The Best Minimalist WordPress Themes

A minimalist design is not the same as a simple one. There, I said it. Now let me quote Dave Eggers:

What very few designers realize, particularly the younger ones, is that most people would rather read something—actually read the words—than look at all of their lines and arrows and silly pictures they’ve screened back.

When the words finally reach the reader, the designer has, as often as not, rendered them almost unreadable, and so a reader moves on. But we’ve always felt that the words don’t need a whole lot of help—that a piece about searching for tigers in Ireland is not necessarily needing of a picture of tigers or of Ireland, much less blinking or screened-back ones. The words are enough, if the words are good.

I’m sharing some of the best—and more interesting—minimalist WordPress themes that are publicly available. Many may react to these by thinking of all the ways they could be enhanced, altered, etc., and I think that’s a big reason so many people are searching for a “simple” theme.

One last note. Minimalism is just one school of design thought. There are plenty of others, all having their different strengths and weakness, and all for a different purpose. It’s silly to compare Google with Kaliber10000 because they’re totally different in every way.

Disclaimer: I haven’t been so obnoxious as to pitch my own themes here (except for right here), but do feel free to have a look: Themes at plaintxt.org. They’re my attempts at producing some of the best minimalist WordPress themes.

Barecity

Barecity

White As Milk

White as Milk

Hemingway Reloaded

Hemingway Reloaded

Hiperminimalist

Hiperminimalist

Simpla

Simpla

Way Too Clean

Way Too Clean

Man~ja

Man~ja

Burnfield

Burnfield

The Simple Life

The Simple Life

Zen Minimalist

Zen Minimalist

For more thoughtful consideration, browse my Flickr set of the Best 10 Minimalist WordPress Themes.

If you’d like to read better words than mine on minimalism, I suggest reading Minimalistic Design at Simpl(e)y Done. It’s a great post and a good thread of comments, too.

But if you’re swaying away from minimalism, you might check out CoXis’s Best WordPress Themes (via Silkjaer).

Please feel free to leave your comments, thoughts, arguments, etc., on minimalism in blog design here. Click on the thumbnails below to see a larger image and comment on the specific themes there.

Comments

  1. Mary Wehmeier wrote:

    Scott:

    Mind if I ask what you would charge me to re-do Blogtxt into an elastic three column format? I need it to remain all white as you have it, and I need some of the feel that Doc Searls has on his site, http://doc.weblogs.com

    Just so you know I’m not a flake. I am very serious about needing a theme/format that will work for me. I just moved to a new host, and over to WordPress. I am also going to be importing my weblog over. My timetable is the sooner the better.

    email me the info, or a phone number and I’ll call and we can talk.

    Thanks–

    Mary Lu Wehmeier

    Posted 15 Jun 2006 at 5:37 am

  2. faebser wrote:

    hi scott,

    i just wanted to thank you for you wp-theme simplr, i use it now for over a month and i’m really happy with it.

    thanks alot,

    faebser

    Posted 15 Jun 2006 at 9:15 am

  3. Michael Pollitt wrote:

    I’ve just started to use Barthelme today. Thanks for your work on this. I’ve kept some notes on what I changed and, over the next month or so, will see how it works for me. I hope then to be able to make some suggestions for you. For example, I changed the width of the sidebar and the date format already. I’ve migrated from a modified WordPress 1.2 theme so the new separate theme files in 2.0 make life a lot easier. It’s also refreshing to see a simpler theme - many of the blogs I look at are just so cluttered.

    Posted 15 Jun 2006 at 12:08 pm

  4. Scott wrote:

    It used to be those little sidebar icons that were used in lieu of text links. Now it’s the silly little “Furl me” and “del.icio.us this” icons that occur at the bottoms of posts—posts about the food at lunch or last night’s TV show. Come on. Really.

    The best blogs have been and will continue to be the ones that have direction coupled with an interesting and thought-provoking mix of media and text.

