25 Simple WordPress Themes for Basic and Quick Websites

If you’re not quite sure of the way your personal or business blog should look like, then choosing a simple and clean template is always the answer.

You cannot fail if you choose to create a minimal, modern and easy to follow blog that will help you showcase your portfolio or your personal story with the world. This way, your readers will always get the right idea and you will be able to create awesome blog posts in minutes!

If you lack inspiration, we gathered here some of the best 25 simple WordPress themes that will help you create highly-customizable blogs in a fast and efficient way and without any distracting or useless elements. Every theme listed here comes packed with modern, useful features and tools and all of them are super easy to use and customize. Perfect for basic and quick websites!

Robin – Cute & Colorful Blog Theme

Robin is a super colorful theme dedicated to any creative person that wants to establish a personal blog. It’s perfect for anyone with an interest in handmade objects, recipes, drawing or any other creative hobby. This theme uses colors in a very unique and smart way and this will give your blog a modern and professional look. Robin comes with a fully responsive design that’s easily adaptable to any device and screen size. It also gives you the option to add an awesome slider!

Arnold. – Minimal Portfolio WordPress Theme

Arnold is a professional WordPress theme created especially for portfolios. It has a minimal, flat design that will make your works stand out from the crowd. The coding is super clean and easy to use and it helps this theme by making it fully adaptable and responsive. Arnold is a great choice if you want to present your work in a professional way, with unique interactions. You can customize anything you want by using the Drag&Drop portfolio builder that comes integrated into this theme. Arnold also gives you the option to choose between different types of portfolio designs.

Vinero – Very Clean and Minimal Portfolio WordPress Theme

Vinero is a premium WordPress theme that was created with minimal portfolios in mind. Its modern look is given by the masonry portfolio grid which is also content-oriented. Vinero also comes with tons of useful shortcodes that you can use to easily customize all aspects of your blog. This WordPress theme was created using HTML5, Stylus, and jQuery. This template lets you customize the aspect of your blog by choosing between a one-page or multipage layout. This theme comes with Revolution Slider included and it’s also fully compatible with Visual Composer and ACF Pro.

Clementina – Fashion, Travel, Lifestyle Blog Theme

Clementina is one of our favorite options because it’s a versatile theme that can be used for fashion, travel or lifestyle blogs. Because of its minimalist look, it can be easily customized and you can rest assured that your content will always look good to your readers, regardless of the screen, device or browser they’re using. This theme also gives you the possibility to insert social buttons, Instagram widget, Ajax post loading, masonry blog layout and a lot more! You can add different kinds of content to your blog including standard, video or image!

Glacier – Minimal WordPress Portfolio Theme

Glacier is super clean WordPress theme that’s perfect for showcasing your work to potential clients. This theme comes with unique portfolio effects and it fully supports WooCommerce, which means that you can easily create an online shop for your art. Glacier is very easy to customize by using plugins such as ACF, Visual Composer and Kirki. We recommend it for any artist and photographer that’s looking to create a stylish blog and portfolio!

Rabia – Personal Minimalist WordPress Theme

Rabia is a WordPress theme that has a clean and modern look. It’s super content-oriented so the users won’t be distracted when viewing your text and images. This is a pixel perfect theme that has a fully responsive layout that’s also fully customizable using Yellow Pencil. Rabia is also SEO-ready and it lets you add unlimited portfolio pages to showcase anything you want!

Pipit – A Responsive WordPress Blog Theme

Pipit is a fully responsive WordPress theme created especially for people who need to have a modern and well-organized blog. It comes packed with awesome features such as full-page images, video and slider hero, featured posts option, amazing layouts and more! Pipit makes it possible for you to choose between different layouts such as classic, box, list, masonry and more!

Layer – Huge Collection of Landing Pages

Layer is a very powerful one-page WordPress theme that can be used for countless different purposes. This theme follows the latest design trends on the market so you can rest assured that your blog will look stunning at any given time! We strongly recommend it for photographers, digital agencies, freelancers, coming-soon, landing pages or any other creative person that wants to tweak and twist it in order to fulfill their needs. Layer is extremely easy to customize by using the drag&drop Visual Composer.

Blog Theme | Personal Blog

Easyblog is a really unique WordPress theme that’s both versatile and easy to customize. It comes with different layouts such as box width or full width. This theme also comes with different post formats, 3 awesome homepage layouts, 2 content types, various widgets and a lot more! This theme is also fully responsive and it looks great on all devices!

Freedom – Responsive One Page WordPress Theme

Freedom is an awesome WordPress theme that was created with a one-page layout. It’s a great option for creative people such as photographers, graphic designers, web agencies, illustrators etc. Freedom was created on the powerful Bootstrap framework and HTML5/CSS3 technologies which makes it fully responsive and highly customizable. We recommend it for both business companies and artists because it’s very versatile and professional-looking. This theme makes it easier for you to create portfolios and share awesome content with amazing animation effects!

Elletta – Blog News, Calendar & Shop Theme WordPress

Elletta is a cool WordPress theme that’s perfect for different kinds of blogs, magazines, events. It’s also WooCommerce ready which makes it super easy for users to create an online shop for their business or blog. This theme is compatible with WordPress 4.8 and Woocommerce 3.x. You don’t even need any coding knowledge to install it and start customizing! You can easily use one of the already-made demos to help you get started faster and easier! This theme also comes with generous widget areas and MailChimp newsletter integration.

