#29 by installs
Twenty Sixteen
Twenty Sixteen is a modernized take on an ever-popular WordPress layout — the horizontal masthead with an optional right sidebar that works…
- Installs
- 90,000+
- Rating
- 4.1 (83)
- Updated
- 2 months ago
BlankSlate
Donate: https://opencollective.com/blankslate. Learn: https://blankslate.me/. BlankSlate is the definitive WordPress boilerplate starter theme. I've carefully constructed the most clean and minimalist theme possible for designers and developers to use as a…
- Active installs
- 10,000+
- #273 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 471.1K
- 471,107
- Downloads, 30 days
- 1.3K
- 304 in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.9 / 5
- 63 reviews
- Last updated
- 12 months ago
- Nov 12, 2025
- Version
- 2026
- 37 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | November 12, 2025Updated in the last year |
|---|---|
| Needs WordPress | 5.2 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 7.4 or newer |
| First published | April 24, 2011 |
| Paid version | None listed |
| Support | WordPress.org forum |
Reviews
4.9 / 5 from 63 reviews
| 5 stars | 57 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 3 |
| 3 stars | 3 |
| 2 stars | 0 |
| 1 star | 0 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
Donate: https://opencollective.com/blankslate. Learn: https://blankslate.me/. BlankSlate is the definitive WordPress boilerplate starter theme. I've carefully constructed the most clean and minimalist theme possible for designers and developers to use as a base to build websites for clients or to build completely custom themes from scratch. Clean, simple, unstyled, semi-minified, unformatted, and valid code, SEO-friendly, jQuery-enabled, no programmer comments, standardized and as white label as possible, and most importantly, the CSS is reset for cross-browser-compatability, with no intrusive visual CSS styles added whatsoever. A perfect skeleton theme. For support and suggestions, go to: https://github.com/webguyio/blankslate/issues. Thank you.
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Where this page's numbers come from
Read from the WordPress.org theme API on . WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this theme.