    Though I honestly like the idea of the weblog-as-diary form. I mean, MySpace, for as ugly as it is, is really quite cool. Ugh, though, I get dizzy looking at pages there.

    Posted 15 Jun 2006 at 12:14 pm

  5. Mack wrote:

    Scott, I think you’re being a bit too modest here. I’m using veryplaintext for my blog, and I’m absolutely blown away by it and think it’s absolutely one of the 10 best minimalist themes out there.

    You can count me as one of your raving fans. Sorry I can’t contribute at this moment in time, but I thank you for your work and want you to know that it’s greatly appreciated.

    Can I give you an ad box?

    Posted 29 Jun 2006 at 3:17 am

  6. John Sinclair wrote:

    For the last couple of years I actually avoided WordPress simply because the visual aspects (I looked at dozens of live websites) were bad, cluttered, ugly, or broken. Last week I discovered your plaintxtBlog theme; it only took me a day to switch to it and WordPress.

    Minimalism is in my nature. Words are powerful, content should rule a text-based website. Thank you for your themes, but more importantly thank you for verbalizing the philosophy of minimalism.

    Posted 29 Jun 2006 at 6:36 pm

  7. Jimmy wrote:

    Hi again Scott. I’m am sorry to say that I am no longer using your lovely themes for Wordpress. In fact, I am no longer using WP at all in favor for another CMS (ExpressionEngine). The reason for this is that I decided to go on a little minimalistic design venture of my own (check out the website for the result). I just finished writing the start of a series of writing where I intend to go deeper in the philosophy and appeal of minimalist design. You might consider it a worth-while read. Check it out here.

    Thanks for all the inspiration that you have given me with this website, and keep up the good work mate! :)

    Posted 22 Jul 2006 at 6:18 pm

  8. Scott wrote:

    Great looking site, Jimmy. Not sure why you changed to EE, which is a fine platform, don’t get me wrong. But that, I suppose, is another conversation. Each to their own, eh?

    The site looks great, by the way. Well done.

    Posted 22 Jul 2006 at 6:23 pm

  9. Jimmy wrote:

    Thanks mate!
    My reasons for changing from trusty Wordpress to EE is a long story, one very contributing factor was EE’s ability to handle more than one content source in it’s webblog functionality (a webblogin the world of EE is only a dynamic container of content, nothing else). By using that, I now have a “main section” where I write all my primary content, and a secondary, dubbed SmallTalk, where i publish, well, the little stuff that arent fully featured articles.
    I suppose one could solve that in Wordpress as well, but I cant come to think of a simple and logic way of doing it.

    Posted 25 Jul 2006 at 7:25 am

  10. Scott wrote:

    There are many cool things you can do in WordPress, and many of those cool things require quite elaborate contructions to be accomplished. ;-)

    Good luck with the site. Do stop by often to let us know what’s new.

    Posted 25 Jul 2006 at 8:43 am

  11. dandyna wrote:

    Great choices, My favorite is simpla. xxx your fellow italian fool

    Posted 24 Aug 2006 at 12:31 pm

  12. Andy Wibbels wrote:

    I have always loved White as Milk and your themes, Scott. These are great! I usually bounce between something intricate and then something totally stripped down. Great stuff!

    Posted 24 Aug 2006 at 1:21 pm

  13. Alvin.W wrote:

    And personally, I dont think minimalist is just about white background with grey border and black text, which i think is the main similiarity shared by all the themes in your showcase above.

    Of course, i can be more helpful by pointing you to some links, but it might take a while. That pretty much explains what many perceive as a ‘minimalist’ design, when it shouldnt be necessary so.

    Posted 24 Aug 2006 at 1:48 pm

  14. Stephen Lennert wrote:

    Those are good themes. But from a regular users perspective, I think that both Andreas Viklunds 1024px—which I use myself right now—and your own plaintxtblog (which I used before) are better options than Hemingway Reloaded. I understand that you don’t want to list your own themes in the list, but out of curiosity for how a great minimalist theme coder thinks I want to ask how you would rank 1024px and plaintxtblog in relation to your top-ten?

