There are a lot of factors to consider when choosing the theme design for your WordPress website. One of those is how well the theme manages screen real estate to make a statement about you, your company, or the content you create. One way to say a lot with a little is by getting a minimal theme that focuses on maximizing the visual effect that whitespace has on those who view your site. Below I’ve gathered together 30 WordPress themes that I believe make really good use of whitespace. Enjoy …
Capiton
Capiton is an extremely clean theme suitable for a portfolio or business website, it has minimal styling is very versatile. From the theme options panel you are able to change around the homepage by showing / hiding the slider, choosing how many portfolio and blog entries to display and choosing between 4 included styes – Light, Light Wide, Dark and Dark Wide.
- Full Details | Price: $49 (Developer Club: $99)
Zenbox
Zenbox is a simple, responsive portfolio WordPress theme on one page. All portfolio items are separated in boxes and load via Ajax.
- Full Details | Price: $35
Trinity
Trinity is for people with a liking for clean & modern design. It is great to show of projects and portfolios. Trinity comes with many cool features, e.g. unlimited custom backgrounds, handy color pickers in the Theme Options, Google Webfonts and a lot more. It is incredible easy to modify and make it fit your Corporate Identity and style.
- Full Details | Price: $39
Mars
Mars is a Clean, Suave, Flexible WordPress Theme that is Ideal for a wide range of projects including but not limited to: Blogging, Portfolio, Business, Photography and Agencies. This theme comes with: custom post types, a modular homepage from below the tagline with a drag-and-drop interface, image sliders built-in, unlimited portfolio items, a regular blog section, custom sidebars, super flexible homepage. Built on HTML5/CSS3.
- Full Details | Price: $39
Aboard
Aboard is a feature-rich, premium theme built to display your content loud and proud with an emphasis on creative simplicity and modern visuals. Whether you’re a full-blown creative agency, aspiring designer or photographer, Aboard is a perfect fit to build and grow your Internet presence.
- Full Details | Price: $35
Fresh
Fresh is wonderful, professional and easy to use template with lots of options and configurations. This theme has been created for people who want to save their own time for create nice and great looking page. Fresh is our simple and clean one page portfolio WP theme. It’s perfect for any designer, photographer, illustrator, creative person or agency. It focuses on displaying a high quality portfolio, large typo presented in a really elegant way.
- Full Details | Price: $35
Edgetype
Edgetype is a fully responsive theme blogging and portfolio theme. Features include a dark color scheme, 20 page templates, 6 custom widgets, breadcrumbs, and an optional portfolio. Make it your own with a custom menu, and a custom background.
- Full Details | Price: $35
Roundone
Roundone WordPress theme features a classy design, embraced into a clean layout, with wonderful functional solutions and a remarkably intuitive new advanced admin. New custom cmsmasters’ admin panel brings your WordPress to a new functionality level. A completely responsive layout with Retina ready guarantees great appearance on all types of displays, including mobile devices.
- Full Details | Price: $40
LightBlog
LightBlog is a clean & elegant responsive magazine WordPress theme designed specifically for great bloggers, writers and designers to help they can share their content to readers easilly. The theme comes with a clean, elegant, simple design but it’s very beautiful & professional for blogs. And LightBlog is a fully responsive theme, which means it adapts to the screen resolution of the device it is being viewed on. Your website will be equally usable and good-looking whether it is being viewed on large monitors, laptops, tablet devices, and smartphones.
- Full Details | Price: $40
CleanSale
Born out of the need to allow merchants the opportunity to list their products and start selling without any barriers in layout or design. To make it simple for their huge collection to stand out and be easy for customers to search and view no matter whether they were using a computer or mobile device. CleanSale has been designed from the beginning with big stores in mind and the possibilities for growth are endless.
- Full Details | Price: $55
Simple Portfolio
Simple Portfolio has been specifically crafted for personal portfolios or small design firms. Responsive design means users will be able to browse the site in all kinds of screen sizes. Built with HTML5 and CSS3. This is one of the few Plug&Play themes. Simple Portfolio requires little to no setup other than just uploading the theme files and images. The theme options panel allows you to control every aspect of the site, along with detailed documentation explaining step by step.
- Full Details | Price: $32
Written
Written is new, clean, minimalistic and very elegant WordPress theme for all bloggers! Theme includes awesome features like post formats (gallery, image, link, quote …), custom posts (portfolio), custom templates and much more. Overall design looks pretty sleek and follows latest trends in web design like responsive layout or HTML5 language.
