Classic#273

BlankSlate

by Web Guy · 4.9 (63)

BlankSlate is a free WordPress theme by Web Guy with 10K+ active installs, ranked #273 among the most popular WordPress themes today. It is rated 4.9/5 from 63 reviews and has been downloaded 471.2K times. The latest version 2026 was released on November 12, 2025.

10K+Active installs0.11% of tracked installs

#273RankPeak #270

43Downloads / dayprev 18

1097-day downloads

471.2KAll-time downloads

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Highlights

Ranks in the top 47.4% of all tracked themes.
Best position recorded: #270.
Last updated 12 months ago.
Next install milestone: next 20K+.

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Details

Author: Web Guy
Version: 2026
Last updated: November 12, 2025
Added: April 24, 2011
Requires WordPress: 5.2
Requires PHP: 7.4
First tracked: October 30, 2026

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Description

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.