    Posted 24 Aug 2006 at 4:43 pm

  15. Scott wrote:

    The plaintxtBlog theme has some problems that need to be resolved. I plan to re-release it with WP 2.1, whenever that happens. So I think I would rate my other themes before it.

    And I personally don’t care much for 1024px. I don’t like its fixed width and excessive (in my opinion) use of bolding. I like the detail of lines under the post titles, but wonder why the link mouseover for post title links adds yet another underline.

    I do like what it does with comments, though, as I think they’re a step in the right direction. It’s a good theme, just not for me. ;-)

    Posted 24 Aug 2006 at 4:51 pm

  16. Lynne wrote:

    I can’t say what was in Andreas’ mind when he did 1024px, but I also included a line under post titles in my site AND added the underline on mouseover. My reason for this is simple - many people, especially those not so familiar with the Net, expect to see underlines with links. If they don’t, they don’t necessarily know that its a link that can be clicked. So, the decision between design aesthetic and user needs was a simple one for me.

    I call my design (my first for WP) a “minimalist plus”. It’s not one I am releasing, but if you are interested in checking it out I would appreciate feedback.

    Posted 27 Aug 2006 at 10:34 pm

  17. Brajeshwar wrote:

    Well, I got 2 good minimalistic themes too
    KISS
    Brajeshwar v7.0

    Posted 30 Aug 2006 at 7:55 am

  18. Scott wrote:

    KISS is a lovely theme. I set up a blog for my friend, Anthony, and it’s what I suggested he start with. Not familiar with the other theme, though.

    I like the tagline in KISS and its reduced post footer on the main page. The comments form is right on, too. One comment though: please rework the sidebar. Consider Widgets and h3’s.

    Posted 30 Aug 2006 at 9:02 am

  19. tyler wrote:

    White As Milk is one of the top 5 best WP themes of all time. hands down.

    Posted 30 Aug 2006 at 9:53 am

  20. Ivan Minic wrote:

    Go zen go! :)

    Posted 30 Aug 2006 at 10:43 am

  21. Jamie wrote:

    Yet another Barthelme fan. You are far too modest–your themes rock, and their support of widgets and the inclusion of an options page is just a bonus.

    Posted 30 Aug 2006 at 11:18 am

  22. Cheri wrote:

    Nothing beats a minimalist theme for a collector’s website; with no distractions or twinkies, the photos of items in your collection really stand out. People who visit collectors’ sites are looking for information, and a smooth, open layout makes it easy for them to find it. I’ve been using your blog.txt 1.2 right out of the box for one of mine.

    Posted 30 Aug 2006 at 12:30 pm

  23. Kyle wrote:

    Hey, just a quick note to let you know that there’s actually a white version of Hemingway (http://warpspire.com/hemingway) included in the default package (it’s in the Hemingway Options tab, under presentation). I know most people think Hemingway is only white-on-black, but there’s a very attractive black-on-white style as well.

    Hemingway Reloaded is currently using some older CSS styles that have bugs (for example, you can’t click the header) and doesn’t have half the features that Hemingway 0.19 has.

    Posted 30 Aug 2006 at 1:20 pm

  24. Scott wrote:

    @Kyle:

    Actually, a lot of these themes are really not extraordinarily well coded, in my opinion. Barecity, for example, is a mess on the inside.

    But when I created this list (some time back) I was more interested in their design and its objective(s), and less interested in how they actually functioned or what their features were.

    But I’m sure those who are interested in actually using them will find your note helpful. Thanks.

    Posted 30 Aug 2006 at 1:26 pm

  25. Kyle wrote:

    Scott: I completely understand that. I guess I just urge you to check out the white style for Hemingway. It’s almost identical to Hemingway Reloaded (visually), except there are fewer bugs, and more flexibility for the end user.

