10 Best Free Blank WordPress Themes 2014

WordPress has been proved to be the most popular CMS of this generation and everyone has accepted it for its rock solid features and performance. The light weight framework has enabled the performance we require to view our website fast on our day to day mobile devices like tablets, smartphones, laptops etc. If your business needs better exposure then you might want your website to be able to access across multiple device platforms.

Responsive website design is essential to the success of a brand which is starting its business. Many businesses and services have already opted-in to use responsive design in their websites for maximum client visibility. If you have already owned a website which isn’t responsive yet then start using any one of these free themes listed below.

 

Responsive design is being implemented in almost every theme made today either its free or premium. Users take extra care when buying a paid theme as they want it to be working on their mobile devices with android and ios. We have taken much time to get a quality list of Best Free Responsive WordPress Themes which will look grand on multiple devices.

 

So whatever your device is, the below themes will auto resize to make your website pretty looking without any tear. Readability is also taken care into these themes as is is the important factor which needs to be properly assigned to the website code. This is not a huge list of junk themes, there are pretty quality themes which you can choose from here. Please share if you came across any new responsive theme in here with us.

 

Anyways here in this topic you will find free and premium blank WordPress themes which are useful for your website.

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1. Best Free Blank WordPress Themes - Naked WordPress Theme

Naked blank WordPress theme lets users learn how to develop themes. This is commented in-line to let users understand what’s going on while building their WordPress theme.

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2. Best Free Blank WordPress Themes - Underscores

This is a free blank WordPress theme that us developed by Automattic, the creators of WordPress. Endowed with a five layout templates, Underscores asks you to create a responsive layout as it doesn’t have it. The main link has a tutorial series by ThemeShaper that will help you learn how to create WordPress themes using Underscores.

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3. Best Free Blank WordPress Themes - BlankSlate

This is a simple, minimalist blank/boilerplate theme that is the middle ground between creating WordPress themes from the very starting point to using a big starter themes like Roots or Underscore.

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4.Best Free Blank WordPress Themes - WP-Flex

This is a responsive blank WordPress them that comes endowed with special features like strict compliance with official WordPress theming guidelines and sample data for unit testing that lets web developers enjoy the ease of work.

Example

using functions.php to illustrate…

function wpflex_setup() 
 do_something_great()

would be replaced dynamcially with our new name….

function awesomesauce_setup() 
 do_something_great()

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5. Best Free Blank WordPress Themes - Blank Responsive Bootstrap WordPress Theme

This is a cool blank responsive Bootstrap WordPress theme for responsive designers. When you check it out you will come to know that here’s no frills, just base coding with the standard Bootstrap framework along with the PHP files needed to make a theme work.

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6. Best Free Blank WordPress Themes - Roots

This is an open source WordPress theme that is built with HTML5 Boilerplate and Bootstrap. It also has Grunt files for quickly compiling Less code and combining your CSS and JS files. Besides, its a Theme Wrapper that helps you avoid having to write the same code in multiple files.

Features

• Organized file and template structure


• HTML5 Boilerplate’s markup along with ARIA roles and microformat


• Bootstrap


• Grunt build script


• Theme activation


• Theme wrapper


• Root relative URLs


• Cleaner HTML output of navigation menus


• Cleaner output of wp_head and enqueued scripts/styles


• Nice search (/search/query/)


• Image captions use <figure> and <figcaption>


• Example vCard widget


• Posts use the hNews microformat


• Multilingual ready (Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Vietnamese, Serbian)

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7. Best Free Blank WordPress Themes - JointsWP

This is a blank WordPress theme that is built on top of Foundation 5  which is a major front-end development framework alongside Bootstrap. Giving you all the power and flexibility you need to build complex, mobile friendly websites without having to start from scratch, this is worth downloading theme.Users can check out Sass version or plain CSS version if they wish to.

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8. Best Free Blank WordPress Themes - HTML5 Boilerplate for WordPress

This theme is built on the HTML5 Boilerplate by Paul Irish and Divya Manian. Its an open source HTML5 Boilerplate for WordPress that uses a modern HTML5 blog structure based on Opera Web evangelist Bruce Lawson’s recommended structural markup for websites.

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9. Best Free Blank WordPress Themes - Bones

Responsive and developed under the Mobile First philosophy, Bones is a free blank WordPress theme built on top of HTML5 Boilerplate.

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10. Best Free Blank WordPress Themes - HTML5 Blank WordPress Theme

The HTML5 Blank WordPress Theme is a web-performance optimized blank WordPress theme for developers. Endowed with useful custom theme functions like dynamic sidebar as well as boilerplate code for using WordPress’s Shortcode API in your themes, this is one cool theme.

Features

HTML5

• Basic Semantic HTML5 Markup


• W3C Valid Code Foundations


• Responsive Ready, ViewPort meta data


• HTML Class support for IE7, IE8, IE9 Conditionals (HTML5 Boilerplate)


• Clean, neatly organised code, with PHP annotations

jQuery + JavaScript

• Replaced built-in WordPress enqueue with Google CDN


• Protocol relative jQuery if Google CDN offline (HTML5 Boilerplate)


• Conditionizr for cross-platform/device detects and enhancements


• Modernizr feature detection, HTML5 element support for legacy, progressive enhancement (HTML5 Boilerplate)


• DOM Ready JavaScript file setup (scripts.js) for instant JavaScript development


• JavaScript files enqueued using WordPress functions into wp_head

CSS3

• HTML5 Boilerplate reset


• Media Queries framework for instant development using @media


• @font-face empty framework with Fonts folder setup ready for new custom fonts


• CSS3 custom selection styles


• Inline print styles (HTML5 Boilerplate)


• Body element config, including Optimize Legibility for kerning and font-smoothing


• Replaced focus styles to avoid blue blur in field elements, replaced with border


• Stylesheet enqueued using WordPress functions into wp_head

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10 Best Free Blank WordPress Themes 2014