8 Awesome Clean Themes for WordPress

In the past few years, we have covered plenty of colorful themes for WordPress. Premium WordPress designs are great for folks who do not want to mess with a whole lot of coding. But if you know your way around CSS and PHP, there is no reason you should not use clean/blank theme frameworks to come up with a design unique to your site. Interested? These 8 clean theme frameworks are must-see:

Headway: one of my favorite theme frameworks around. It has a powerful set of tools that make designing a site from scratch a piece of cake.

Thesis: we have used Thesis for many projects in the past. It is SEO friendly and highly customizable. It has a dedicated team behind it that keep bringing new features to it.

Genesis: the Genesis Framework for WordPress has its benefits. The folks at StudioPress do have plenty of child themes available for it to get you started with this faster.

Pagelines: a drag and drop design platform for WordPress. You can use this to build good looking, responsive themes in no time. It has a pretty decent (growing) store too.

Backbone: an ultra clean and simple theme for WordPress. Two child themes are included with it for free. This does have a responsive design too.

Canvas theme: a highly customizable theme for WordPress. Canvas has a powerful options panel that gives you control over almost any element in it. It works well for business sites and magazines.

Thematic: an open source, search engine optimized framework for WordPress. It has free and commercial child themes. 13 widget ready areas are included.

Affiliate theme: designed for affiliate marketers. Lets you create landing pages and websites optimized for affiliate marketing.

If you are looking for a theme or framework to develop and customize your website with, the above solutions are worth checking out. They are developer friendly and put you in the driver’s seat.