It can easily be argued that the best type of design is clean, simple, and minimal. I know for myself, I enjoy a website that is uncluttered, easy to navigate and elegant in design. Below I have gathered 30 WordPress themes that accomplish all of these things. If you have a particular favorite design that is crisp, white, simple, and clean in design that did not make my list – please feel free to let us know about it in the comments.
Free Themes
Min.
Min is a free WordPress theme I created. No bells and whistles, just simple clean and to the point. It has two widgetized footer areas to handle navigation or anything else you feel like sticking in there. Make sure you set your media upload to 560px wide to fit snug in the post area.
- Full Details | Price: FREE!
Imbalance 2
Imbalance 2 turns you WordPress-based website to an attractive blog, portfolio or even online magazine. This free template designed in strict modern style with a minimalistic touch. Imbalance 2 can easily fresh up your web-magazine or blog. Due to modern flexible features and layout Imbalance 2 fits to almost any project and your visitors won’t remain indifferent.
- Full Details | Price: FREE!
Widely
Widely WordPress Theme is minimalistic theme perfect for for businesses, creatives, and individuals who want to quickly publish their portfolio and anyone else who’s serious about having a simple, well designed website with a full powered content manager.
- Full Details | Price: FREE!
Expositio
Expositio is a very simple & free portfolio WordPress theme for photographers, designers & artists. Expositio theme allows you in several clicks to showcase your works to the whole world. Adjustable main page lets you to provide any information. Integrated options panel helps to customize the template from font used to color theme.
- Full Details | Price: FREE!
Grid Theme Responsive
Grid Theme Responsive is a WordPress Theme with mobile responsive design, featuring infinite scroll. Grid Theme is perfect for any creative to showcase their portfolio.
- Full Details | Price: FREE!
Architekt
Architekt Free WordPress Theme is clean simple and unique. Design to showcase your architectural portfolio This theme was inspired by the works of Fantastic Norway.
- Full Details | Price: FREE!
Visual
Visual WordPress Theme is a grid like theme with slider option. Great for displaying your portfolio on main page. This is perfect theme for any designer to showcase their portfolio and blog about their work.
- Full Details | Price: FREE!
Ultra Grid Theme
Ultra Grid Theme is beautiful and modern WordPress theme with a grid like design. This is perfect theme for any artist to showcase their portfolio in a grid layout style.
- Full Details | Price: FREE!
Graphic
This theme come with valid xhtml + css, WordPress 3.1+ compatibility, search engine optimization, Safari Compatibility, Firefox Compatibility, IE7 + IE8 Compatibility, support and updates, as well as a theme video overview.
- Full Details | Price: FREE!
Minimal
Minimal Theme is a perfect WordPress Theme for any designer looking to create unique portfolio showcase.
- Full Details | Price: FREE!
Beauty & Clean
This theme comes with Opera/Firefox/Sarafi/IE 7-8-9 compatibility, WordPress 3.0, Threaded Comments, Blog-style structure, Gravatar ready, complete localization, widget ready sidebars, a theme options page, custom post types, custom widgets, valid xhtml + css, and cufon font replacement.
- Full Details | Price: FREE! (Premium version available for $42)
Premium Themes
Capiton
Capiton is an extremely clean theme suitable for a portfolio or business website, it has minimal styling and is very versatile.
- Full Details | Price: $49
Clean
Clean Theme is minimal and modern WordPress Theme with 3 column layout. This theme is perfect to showcase any portfolio. Comes with many categories such as illustrations and design.
- Full Details | Price: $29
Edge
This theme comes with valid xhtml + css, WordPress 3.1+ compatibility, search engine optimization, Safari/Firefox/IE 7-8 compatibility, support and updates, as well as a theme video overview.
- Full Details | Price: $29
Ideograph
Ideograph WordPress Theme is great theme to showcase your portfolio, with easy navigation and appealing layout. Ideograph theme comes great options and easy navigation.
- Full Details | Price: $29
Creative Design
Creative Theme is unique and modern WordPress Theme with 3 column layout. This theme is perfect to showcase a great portfolio. Comes with many categories such as graphic design and architecture.
- Full Details | Price: $29
Typografika
This theme includes valid xhtml + css, WordPress 3.1+ compatibility, search engine optimization, Safari/Firefox/IE 7+8 compatibility, support, updates, and a video overview.
- Full Details | Price: $29
Rustik
Rustik is a beautiful minimalist WordPress+WooCommerce theme that makes your products the center of attention. You can create your own logo on the fly in the theme options with a selection of 400+ fonts, and any font size, font style and font color.The theme comes with two readymade color schemes and you can adjust many color options from the theme admin to give it your own style.
