#404 by installs
Avril
Avril is flexible, super fast, easily customizable, lightweight, modern multipurpose theme. Avril comes with everything you could ever need to build…
- Installs
- 3,000+
- Rating
- 4.6 (34)
- Updated
- 19 days ago
Rural Blog
Rural Blog is a simple, minimalist and lightweight WordPress blog theme for a personal blog, a personal website and writers: hobby bloggers, authors, essayists, poets, students and beginners, and anyone keeping a journal, a diary or a notes blog. Clean…
- Active installs
- 100+
- #402 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 1.3K
- 1,269
- Downloads, 30 days
- 338
- 54 in the last 7
- Rating
- None
- No reviews yet
- Last updated
- 16 days ago
- Oct 15, 2026
- Version
- 1.6
- 13 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | October 15, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
|---|---|
| Needs WordPress | 6.0 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 7.0 or newer |
| First published | July 17, 2026 |
| Paid version | None listed |
| Support | WordPress.org forum |
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What the author says it does
Rural Blog is a simple, minimalist and lightweight WordPress blog theme for a personal blog, a personal website and writers: hobby bloggers, authors, essayists, poets, students and beginners, and anyone keeping a journal, a diary or a notes blog. Clean typography and a narrow, Medium-style reading column put your words first. Start from a free demo, imported in a few clicks: a minimalist blog, a writer's blog of essays, a photography blog, a photo journal, a travel blog, a lifestyle blog, an illustrator or artist portfolio, a developer blog and a plain-text blog with your photo, an about page, a now page and an archive. What makes it different? (1) Fast and lightweight: one small stylesheet and one tiny script, no jQuery, no page builder. (2) No Google Fonts: system fonts, or self-hosted fonts from the WordPress Font Library. (3) Easy for beginners: every option in the native WP Customizer, with a live preview: a stacked feed, a compact list or a grid, a left or right sidebar, a round photo next to your name, colors, fonts and seven link styles. (4) Classic theme with the native Gutenberg block editor. (5) Accessibility and SEO friendly, translation ready. Live preview: https://rural-blog.owldraft.com
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