- Full Details | Price: $39
Freeze
Freeze is really a smart theme and power packed with great features. Make use of pre-designed skins, multiple layout options and easy short codes. Choose your favourite header sliders, and customize yourself a business, magazine, portfolio or shopping site without breaking a sweat! Top off the deal, Freeze is Woocommerce ready and this theme is also very suitable for use as ‘lead generator’! Take a Freeze test-drive to see how it works!
- Full Details | Price: $39
Arigato
Arigato is a clean, minimal WordPress theme that uses it’s crisp color palette to give any business a professional look.
- Full Details | Price: $39
Roxy Bird
Roxy Bird was built with copywriters in mind. It is modern and clean with a focus on typographical content.
- Full Details | Price: $39
Kcalb
Kcalb is a Clean Multi Purpose Responsive WordPress Theme. Kcalb is loaded with options, and has powerful customization options. The clean, modern design can be used for any type of website; business, corporate, portfolio, products, etc. It’s very quick to setup and easy to customize the website thanks to the intelligent admin panel, and the detailed documentation that is included.
- Full Details | Price: $39
Unfold
Unfold is clean responsive WordPress portfolio theme. It Comes with Page Builder with 12 unique modules and filterable AJAX Portfolio. Perfect for portfolio/showcase site.
- Full Details | Price: $40
Coraline
Coraline is the perfect theme for the creative agency, freelancer or general business. Has a lot of modules are ready for homepage, it’s simple-to-use, customize and install.
- Full Details | Price: $35
Daisho
Daisho is a portfolio solution for creative professionals and companies looking for a minimal and professional look. Flexible and responsive presentation, smooth navigational flow and clutter-free approach. Put your works in focus. Powerful Typography Plugin included. The definitive portfolio solution for creative professionals available now.
- Full Details | Price: $50
Gala
Gala is smart and sophisticated theme designed for any business/agency that wants to show of their services, testimonials, portfolio and more. With the ability to have unlimited layouts by utilising widgets, you’ll have no problem creating a site that is unique to your company. You can choose from 3 different skins which include a light, dark and a minimal or blank skin. The blank skin is a great starting point if you wish to heavily modify your theme.
- Full Details | Price: $40
Responsy
Responsy is a responsive html5 wordpress theme suitable for personal portfolios or creative agencies. Responsy has been coded in HTML5 & CSS3 and jQuery. It has a solid flexible responsive layout that scales from 320px to 1170px.
- Full Details | Price: $40
ShapeShifter 2
ShapeShifter 2 for WordPress is responsive (try resizing your browser)… that means that it’ll flex to fit massive screens, or itty bitty iPhone screens (and everything in between). Touch gestures even work on the slider!
- Full Details | Price: $40
SimpleStart
SimpleStart – is clean and modern minimal WordPress Theme created to be easy to modify and customize. With a responsive design it is easily usable with any device, without removing any content! Can be used by portfolio, blogs and more.
- Full Details | Price: $35
Purity
Purity is a Clean and Minimal WordPress Theme with a ‘BOLD’ feel that can be easily used as a personal portfolio or a business website. With an extensive documentation and a demo content you won’t have any problems setting your page up.
- Full Details | Price: $45
Zito
Zito is a minimal, clean and responsive Portfolio/Blog WordPress Theme suited for the creative artists or agencies. Zito uses a timeless design to present your work. It comes with several options for customize colors, layout, styling, and much more. There are also plenty of shortcodes to set up the different pages. These options will help you to build the Website you want.
- 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: $50
Spotlight
Spotlight is clean and minimalist WordPress theme. This is unique theme to show off your portfolio/projects. This theme suitable for business, agency, personal work and more. Spotlight is equipped with a powerful custom panel for ease in managing the contents. We strive to create a theme that is very easy to use even for beginners.
- Full Details | Price: $40
El Toro
El Toro is a minimal and responsive portfolio WordPress theme build to power both individual sites and multiple users’ community with content sharing.
- Full Details | Price: $45
Whitespace
WhiteSpace is a fully responsive and minimalistic wordpress theme built for creatives, agencies, freelancers, bloggers, graphic designers and the like, who wants to display their works or publish their writings in a professional manner.
- Full Details | Price: $40
Fixed
Fixed is a super simple, photoblog-style WordPress theme for sharing your images, videos, articles, quotes, notes and more. Use it as a personal blog or a minimal portfolio to show off your latest works!
- Full Details | Price: $40
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