Minimalism is a trend that always seem to last and is still popular, although many theme designers are trying to get as many web elements as possible in their themes simplicity can be an attractive option. If you like minimal, beautiful WordPress themes, check out our list with – 40 elegant minimalist free and premium WordPress Themes.

Proton

Proton is high quality creative theme with great style and clean code. Proton can be used for many purposes starting from minimal portfolios, agencies, freelancers and much more. Template is created and tested in all devices and works perfectly without a single issue.

Less

A free super minimal WordPress Theme.

Glider

A minimal, responsive, text-focused theme for WordPress.

Best Theme

A Beautiful, Responsive Theme for WordPress Sites.

Origin

Origin is a simple and elegant theme with responsive layout for better viewing on mobile devices – smartphones and tablets. It’s built on the Hybrid Core framework and inherits its professional and well-organized coding practices, making it an excellent starting point for further customization and development.

Sundance

A free video theme brought to you by the folks at Automattic. Despite its minimalist design, Sundance was crafted with clean, elegant typography and close attention to detail. The home page offers a featured video carousel. It supports the video post format, widgets, custom background, custom header, custom menus, and a custom link feature for your social media pages.

Read WP

This is a responsive html5 wordpress theme focused on readability with a minimalist design.

Vulcan

Vulcan template is designed Modern and minimalist template, suit any kind of website.

Centita

Centita is WordPress Theme with minimalist and elegant look that suitable for your professional corporate website, easy to customize and rich of features.

MiniBuzz

MiniBuzz is a simple, clean and minimalist business wordpress theme suitable for business, portfolio, company and corporate. This theme can also be used for personal or blog site.

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.

The Cotton

The Cotton is a Powerful Premium WordPress Theme designed in a 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. The Cotton theme is highly flexible, so customizing the theme or simply changing the color scheme is super simple and for the most parts you won’t need an image editor.

Genova

Genova is a content centered design template. It hides all the secondary information (widgets) but shows them on demand (mouse over or tab at a touch screen using jQuery).Less is more is the design principle on which the template is based on. With that idea it became one of the most minimalistic but at the same time well equipped WordPress themes in this store.

Bonsai

Bonsai is a clean minimalistic WordPress theme that doesn’t suffer from the feature bloat of other themes. The design is simple yet attractive and flexible. Perfect for businesses, individuals, portfolios or blogs.

Illuminate

Illuminate offers a sleek, sophisticated, clean WordPress theme packed with options and features that make it slick and easy to get your site started off with class.

Classic

The concept of this template is to provide a simple, clean and minimalist template with easy to change the color and header image to suit any kind of website.

Squared

An elegant minimalist theme for the professional photographer or design studio. This theme is fully ajax driven, employs deep linking, offers a fullscreen background gallery for featured photos or work, a range of shortcodes for easy layout creation, custom theme options panel for quick setup and much more.

Minimalistic Studio

Minimalistic Studio is a high quality wordpress theme intended for business and portfolio sites. Minimalistic Studio comes with an impressive fully customizable 3D slider.Minimalistic Studio is a minimal and very clean wordpress theme. It comes with an impressive fully customizable 3D slider, has a jquery tab on the sidebar and it has a 15 color style variation.

Praenoto

Praenoto is designed to be minimal and clean looking while haveing a lot of features. This theme utilises the most out of WordPress features and makes it perfect for showcasing ones portfolio or being used as blog/magazine.

Photojax

Photojax is a clean and minial, yet unique, WordPress photography theme. This sleek and modern theme features two color skins, beautiful galleries using the premium Royal Slider plugin.

istudio

istudio is clean, elegant and minimalist wordpress theme that can be switched as business, corporate, portfolio and blogging theme.

Tesla

Tesla is a modern WordPress theme with a clean minimalist design. It’s best suited for Portfolio and Business Websites (also nice for personal websites).11 pre-made background patterns, Flexible homepage , 2 slideshow layouts with 11 transition effects (that can be controlled using admin options), strong back-end, beautiful & easy to use shortcodes, unlimited blogs & portfolio, ajaxed contact form, and much more will help you and your clients build their professional websites easily.

Mygen

Mygen WordPress Theme is minimalist and simple look it’s suitable for your professional corporate website, business portfolio, or anything website.

Centum

Centum is a premium responsive WordPress theme created for corporate and portfolio websites. It features a very clean and minimal design that is perfect for showcasing your work.

Folioway

Folioway is a perfect pixel WordPress theme, not only its clean and elegant, it also comes with tons of features like amazing slider, unlimited colors, etc.

Good Minimal

Good Minimal is a responsive HTML5 & CSS3 , clean and minimalist style theme that is good for portfolio, blogs and businesses. This theme is flexible and is used media queries to adapt screen sizes, weither it is iPhone, iPad and wide screens.

Cascade

Cascade is a minimalist personal vCard WordPress theme based on colorful vertical menu tabs. Tabs are presenting content of the pages. Each page is one cascade tab.Theme comes with dark and light skin, possibility to add unlimited number of tabs, predefined 8 tab colors and 10 tab icons, 20 predefined page backgrounds and 10 predefined social icons. Theme is fully customizable with build-in lightbox, google map shortcode, working contact form, latest tweets widget etc.

GymBase

GymBase is a gym fitness WordPress theme designed in a minimalist style. It has a responsive layout that looks great on mobile and tablet devices. The main point of focus is represented by home page slider which scales down automatically depending on your screen resolution.

Minimalisto

Minimalisto is a clean and minimalist business Premium WordPress Theme suitable for business, corporate, company and any kind of websites. Minimalisto is fully customizable using the theme options page!

Cruz

A blend of clean and minimalist design style, exclusively crafted for modern business requirements and corporate web sites. You can equally use this theme for personal blogging, portfolio and freelance business ventures.

Nostalgia

Nostalgia is a minimal portfolio WordPress theme – personal or corporate, based on full-screen slider and sliding pages. The theme is maintained in a minimalist, contrasting style. Background images kept in retro tones contrast with modern minimalist content. It is possible to add unlimited number of pages in the form of scrolling menu.

The Daily Press

The Daily Press is a super simple publication theme for WordPress. This site was designed and built for businesses wanting a similar presence on the web as the New York Times and other prestigious news organizations.

Eekon

Eekon is minimalistic and modern WordPress theme made for Business, Portfolio, Personal Blog, Photo Blog, or any kind of website.

Lighthouse

Lighthouse is a clean and minimalist wordpress theme for real estate company, also suitable for business, corporate and marketing.

Incredible

Incredible is a premium responsive WordPress theme created for corporate and portfolio websites. It features a very clean and minimal design that is perfect for showcasing your work.

Miniml Press

Miniml Press is a sleek, professional WordPress theme best suited for artist and business portfolios, creative professionals, or anyone wishing to display his/her work with a clean, minimalist layout.

Prestige

Prestige is a minimal and colorful portfolio WordPress theme based on menu tabs in different colors. Tabs are presenting pages content. Each page is one Prestige tab.

Eptonic

Eptonic – Beyond the Limits is a clean minimalistic theme that brings all the features that you are expecting from us like our other themes. It comes with a bunch of features to make your website incredible flexible so you can make every page unique if you want.

Precision

Precision – Premium vCard WordPress Theme is a sleek and minimalist single page WordPress theme with smooth scrolling design and amazing effects!

Lucidpress

Lucidpress is a sleek, solid and clean WP theme. Its smart and properly arranged environment allows you to exhibit your works more efficiently and fluently while having a full control.