    Posted 30 Aug 2006 at 1:30 pm

  26. Scott wrote:

    Oops, I meant left out a not in my comment above. Fixed.

    @Kyle: Yes, I’m familiar with Hemingway. It is a fantastic theme, and yes, it definitely works much better the Hemingway Reloaded. But when I thought of this type of layout and what I like about it, this is the theme that came to mind. But kudos to the originator. ;-)

    Posted 30 Aug 2006 at 1:41 pm

  27. Tom wrote:

    I am surprised that for a site that loves minimalism that this text box with live preview is unacceptably slow. I want to WRITE, not preview! Anyway doesnt anyone make a wordpress theme with white on black? isnt that much easier to read than a bright white screen with tiny black letters?

    Posted 30 Aug 2006 at 2:10 pm

  28. Scott wrote:

    @Tom: Read Kyle’s comment above for your white-on-black theme. And the minimalist design we’re discussing here relates to the visual presentation and its emphasis on the content. I’m interested in design that is content-centric. According to your logical of minimalism = subtraction, there shouldn’t even be comments.

    Posted 30 Aug 2006 at 2:27 pm

  29. undersan wrote:

    Looking at these samples, I wonder, whatever happened to one-and-a-half alphabets? Use a narrower column or a larger font, please!

    Posted 30 Aug 2006 at 3:36 pm

  30. Tom wrote:

    @Scott: Not trying to be a troll. I just tried to jot a comment and it was really slow. I almost gave up as I made a lot of spelling mistakes. I am impressed that you were able to gather my logic based on one sentence! Any way is the live comment preview only really slow for me? (seriously it’s slow).

    Posted 30 Aug 2006 at 7:58 pm

  31. Jeff wrote:

    That’s a shame about Barecity being a mess on the inside. I like it a lot and hadn’t seen it before. Currently using plaintxtBlog.

    A bit off topic, but related to quite a few themes (especially KISS, blog.txt, and Simplr): It irks me to see “vertical” designs. Everyone’s so concerned about catering to the poor 800×600 folks and such that the people with an 1100px wide browser are staring at GOBS of whitespace as they scroll tirelessly for no good reason.

    Posted 30 Aug 2006 at 8:13 pm

  32. Blackadept wrote:

    Great theme. When visiting other blogs, I don’t wantb to waste valuable milliseconds understandingb the layout and finding the page links. I just want to now “where’s the meat”, ease of access to the content paramount.

    Posted 14 Sep 2006 at 10:44 am

  33. kingz wrote:

    Great effort on the compilations. This is extremely helpful as oppose to browsing the 800 odd designs on the wordpress theme site, which I find can be a little intimidating sometimes.

    Posted 19 Sep 2006 at 1:27 am

  34. Flash_back wrote:

    Scott, do you have plans to create a new version of your theme Simplr? I’m using Simplr and i very happy with it.

    Cheers.
    JM.

    Posted 08 Oct 2006 at 12:29 pm

  35. tiekie wrote:

    Hi.. I love this teme, it’s plain and simple.I’m very new to wordpress and still need to learn so much but im looking forward to it

    Posted 22 Oct 2006 at 4:48 pm

  36. tiekie wrote:

    i love it

    Posted 22 Oct 2006 at 4:49 pm

  37. 3DSL Eugen wrote:

    hey, i like all your themes! because the side can be loaded fast. its great for peoples witch slowly internet connections.

    Posted 24 Oct 2006 at 5:28 pm

  38. Giovanni wrote:

    Great theme! Giovanni

    Posted 26 Nov 2006 at 1:44 pm

  39. Joni Mueller wrote:

    My and Ivan Minic’s web design shop are responsible for Zen Minimalist (with the tabs at the top). We have tightened the design, made it WP 2.0 ready and it is now available for download here:

    http://wpthemes.mytestbed.com/themes/

    I would also like to call attention to another minimalist theme we have created, tho with a splash of color at the top and bottom. It is called Blank Stare and it too is available for download at the above link and can be seen in use (with the css tweaked for the holidays) on my personal blog at http://www.joniverse.com.

