Blank - Elegant Minimalist Blog WordPress Theme

Blank is a minimal WordPress theme for blogs. Ultra-clean design, strongly focused on content — responsive, retina-ready and translation-ready. Easy to set up, so you can publish right after installing it. No coding needed.

• Current version: v2.3 – August 08, 2026 (changelog)
• Live demo: blank.heronwp.com
• Online docs: heronwp.com/docs/blank
• Support: heronwp.com/support

Features

• WordPress 7.0 ready & Gutenberg Editor ready
• Responsive: looks well on all devices like iPhone, iPad or large screen. Sliders also work well with touch and swipe gesture.
• Retina ready: It looks beautiful on high-resolution screens like those found on the iPad, Kindle Fire HD, Nexus 10, and MacBook Pro with Retina Display
• Translation ready: Blank has included default.po and default.mo files. You can easily open and edit to turn your site into any language you want.
• Extensive options: Nearly 100+ options, change the color and font on the fly. You can enable or disable almost everything.
• SEO Optimized: Designed in HTML 5 and CSS3 with optimized code. Not only your visitors but Google loves this theme awesome fast speed.
• Clean and elegant design: Minimalistic design focused on readability. It’s really effective for blog with long posts/heavy content.
• 2 layouts: Both of hidden or visible sidebar looks great! It’s up to you.
• Useful shortcodes: Easy to insert with TinyMCE button integrated.
• 4 portfolio layouts: 2, 3 or 4 columns and you can choose to crop thumbnail or not.
• Video Supported: Both in blog and portfolio.
• Vertical Featured Image supported. Indeed, you have option to crop or not your featured image in each post. Thus, it looks beautiful regardless your featured image size. It’s great even your post has no featured images!
• JetPack compatible: Has been tested with JetPack. Bring all great features of JetPack to your site with no troubles.
• Unlimited colors: With color picker in admin panel, you can change the color easily.
• Wide & Boxed layout: You can choose wide or boxed layout and in boxed mode, body background color and body background image are ready.
• 2 Header Styles: Logo on the left or centered logo. Logo with and height are flexible.
• Sticky header option: Easy to navigate with sticky header.
• 500+ Google fonts: Just choose the font you love.
• Custom Logo upload: Header and Footer logo and their Retina version as well. Also, you can upload favicon, Apple touch icons…
• Post types supported: Standard, video, audio, gallery, link, quote, status. EVERYTHING you need for a blog.
• Social Impact: Share buttons for each blog post
• Related Posts: Built-in related posts design based on tag score.
• 6 widgets included: All widgets are polished so they look greatly!
• Colorbox lightbox integrated
• Icons: Nearly 400 icons in use width 33 social icons.
• Awesome dropcap with “Alphabet of Children” font.
• Built with Bootstrap: Using popular Bootstrap framework, you can easily edit if you have some coding skill.
• One click installation: This theme has been included a demo.xml file, that helps you to you turn your site amazing as the demo site by one click.
• Well documented: heronwp.com/docs/blank

Credits

Special thanks to Pixabay, Jørgen Grotdal and Nicolas Jolly for images used on the demo site. These images are NOT included in the theme. Full list of images, icons, fonts and scripts used: heronwp.com/docs/blank/credits

Changelog

View changelog: heronwp.com/docs/blank/changelog

Support

Visit our support desk: heronwp.com/support