Minimal ? Does anyone actually know what "Minimal" means?
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I’ve searched all over and made dozens of inquiries about “minimal” themes, and nobody seems to understand the term “minimal” … and they recommend flashy, bloated WordPress themes with all kinds of image rich floating, zooming, scrolling and gyrating themes.
Does anyone here know of a “minimal” theme with typography, black and white, no moving parts, no graphics or images?
See: this which is no longer available but is a very good example of “minimal” :
https://demo.studiopress.com/wintersong/Also : “Ravage” by Icypixels, but they no longer support it.
thanks
FNS
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Minimal is a term that refers to style/features. If you are in fact referring to a WordPress.COM hosted site and not to a WordPress ORG software install see here https://wordpress.com/themes/filter/minimal
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sorry, I wasn’t clear. I’m looking for a good, minimal theme. I must have wandered into a forum about business plans or something or plug-ins or something.
The “minimal” themes cited in the above post are NOT minimal. (except maybe the one called “Penscratch” … who ever labeled them “minimal” does not know what the term means.
Thanks for your help.
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It’s hard to give you accurate information regarding themes since we don’t know the URL of the site you need help with.
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I’m brand new and was looking for a simple text-based theme too. I use Ryu
https://lisamighton.wordpress.com/Lisa
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@lmighton
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@safenetting If you are talking about a WordPress.com site (with WordPress.org there are numerous minimal themes ….such as one called “Minimal”!) I find Tonal to be about as basic/minimalist a theme as you can get here. https://wordpress.com/theme/tonal
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Thanks everyone.
I think I’ve wandered into the wrong forum. I linked here from ThemeForest looking for a theme to purchase. Your suggestions helped me, but I cannot see where to buy and download the theme … and looks like they’re exclusively for WordPress.com.
Sorry.
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@safenetting No need to apologize, but the key to helping you get relevant information is knowing the URL of the site you need help with. Since that piece of the puzzle was missing, we all tried to help you with more general or specific information.
Again, if you need help finding a theme for a site using the standalone WP software, then the place to head to is at https://wordpress.org/themes/search/minimal/
If your site is hosted here on WordPressdotcom, then our Theme Showcase can be found here: https://wordpress.com/themes/filter/minimal
To clarify, WordPress comes in 2 flavors: the fully hosted WordPressdotcom (where we are ) and the open source WP (org) project. This support guide explains some of the differences between them: https://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
Cheers!
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