In this post we are announcing a release of a fantastic Freebie to our blog users: Minimalistiq WordPress Theme. The theme was designed by our friends at WPLegion with the readers of SmashingHub in mind. As other freebies, the theme is absolutely free to use for both private and commercial projects. Feel free to download this theme.

Not many themes, especially free themes come with this many premium quality features. The Minimalistiq Theme is a versatile theme, which could be used for showcasing portfolio items, creating business websites, and it can even used to spread the word about Non profit organizations. It has responsive design , 2 distinct color schemes, user-friendly theme options panel, and many built-in shortcodes. This theme will surely attract more and more customers to your online presence.
DOWNLOAD THE THEME FOR FREE!
The theme is released under GPL. You can use it for all your projects for free and without any restrictions. Please link to this article or the theme’s demo link if you want to spread the word. You may modify the theme as you wish.

• Live Demo

Minimalistiq Theme Features:

• Requirement: WordPress 3.2+
• Full Responsive Layout
• Fullwidth Layout & Boxed Layout
• Cross-browser Optimization, (IE8,IE9, Opera, Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome)
• Unlimited Sidebars for each page/post
• Custom Portfolio Post type

Many Page Templates

• Home Page
• Archives/sitemap
• Left Sidebar
• Right Sidebar
• Fullwidth
• Filterable Portfolio allowed 3 or 4 Columns (setting in Theme Options)
• Contact form

Shortcode Generator with over 30 useful Shortcodes

• Buttons
• Border Frame
• Blockquote
• Columns
• Contact form (Honey Pot Spam Protection)
• Divider (over 5 style)
• Dropcap (6 style)
• Google Map
• IconBoxes (2 style)
• Image Lightbox
• List with icons (10 styles)
• Notification boxes (5 styles)
• Pricing Table
• Recent/Populat Posts
• Recent/Populat Portfolio
• Image Slider
• Table
• Tabs Toggles & Accordion
• Typography
• Testiminial
• Video

• Supported 2 Menu Navigation – Topbar & Main menu
• Custom 404 page
• Subscribe form
• Widgetized footer (min 2 columns & max: up to 6 columns)
• 2 Gorgeous skins Built-in (or custom define)
• Custom fontface using Google font library
• 7 Custom Built-in Widgets (Twitter, FLickr, Custom Category, Chilpages, Recent/latest porfolio and Posts (2 styles))
• 100% Internationalized and Translation Ready (.mo/.po files included)

Dark Skin

Blog Page

Many Useful ShortCodes

Sort-able Portfolio

Single Portfolio Page

BEHIND THE DESIGN

As should be the case, here are some insights from the WPLegion Team:

“We designed this theme to cater variety of wordpress enthusiasts, who love using wordpress and want to try some feature-rich theme to fit their needs. While designing Minimalistiq, we put hard effort to make not only the theme elegant design wise, but also feature rich, and easily customizable. If you like our theme, you can check-out our website, and browse through our selection of other free themes as well- all of which are of great quality.

Don’t miss the opportunity to get this free Minimalistiq Theme because there are not many ways you can get a free premium theme everyday. Last but not least, once again, thank you SmashingHub for the opportunity.”

Thank you, WPLegion. We appreciate your work and your good intentions!