    And PlainTXT — it’s very very elegant! I expect to see it, loud and proud, in the next WP design competition!!

    Posted 24 Dec 2006 at 10:53 am

  40. Daniel wrote:

    Okay, …, calm down….

    I BELIEVE THIS IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THEMES FOR WORDPRESS!!!!!THANKS PLAINTEXT.ORG!!!!!

    Posted 26 Dec 2006 at 3:25 am

  41. Taussac wrote:

    I m looking for a real clear them for my blog and I got it
    Thank !

    Posted 01 Jan 2007 at 10:13 pm

  42. directorycontest wrote:

    Hi scott i also found Kiss theme and it is really very good and simple.great work

    Posted 09 Jan 2007 at 7:41 am

  43. Fell the Don wrote:

    Exactly what I was looking for, thanks!

    Posted 19 Jan 2007 at 12:39 am

  44. jaffamonkey wrote:

    I have been using your blog.txt theme for last couple of weeks, after pointless efforts with other themes. What I love about this theme is it’s simplicity (as well as sailing through w3c validation for css and xhtml), and its extensibility. A big round of applause - theme designers too often forget the principles around Wordpress (seperating out your data from design), and your themes certainly adhere to that principle.

    Posted 14 Feb 2007 at 11:59 am

  45. Markus wrote:

    Great design! Good work.

    Posted 15 Feb 2007 at 10:29 am

  46. Adam Cleaveland wrote:

    Please check out my new theme, Cleaker 2.0 - it’s a beautiful, 3 column WordPress theme - built with semantic XHTML, just like Plantxt….

    http://pomomusings.com/design/

    Posted 20 Feb 2007 at 10:43 pm

  47. Martin Olsson wrote:

    Not a Wordpress theme, but a Radiant CMS theme. My blog smpl.se is probably as simple as it gets. But still pretty - at least I think so . . .

    Posted 01 Mar 2007 at 11:18 am

  48. Gutschein wrote:

    Sehr schönes Theme! Gute Arbeit. Machen Sie weiter so.

    Posted 03 Mar 2007 at 11:59 am

  49. Thomas Baruchel wrote:

    I am sad you didn’t speak about Brajeshwar. The last time I downloaded the files, I must say that the theme was not at all W3C compliant. But after a short time hacking them, the result is really elegant (you can have a look at my website).

    Posted 07 Mar 2007 at 1:06 pm

  50. Boris Bogdanov wrote:

    Hi, thank you for your great designs! I’ve slightly modified your theme Plaintextblog and translated it into Russian. You can take a look at it at http://test.clientservice.ru/ or download at http://test.clientservice.ru/files/plaintxtblog-mod.rar

    Posted 24 Mar 2007 at 8:55 am

  51. Виталий wrote:

    Пользоваться темами plainxt очень удобно, хорошая функциональность, widget-ы. Можно легко брать и эксплуатировать или использовать основу для создания дизайна своего блога, хотя лишней графики для блога вообщем-то вообще-то не и надо.
    ПС
    Тестировал в Opera 6 - три колонки ложаться друг на друга.

    Posted 05 Apr 2007 at 5:15 am

  52. Poisk Knig wrote:

    I think that blogi just exactly tot type of sites where minimalizm is acceptable

    Posted 15 Apr 2007 at 3:02 pm

  53. Strafverteidiger wrote:

    Great theme. When visiting other blogs, I don’t wantb to waste valuable milliseconds understandingb the layout and finding the page links. I just want to now “where’s the meat”, ease of access to the content paramount.

    Posted 18 Apr 2007 at 8:48 pm

  54. scott wrote:

    Those are good themes.”The simple life” is the best.

