Minimalism is the new trend. And, today we will focus on best free minimalist WordPress theme. They are plenty and we want to only focus on the best.

Website design is important for any website. The design should also concur with what you have to offer. Any website with content should focus more on typography based design rather than bling-bling. If you are trying to build a portfolio, things get more focused on images and how important information can be highlighted.

Minimalistic design, on the other hand, is user-friendly and also offers great SEO leverage to the website. Minimalist WordPress themes are light-weight and offer a great loading time. Less loading time means a great boost in Google rankings.

Another important aspect of minimal design is the way content is showcased.

Without wasting more time, let’s get started with the best free minimalist WordPress themes for 2015.

13 Best Free Minimalist WordPress Themes 2015

Grid Theme

Grid Theme is an excellent WordPress theme that focused on minimalistic design. The theme is perfect for creative people as they can easily utilize the theme to their advantage.

The theme is Pinterest based and offers great visibility for users.

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White Paper

White Paper is the simplest WordPress theme I have ever come across. It offers an amazing design with a full focus on the content of the website. The theme is great for bloggers, writers, and anyone who is trying to find a theme that only focuses on content.

The theme is available for free and can be used by anyone. There is also a paid version of the theme if you are interested to gain more functionality and customization over the free version.

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Tonal

Tonal is developed by the makers of WordPress, Automattic. Their themes are always well-made and is great for SEO purposes. The theme homepage is well-built with a featured image on top of each post.

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The featured images provide the right place for putting up your post articles. You can choose any other color scheme according to your taste.

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Writr

Are you a writer and is looking for a theme? Then, Writr is for you. The theme offers great minimalistic design for the writers. It offers a sidebar that contains the menu for the theme. It also offers a sleek author box on the left sidebar.

The theme comes with good customization options. You can use it to portray your thoughts easily.

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Silvia

Silvia is yet another minimalist WordPress theme. It is well suited for photography and blogging. If you like simple layouts, then the theme is for you. Being a minimalist theme, it offers a clean design and also provides photo galleries to showcase your talent.

With the ability to showcase galleries, you can use it to show portfolio easily. It only comes with a black and white tone. If you know what you are doing, you can put custom CSS to change the base color according to your requirement.

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Spacious

Spacious is one of the best free WordPress theme out there. The theme offers great personal blogging features. It can also be used for portfolio or business related website.

Feature wise, it offers 4-page-layouts, 13 widget areas, custom widgets and much more.

The design of the theme is the catching point. For businesses, it means sending out the information in the cleanest possible way.

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ForeOverWood

ForeOverWood is a minimalist theme that focuses on providing premium qualities for free. The theme is completely responsive and is retina ready. You can use both masonry and column layout for your blog. The masonry is appealing for bloggers as well as photographers.

The theme can also be used for portfolio and also offers a different color scheme to choose from.

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Imbalance

The Imbalance is a minimalistic photography WordPress theme. The theme is free, but you can still find a great way of using the theme. It has masonry layout which focused on images.

The masonry layout also helps to build a portfolio website. The imbalance theme is actually the most balanced WordPress theme out there.

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Freedom

Freedom is one of the most amazing WordPress theme that utilizes the idea of minimalism. It offers a great homepage to get started.

The homepage offers a slider and you can use both wide or boxed layout for your website.

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Sparkling

Sparkling is developed by Colorlib and it is free. The theme offers a completely responsive, minimal and clean design.The theme can be used for many purposes including creating health, travel, business, design, art or other layouts.

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Brix

Brix is a simple minimalist WordPress theme. It offers completely responsive design and is multi-purpose in nature. The theme is built using the latest technology, HTML5, and CSS3. The theme also offers great SEO compatibility and provides all the necessary user experience to make the user stick around.

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Editor

The Editor is a writer based WordPress theme that focuses on minimalist design. The design is completely responsive and the homepage is also well made. The homepage offers a left sidebar which can be used to dock the menu.

The posts include a featured image and hence provides the right amount of user experience for a minimalist WordPress theme.

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Semicolon

Semicolon is a magazine based WordPress theme. It offers a minimalistic design and is completely responsive.

The theme feature list is great. It offers social media options and is great for anyone who is looking to start their website.

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Wrap Up

WordPress is a great platform and the ecosystem provides all the necessary plugins and themes. Today, I went through the handpicked best free minimalist WordPress theme.

Do you think that I missed an awesome free minimalist theme? Comment below and let us know.

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