DashBlog – Simple and Clean Personal WordPress Blog Theme

DashBlog is very clean and simple WordPress theme created especially for personal or business blogs. It comes packed with lots of awesome features such as different post formats, subscribe and login page, Mega Menu, cookie banner, WooCommerce plugin and more! It also makes it possible for you to choose between 60+ homepage variations, 5 already-created header layouts, 4 posts layouts, image galleries with lightbox. You can easily look at the 9 demos and choose the one that fits best your style and ideas.

Owl – Personal Responsive WordPress Blog Theme

Owl is a special WordPress theme created for people who want to create a personal blog and share their story with the world! This template is very detail-oriented but also fully responsive so the users will be able to see it perfectly regardless of the device or browser they’re using. It’s super easy to customize and it comes packed with tons of awesome features. Some examples are: unlimited colors, 2 pagination styles, MailChimp widget, 3 different sliders, 3 different layouts and a lot more!

Kindled – Blog WordPress Theme

Kindled is a very nice WordPress blog theme that’s fully responsive and it looks and works great on any screen size, browser or device. One of the best parts is that it’s also fully compatible with WooCommerce plug-in so you can add an online shop to your blog and monetize your stories. Kindled also comes with sidebar options, 5 custom widgets and 4 post layouts so you can mix and match until you reach the desired result.

Blog Home – Responsive WordPress Blog Theme

Blog Home is a fully responsive WordPress theme that combines the classic blog look with modern accents. It’s super easy to customize and you’ll be able to create your unique blog in no time! You can choose from the already-made demos and start changing things in order to achieve the perfect result. Blog Home also comes with 24/7 support from the staff and lots of video tutorials so you can’t get lost on the way. This template was built on the latest Bootstrap 3 framework using HTML5 and CSS3.

Canos – A Creative WordPress Blog Theme

We recommend Canos theme for personal or business blogs, newspapers, and magazines. It’s the best option if you want to focus on creating great blog posts in a fast and easy way. It’s super easy to customize and it comes with 2 different blog post layouts, customizer support, awesome admin panel, post views count and a very clean code that’s both easy to install and use.

Bizi – A WordPress Theme for Food Bloggers

Bizi is a WordPress theme dedicated to food bloggers and food companies that are looking to create a great place where they can share recipes or personal stories and lots of other content and info. It’s super responsive and it looks and works great on any device. This theme comes with Visual Page builder included so you can easily achieve the perfect look for your blog!

Snow | Minimal & Clean WordPress Portfolio Theme

Snow is an awesome WordPress theme that’s perfect for creating modern and minimal portfolios. It’s a perfect choice for graphic designers, web agencies, photographers or any other artist. It will suit well lots of purposes because its clean look makes it very versatile! This theme uses Visual Composer for easy page building and customizing so you’ll have your blog ready in no time!

The Traveler – Responsive WordPress Blog Theme

The Traveler is a grid-based blog theme that’s super modern and content-oriented. You can use it to share your personal stories or adventures, photos or portfolio with the world! It comes with tons of color, post and layout options that are super easy to customize. You don’t need any coding knowledge to get your unique blog up and running in minutes!

Pasikrata – blog and magazine WordPress theme

Pasikrata is a cool WordPress theme created especially for personal or business blogs and magazines. It comes with awesome typography choices and lots of awesome features! This theme can be easily adapted to lots of different blog purposes such as tech, lifestyle, travel, fashion and more! Pasikrata is also fully responsive and it works great on any device! It also gives you the option to add unlimited sidebars!

Crate – Minimalist WordPress Theme

Crate is a super minimalist WordPress theme with modern vibes. It uses the Live Customizer option to make it easier for you to change any elements you want and achieve an awesome result for your blog. We recommend importing one of the already-made demos and start changing it to create your own!

Alvar – Minimal and Modern Portfolio Theme for Photographers

Alvar is a modern WordPress theme that gives you the possibility to create unique portfolios that will help you showcase your best works. It’s perfect for photographers because it’s very content-oriented and will make your best shots look great! This theme also comes with 3 options for the logo and tagline and lots of other cool portfolio features!

Cube, Multipurpose Simple Reviews WordPress Magazine

Cube is a professional-looking WordPress theme that can be used for various purposes and ideas. It has a grid layout that is very easy to use and customize. It’s a great option if you want to present your info and content in a professional way that’s also fully responsive on any device and screen size. Cube comes with the Powerful Mimo Reviews Plugin that makes it possible for you to post and showcase reviews.

Anew – Responsive WordPress Tumblog Theme

Anew is an awesome WordPress theme with a classic look. It comes with 10 post formats and lots of sidebar options! This theme is fully responsive and Retina-ready so you can rest assured that your content will always look great to your users and customers.

Soigne – A Responsive Minimal WordPress Blog Theme

Soigne is a minimal WordPress theme created with cool bloggers in mind. This theme comes packed with lots of modern and useful features such as popular posts plugin, Contact Form 7 integration, 10 different homepage layouts, lots of unique post formats and more! Plus, it’s fully responsive and Retina-ready!