Title: The Minimal Author: Rara Themes Published: June 25, 2016 Last modified: April 2, 2026 --- # The Minimal ![Rara Themes Avatar](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/0d7e72d3f2e0ecec0eb8bcfd0d6b258bba820491feadef9bee33f6e905c8c33f? s=24&d=mm&r=g) [Rara Themes](https://en-au.wordpress.org/themes/author/raratheme/) ![](https://i0.wp.com/themes.svn.wordpress.org/the-minimal/1.3.1/screenshot.png? w=post-thumbnail&strip=all) ## Commercial theme This theme is free but offers additional paid commercial upgrades or support. [View support](https://rarathemes.com/support-ticket/) [Preview](https://en-au.wordpress.org/themes/the-minimal/preview/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/theme/the-minimal.1.3.1.zip) * Version 1.3.1 * Last updated April 2, 2026 * Active installations 600+ * WordPress version 6.2 * PHP version 7.4 * [Theme homepage](https://rarathemes.com/wordpress-themes/the-minimal/) The Minimal is a fresh, clean and a minimalist WordPress theme designed for a blog or a magazine. The large featured slider with advance slider options makes this theme a great choice for photography, travel, food, fashion, travel, lifestyle, sports or any other awesome blog. The clean typography and spacious white layout make it great to share your stories. The three footer widget areas offer plenty of space for any secondary information, and striking typography makes the content look stunning. The Theme has a built-in Recent Posts widget, Popular Post widget, Social Links widget and Author widget. It features full width page option, two menus, SEO friendly structure, custom logo support and social media links. The Minimal supports all types of post format like links, aside, quotes, galleries, image, audio, video, status and chat. The theme is responsive and scales beautifully with various screen sizes while maintaining the text readability and image quality. The theme is also translation ready. Check the demo at https://rarathemes.com/previews/?theme =the-minimal, documentation at https://docs.rarathemes.com/docs/the-minimal/, and get support at https://rarathemes.com/support-ticket/. ## Features [Blog](https://en-au.wordpress.org/themes/tags/blog/), [Custom background](https://en-au.wordpress.org/themes/tags/custom-background/), [Custom logo](https://en-au.wordpress.org/themes/tags/custom-logo/), [Custom menu](https://en-au.wordpress.org/themes/tags/custom-menu/), [Featured image header](https://en-au.wordpress.org/themes/tags/featured-image-header/), [Featured images](https://en-au.wordpress.org/themes/tags/featured-images/), [Footer widgets](https://en-au.wordpress.org/themes/tags/footer-widgets/), [Full width template](https://en-au.wordpress.org/themes/tags/full-width-template/), [News](https://en-au.wordpress.org/themes/tags/news/), [Photography](https://en-au.wordpress.org/themes/tags/photography/), [Post formats](https://en-au.wordpress.org/themes/tags/post-formats/), [Right sidebar](https://en-au.wordpress.org/themes/tags/right-sidebar/), [Theme options](https://en-au.wordpress.org/themes/tags/theme-options/), [Threaded comments](https://en-au.wordpress.org/themes/tags/threaded-comments/), [Translation ready](https://en-au.wordpress.org/themes/tags/translation-ready/), [Two columns](https://en-au.wordpress.org/themes/tags/two-columns/) ## Downloads per day Active Installations: **600+** ## Ratings 5 out of 5 stars. * [ 12 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/the-minimal/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/the-minimal/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/the-minimal/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/the-minimal/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 0 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/the-minimal/reviews/?filter=1) [Add my review](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/the-minimal/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/the-minimal/reviews/) ## Support Got something to say? 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