    Posted 27 Apr 2007 at 12:48 pm

  55. bony wrote:

    Nice list of themes here. And thanks for your Flickr set of the Best 10 Minimalist WordPress Themes. I also just released a proxy template and I am right now working on a WOrdpress theme called bonyhen v.1 Hope it will be out soon.

    Thanks for the list :)

    Posted 29 Apr 2007 at 6:23 am

  56. Frucomerci wrote:

    Hey!! Cool post/blog and nice list of minimalist blogs!
    Thx, was very helpfully!

    Posted 30 Apr 2007 at 6:51 pm

  57. krotzyk wrote:

    really nice templates. thanks for sharing!

    Posted 01 May 2007 at 6:09 am

  58. Neer wrote:

    Great simple themes here. I will be using the Zen Minimalist theme in one of my blogs now. Thanks :)

    Posted 04 May 2007 at 7:31 pm

  59. mara wrote:

    >> I dont think minimalist is just about white background with grey border and black text, which i think is the main similiarity shared by all the themes in your showcase above.

    Can’t agree more…,

    Posted 13 May 2007 at 10:52 am

  60. Batik Picture wrote:

    My favourite inspiring theme is the Simpla. Simple is nice!

    Posted 16 May 2007 at 12:24 pm

  61. Thomas wrote:

    Wow. Had I found your site earlier I might not have written my CMS theme/template. I was aiming for simplicity, but I think yours is even simpler. You might still want to have a look. I tested it for WP 2.2 already. My theme (which I call a template) works with widgets and without. Greetings, Th

    Posted 29 May 2007 at 10:24 am

  62. ardamis wrote:

    Hey there, kindred soul. I’ve been stuck on minimalist, text-heavy sites for years.

    While I’m currently running a handmade WordPress theme based on screen shots of the terrific Hemingway (http://warpspire.com/hemingway), my previous theme is available for download at http://www.ardamis.com/2007/06/03/apricot/ .

    My personal favorite blog layout, and IMO the gold standard for minimalism, is Daring Fireball (http://daringfireball.net/).

    Posted 18 Jun 2007 at 2:26 am

  63. Bart wrote:

    I like your list. Another that should definitely be added to any revision would be Gilbert Lee’s plainsimple.org It’s perfectly plain.

    Posted 19 Jun 2007 at 11:41 pm

  64. sam wrote:

    wait.. I just signed up for wordpress.. but now I can’t figure out how to put these Minimalist designs into it. Do I have to pay to get that feature or something?

    Posted 09 Jul 2007 at 10:44 pm

  65. Scott wrote:

    These themes are available for download and use with the WordPress.org WordPress. Different than WordPress.com. There, you only have the themes provided.

    Hope that clarifies, Sam.

    Posted 09 Jul 2007 at 10:53 pm

  66. henri wrote:

    Hi Scott, thanks for your great minimalist design. I like it, and i’m workin’ on it.
    Best Regards
    Henri

    Posted 14 Aug 2007 at 10:01 am

  67. promo wrote:

    Thanks for themes!

    Posted 01 Sep 2007 at 5:31 pm

  68. spain wrote:

    wp-theme simplr is great, i am very impressed… keep up the good work mate!

    Posted 08 Sep 2007 at 8:16 pm

  69. Katalog Stron wrote:

    Way Too Clean - this great themes.. Nice article..

    Posted 25 Sep 2007 at 1:36 pm

  70. Friseur wrote:

    Great list!…i used hiperminimalist before & it worked great!

    Posted 09 Oct 2007 at 1:50 pm

  71. google kılavuzu wrote:

    my favorite is Simpla!

    Posted 28 Oct 2007 at 7:57 pm

  72. christmas wrote:

    I agree - Simple is beautiful!

    Posted 02 Nov 2007 at 8:41 am

  73. Greg wrote:

    There are many examples of minimal designs online. PlainTxt have put together a list of some of the most minimal WordPress themes imaginable.

