The Best Minimalist WordPress Themes for 2014
Nowadays websites, including WordPress themes, have a lot of things on them. Sometimes it’s hard to even navigate through the website by intuition. Believe it or not, minimalist themes will come to your aid. If you have a WordPress blog, and you wouldn’t like to have anything too fancy about it, without losing any functionality whatsoever, you should check out these minimalist themes.
Prologue
This is a minimalist magazine-style theme. It’s fully responsive and all of its features are touch-responsive. The theme comes with great typography from Google Fonts directory and lots of other advanced options.
Agency
Agency is a minimalist corporate theme. It has a really clean design and a feature slider on the homepage. Besides that, you get custom widgets, shortcodes, and lots of other features. If you don’t like the current theme skin, you can choose from 7 others that come preinstalled with the theme.
ThemeMin
This is a great theme for bloggers who want a minimalist design for their blog. It comes with 2 different feature sliders for the homepage and the inner pages and posts. Even though this is a minimalist theme, there are extensive options that allow you to customize this theme.
Rich Business
An exceptional minimalist theme for businesses and fashion blogs/websites. There are numerous different layouts and custom shortcodes and widgets which you can use.
Artifex
This is a theme for freelance designers and web designers, who want to build a simple portfolio that puts the focus on their work. It has a responsive grid layout, allowing you to create bigger grids for your better projects, and smaller ones for the projects which didn’t turn out just as well.
Air
A blogger theme, with a responsive layout, and numerous features. It’s really simple to use both for a visitor and for a web developer. It provides great functionality and it has lots of built-in features. This theme is really newbie-friendly and will give you great experience for its minimalist design.
Verbage
This is a theme whose developers have turned a lot of attention on the typography. This makes it a very good blogging theme, perhaps for personal blogs, as well as creative writers who can make a portfolio out of this. There’s a feature slider which you can use on the homepage, and other several options that help you enhance user experience.
Minimal
A really good theme from ElegantThemes, which comes with a little color, unlike many of the other themes in this list. Although the other color is gray, it does bring a little difference in the otherwise one-colored themes. You can create drop down menus and use the advanced options panel.
Press
This is a great gallery, portfolio, and blog theme. It includes a full-width homepage feature slider, and 7 different page templates from which you can choose from. This makes it very easy to customize, while keeping the minimalist design at its best.
Thrifty
Thrifty is an eCommerce minimalist theme. It allows you to sell products without any extraneous images and graphics. The layout designer will allow you to create multiple layouts with ease.
Having a minimalist design with lots of great content is going to make your visitors happy. Having a clean design always sets the focus on the information on the website, rather than the effects it has. Which of the themes in our list has the best minimalist design?