and mobile friendly design.
Reyl Lite
Best minimalistic blog out there. Responsive, SEO optimized and user friendly, you can’t get a better blogging experience than this
Vanilla Milkshake
A minimalist WordPress theme built with elegant typography and responsive design for simple weblogs. Allows for easy customization and extension.
Me
Me theme is a simple and clean WordPress theme ideal for a personal blog. Completely fluid and responsive child theme with left side header, Valid HTML5 Document, SEO Friendly, Theme settings extending the WordPress Customizer.
Boksy Lite
Boksy is a clean and minimal responsive WordPress theme for personal bloggers. Putting content first is the key focus in the overall design. It looks good both on large and small screens.
Puro
Puro is responsive, Retina ready and fully compatible with Jetpack, Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms and WP PageNavi.
Ari
Ari is a minimalistic, flexible three-column blog theme. The theme uses CSS3 media queries for its responsive layout and is therefore optimized for tablet pcs and smart phones (the theme switches to a two-column layout when viewed on a horizontal iPad screen, and to a one-column layout on iPhones).
Minimaliste
A clean and minimal theme that can be used for your blog, photography or portfolio website.
Pine
Pine is made for a freelancers, designers or smaller agencies who are looking for elegant, professional and minimal look.
Drento
Drento is minimal & essential responsive WordPress Blog Theme
Zues
A simple, minimalist theme. Zues provides a perfect base for child themes to be built upon.
Briar
Briar, minimalist free WordPress theme
Morning
Switch to Morning today and bring modern, minimalist style to your content.
Blask
Blask is a modern portfolio theme focused on showcasing your work in a clean and minimal way.
Tography Lite
A beautiful and minimalistic photography WordPress theme.
Kouki
Kouki is meant for publishers who like to display their content in a delightful and minimal way.
Illustatr
A minimalist portfolio theme.
Themify Base
Themify Base is a simple minimal responsive theme which comes with many layout and customization options.
Zinnia
Minimalist design blog layout, your blog will look effortlessly stylish and it keeps the focus on what’s important – the content
Tonal
Tonal takes its cue from your content, with a minimal style that changes based on your background color.
Kepler
A minimalist Child Theme for Stargazer
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Nice collection. Thanks for the hard work. I’m also a free theme designer. This is a minimalist blog theme I just created. It would be great if you can add it to your list. Thank you very much.
https://zacklive.com/theme-zack/
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November 27, 2017 at 9:30 amHi
Thanks for this post. I want to recommend Redsun – good free WordPress theme for blogs. It has 3 home design, several layouts for footer, header and post page.
http://spacema-studio.com/project/redsun-free-wordpress-blog-theme/
March 1, 2018 at 6:06 pmLOL. Some of these themes are no longer available. Zinnia hasn’t been updated in 5 years. Try again.
May 14, 2019 at 1:54 amHey,
Here’s Oana from Pixelgrade.
I was wondering if you guys are open to add some of our free WordPress themes in your roundups. For instance, we have Patch Lite, the free version of Patch, which is an iconic product within the ecosystem.
https://wordpress.org/themes/patch-lite/
I can help both with the visuals and the content, just let me know.
Stay awesome,
Oana
November 12, 2019 at 11:29 am