    Posted 11 Nov 2007 at 3:09 pm

  74. Voip wrote:

    Hello, I’ve just started to use Barthelme today. Thanks for your work on this. I’ve kept some notes on what I changed and, over the next month or so, will see how it works for me. I hope then to be able to make some suggestions for you. For example, I changed the width of the sidebar and the date format already. I’ve migrated from a modified WordPress 1.2 theme so the new separate theme files in 2.0 make life a lot easier. It’s also refreshing to see a simpler theme - many of the blogs I look at are just so cluttered.

    Posted 18 Jan 2008 at 2:07 pm

  75. Borner wrote:

    Hello guys, I’m working since a long time with one of the first Barecity versions and now i have a question. I hope anyone can answer. How can I adjust the heigth of the sidebar of barecity until it reaches the footer. I tried but as an example height:100%; diddn’t made me happy. Sorry for my english, i’m a german i hope u understood.
    thanks a lot.

    the site is:www.oliverborner.com

    Posted 23 Jan 2008 at 4:58 am

  76. Aidan wrote:

    just exactly the clean white minimalist themes I’ve been looking for. Glad I got to bump into this site. Hiperminimalist is my favorite of all.

    Posted 05 Feb 2008 at 3:43 am

  77. Populara wrote:

    thank you for sharing! my favorite is The Simple Life theme

    Posted 05 Feb 2008 at 8:51 am

  78. house clearance lond wrote:

    Boris Bogdanov, thanks for your translation! It helped me a lot! Take care!

    Posted 15 Apr 2008 at 4:43 pm

  79. Mike Brennan wrote:

    Very nice! I’m just starting to setup my website, and I’ve put 2 Wordpress blogs on it (that I’m just starting), but I’ve been very unsatisfied with the Wordpress themes I’ve been finding on the net.

    I like these! And I like the ones you’ve done, as well. I like the idea of making the theme highly customizable with CSS, as you’ve done with Sandbox. I’m going to delve into it (and check out these others) this weekend and finally get my blogs looking nice.

    Thanks!

    Posted 19 Apr 2008 at 6:01 am

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  36. Song in the Wire » Blog Archive » Small updates and a request on 13 Sep 2006 at 6:56 am

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  37. Blogging for Dollars Blog / WordPress minimalist themes on 13 Sep 2006 at 7:25 pm

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  38. Maple » Blog Archive » 最低纲领 on 14 Sep 2006 at 1:24 am

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  39. Revisited: Minimalism in Design · plaintxt.org on 17 Sep 2006 at 1:17 am

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  40. my black room » Blog Archive » Best Minimalist WordPress Themes on 19 Sep 2006 at 1:17 am

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  46. Mental Shrapnel» Blog Archive » Upgrade, and Playing with Themes on 29 Oct 2006 at 9:24 pm

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  49. Webmaster Tool Bag » Blog Archive » A list of wordpress themes on 06 Nov 2006 at 12:40 pm

    […] http://www.plaintxt.org/2006/06/13/the-best-minimalist-wordpress-themes/ Now these I like. I always find wordress themes a little too busy, a little too arty. Nice to have a virtually blank canvas to add stuff to. The important thing is the content, not how pretty the sites look. To me it’s all about functionality. Share and Enjoy:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. […]

  50. Outta Debt / Ahhh…That’s getting better…. on 08 Nov 2006 at 11:10 am

    […] This has nothing to do with finance, personal or otherwise so if you’re not interested in more of my ramblings about my blog redesign please forgive me and, um, well I’d suggest leaving right about now. If your still here I’d like to know what you think of the plain text look. I’m a fan of Timothy McSweeney and have always liked the fact that the site is all about the words. There’s no clutter, no extra junk all over the screen, just good writing. So imagine my delight when I came across Plaintxt.org and The Best Minimalist Wordpress Themes. There right at the top was a quote from Dave Eggers of McSweeney’s: What very few designers realize, particularly the younger ones, is that most people would rather read something—actually read the words—than look at all of their lines and arrows and silly pictures they’ve screened back. […]

