New Theme: Truly Minimal
April 11, 2013
Happy Theme Thursday! It’s spring in some parts of the world, which for many means tidying and redecorating their homes. Today we have a new free theme to help you do the same for your blog!
Truly Minimal
Truly Minimal, designed by FlareThemes, lives up to its name for its clean typography and elegant simplicity. The theme includes three sidebar placement options, support for multiple post formats, and a responsive design for small screens and mobile devices. It’s an excellent choice for showcasing your writing, promoting your business, or for anyone who wants a crisp, modern look for their site.
Read more about Truly Minimal on the Theme Showcase, or activate it on your site by going to Appearance -> Themes!
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Thanks! Fixed. 🙂
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It has almost everything what I would look for, except too much white space wasted on the top right hand corner. The WP version doesn’t resemble the original at the designer’s demo site. If the header image is not preferred than you could have moved the menus next to the blog title or to the right, like the original.
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Clean and minimalistic theme, looks great!
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Amazing how trends go from this sort of thing to flashy as can be and back again.
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Wow… this is pretty cool. With all the clutter in my life… this is like a breath of fresh air.
I’ll have to keep this in mind when it’s time to re-design HipsterApproved. Thanks!
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Cool theme!
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Does this theme work with WordAds?
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Yes, it is compatible with under-post ads, and should work with sidebar ads as well. If you run into any problems with it, please don’t hesitate to contact us: http://wordads.co/contact/
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I think this is a lovely theme – nice size fonts, well displayed blockquotes, nice H2, H3, etc. rendering, good framing around images – It’s clear that a lot of thought has gone into this.
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Too clean for me; I need a bit of clutter to match my personality 🙂
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Nice!
Thanks! 🙂
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Hi Caroline,
I like Truly Minimal and the features it has and will give it a try on my personal blog. Is it too much to ask that future themes could include the ability to change font color of Site Titles and links without having to purchase a $30.00 annually renewable custom design upgrade? I sure hope so because being able to do this on other free hosted blogs like those at Blogger is common and flatly refuse to pay annually just to change them.
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Hi timethief! Thanks, really glad you like Truly Minimal.
You can change the color of your site title under Appearance -> Header (or in the Customizer), this is the case with most themes. As of right now, there are no plans to include additional custom colors options in future themes, but we appreciate your feedback!
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Pretty.
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I like that theme so much! I’ll be happy to use it in my new blog!
C. Moore, did you create it? 🙂
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So glad you like it! And nope, I can’t take credit for this one, it was designed by FlareThemes.
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I love this theme and have put it to use — already. Thank you!!
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The minute I saw this theme, I revamped my blog. Love it 🙂
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Great theme, nice and clean yet effective!
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Nice work. And full-width without sidebar:-)
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Not for me, too clean. 🙂
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Great, love simple themes.
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Just a simple and clean theme. I’ll keep that in mind!
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I will use it in the future, for sure 🙂
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so simple 🙂
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This theme looks really nice. Its very simple and easy to navigate around.
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It looks really great!
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Wow I Love this theme!! Good Job.
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Love it! The cleaner, the better for me!!
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It looks really great!
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Truly Minimal. Of course I would recommend it to friends thinking to turn bloggers.
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Love it!
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Hi, great theme, I’ve just switched to it on my blog. The only issue is that my front page has now changed from showing excerpts to full posts, is there a way of changing back? I’ve written out custom excerpts for all my posts. Cheers!
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Hi Andy! Truly Minimal displays full post content by default. You can add a More Tag to your posts to truncate them. You can read more about this here:
https://wordpress.com/support/splitting-content/more-tag/
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That’s great, thanks! I thought there must be a way to do it, as there were split posts in the theme example.
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I just activated this new theme and I like it except for some reason when I go to change the title to my title and save it in the
customize theme window, it doesn’t change the title from ‘Truly Minimal’ to mine. Am I not doing something right?
Also, I don’t see where I can upload my own Header image. Is this not possible?
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Howdy! It sounds like you’re using Truly Minimal on a self-hosted WordPress site, which is different from the WordPress.com version of the theme. You can read more about WordPress.com vs WordPress.org here:
https://wordpress.com/support/com-vs-org/
And you can read more about how to use Truly Minimal on WordPress.com here:
http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/truly-minimal/
I hope this clears things up!
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I like that theme so much! 🙂
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