Min is a free WordPress theme I created. No bells and whistles, just simple clean and to the point. It has two widgetized footer areas to handle navigation or anything else you feel like sticking in there. Make sure you set your media upload to 560px wide to fit snug in the post area.
Updated v1.3 | Aug 8, 2012
Now optimized for view on iPhone and other mobile devices
Demo Download | Fork Min on Github
I have tested it on the latest beta of WordPress 3.4.1
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I really like it. You could probably make some extra cash if you made a tumblr version as well.
But no HTML5?
hawt!
Your always putting out such awesome simplified complex awesomeness.
gangstar.
Love it. Love it. Love it.
Love it! Good work.
Loving this, and have already ported over. Would love an option to have a black background, if at all possible (I tried playing with the stylesheets this morning myself, but only ended up butchering things!).
Either way though, gorgeous in its simplicity.
thanks! yeah I plan on doing a dark version as well.
awesome. I’ll keep on the lookout.
When you said minimal you mean it. This theme is super
clean and simple. Great work, the code looks good!
Thanks AJ. I believe in keeping things to the point with no distraction.. I also think the code is just as important
Like it. But the grey font color can be hard to read for
those of us without 20/20.
I’m color blind and wear glasses… I see it fine
you cam always change the the color to whatever your heart desires in the CSS
Beautiful work.
Gorgeous. Thank you = )
Very nice. Looking forward to the dark version. Thanks for sharing!
I really like it! Support you forever!
The theme is great. What’s that desk?
thanks man! I love that desk as well.. find it over here
Thanks, is great
LOVE IT. Less is more. Keep up the good work. Thank You for the download
thanks man! got some more i’m planning on doing doing some more freebies soon
this is really awesome!…I’m currently building my word press site and I”m looking for a theme that looks like my html site and I found this.I’m still a newbie on building wordpress site so..I’m looking for a free themes,coz don’t what to spend a lot of money for my portfolio (hehe) this really helps! ^_^
Very nice work. I searched quite a time for a theme that was really minimal and you did it
Do you distribute this theme under some sort of license? I would like to translate some parts for my personal website (Dutch).
it’s GPL so do what you want with it
Excellent theme. I love the minimalist look. I’m trying it out now on my blog. It’s fun to get rid of all the extras on the sidebar. Thanks.
Hey Jared, great theme!
I know this will sound mad but how would I go about moving the sidebar back up to a more default location on the right of the page? I’ve found that I can move it about by moving the line
up in the index.php file but I can’t seem to see where I would change the sidebars from being footer only.
Any help greatly appreciated.
sorry man it’s just not designed to have a sidebar..
Cool.. no worries and thanks for replying
Hi. My English is very bad. I fail to appear at the end of the page links to other pages “About” “free stuff” “News”. You know why? You know how to fix it? Anyway, your theme is great!!
I love this theme. but please convert it to HTML5. Thanks a lot
thanks! there would be no real reason to convert it to html5..
Why not? This is an ideal theme to make it responsive by default. My 2 cents…
This theme is amazing, JUST the one I was looking for!
One question tho.. how do i add the bottom section like you did? – About me, Categories, Pages, etc. Can I also add Twitter feed there?
thanks yo, thats the widget section.. so go to widgets in your admin and drag whatever you want in there.
Looks like a great way to de-clutter a site. Does this allow for any sort of menu or sidebar items?
just through the widgetized area in the footer
Hey, great theme! I am trying to remove the comments from pages using the usual screen options and then uncheck “allow comments” but they are still there? Do you have any idea how to do that?
look in the single.php file for comments and delete it
I’m having the same challenge – but deleting in single.php isn’t removing the ‘No comments’ link for me… Thanks for such a clean wordpress option!
Howdy Rigor, are you sure your files are not cached? or you are saving it correctly?
Hello Jared,
I like your theme, at present I try to change the posts
through a page content with the wp e-commerce plugin.
Do you have an idea how I can realize it ?
Thx for your reply.
Robert
thanks! the theme is not designed to be a e-commerce site, just a simple fun blog
Really nice job with the theme! I love the super clean feel and whole “Let’s focus on the content” vibe. Well done
Hi Jared,
Really nice theme ! I’ve made some basic changes (font family and size 560 to 700px) and now I’d like to add tags and categories informations below author and date, anyone knows how to do it ?
Great job and thank you !