  51. m1sz1.com on 09 Nov 2006 at 12:26 am

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  58. Wordpress theme: Creating a theme (Some side comments) | cre8d design: blog design, Wordpress themes, Drupal, Web 2.0 on 21 Jan 2007 at 4:19 pm

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  60. Le blog non officiel de Bobig » Blog Archive » Design minimal on 25 Jan 2007 at 5:59 am

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  72. Dezzain DemoTone » How To Pick the Best Theme in WordPress For You on 20 Mar 2007 at 9:49 pm

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  73. Jakob Montrasio’s Net. » Blog Archive » WP-Theme: Jiajia. on 21 Mar 2007 at 11:10 pm

    […] So go ahead, take a look at the messy CSS file, I am far from being a CSS guru, but I got it working quite easily. All you have to do is set the ‘top’ and ‘left’ and ‘width’ and ‘height’ attributes after commanding an absolute position, and that’s it is. I overran the blog with ‘browsershots’ and it looked with every browser almost the same - good enough for me. Enough talk. Get the zip file here, it’s 1.1 megabytes big. It does not only contain all the necessary files to get it running with Wordpress, I also included my once again messy Photoshop file of the design, so you can open that and start changing around if you’d like. The ‘weird’ font I used for the sub-navigation at the top is called ‘ChangChang’ and can be downloaded for free. Oh, here are some things you need to know: I coded the top menu ‘hard’ into the footer, so you better edit that one first and change the path to your url://yourdomain.com/whatever/templates/jiajia/images/ folder or you won’t see any images there at the top. The headline is also ‘big’, as I don’t like huge headlines that much, so if you’re going to write long headlines, you might want to resize the font. To be honest, you shouldn’t see this theme as a ‘upload-and-use-it’ theme, it’s more a ’something-to-start-with’ theme, as you probably want to modify it heavily. So go ahead, launch Photoshop and start changing them colors. Finally, I would like the following sites and / or entries for helping me with their useful stuff while creating this theme - they are a great resource for you, too, if you’re going to change the design and layout: gotApi, Clean CSS, (The Only) Ten Things To Know About CSS, Improve Your Blog’s Reach With These 20 Essential Web Utilities, The ultimate webdesign usability checklist, Font Tester, Creating a CSS layout from scratch, ChangChang font, 83 Beautiful Wordpress Themes You (Probably) Haven’t Seen, Top 10 Sites for Web Designers, 45 Fresh, Clean and Impressive Designs, Top 10 Most Beautiful Blog Designs, How Web 2.0 Logos are drawn (Photoshop), The Best Minimalist WordPress Themes, Comprehensive list of 980+ Free WordPress 1.5 and 2.0 Themes / Templates available for download, 10 Things You Should Know about WordPress 2.0, and finally read very carefully this one: 10 Things You Must Do When Changing WordPress Themes. Any problems? Leave a comment. Bookmark to: […]

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  80. James Governor’s Monkchips » Are Poor Applications Better Than Rich Applications? on 03 May 2007 at 12:39 pm

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  86. Temas simples para Wordpress on 01 Jun 2007 at 7:07 am

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  110. Minimalist Blog Design on 16 Sep 2007 at 10:54 am

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  111.   En iyisinden WordPress temaları by Wordpress-Türkiye on 18 Sep 2007 at 5:12 am

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  112. Stephen Heard’s Blog » Blog Archive » Theme-ing my WordPress blog on 26 Sep 2007 at 12:12 am

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  115. Our Love Affair With WordPress: Part 1 » Poles Apart Design Blog on 17 Oct 2007 at 7:33 pm

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  118. aus der Tiefe des Ws » Blog Archive » Be simple, man on 08 Nov 2007 at 11:00 am

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  120. simpledream web studio: standards-based web design and development » Archives » Clean and Simple Wordpress Themes on 30 Nov 2007 at 12:31 pm

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