Zen Minimalist, one of the best minimalist WordPress themes
A classic WordPress theme. I first saw Zen Minimalist on Alex King’s WordPress 1.5 Theme Competition. This theme, though, is everything minimal. While page tabs don’t play well with child pages, the grays and tight packaging of content make it an excellent design.
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[...] I tore through the list of The Best Minimalist WordPress Themes at PlainText.Org and it set me on the path of righteousness in my quest for a bare-bones design. These offerings are the web design equivalent of Bauhaus. if you’re looking to take an oath of abstinence from wallpaper jpegs, color in general, header images and graphic-laden design, this is your resource list. A few minimalist themes don’t even allow for the posting of photos, which is a little more scaled down than I was looking to go. My words aren’t that pretty, and sometimes I like to post the occasional embarrassing photo of my wife or embed a strange YouTube video involving rabbits. But many of these were sturdy, nice little designs that were quite adaptable. Zen Minimalist was a close contender for this site, as was White As Milk. [...]