- Full Details | Price: $37
Cleanistic
This theme is specifically designed for photographers and personal bloggers. It offers a clean and minimalist design layout, high-quality and unique features are ready to go on this theme. So its suitable 100% with latest WordPress version and all major browsers compatibility. 1-2-3-4 columns portfolio section, custom services page with shortcodes, search engine friendly simple and clean PHP / CSS codes. Please dont forget that you are not just buying this theme, you will also get 24/7 help and support.
- Full Details | Price: $37
Belight
Belight is a clean and modern WordPress theme for professional business and portfolio websites. Represent you and your business with elegance!This theme is well suited for young professionals, entrepreneurs, creatives and freelancers.
- Full Details | Price: $37
Simplee
Simplee is a great magazine wordpress theme clean designed and neat coded. The compact theme admin panel and widgets enable you to control over your content, show your latest tweet, photos and much more.
- Full Details | Price: $37
Clean Creative
The Clean Creative is a Powerful Premium WordPress Theme designed in a clean and minimalistic style. This theme provides all the main functionality you will need to present your products, work and yourself in an elegant and professional style. Clean Creative easy for customizing and well documented. The theme is best suited for any portfolio, business and photography.
- Full Details | Price: $35
Poise
Poise WordPress Theme is a modern with Web 2.0 look&feel for Business Companies around a modern, sleek, two-color design is packed with tons of styles and features. All areas are wigitized, so customization is a breeze. Built-in Colorpicker is for making it easy for you setup your website the way you want it to look. Multiple slider options, Google webfonts, custom post options, custom widgets, shortcodes and an easy-to-use admin panel makes building a powerful, fully-customized website quite simple.
- Full Details | Price: $35
Pioneer
Get ready for a new and better approach to content management in WordPress. Pioneer features a brand new front end admin system that lets you configure your website without going back and forth between the admin and web-page front end.
- Full Details | Price: $35
SquareGrid
This fully responsive theme comes with an amazing portfolio layout, ajax post reading, audio/video post formats, and multiple post layouts.
- Full Details | Price: $35
MayaShop
MayaShop is a fresh WordPress theme that utilises the powerful JigoShop and Woo Commerce plugins to create a versatile WordPress powered shop, with unlimited layout options and unlimited skins. Make this theme your own. Mix up content on the homepage with widgets and shortcodes, set the layout full width or boxed style, choose your background color or set one of the 50+ custom backgrounds, set your header color, change the style of your products, chose from 8 different sliders.. a theme so versatile that you can customize it to suit your business by simply changing a few settings.
- Full Details | Price: $45
Vizar
Vizar is your super customizable visual WordPress portfolio theme. We packed it with everything you need to show your awesomeness and call success & fun into your business. Feel free to customize Vizar to really show yourself and create a magnetic visual portfolio site.
- Full Details | Price: $35
Angular
Angular is a responsive WordPress Theme (try resizing your browser), suited for users who want to showcase their work on a neat portfolio site. The Theme is built on top of the fabulous Avia Framework and comes with support for the bbPress Forum plugin, just in case you need it.
- Full Details | Price: $35
HyperMind
Hypermind is an incredibly easy to use WordPress portfolio theme. Quick to setup and easy to customize, thanks to the powerful admin panel, the detailed manual, and the carefully structured code, HyperMind is the perfect theme for showcasing your most important work directly in front of your visitors.
- Full Details | Price: $35
Semki
Semki is the perfect flexible theme for Personal, Business, Corporate, Portfolio and Blog built with latest WordPress features. Post formats, unlimited colors, simple to use admin panel, easy to setup and customise and so on.
- Full Details | Price: $35
Elogix
ELOGIX is an incredibly powerful & ultra responsive WordPress Theme that perfectly suits your Portfolio, Creative, Blog or Business Website.
- Full Details | Price: $35
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You are missing a lot of great, minimal themes from Theme Trust that are also fully responsive!
Yes, I do work for them :-)
http://themetrust.com/themes
Thanks for the link! I’ll check them out!
Ah man, you’re right! There are some really cool one there! I’ll have to keep that in mind for future posts :)
Great collection, thank you!
Good listing!! But huge lists are only displayed ,I searched themes for wordpress in Google, so many collection of themes in wordpress.
Давно искал подобные темы. В общем : thrumbs up!
I love your work!
Rosella Dudley
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