Hey Jon, appreciate it.
you can take a look at the wordpress codex to figure that stuff out like http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_author
hi jarod, awesome theme.
but how do you install it? i can’t seem to find it on the ‘install themes’ section on wordpress. downloading it here = a set of files. i am new to wordpress. kindly assist. thanks!!
howdy, you have to upload the zip file that is downloaded go to “themes” > install theme > upload and choose the zip file
Hey, thinking about using wordpress on my site but wanted to use tumult hype to make an animated html5 heading. Does this theme allow you to use a custom heading? The one I’m working on is 720px wide and 582px high. Would love to have my heading and this blog format right below. Thanks!
no, what you see is what you get, but you could easily add what you need with a little html knowledge in the header.php file
Hi! I love your theme! It’s so slick and modern
I wanted to ask if you could give me a tip on how to change the blog title to a logo. Thank you!
Really nice minimal! I’d like to use this in the future.
Let the issue. I wasn’t able to see the “reply to comment”. How can I enable it?
My WordPress is 3.3.1.
at the time i built this I did not plan on having threaded comments (which gives the reply link) there may be a update coming soon
Thanks for clarified this. Because I thought that doing anything wrong. I will follow the news, because happy to enjoy your «min».
I love it and would sincerely use it for my film blog, but I think that the shades of gray makes it a bit hard to read, when you’ve got a review of more than 1000 words on.
If you could make it more contrast maybe ?! I dunno.
Also the links need to stand out in a different color or maybe as bold or italics (the latter would feel more elegant), because I like to add 20+ links in my body.
Otherwise, I love the way it’s simple and clean cut.
Again, I would definitely use it for something intellectual as a film review blog.
thanks, you can just change the color to your liking with some simple css
iLike. But could really use this design WITH som social media icons
Love this Theme!
Just one nit. the thing I like best obviously is this theme’s simplicity, but I hate having to scroll to the bottom for navigation. seems a little in opposition to the overall effect. But, it is free and it looks great so, bottom line…. Thanks for sharing your work!
Hey Jared, loving the min theme but would like to know if its possible to add an image to the header that would sit behind the text?
Yo Andy, I decided to not make a header image area in the effort to keep it as minimal as possible and keep the content as key
Hi Jared, lovely theme! I am thinking of using your theme for my site. I have one question though. Once you are inside a blog post, say for eg., “Only text styles,” (from the Min demo), how does a user go to the previous or the next post? The link (previous post/newer post) seems to be missing. Would copying section from index.php to single.php do the trick? I am not a web designer and don’t have much knowledge of all these things. Thanks in advance for any help.
Sorry, the full comment didn’t go through. Please read “would copying section” as – Would copying (div class=”pagination clearfix”) section from index.php to single.php do the trick”.
howdy, yeah you can put that
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/next_post_link
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/previous_post_link
it may not be styled correctly and you may have to play around with a bit
hope that helps!
Thanks a lot Jared! Really appreciate you helping me out with this. I guess I should be able to manage the styling part as I understand CSS a wee bit. Wasn’t sure what code to key in single.php, but the links/instruction you gave should get me going. Thanks again for that.
Hi Jared,
First, super theme! I use it on my own blog.
But in the header you refers to a file called custom.js but unfortunately this is not present in the theme files.
Also in the styles.css file you refers to a style file called forms.css. This is same as above not present.
Thank you!
Lovely job!
I made some small modifications and I love it http://notas.litelate.com/
I’ve been using WordPress since 2007 I think, and moved to Posterous because of the themes, simpler, and the system as a whole. Then I regretted, after a year or so. After moving my content back to WP I was looking for a theme just like this. Clean. Beautiful. I’m glad you made this!
I recently thought I’d love a way to make the column more “flexible”, like liquid. I like how it looks in my MacBook but it can look better on the iPhone or iPad. Any ways to do this? Like setting a width maximum for wider screens and letting the text flow more freely on lower resolutions or something?
Thanks Al!
Yeah I plan on doing a update with some media queries to show better on mobile devices. Check back soon
This is bad ass! Thanks for building this Jared!
anything like this for portfolio vs a blog? nice work!
yeah! you post your portfolio instead of blog posts
OK, new playing around with WP, but will give it a try. Just dont need the blog functions right now….
Still loving this theme! It rocks!
Jared,
Theme is dope. Question? How do I center the post header, date, and comments option? I’m a novice. Reply… slowly… please.
Love this theme! So rare to get something without overpowering header – and suitable for portrait images too
In the demo linked above, when I click on an image e.g. the first one, it shows very slightly larger. I’m wondering if it could show an image at a much bigger size, say, 1,000 pixel? (It works like this in the blog linked above – but the poster does say they modified the theme – e.g. http://notasueltas.litelate.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Photo-Apr-28-7-29-52-AM.jpg.scaled1000.jpg)
thanks in advance, Tom
Hey tom, Try using the Jetpack plugin with it’s image overlay. or look for a lightbox plugin. that may help you